Michael McBride

@rustyrockets Do you have it? Or are you searching?

I need a Christianity that is personal, real and now.

@gavinortlund I think there are tangible reasons to be hopeful. Appreciate your work Gavin. Sorry you got drug into the chaos this year. I’m didn’t see that one coming, but you handled it with courage and humility. Thank you

Praying for President Trump and all those newly elected. After a grueling election season, I hope that the days ahead will be calming and healing for our nation.

@drantbradley Quality of recordings may have something to do with it. But also many more parallels between now and the late 60s early 70s than there were between the 70s and 20s. Probably more looking back now too

Very true! I’ve seen this with high school and college students.

@MikeCosper Do you believe that most Christians are that simplistic or simple-minded when making electoral decisions?

What’s remarkable about Evangelicals and the GOP right now is the pace at which the arguments change. I have always said “I get it” when Xians say they vote GOP bc they see it as a binary, lesser of two evils, or prudent choice. But many have pitched it in absolutist terms.

@warne Grace Renewal Stories - learned this from Dick Kaufmann and Doug Swagerty. Report on a few of the things people have seen God do recently. It leads into great times of prayer.

PCA insider baseball: What regular aspect of session meetings are most encouraging for your session?

@drantbradley Depends if Twitter is on the phone or not

Testing, testing, your attention please - is there anybody out there? This Twitter chatter has piqued my interest. I may return

"If you care about diversity, don’t dismiss Christianity: it is the most diverse, multiethnic, and multicultural movement in all of history." -@RebeccMcLaugh

@drantbradley Yes, even with a lot of exposure to black middle class, doing “mercy ministry” in Atlanta warped my perspective. I’m glad I did it, but also glad to have had a number of black colleagues and friends to balance things out.

@drantbradley @KemiBadenoch Interesting

To all the Padres fans, I promise you this is just the beginning. It was great to see the fans and players come together for one reason, the Padres!!! We will back and I will make this city proud. God bless and stay safe. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 Love u San Diego. ❤️

A traffic stop. Driver tries to walk away. Reaches for his waistband. Officers says, “Stop.” Driver stops. Driver admits to having gun in waistband. Driver safely handcuffed. Gun safely secured. Driver on probation & prohibited from carrying firearms. All safe.

Looking back over 40 + years of preaching, some of the sermons I left the pulpit feeling awesome about, had the least eternal impact; and some of the sermons I felt ashamed of, I learned later, God used in mighty ways. The point? I'm not the point.

We remember SDPD Ofc. Jonathan “JD” DeGuzman who was killed while trying to effect a pedestrian stop. The suspect opened fire on he, & his partner when they stopped their car. His memory, his sacrifice, & that of his family will never be forgotten. End of Watch: July 28, 2016.

“As clowns yearn to play Hamlet, so I have wanted to write a treatise on God.” ~ J. I. Packer (1926-2020), Knowing God (1973) #ThankYouPacker

@BrummelMike Just expanding the study, not arguing for it or against it. You know that I am not a fan of proof-texting. But it seems relevant for discussion.

@BrummelMike What about Exodus 12:35-36?

All churches must love & identify with their local community, and yet at the same time be able and willing to critique and challenge it.

@drantbradley Following... to your related earlier post, what pastors would you point to as good examples of those equipping boys and young men to become mature and stable men? Deeply disturbing that none admire their pastor. Throw me a bone as a pastor please.

Having breakfast by myself at a little cafe while Leslie has minor surgery around the corner. When four Black police officers left their nearby table they stopped by and paid for my meal. “You looked a little sad,” they explained.