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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you read every reply in Werner Herzog's voice, this is a rather entertaining thread.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For ten years now, our family has been celebrating this blessed day.

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YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Last weekend I got to tell people that jump the shark comes from a scene in a tv show where a "cool" character jumped over a shark in water skis. They had no idea. BTW they were the ones who first used the term with me and asked me if I knew what it meant.

Black and White photo of Fonzi in waterskis and a leather jacket, of course.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live: • Arcade Fire • Death Cab for Cutie • Weezer • Ben Folds • Guster • Barenaked Ladies • 21 Pilots • Yo La Tengo • Wesley Willis • Bryan Adams

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Every neighborhood has a sizable Catholic church that all are mostly empty, but everyone eats fish on Good Friday. Today is a preparation day of sorts where every store has a pop-up fish market with the longest line of people waiting to get theirs for tomorrow. But what is Good Friday really about?

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What's Good about Good Friday? — NAB in Brazil

In Brazil the Friday of Holy Week is called Holy Friday, not Good Friday. Is there a difference?

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Paul Rudd with Jason Sudeikis a close second. My time overlapped with Jason's. His dreams were to play basketball, but he had a lot of fun in forensics doing improv.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

"You could pretty easily adapt the plot of the musical Cats to be about pop tarts wanting to be sacrificed at the pop tart bowl" - A text a received from my son just now #poptartsbowl

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

It’s easy to envision ourselves as an Isaiah, responding “Here am I. Send me.” It’s harder to admit to our own sins and then be willing to proclaim a message to our own family and friends about what true obedience and faithfulness actually looks like.

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Here Am I. Send Me: Being on the Side of the Truth in a Post-Truth Age — NAB in Brazil

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Senior pastor, youth pastor, executive pastor

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Paul Hanson calls this emotivism, which is the philosophy most in sync with liberated,“unencumbered” humanity: "In a society in which emotivism has triumphed, the source of moral truth no longer resides in traditions, practices, and institutions, but in the subjective consciousness of the individual

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If asked to choose one word for the paralysis that afflicted the mechanisms of government in 2013 and 2014, it would be “absolutism,” defined as a certainty of the truthfulness of one’s own position that categorically falsifies opposing views. 1/2

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

*Joe Buck voice "Well, our Fox AI brought to you by AWS says they should go for it here." *taps earpiece. "Ah yes, well it is actually first down." Aikman - "AI always says to go for it, right?"

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

2nd century BC Judea or America today?: "Opposing religious values and ideologies played a part, but basic human vices also fanned the flames of conflict; for example, unfettered political ambition allied to rampant economic greed created bedfellows...

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

As a missionary it is a rare form of insanity to sign up for moving to a new country back and forth every several years.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

@joeposnanski.com The international coverage with Matt Vasgersian and Yonder Alonso did a great job last night telling the audience in the 9th inning about the possibility of a Home Run swingoff. They too were shocked at Aranda being chosen ahead of guys like Witt.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Augustine knew nothing of baseball, but he knew plenty about love - the one constant through all the years. It is love that marks the time. And while America rolls by in Mann's speech, Augustine's perspective reminds me that the world might just one day roll by America.

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Love Marks the Time — NAB in Brazil

Augustine knew nothing of baseball, but he knew plenty about love - the one constant through all the years. It is love that marks the time. And while America rolls by in Mann's speech, Augustine'...

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Very niche, but Rich Mullins's "Never Picture Perfect" album has an unfortunate anti-evolution song that just doesn't fit on any of his albums, and especially that album.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

"To persevere in Christ is to persevere in faith in him; and this faith, as the same Apostle defines it, works through love (Gal 5:6); and love, as he himself says elsewhere, does no evil (Rom 13:10)" - Augustine, City of God 21.25. It's never time to grow weary in well-doing, brothers and sisters.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

One of many tensions in the Bible is God's people and their king. But Samuel reminds them that there is a cost to being like all the other nations. The people thought the king would give: he would protect and fight their battles for them. Perhaps, but there is also much that a king will take.

So Samuel told them, delivered God’s warning to the people who were asking him to give them a king. He said, “This is the way the kind of king you’re talking about operates. He’ll take your sons and make soldiers of them—chariotry, cavalry, infantry, regimented in battalions and squadrons. He’ll put some to forced labor on his farms, plowing and harvesting, and others to making either weapons of war or chariots in which he can ride in luxury. He’ll put your daughters to work as beauticians and waitresses and cooks. He’ll conscript your best fields, vineyards, and orchards and hand them over to his special friends. He’ll tax your harvests and vintage to support his extensive bureaucracy. Your prize workers and best animals he’ll take for his own use. He’ll lay a tax on your flocks and you’ll end up no better than slaves. The day will come when you will cry in desperation because of this king you so much want for yourselves. But don’t expect God to answer.”

19-20 But the people wouldn’t listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We will have a king to rule us! Then we’ll be just like all the other nations. Our king will rule us and lead us and fight our battles.”

21-22 Samuel took in what they said and rehearsed it with God. God told Samuel, “Do what they say. Make them a king.”

Then Samuel dismissed the men of Israel: “Go home, each of you to your own city.”

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It is, along with the first one, among the worst of all the MI movies. But, unlike the first one, it is clearly the most fun. This is not to say it's a bad movie at all.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I've been invited to preach this upcoming Sunday and my text is Mark 4:26-5:20. The end of this text is fitting for Ascension Day. A man who (rightly) felt out of place at home asks to go away with Jesus, but Jesus tells him to stay home to be a witness to God's mercy. It's hard, but good, to stay

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Sometimes I am a little ashamed to admit that Rich Mullins's music introduced my heart to Jesus more than anything else when I was younger. Now as a teacher, my goal isn't to present information about Jesus, but to present him in all his fulness - best I can- into people's hearts, where he belongs.

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Rich Mullins - You Did Not Have A Home (Live in Lufkin,1997)

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Among those reasons: Dex People address Padmé as "M'lady" all the sudden and throughout the movie after it not being used once in Ep. 1 Sand really sucks, am I right?

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes about faith.

"'Faith' is not the possession of a settled world-view, which people can interpose between themselves and the shock of experience, and by which therefore they can keep the world at an arm's length away from them, can solve all their problems, and can arrange themselves with the 'right' attitudes for every situation. On the contrary, 'faith' has the effect of opening a man to the world, to his neighbors, and to himself. It deprives him of all self-conscious postures. It propels him into a living engagement with concrete experience." Arthur C. McGill

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is a great piece by @aselrod.bsky.social. Toward the end he says, "And we have to choose in the small, intimate moments of our lives those things that feed virtue: empathy, knowledge, curiosity, steadfastness." As someone who teaches Christian ethics, yes, this is the way.

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Inherent Vice: Can America Come Back From Who We’ve Become?

At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity.

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Brandon Jones @bcjoneskc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This article, which is well worth your time, reminds me of the old quote from the Epistle to Diognetus - "Force is no attribute of God."

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