Good ol’ Pastor John
@unlikelyj.bsky.social
A sinner saved by grace through faith.
God has come to you to make the sinner blessed. Rejoice! This message is liberation through truth. You cannot hide from God. The mask you wear in the presence of other people won’t get you anywhere in the presence of God.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Northern lights November 11, 2025
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Northern lights November 11, 2025
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
God has come to you to make the sinner blessed. Rejoice! This message is liberation through truth. You cannot hide from God. The mask you wear in the presence of other people won’t get you anywhere in the presence of God.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Northern lights November 11, 2025
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Northern lights November 11, 2025
For God wants you as you are, not desiring anything from you—a sacrifice, a good deed—but rather desiring you alone. “My child, give me your heart” (Prov. 23:26).
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
October 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
For God wants you as you are, not desiring anything from you—a sacrifice, a good deed—but rather desiring you alone. “My child, give me your heart” (Prov. 23:26).
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
…the grace of the gospel, which is so hard for the pious to comprehend, confronts us with the truth. It says to us, you are a sinner, a great, unholy sinner. Now come, as the sinner that you are, to your God who loves you.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
…the grace of the gospel, which is so hard for the pious to comprehend, confronts us with the truth. It says to us, you are a sinner, a great, unholy sinner. Now come, as the sinner that you are, to your God who loves you.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer, #Life #Together
“There is no holy war.
Only holy peace.”
Tamás Fabiny
Only holy peace.”
Tamás Fabiny
September 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“There is no holy war.
Only holy peace.”
Tamás Fabiny
Only holy peace.”
Tamás Fabiny
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
August 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
God did not make others as I would have made them. God did not give them to me so that I could dominate and control them, but so that I might find the Creator by means of them.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
August 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
God did not make others as I would have made them. God did not give them to me so that I could dominate and control them, but so that I might find the Creator by means of them.
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
Dietrich #Bonhoeffer
#Life #Together
God does not want me to mold others into the image that seems good to me, that is, into my own image. Instead, in their freedom from me God made other people in God’s own image.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together
August 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
God does not want me to mold others into the image that seems good to me, that is, into my own image. Instead, in their freedom from me God made other people in God’s own image.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life Together
In God’s eyes, community and individual exist in the same moment and rest in one another.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Sanctorum Communio: p 80.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Sanctorum Communio: p 80.
May 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In God’s eyes, community and individual exist in the same moment and rest in one another.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Sanctorum Communio: p 80.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Sanctorum Communio: p 80.
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
John 20:21 NRSV
John 20:21 NRSV
April 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
John 20:21 NRSV
John 20:21 NRSV
greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
#bonhoeffer after ten years
#bonhoeffer after ten years
February 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
#bonhoeffer after ten years
#bonhoeffer after ten years
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“The huge masquerade of evil has thrown all ethical concepts into confusion. That evil should appear in the form of light, good deeds, historical necessity, social justice is absolutely bewildering…
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
February 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“The huge masquerade of evil has thrown all ethical concepts into confusion. That evil should appear in the form of light, good deeds, historical necessity, social justice is absolutely bewildering…
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
“The huge masquerade of evil has thrown all ethical concepts into confusion. That evil should appear in the form of light, good deeds, historical necessity, social justice is absolutely bewildering…
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
February 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“The huge masquerade of evil has thrown all ethical concepts into confusion. That evil should appear in the form of light, good deeds, historical necessity, social justice is absolutely bewildering…
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
#Bonhoeffer After 10 Years
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This billboard says it all.
January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This billboard says it all.
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January 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
THE MEME
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This photo gets me every time. Take a minute to sit with it.
Proclaim the miracles of love and freedom in the face of a hate that seeks to destroy everything in its path.
Resistance is our obligation. #Hanukkah #TikkunOlam
Proclaim the miracles of love and freedom in the face of a hate that seeks to destroy everything in its path.
Resistance is our obligation. #Hanukkah #TikkunOlam
December 13, 2024 at 11:14 PM
This photo gets me every time. Take a minute to sit with it.
Proclaim the miracles of love and freedom in the face of a hate that seeks to destroy everything in its path.
Resistance is our obligation. #Hanukkah #TikkunOlam
Proclaim the miracles of love and freedom in the face of a hate that seeks to destroy everything in its path.
Resistance is our obligation. #Hanukkah #TikkunOlam
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2 December 1942 | A transport of 826 Jews arrived at #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in occupied Netherlands.
After the selection, 77 men were registered in the camp. The remaining 749 people were murdered in gas chambers.
After the selection, 77 men were registered in the camp. The remaining 749 people were murdered in gas chambers.
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
2 December 1942 | A transport of 826 Jews arrived at #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in occupied Netherlands.
After the selection, 77 men were registered in the camp. The remaining 749 people were murdered in gas chambers.
After the selection, 77 men were registered in the camp. The remaining 749 people were murdered in gas chambers.
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My sons and I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was important to me that they see it in person and be able to tell others. Every visitor comes away as a new witness to the evil that was done there. Not everyone can visit but you can follow: @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 10:55 PM
My sons and I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was important to me that they see it in person and be able to tell others. Every visitor comes away as a new witness to the evil that was done there. Not everyone can visit but you can follow: @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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Thinking about #history #86 years ago, November 9 and 10 1938 people all over Germany woke up after a night of horrors. The night of the broken glass or #Kristallnacht was a night of #StateSanctioned #evil #violence directed at the Jewish people. May we never forget…never
November 11, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Thinking about #history #86 years ago, November 9 and 10 1938 people all over Germany woke up after a night of horrors. The night of the broken glass or #Kristallnacht was a night of #StateSanctioned #evil #violence directed at the Jewish people. May we never forget…never
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“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
— C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
Artist: Ben Lansing,
Our Church Speaks
— C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
Artist: Ben Lansing,
Our Church Speaks
November 18, 2024 at 5:07 AM
“Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
— C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
Artist: Ben Lansing,
Our Church Speaks
— C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory
Artist: Ben Lansing,
Our Church Speaks
Thinking about #history #86 years ago, November 9 and 10 1938 people all over Germany woke up after a night of horrors. The night of the broken glass or #Kristallnacht was a night of #StateSanctioned #evil #violence directed at the Jewish people. May we never forget…never
November 11, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Thinking about #history #86 years ago, November 9 and 10 1938 people all over Germany woke up after a night of horrors. The night of the broken glass or #Kristallnacht was a night of #StateSanctioned #evil #violence directed at the Jewish people. May we never forget…never
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I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.
September 28, 2024 at 1:57 PM
I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.
#Bonhoeeffer
Our 'Protestant' (not Lutheran) Prussian world has been so dominated by the four mandates that the sphere of freedom has receded into the background.
#letters from #prison page 193
Our 'Protestant' (not Lutheran) Prussian world has been so dominated by the four mandates that the sphere of freedom has receded into the background.
#letters from #prison page 193
August 15, 2024 at 3:08 PM
#Bonhoeeffer
Our 'Protestant' (not Lutheran) Prussian world has been so dominated by the four mandates that the sphere of freedom has receded into the background.
#letters from #prison page 193
Our 'Protestant' (not Lutheran) Prussian world has been so dominated by the four mandates that the sphere of freedom has receded into the background.
#letters from #prison page 193
Bonhoeffer,
“…misery, suffering, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God from what they mean in the judgment of man, that God will approach where men turn away,…🧵
“…misery, suffering, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God from what they mean in the judgment of man, that God will approach where men turn away,…🧵
July 30, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Bonhoeffer,
“…misery, suffering, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God from what they mean in the judgment of man, that God will approach where men turn away,…🧵
“…misery, suffering, poverty, loneliness, helplessness, and guilt mean something quite different in the eyes of God from what they mean in the judgment of man, that God will approach where men turn away,…🧵
It’s a beautiful afternoon
July 12, 2024 at 8:58 PM
It’s a beautiful afternoon
““I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
John 15:5 NIV bible.com/bible/111/jh...
John 15:5 NIV bible.com/bible/111/jh...
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“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
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April 26, 2024 at 12:11 PM
““I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
John 15:5 NIV bible.com/bible/111/jh...
John 15:5 NIV bible.com/bible/111/jh...