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Christopher Gillespie

Lutheran Pastor (https://sjrl.org), Coffee roaster (https://gillespie.coffee), Media producer (https://gillespie.media), Podcaster (https://1517.org)

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2026-02-05 14:57:55 UTC

Joseph Continues to Show Mercy to His Brothers—Gen. 50:15-26 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/T8GADF9wNjI

2026-02-05 14:56:28 UTC

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The greatness of God hides itself here—under weakness, humility, and need. This is not a strategy for influence. This is a theology of the cross. Christ prepares us for this truth by stripping away our illusions. It reminds us that the kingdom of God is not built by human excellence or sustained by spiritual achievement. It is given. Freely. To the unworthy.
#naddr1qv…qwma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iUUcokqo7g

2026-02-04 16:02:54 UTC

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Quality take.
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2026-02-04 16:00:53 UTC

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Which means the real scandal of this Sunday is not just out there in the vineyard. It’s right here, where God insists on being God for you: the Giver.
#naddr1qv…hu9q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTZQDJChF1s

2026-02-04 15:54:33 UTC

Jacob Blessings Before He Dies—Gen. 49:1 (2-27) 28—50:14 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/7pmGZuiCQT4

2026-01-31 14:51:59 UTC

Prepare for Septuagesima: Daniel 9:2–10; 1 Cor 9:24—10:5
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/C9Y0cXIGKAg

2026-01-29 15:58:17 UTC

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Nazareth couldn’t handle Jesus—not because He was flashy, but because He was too close: “just the carpenter.” That’s the old sin in us too: we want a manageable God, not a Lord who calls us to repent. Romans 2 cuts through our excuses—“God shows no partiality” (Romans 2:11)—and exposes our habit of judging others to dodge our own guilt. The good news: the righteousness God demands is the righteousness God gives in Christ. Stop treating Jesus like background noise. Receive Him where He actually gives Himself—His Word, forgiveness, and gifts—and live as an adopted heir, not a self-justifying critic.
#biblestr
#naddr1qv…cuxh
https://youtu.be/mXMwWf2GLjQ

2026-01-29 15:51:10 UTC

Joseph Forgives His Brothers—Genesis 45:4-28 #biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/live/ckLItnmK_ho

2026-01-29 15:40:07 UTC

Joseph Forgives His Brothers—Genesis 45:4-28 #biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/live/ckLItnmK_ho

2026-01-28 16:28:04 UTC

Prices aren’t a judgment on your worth, and they aren’t an excuse for greed. They’re one of the ordinary ways God lets people coordinate life in a world with limits—so needs get met, work gets rewarded, and neighbors can deal with one another honestly. #biblestr
https://sjrl.org/media/what-prices-can-teach-us-love-of-neighbor-in-everyday-buying-and-selling

2026-01-28 14:58:47 UTC

Judah Intercedes for Benjamin Before Joseph—Gen. 44:18–45:3 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/0_AVVU8ZM90

2026-01-13 16:32:45 UTC

Radical proposal: give a tithe of your time to hearing, study, meditation, and prayer of God's Word.

2026-01-13 14:56:31 UTC

John the Baptist Prepares the Way of the Lord—Mt 3:1-12
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/eOScV50g88Y

2026-01-12 17:30:45 UTC

10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. 11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. 12 Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.
sjrl.org/media/bible-study-1-thessalonians-41-12-november-30-2025-e6zb3-rhbps-4wg2y-r8rbc #biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=936sqYvMXo4

2026-01-12 17:13:26 UTC

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So what is the Father’s “business”? To send His Servant, His Son, filled with the Spirit, to bring justice, to be a covenant, to open blind eyes, and to free prisoners. That is not a vague “mission statement.” That is concrete: forgiveness for the guilty, light for darkened consciences, and release for people chained to their sins and fears.
#naddr1qv…npft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgB6z4DAGk

2026-01-12 14:57:55 UTC

The Boy Jesus in the Temple—Luke 2:41-52 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/FpMz_E-yoXc

2026-01-10 15:48:33 UTC

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Isaiah 42:1-9; Rom. 12:1–6a #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/BMsUkguF5gY

2026-01-09 15:53:59 UTC

The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents—Matthew 2:16-23 #biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/live/cCnfXJDs9VE

2026-01-06 14:57:54 UTC

Simeon and Anna Receive the Christ-child—Luke 2:25-40
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/_qUr0qJTy-0

2026-01-05 14:59:59 UTC

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God places His salvation in the hands of people the world has already moved past. Not kings. Not managers of religion. Not the impressive. An old man ready to die. An old church lady who will not stop talking. That is the Lord’s way.
#biblestr
#naddr1qv…kyr2
https://youtu.be/PNe5jBJgzP8

2026-01-05 14:49:48 UTC

Bible Study: 2 Thessalonians 2 — January 4, 2025
#biblestr
https://sjrl.org/media/bible-study-1-thessalonians-41-12-november-30-2025-e6zb3-rhbps-4wg2y

2026-01-03 14:59:31 UTC

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Jeremiah 31:31-34; Galatians 4:1-7
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/dzQKJ6Y-U_s

2026-01-02 15:09:24 UTC

The Ark of the Covenant into the Temple—1 Kings 8:6-13 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/qprlKV-VRWM

2026-01-01 13:00:03 UTC

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What does this have to do with the turning of the year? Everything. We are tempted to treat a new year like a blank page where we finally get to write a better story about ourselves. Resolutions. Reinvention. Image management. Control. But that’s not how Christians enter a year. Christians enter time under a Name already given, under a mercy already promised, under a Savior already bleeding for them. You don’t walk into this year alone. You walk into it branded—sealed—named.
#naddr1qv…r8j0
#biblestr
https://youtu.be/EXpDGOD-dSo

2026-01-01 12:36:54 UTC

The Feast of the Circumcision and Name — December 31, 2025
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/_85JvBKZAAM

2025-12-31 15:42:40 UTC

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2025-12-31 14:55:43 UTC

New Year’s Eve: Luke 12:35-40 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/O9Uy3UjfBho

2025-12-30 14:57:50 UTC

“Do Not Be Afraid to Go to Egypt”—Genesis 46:1-7
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/Jmy3h_cX764

2025-12-29 14:59:50 UTC

David’s Son Will Build the House of the Lord—2 Sam 7:1-16
https://youtube.com/live/YaUe178eIqE

2025-12-29 12:44:50 UTC

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Christ’s kingdom on earth is a cross-kingdom. Not because God enjoys pain, but because this is how He conquers. The throne is a cross. The crown has thorns. The victory is hidden under weakness. And if that is true for the King, it will not be different for the people who belong to Him.
#naddr1qv…a68a
#biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b40OjyDC-Xc

2025-12-25 19:42:41 UTC

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The Word became flesh so that nothing human would be left unredeemed. Not only the “spiritual” parts of you. You. Your body. Your mind. Your will. Your suffering. Your death. Christ has entered the whole human condition so that He can heal the whole human condition.
#biblestr
#naddr1qv…jhk6
https://youtu.be/BWeKoT-958o

2025-12-25 13:53:28 UTC

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This is where joy breaks wide open: God is not waiting for you to get your act together before He comes near. He comes near to rescue you. He comes near to carry what you cannot carry. He comes near to take what is yours—your frailty, your vulnerability, your mortality—so that He can give you what is His: righteousness, life, and peace.
#biblestr
#naddr1qv…2hqa
https://youtu.be/VsW-C86p7KA

2025-12-25 13:46:33 UTC

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If you come tonight with fear, or questions, or weariness, you are not out of place. The angels preached first to people in the dark. If you come tonight with guilt, you are not beyond hope. This is exactly why a Savior is born. And if you come tonight with joy, then let it be this kind of joy: not fragile and forced, but anchored in what God has done.
#naddr1qv…ykc8
https://youtu.be/Zq00dmVhfoA

2025-12-24 15:00:17 UTC

Christmas Eve: The Nativity of Our Lord—Matthew 1:18–25
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/yXvCUxp1Cb0

2025-12-23 14:56:52 UTC

The Shepherds Visit Bethlehem—Luke 2:15-20
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/aguzuEJlLfk

2025-12-22 14:57:23 UTC

The Birth of Christ Is Announced to Shepherds—Luke 2:8-14
https://youtube.com/live/XOl21BtpvCo
#biblestr

2025-12-21 22:41:28 UTC

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John is a voice. Not the Word. A voice. And that’s what faithful preaching always is: a mouth that points not to itself but to Christ. John is doing exactly what Isaiah foretold, as the Angel Gabriel proclaimed and Zechariah confessed. Right after that fierce, tender opening, God gives John this work: “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.” (Isa. 40:1) How does God comfort? Not by pretending sin is small or telling people they’re “fine.” He comforts by sending a messenger who tells the truth and by sending the Lord Himself to save.
#naddr1qv…samc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-sIWEAi_IA

2025-12-20 14:57:44 UTC

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Deuteronomy 18:15-19; Philippians 4:4-7
https://youtube.com/live/zUG6GwALI1Y
#biblestr

2025-12-19 14:56:53 UTC

The Nativity of Our Lord—Luke 2:1-7
https://youtube.com/live/Rke5G2wJC7k
#biblestr

2025-12-18 14:59:16 UTC

The Nativity of St. John the Baptist—Luke 1:57-66
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/_iyqb-c2z3Q

2025-12-18 14:39:21 UTC

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Stop trying to keep God at a manageable distance. He will not be managed. He will be received. “The Lord is with you.” (Luke 1:28). And the One who is with you is not an idea. He is Jesus—true God and true man—your Brother in the flesh, your Savior from sin, your King whose reign does not end.
#biblestr
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https://youtu.be/-hAB8seQgAw

2025-12-17 14:56:06 UTC

The Visitation—Luke 1:39-45
https://youtube.com/live/4MFvkkQW_CU
#biblestr

2025-12-16 14:58:52 UTC

Christ’s Birth Is Foretold to Joseph—Matthew 1:18-25
https://youtube.com/live/sZ2NxSu5WZ8

2025-12-16 13:16:11 UTC

Any rebellion against God's Word disintegrates into chaos, even if it has the semblance of law and order.
#biblestr

2025-12-15 14:59:17 UTC

The Annunciation of Our Lord—Luke 1:26-38
https://youtube.com/live/hYzXCwTN6Ao

2025-12-15 14:32:46 UTC

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Doubts will still come. Until the Lord returns, you will still be tempted to ask John’s question in a hundred different forms: “Are You really the One? Are You really good? Are You really for me?” When that happens, learn from John. Don’t sit alone in the dark trying to crush your questions or nurture them. Send them to Jesus. Bring them where He has promised to be—in His Word, in His Church, in the gifts that bear His name.
#biblstr
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https://youtu.be/ZGbsmg9iZbo

2025-12-13 14:56:10 UTC

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Isaiah 40:1-11; 1 Corinthians 4:1-5
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/ci2EpVTL3yQ

2025-12-12 14:44:23 UTC

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Contentment is not giving up on life. It is resting in Christ. It is receiving what the Father provides, using it wisely for family and neighbor, and trusting that Jesus—not money—is our life and our hope. In a world that feels like a casino, this is real freedom.
#biblestr
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2025-12-11 15:53:23 UTC

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All that judgment that should have burned you to stubble falls on Him instead. The refiner’s fire consumes Him, not because He is impure, but because He has taken your impurity as His own. The wrath that should fall on you for your indifference, compromise, lust, and self-righteousness—that wrath is poured out on Him. He, the Bridegroom, lets Himself be treated like the harlot so that His Bride can wear the white robe. He, the righteous Son, is cut off so that you can be called sons.
#naddr1qv…n34a #biblestr
https://youtu.be/aX6dDkQq-hw

2025-12-11 14:59:40 UTC

Jacob Returns to Bethel—Genesis 35:1-15
https://youtube.com/live/SHBLlPxOqpQ
#biblestr

2025-12-10 14:56:54 UTC

Jacob and Esau Meet—Genesis 33:1-11
https://youtube.com/live/KiSghcLUXdM

2025-12-09 15:01:13 UTC

Jacob Wrestles with God—Genesis 32:22-32
https://youtube.com/live/mfeYDrd8JUE

2025-12-08 15:31:47 UTC

Esau Comes to Meet Jacob—Genesis 32:1-21
https://youtube.com/live/cLIvyv4NXx4
#biblestr

2025-12-07 22:51:15 UTC

Bible Study: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11 — December 7, 2025
https://youtu.be/IjJZqSzuVj0

2025-12-07 22:50:22 UTC

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But the fall into sin did not remove that dominion; it corrupted the heart that wields it. So the problem is not the tools. The problem is the hands and hearts that hold them. The same mind that designs a medicine can design a weapon. The same organizational power that can coordinate relief can also coordinate slaughter. Evil is not less active in a technological age; it is more efficient, more organized, more far-reaching. One of the greatest inventions of coordination, currency like the dollar, is manipulated to devalue the value of your time, effort, and property. As time moves forward the battle does not calm down; it escalates. Wars become more brutal. Hatred becomes more destructive. Inflation runs hot. One catastrophe now can touch the whole world.
#naddr1qv…rx0q
https://youtu.be/PS0BrJXqlus

2025-12-05 13:44:48 UTC

The vice responsible for every immoral, unethical, and illegal financial scheme—whether fractional-reserve banking, Ponzi schemes, stock trading, or crypto lending—is usury driven by greed.

2025-12-04 15:03:26 UTC

Laban Pursues Jacob—Genesis 31:22-42
#biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/OpbalZjGxRs

2025-12-04 14:34:24 UTC

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Advent is the season where God puts John in front of you and says, “Listen to him. Learn from him.” Not because John is the Savior, but because John knows he isn’t. He prepares the way by preaching repentance and by baptizing sinners. He shows the church how to live in the in-between time: hear preaching, receive baptism, repent.
#biblestr
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https://youtu.be/eaJ5bX51AhA

2025-12-03 15:00:33 UTC

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It turns out that "property rights" is another legal fiction.
#nevent1q…cgek

2025-12-03 14:58:39 UTC

Jacob Flees from Laban—Genesis 31:1-21
https://youtube.com/live/-KrzGroZCRM #biblestr

2025-12-02 14:58:47 UTC

Laban Agrees to Divide the Livestock with Jacob—Gen. 30:25-43
https://youtube.com/live/uRR7RCH_dhI

2025-12-02 13:14:27 UTC

Imagine having a monthly budget you overspend by 25% on average. Imagine you had a family emergency that added another 25%. Imagine that you forgot to stop paying for the emergency. Imagine you kept at it month over month, doing nothing and changing nothing. Imagine that you think this is a good time to spend even more on a big home remodeling. And then imagine you thought there would be no consequences because of your magical economic theory.
Imagine.

2025-12-01 22:05:36 UTC

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But what if it gets a new CEO, rogue board, or multiple bad earnings reports? What if there's a massive class action lawsuit? What if!?!?
#nevent1q…yck4

2025-12-01 15:00:44 UTC

St. Andrew, Apostle (obs)—John 1:35-42a #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/VGB7UVUdZSw

2025-12-01 14:56:45 UTC

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Christ does not come to stir your emotions or decorate your December. He comes to forgive your sins. He comes to cleanse your conscience. He comes to break your death and give you His life. He comes into your mouth, into your body, into your grave-bound flesh. #biblestr
#naddr1qv…uzc0
https://youtu.be/egWmlPk6j-E

2025-12-01 14:54:33 UTC

Bible Study: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 — November 30, 2025
https://youtu.be/bBja2Dk48Rw
#biblestr

2025-11-27 13:03:23 UTC

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Now you can talk about Thanksgiving in a Christian way. You give thanks for daily bread—food, drink, house, home, family, work, land—because your Father has provided it. You receive what is set before you with prayer, not as a god to cling to, but as a gift to use and enjoy. You feed the hungry, support the preaching, care for the weak, because you know you are not your own; you were bought with a price.
#naddr1qv…4qj5
https://youtu.be/_kNFtFEfhR4

2025-11-26 15:45:32 UTC

Heaven Is Opened at Bethel—Genesis 27:46–28:22
https://youtube.com/live/Qu8NKJ1ddyA

2025-11-25 14:57:42 UTC

Esau Does Not Receive the Blessing—Genesis 27:30-45
https://youtube.com/live/YbfgJ8wu1vM

2025-11-23 18:07:30 UTC

1 Thessalonians Excursus: Advent — November 23, 2025
https://youtu.be/D0sM5I-KeV4

2025-11-23 18:05:56 UTC

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The only thing that saves anyone is the call at midnight: “Behold, the bridegroom!” The voice wakes them—not their readiness, not their vigilance, not their superior discipline. The Gospel call creates readiness. It wakes the dead. It puts the lamp in your hand and light in your darkness.
But that fear kicks in for the foolish. “What if our lamps don’t last? What if we aren’t enough? What if He is angry? What if He won’t accept us?” This is the reflex of the Old Adam. It’s the voice that always says, “Run. Fix yourself. Get more oil. Get worthy. Get prepared.”
And that is the one thing that condemns them. They leave the groom behind. They run from the very promise meant to save them. The wise don’t refuse oil out of selfishness—they simply refuse to take part in the foolishness of unbelief. “Go buy oil” is not a cruel command. It’s Jesus revealing the futility of trying to buy what only He can give. You can’t buy readiness. You can only receive it.
#naddr1qv…zszr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstvpw_pFYo

2025-11-21 16:34:01 UTC

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Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day when we stop and admit something we usually avoid: the best things in life aren’t things we made for ourselves. They’re given. We didn’t invent love. We didn’t manufacture the people who care about us. We didn’t earn the food on our table as much as we like to pretend. Even our breath is borrowed.
#naddr1qv…zz4u

2025-11-20 14:19:59 UTC

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And if you can’t forgive—then the place to go is not deeper into your resentment but deeper into Christ. The lack of forgiveness is not a moral deficiency; it is a spiritual emergency. It is unbelief expressing itself in hatred. The fix is not to “try harder.” The fix is to repent—to receive again what Christ won for you on the cross, what He pours on you in Baptism, what He puts into your ears through Absolution, what He sets upon your tongue in the Holy Supper. His forgiveness is the only thing that makes your forgiveness possible.
#naddr1qv…zz4u
https://youtu.be/_lM8Xw-MFfI

2025-11-19 14:58:35 UTC

Rebekah—Gen. 24:29 (30-31) 32-38 (39-41) 42-49 (50-57) 58-67
https://youtube.com/live/IX7OJF6OFF4

2025-11-18 16:01:45 UTC

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Forgiving your brother is not some heroic achievement. It is simply living in the baptismal reality God has placed you in. You drown the old Adam daily by confessing your sin—every bit of it—and letting Christ speak His absolution again and again. That absolution is not information. It is power. It is the Spirit creating a new heart. And a new heart forgives. Not because the neighbor deserves it. Not because it resolves everything. Not because it feels good. But because Christ has forgiven you—fully, freely, finally—and His forgiveness changes you.
#naddr1qv…nhrm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwDIsMXXuA

2025-11-17 23:44:47 UTC

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Seems reasonable. Also not in the Bible.

2025-11-17 14:57:57 UTC

Sacrifice of Isaac—Abraham’s Faith Is Revealed—Gen. 22:1-19
https://youtube.com/live/CYjsZ47oHa8

2025-11-17 14:50:52 UTC

“This triangle of truisms; of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed. It can only destroy those civilisations which disregard it.”
—G.K. Chesterton, The Superstition of Divorce

2025-11-17 14:50:37 UTC

“Those who say that children must not be frightened may mean two things. They may mean (1) that we must not do anything likely to give the child those haunting, disabling, pathological fears against which ordinary courage is helpless: in fact, phobias. His mind must, if possible, be kept clear of things he can’t bear to think of. Or they may mean (2) that we must try to keep out of his mind the knowledge that he is born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure, heroism and cowardice, good and evil. If they mean the first I agree with them: but not if they mean the second. The second would indeed be to give children a false impression and feed them on escapism in the bad sense. There is something ludicrous in the idea of so educating a generation which is born to the…atomic bomb. Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
—C.S. Lewis

2025-11-15 15:48:22 UTC

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Micah 6:6-8; Philippians 1:3-11
https://youtube.com/live/4bnmTB2r30s

2025-11-14 14:58:21 UTC

Isaac Is Born and Ishmael Is Cast Out—Genesis 21:1-21
https://youtube.com/live/pZWR0R5k3Hs

2025-11-14 14:54:40 UTC

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Children are a fundamental good, given by the Word of Christ from the beginning of creation.
Utilitatarians and selfish will not understand this.
#nevent1q…kkc0

2025-11-13 15:04:12 UTC

Abraham and Abimelech—Genesis 20:1-18
https://youtube.com/live/UPZ-RmWOo0E

2025-11-13 14:51:09 UTC

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On that cross, the Law is fulfilled. The Sabbath is completed. The Lord of the Sabbath rests His head in death to give eternal rest to the weary. His hands are destroyed so that yours might be restored. His life is taken so that yours might be saved.
#naddr1qv…fkc5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcMzsvGlNc

2025-11-07 14:56:13 UTC

Sarai’s Name Change—Genesis 17:15-27
https://youtube.com/live/_FcT-L1AcVw

2025-11-06 15:53:15 UTC

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At your dinner table, you can choose who to invite. At His table, you don’t. You kneel next to whoever Christ has called — the addict, the widow, the teenager, the skeptic, the one who smells like smoke, the one who never fits in. And Christ feeds you all from the same bread, the same cup, the same crucified body.
#naddr1qv…fkc5
https://youtu.be/YfsQTLaDmFo

2025-11-06 14:58:56 UTC

Circumcision and Abram’s Name Change—Gen. 17:1-11 (12-14)
https://youtube.com/live/fOvBp8lakzc

2025-11-04 15:01:20 UTC

God’s Covenant with Abram—Promise of a Son—Gen. 15:1-6
https://youtube.com/live/D7EFSNvd5v0

2025-11-03 15:04:51 UTC

Abram Rescues Lot; Pays a Tithe to Melchizedek—Gen. 14:8-23
https://youtube.com/live/sshrrcExKsA

2025-11-03 14:54:26 UTC

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That’s what makes a saint: not your glory, but His. Not your record, but His blood. Not your hands full of works, but your hands empty and open to receive. That’s what John saw in his Revelation vision—beggars made beautiful. Robes washed white in the blood of the Lamb. No longer hungry or thirsty or sorrowful, but singing and tears of joy. Not because they were great, but because their Jesus is.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT5HLUSDhb4

2025-11-03 12:23:08 UTC

"It's a great huge game of chess that's being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know."
--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

2025-10-31 13:55:21 UTC

Reformation Day—Abram and Lot—Genesis 13:1-18
https://youtube.com/live/uy5p5_UDP5o

2025-10-31 13:40:39 UTC

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2025-10-31 12:11:41 UTC

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Fantastic! Proof of God’s work.

2025-10-30 22:32:21 UTC

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Fantastic piece of writing!
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2025-10-30 14:44:07 UTC

The Call of Abram—Genesis 12:1-20
https://www.youtube.com/live/OD3Vvrz2fUg
God chose Abram solely by grace. He called Abram away from worshiping false gods to trust in Him, just as He has called us through His Word from unbelief to faith. When Abram hesitated at Haran, God called him again and led him out of Haran with the promise. The promise grows from the least to the greatest: God would make Abram into a great nation, and many would trust in that nation or land instead of in the promise. Others would trust in Abram's great name rather than in the God who granted that name. Through Abraham's seed, all peoples on earth would be blessed because that seed is Christ, who offered His blood as payment for everyone’s sins. Now, that great name of the seed has been placed upon us in Holy Baptism—blessing those who bless us and cursing those who curse us. This blessing in Jesus’ name always points us to the cross and our death, so that Christ may live in us and through us. Every day, we call on that great Name above all names, just as Abram did, for there is no life outside of it.

2025-10-30 13:48:41 UTC

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But Jesus doesn’t come to make us look righteous. He comes to make us new. And the new life He brings can’t be stuffed into the old wineskin of self-righteousness. That’s why the Pharisees couldn’t stand Him. Their religion was working for them. Their fasting, their praying, their rituals—they made sense. They made them feel holy. And then Jesus shows up and sits down with tax collectors and prostitutes and sinners. He eats with them. Drinks with them. Forgives them. And that offends everyone who still believes holiness can be earned.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiJiwuuvtr8

2025-10-29 20:05:52 UTC

Considering using a tax attorney and/or financial planner to manage personal finances and two small businesses.
But I need someone BTC-savvy who supports using tax structures to build a BTC treasury. Local folks have been super skeptical, and I don't need to orange pill them.
Suggestions?

2025-10-29 14:02:19 UTC

The Tower of Babel—Genesis 11:1-9
https://youtube.com/live/AJYtVgVEoJI

2025-10-29 11:24:24 UTC

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
—Paul the Apostle