Share this page!

Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture
Twitter logo
17 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Psalms 16
A Miktam of David.

Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”
As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight.

/1
The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply;
their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out
or take their names on my lips.
The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;
you hold my lot.

/2
The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.
I have set the LORD always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

/3
Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices;
my flesh also dwells secure.
For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol,
or let your holy one see corruption.

/4
You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:1-11

/end

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Thabiti Anyabwile

Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @ThabitiAnyabwil

Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture
19 Nov
Brothers and sisters, I want to make an ask of you.

It's not for me. It's for the gospel. It's for churches. It's for often-neglected, overlooked and avoided communities of people made in God's image.

I want to ask you to help us impact time and eternity.

Bear with me....
We have seen a revival of church planting over the last three decades. There are untold numbers of new churches in communities all across the country. Praise God!

We've seen an effort to support and revitalize struggling churches. And there are many comeback stories. Praise God!
But the vast majority of these new churches and these comeback stories exist and minister in suburban areas and in gentrified parts of cities. At best, the lion's share are only hood adjacent rather than hood located.
Read 13 tweets
Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture
4 Oct
So... we're going to big up Megan Thee Stallion for using a Malcolm X quote on Black women and a Tamika Mallory quote re: Daniel Cameron...

but we gon' ignore the lyrics of that song and the strip club representation of Black women in her dancing?

If we doing that, we trippin.
I agree that Black women are the least protected and honored members of our society. But we need to have a conversation about how *we* value them right along with the conversation about protecting them. "I'm savage" ain't it. Sexual exploitation ain't it.
I'm sorry. But it's not "heroic" to, on the one hand, seek fame and wealth by portraying the images and messages that dehumanize black women, while on the other hand decrying the other actors that exploit, abuse, demean and harm black women. It's not OK b/c you're a black women.
Read 8 tweets
Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture
12 Sep
While some mount defenses of slavery and slaveholding, the seminal event of the Old Testament that helps define God’s relationship w/ His people is His literal freeing them from slavery in Egypt. The exodus shapes their entire life and worldview, woven thru their celebrations.
You can only miss this if you’re identifying with Pharaoh and enslavers. That identification with the powerful and villainous blinds you to the wretchedness of forced bondage, makes you sympathetic to abstract justifications, and hard-hearted to those suffering the injustice.
But to read Israel’s sacred texts (i.e., the Bible), you read the history of their groaning in slavery which God heard, the celebration of deliverance in their poetry, and the ritual re-enactments of freedom on their highest holy days—but not one sympathetic word for Pharaoh.
Read 11 tweets
Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture
27 Aug
Something to ponder:

Why would professional law enforcement see themselves as having common cause with unknown armed militia or citizens?
The stubborn fact of American history and culture is that professional law enforcement has always sided against African Americans with white citizens in general and even armed white mobs and citizens.
Here's a test:

Can you name a single situation absent a presidential order when local law enforcement officers came out in support of African American rights against armed whites threatening us?

Almost always the state has wielded law enforcement against the interests of AAs.
Read 9 tweets
Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture
26 Aug
First, I assume this video dates back (2012) to the release of John's book, "Slave." The book is about our slavery to Christ and the video, in part, promotes the good and right nature of the Christian's voluntary enslavement to His loving Lord who voluntarily died for them.

/1
So, if we listen to this with the biggest grains of salt, we can see what John is saying.

However, several other things really must be said in critique of this video.

1. It's irresponsible editing to sandwich together misinformed comments on human slavery w/ slave to Christ

/2
It must also be said that John simply gets human slavery wrong. Slavery is not an inherently good institution comparable to parent-child or employer-employee relationships. The problem w/ slavery is not that its a good system with abuses. The problem w/ slavery is it IS abuse

/3
Read 12 tweets
Thabiti Anyabwile Profile picture
16 Jul
If you’re writing about “race” and racism and your argument essentially resolves in, “View everyone as an individual,” you are not fundamentally writing about “race” or racism, which by definition concerns groups and the attributions we make about them and actions toward them.
In the last 24 hours, I’ve read posts from @RevKevDeYoung and Greg Morris, both lovely and faithful bros in he Lord, both making good points about the ways we can wrongly judge at individual levels, and both appearing to resolve in individualistic conclusions @ group phenomenon.
We need the cautions they give—all of us. But in this season, what we need most is careful understanding of racism itself and of the culture’s tendency to over-individuate as a way of minimizing racism and absolving oneself. Another tool in that process? “All sides”-ism.
Read 14 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get email notifications when new thread is out from this Author!

Check out other threads from this Author!

Read all threads by @ThabitiAnyabwil