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Tim Bertolet

@timbertolet.bsky.social
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Interested in Bible, Theology, science fiction, Star Trek. Good coffee always. PhD NT studies, Hebrews. Involved in ministry and missions.

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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/readings...
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Our Sufficiency in Christ
What if your weakness isn’t a problem to fix—but the very thing God intends to use? What if the very weakness you’re trying to hide is actually what God wants to put on display?
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Some thoughts on Jesus's cry of dereliction for Good Friday. open.substack.com/pub/readings...
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"My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?"
Did the Father really abandon the Son of the Cross? What does the cry of dereliction say about the Father and human lament?
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Jim West @emilbrunner1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
EXCITING NEWS!! FORTHCOMING by me: "Tears of the Son: How Jesus's Weeping Brings Meaning and Comfort to Our Tears.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm posting over at Substack. Yeah! open.substack.com/pub/readings...
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Ministry Shaped by the Cross
Gospel ministry is work under the shadow of the Cross.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
www.youtube.com/channel/UCIi...
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Reading Scripture Well
Thoughtful Theology for Faithful Understanding. Reading Scripture Well exists to help believers engage the Bible with care, clarity, and theological depth. Through thoughtful teaching rooted in the bi...
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Updating my YouTube channel. New and better name. More videos coming at I do stuff for ABWE and the Alexandrian Institute. Link below.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I was told if I didn't vote for Trump, the government would try to stop Christians from gathering.... They were right.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We are past the point where we should be saying "this isn't about grabbing lawbreakers and violent criminals. This is about inflicting cruelty."
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Alright my Bible and theology friends. Give me paper & session recommendations for ETS, IBR, and SBL.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/10/2025
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Locke, Second Treatise of Government:
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Of Tyranny

199. As usurpation is the exercise of power which another hath a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. And this is making use of the power anyone has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private, separate advantage. When the governor, however entitled, makes not the law but his will the rule, and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Psst...there is nothing capitalistic about this...
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
It wasn't all that long ago that Russell Moore was saying he had people saying to him that Jesus's forgive others didn't work in a modern setting and the usual suspects shot him down as a liar. Now we have the new right leading with a denial of one of Jesus's most basic teachings.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Congratulations!
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Happy National Bowtie Day!
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The government had no case; their charges were bologna.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
“Own it. Own the camera. Now strut it like you mean it — left, right, left, right — yessss, make the beat your catwalk! Think 'Victoria's Secret' meets 'Secret Service.' Beautiful, darlings, absolutely beautiful."
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
"I'm too sexy for my tactical gear, too sexy for my tactical gear...."
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Got my contributor's copy today!!
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Here is the link. www.logos.com/product/3699...
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The Obedience of Sonship: Adamic Obedience and the Heavenly Ascension in Hebrews (Studies in Jewish and Christian Literature)
A study of the ascension in Hebrews as the Son’s fulfillment of humanity’s destiny and as a revelation of his divine identity.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
My dissertation is on Logos.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Summers is not a fire breather or some left winger. He slimmed down Obama’s stimulus and he said Biden’s Covid stimulus would overheat the economy. So him saying this is a big damn deal.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
That fortune though.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Also there are cautions and circumstances too. I pastored a church with some widows who were my parents or grandparents age, so I would often do home visits. If it was a young women, I might suggest alternatives or pray with her in the foyer not my office. It all depends.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Well assuming that there aren't mitigating circumstances and the details are simply as straightforward as you lay out, you welcome prayer with her. If there is some reason you can't have her stop by, certainly pray over the phone & schedule a visitation or something.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
He's compensating for something. 🤣
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Whoa!!!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people here legally who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Notices
Temporary Protected Status:
Designation of Honduras; Termination
Filed on: 07/07/2025 at 8:45 am
Scheduled Pub. Date: 07/08/2025
FR Document: 2025-12621
PDF 11 Pages (120 KB)
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Termination of the Designation of Nicaragua
Filed on: 07/07/2025 at 8:45 am
Scheduled Pub. Date: 07/08/2025
FR Document: 2025-12688
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you don't like Maxism and you don't like liberal democracy... what else is left remains?
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is weird on multiple levels. (1) The guy has been in the US since he was 7 and is a naturalized citizen; (2) what exactly is the alternative to liberal democracy? These guys just don't like that people are choosing differently so they want to shut it down.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
It's a funny sign. I don't know why people on the right would get so triggered "this is why they loose." If you can't chuckle at it, maybe you have a problem. People need to lighten up.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My daughter started a tradition last year for Father's Day of getting me a gag gift coffee mug.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree
Person sitting with a banner that reads YOU ARE ALL COWARDS
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It's"My Pillow" not "My Mattress, " Jerry
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Years ago, Carl Trueman wrote this when Ted Haggard was trying "return," I occasionally think about the counter example of Profumo and the nature of understanding our wrongdoings & proper shame (i.e. not seeking limelight again) www.reformation21.org/mos/postcard...
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Profumo, Haggard, and Real Shame
Perhaps only a few American readers will know the name of John Profumo.  He was a British conservative MP, and married the actress, Valerie Hobson (Dennis Price's love interest in Kind Hearts and Coro...
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
"Trump card, now with implant chip and tattoo barcode! Never leave home without it."
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Crazy, immoral, and I hope illegal.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I regret to inform you that there are no post anesthesia videos after my collar bone surgery this morning. Also, so far so good but I also have a local anesthestic that will wear off soon.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE. This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
But ironic coming from guys who love to pull out the doctrine of lesser magistrates and the right to secede.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Here's my shocked face. 🤣
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The bike salesman texted me today. 🤣🤣 Should I tell him? 🤣 The bike is great, the rider needs work.
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Jennifer Lee ☀️ @uofagrad97.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I have to have surgery on June 12. I also have to cancel a trip to Zambia where I was going to teach Romans.
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Tim Bertolet @timbertolet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Games: "Ok kids, in this activity we'll run while we karate chop the air."
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