📚 Author of Positively Irritating 💥 Starting and shaping churches for the modern world with @gocommunitas 💡 Helping you discover your design & destiny
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Cubs W 7-2
GIVEAWAY!! Giving away 1 gorgeous Red Bill hat signed by Aramis Ramirez.
To enter: quote tweet this with your score prediction for tonight’s Cubs game followed by #TeamRedBill
If multiple people correctly predict the score we will take it to a raffle.
Just sent this to my text thread of 9-11 year old travel baseball players that I coached 25 years ago!
USA baseball needed the travel ball dad - he knows all the scenarios, has mapped them out extensively and told everyone who will listen (and those that will ignore him). He may be annoying, but he knows the tiebreaker rules, scenarios win or lose and who and when they will play next - in every scenario possible. He would have told DeRosa and every manager. Travel ball dads for the win!
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Rachel is spot on.
This bullsh*t about the Chicago Bears moving to Hammond, Indiana, because the f*ucking BILLIONAIRE ownership wants more $$$—and they’ve found a state that will steal from their own people to give it to them—is everything wrong with America today.
Maybe art can save our world
Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important.
#Shakespeare #ianmckellen #stevencolbert
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Its wild how far people will stretch to defend the behavior of the leaders they like. Well do emotional acrobatics; minimize, excuse, deflect, spin to protect our attachment to them. Its not about truth, its about identity. When politics becomes personal, honesty becomes optional
Communitas has opened my eyes to all the unique forms that Jesus' church can take to love and serve the world.
If something in this story moves you, send me a quick message. I’d love to share a bit more about how you can be part of this journey with me.
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"As a Christian, one thing I love about Trump is that he openly rejects the basic moral teachings of Jesus"
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JD Vance: "Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people...Under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square." (Feb. 2025)
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It’s fascinating that so many of the same people who yell “It’s loving to point out someone’s sin to them, so they can repent"... are also the same people who bristle when someone points out Charlie's racism and antisemitism via his own words, on video.
Self-awareness is a gift.
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A few years ago, “Christianity Today” Editor in Chief Russell Moore made headlines when he said pastors told him that Christians today say the love ethic of the Sermon on the Mount doesn’t work anymore. 1/5
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He’s lying. The statistics - including his own government and own FBI’s statistics - say the exact opposite.
Well, for now. I’m sure they’ll doctor them going forward like they plan to do for the jobs numbers.
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This was literally 18 months ago.
If Joe Biden federalizes the National Guard, that would be a direct attack on states' rights.
Over the last several years, we've seen Democrats try to take away our Freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech. We can't let them take away our right to defend ourselves, too.
South Dakota defends the Constitution.
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I was hungry, but you passed a bill that cut funding for food stamps so billionaires could get more tax breaks.
I was thirsty, but you removed environmental protections and left me without clean water.
I was a stranger, but ICE agents arrested me and put me in a concentration camp surrounded by alligators.
I was sick, but you cut billions of dollars from Medicaid and I couldn’t get the healthcare I needed.
I was in prison, but you left me there in unconscionable conditions because you made money off of it.
Whatever you did to the least of these, my siblings, you did to me.
(how I think Jesus would have phrased Matthew 25 if he was preaching in America right now)