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The #OldGal also scored a 4 today. I have seen some threes from the #YoungPups already. Also? Cool word Wordle.

Good morning! May you choose to respond with joy on whatever circumstance you find yourself in today. #MorningMug #Discipline2025

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Jesus in Conversation - Simon Peter

Over the years I have given out a lot of nicknames. Why? I don’t know. Nicknames for me are a term of endearment. When I give you a nickname it’s because I like you and you mean something to me.

When two people are in love they often give one another pet names. You know, things like “honey,” “sweetie,” “darling,” and the list goes on. When they get mad at one another they use their “real” names.

Speaking of getting mad, growing up I knew that I was in trouble when my mom used my full name. If your mom drops all three names, that’s when you try to find a place to hide, because it is not about to go well for you.

Another timely thought from Dietrich Bonhoeffer in response to the 1933 “Aryan Paragraph.”

Currently reading: The Bonhoeffer Reader by Michael P. DeJonge 📚

The German Christians say: We are not so much concerned with these thousand Jewish Christians as with the millions of our fellow citizens who are estranged from God. For their sake, these others might in certain cases have to be sacrificed. We answer: We too are concerned for those outside the church, but the church does not sacrifice a single one of its members. It may even be that the church, for the sake of a thousand believing Jewish Christians that it is not allowed to sacrifice, might fail to win over those millions. But what good would it do to gain millions of people at the price of the truth and of love for even a single one? This could represent not gain but only loss, for the church would no longer be the church. Michael P. DeJonge, Clifford J. Green The Bonhoeffer Reader #kindlequotes

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The #OldGal scored a 3. She’s back on track…

Good morning! May you notice the small joys all around you today. #MorningMug #Discipline2025

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Here’s the second of the theses that Bonhoeffer penned to challenge the Aryan Paragraph in 1933. Again, it reads as very timely for our moment in history.

Currently reading: The Bonhoeffer Reader by Michael P. DeJonge 📚

A quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “The German Christians say:&10;We don't want to take away from Jewish Christians the right to be Christians, but they should organize their own churches. 6 It is only a matter of the outward form of the church.” M A quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “We answer: (1) The issue of belonging to the Christian community is never an outward, organizational matter, but is of the very substance of the church.&10;Church is the congregation that is called together by the Word.&10;Membership in a congregation is a question not of organization but of the essence of the church.”A quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “(2) To make such a basic distinction between Christianity and the church, or between Christ and the church, is wrong. There is no such thing as the idea of the church, on one hand, and its outward appearance, on the other, but rather the empirically experienced church is the church of Christ itself. Thus to exclude people forcibly from the church-community at the empirical level means excluding them from Christ's church itself. That part of the church that excludes another is, of course, the one that is truly shut out-that is the particular danger of the German Christians' undertaking.”A quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “(3) When the church's organizers exclude anyone, they are interfering with the authority of the sacraments. Here in our church, Jewish Christians have been accepted, by the will of God, through the sacrament of baptism. Through baptism they are joined together with our church, and our church with them, by indissoluble ties. If the church that has baptized Jewish Christians now throws them out, it makes baptism into a ceremony, which implies no obligation on its part.”

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The #OldGal scored a 5 today. Victory is ours. Perhaps diminishing returns on grandson babysitting?

Good morning! May you notice the mercy that is new every morning. #Discipline2025 #MorningMug

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer composed a number of talking points to refute what was known as the “Aryan Paragraph” in September of 1933. The paragraph excluded non-Aryans from civil service which was beginning to be adopted by German churches.

Currently reading: The Bonhoeffer Reader by Michael P. DeJonge 📚

The German Christians say: The church is not allowed to undo or to disregard God’s orders, and race is one of them, so the church must be racially constituted. We answer: The given order of race is misjudged just as little as that of gender, status in society, etc. . . . In the church, a Jew is still a Jew, a Gentile a Gentile, a man a man, a capitalist a capitalist, etc., etc. But God calls and gathers them all together into one people, the people of God, the church, and they all belong to it in the same way, one with another. The church is not a community of people who are all the same but precisely one of people foreign to one another who are called by God’s Word. The people of God is an order over and above all other orders. “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? . . . whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother” [Matt. 12:48, 50]. Race and blood are one order among those who enter into the church, but it must never become a criterion for belonging to the church; the only criterion is the Word of God and faith. &10; &10;DeJonge, Michael P.; Green, Clifford J.. The Bonhoeffer Reader (Function). Kindle Edition.
How do you know who someone is? I don’t mean who they say they are, but who they really are? How do you determine it?

I think we do so by watching the way a person acts. As my friend, Todd, likes to say, “acta non verba (actions not words).”

Read the rest: Jesus in Conversation - The Two Disciples

Jesus in Conversation - The Two Disciples

How do you know who someone is? I don’t mean who they say they are, but who they really are? How do you determine it?

I think we do so by watching the way a person acts. As my friend, Todd, likes to say, “acta non verba (actions not words).”

Hey @Mtt, werid thing happening on danielmrose.com, if I try to customize Sumo or Bayou, they only show one item in a category. I’m quite confident it is user error. But, I can’t quite seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Join us for an intentional conversation about, “forgiveness,” at the Tap Room in Ypsilanti, MI.

Is forgiveness necessary for us to thrive? Are there people that unforgiveable? Is there good in carrying grudges?

We will start with these questions and see where the conversation takes us!

There are four rules…
  1. Everyone respects one another.
  2. Everyone talks.
  3. There has to be a moderator.
  4. We end at 9 pm.

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The #OldGal also scored a 4 today. Perhaps a #YoungPup will post a 3!

Good morning! May you love well today. #Discipline2025 #MorningMug

If you pray for God to protect the persecuted Church and rejoice at the federal government shutting down refugee resettlement, then I would encourage you to ask yourself if you truly care for the persecuted church.

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The #OldGal scores a 3 today and I am just happy to keep my streak. The time spent with her grandson is beginning to recharge her! We are in trouble #YoungPups.

Good morning! May you embrace whatever twist comes at you today. #Discipline2025 #MorningMug

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The Detroit Tigers report on 2/14.

The Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals start their baseball season on 2/14.

2/14 is the official beginning of Spring.

I will die on this hill.

This is such a timely read. Bonhoeffer’s writing is so highly applicable to our times.

Currently reading: The Bonhoeffer Reader by Michael P. DeJonge 📚

Good morning! May you find gratitude in the midst of community today. #Discipline2025

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The #OldGal also scored a 3 today. The time with the grandson is beginning to pay dividends.

Do you need a glimmer of hope?

MLB Pitchers and catchers report in 8 days.

College baseball returns for the Rose family on February 14.

Spring and Joy are around the corner.

We now live in a country where Christian churches are being counseled not to publicize their gathering due to the threat of federal agents arresting congregants.

No, the atheists didn’t do this.

No, the Muslims didn’t do this.

The Christian Nationalists did this.

ICE arrests man outside of Atlanta church