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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 4 months ago
Big kudos to Reznor and Ross for the deep Carlos queues and nods to Daft Punk on the TRON: Ares soundtrack. Even a bit of Vangelis for fun. image
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dizziness 4 months ago
GM. The world is going crazy as usual this fine Saturday, so: —Go for a walk —Talk with a struggling friend —Drink some good coffee —Pray your needs to God —Work with purpose in your vocation —Do not lose heart —Cultivate something beautiful —Laugh —Remember: God is good
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dizziness 4 months ago
“Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.” ― Baruch Spinoza
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dizziness 4 months ago
Do You Understand the Words That Are Coming Out of My Mouth? In this episode, we read Gerhard Forde’s monograph on Luther’s treatise on The Bondage of the Will. We discuss scriptural exegesis, its internal and external clarity, how modern readers interpret texts, and why we often misread the Bible, as well as why we frequently fail to understand biblical texts that are overt and explicit in their clarity. This, and a conversation about Erasmus’s word study method, Luther’s assertions, living words, and the vibrating, dangerous energy of Scripture.
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dizziness 4 months ago
You can’t be a global citizen unless you’re under a global sovereign.
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dizziness 4 months ago
This is Jesus: the Spirit-anointed Servant, chosen and beloved of the Father, who does not conquer by shouting, does not redeem by politicking, does not establish His kingdom by power plays. He redeems by mercy. He conquers by weakness. He saves by suffering.
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dizziness 4 months ago
Joseph Flees from Adultery—Genesis 39:1-21 (22-23)
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dizziness 4 months ago
This is a fantastic listen for those directly or indirectly involved in education:
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dizziness 4 months ago
Holy Cross Day (obs): John 12:20-33
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dizziness 4 months ago
“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
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dizziness 4 months ago
Public figures who lie to the general public should expect to be publicly shamed.
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dizziness 4 months ago
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.
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dizziness 4 months ago
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.
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dizziness 4 months ago
If the vocation of civil estate is to punish evil and reward good, who defines what is evil and good?
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dizziness 4 months ago
The failure of the preacher to preach God's Torah will always result in pathological narcissism in his hearers.