#Jesus as Foundation

[dkcdude]

Build Your House on the Rock

Introduction This week has been particularly challenging for my younger daughter. She is going through an extremely difficult situation in her life right now. As her dad, it hurts me deeply to see her suffering. I wish I could take away her pain and bear it myself. Unfortunately, I can’t. All I can do is be there for her, offering support and comfort from afar (for now) since I moved to Florida…

[faeriefully]

no, girl im fine— I’m just crying over the gospel again

[brotherconstant]

FOUNDATION | 2x05 | The Sighted and The Seen Welcome, Hari Seldon, Gaal Dornick and Salvor Hardin of Terminus. You are our guests.

[chilidog-man]

Me after reading 8980:

Seriously Jesus Christ

[p4nishers]

every time i read a discworld book i start twitching and foaming at the mouth bc i remember terry once said "do not underestimate this anger" and like. that anger is the literal driving force of the book. every time. every single sentence is built on a foundation of righteous rage and that has me so feral i feel like i need to put my head through a wall

[odinsblog]

This is definitely a trend for the hateful, christofascist, religious reich. Hobby Lobby did the same thing at previous Super Bowls.

It’s right wing, Islamophobic, homophobic, anti-abortion Christian nationalism, masquerading as “caring” religion.

The Servant Foundation: the power behind the ads

The $20 million "He Gets Us" campaign about Jesus - is funded by an influential donor to some of the most active and litigious Shadow Network groups working to undermine church-state separation.

The Servant Foundation

The Servant Foundation, also known as The Signatry, is behind the “He Gets Us” ad campaign that debuted during the 2023 Super Bowl. Over the next three years, the Servant Foundation plans to spend “about a billion dollars” toward this public relations campaign. They’ve hired a PR firm to address, in the firm’s words, the problem of “How did the world’s greatest love story in Jesus become known as a hate group?”

Of course, they’re the cause of their own problem – not only has the Servant Foundation funded hate groups, but the PR firm, Haven, has represented these organizations. Key Shadow Network members Focus on the Family and Alliance Defending Freedom are in their portfolio. ADF is a noted anti-LGBTQ hate group that has argued repeatedly in courts that religion, and specifically Christianity, is a license to discriminate; they have one such case pending before the Supreme Court right now.

The money trail

The Servant Foundation is one of ADF’s biggest financial backers. A recent exposé reports that, “between 2018-20, the Servant Foundation donated more than $50 million to the Alliance Defending Freedom and that those contributions “were among the five largest donations given out by the foundation in each of those three years.”

Other recipients of the Servant Foundation’s billion dollars in assets include:

Nearly $8 million went to Answers in Genesis, creationist Ken Ham’s fundamentalist ministry behind the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter, an organization that has been championed by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, a former ADF attorney.

Over $1 million was designated for the anti-LGBTQ Campus Crusade for Christ (rebranded as “Cru” since 2011).

$374,800 went to Al Hayat Ministries, an organization that seeks to “respectfully yet fearlessly unveil the deception of Islam,” and runs an Arabic-language Christian satellite TV station with the goal of converting Muslims to Christianity.

In 2020 alone, we found donations to prominent Shadow Network members American Center for Law and Justice, First Liberty Institute, and Liberty Counsel.

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[troybarnesbucky]

one of the most famous and important canadian jews living today was the target of an assassination by the islamic republic, and yall still think israel is the problem. ok.

[99-and-1poplin]

[picket-furret-modblog]

> Be me

> Realized I haven't looked at r/DankMemesFromSite19 in a good while

> Checks it out

> Immediately noticed everyone hating on a researcher named Byrnes

> Reads scp-8980

> Gets it

> Joins in hating the guy

There's nothing quite like mutual hatred towards an overly realistic fictional villain, I swear.

[thedeskofaltoclef]

A Gift for Doctor Light

Every year on Christmas Doctor Light receives and Christmas gift and birthday card. The Christmas gift is always socks and the birthday card is a joke card reading "Help Step bro, I'm stuck.... In the Christmas spirit. Happy Birthday... even though your birthday is in fucking July."

[sillykytty]

SO I HAVE THIS ABILITY CALLED "LIKING ANYTHING NOBODY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT"

SCP??? JOKES ON YOU MY FAVORITE SCPS ARE EITHER NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY, FORGOTTEN BY THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY OR PEOPLE HAVE HEADCANONS I DON'T SHARE/LIKE!!!!! (AND 70% OF THE TIME THE THREE OPTIONS HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME!!) THAT OR THE FUCKING TAKE THE COMMUNITY / WIKI HAS IS ASS!!!

SAINT YOUNG MEN?? THERE ARE LIKE 3 FANS AND MY FAV CHARACTER (JUDAS) HAS LIKE 3 FANARTS PER YEAR AND THE FANDOM SHIPS INCEST BEFORE MY FAV SHIP!!!! AND ALSO IT DOESN'T EVEN REACH MY DAMN COUNTRY I'M COOKED 😭😭😭

KFP 3??? THE FANDOM ONLY RESUSCITATED TO HATE THE FOURTH MOVIE AND STILL HATED BOTH MOVIES

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR??? MY FAV IS THE 2012'S ONE AND APPEARENTLY EVERYONE HATES IT¿¿¿¿!!

CHAINSAW MAN??? MEDIA LITERACY IS SOOO DEAD PLUS MY FAVS ARE FUCKING DEAD/FORGOTTEN!

AND DON'T EVEN MAKE ME TALK ABOUT SCP NSP

BYEEEE I'M GOING TO JUMP!!!!11111!!! /J

[momentsbeforemass]

Building

Advent is the season of anticipation.

But it’s not passive. It’s not just preparation. It’s active. Advent is about building.

Like we see in today’s Gospel, it’s about building on the right foundation. The solid rock of Jesus.

But it doesn’t stop with the foundation. And it’s not about building a house for ourselves. It’s about the house that’s being built of ourselves.

In addition to anticipating Jesus, this is the other part of Advent. What we should be anticipating about us, about the building that God is doing in our lives.

How completely different we will be, if we truly trust to God to make us into who we were always meant to be. C.S. Lewis says it best.

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house.

At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.

But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to?

The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of—throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”

Today’s Readings

[grace-of-spades1]

friendly reminder

Jesus loves you

2000 years ago He died for your sins

He has a plan for you

He created you for a reason

John 3:16-for God so loved the world He gave his only begotten son not to condem the world but save it

'Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”' - John 8:12

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Pray Without Ceasing

Rejoice always; pray without ceasing; in everything give thanks, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. — 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 | Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. Cross References: Psalm 34:1; Daniel 6:10; John 6:34; Ephesians 5:20; Ephesians 6:18; Philippians 4:4

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What does it mean to rejoice always (1 Thessalonians 5:16)?

[dots-in-my-head]

They have made everything beautiful in its time.

(Keeping this up an alt version without reference that I honestly like better because it’s all me babyyyyy)

[peteytheparrot]

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