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Follower of Jesus. Seanchaí. Husband. “Bear” to my kids. Pentecostal Priest. Higher Ed Research Ethics Pro. “God’s Bulldog”
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Sheetz is a powerhouse. There is no denying it.
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Dyscarnational diminishment of the person.
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LEGEND
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That cop is posted only for out of state drivers. All the people speeding are involved in his small town life somehow.
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I feel fortunate to have a best friend who knows more about me than I do, and vice versa. That relationship is lifegiving and marriage-supportive. And ministry-supportive. And life-supportive. We shared life directly most of 2007-2023. More men need this blessing.
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Some of us GenXers/Xennials might dare to say Bret Michaels (of Butler….shhhhhh). And a few crazies will hold out for Christina Aguilera.
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This is my second Sunday in 13 years that I will not be preaching Trinity Sunday.
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They must not look at much AI generated imagery then. (I refuse to call it art— YOU do art)
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The sons and daughters will prophesy whether you will or no.
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All shall be well.
And all shall be well.
All manner of things shall be well.
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What’s weird for me is a kid that I went to church with back in the day performing this song on AGT. 😅😆
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Okay, I hear that. And acknowledge it.
But can I also suggest you can’t get much more “good Christian upbringing” than the Cappadocian fathers and they are incredibly creative theologians. You got this! 💪🏼
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I really love this project and abandoned it when I saw you were on it. I’m trying to remember if I finished any lol.
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Yesssssss. Fire consumes fire to deliver us from a world of unrighteousness!!!
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But also, I understood the lections were the minimum, yes? Just read more. Lol.
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“No hiding behind exposition, preacher. You gonna have to sit with it.”
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That’s a wild take on farm to table if I ever saw one.
(This is an eat the rich joke—I’ll see myself out now)
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Presentation is everything. That said, I don’t think I’m aware enough of the stakeholders and demographics to offer any particular wisdom about colors or symbols that would make it clear.
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Flip the religious right on their heads — “No King but King Jesus.”
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Indeed. The paradox of it was they were often very competent priests, passionate preachers of the word. Very faithful to the task. But they expected little would result. I trust the Lord multiplied the harvest beyond what they had faith for.
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Great use of a fountain pen.
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The Reverend and Honorable Mr. Ryan Cagle, if and when you take office. 😁
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Also, for whatever it’s worth, in my neighborhood, “old head” is respect for someone sharp with to make it to an age that they have more wisdom than wisecracks
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Brother Scott, forgive me. I meant no disrespect nor did I intend to damn an entire generation of the baptized. As someone who was ministering in that world for nearly a decade, I had some experiences and I tend to want to hold my colleagues with collars to a higher standard.
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Also; I don’t mean it as an indictment. I know a priest who had that jaded feeling about American Anglicans but was really excited/hopeful within Pentecostal circles (he had been an adjunct at a Pentecostal ministry school). The sense of foregone doom is rough though.
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And if one of the veteran priests tells me it’s the Holy Spirit, I’ll believe them. But I don’t want to just go there in an abundance of Pentecostal gushing.
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Truly, the hardened and jaded state of Episcopal/Anglican old heads is discouraging. I want to know the difference between 40+ years in priestly ministry and the same in Pentecostal ministry cuz the grey hairs where I grew up were full of life and hope. I want to be like them.
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I overstand. I put so many little essays in my thesis and my advisor just ruthlessly cut them. I’m like “my babies!” And he said I should just keep a list and write them lol. Or save it for the dissertation. #nomercy
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A hell of footnote and maybe the best way to say “this important problem is beyond the scope of my paper.”
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Tbh, I’m surprised it took so long.
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I have trauma baggage with telephones stemming from childhood hearing loss and forced practice on phones (and negative consequences for education and employment). Still waiting to never have to use them. My blood pressure level would improve drastically without them being part of life.
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Amazing the Lord seems to have a real problem with entrance fees or finders fees in Kingdom work.
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I love ALL OF THIS for you. Praying that the rhythms for rest and work and play abide and bless you, your family, and your congregation and that you see the Spirit brooding over the deeps, ready to bring forth new life.
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I was the demographic whose freshman year athlete roommate in college listened to Paramore.
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It’s a beautiful thing.
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You say that like it’s a bad thing. 💁🏻♂️ #featurenotabug
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Presbyterians are the protoPentecostals. The first two generations of Reformed Presbyterians had itinerant ministers engaged in healing and prophetic ministries not unlike traveling evangelists of today. Except they were hardcore enough to pronounce woe oracles against enemies from within the Church
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I mean for one, absolutely glossolalia is a sacramental rite. But also, SPS’s journal Pneuma has some tremendous articles on the idea.
Theres some un-done work about the session and committees as an expression of Paul’s instructions about ordering gifts for the sake of coherence in worship.
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Cool. Tbh, that’s pretty elegant. Though i would have been tempted to write a service for the “planting of the minster” (instead of installation) and put your feet in the ground or something.
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Ontillogical Change or you’re wrong.
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Meanwhile some of the best reformed preachers were women.
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Oh. For the DoC uninitiated, what are the two parts?
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Good on you. I paid attention to the royals at one point with a sense of inherited Jacobite resentment.
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The guy who addressed the Welsh in Cymru…it seems like it’s kinda his thing tho.
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#inboxzero by Friday.
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Hard agree. Also, there’s a program that is so close to accreditation…. signumuniversity.org/degree-progr...
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What even? Take care, brother.