Duke Kwon
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Pastor, Co-Author Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance & Repair / “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” — T Morrison
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HOW TO APOLOGIZE:
• express sorrow (I’m sorry)
• own guilt (I was wrong)
• name specific wrongs (I did X)
• name impact (I hurt you)
• no IFs (sorry if I)
• don’t blameshift/defend (but you)
• no passive voice (sorry you were offended)
• make amends (what can I do)
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"Jan 6 Had Nothing To Do With Christianity" : A Photo Essay 🧵
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Christians who are attracted to persons of the same sex but committed to celibacy out of love for Christ and submission to his Word have been for me among the clearest, most humbling models of self-denial, perseverance, and costly discipleship. They are a gift to the Church.
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My dear Wormwood,
I’m pleased w/ arrangements you made for the Report’s release on Maundy Thurs. Keep your patient fixated on Breaking News, not what the Enemy calls Good News—redactions not resurrection. Distraction and derision dull the heart.
Your affectionate uncle,
Screwtape
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Foreground: Church planter in “the city”
Background: Nameless rural pastor
I love this viral video of an old man draining free throws.
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Some people believe it’s traditional ethics that’s driving young people away from the church. But it’s actually hypocrisy.
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Mercy. 8 shot dead in metro Atlanta, most or all victims of Asian descent. Keep in mind, whether or not this incident proves to be a racially motivated hate crime, it’s gutting news for an Asian American community already reeling from the recent rise in violent racist attacks.
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My sweet son, 7yo, wrote a “psalm” (his description). I’m grateful for his growing faith and creativity.
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The response of local White clergymen to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre:
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I struggle to comprehend the mindset and culture that informs a parent's decision to buy their 13-year-old child an AR-15 for Christmas.
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Phew! After these two high-profile, emotional, legally complex trials in which race was ever present but never center stage, you almost wish there was a robust, if limited, analytical framework that could help us understand the relationship b/w racism + US law/legal institutions.
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Mr. Zacharias “warned her not ever to speak out against him or she would be responsible for the ‘millions of souls’ whose salvation would be lost if his reputation was damaged.”
Deliver us from evil, O Lord, our Judge and our Redeemer.
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Perspective:
“It’s a struggle to see people weep for a cathedral burning in France who felt nothing about the three historically Black churches burned down by a white supremacist in Louisiana in the last month.”
—
@dee2roe
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Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a spiritually moribund religion in need of new blood.
— MLK, 1959
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Once again, let’s be absolutely clear: The use of deliberately blame-assigning phrases like “China virus” and “Kung Flu” incites violence against Asian Americans. Period. The recent surge in anti-Asian attacks was preventable before it was inevitable.
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Christ is risen!
Χριστὸς ἀνέστη!
¡Cristo resucitó!
المسيح قام! حقا قام!
그리스도 부활하셨네!
Kristos tenestwal!
基督復活了！
Le Christ est ressuscité!
Kristo amefufukka!
Христос воскресе!
Christos tensiou!
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It is my earnest prayer that no Christian in America would hesitate to condemn White supremacy.
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Rich Mullins: “Christianity isn’t about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world … Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved, and Jesus loved the poor, and Jesus loved the broken.”
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Christ's convulsive struggles in the Garden of Gethsemane is the clearest proof that personal "peace" is an unreliable indicator that you're "in God's will." Sometimes faith sweats blood.
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Racism is sin and heresy because it 1) is a form of idolatry, 2) violates the Imago Dei, 3) denies the Communion of Saints, and 4) transgresses the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 9th commandments, which are summarized in the two great commandments to love God and love neighbor.
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God is on the move. The question remains whether Christians will participate in what he is doing. But make no mistake, God will do it with or without the church.
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Simon answered, “But because you say so, Lord, I will let down the nets...”
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Once again, “Kung Flu.” And unless non-Asian people speak up and condemn it, it won’t be the last. The way the crowd responds to this phrase in particular is ... telling. As I’ve said before, this isn’t about hurt feelings; it’s about the physical endangerment of Asian Americans.
The President uses the term “Kung Flu” again and says “COVID, COVID-19, COVID, I said what’s the 19. COVID-19, some people can’t explain the 19.”
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Sin makes you think you’re getting a gondola ride down a canal in Venice when really
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Lots of interns, assistant pastors, youth pastors preaching tomorrow. Don’t let anyone disparage you; you are the Lord’s herald. Don’t swing for the fences; make contact. Preach Christ. Love your people. Seek to be faithful, not impressive or successful. Exhale. Jesus loves you.
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It's impossible to love someone you disagree with when you secretly believe they need Jesus more than you do.
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The problem isn't with praying in a time like this. Expectant prayer effects real change (Jas 5:16); pray we must. The problem is with prayer as public performance (Matt 6:5), as avoidance of repentance (Luke 18:11-12), as self-service (Acts 8:24) as cover for inaction (Jas 2:7).
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Listen, just to be clear,
Jesus really is the answer to all this.
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The culture often does not reject us because they don’t believe the church’s doctrinal and moral teachings, but because they have evidence that the church doesn’t believe its own doctrinal and moral teachings.
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@drmoore
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Men must be held vastly more accountable for unplanned and unwanted pregnancies.
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This sentence (by
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians never mention the Beatitudes. But, often w/ tears in their eyes, they demand that the 10 Cmdts be posted in public bldgs. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
— K. Vonnegut
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African Americans (61%) are the only racial group in the U.S. that believes the Bible is more important for the moral fabric of the country than the U.S. Constitution, according to the American Bible Society's State of the Bible 2018 survey.
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As a matter of general principle, "healing" and "reconciliation" are achieved only by way of acknowledgment, accountability, truth-telling, repentance, and redress—as well as prudence, forbearance, and mercy. Not by simply "moving on."
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The premature public naming of sexual addiction as primary motive effectively cast the killer in a sympathetic light as powerless victim, and immediately hypersexualized seven faceless women whose identities were already bound to be framed by exotified, dehumanizing tropes.
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What if the period between June 19 & July 4 were to become an annual 16-day season of national remembrance, lament, and renewal—an honest accounting of the unfulfilled promise of liberty/equality, call to repentance, and recommitment to spur our nation to live up to its ideals.
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Powerful but often overlooked words. You’ve heard of the Proverbs 31 Wife. But have you heard of the Proverbs 31 Advocate of the Oppressed? 😏
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Seeking to win the culture wars at any cost, "evangelical" "conservatives" forfeited moral consistency for partisan gain and gospel truth for culture, fueling a whole generation's suspicion of evangelical readings of scripture, all but guaranteeing their loss in the culture wars.
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Easter spells the beginning of the end of every terrible thing.
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Praise God for the release of Tony Kim, Kim Dong-chul, and Kim Hak-song -- three brothers in Christ and American citizens of Korean descent who have been detained in North Korean labor camps by Kim Jong Un's regime over the last 1-2 years. Prayers answered.
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9yo: “Daddy, I wonder what you’d look like if you exercised more.”
Good morning.
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What took place at the US Capitol on
#January6th
was an event of political and religious terrorism. It was not only a brazen assault on democratic institutions and processes but also a shameful, violent display of a diseased Christian social imagination in naked pursuit of power.
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Advent is not four weeks of Christmas. It is, rather, a season of hopeful aching and watchful waiting amidst the very conditions—depravity, disease, division, despair, death—that made Christmas necessary at all.
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My favorite time of every day is the five seconds between when everyone on Zoom says bye and when they finally locate the End/Leave Meeting button in the corner.
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When my son, who had a rough morning, curls up by me and asks about “the story about the [prodigal] boy who ran away”—and how he was embarrassed to come home but his dad loved him anyway—then dives into my chest for a long hug... well that was the most important event of my week.
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He said it differently than I might've, but let me tell you, he said it exactly how some people needed to hear it.
Pastor Loran Livingston tore the church up with this one.
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The idol is guns—yes. But the idol underneath the idol is "freedom," upon the altar of which Americans of every persuasion pitilessly sacrifice children.
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Let's be clear: It is not Christianity itself that some are seeking to "save," but a cultural order in which certain "Christians" enjoy and exercise dominion.
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Badly needed in US Christianity: compelling testimonies by parents who love sports, whose kids were gifted in sports, but who nonetheless chose to set limits, prioritize worship, and keep the Sabbath as best they could—and whose kids still had vibrant, sports-loving childhoods.
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Whoever is truly humbled will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference, it is grace alone which has made it.
— John Newton
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Pro athletes posting videos of themselves working out is kinda funny. Like, bro, that's just you doing your job. I'm gonna post long videos of me doing sermon prep at my desk and be like: Back in the lab. 📚 Train more. Win more. See ya on Sunday. 🏋️♂️💪🏆
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John Piper rarely, if ever, speak directly/publicly on matters related to electoral politics. He does here. "I think it is a drastic mistake to think that the deadly influences of a leader come only through his policies and not also through his person."
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I listened to
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"There is no way forward if white pulpits won't talk."
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A 90 minute worship service, accounts for only 1.3% of waking hours in a given week, during which we and our people are constantly formed and catechized by the world and assaulted by the flesh, devil, and sufferings of life.
Let’s make the most of the time today.
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“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”
“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.
“Not because you are?”
“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”
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You may distrust or despise the concept of “intersectionality,” but I’d like to suggest that you cannot truly grasp what happened in Atlanta without seeing the cumulative force of the victims’ overlapping identities as women, as Asians, and as economically vulnerable immigrants.
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One of the great moments of empathy and compassion —
17 years ago, Mo Cheeks came to the rescue during the national anthem in what may have been his greatest assist 👏
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Pray for pastors, especially your own, who are preparing (some anxiously) to address our nation’s troubles tomorrow. Pray for wisdom, humility, prudence, courage, and a heart focused more on shepherding the beloved people before them than on responding to the crowds around them.
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That letter is going down in American evangelical history. Now, whether it will be remembered as a catalyst for repentance and reform or a voice in the wilderness is yet to be determined.
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CT’s statement is unlikely to change anyone’s mind on core issues, but what it can do is help rebuild the church’s public witness, give courage to beleaguered Christians, illustrate the heterogeneity of “evangelicals,” model the costliness of integrity for Christian institutions.
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The idolatrous root of a sh*thole worldview is not simply ethnic supremacism but also, and perhaps primarily, class supremacism. We must therefore repudiate not only disdain for black and brown global neighbors but also disdain for the global poor.
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I must admit, it’s rather moving, after having endured the rhetoric of “Kung-Flu” over the past year, to see an Asian American agent leading the President’s security detail.
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All of heaven, when you accomplish that Really Important Thing in ministry.
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Remember those for whom
#FathersDay
is painful: Men who long to be, but can’t be, fathers; or who’ve lost children; or who live estranged from their children; or men, women, boys, girls, who’ve lost their fathers or were wounded or abandoned by their fathers. Grace and peace.
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It is difficult to express how exhausting and traumatizing the past five years have been for people/Christians of color.
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Lord, save someone during our service tomorrow. In your great mercy, grant them the grace of repentance and faith for the first time. Make the scales fall from their eyes and enable them to behold the beauty and majesty of Christ and him crucified. Do this for your glory. Amen.
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More than ever, it is vital for U.S. Christians to be in fellowship with persecuted Christians around the world—not simply to pray for them but to be discipled by them. For we are strangers to the possibility of faithfulness to Christ in any position of society but its center.
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Almost made me cry. He really, *really* wanted that ball. Love isn’t sharing your leftovers. It’s giving up what you really want to keep.
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I admit I’m a bit surprised at how explicitly and unabashedly these anti-CRT bills seek to protect white citizens from “feelings of discomfort.”
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I repudiate the President’s racist reference to Covid-19 as “Kung Flu,” particularly after the rise in pandemic-related anti-Asian verbal and physical attacks. This is not about mere personal offense; it is about the personal endangerment of Asian Americans. And it must stop.
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America lionizes the quotable-King yet willfully forgets the handcuffed-King. This weekend, be careful of sanitized versions of Dr. King’s disquieting legacy of protest, direct action, and prophetic leadership. He was murdered for saying whatever quote you read or tweet.
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I’ll never understand people who *insist* on BACKING into parking spots. I’m convinced y’all are part of a cult.
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Wrapped in swaddling clothes,
lying asleep.
Wrapped in a servant’s towel,
washing feet.
Wrapped in linen burial cloth,
dead in sin.
Wrapped in risen-glory,
coming again.
#Advent
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This made me weep. You cannot understand what’s going on right now without taking this family debate deep into your heart.
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Too many look for meaning in their work rather than bring meaning to their work. Your work matters b/c you do, not the reverse.
#LaborDay
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The church’s collective witness can be damaged in an instant by the foolishness and failures of its most public representatives. But it can be rebuilt only gradually, through ordinary acts of integrity and hospitality among neighbors over meals, on porches, and in backyards.
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You aren’t individually responsible for the whole world’s wounds. You cannot advocate for every cause. Try to? You’ll burn out or slacktivism out. Believe in the Body. Take Providence seriously. God may soon call you elsewhere, but start with loving those right in front of you.
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You know what might help us make sense of Tyre Nichols’ murder? Some of them readings in AP African American Studies.
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To view the outcry against abuse in the church as a distraction from evangelism is to fundamentally misunderstand the evangelistic challenge in a generation that wants to know, foremost, if Christianity is *good* (not just true) and if its representatives are *trustworthy*.
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Celibate gay/SSA/Side B Christians are among the most faithful, persevering, courageous brothers and sisters I know—models of cruciform discipleship, self-renunciation, and indefatigable love for Christ. The church needs your testimony, example, witness, and leadership.
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“Angels Unawares,” a stunning bronze sculpture of migrants and refugees from across history and cultures by Timothy Schmalz — inspired by Hebrews 13:2: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
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