artist trying to be a pastor | “I think getting a masters makes me a seminarian” seminarian | I reserve the right to be wrong
Madison, TN
Joined July 2009
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Multi-site church = diocese
Campus = parish
Lead pastor = bishop
Campus pastor = rector
That's cute. Your episcopalian. You just don't know it.
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I’m excited to share my debut article with @CTmagazine! It combines themes I tweet about a lot: work, prayer, Basil, and Benedict, focusing on ways our work & prayer relate
Thanks to @drewdyck for suggesting and @karabettis for allowing it!! 🛠🙏🏼
christianitytoday.com/ct/202…
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when I see that September starts this week:
ALT George Costanza from Seinfeld saying "I gotta focus. I'm shifting into soup mode."
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If we're sketching our theology and it doesn't make us more loving, more kind, more merciful people, then we need to go back to the drawing board and start over.
#GodisLove
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“The church exists in the space between creation and new creation. The church belongs to the created order, yet it bears witness to the new creation that has already begun. The link between worship, formation, and unity is this very kingdom identity.
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“I’m very concerned that our society is much more concerned with information than wonder, in noise rather than silence. How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”
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O Lord, you whose love keeps no record of wrongs, help me, I pray, neither to nurse my sins nor to replay my sins but rather to trust that you have removed my sins as far as the east is from the west, so that I might walk in the freedom of one who is wholly forgiven. Amen.
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We would go a long way in Christian discipleship if we start with God’s reign (i.e. the kingdom of God) rather than our personal desires (i.e. rugged individualism). – at St Joseph, MO
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The deep history of “Live, Laugh, Love”
#MosaicMonday | A 1,700 year old floor mosaic depicting a laurel wreath of black sprig and ochre ivy leaves.
Found in Halicarnassus, the Greek reads:
"Health, Life, Joy, Peace, Good Cheer, Hope."
🏛️ @britishmuseum
#Classics #Roman #Greek #Art #Archaeology #History
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Graduating with my MDiv thinking about this quote:
As a faculty member I can affirm that our students have completed a catalogue of study, but I cannot certify that our graduates will be wise... that they will fear the Lord... that they will turn away from evil.
- Dennis Magary
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“Understanding our memories–and the stories they create–is a way God has given us to understand how we write in the margins every day.” - @cktygrett
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A Christ-focused life requires learning to lead an ordered life centered on four things:
1. Humility
2. Pursuit of inward transformation
3. Constant receptivity to “The Presence”
4. Unqualified obedience to Jesus
#DallasWillard #KnowingChristToday
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Dallas Willard has written that Christianity is often filled with “Vampire Christians” who say to Jesus:
"I'd like a little of your blood, please. But I don't care to be your student or have your character.”
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Pastor: “The Hebrew here *actually* means…”
Every seminary student ever: “Hold up while I pull out my phone right quick…”
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The Bible has answers—just not as many as we'd like.
The Bible is more concerned w/cultivating wisdom than giving answers.
Which is good because answers become irrelevant as soon as the questions change, & the questions (almost) always change.
Wisdom > Answers
