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Jun 25, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Watched the end of Indiana Jones & #TheLastCrusade last night. It explains A LOT of what I'm seeing among church folks and what they think drinking from Jesus' cup looks like.
If you haven't seen the movie, the bad guy grabs an ostentatious and beautiful chalice, believing that it is the Holy Grail. He wanted to drink from Jesus' cup of glory, not His cup of suffering. And because "he chose poorly", he shrivels up and withers away in puff of smoke.
I see so much of the American church in that. We want the glory without the suffering. We're just like the bad guy in Indiana Jones. We're also just like James, John and Peter... we want to be the greatest, we want to be at the right hand of Christ on a heavenly throne but...
Jesus asked his disciples a very important question: "can you drink from the cup I am going to drink?" That's the cup of suffering. The humble carpenter's cup. Can we drink from that cup?

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Oct 27, 2022
I think church leaders have been getting the concept of the tithe wrong for a very long time. And I believe it’s why many believe in a cruel God who wants you to sacrifice “because I said so.” 🧵
I never really considered what would happen to animals, olive oil and grain given to the Lord as a tithe. I guess I assumed it just went bad or something. But Deuteronomy woke me up this morning.
“Be sure to set aside a tenth of all that your fields produce each year. Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name…
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Aug 29, 2022
For everyone who has said “you can’t just assume based on the article, you gotta watch the video”… the video is 10000x worse than the article.
I’ve been a part of dealing with decisions like this. I’ve gotten it right and wrong. Our church would say the same. I’ve helped plan these announcements before.

THIS IS WEIRD.
First, the entire sermon was about this announcement. I don’t get that at all. Why?
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Dec 26, 2020
@Phil_guard @dave_filoni @Jon_Favreau Season 1 Essential: 11, 13, 22
Recommended: 2, 9, 19-21
@Phil_guard @dave_filoni @Jon_Favreau Season 2 Essential: 4, 12-14
Rec: 1-3, 11, 17
Good for Boba Feet: 20-22
@Phil_guard @dave_filoni @Jon_Favreau Season 3 Essential: 12-20 (core series stuff)
Rec: 21-22
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Dec 26, 2020
If you like #TheMandalorian and what @dave_filoni and @Jon_Favreau did... check out the #CloneWars animated series. The whole series is good, but the FINAL season is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😭😭😭😭😭😭
My favorite part of the series was the Anakin development. The animated series shows why everyone revered him but slowly amplified his dark side tendencies.
Animated Anakin is swaggering and charismatic but still temperamental and frustrating.

You feel why he’s The Chosen One and why the Jedi are hesitant to fully believe.
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Nov 20, 2020
The magnitude of suffering MANY MANY families are experiencing right now is just overwhelming.
Buffering = when videos pause because they haven’t fully loaded yet. My grief is buffering right now.

The burden of pain, for myself, for my people and for everyone really, is so substantial that it’s stuck. It can’t process.
And I feel a creeping dread. Because I know the video has to keep playing sometime. And I don’t want to experience a lot of what is next. Heavy.
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Nov 5, 2020
Idolatry isn’t just about what you love, it’s about what you hate. When you organize your life around something you despise, you elevate that idol to a level of counter-worship. Instead of trying to please the idol, you make offerings to harm it.
In a Christian context, idolatry is about elevating anything or anyone beyond their actual value. When you care too much, give too much, obsess too much or fear too much, that’s an object of worship. Or in this case, counter-worship.
You don’t have to consider it at the same level as God for something to be an idol. It just has to take an outsized portion of your resources: time, energy, money, focus, creativity...
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