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Christopher Gillespie
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Lutheran Pastor (https://sjrl.org), Coffee roaster (https://gillespie.coffee), Media producer (https://gillespie.media), Podcaster (https://1517.org)
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dizziness 5 months ago
Romans 13:1–10 (NKJV) 1 Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. 4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. 5 Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. 7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. 8 Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
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dizziness 5 months ago
The most powerful court in the land and the only one that ultimately matters is the court of public opinion.
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dizziness 5 months ago
One-size-fits-all medicine works as well as one-size-fits-all clothing.
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dizziness 5 months ago
Systems of extraordinary complexity, layers, and opaqueness are the preferred tools of despots and tyrants to obscure reality and the truth.
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dizziness 5 months ago
Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery. I know someone will ask me, "Do you really mean, at this time of day, to reintroduce our old friend the devil—hoofs and horns and all?" Well, what the time of day has to do with it I do not know. And I am not particular about the hoofs and horns. But in other respects my answer is "Yes, I do." I do not claim to know anything about his personal appearance. If anybody really wants to know him better I would say to that person, "Don't worry. If you really want to, you will. Whether you'll like it when you do is another question." --CS Lewis, Mere Christianity, Book 2, 2.
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dizziness 5 months ago
“We have somehow deluded ourselves into believing that the "caring" thing to do is to be infinitely nonjudgmental and inclusive. This is quite simply a demonic lie, for it allows terrible cancerous abuses to continue unchecked in the community. Do we not know that a little cancer corrupts the whole body?” -Hays, 1 Cor, 90.
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dizziness 1 year ago
The things you're not supposed to talk about in polite company are the very things we need to talk about. Don't be snookered to lay down your ideological arms and allow the enemy to destroy family, church, and state.
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dizziness 1 year ago
We live in a crisis of sovereignty vs. servitude. Who is sovereign and who is served?