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7 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Two months after the Jan 6, 2021 storming of the Capitol, I am reminded of some of the warnings from 5 years ago.
Another:

Also. He was not wrong.

cpt.mbts.edu/2016/08/26/on-…
Here's his blog post from around that time:

dennyburk.com/why-social-con…
"There are a host of characteristics that render (him).... a real threat to our constitutional order. Look at how he orders his supporters to perpetrate violence against protestors... He must never be allowed near the Oval Office. Ever."

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7 Mar
Hot takes from Luke 5:33-39.

The Christian life is primarily one of feasting, not fasting.

1/16
Proofs:

1) The only *commandment to regularly fast* in the OT was for the Day of Atonement, once a year.

Jesus fulfills the Day of Atonement perfectly. The fast is fulfilled. The feast is here.

2/
2) There is no commandment to fast in the NT. None at all.

Jesus' instructions on fasting in the Sermon on the Mount are not a command. They are instructions that if we do fast to not advertise our piety.

3/
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1 Mar
A Story About My Chaplain in Desert Storm

Last thread on Desert Storm, which ended 30 years ago.

Our chaplain was a fine fellow. The Army was his second career and he was older, measured, calm & wise.

(Oh, that's me below, not him. Our unit ID is on the M113 if any care.) 1/10
Before we deployed, I was scared. I had just gotten married, and not only was I sad about being deployed so suddenly, I was worried I would not do my duty.

So I went to go see the chaplain in his office. He said the simplest, wisest thing. 2/
He said, "Chris, God does not provide strength ahead of time that we can store up. He provides it on the day."

I've never forgotten that. And come to think of it, that's kinda in the Lord's Prayer, isn't it? But there's more. 3/
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1 Mar
Because this quote cannot be tweeted too much.

From a letter by Luther to his friend, Spalatin, who had fallen into a great depression over his sin:

“Do not let your sin stick in your mind, but get rid of it. Quit your despondency, which is a far greater sin…. 1/5
It must surely be that heretofore you have been only a trifling sinner, conscious only of paltry and insignificant faults & frailties… Therefore my faithful request and admonition is that you join our company and associate with us, who are real, great, & hard-boiled sinners. 2/
You must by no means make Christ to seem paltry and trifling to us, as though He could be our Helper only when we want to be rid from imaginary, nominal, and childish sins. No, no! That would not be good for us. 3/
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24 Feb
A Letter from a Dad to his son on the Brink of War.

30 years ago tomorrow, the ground war of Desert Storm began. I was in a front line infantry battalion, so that's when things got really hopping for me.

I needed courage. 1/
This was all before cell phones and email, so letters from home were our lifeblood.

Kirstan and I had just been married and we wrote faithfully. We would also get the occasional, unpredictable phone call whenever I could make it to the rear - precious, fleeting moments. 2/
Dad also wrote me almost every day of my 7 month deployment. Mostly newsy, chatty letters I could hardly read. Terrible handwriting. But I could read his love.

He also typed a few. As many of you know, Dad passed away this past summer. I found a file of his old letters to me. 3/
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23 Feb
Ran across an old letter to my Dad from 30 years ago, and now I remember what I was so worried about as a Medical Platoon Leader heading into the Gulf War.

Turns out, during *training exercises* fratricide was a fairly common occurrence (due to fog of war). This did happen. 1/3
But this other time, I was waiting for "enemy" wounded to arrive at our Aid Station, and they never did. Turns out our troops "double tapped" them. In TRAINING.

No wonder our colonel was no insistent we go over the Geneva Convention repeatedly before the balloon went up. 2/3
P.S. These sketches were from letters I sent home at the time, describing the work of a mechanized infantry Battalion Aid Station. 3/3
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8 Feb
Good morning. A reminder that Jesus began and ended His earthly ministry by forgiving and restoring Peter amidst a pile of fish.

At first, Peter begged Jesus to "depart from him, a sinful man" but the end, Peter jumps into the sea to swim to Christ, anxious to receive grace.
So with us: abasement and absolution for our own sin does not occur just once, but is a daily exercise.

Not to regain God's favor, but to rest in the grace which is already ours through Christ's life, death and resurrection.
As Peter himself writes in his epistle:

"God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you. Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you."
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