Family man | Anglican | Pastor of Cornerstone Tulsa | Slowly going one direction
Tulsa, OK
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As a dad of an 18yo & 20yo, the longer you can keep kids analog the better life goes. Low-tech kids dominate in their 20s because unlike their peers they're not addicted to porn, online gambling, shopping or social media comparison. The world will say you're weird. Good, be weird
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Two needed spiritual practices for 2024: digital fasts and willful ignorance.
Digital tech wants you *to want* to be omnipresent and omniscient. It lies to you and tells you it is doable. This is the Lie offered by the Serpent: “you can be like God.”
The desire for omnipresence will destroy your ability to love as you’ll overlook people in proximity to you.
Your desire for omniscience will make you anxious as your information intake dramatically eclipses your ability to act.
A digital fast is a weekly or monthly spiritual discipline where you separate yourself from your adult pacifier (phone). Start with 90 minute phone-free trips to the park or 18 hour device-free sabbaths.
Willful ignorance functions similarly. Regularly choosing to not chatGPT or Google something you’d ordinarily want to learn about and instead embracing the feeling of ignorance and make peace with it. “Have you heard about what’s going on in Russia?” “No, and I’m not going to.”
Willful ignorance also looks like being off of social media for 48 hours and not “catching up” on what your friends have been up to.
In the parable of the Good Samaritan Jesus teaches us that our neighbors are those we can see and serve in love. Be a neighbor and practice digital fasts and willful ignorance.
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You know what you can do when it's 102F but it feels like 107F? Absolutely nothing.
This is a Prayer for all who are suffering under the heat of the noonday sun.
A special shout-out to folks who live in "Furnace Creek" where temperatures reached 128F this past Sunday.🥵
Jon Odom retweeted
Christian philanthropy accounted for 70% of all American philanthropy in 2022 at $300 billion total. Christians also out-gave the U.S. Government in addressing global poverty.
- Barna
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Whatever folks might say or think, the church remains a seismic value-add to the world.
Jon Odom retweeted
The difference between a professional and a hack is not in degree or training. Both may do what they do with polish; but the hack is not transformed by his experience.
Jon Odom retweeted
Theology 101: No, Church History is NOT "the story of how everybody misinterpreted the Bible until we came along."
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I’m tired of the clashing. What we need is a burning-hot work of the Holy Spirit among us. I’m bored with talk of what the Holy Spirit does or does not do in our day. Tired of all the hair splitting. Whatever it is you do, Holy Spirit, come do it in full measure. We’re desperate.
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Holy Spirit, stir the flickering embers beneath the cooling coals in your church. Blow your breath upon us and bring holy fire from these ashes. Flash like lightning in this long dark night & set us ablaze again. Burn on our tongues. Preach to us, through us, O Pentecostal Fire.
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Where parents are willing to take responsibility for their own unworked-out relationships either with their own parents or with one another, children rarely develop serious symptoms.
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“To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one’s breast and groan over oneself.” (Søren Kierkegaard)
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Christianity alone supplies the kind of foundations that give you the ability to sing with joy and hope in the midst of trials and uncertainties.
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Why do we sing? My pastor and friend @jonodom explains and he does it well. Favorite Sunday in a while. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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One way of judging the quality of theologies is to see what sort of devotion they produce.