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Christopher Gillespie

You are here this afternoon because the Holy Spirit has not finished building. He still calls by the Gospel. He still places stones. The cornerstone holds. The building rises. The Church endures — not by your effort, not by any human strategy, not by the wisdom of her architects — but by the blood of the Lamb laid into the earth's foundation, and raised again on the third day.
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https://youtu.be/6A2Gz1kzXZw

2026-04-03 23:42:10 CEST

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God is Most High. His eyes look down. He sees what you are — the poverty, the squalor, the weight of it all. He sees it, and He does not look away. He comes down. He comes all the way down, down to the floor, down to the cross, down to this altar. The Most High becomes the Most Low so that the lowly might be raised to the Most High.
#biblestr
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https://youtu.be/m5CgSsbyGq8

2026-04-01 18:22:37 CEST

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There was no one to help. So He helped. "He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors" — which is to say, for all of us standing here with nothing in our hands, who fled and denied and handed over and washed our hands and turned, every one, to our own way. He did not need your help. He needed your sin. He took it. This is He whom you kneel before. Your Helper.
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https://youtu.be/MJBniUSocyw

2026-04-01 18:21:17 CEST

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You might be tempted to read those men as the villains of the story and yourself as a bystander. But sit with the word inconvenient. Every one of us has found Jesus inconvenient at some point — His claim on our time, His call to die to what we want, His refusal to be the kind of Savior we would have designed. We have all wanted a Jesus who costs less. Who asks less. Who fits more neatly into the life we have already arranged. The conspirators spoke aloud what the rest of us are thinking silently.
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https://youtu.be/XWryrtbjw4w

2026-03-30 17:57:42 CEST

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"Zechariah saw it all. Isaiah saw it all!" Holy Monday 2026 #biblestr
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https://youtu.be/By7KTnBnF-g

2026-03-29 22:40:23 CEST

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The Son who from eternity has known nothing but the Father's love cries out of abandonment. Real abandonment. He goes all the way in — to the bottom of the forsakenness, to the place where there is nothing left, no comfort, no light, no answer. He goes there, so you will not have to. He is forsaken so that you will not be. That is the exchange. That is the whole thing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUa9UQu4dMA

2026-02-15 13:25:13 CET

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Yes, in our ten children. But now that three moved out, we have to freeze them.

2026-02-15 01:24:45 CET

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I think this is a consequence of social media fatigue. Very few want to move again. Of course, that the point of Nostr. But convincing others without more banning, soft censorship, or ad spamming, is unlikely.
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2026-02-07 03:18:30 CET

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Solid.
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2026-01-29 16:58:17 CET

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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
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https://youtu.be/mXMwWf2GLjQ

2026-01-27 15:53:58 CET

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So the Transfiguration teaches you how to be in church. It teaches you what to expect: not entertainment, not novelty, not spiritual fireworks—but Christ, hidden and given. It teaches you what to fear: not long readings, not a slow sermon—but ignoring the Son. It teaches you what to desire: not the pastor’s charm, not the congregation’s warmth, not a fog machine of “experience”—but the clear, saving voice of Jesus.
#biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-D0pJba9E
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2026-01-23 16:02:30 CET

Joseph Feeds Brothers, Sends Them to Jacob—Gen. 42:25-38 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/XXjwAkPjzXA

2026-01-22 15:44:38 CET

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So yes—there is a “not yet.” Your body still breaks. Your heart still aches. Your house still gets sick. Your relationships still strain. The grave still waits. And Christ will come again to finish what you cannot see finished yet: the dead raised, the blind seeing, the oppressed fully freed, the captives fully released, the whole creation set loose from corruption.
#biblestr
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1Wf25gIHQ

2026-01-21 16:53:19 CET

Joseph Becomes the Prince of Egypt—Genesis 41:37-57
#bliblestr
https://youtube.com/live/08bf0rnCTDQ

2026-01-20 15:56:48 CET

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh’s Dreams—Genesis 41:1-36 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/Bkpq9g4oqTQ

2026-01-20 13:35:11 CET

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Coffee is as diverse as the people who drink it. Stay curious, friends.
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2026-01-19 22:37:12 CET

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Here is the good wine kept until now. Forgiveness that does not run out. Joy that does not depend on your mood. Hope that does not collapse when the test results, the bank statement, or the family meeting go badly. Fellowship with Him and with one another at a table that outlasts death. We are not playing religious pretend. He truly gives Himself. #biblestr
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https://youtu.be/fHRDTsMvrOk

2026-01-19 22:14:19 CET

The things you're not supposed to talk about in polite company are the very things we need to talk about. Don't be snookered into laying down your ideological arms and allowing the enemy to destroy family, church, and state.

2026-01-19 15:56:23 CET

Joseph Interprets Dreams in Prison—Genesis 40:1-23 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/mlo2U9E90EQ

2026-01-19 13:44:09 CET

While @nprofile…ag7t has accepted BTC via @nprofile…w85c for a long time, we’ve put our sats where our mouth is. Now you also get sats back rewards for every single origin coffee, blend, subscription, whatever, via @nprofile…xhvs.
https://gillespie.coffee/pages/pay-with-bitcoin-lightning

2026-01-18 03:47:20 CET

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It’s about time.
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2026-01-17 15:59:37 CET

Sunday’s OT and Epistle—Amos 9:11-15; Romans 12:6-16a #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/B6wsmZdMYYo

2026-01-17 15:31:50 CET

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The way of the world is to refuse to call a thing what it is. This leads to malaise, despair, grayness, nihilism. The way of the cross tells the truth, calling evil and good what is.

2026-01-16 00:34:50 CET

The first Lightning payment processor on Shopify WITH an Express Checkout button is going to crush e-commerce similar to Square did with POS. I’m betting on @nprofile…5egz and @nprofile…0j5p doing it first.
Remember what the PayPal “Buy Now” button did?

2026-01-16 00:27:21 CET

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See John 6.

2026-01-15 16:52:38 CET

Joseph’s Brothers Sell Him into Slavery—Gen. 37:1-36 #biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/live/DDczO-l2tXI

2026-01-15 15:51:06 CET

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You have been baptized into Christ. That means where He is, you are. If He has stepped into the sinner’s water and taken your sin as His, then your sin is not free-floating anymore. It has an address: on Him. And if His righteousness is His—and He gives Himself to you—then His righteousness has an address too: on you. #biblestr
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Audio: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/stjohnrandomlake/episodes/Baptism-is-Gods-public-claim-This-one-belongs-to-Me--Octave-of-Epiphany-2026-e3dmpec

2026-01-14 15:57:52 CET

LIVE THIS AM:
The Baptism of Our Lord—Matthew 3:13-17 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/o2n41lHZYNk

2026-01-13 17:32:45 CET

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

2026-01-13 15:56:31 CET

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

2026-01-12 18:30:45 CET

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 18:13:26 CET

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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgB6z4DAGk

2026-01-12 15:57:55 CET

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

2026-01-10 16:48:33 CET

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

2026-01-09 16:53:59 CET

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

2026-01-06 15:57:54 CET

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

2026-01-05 15:59:59 CET

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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
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https://youtu.be/PNe5jBJgzP8

2026-01-05 15:49:48 CET

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 15:59:31 CET

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

2026-01-02 16:09:24 CET

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

2026-01-01 15:54:02 CET

Circumcision and Name of Jesus: Luke 2:21 #biblestr
https://youtube.com/live/74ZhRatcDuM

2026-01-01 14:00:03 CET

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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.
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#biblestr
https://youtu.be/EXpDGOD-dSo

2026-01-01 13:36:54 CET

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

2025-12-31 16:42:40 CET

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2025-12-31 15:55:43 CET

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

2025-12-30 15:57:50 CET

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

2025-12-29 15:59:50 CET

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

2025-12-29 13:44:50 CET

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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.
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#biblestr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b40OjyDC-Xc

2025-12-25 20:42:41 CET

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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
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https://youtu.be/BWeKoT-958o

2025-12-25 14:53:28 CET

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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
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https://youtu.be/VsW-C86p7KA

2025-12-25 14:46:33 CET

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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.
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https://youtu.be/Zq00dmVhfoA

2025-12-24 16:00:17 CET

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

2025-12-23 15:56:52 CET

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

2025-12-22 15:57:23 CET

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

2025-12-21 23:41:28 CET

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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-sIWEAi_IA

2025-12-20 15:57:44 CET

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

2025-12-19 15:56:53 CET

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

2025-12-18 15:59:16 CET

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

2025-12-18 15:39:21 CET

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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 15:56:06 CET

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

2025-12-16 15:58:52 CET

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

2025-12-16 15:10:13 CET

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You can thank Hegel and Darwin for this confused idealistic crusade.

2025-12-16 14:16:11 CET

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

2025-12-15 16:50:10 CET

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That’s fantastic! “Something” means the Holy Spirit is at work!

2025-12-15 15:59:17 CET

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

2025-12-15 15:32:46 CET

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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 15:56:10 CET

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

2025-12-12 15:44:23 CET

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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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2025-12-12 14:46:56 CET

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We see this in the Christian congregation. It’s not youthful rebellion. Now the older generation resents and neglects with apathy the younger.
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2025-12-11 16:53:23 CET

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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 15:59:40 CET

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

2025-12-10 15:56:54 CET

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

2025-12-09 16:01:13 CET

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

2025-12-08 16:31:47 CET

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

2025-12-08 04:32:02 CET

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Thanks for the zap!

2025-12-07 23:51:15 CET

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

2025-12-07 23:50:22 CET

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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.
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https://youtu.be/PS0BrJXqlus

2025-12-05 14:44:48 CET

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.

2025-12-05 14:44:13 CET

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2025-12-04 16:03:26 CET

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

2025-12-04 15:34:24 CET

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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 16:00:33 CET

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It turns out that "property rights" is another legal fiction.
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2025-12-03 15:58:39 CET

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

2025-12-02 15:58:47 CET

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

2025-12-02 14:14:27 CET

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 23:05:36 CET

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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!?!?
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2025-12-01 16:00:44 CET

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

2025-12-01 15:56:45 CET

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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
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https://youtu.be/egWmlPk6j-E

2025-12-01 15:54:33 CET

Bible Study: 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 — November 30, 2025
https://youtu.be/bBja2Dk48Rw
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2025-11-27 14:03:23 CET

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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 16:45:32 CET

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

2025-11-25 15:57:42 CET

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

2025-11-23 19:07:30 CET

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

2025-11-23 19:05:56 CET

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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.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstvpw_pFYo

2025-11-21 17:34:01 CET

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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.
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2025-11-20 15:19:59 CET

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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.
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2025-11-19 15:58:35 CET

Rebekah—Gen. 24:29 (30-31) 32-38 (39-41) 42-49 (50-57) 58-67
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2025-11-18 17:01:45 CET

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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.
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2025-11-18 14:26:39 CET

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