Timothy R. Butler

Frost is a big help sorting laundry #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Please join us for #worship tonight at Little Hills! https://www.youtube.com/live/MYtkckQ2OL4

Join us in-person or online for our Sunday service at 5:30 pm (Central)! Wanting to come in-person? We meet at 335 Droste Road in St. Charles and would love to have you join us there... https://www.youtube.com/live/dJJ8BbW6IbA

Let's explore the next part of #Proverbs 3! https://youtube.com/live/xrt28usCbvk

Please join me as we think about "Don't Be Evil" and God's better call to "Be Good"... but not to earn His favor. https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqxooDzkbBxv

Back to the parables: @kettingerjason@threads.net and I are digging into an another one of Jesus's parables during Sunday School Express! https://youtube.com/live/pthLQcf1rjM

Looking for an evening #PalmSunday service? Guess what, I know of one! Little Hills Church at 5:30 p.m. online or in-person! https://littlehills.church/sundays/

#Christianity #HolyWeek

Please join me tonight in Proverbs! https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlzlBZMExL

Please join me as we think about why wisdom isn't a "Choose Your Own Adventure" (#Proverbs 3:19-20) https://youtube.com/live/d2C3OLLmUms

Please join us for a thirty minute exploration of a topic of faith. Tonight we're looking at the #Parable of the Talents (Matthew 22:1-14). https://www.youtube.com/live/u_GfUZB03PI

Let's think about what the Blessed Life really is... https://youtube.com/live/ZE0M1yz9P9Y

#Christianity #Proverbs #Jesus

Please join me for a topic we don't love talking about, but probably wonder about... God's discipline. https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lPKqMbgyjAKb

Please join @kettingerjason@threads.net and myself as we look at the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. https://youtube.com/live/bNrlpeZkQK4

#Parables #Jesus #Christianity #BibleStudy

Please join us for worship tonight! https://youtube.com/live/oIoHeaTSw8c

Please join @Bigdad1211@mastodon.faithtree.social and myself as we look at hte Rich Man and Lazarus… https://mastodon.faithtree.social/@trbutler/116275488579966406

Please join us for Sunday school express… https://youtube.com/live/4qNHPNzB1ps?feature=share

RE: https://mastodon.faithtree.social/@littlehillschurch/116631931443967982

Please join us for worship! https://www.youtube.com/live/RuK5PhvIPWQ

What happens when you outsource to politicians the work of the Church. The problem post-Dobbs is that the pro-life legislation passed previously was crafted as virtue signals, unexpected to activate. When it did, it looked vindictive and created a caricature of "pro-life."

It's not that we shouldn't be pro-life, but we were far too content with grand gestures that were empty. Notice how as soon as pro-life legislation _could_ do something, the political will to write it dried up and those who previous had started finding excuses not to.

Why? Because politicking is performance art and we are fools when we hand our responsibilities over to that realm. Real pro-life work following God's value of life is actually doing it: caring from the very first moments of life until the last. Christians are actually doing this -- seriously, I know incredible people who have put their efforts where their mouths are for years -- but the over-focus on politicking overshadows the genuinely good work to value life. Outsourcing to politics never works.

https://x.com/collinhansen/status/2032084072290287661

#prolife #abortion #christianity

Our temptation is to think we can do something right to earn God's favor. What He wants us for us to recognize we can't. https://youtube.com/live/Nyajvu7Mxq4

#Christianity #Grace #Sin

Please join me as we return to the #Proverbs in our annual summer series exploring the wisdom of this amazing book! https://youtube.com/live/UBcISAZLg5M

#Bible #Christianity #Jesus

Psalm 13 doesn't leave us in despair because God doesn't leave us there. https://youtube.com/live/pk_s4YYz-5U

#Psalms #Christianity #Hope

Please join @Bigdad1211@mastodon.faithtree.social and myself as we look at the #Parable of the Nets during Sunday School Express: https://youtube.com/live/2JwQUMfsxcs

The storms may be coming, but we're still going to be in #Psalm 13 tonight... please join me! https://youtube.com/live/vpoeDsaGmbc

We all have those times where we want to know "How Long, O Lord?" Psalm 13 helps us to understand that's ok to wonder. https://youtube.com/live/7ZayPggPMzc

Please join @Bigdad1211@mastodon.faithtree.social and me as we delve into the next parable: the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. https://www.youtube.com/live/nKj5dg_agvM

#parable #Jesus #Christianity

Please join me for an #Easter Monday journey through another part of #Psalm 12... https://youtube.com/live/rkuBnGxaYZ0

#Christianity #BibleStudy #Hope

We're starting a new series in #Psalm 12 tonight for #HolyWeek... https://youtube.com/live/wbba0ciPovI

#Bible #Christianity #HolyMonday

We have a mission... are we ready for it? God's here with all we need... https://www.youtube.com/live/XSX_VGfkcPY

#1Timothy #Bible #Christianity #SpiritualWarfare

Please join @Kathy@mastodon.faithtree.social and myself as we look at the Parable of the Mustard Seed! https://www.youtube.com/live/CRujc3Jq8Rw

Please join us for worship tonight! https://www.youtube.com/live/WorhF57-sE8

We're celebrating the sixth anniversary of Steadfast (and thus @littlehillschurch@mastodon.faithtree.social) tonight. Please join Pastor Tim and the church family as we look at #1Timothy 1:17. https://youtube.com/live/_BG0pEsBGrw

#Christianity #ApostlePaul #Praise

We have a special guest preaching at @littlehillschurch@mastodon.faithtree.social today. A dear friend and mentor of mine -- I know everyone is in for a treat and I hope to see you there at 5:30 p.m. in-person and online! https://littlehills.church/sundays/

Two #AI-related events over the past week — the #Chardet licensing controversy and legendary computer scientist #DonKnuth's shock over AI helping discover a theorem for a problem he'd not yet solved — demand a reckoning: precisely how creative is AI? https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1401

#Creativity #Licensing #OpenSource #Python #DonaldKnuth #TAOCP #Claude

Please join Jim and I as we dig into the parable of the Unforgiving Servant! https://youtube.com/live/-ijN52bWah4

This daylight savings time day is a perfect time for an evening worship service. Please join us! https://youtube.com/live/ZeJkFn0fhpw

Here's some of my favorite (affiliate-link free) Prime Day picks: https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1431

What is it we're doing when we enter a prompt into #Claude or #ChatGPT or #Grok? If #AI can "create," it follows: "Emotionally, we intuit that prompt engineering is a creative exercise, not just a pull of a slot machine lever. " https://reviews.ofb.biz/sa1401

Do we need a backup plan for when it seems like #God's Word is being defeated by “#evil"? https://youtube.com/live/6tJ5I7k1Qeg

#Bible #Christianity #Psalms #Sermon

Hey #Apple / #MacOS / #Laptop Mastodon… my go to for years for a microfiber cloth to put between laptop screens and keyboards was RadTech's fantastic Optex. I’ve used them for 22 years. But RadTech has gone out of business, it seems. What's the best ultra-thin (so it doesn't strain laptop hinges) microfiber for the job today?

Our service will be delayed until 5:45 pm (15 minutes) so that the volunteers who arrive early to set things up can wait safely until the storm passes to travel to the church.