pastor @seekrefuge in St. Charles, MO.
making every effort to disappoint people at a rate they can handle.
Apr 13, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A 🧵 from Brennan Manning’s Ragamuffin Gospel:
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious.
I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark.
Sep 15, 2019 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
Tomorrow will mark 20 years since the mass shooting at Wedgwood Baptist Church. I remember the night and the events so vividly. I remember walking back up the aisle after the gunman turned the gun on himself, not sure if this was reality or not, but knowing it was bad.
As I ran, I yelled at kids to stay down and then the police came in the back of the sanctuary and yelled for everyone to get out. I remember faces of kids and friends that I follow on fb to this day as they looked over at me while everything was happening..
Feb 25, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/6 Nobody asked for this from me 😬😎, but there has been a lot of discussion on how to preach the Bible...forever. So, this is what I subscribe to and it’s based on Zack Eswine’s book “Preaching to a Post Everything World.”
2/6 A sermon should tell 4 stories from the passage that preachers need to help unfold. So, in study and in sermons, seek to answer these 4 questions: 1. What is being made known in this passage about God?
