Christopher Gillespie

This is a fantastic listen for those directly or indirectly involved in education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQyaeO45U8U

Cain Murders His Brother Abel—Genesis 4:1-12 (13-15) https://youtube.com/live/hCXqx5brUTk

Holy Cross Day (obs): John 12:20-33 https://youtu.be/zp_fc8VTrbU

“In [totalitarianism] shortages of material goods, even of necessities, were not a drawback but a great advantage for the rulers. These shortages were not accidental to the terror, but one of its most powerful instruments. Not only did shortages keep people’s minds strictly on bread and sausage, and divert their energies to procuring them so that there was no time or inclination left over for subversion, but the shortages meant that people could be brought to inform, spy and betray each other very cheaply. . .” Theodore Dalrymple, The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World

Public figures who lie to the general public should expect to be publicly shamed.

Thesis VII — The holy preaching office is the authority, conferred by God through the congregation as the possessor of the priesthood and of all churchly authority, to exercise the rights of the spiritual priesthood in public office on behalf of the congregation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EbWoMCUFkc

You don’t love God. You don’t love your neighbor. But Jesus does. Jesus loves His Father completely, and Jesus loves His neighbor completely. And then He dies for every failure of yours. He dies for the times you looked away. He dies for the grudges you still carry. He dies for the names you called people in your heart. He dies for your selfishness, your coldness, your Cain-heart. And in exchange, He gives you His heart. His Spirit. His love. Paul says in Romans 5: “God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” You don’t love by nature. You love by gift. And the gift is Jesus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_fc8VTrbU&t=1s

If the vocation of civil estate is to punish evil and reward good, who defines what is evil and good?

The failure of the preacher to preach God's Torah will always result in pathological narcissism in his hearers.

Ruth and Her Kinsman Redeemer—Ruth 1:1-19a (1:19b–3:18); 4:1-10 (11-22) https://www.youtube.com/live/0XeILIdz19E

The Rebellion of Absalom—2 Samuel 15:2-15 (15:16–18:5) 18:6-15 (16-32) 18:33–19:6 https://www.youtube.com/live/t4IviwbvuLU

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.

Mary Sits at Jesus’ Feet—Luke 10:38-42 #christian #devotion https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrgcfkxyukyef595mkydf5956xgvtx94skyef494nr2erpv5crqcfnvymryqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxvmm4de6xz6tw9enx6tczyr85tf46zd366lkjzws83ecs6fq3ttnjrjd500g7haz936h0knp22qcyqqq8vecr7dx9e

The most powerful court in the land and the only one that ultimately matters is the court of public opinion.

One-size-fits-all medicine works as well as one-size-fits-all clothing.

Systems of extraordinary complexity, layers, and opaqueness are the preferred tools of despots and tyrants to obscure reality and the truth.

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.

The Boy Jesus in the Temple—Luke 2:(40) 41-52 https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrzvnp8qmkyet995ek2dfn956rxvm994skget994nrgdrp8pnxzdekvvunwqgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctczyr85tf46zd366lkjzws83ecs6fq3ttnjrjd500g7haz936h0knp22qcyqqq8vecyxl6nd

“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.

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Isaiah 29:17-24; Rom 10:9-17 https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrswfhx5mxgenp95mx2vry956rsetx95ux2dmp943nycn9xvurjve5xsex2qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctczyr85tf46zd366lkjzws83ecs6fq3ttnjrjd500g7haz936h0knp22qcyqqq8vec5azztz