Dave
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I'm a Jesus follower, software engineer, family man, and thinker of many things
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@malcolmbfoley.bsky.social I listened to your interviews recently on the Holy Post and Voxology, and I can't wait to grab your book!! I was talking to a buddy of mine and he questions if racism exists today. Do you know any good resources I can point him to or educate myself with on this?
April 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@malcolmbfoley.bsky.social I listened to your interviews recently on the Holy Post and Voxology, and I can't wait to grab your book!! I was talking to a buddy of mine and he questions if racism exists today. Do you know any good resources I can point him to or educate myself with on this?
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Still fond of this, so bringing it here. + emojis!
"There are no zero sum games in the Kingdom of God. It's loaves and fishes everywhere." 🍞🐠🥖🐟🥐🎣
"There are no zero sum games in the Kingdom of God. It's loaves and fishes everywhere." 🍞🐠🥖🐟🥐🎣
November 19, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Still fond of this, so bringing it here. + emojis!
"There are no zero sum games in the Kingdom of God. It's loaves and fishes everywhere." 🍞🐠🥖🐟🥐🎣
"There are no zero sum games in the Kingdom of God. It's loaves and fishes everywhere." 🍞🐠🥖🐟🥐🎣
Good theology does not save us, but bad theology harms us.
-Mike Erre
-Mike Erre
December 12, 2023 at 3:48 AM
Good theology does not save us, but bad theology harms us.
-Mike Erre
-Mike Erre
"I think a mature Christian is someone who is very difficult to offend."
-Dallas Willard
-Dallas Willard
November 14, 2023 at 3:52 PM
"I think a mature Christian is someone who is very difficult to offend."
-Dallas Willard
-Dallas Willard
Love isn't hard. Love is easy. It just requires everything.
October 11, 2023 at 5:11 AM
Love isn't hard. Love is easy. It just requires everything.
Christian Nationalists are more concerned with preserving their earthly power than embodying Jesus' Kingdom power. Selfishness vs selflessness.
"If you seek to preserve your life you will lose it. If you lose your life for my sake, you'll find it." - Jesus
"If you seek to preserve your life you will lose it. If you lose your life for my sake, you'll find it." - Jesus
September 9, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Christian Nationalists are more concerned with preserving their earthly power than embodying Jesus' Kingdom power. Selfishness vs selflessness.
"If you seek to preserve your life you will lose it. If you lose your life for my sake, you'll find it." - Jesus
"If you seek to preserve your life you will lose it. If you lose your life for my sake, you'll find it." - Jesus
The Bible is written for us, but it is not written to us. Coming to the Bible with the wrong assumptions is dangerous.
August 19, 2023 at 12:49 PM
The Bible is written for us, but it is not written to us. Coming to the Bible with the wrong assumptions is dangerous.
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As if the incarnation itself is not mind-bending enough, the incarnate God spent his days quietly, a man who went to work, got sleepy, and lived a pedestrian life among average people.
Tish Harrison Warren
Tish Harrison Warren
July 17, 2023 at 8:03 PM
As if the incarnation itself is not mind-bending enough, the incarnate God spent his days quietly, a man who went to work, got sleepy, and lived a pedestrian life among average people.
Tish Harrison Warren
Tish Harrison Warren
Christian nationalism contradicts itself in America. It says, "let's make sure Christians have all the power", all while ignoring that this idea is what the founding founders were trying to avoid. It didn't work for centuries in Europe and it won't work here. But the thirst for power is blinding.
July 9, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Christian nationalism contradicts itself in America. It says, "let's make sure Christians have all the power", all while ignoring that this idea is what the founding founders were trying to avoid. It didn't work for centuries in Europe and it won't work here. But the thirst for power is blinding.
If your political views cause you to love your neighbor less, maybe you need to surrender them to Jesus
June 16, 2023 at 3:45 AM
If your political views cause you to love your neighbor less, maybe you need to surrender them to Jesus
Some people think honor/shame culture does not exist in the US. In reality, it does...it just looks different. You can see it present around the military, sports, the deep South, political allegiances, and even certain identity groups.
June 9, 2023 at 2:55 PM
Some people think honor/shame culture does not exist in the US. In reality, it does...it just looks different. You can see it present around the military, sports, the deep South, political allegiances, and even certain identity groups.
You can't hate someone whose story you know. -Margaret Wheatley
June 8, 2023 at 3:45 AM
You can't hate someone whose story you know. -Margaret Wheatley
Politics is not a zero sum game. We can all flourish together. And that's what God's people are meant to pursue.
"But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." Jer. 29:11
"But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." Jer. 29:11
June 6, 2023 at 3:51 AM
Politics is not a zero sum game. We can all flourish together. And that's what God's people are meant to pursue.
"But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." Jer. 29:11
"But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." Jer. 29:11
If you don't make time for your wellness, you'll have to make time for your illness.
June 5, 2023 at 8:49 PM
If you don't make time for your wellness, you'll have to make time for your illness.
The idea that "Jesus wasn't political" is dead wrong. The state considered him a threat as the "king of the Jews". You don't get more political than that.
May 27, 2023 at 10:25 PM
The idea that "Jesus wasn't political" is dead wrong. The state considered him a threat as the "king of the Jews". You don't get more political than that.
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so, you know, i did some musing about the parable of the good samaritan yesterday and that became the basis for my column today, on the conservative embrace of vigilantism https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/opinion/neely-penny-perry-rittenhouse-desantis.html
May 16, 2023 at 4:50 PM
so, you know, i did some musing about the parable of the good samaritan yesterday and that became the basis for my column today, on the conservative embrace of vigilantism https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/opinion/neely-penny-perry-rittenhouse-desantis.html
Them: "America is God's nation!"
Ezekiel: "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."
Maybe we should rethink that Defense budget a bit.
Ezekiel: "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."
Maybe we should rethink that Defense budget a bit.
May 25, 2023 at 2:33 AM
Them: "America is God's nation!"
Ezekiel: "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."
Maybe we should rethink that Defense budget a bit.
Ezekiel: "Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy."
Maybe we should rethink that Defense budget a bit.
The Kingdom that Jesus brought is not partisan, but it is deeply political. Loving my neighbor and seeking their good in society is an inherently political activity.
May 20, 2023 at 10:15 PM
The Kingdom that Jesus brought is not partisan, but it is deeply political. Loving my neighbor and seeking their good in society is an inherently political activity.
"I'm practicing the discipline of not having the last word."
-Dallas Willard
-Dallas Willard
May 19, 2023 at 2:09 PM
"I'm practicing the discipline of not having the last word."
-Dallas Willard
-Dallas Willard
If your theology doesn't help you look more like Jesus, maybe it's not good theology
May 12, 2023 at 2:21 PM
If your theology doesn't help you look more like Jesus, maybe it's not good theology
There is nothing that can be done with anger that cannot be done better without it.
-Dallas Willard
-Dallas Willard
May 2, 2023 at 1:21 AM
There is nothing that can be done with anger that cannot be done better without it.
-Dallas Willard
-Dallas Willard
Americans are frustrated, and for a lot of different reasons. But I think one reason is that America is super divided, and many relationships that were intact 10 years ago have been severed. And it sucks.
May 1, 2023 at 8:31 PM
Americans are frustrated, and for a lot of different reasons. But I think one reason is that America is super divided, and many relationships that were intact 10 years ago have been severed. And it sucks.
Everyone loves their idols, but no one likes being called out for idolatry. If you want to call out people's idols prophetically, be prepared to suffer like a prophet.
April 29, 2023 at 9:25 PM
Everyone loves their idols, but no one likes being called out for idolatry. If you want to call out people's idols prophetically, be prepared to suffer like a prophet.
This is a FASCINATING breakdown of geographical subcultures in the US. Why different parts of the country hold different attitudes can be mapped back to the colonial cultures that settled there.
https://nationhoodlab.org/a-balkanized-federation
https://nationhoodlab.org/a-balkanized-federation
Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University
nationhoodlab.org
April 29, 2023 at 5:30 PM
This is a FASCINATING breakdown of geographical subcultures in the US. Why different parts of the country hold different attitudes can be mapped back to the colonial cultures that settled there.
https://nationhoodlab.org/a-balkanized-federation
https://nationhoodlab.org/a-balkanized-federation