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Brad Blocksom

@hodidaskalos.bsky.social

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Follower of Jesus, Recovering radical Biblicist, Continuationist. Amateur Bible Scholar, aspiring author, Missional-Organic Church advocate.

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Feb 7

Jesus was a rebel and a revolutionary. Never forget that His worst enemies were well respected religious leaders!

Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 4d

81 days until #Christmas!

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#JustSayin

Stryper - "Winter Wonderland" - Official Lyric Video

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 13d

“they have a gross misunderstanding of the nature of the kingdom of God…”

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#Church #Gospel #GoodNews #KingdomOfGod #Missional #Jesus #Evangelicalism #Bible #Gospels

Another Jesus. Another Kingdom. Another Mission. Another Gospel.

Another Christianity...

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 15d

The stages of spiritual abuse (according to Mary DeMuth):

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#SpiritualAbuse #Church #Cults

Your Timeline in an Abusive Ministry

As I mentioned last week, I’m writing a book about church hurt and how to heal from it.

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 19d

For anyone in and around Southern California in mid-October: the 2025 #Missiology lecture series!!

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#FullerSeminary #Mission

Missiology Lectures

Fuller Seminary's annual conference on missiology.

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 20d

How can my unqualified praise of Charlie Kirk hurt my brown brothers and sisters in Christ?

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#Bible #Politics #Racism #Hate #Oppression #Christianity

If You Are Elevating Charlie Kirk, Consider Who You Are Crushing Underfoot

The Time To Listen Is Now

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 21d

Joel Green on Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts (Part 1).

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#Bible #Gospels #BiblicalTheology

Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts—1

The Pervasiveness of Luke’s Interest

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Bill @bkr8un.bsky.social · 21d

First President of the United States, George Washington, said, “If the #freedom of #speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.”
#1stAmendment

Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 24d

Today’s Daily Dose of Hebrew!

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#Bible #HebrewBible #Writings #Psalms

Psalm 6:4

YouTube video by Daily Dose of Hebrew

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 24d

“If any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name of Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.”
~The Last Battle

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 25d

To all those who are tired of being told to hate their neighbor, I give you Texas State Representative James Talarico:

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#Love #Hate #Politics #Jesus #Christianity

Redirecting...

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 26d

Stevie Wonder’s message that Love’s in Need of Love Today is as needed now as it was in 1974 when this song came out…

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#Music #Love

Love's In Need Of Love Today

YouTube video by Stevie Wonder - Topic

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · 29d

#Ethics

Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks for addressing this. 1 of my major concerns w/ Christianity: we go to #church faithfully, listen to #sermons, volunteer in children’s ministry, attend a small group, have regular personal devotions. Yet I see so little of the kind of radical life transformation like we read in the #Bible!?!

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Sep 7

There was a time when the study of the #Bible WAS The study of #Theology!?!

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#TheologicalInterpretationOfScripture #TIS

Theological Interpretation of Scripture Matters—4

The Rise of Scientific Biblical Studies

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Sep 4

Was Junia really an Apostle?

#ChurchHistory #Egalitarianism #Bible

Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Sep 3

Remember when the Mars Hill elders led us to believe that a Bullying Leadership style and Plagiarism were not moral failure? This type of thing is still going on today!

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#Church #SpiritualAbuse #MoralFailure #Character #Leadership

What is moral failure, anyway?

How we minimize character issues with the language we use

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Aug 31

Who is Jesus?

#Bible #Jesus #KingdomOfGod

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What Kind of Man Is This?

A new response to life’s troubling, traumatic events

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Joel B. Green @joelbgreen.bsky.social · Aug 30

The next installment in my series on Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts...

Good News to the Poor in Luke-Acts—3

What Does “Good News to the Poor” Look Like?

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Aug 30

#HermeneuticsIsEverything #Bible #Hermeneutics #BibleAsLiterature

Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Aug 29

I believe God is cleaning house of greedy, unwavering, bombastic, prideful leaders. And he is using the quiet voices of the “small” to do so. -Mary DeMuth

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#SpiritualAbuse #Bible #Church #Leadership

Exposing Darkness in Leaders Is Terrifying

But it must be done

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · Aug 29

At St. Cuthbert’s Cave with St. Stephen’s University students teaching on Cuthbert’s evangelization of Northumbria in the seventh century and our need to stay open to miracles in the twenty-first century.

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Aug 27

Good thoughtful piece! Would you go to the #church described in the Ad proposed by Andy, or do you prefer all the hype?

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a local church is where your idealism dies

being disappointed is God's path to transcendence

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Aug 21

Drawing parallels between the Old Covenant Priesthood, and Pastors, Elders, & leaders in the #Church under the New Covenant is an apples and oranges problem!

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#Egalitarianism #Complementarianism #PriesthoodOfAllBelievers #ChurchGovernment #Leadership

Old Testament Priests & New Covenant Ministers - Marg Mowczko

The fact that only men were permitted to serve as priests in the Old Testament is sometimes used to argue that women cannot be church leaders.

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Aug 17

“It was in that moment, at age nineteen, that I decided I’d better start learning something about #theology because the complex yet strangely tidy answers of that dispensational chart left me with lots of questions.” -Michelle Van Loon

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#ReplacementTheology

On Being Othered by Bad Theology

a guest post by Michelle Van Loon

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Brad Blocksom @hodidaskalos.bsky.social · Aug 16

An #ImaginativeContemplation exercise on Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus in the gospel of John. Enjoy! (24 min. audio)

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#Bible #Meditation #Gospels #SpiritualFormation

Mary Anoints Jesus’ Feet: Imaginative Contemplation: John 12:1-11

Podcast Episode · Contemplative at Home · 03/10/2025 · 24m

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