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Aaron Duvall

@aaronduvall.bsky.social
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Pastor at Crosspoint Community Church. Passionate defender of Truth, Beauty, and Candy Corn. Hates meatloaf and trolls and endless meetings!

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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Every conversation I have with @courtneyellis.bsky.social I learn. Her last book on grief was a great help to me and I’m excited to start the next one “Weathering Change” Change finds all of us. The question isn’t if change will come, it’s whether we’re ready for it and how will we adapt.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
That’s where I was headed with that!!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I… I don’t want a youth pastor in my pocket.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One of the lies that current culture is forming within us is that being loud is the same as being faithful. I’m coming to beliveve that courage looks like staying patient, kind, and gentle in a system that rewards rage and anger.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Habakkuk reminds us that there is a difference between Faithful Doubt and Faithless Cynicism. Faithful doubt stays in the conversation. Cynicism leaves and calls it “wisdom.”
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Applause is a drug. And When you’re young in ministry, it’s easy to get addicted. The shift from “I need God” to “God needs me” is slow and subtle. But inevitable if we don’t guard our hearts. Only one is worthy of worship. It’s Not me. Or you. It’s Jesus. Only Jesus. Always Jesus.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Applause is a drug. And When you’re young in ministry, it’s easy to get addicted. The shift from “I need God” to “God needs me” is slow and subtle. But inevitable if we don’t guard our hearts. Only one is worthy of worship. It’s Not me. Or you. It’s Jesus. Only Jesus. Always Jesus.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I appreciate the work you put into this. I too must now go down this rabbit hole!!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
… you just gonna leave us hanging?!???
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Habakkuk reminds us that Babylon is never a surprise villain. They are always admired before they are feared. The seeds of judgment are most often planted during a season of pride.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Habakkuk reminds us that God is never unaware and never idle. He sees every act of injustice and does not shrug at oppression or violence. That truth is comforting for those suffering from And it is convicting for those who benefit from evil and injustice. God is watching. And He is at work.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Don’t! All 4 of ours are still up!!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
You’ll come around to candy corn eventually!! lol Looking forward to learning from you!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I find most empires have a little of both in them!!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
😢
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Habakkuk names five woes over nations: - Exploitative economics - Security built on injustice - Violence as strength - Dehumanization for profit - Idolatry A nation shaped by these isn’t walking with Christ, but marching to the rhythms of Babylon…
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Bots say what?
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
So you’ve been complaining about churches not having service this past Sunday?
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Hey quick let’s all get likes and rage clicks by shaming churches!!!! We only have like a week before we’ll need to come up with another reason!! *yawn*
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I hope that however your church family worshiped yesterday, your Sabbath was a blessing not a burden. A delight not a difficulty. Because as Jesus reminds us, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” Merry Christmas, looking forward to the new year ahead!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Advent reminds us that fear doesn’t have to drive our hearts. It calls us to “Fear Not” not as a command to obey, but an invitation to rest in We can fear not because God - has heard us. - favors us. - has a plan for us. - brings good news to us. And most of all … God is with us.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
As one great theologian (Dumbledore) once said: “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.”
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Today is the darkest day of the year. We’ve all lived through our own nights—dark nights of the soul, when the Son seems absent and the shadows linger. But I’m stubbornly hopeful that darkness never gets the final word. The light has come. And the darkness will not overcome it.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I think it will give them both ammunition and stuff to think about. The director is a former “youth group kid” or sees the bad and the beautiful in faith. I took a couple solid punches from it.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Not that anyone needs to hear this from me… BUT: Wake Up Dead Man isn’t just the best of the Knives Out series, but it’s quite likely one of my favorite movies of the year. If you haven’t seen it and you even moderately liked the first two, I’d check it out!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
While national leaders maneuvered and religious leaders accommodated power, God broke the news to pagans, skeptics, and outsiders… people still searching, still hoping, still hungry for God. It turns out the Christmas story isn’t just ancient history. Some things never change.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
While politicians plotted and theologians postured, heaven sang its greatest announcement to shepherds; unclean, overlooked, tolerated only when they were useful. 1/2
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It’s funny how that circle happens. Good, really good, hated, good again. It’s like candy corn. 🤣😂
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Wait… is someone making the claim that they aren’t awesome?!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
If your pastor has been credibly accused of plagiarism, removed from a church network, resigned instead of dealing with accountability and discipline after being found to have “patterns of persistent sinful behavior” by his elders. I urge you to find another church.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My “life goals” have changed. I used to have a number that I wanted to preach to. I thought writing a book and touring to promote it would give me purpose. These desires have dwindled down nearly to one: “Make much of Jesus!” Most everything else is noise and distraction.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Paul’s instructions for leaders in the Church: Not argumentative Kind to everyone Able to teach Not resentful Able to humbly teach even those who disagree Not mocking those who are spiritually blind, but gently guiding them towards the truth Hope for the repentance of all
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Ah, you’re one of those. ✌️
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Huh? You posted on my post.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You realize Jesus isn’t saying that right? It’s a character in a story saying it.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Violence is never the way of Jesus. It is never the way forward. I will continue to condemn any sort of political rhetoric that insights violence, and political violence of all kinds. People are made in the image of God and must be treated as such.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Community isn’t an accessory to faith—it’s the environment where faith breathes. Because the Gospel wasn’t written for a soloist… it was written for a choir!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Yes. Yes you may!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Life is full of noise. Notifications. Responsibilities. It’s easy to drift out of rhythm. Worship combats. It recenters us to God, realigns our priorities, and re-stories from scarcity and fear to abundance and grace. Worship invites us reclaim our rhythm.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
There is an appropriate amount of discernment needed. However, be careful that as you cultivate critical thinking you don't become a critical person. If we get more enjoyment out of critiquing than we do participating, we have become dangerously addicted to the drugs of snark and sarcasm.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
And yet…
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The fact that there is more outrage in Christianity at a Cracker Barrel making chages, than there is at any number of actual atrocities around the world, shows that we have an absolute failure of discipleship!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I’m finding more and more we may leave harmful theological environments, but we keep all the worst of the attitudes and worldviews that went with them. It’s like throwing out the baby and keeping the bath water. I’m interested in what the deconstruction from the deconstruction brand will look like
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Every. Dang. Time.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
“And none of them ever will” said the narrator.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I’m sorry… what?!?!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Please be careful my friends, that you do not let your hearts get so hardened, that human life means very little to you. This is not the way.
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
We need to be careful what we hold with clenched fists thinking we could never be wrong. What’s something you were almost certain about, but now you see you were mistaken. If you can’t think of anything, be careful that your pride isn’t driving you more than truth is!!
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Can someone show me where in scripture the idea that “Old Testament laws” were “resurrected with Jesus”?
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Aaron Duvall @aaronduvall.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This morning at CrossPoint 16 people were baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Some utterly amazing stories of life transformation! God is good!!!
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