"Your life will contribute to a grand and wonderful story no matter what you do. You have been spoken. You are here, existing, choosing, living, shaping the future and carving the past. Your physical matter and your soul exist, not out of necessity, not voluntarily, and not under their own strength. There is absolutely nothing that you or I can do to guarantee that we will continue to exist. You aren’t doing anything that makes you be. We aren’t the Author. You and I are spoken. We have been called into this art as characters, born into this thread of occurrence tumbling downstream in the long Niagara of loss set in motion by the trouble that faced our first father and first mother. We will contribute to the narrative. But how?" ND Wilson
Let the alliteration flow
“If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)
If God gives you an obstacle, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh.)
If God gives you more profound hardship, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Climb it. Then laugh. Exhibit A: His Son.)”
ND Wilson
the human heart...
“And what is Christianity incarnate?
Merry Christmas. Join the wise men and find out. Follow the shepherds. Be blind by the road or hungry in a crowd or terrified in a boat or lame at a pool or dangling through the ceiling or a whore with too much perfume or a thief in a tree (or on a tree) or an adulteress facing execution or a liar or a sodomite or a hypocrite or a traitor or all of the above. Be guilty. Betray and despise all that is true and good and beautiful. Walk past that shocked soldier with the sour sponge on the stick. Stand with Mary at the foot of the cross. And see.
The cross is no idea.”
ND Wilson
cool. cheap sats. its all good, really good and extremely good for nakamoto token
the wicked want to destroy God.
they can't.
the perverts want to destroy the image of God.
they only destroy themselves.
Man is the glory of God.
Woman is the glory of man. She is the glory of the glory. The crown on his head.
i commend this to you. it's 39 min long. at 2x speed you can listen to the whole thing in 20 min.
https://www.ccctullahoma.org/podcasts/media/2024-01-14-the-true-disciple-s-boast
Jesus answered. . . "My kingdom is not from the world.” (John 18:36)
78 year old orange man v. montel williams side piece.
"He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision." (Psalm 2:4)
the lady SS agent = "Pat" from SNL
This really is bonkers
(David Roberts, The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under the Command of Titus (1850).)
And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!” And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” (Mark 13:1–2)
the glory of the man is the woman. We live in a culture that is in high rebellion against this kind of glory. . .pretty much everyone is confused about the roles of men and women. . . Some people have heard just enough bible verses to make them very dangerous. . the ones that say things like:
“A husband is to be the head of his wife”
Feminists across the country get pretty upset when preachers say these kinds of things. and yet, in the middle of all the anger & confusion are bible verses like 1 Corinthians 11:7
“For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.”
Yes it is true: the husband is the head of the wife. . . but so many people seem to be unaware of what’s supposed to be on his head: a Golden crown, with many beautiful jewels.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband. (Proverbs 12:4)
We often forget that In the Genesis account , the woman was the very last thing created: not because she was an afterthought, but because she was intended to be the very capstone of the temple.
