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@RDrobinski @PatrickTimmons1 If you know the history, maybe look up "reasonable cause," to gain a clearer understanding of the principle.

I know very little about the allegations or the strength of evidence against him, but I am absolutely shocked by how many people don’t put any weight behind the principle of “innocent until proven guilty.” Speaking as an American lawyer, I know we got that principle from the English and the English got it from the Romans.

A shameful day to be associated with Arsenal Football Club.

@BastienParisot @EmmanuelMacron C'est le président de la FFF qui a été hué, Macron n'a même pas été mentionné...

🔴 @EmmanuelMacron hué au Stade de France pour la finale de la #CoupedeFrance entre Reims et le PSG. Son image n'a pourtant même pas été projetée sur les écrans géants... L'évocation de son nom aura suffi. #PSGSDR

@SirenesFR Mensonges, c'était le président de la FFF qui a été hué. Macron n'a même pas été mentionné... (j'étais au match)

🔴 FLASH | Emmanuel Macron est hué au Stade de France pour la finale de la #CoupedeFrance entre Reims et le PSG. (Parisot)

And more importantly, what does it say of our theology of prayer? Seems like a slip towards believing in the power of the words spoken instead of trusting in the One who is powerful to act in response to our requests. 2/2

A question for my English-speaking church friends: where did this idea of praying *over* people (or even places), instead of praying *for* them come from? And how did it spread so quickly, into so many different church streams, when it isn’t really there in the Bible? 1/2

@k_tiav Andy Crouch dit qu'on pourrait soit : . Condamner la culture ("anti") . Critiquer la culture ("observateur") . Copier la culture ("imitateur") . Consommer la culture ("parasite") Il nous appelle à entrer dans notre mandat créatif : "Créer la culture". amazon.fr/Culture-Making…

@k_tiav Belle réflexion. Je pourrais même encourager à rêver plus haut : que plutôt de suivre la culture de près et de se caler sur l'excellence créative développée hors de l'Église, cherchons à ce que les chrétiens soient les avant-gardistes de la culture et la créativité.

@macbernik27 @gabriellecluzel Ou peut-être que les russes vont se rendre compte que l’ennemi n’est pas l’Ukraine.

@gabriellecluzel Voilà 🙄 . Il va peut être falloir que les français se rendent compte , que l'ennemi n'est pas la Russie 🤬

Vendredi.

@klsau1958 @danitreweek It's ok, we're normal people.

@danitreweek Oh, now I'm really terrified about my upcoming trip to Paris 😬

A guy just got on the tram, looked around at all of us commuters, and muttered “Ugh, all ugly people. Not like being in Paris”. How do you say 🤨 in French?

When you start a church you’re starting a church for 7 billion people - they’re just not all under your roof - it’s only been one church since the first church was birthed

@AJWTheology @KSPrior Seems disingenuous and a strangely stated point, even though I think I see what she is trying to get at, with spiritual leadership being replaced by business leadership. That is a point in need of addressing, but it could be stated better if more accurate. 2/2

@AJWTheology @KSPrior Not sure what she is referring to with the "prophet, priest and poet." If OT, then she has replaced "king" with "poet". If NT, then she has replaced (maybe) "apostle and elder" with "priest and poet". If church history, it still doesn’t match… 1/2

“It has even become common for pastors today to refer to themselves as ‘leaders.’” ⁦@KSPrior⁩ on point and on the nose, as ever:

@dattebury @AJWTheology @KSPrior As well as Rom 12.8 asking that those called "to lead do it diligently." I like much of what Karen S-P has to say and her voice is important in an era of bully-pastors. But I don’t see poets anywhere near as being as much of a normative role as is (rightly exercised) leadership.

@AJWTheology @KSPrior Does she address 1 Tim 3:4, “leading his own household well,” Heb 13:7, “Remember your leaders,” or Heb 13:7, “Obey your leaders and submit to them”?

@Metalsandman999 @baumanjay @JohnPiper I took it as a question. The verse doesn’t address the issue head-on, but does speak to surrounding considerations. I do think we should question practices that come into the life of the church, particularly the ones that go along with the tide of our surrounding culture.

@baumanjay @JohnPiper They aren't real questions. They are assertions posed as such. And some assertions, like we shouldn't allow people to sip coffee in church because verse that really doesn't address the issue, should be rebutted.

Can we reassess whether Sunday coffee-sipping in the sanctuary fits? “Let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe.” Hebrews 12:28

@PastorMark I’m pretty sure the Beatitudes punch culture in the mouth way more than trying to "punch culture in the mouth" with the methods of the world. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. That would exclude the non-meek.

Culture wants pastors to shut up about culture and preach about the beatitudes, or "finding your calling." Pastors are called to preach the truth, and sometimes that means punching culture in the mouth.

@crazyclipsonly When you order an Uruk-hai on Wish.com

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@TopeKoleoso @kemikoleoso @glastonbury @EzraCollective Crazy! I’ve been listening to them for years, had no idea that the bassist and drummer were your sons 😃😃

Yep!! @kemikoleoso and I are stoked to be attending our first ever @glastonbury to watch our sons and @EzraCollective bring ecstatic joy thousands on one of the biggest music festivals in the world. Feeling very blessed.

@PrestonSprinkle @evanwickham More earthy genres (rap, hardcore metal...) are better for speaking to men, and can carry more punch in getting a strong message across to touch the hearts of men, in more of a prophetic than a priestly mood. They have their place, but maybe not in corporate, Godward worship.

@evanwickham What’s the actual argument for NOT having theologically profound rap as part of the worship service? Genuine question. (I hope it’s not because mostly white church goers wouldn’t go for it.) Is there an objective, philosophical/theological reason why this wouldn’t honor Christ?

Hot take: Christian rappers are producing music that’s waaay more creative, theologically sophisticated, and authentically covering the full range of human experience than mainstream Christian worship. Just an opinion, folks 🤷🏼‍♂️

@PrestonSprinkle @evanwickham One last point on musicology: some genres are "uplifting", others are "earthy". I would say that, be it choral singing, some pop-rock arrangements and even electronic music or others, music appropriate in a worship service should lead us "upwards", from a musicality standpoint.