The sitting President of the United States posted this picture. He claimed today in public statements that it is him as a doctor supporting the Red Cross. He said only the media could come up with the idea that this was him as Christ.

Mr President, that sir is a lie. It is evident to any and all what this is. You are mocking the risen Christ. To claim otherwise, is nothing more than cheap gaslighting.

My fellow Christians, if his call for the commission of war crimes didn’t sway you. If his call for genocide didn’t sway you. If his dehumanizing behavior and rhetoric over the last decade hasn’t swayed you.

Perhaps, the open mocking of Christ during the season of Easter will move you.

The man is deceitful, unrepentant, and utterly abhorrent. He openly mocks our shared faith.

I am studying and preaching Amos and Revelation right now. There are parallels beyond parallels in both texts that ought to concern the follower of Jesus who aligns themself with one such as this.

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The #OldGal came up just short today, like the Red Wings and their playoff chances.

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Mandate of Mishpat - When God Turns the Mirror Around

An Introduction to Amos A sermon series on the Prophet Amos — Week 1

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Let me be honest with you: the minor prophets get a bad rap.

It’s right there in the name — minor — as if Amos and Hosea and Micah were somehow second-tier voices. But the only reason they’re called minor is because they were concise. They didn’t ramble on like Isaiah or Jeremiah. My seminary professors taught me that to be concise is to be skilled. So maybe we have it backwards. Maybe the minor prophets are the real majors.

And if that’s true, Amos deserves to be at the top of the list.

Good morning! Victory is ours today #YoungPups…

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The #OldGal made a valiant effort but fell short…

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Once again the #OldGal goes toe to toe with me and refuses to lose!

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I thought had her beat. She thought image had me beat. In the end, nothing but a tie from the #OldGal.

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“A good reputation is acquired by many actions; and can be lost by one. Be upon your guard, therefore, against those weaknesses which may risk it. Nothing can be more unjust than to judge a person by one single action; but the world is seldom just.” - Philip Dormer Stanhope

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“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I begin preaching Amos Sunday! The trepidation is real. This is not going to be a lighthearted or easy series to preach. 😮‍💨

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The #OldGal came down off her high from the last couple days and merely tied me.

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Dragons, Monsters, and the Powers Behind the Curtain

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A Study in Revelation 13


You can listen to the full unabridged audio here: Dragons, Monsters, and the Powers Behind the Curtain

We’re deep in dragon-and-monster territory now. If you’ve been following along in Revelation, you know we’re not exactly in cheerful, Hallmark-card Christianity. And that’s precisely the point.

Before we dive into the text itself, a quick note on Bible navigation: all those chapter and verse numbers? They weren’t in the original. They were added later to help people find their place — and the running joke among Bible scholars is that the divisions were made by a monk on horseback, because the breaks don’t always make sense. Case in point: N.T. Wright ends chapter 12 where the NIV begins chapter 13. If you want to experience Scripture fresh, try copying a passage into a plain document, stripping out the chapter and verse numbers, and reading it without those interpretive interruptions.

Now, on to the monsters.