Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

Sound theology, free markets, American sports, and dad jokes. facebook.com/ButMuhExperts/ Ohio Joined February 2009

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Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

a day ago

@FreddyLA7 Sugarcreek/Millersburg down 93?

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Celebrated my niece’s wedding last night as a family Jordan was not happy he had to pause from climbing bushes, eating cookies, drinking lemonade, pulling down center pieces, doing chin ups on picnic tables, throwing salami at strangers…

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Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

7 days ago

@FreddyLA7 I’m genuinely so happy for you! What a whirlwind to experience what you have. I hope you’re enjoying it all 1/2 as much as America is! God bless

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7 days ago

I surmise that how you view the Gospel (invitation vs command) will influence your ministry and how you approach evangelism.

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Corbin Williams @corbinwilliams

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@Ally_Sammarco

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USMNT Only @usmntonly

a week ago

This Frenchman in the U.S for the World Cup describing his first-ever Buc-ee’s experience is the funniest thing I've ever seen 😭

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Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

a week ago

Furthermore, I think there’s a strong distinction to be made between abstaining from sin and doing good deeds. Paul > Titus speaks on both yet as separate Christian behaviors. Abstaining from sin is good but it is not a good deed in the sense of the Holy Spirit’s instruction

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After Paul reminds Titus they’ve been saved by grace and not on their own righteous deeds he tells Titus: “…so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds…” There’s no escaping the teaching that good works are an expectation God has for us.

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Patrick P. Dudenhofer @patrickpdude

a week ago

Extremely slow "exposition" of a passage isn't expositional. It's topical with the text providing the order of topics.

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Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

a week ago

So many peace deals!

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

a week ago

🚨BREAKING: President Trump announces that the U.S. and Iran have reached a Peace Deal

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Mr. Star Spangled MAGA @4thOfJuly365

2 weeks ago

I know how Elon Musk became a trillionaire, but I don't know how Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Nancy Pelosi became millionaires.

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2 weeks ago

@90sWWE

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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga

2 weeks ago

USA. A hibachi restaurant. My American friends brought me here to enjoy the cuisine of my homeland, and I witnessed a ritual I have never seen in eight hundred years of being Japanese. The chef stacked onion rings into a tower. He filled it with oil. And he set it on fire. "THE VOLCANO!" my friends cheered. They knew the ritual. They had seen it many times. In Japan, I have eaten ten thousand meals. No one has ever built me a volcano. I said nothing. A guest does not question the ceremony. "Is this how they do it back home?" my friend asked, glowing with joy. "...The technique is flawless," I said. A samurai may retreat. He may not lie. He may, however, aim the truth very carefully. Then the chef flicked a shrimp through the air at my face. "Catch it!" the table roared. In my land, food is set before you with two hands and an apology for the wait. Here, the shrimp attacks. I caught it. With my mouth. The table erupted. The chef saluted me with his spatula. I have received medals with less pride. "You're a natural," the chef said. "My family has trained for this for generations," I said. It was not technically a lie. We trained. Just not for this. My friends drove me home, full and happy, honored to have shown me my own country. A man does not question the volcano. He catches the shrimp. Whatever this cuisine is, wherever it was truly born — the fire is real, the joy is real, and I caught what was thrown at me. That is Japanese enough.

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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga

2 weeks ago

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

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Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

2 weeks ago

This man’s perspective on America has reshaped my own! x.com/Jason2bartlett…

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Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

2 weeks ago

I would surmise that most people you work with believe they are more competent than most of their superiors and the higher up the ladder you look the more likely your coworkers are to believe it.

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Tim Bates @TimmmmBates

2 weeks ago

I am no one of importance and neither do I willingly sign up to receive emails I’ve gotten 48 emails in the last 24 hours on the heels of unsubscribing to many senders who fill my inbox daily. And I’m certain I’m on the low end compared to most.