It’s time for your monthly Sanctuary service announcement! Sorry I haven’t put the full calendar out; some event dates are still up in the air. But this one’s for sure (and it may or may not be based on Hazbin 👀)

velociraptor = distanceraptor / timeraptor

“Let Go and Let God:” Tips for Control Freaks On Giving Up Control Letting go means acknowledging that we cannot control the outcome of a situation. In this post, I offer practical advice to help you let go and stop worrying about the future.

Borderlands 3 might not be *my* favorite game, but it seems to be my cat's favorite.

One popular Thanksgiving tradition is making a wish while breaking the fulcrum of the turkey, more commonly known as the wishbone. 🧵⬇️ (NOT HIM)

Today is Friendsgiving! We couldn't have done it without all of you. Thanks to everyone who donated to our fundraiser! If you'd still like to donate, visit the online giving page at welcomeinthisplace.org #welcomeinthisplace

Sanctuary thanks you all so much for your donations. We love hosting Friendsgiving and are glad we could keep doing it this year. We couldn’t have done it without you 💙

#transgenderdayofrememberance #neverforget

Any suggestions on what I should start calling my threads? 🤔 I need a cool hashtag/category name so I can find them when I want to blog on them.

Another day, another thread. Reading "Disappointment With God" by Philip Yancey got me thinking about how we survive this world as Christ-followers. The TL;DR - spiritual maturity is the key to making it out of terrible situations with our faith intact. ⬇️

bro I am straight up DOCTORING this pepper

Join us for our annual Friendsgiving event November 23 @1PM in Charlotte! Register on our website!

We need about $500 to cover meal costs (since this is a community event, and we make all the food ourselves). If you could spare anything, we’d really appreciate it (and donations are tax deductible since we are a 501(c)(3)). You can donate here: welcomeinthisplace.org/online-giving

Hey, fam. So update on this: long story short, we need yall’s help to make it happen. Things haven’t been too great financially for Sanctuary this year. All the leaders got laid off from their secular jobs, and two of us are still unemployed (myself included). That’s where you come in: ⬇️

Comin at you with an older but still relevant blog post cuz Hazbin season 2 is finally here: nikfits.com/2024/01/31/w... #hazbinhotel #christianity #nikfits

I'm back with a thread (and future blog post) prompted by @nikfits.bsky.social - "something something we can be doing everything we know to be right but there's something missing that's keeping it from being 100% effective ... and could be causing harm as well as good" First, some context ⬇️

Hearing Family Force 5 playing at Hot Topic made my teenage heart happy

Sneak peek of an infographic for an upcoming blog post 👀

joy is, in many cases, not actually easy. joy is a discipline. we should grieve, and we should get angry, but we should also cling to the Good. every day has at least one spot of joy that you can claw out of it and smuggle away in your pocket. this is what it means to not let sorrow take you.

Having some thoughts about the state of our society after catching up on some headlines. Thread incoming. But the TL;DR - the government cannot save us, and we need to look elsewhere for survival and security. Let's get into it ⬇️

the main difference between dogs and cats is that if you try to put a little jacket on a dog it will try to eat the little jacket and if you try to put a little jacket on a cat it will try to kill you

Apologies for sending this out late, but here’s Sanctuary’s calendar for this month! Come out and join us if you can 💙

it's hard work being God's sleepiest soldier and also God's least willing soldier to go to bed early

Butch enough to be mistaken as a lesbian, but not enough to be he/him'd 😔

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In our final tribute to Clergy Appreciation Month, let's show some love to our Apostle and Overseer @kingdompowernow.bsky.social ! #welcomeinthisplace ##kingdomnow

Time for vid 4! Can’t believe this series is almost over; it’s been a fun journey, and I’ve def learned a lot in the process. Let me know what you guys think! 💙 #nationalclergyappreciationmonth #practicewhatyoupreach #friendlyreminder

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Join us as Sanctuary turns 6! Whether you come Saturday or Sunday or both days, we would love to see you. Registration is free (required by October 27) and can be done on our website at www.welcomeinthisplace.org. Donations can also be made on our website. Help us celebrate! #welcomeinthisplace

It's Clergy Appreciation Month! First up, shout out to our own Minister @nikfits.bsky.social !

Grateful to have learned Latin the academic way 'cause learning Spanish the same way is a little easier now

Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

TIL that the Nephilim were believed to be 450 feet tall. That's twice the size of Lady Danger and slightly smaller than Slattern #pacificrim #welcomeinthisplace

Trivia on 'trivia' In ancient Rome, a trivium was an intersection of three roads (tri, "three" + vium, road). According to the Romans, when people met at a trivium, they would discuss trivialis ("inconsequential things") - which eventually helped give trivia its modern meaning.

I JUST FOUND OUT BORDERLANDS FUNKO POPS EXIST AND I FOUND ONE IN THE WILD

OK that's some pretty clever marketing 📕

📣 New Podcast! "When Idols Fall" on @Spreaker #ann #apostles #b #christian #female #harvey #idolatry #idols #julie #kingdompowernow #lee #marino #podcasters #podcasts #women

2013 gave us Pacific Rim and then the next year we got Godzilla. What a time.

It’s almost October. It’s almost 90 degrees F where i’m at. Where is the flannel weather?!? Why still hot?!?

I scheduled this post months ago, and it was just released today. Too timely not to share. Remember: read, like, share, and follow! #kingdomnow #patheos www.patheos.com/blogs/leader...

Late with posting Sanctuary’s schedule and sermon announcement (we had to finalize some late changes), but here they are! #welcomeinthisplace #sanctuarycharlotte #churchannouncements

It seems like every Borderlands sequel requires a console upgrade 😫 I'm tired of this grandpa

ELLIE!!!!!

Coming out of hibernation with some thoughts on a book I'm reading. Stream-of-consciousness thread on "When a Nation Forgets God" by Erwin Lutzer incoming ⬇️

I Cannot Be Stopped