So all over the world, people have and are gathering to worship. This is no little thing that we do. It is a witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Blessings to those who faithfully lead and blessings to those who faithfully participate. Christ is risen among his people.

Gene Park It’s life changing.

Creation is slow and beautiful. Destruction is quick and ugly.

“How often we try to make unity among ourselves by focusing on each other, trying to find the place where we can feel united. But Jesus calls us to seek our unity in Him. When we direct our attention to God, then we discover that in God we also belong to each other.” Henri Nouwen

For Sunday: ...and there before me was a great multitude from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.... And they cried: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” Rev. 7:9

The way "Tiny Dancer" plays in the background and is perfectly synched with the dialogue finally confirms definitively that we are all living in some bizarre alien art film.

Me: God, what's it like dealing with me? God:

Too many sermons are long in application & short on announcement. Kingdom preaching is fundamentally about announcing that something definitively liberating has happened (and happens) through Christ in the power of the Spirit.

This has been months in the making and I’m so excited to launch this baby into the world along with my most brilliant co-host Mark Quanstrom We get real. We get raw. We get honest. Check out our first 3 episodes at any major podcast platform or ThePastorsTable.com

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With due respect, and much love for Timothy Keller (1950-2023) (seriously), apologetics, as traditionally conceived, is not a strategy to engage an already post Christendom culture. Embodied witness is. More to come on #TheologyOnMission podcast next week. religionnews.com/2023/02/07/new…

Honored to be with Mark Quanstrom and Tara Beth Leach (and Chaz the producer) on The Pastor's Table podcast today. We were talking migraines, ministry & chronic pain and living w/ someone dying of cancer. Two good topics for Ash Wednesday. Look for it in early April. Thanks 4 the invite

After I was convicted of murder and sentenced to 26 years in prison, when the earth dropped out from beneath me, and global shame rained down on top of me, I had my first ever epiphany. /thread

"NO SIN IS MORE BASIC than the presumption ... that we can know on our own what it means to say that we are sinners." Stanley Hauerwas

If you listen to just one, listen to this one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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Forgiveness: The Gospel Is Big Enough for Tyler Robinson The bullet didn’t just pierce skin. It cracked the illusion that we could disagree and still stay human. Charlie Kirk’s body hit the ground beside a folding chair. Someone screamed. Others froze. Phones fumbled in

Special thanks to College Church for feeding the football team after Church today! #GoldStandard

Great to hear that @OlivetNazareneU has appointed @BRWLTZ Nazarene Theological College Principal as 'Reverend Dr. Fay Quanstrom Chair of Pastoral Ministry.' Read more here: ow.ly/Dnzr30i6Hj5