T. Kareem Powell

Gout flare in right hand. 0/10. Do not recommend. Especially while right-handed. And a pianist.

GET OFF MY CAR, YOU TRIFLIN' HEIFER!

Rockin' with the Zimmermans. My beard is looking rather majestic today, even if I do say so myself.

Y porque Usted es racista, Eduardo?

@GailSimone and @Karnythia writing about Regulators? I may have to inspect it for reference material... youtu.be/1plPyJdXKIY?si…

Christian Nationalism: What happens when those that wear the cross as an ornament bow down to Satan in the wilderness. How's Lent going?

Yeah... This is a lie. Likely made up by one of the millions of nonmelanated people who for some reason want to say it but don't want anyone to know they are racist AF. I grew up with PLENTY of them. Double-standard exists. Suck it up. Or just say it and take the consequences.

One thing about @JDVance is that he knows all about fraud... ...from being in the supply side of it. Spreading the false slurs about Haitians eating pets... (in a city he was "representing") ...and being a fake AF "hillbilly" from Middletown. @JDVance built his name on fraud.

So... Anyone watch the Kla... - sorry, I mean - State of the - wait, no, I'm not sorry - Klan rally last night?

Ticking time bomb.

Happy Presidents Day to @BarackObama, @BillClinton, @JoeBiden, and hell... even George W Bush. And the presidents we should have had @HillaryClinton and @KamalaHarris. No, I'm not acknowledging the Klansman-in-Chief.

@Maddy_Billions @kevinmyoung Aw, Darlin'... You okay? You seem stressed. It seems like you may have trouble keeping track of what you typed. Just take your blood pressure medication, check your blood sugar, take a few breaths, and try again when you can think clearly. Nice moving of the goalposts, though.

@tkareempowell @kevinmyoung You're Muslim, go focus on reading quoran and stop acting like you know the Holy bible... The first two humans God created for each other were Adam and Eve....!!! God didn't create Adam for Steve you dummy

Maybe you should read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah before tweeting nonsense...!! God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

@kevinmyoung @Maddy_Billions Pretty sure God created Adam... Eve... AND Steve... You know... before the Pharisees stoned him ro death while Saul looked on... (God created them, too.)

@Maddy_Billions Maybe you should read Ezekiel 16:49-50 and stop quoting lines from the 1980s.

@kevinmyoung It doesn't get much more inhospitable than surrounding your neighbor's home and demanding they turn over their guests to be gang-gr***d...

It's amazing how committed we can be to our hate, even when presented with irrefutable evidence. Homophobes can't process that, to God, "not being nice to people" is catastrophically worse than gay sex. "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen." — EZEKIEL 16:49-50

The downside to sneaking out of town and skipping Hebrew class: You gotta make it back up.

No mofongo para mi... Me perdí el concierto de Bad Bunny. Ojala que @DaytonSalsa no me quite de la banda.

The Facebook algorithm... Zuckerberg needs to call its doctor in. This is an ad it decided to show me...

We have made revival a cure-all for whatever we think ails the church. In doing so, we have abandoned the actual process known from the beginning: spiritual formation within the local church community. Discipleship is communal, cross-shaped, and everyday. It is not a technique. It is not a three-year course. It is a way of being, ontological at its core. It concerns our way of being human, our journey toward being and becoming fully and truly human in the image and likeness of Christ. This is not trinket-show religion. This is not candy-cane Christianity. It is the slow and patient ferment of knowing that we have this treasure in jars of clay. The clay matters. Our fragility, our ordinariness, our dependence on one another: these are not obstacles to transformation but its very conditions. We keep waiting for God to show up dramatically, forgetting that the whole point of incarnation is that God has already shown up in the mundane, the daily, the unglamorous work of bearing one another’s burdens. Excessive emphasis on revival trains us to consume spiritual experiences. Formation trains us to become someone. One seeks the next event, the next breakthrough, the next encounter. The other commits to the long obedience in the same direction, the daily dying that life together requires. The church does not need another spectacular intervention. It needs to recover what it has always known: that we are shaped into Christ’s image through ordinary means, in ordinary time, among ordinary people who have committed to the extraordinary patience of loving one another across a lifetime. Wesley himself understood this. While his contemporary George Whitefield drew larger crowds and was considered the superior orator, Whitefield later admitted the difference in their legacies: “My brother Wesley acted wisely, the souls that were awakened under his ministry he joined in class, and thus preserved the fruits of his labor. This I neglected, and my people are a rope of sand.” When Wesley was asked why the Methodists could not simply preach and let God look after the converts, he replied: “We have made the trial in various places…but in all the seed has fallen by the highwayside. There is scarce any fruit remaining.” Wesley insisted that the gospel knows no religion but social, no holiness but social holiness. The means of grace are the ordinary channels through which God conveys transforming power: prayer, Scripture, the Lord’s Supper, Christian conversation, life together. Revival without formation scatters seed on the road. The class meeting, the band, the patient weekly gathering to ask “How is it with your soul?”, this is the method that preserves fruit. It always has been.

No. Walk out of the interview. A place like that would try to kill your current job for leverage.