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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

"Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners." ~ Miroslav Volf from "Exclusion and Embrace."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It's much easier to walk a tight rope than it is to simply stand in place. Forward momentum creates stability. ~ Seth Godin #church #churchplanting #movement

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The Dow over 50,000 was proof that everything was amazing… until it wasn’t.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Weekly reminder from Lesslie Newbigin: "When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power, it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom." #church #power #Newbigin

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

It isn’t just the Constantinian temptation the church must repudiate but, more significantly, the orientation toward power that underwrites it. ~ James Davison Hunter #church #power

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Instead of saying "I" when you're ready to take credit, try "we." Instead of saying "we" when you're avoiding responsibility, try "I." ~ Seth Godin

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I don’t think we fully grasp the damage political entanglement is having on the life/witness of the church in the U.S. The perception (or reality) will only become harder to undo. I am not saying we should abandon politics. But engagement must be marked by wisdom, integrity & courage.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

"Whataboutism" is a lazy way to debate an issue you disagree with.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

"The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young." ~ James Hollis, "Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life."

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather." #groundhogday

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Only as the People of God receive the stranger, the sinner, and the immigrant, those who don’t play our game our way, do we discover not only the hidden, feared, and hated parts of our own souls, but the fullness of Jesus himself. We need them for our own conversion. ~ Rohr

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Few leaders possess the insight and heart of Dr. Mark Labberton. His voice is essential for the U.S. church right now, and it was a true honor to be a guest on his Conversing podcast this past week to talk all things church planting. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Missional Church Planting, with Brad Brisco

Podcast Episode · Conversing with Mark Labberton · 01/27/2026 · 58m

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Leadership does not begin with title or position, it begins the moment you are more concerned about others’ flourishing than your own. ~ Andy Crouch #StrongAndWeak

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The volume is up, the wisdom is down.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"We live on the surface of the ocean, buffeted by waves of thought and emotion, unaware of the deep, still waters beneath." ~ "The Little Book of Being" by Diana Winston #Shadow

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." ~ Albert Einstein "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." ~ Marcel Proust

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer from "Life Together."

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"There is an evil which most of us condone and are even guilty of: indifference to evil... It is more universal, more contagious, more dangerous than evil itself." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel; The Insecurity of Freedom (1966) In a democracy, we are all shareholders.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Self-recognition is rarely confidence; it's compensation.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I just watched the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that CBS News didn't want people to see. It appears to be researched and reported with depth and integrity. The entire story is disturbing and disgusting. Shame on CBS for canceling the airing of the segment.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Changing your mind about something is a sign that truth matters more than ego.

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

As a rule, dogmatics has based itself on the proclamation structure of the epistles, not the story structure of the gospels. ~ Hendrikus Berkhof

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Weekly reminder: "When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power, it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign of the kingdom." ~ Lesslie Newbigin #Kingdom

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Somalis are our neighbors, not our enemies. Immigrants and refugees are people with stories, hopes, and families just like ours. They are not the problem; demonizing them is. #ImagoDei

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds." ~ Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Perhaps all the world needs is enough of us to risk believing and putting the beatitudes into practice. — Megan McKenna

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Mission renews theology by forcing the church to see itself as sent, defined by participation in God’s redemptive action rather than institutional preservation. "One of the strongest impulses toward the renewal of the theological concept of the church comes from the theology of mission" ~J Moltmann

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This excerpt from "Awakening at Midlife" by Kathleen Brehony is so good. #midlife #falseself #ego

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Great wisdom on the second half of life from James Hollis: "The first half of life is spent building a strong ego. The second half is about dismantling it and recovering your soul." "What worked for you in the first half of life will become your prison in the second."

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Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Andrew Sullivan warns that our biggest threat to faith today isn’t disbelief or pleasure—it’s distraction. Constant noise and busyness have drowned out the stillness where faith (and critical thinking) once grew. #contemplation

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