Chris Davis
@revchrisdavis.bsky.social
Jesus follower • Family man • Pastor • Author of 🔆Bright Hope for Tomorrow🔆 • Survivor advocate • Creating space for leaders to be known • Border-stalker • Mostly on Substack 📚 https://a.co/d/3DPd6Lc
God is not on the “us” side of Stephen Miller’s “us vs. them” construct. That is the construct the teacher of the law assumed when he asked the question that catalyzed Jesus’ parable: “Who is my neighbor?” open.substack.com/pub/revchris...
Somalis, Samaritans, and Stephen Miller
The spiritual danger of anti-immigrant rhetoric
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I just learned that abortions are up 11% after the overturning of Roe V Wade and that is a whole lot to process.
When the Anglo-Saxons migrated to the British Isles around 410 A.D. they called the native peoples Welsh, or “foreigners” and took their land. I can’t help but think of that presumptuous audacity when I hear stories of harassment against the only people in this land who *aren’t* immigrants.
If I could share only one Bible verse with every Democrat, Republican, and Independent in Washington it would be Daniel's words to King Nebuchadnezzar which call for both personal and corporate righteousness in how leaders steward power: 1/2
My 10 year old and I are reading through the minor prophets at night and came across this powerful summary from Zechariah 7 of how God calls his people to live. An evergreen word, but particularly relevant for today.
“The tragedy of fall’s beauty is inescapable, eliciting a ‘Not yet; let me enjoy this for a moment.’” open.substack.com/pub/revchris...
Fall, for a Moment
The drive that transports me every autumn
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I had my first taste of tailgating this week. Here’s what I learned: 1. Community is not dead 2. Shared allegiances create shortcuts for connection 3. Imagination flows from immersion open.substack.com/pub/revchris...
What Tailgating Taught Me
Lessons about culture and connection from my first NFL game
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@blankcheck.bsky.social Guys - the Maron intro and outro on the Serious Man episode…🤌🏻
Tucked away in the valence of his “get to know you” assignment is my son’s sense of humor.
If the rapture doesn’t happen today, you can always buy this book tomorrow…
Chris Davis@revchrisdavis.bsky.social · 2y agoI wrote a book about Hope, specifically our hope of seeing Jesus face to face when he returns. Here’s a thread I’ve put together about the book—a website, a preview of the video series, an interview with CT, and a few sermons. May this nurture your love of Jesus’ appearing! 🧵👇🏻
When the sole reason you trim the shrub is to find the missing baseball
I asked my wife if she wanted to watch the new season of The Chosen now on Prime or wait until we can watch it ad-free on the app. She said she’d like to wait because “I prefer Jesus without the commercials.” And that feels like an entire word for American evangelicalism.
Watching a documentary on the history of film that paused over the relationship between the screen and the demands of political loyalty.
This is the kind of postgame testimony I love #GuardsBall
Watching Akira Kurosawa‘s High and Low for the first time. I honestly thought it was going to be a movie about a doctrinaire shoe manufacturer.
My 18 year olds are particularly affected by Charlie Kirk’s murder and all I can say to them is “We must fight with ideas and words, not guns and bullets.”
In an abusive system there is no safe place, no binding of wounds or healing for a broken heart. Power is used in God’s name to protect the system rather than the victim. Power is used to oppress and protect the manmade structure rather than the people they are called to lead.
According to my teenagers, my newfound love of doing puzzles is the most recent evidence that I am OLD. I own it. *Bonus: $2 at the library book sale
This week I heard for the first time a line that makes so much sense: “When you’re looking at everything through rose-colored glasses, red flags are invisible.”
“Pray that the evangelical support he will care about most is that of the evangel, the message of first importance: “that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised…and that he appeared” (1 Cor. 15:3-5).” open.substack.com/pub/revchris...
Report Card Religion
President Trump does not understand the gospel. Let us pray that he will.
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TIL that the first national legislative body in the world to give women the right to vote in a general election was, curiously, the Isle of Man.