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Author: #DisruptiveWitness, #YouAreNotYourOwn, #OnGettingOutOfBed. Assoc. Prof Eng @OBUnews. Fellow, Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. Bald. Presbyterian.
Oklahoma City, OK
Joined March 2008
My latest book, #OnGettingOutofBed, is now available for preorder: . It's a meditation on mental afflictions, suffering, and the goodness of life.
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Never ever again try to tell me that only policy, not character matters in our political leaders. Ever.
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@BrianGMattson @SenateMajLdr There's consensus on DACA, too. And a bipartisan plan. Except the president, who promised to sign whatever congress gave him on daca, rejected it.
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@mitchellvii Iβm an evangelical. Forgiveness crimes through repentance. Repentance requires confession and contrition. He has produced only arrogant denial. Please do not distort the gospel to defend an immoral leader and deceive your audience.
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@TylerHuckabee @LoganPaul So important that we share these stories of discrimination to amplify marginalized voices. Feeling very empowered right now tbh.
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If you are a youth pastor, and you have a sexual relationship with a minor under your care, in addition to the legal ramifications, you should never pursue a pastoral position again. You are no longer above reproach. Forgiveness can happen, but you need a new career.
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A danger of choosing the lesser of two evils is that over time the lesser evil no longer seems evil to you at all.
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βNo laws were brokenβ is not an exoneration of the justice system, itβs a condemnation.
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A major mistake married couples make is being depressed at the same time. You have to coordinate. People complain that depression should be spontaneous, that it loses its magic if you schedule it, but once you have kids, you have to.
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CEOs, not pastors, are resigning from Trump councils.
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If youβre entire theory of governance requires that your side remains in power for your policies to stay intact, then your theory is ill suited for democracies.
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Thinking that Trump is a friend of Christians because he panders to us is like believing the used car salesmen is your BFF.
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The fact that white evangelicals overwhelmingly supported Trump is far less troubling to me than the fact that so many *continue* to.
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As a Presbyterian, I must point out that Biden is off by 90-85%.
Joe Biden says that about "10 to 15 Percent" of Americans are "not very good people."
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Iβm sorry.My son was.Doing.The βFlossβ while.We were singing.βIn Christ Aloneβ.At church .today. He was just.Really.Feeling .It. Anyway, .David danced before.The Lord. Just be glad.My son didnβt.Strip down to his linen ephod, too.
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In retrospect, perhaps βand everyone did what was right in his own eyesβ was not the best theme verse for the pandemic.
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@benshapiro Which is still a better position than the RNC dumping Moore and then returning to back him after *more* allegations come out.
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I'm very thankful for @CTmagazine for saying this. Evangelical institutions were not afraid to publicly condemn Bill Clinton's presidency. We should be able to make clear statements today as well.
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@MatthewBArbo @between2worlds @jake_meador Well actually guys, if a shooter came in the door with a semi automatic and ~30 kids (because overcrowding) each threw a well aimed rock at him, he would easily be knocked out. We just have to solve the bottleneck at the five gallon bucket.
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Check on your pastors. They have been carrying a lot these past 18 months. Many are worn out, depressed, losing members who are unhappy with Covid protocols or not enough Covid protocols. Members passing away. Covering the pulpit for friends who are hospitalized. Itβs rough.
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With few exceptions: . It doesn't get easier. You won't have more time. Things won't slow down. This isn't just a season. Either you take joy where you are, or you won't.
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Iβm going to go ahead and say that we need to call this what this is: inciting racism. If youβre tired of hearing about our president making racist statements, that is regrettable. He does not care if you are fatigued. And so we should not cease calling evil, evil.
Trump rally crowd launches into "send her back" chant over Ilhan Omar
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All my subsequent books will be titled The Greatest Threat to The Church: [and then whatever is annoying me].
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Dear iPhone. I have never wanted to write βtodatβ. Itβs always today. Always.
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The funny thing with the "We didn't vote for him to be Pastor in Chief!" argument is that it assumes that we are demanding some remarkable level of moral rectitude from Trump, when really we're just saying that our president shouldn't be remarkably terrible.
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Kids. This is what we call moral relativism. What counts is public appearance. What you do in private, in your heart, in the dark, is irrelevant. It says nothing about character. The surface is everything. What moral rot.
Dennis Prager defends Trump's Access Hollywood sexual assault comments, claiming what people say privately "is not an accurate indicator of a person's character"
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I have never asked my math and economics masters degrees wife to read my dissertation and this is why.
My (33F) husband's (35M) career in academic philosophy is ruining our marriage.
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I feel like I need to stress how incredibly easy it is to treat people with dignity and respect and to not sexually harass or assault them.
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Resist the impulse (if you have it) to reflexively defend Biden. One presidentβs incompetence is not an argument in favor of another presidentβs incompetence.
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It always looked like thatβ¦.
With the rise of the #MeToo movement and the Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew scandals, Clintonβs conduct looks much more like that of an unscrupulous and powerful older man exploiting an infatuated junior employee for his own sexual gratification.
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I cannot stop laughing about Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
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Itβs stunning the level of authoritarian, Orwellian anti-democratic and anti-reality narcissism our country tolerated for four years. This is some petty dictator energy here. How deep has the rot grown and to what extent can we treat it? Thatβs the question.
BREAKING: President Trump has fired Christopher Krebs, a top cybersecurity official who affirmed the security of the election and rebutted rumors and baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud that Trump promoted.
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One of the most important things I unlearned from my youth experience in the church is that I had to feel peace about my actions or decisions, and if I didnt, I was outside Godβs will/in sin. I wasted so much time and heartache before I realized that sometimes you just feel bad.
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You donβt under any circumstances have to hand it to Matt Walsh.
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^Forget voting for @Evan_McMullin so you don't have to support Trump. I'm excited to support him because he has actually good policies.
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Sometimes there is no clear reason why you feel guilty, depressed, or anxious and then hunting for an explanation can feed the dread. Pray for wisdom, thank God for grace, put your head down, be faithful to the task in front of you, and do the next thing.
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Whatβs it like going to church with kids? You pull up to church on time for once and your youngest announces, βDad. I have no shoes.β.
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Any evangelical argument for Trump, like this one, that doesn't seriously consider how the close alignment with evangelicalism and Trump will affect the witness of the church, is not a serious argument:
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Hard to describe how disgusted and angry I am at these comments. I attended a church highly influenced by MacArthur, and while there were good people there, they did embrace the error that medication is sinful or wrong.
βThereβs no such thing as PTSD. Thereβs no such thing as OCD. Thereβs no such thing as ADHD.β.βΒ John MacArthur
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Fake news used to be such better quality in the 90s.
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This probably wonβt sway anyone who is a Babylon bee fan, but these gross and foolish tweet from the managing editor is a good example of why I wonβt support them. Also they arenβt funny.
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Jesus doesnβt care.
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If Anakin were homeschoooled and took that one class on postmodern apologetics
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@ericmetaxas If you are wrong and he is not inaugurated in January, will you give up your radio show and stop commenting on politics?.
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@ParkinCate Adults should not have friends at all. We should work tirelessly until we drop dead.
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If conservative leaders donβt do everything in their power now to put forward a virtuous and wise candidate, I donβt want to hear any of them tell me I βhave toβ vote for a corrupt candidate because itβs our only option.
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This absolutely felt like one of those callers on an AM call-in radio show who rambles incoherently until the host tries to graciously cut him off.
Trump concludes @foxandfriends interview by screaming about conflicts of interest on Robert Mueller's team, and promising to meddle more aggressively in the Department of Justice going forward.
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It continues to blow my mind how many affluent, popular churches seem to be built around the the pastor and his family as modeling a successful and enviable life. Happy family, attractive wife, hip clothes, wealthy, lots and lots and lots of pictures of the pastor, branding etc.
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@ericmetaxas Eric, retire from all social and political commentary. Find other work. This is disgraceful. It's time to walk away.
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What is it about other NBA players reacting that is so. delightful? Joyful? Love of something beautiful and good for its own sake? Joy for another person? Mutual respect?.
Big dawg.
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Imagine thereβs no quidditch. It isnβt hard to do. The books would be much better. Less annoying, too.
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Thing you won't hear much about publicly: pastors, ministers, Christian college profs and staff, and Christian non-profit staff who are "let go" or reprimanded for stances critical of Trump or for being even *sympathetic* to BLM the *movement*, not the org.
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It never was about Trump βsayingβ the βwrongβ things, or being impolite or politically incorrect or whatever. It was about what his public rhetoric reflected about his character. The kind of person who could say those things publicly ought not be in any position of leadership.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas is the greatest work of popular culture in the mid twentieth century, and maybe ever since:.1. Art direction is lovely.2. Voice acting is endearingly stilted.3. Directly addresses depression.4. Directly addresses secularism and commercialism.
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After a period of deep reflection and some hard conversations with my family, I have decided to regularly post pictures of myself with profound quotes. I hope this inspires you to think of me as a very serious person and not at all a self-absorbed wannabe celebrity.
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4yo daughter: How do you get sacrificed? . Me: . what. wait, do you mean baptized?. 4yo: yeah.
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realizing that every clichΓ© about millennials is true about Trump. 1. Has no work experience in a field but expects to start at the top.
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Thankful for @JohnPiper. Very few conservative evangelical national leaders have been willing to take this stance in 2020.
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I suspect that fifty years from now evangelicals will look back with frustration and regret at how much money and resources we squandered on decadence and living our best lives now and petty culture war skirmishes. We have the resources to shore up the ruins but there is no will.
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The difference in the trust and respect I have for people who make major mistakes and later repent and those who make major mistakes and double down is vast. Normalize admitting when you are wrong.
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Help me out:. Things that held an outsized space in my childhood imagination:. Piranhas.Quicksand .Private Detectives.
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All video games should allow you to save at any point. Even in the middle of a cut scene. I am a parent and I have spoken.
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The idea that Bell was ever a "fundamentalist icon" is hilarious.
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Legally every article about millennial evangelicals must use this image. I donβt make the rules, folks.
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Also, if modest is *hottest* then being modest is *more* likely to βcause someone to stumble,β therefore we should be immodest because itβs less hot wait a minute that doesnβt make sense who came up with this phrase.
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I saw something ridiculous on twitter and I almost quote tweeted it, then I almost screen-shot-tweeted it, and then I showed the maximum of restraint and didn't share it at all. But I just want you guys do know, someone said something really dumb on this website today.
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I once saw someone list themselves as a PragerU βFacultyβ because they βtaughtβ a βcourseβ that turned out to be a 4-min YouTube video. Iβll probably never recover from that.
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Making it to church with three small children is my spiritual act of worship.
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So much depends.Upon. Doing the.Reading. And attending.Class.
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@Nicole_Cliffe Alice Cooper was friends with Groucho Marx and would come over and watch old movies with him when Groucho had insomnia:
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A couple reasons I'd encourage you to show grace towards voters who don't Vote Like You: our politics are insane, our media/social media eco-system is broken and manipulated, and a lot of people are overwhelmed and anxious. Encourage wise voting, but show grace.
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Baby wipe corporations are incentivized to attach their wipes so that you always pull out more than you need, forcing you to cram the extras back in the package or waste them. Until the church addresses this injustice, I will no longer donate to Franklin Grahamβs retirement fund.
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Well, after over a decade of being on twitter Iβve decided to stay on twitter. You can find me here being on twitter.
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I just donβt understand how my son can be a night person AND a morning person. Also a day person.
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Last night I finished a long piece on mental health, suicide, depression, the church, and related things which no one asked for and yet, here it is. Consider it a "hard saying."
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The glory of the resurrection is independent of how you feel today.
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My kid is coughing in her sleep and every time she does it spikes my blood pressure. That parental spidey sense where you are suddenly alert and anxious to fix/care for/protect your kid. The world is too terrible of a place to love someone this much, and yet love we must.
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The fact that this "believer's summit" includes the atheist James Lindsey says that the belief which unites them is not Christ, but Trump.
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One of the truest things Iβve learned in life is the more you get to know people, the more you learn that there is a lot of suffering in the world beneath the surface. Be kind to everyone. Life is pretty difficult.
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There's been a lot of arguments about whether Christians should aspire to be "winsome"--whether it's effective in this post-Christian or "negative" world, using Renn's terminology. The answer is that sometimes it is effective and sometimes it's not. You winsome, you losesome.
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1. This is grossly inappropriate. He sees himself as above the law. 2. You donβt get to judge him by a different standard just because he is unqualified. 3. If this is just what businessmen do, we need a better class of businessmen.
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If evangelicals who βheld their nose and voted Trump,β or who βvoted against Clintonβ in 2016 truly believed that he was unfit for office but was better for our country than Clinton, why didnβt evangelical political leaders inform the GOP that evs wouldnβt vote Trump in 2020?.
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At this point these protests-riots are so widespread and diverse itβs hard to say anything true about them collectively. Except, God have mercy and bring justice and peace.
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My plan is to quarantine a bunch of OBU profs in a big house where they have to learn how to teach online and thereβs house drama and every week the students vote one prof out of the house (and into the infected streets). I need some seed money.
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Best outcome from this election would be if both parties radically reassessed their platforms. And if we seriously worked toward some kind of election reform that moved us out of two party systems.
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*wife has 3yo practice reciting the Lord's Prayer*.8yo: "What's a debtor?".Wife: "Someone who owes a debt.".8yo: ". so, Han Solo is a debtor to Jabba the Hut?".Wife: ". yes.".8yo: "But Jabba doesn't forgive Han Solo's debt.".
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Reminder: the government was not shut down over Planned Parenthood funding.
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God help us. The spiteful, deceptive, divisions in the church are evil. Slander. Paranoia. A desperation to find creeping progressivism under every theological statement. It is not of God. It should be repented of.
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*reads book for research*.*discovers five other books he should have already read*
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Man. Just went down a *Q* rabbit hole, and I have to say, there are too many people who think Trump is secretly saving children from pedophiles and who believe a civil war is coming and who seem to be excited by all of it.
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Trump's hair really is mesmerizing. May be bewitched. Never trust a man who doesn't have the integrity to go bald. #debatenight.
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WriteπYourπOwnπSermonsπππ.
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So he solved what you believe to be a legitimate problem by pretending there was a ban on saying βmerry Christmasβ and then pretending to lift that ban? Self parody. And honestly, this is disrespectful for Christians who do face persecution and silencing in public square.
Tony Perkins on @POTUS bringing "Merry Christmas" back for holiday season: "The president understood that the ability to express your faith in the public square was under assault and he was gonna be pushing back on it." #TheStory
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