Indeed it is

Introduce yourself with five animals you’ve seen in the wild - Raven - Arctic Fox - White tailed deer - Golden Eagle - Rattlesnake

Post something random or you’ll have an awful December

A lede that needs burying if ever there was one

This is captivating and a little haunting.

⚓ Please pray for pastors tomorrow who are inevitably going to be considered simultaneously too left but somehow also "kinda fash"

“Manifest” is the language of the present pseudo-Deism. It is not the language of Christian orthodoxy nor orthopraxy

If items 1-5 aren’t some version of “do not trust psychotherapy to disembodied spirits” it is literally useless and contributes to further harm

I *may* be a little heated over this whole Left Behind except as farce dealio

⚓️ We had a (conditional) baptism this morning… young man who grew up non-denom, baptized according to Acts 2:38, very uncertain about whether his baptism was valid. One of the very few instances I agree with “rebaptism” though I think this was mainly about removing scruples and ambiguity

Oh no The horror Whatever will we do

Best kind of deacon’s sermon tbh

Had my first actual disciplinary issue with my son (5) at school today. Throwing rocks, not listening to teachers, pinching/hitting classmates. Was livid. Didn’t yell, didn’t spank. On one hand, feeling glad I didn’t lose my cool. OTOH really hoping our boundary setting and bad consequences work

It’s not enough to be confidently incorrect, you must be demonstrably incorrect, in a confident manner

How, and I can’t stress this enough, the hell

Mfw my kindergartner tells me about the “bad dreams man”

Meanwhile TDS is a made up condition trotted out when someone wants to be utterly disingenuous and has ceded all of their reasoning to their gold leaf god

⚓I'm preparing to preach on the Rich Fool tomorrow, and I am struck again by the strong suspicion that a significant number of the parables of Jesus in Luke are pulled from Jesus' intimate knowledge of the stories of humans

Superman was amazing. Go see it.

Seeing lots of clickbait articles about an arXiv paper on how the recently discovered interstellar object is probably hostile aliens and we are all screwed Guys, my bingo card is the wrong bingo card for this year

Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny

Gm

⚓️Urgent prayer request - my last surviving grand has been in hospital and then rehab for pneumonia for the past several weeks. Today they were readmitted to the hospital for pneumonia after their vitals went in a bad direction.

So my child’s favorite phrase is “Did you know” in a cadence that is eerily similar to the line in Seal’s Kiss from a Rose. In a moment of silliness I started singing the next few bars and now my wife and I are unable to keep straight faces when he Says The Line

Sure why not

urgent prayers please - my father in law and his partner are currently under a level 2 evacuation alert for a forest fire very close to them that's been growing all evening. they have bags packed and a place to go if the evacuation is called but it feels very scary going to bed right now, uncertain

⚓️ I have a praise report I must share with God’s ppl in my phone: My cousin’s youngest child who has been in and out (but mostly in) the hospital since basically the day they were born due to a heart defect just had a successful transplant surgery!

As an update, ICE seems to have been tagging along on a Federal investigation into money laundering and fraud by an individual who used to own several restaurants in the area. They rounded up 40 restaurant workers unrelated to the alleged criminal activity.

⚓️ICE is raiding in my hometown. I’m torn by the desire to Do Something but also not wanting to leave my wife and child potentially on their own if I get in trouble. And recognizing I have the privilege of even having a choice to act. Please pray for me to have wisdom, discernment, and Xian courage.

I mean sure, assuming there wasn’t anything in there potentially adding fuel to the fire against any Dems …which, imho, is a rather large assumption

Bad news/Good news: Hell is real, but if you’re nervous about it, I know A Guy

The legal theory of “what if the law meant what was advantageous to me instead of what the text says”

"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"

Oh? You like coffee? How many consecutive days of adrenal fatigue have you experienced?

Hat looks like it’s getting ready to croak out “Hufflepuff”

The #formula1 movie was awesome. Definitely worth seeing in IMAX. Good balance of realism and storytelling, the score was fantastic, just all around a great experience.

Counterpoint:

The southron authoritarian need to punish the damn yanks for exposing their moral failure

This is what Christians mean when we say someone isn’t Christian - they aren’t “walking in the same way in which he walked” and not just they sinned while they were walking (aka “stumbling”) but walking a different path, following a different leader, heading to a different kingdom.

Christian Nationalists (those who are actively advocating and attempting to re-establish Christendom) are “doing Christianity” in a way so fundamentally different from the Faith as established in Scripture, Creeds, and Confessions that they are not “my people” to “come get”

This is basically what I suspect about most corporate journalism. Replace “civil war” as needed for any awful catastrophe which will drive clicks and engagement

Big if true

“If it bleeds it leads”

The Trump presidency summed up in a single exchange

kyrie eleison

This is the whole purpose of this tech according to the people who are funding and creating it. It should basically be banned for this reason alone. Even the most public critics of AI (ie the Vatican) are too hesitant in pushing back. The upsides to this tech are minimal— the dangers catastrophic

Demonic whispers type shiz