Michael Schlabach

This.

I find it important to try and engage with politics, because it affects people. Not through taking or keeping political power, but by speaking up about how politics are affecting others, especially marginalized groups and communities.

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

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I feel that. I’ve only got 2 kids instead of 3, but man can it be tough trying to make it through a church service, getting something out of it, and wrangling them into behaving for a split second of it! If I wasn’t on to share the message today, I think I’d stay home too. ☺️

Haaa 😂😂 Buffhoeffer. Well played.

Excited to listen to this on my way home tomorrow morning!

I don’t understand running the ball there by the Rams either. It’s not like you’re saving anything by running the ball. The 2 minute warning is coming no matter what, either on a run, a complete pass, or the next play on a punt. Why not just throw it and give yourself a chance to pickup the first?

Great thread! Thanks for sharing.

Congratulations!!

One of my favorite podcasts to date was this one! Just full of goodness. I was so struck by the comment “not villains or victims, but neighbors”.

Disarming Leviathan has been on my “to read” list for a while. Let me know what you think of it!

Haha it would be a pleasure. ☺️ I enjoy spreadsheets and working on them. I was showing my old union president one this one time that took about 2 minutes to make, and he was showing me how he wrote the entire thing on his tablet in pen over about 6 hours 😂😂

Excel is amazing! The rush of figuring out a complicated formula is amazing 😂 It’s fine, you can call me a nerd if you’d like.

Home Alone is an absolute banger. The only reason to dislike it, is the cameo from Trump. Die Hard is also 100% a Christmas Movie and when I take over in authoritarian fashion, will be my first executive order. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I’ve been contemplating this lately with the question of how we measure success. To your point of “souls pointed to the cross” - do you feel that’s a measure of success based on the quantity of souls that you do point to the cross? Or simply a byproduct of a life lived for Christ?

Once Christians tie their faith to partisan politics they eventually have to defend the indefensible.

Pledge all your allegiance to Jesus Christ and let the politicians fend for themselves.

I will say - in the city where I was a paramedic, I encountered several homeless people who came to our city because we did offer a shelter and some services. I considered that a positive though, not a negative!

You sir - have an excellent way with words.

And then ran his last loop in 37:03 😳🤯 Incredible.

My biased opinion with zero factual data to prove it - Baker ☺️

This - as much as anything - infuriates me.

I’m so confused 😂 I thought this was in reference to a Halligan Bar and I was just not understanding the joke.

If You Are Elevating Charlie Kirk, Consider Who You Are Crushing Underfoot The Time To Listen Is Now

Charlie Kirk said some good things, and bad things, did some good things and some bad. Let's be careful who we elevate. Can we be discerning of both? From one of the premier New Testament scholars of our day. Nijay K Gupta of Northern Seminary . nijaykgupta.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

When I think of Jesus, I believe he would stand up for the poor, the mistreated, the immigrants, and the children and maybe flip a table or two. But at the same time, allow himself to be sent to the cross.

I wonder too, is there a difference between how we respond to other groups being oppressed vs. when we personally think we are being oppressed?

Ha!! I’m not sure if I agree or disagree but that did make me chuckle quite a bit. 😂 Amen! I think! I’ll have to ponder this some more..

It certainly affords that opportunity.

True.
I think my humanity wants the groups who have oppressed and abused other groups for generations, to really “get what they deserve” and take a turn being treated poorly.

I’m not sure how that fits with Jesus.

I would tend to agree, I wonder though, is the system inherently wrong? Or is it how we take the opportunity to be selfish (or not) as people within the system that is wrong? What is the actual answer as an economic system?