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Every single thing to come has turned into ashes 'Cause it's all over, it's not meant to be So I'll say words I don't believe Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye You were bigger than the whole sky You were more than just a short time

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Christians are to persuade by love, witness, Spirit, reason, rhetoric, and, if need be, by martyrdom; but never by force. The church does not need, should not have, and must not covet the sword of Caesar.

"Like Metaxas’s biography, the film bends over backward to make Bonhoeffer sound like an American evangelical." currentpub.com/2024/12/06/u...

John the Baptist drinks no wine, because he’s not the one who brings the party, he only prepares the way. The party begins when Jesus turns the water to wine at the wedding feast of Cana. John is Advent; Jesus is Christmas. (From my sermon for tomorrow on John the Baptist.) #Advent

Christ as king appears himself before the counterfeit power of Rome; Caesar can only send his representative. This is because Caesar’s power is premised on being utterly unlike his subjects. This is why he can have no rival and must execute apparent rivals. It is power over, a zero sum game.

Jesus' contemporaries found Jesus' empathy toward sinners to be pretty toxic. Let the reader understand.

To the Diner’s who have ears to hear, let them hear!

There’s nothing Christ-like about nationalism. It is the opposite direction of the way of Jesus. Call your nationalism “Christian” all you want—it has nothing to do with Jesus’s teaching and lived out example.