F3 Gandalf - Christian Pilgrim here; husband, dad, runner, bibliophile; OPC-Canadian Reformed-PCA; lover of Irish music, dance, English Setters. M.Div., WTS
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F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
Got me thinking of a list of favorite teams, in order
Tigers (hometown)
Phillies (college and lived there after)
Brewers (lived near there in seminary, daughter at UWMadison)
Red Sox (wife lived there, love Fenway)
Anyone playing the Yankees.
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
The church does not need to become more RELEVANT. It needs to become more REVERENT.
The world can provide entertainment. Only the church has been entrusted with the ordinary means by which Christ gathers and feeds his people: Word, sacrament, and prayer.
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
Pastors do not get a special exemption from careful and truthful speech because provocative imprecision builds an audience. James gives teachers the opposite burden: greater influence brings greater accountability. An occasional poorly chosen phrase calls for charity, but a recurring pattern of maximalist statements followed by minimalist clarifications calls for scrutiny. And we don’t have to know the speaker’s motives to recognize the pattern.
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F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
Perhaps we shouldn’t make murder trials into a reality-TV entertainment product.
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September 14th Our Daily Leadership Message and Guard Rails
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The 💥 💥 💥 For Today
@F3Nation
Get in the arena.
Don't spend your life watching, judging, or waiting for certainty. Instead:
•Take the meaningful risk.
•Start the project.
•Have the difficult conversation.
•Pursue the goal that matters to you.
•Accept that failure is possible and act anyway.
A practical daily call to action might be:
@dreddcnc
"Today, I will take one courageous step toward something important, even if I cannot guarantee success."
That is what Roosevelt meant by "daring greatly": choosing courageous action over comfortable observation.
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
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The 💥 💥 💥 For
Abilities + Attitudes = Results
@F3Nation
💥 Great Talent + Rotten Attitudes = Bad Team
💥 Great Talent + Bad Attitudes = Average Team
💥 Great Talent + Average Attitudes = Good Team
💥 Great Talent + Good Attitudes = Great Team
Talent is important, but attitude is the difference-maker.
The most successful teams aren't just filled with talented people.
They're filled with individuals who bring a positive mindset, strong character, accountability, and a commitment to helping others succeed.
Great results happen when great talent is paired with an awesome attitude.
@dreddcnc
Attitude is the multiplier of talent. 💥
#Leadership #Teamwork #Culture #HighPerformance #Success #GrowthMindset #LeadershipDevelopment #TeamBuilding #ProfessionalDevelopment #Motivation #Inspiration #PositiveAttitude #WinningTeams #PersonalGrowth #August24th 💥
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
“The tiny vessel of our human knowledge can only safely float in the currents of doubt when she is anchored in the faith that we dwell in a rational, sensible world, fashioned by the One who in infinite wisdom formed everything in harmonious relationship to everything else.”
-JH Bavinck
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— C. S. Lewis
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
"Bread and circuses": To mark Trump's birthday, UFC fights are taking place in front of the White House today for the first time.
While the US grapples with political crises, social division, and the consequences of his own policies, Trump stages bloody cage fights in front of the White House to mark his birthday. This is reminiscent less of a modern democracy than of ancient Rome: bread and circuses—spectacle over responsibility.
A president who turns the nation’s highest institution into a stage for bloody entertainment reveals one thing above all: his penchant for self-aggrandizement, displays of power, and distraction from the country’s actual problems.
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
If a man claims to believe anything, it is part of his masculine duty to deepen his understanding of it. A belief that cannot stand up to scrutiny and that a man cannot defend is a child’s wish.
@F3Nation
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
It’s the first step of submission to a higher power.
We don’t tell a man what or whom to believe in, but we do tell him that he needs to believe he’s not the king of the universe.
@F3Nation
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
You should want your pastor to be someone nobody has ever heard of, and who has no intention of becoming someone everybody has heard of.
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
this is not hormonal
"What most concerned the Pietists were matters of the heart. The emotional and experiential aspects of the Christian life were elevated above doctrinal clarity, confessional identity, and church structure."
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
When people take Jesus’ name in vain, they reveal a blindness deeper than profanity.
Even the demons see what they deny — that the Second Adam is enthroned and coming in judgment.
Fallen humanity mocks the Name; unclean spirits tremble before it.
Profanity isn’t boldness. It’s eschatological ignorance.
The very Name they misuse is the Name that will judge the living and the dead.
#CovenantalArchitecture #SecondAdam #Eschatology #NameAboveEveryName #SpeechAsLiturgy #BiblicalAnthropology #Christology #Judgment #Theology #CanonicalArchitecture
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
So much of the Christian life can be boiled down to two simple truths.
1. You are no longer your own. You belong to Christ.
2. You are no longer 𝘰𝘯 your own. He gave you the church.
F3 Gandalf (Cris Dickason) retweeted
As few barriers as possible, so that maximum liberty can be exercised.
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“The Senate needs to be less like Instagram. The Senate needs to be more deliberative. And that means less smack-down nonsense,” says former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse. cbsn.ws/4mXOvbG