Scott Kyles

Brothers then. Brothers now. #Spring90 #MistakenIdentity #XiEta #Alphas

Spotted at a family gathering, now it's official

Once you realize Tom Petty and Jon Heder could be brothers...🤯

#Ascension #Heaven #HesComingBack #VerseOfTheDay #SundayScripture

People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why. The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it. He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen. This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed. Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it. Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade. As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed. The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God. It is the final and total collapse of everything that ever made pleasure possible. You are not enjoying something God is missing out on. You are enjoying God already, dimly, through everything he made. Heaven is not a different category of experience. It is the same thing with the glass finally removed.

@AttorneyF_ Love this brother!

#Freedom #Service #Love #VerseOfTheDay #SundayScripture

#Possible #Believe #IncreaseMyFaith #VerseOfTheDay #SundayScripture

Roses are red Storm clouds are gray But tomorrow It's gonna be May

#Poverty #Prosperity #Perspective #VerseOfTheDay #SundayScripture

So much spice, so little time. 🌶 Happy Monday, everybody.

Powerful enough to create a universe and do endless deeds, but relatable enough to grill up breakfast for friends. That is our God. - Sarah Salviander #VerseOfTheDay #SundayScripture

The gospel of John opens with the Logos creating the universe and ends with Him grilling fish for breakfast for his disciples. It also adds a quick note that if everything Jesus did had been written down, there wouldn't be enough room in the whole world for all the books.

A naive and selfish urge, but one with which we all must wrestle

@nathanwpyle Nathan came up with six of these, I added the other three. I need someone to appreciate the real genius of this. <DUN DUN>

How many duns you say: 2 - Law & Order 3 - Sweet Caroline 4 - Beethoven's 5th 5 - I'm Lovin' It 6 - Mario Underground 7 - Seven Nation Army 8 - Mission Impossible 9 - Imperial March 10 - Eye of the Tiger *inspired by @nathanwpyle

@sarahsalviander Love this.

The gospel of John opens with the Logos creating the universe and ends with Him grilling fish for breakfast for his disciples. It also adds a quick note that if everything Jesus did had been written down, there wouldn't be enough room in the whole world for all the books. Powerful enough to create a universe and do endless deeds, but relatable enough to grill up breakfast for friends. That is our God.

I'm all about teaching practical life skills in school. ☀️ ⚖️

#Faith #Hope #Resurrection #VerseOfTheDay #SundayScripture

WOAHHH WE’RE HALFWAY THERE, WOAH-AH... #humpday

@sarahsalviander Do you like The Chosen? My family loves it.

This may offend some of you, but I mostly dislike overtly Christian entertainment. I find most of it a betrayal of both art and witness. Instead, I'd love to see a return of movies like Project Hail Mary that are quietly, subtly Christian. So subtle that you sometimes don't even realize you're being witnessed to. As an atheist kid growing up in a secular country, the only theology I got was from Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Star Wars introduced me to a tangible sort of spirituality (oh, how my heart ached for it) while The Lord of the Rings subtly poured the very soul of Christianity into my heart so that when I finally encountered the gospels it already felt familiar to me. There is great value in this kind of entertainment. It's almost paradoxical, but putting storytelling and art first produces a far more powerful Christian witness than putting the messaging front and center. (This is why so most "woke" entertainment fails.) Check out my article below if you wanna read my review of Project Hail Mary and how it's a Christian movie. open.substack.com/pub/sarahsalvi…