#Feed my sheep

[fatty-vicky23]

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[albertfinch]

Scripture Of The Day - June 5, 2024

Matthew 28:19-21  -  "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.  And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age."

                God's covenant promise "I will be with you" has always been linked to mankind's need for courage to face the impossible.

          The great commission provides more interesting reading for those who remember what kind of men God was giving His charge to -- greedy, prideful, angry, and self-centered.  Yet Jesus called them to change the world.

           QUESTIONS TO ASK MYSELF:

Do I believe that Jesus can overcome my shortcomings and still use me to do His kingdom work?

Do I believe that I can make disciples for God's Kingdom?

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[kdmiller55]

The Shame of Shepherdless Sheep

1 After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. 2 And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,” 3 Absalom would say to him, “See, your…

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[friarmusings]

Do you love me?

15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He then said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third…

[vickihinze]

Self-Sacrificing Love by James R. Coggins

On the night he was betrayed, Jesus told His close followers that He was going away to somewhere where they could not follow: “I will be with you only a little longer…Where I am going, you cannot come” (John 13:33). Peter protested that he would go with Jesus all the way, even to death: “I will lay down my life for you” (John 13:37). I am not sure that Peter meant it literally. He probably meant…

[bookkats]

Peace, on the Bread Lines

Feed my sheepJesus saidWhen the world was endingwhen everything was changing When the intrigue was thickAnd you didn’t know who to trustAgain Jesus said, Feed my sheep And although the end seemed nearAnd war seemed to be everywhereAnd things were apocalypticA word that means opening, uncoveringThings that are opening upAs well as everything that is collapsing Jesus leaned in close to his…

[aydien677]

Incorrect Quotes part 6.

Mc: "I can’t believe you live nearby, and you won’t let anyone else crash at your place."

Solomon : "You people already know too much about me."

Mc : "I know exactly three facts about you, and one of them is that you won’t let anyone but me crash at your place."

Mc: "What's a word thats a mix between 'sad' and 'mad'?"

Lucifer : "Disgruntled, miserable, desolated-"

Mammon : "Smad"

Lucifer : "Get out"

Mammon : "In my defense, I was left unsupervised."

Lucifer : "Wasn't Mc with you?"

Mc: "In my defense, I was also left unsupervised."

Mc: "Luci, what do IDK, LY, and TTYL mean?"

Lucifer : "I don’t know, love you, talk to you later"

Mc: "Ok, I love you too, I’ll just ask Levi"

Mc: "Hey Lucifer"

Lucifer : "Yes?"

Mc: "Can a person breathe inside a washing machine while it’s on?"

Lucifer :

Lucifer : "Where’s Solomon?"

Mc: You lying, cheating, piece of shit!

Lucifer : Oh yeah? You’re the idiot who thinks you can get away with everything you do. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD

Mc: I’m leaving you, and I’M TAKING MAMMON WITH ME

Simeon, picking up the monopoly board: "I think we’re gonna stop playing now."

Simeon: "Lucifer why?"

Lucifer who just drank 102° black coffee: "You'll know when Luke has his rebellious phase"

[doctortv]

i really like to imagine jerry babysitting for gingi sometimes

[id: drawing of ticket jerry reading a book to gingi's children. he is holding three in his arms and two on his shoulders, with the raccoon baby playing with the chord of his phone head. he's reading the monster at the end of this book. end id]

[id: doodle of phonegingi looking concerned and saying "why are you turning the page? do you want him to fucking die?" end id]

[will-bonna]

i’ve already done saints design but i wasn’t really happy with it so… redrawn :)

based on a leaf sheep of course

[geddyqueer]

thinking about them (buck and tommy)...

[albertfinch]

           Power Study B 61 - Notes

Are we ready to dive into the bottomless treasure chest of God for our lives?  When we awake spiritually hungry, the Lord is up to something in our life because He initiates the spiritual hunger.

"O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is." - Psalm 63:1

As we turn aside from our regular routine -- He is calling us to turn aside from our present existence -- He is calling us to turn aside from those things that have hindered us -- He is calling us to turn aside into HIS FLAME!  As we turn aside, God is going to begin to seep into the dry soil of our heart and awaken us into a new passion and a new FIERY desire for Him.

Since meditation on the Scriptures, prayer, and intercession are a service we owe and because the grace of God is found in this service, we should train ourselves to set apart a regular hour for it.  This is not "legalism"; it is orderliness and fidelity.

The Lord wants to fill us with holy desperation and a holy violence to lay hold of Him.  It's a hunger that will drive us into holy romance with the Lord and a passion for the ascended life -- to enthrone Him in every area  of our lives -- it's a fresh hunger to come into such intimacy with Jesus that we die to ourselves by giving ourselves for the sake of others and implement our holy union with Him in every way including intercession. We must press past intellectual awareness to hunger for heartfelt encounters that change and transform.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[sinnbaddie]

SS fans pissing me off once again, oh my gosh

[bonefall]

Thinking about that one post about the 5000 year old teenager girl found buried with her collection of 180 sheep ankle bones but specifically the addition of how ankle bones were used as dice back then and she was a gamer.. what I'm getting at is: would clan cats make bone dice and Are They Gaming

First let me teach you a little bit about Knucklebones: The Game.

You probably know one of its variants better as Jacks, that game you play with a rubber ball and little metal spikes. There's a version of Knucklebones in nearly every culture, where the basic idea is to throw an object up in the air, pick up as many of the smaller objects as possible, and then catch the larger object before it hits the ground.

In cultures with a lot of access to livestock, usually the hand and ankle bones of sheep would be used. Places that don't have them might use rocks, seeds, shells, whatever. It was Ancient Greece that had such an extreme take on the game that it eventually evolved into dice-throwing-- a totally chance-based game where you would just throw the biggest foot bone of a sheep (the astralagus; equivalent to the talus in a human) and see how they landed.

So the girl they uncovered in Kazakhstan with the 180 sheep bones wasn't really buried "with dice," make sense? It's more like being buried with jacks. Central Asia is actually jam-packed with knucklebones-types games. Mongolian Shagai is recognized by UNESCO.

And it makes a TON of sense, because those regions are grasslands absolutely ideal for raising sheep.

SO. CLAN CATS.

There's two major considerations here;

ONE: The access to, and size of, sheep bones.

Clan cats don't kill sheep. TRIBE cats actually have access to sheep and kill one or two a year! I would actually like to give them a bunch of special uses for various parts of the sheep. I think the eagle-killing thing in canon is actually pretty ridiculous for several reasons

BUT THAT SAID, an astralagus is the size of a cat's paw.

[ID: A human holding an astralagus in the tips of its fingers.]

You'd need to play a different sort of game with this. It's more like a square softball to a cat than a little rubber ball.

Boar also have bones like this, though. A muntjac probably produces bones that are sized properly for a cat. Hares and rabbits are probably the BEST bet here though, which, somehow feels right. I'm not sure why, but WindClan seems like the gamerclan Clan that would think up these sorts of cute games.

Something about it fits their whole savvy culture, tunneling, emphasis on trade and invention pre-Heatherstar. ShadowClan and WindClan share a cultural value of innovation, but ShadowClan seems more... chemical and competitive.

Hard to explain it. ShadowClan invents flax retting and WindClan invents the drop spindle. There's overlap but it has a bit of a different flavor between them.

TWO: Range of motion

I've made BB!Cats have the same range of motion as the cats in canon, which is higher than a real cat. They're able to WEAVE, you can't do that without a basic pincher grasp. They're also able to mix herbs, wrap things up in leaves, and apply bandages.

I haven't actually given my reworked cats much more ability than they already had, I just codified rules based on what we already see.

But that said, they DO have less range of motion in their hands than humans. They have little thumbs and a better ability to grab, but can't twist their paws completely upwards. There's no way they can toss an object straight up, then catch it again.

So any games they do play would need to accommodate that. So far I've got Scratchstone, Teeterstrike, and an unnamed rhyme game. The bone game would need to look more like a game of marbles than jacks. Or, maybe more modified to accommodate swipes and strikes, somehow? Or a two-person game of catch?

Gotta think about it.

[bleue-flora]

i dont think tommy said the nuke wasnt canon, he seemed to be talking about how he canonically didnt lose a life to the nuke because in the 2022 ending, no nuke killed anyone

I guess?... I don't know. It doesn't really make sense since basically Jack is pretty insistent that he did blow everything up, and yet all the buildings remain, so... and the reasoning he gives for not dying in the nuke is that he can't die, which is part of his lore. Tommy doesn't really answer how he and Tubbo are alive, except to say that the nuke wasn't canon (presumably as in canon death is what he means) and he was left with 1 life when everyone left. In response to Jack's comment about not being able to actually die, Tommy responds "Not that either of us would know anything about that" but since he fought a monster in between his Tubbo comment and Jack's, he may have meant that as a response to his above statement about logistics... so if Jack blew everything up, but everything is still standing, then the most reasonable explanation is that the Incident did happen and eventually he gained his memories back and visits Techno's house from time to time... (which people said including anons in my inbox)

So people are wrong, it is not a retcon but an extension, the end of season 2, whatever that was... even so what's funny is that innitors are more happy with this ending versus a restart even when it's down right depressing. Tommy is alone. He hasn't seen anyone besides Tubbo in a long time and lives very far away from the main dsmp area. But take it from me, the quiet is nice, living alone is nice, but being utterly alone is miserable. To live alone with no outside interaction besides one person is really sad to me, and the fact that the area is still so triggering for him is also a testament that he hasn't healed, and living alone won't heal him. Especially not when part of his trauma revolves around him feeling alone in Exile. So really, it's a very depressing ending. Tommy just wanted to have fun with his friends and in the end, he has no one but Tubbo and his sheep and a cabin in the arctic he stares at for hours. He didn't mend his relationships with people, even still bringing up Jack exploding his hotel after it's been years since then. He did literally move but he didn't heal, he didn't grow, he wasn't able to form better relationships or claim what he yearned for. And that to me is a sadder ending.

As as aside, I've talked about before how all the ghosts have sheep, so an interesting theory would be that he is actually a ghost haunting the land... have another au free of charge I guess lol... do we think the sheep is colored? maybe it's red...

[liaromancewriter]