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Eleni Brooks

1 year

‘I am a Christian — committed to practicing the Way of Jesus — but in my heart, I still have so many questions & I still have so many doubts’ Rachel Held Evans

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

guys I’ve got a story for you I did some GCSEs at college with other homeschooled kids I made friends with a guy called Hussain, we bonded over our love of maths and conversations turned debates his family were strict Muslims but he was curious about Christianity 1/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

who has conversations with a God she often doesn’t think is listening and usually thinks won’t answer AND YET he goes about making a holy difference in the lives of the people I live among because it’s not about me or Jason and it never has been and that is wonderful news 12/

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Eleni Brooks

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6 years

I think we ought to be talking behind each other’s backs constantly, just talking about the right stuff. Just say ‘Have you seen who that persons turning into? Have you seen how they’re growing?’. Speak well of them instead of all the restless stuff. - @bobgoff

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7 months

we chat back and forth and he tells me the reason why he reached out he’s become a Christian and thought I’d like to know since I was the first Christian he met he’s getting baptised and wondered if I wanted to come, I tell him I’d love to 6/

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7 months

my sister asks me why I’m sobbing so I tell her the story and then I tell it to anyone else who’ll listen, amazed at the power of a God who answers prayers despite my lack of belief 7/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Being hated for following Jesus and being hated for being a d*ckhead are two different things. You can’t use one to justify the other. This is a hill I will die on.

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7 months

if he can use her then I think he can use Eleni who has no clue what she’s doing, who answers questions with more questions, who feels her non-church friends evangelise her better than she does them, who’s scared to ask them to church because who knows what they’ll find there 11/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

“it makes no sense” I tell everyone, “I was so arrogant, we just argued about stuff” and then someone tells me that it’s nothing to do with me and I know that but it hits me like a weight because I constantly tell myself that I used to be better at sharing Jesus with people 8/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

(if you know how ridiculous God is you know where this is going) last week I got a DM on Instagram from a guy called Jason I don’t know anyone called Jason so I was gonna delete it but skim read first it’s Hussain, he’s changed his name and wanted to make contact 5/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

back before I had more questions than answers, more doubts than faith, more willingness to be honest than to do whatever it takes to give Christianity a positive reputation but I think if Jesus can use Eleni who wore 1689 tshirts & called out ppl for reading “heretical” books 9/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

I was in my era of answers & apologetics, shared the gospel with him a few times, thought I got everything right, said things about hell that I would never say now I look back on it ashamed of how I saw him as a person to convince not to love but I did pray & still do 2/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

2 weeks ago I was in bookshop and saw a book he had bought me for my birthday I said to God (not for the first time) “I’d really love to chat to Hussain again” and said to myself “but that won’t happen” and then forgot about it 4/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

Eleni who went to a 3 day conference about how young earth creationism is essential to salvation & judged her friends when they missed a week of church or didn’t wear a hat who read Christian books but not the Bible, listened to podcasts and barely spoke to God 10/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

his parents found out we were messaging about Christianity and took his phone away, when he got it back he wasn’t supposed to contact me so we lost touch after exam season it’s been 6 years, I can’t remember his last name and he doesn’t have social media 3/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

8 months

@danjohnsonhymns I often worry about missionary kids.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

He didn’t physically force me. He spent years telling me he couldn’t live without me & that if we went more than a few hours without contact he would kill himself. I don’t share specifics much, but I am BEGGING you to understand sexual coercion is not *only* violence & rape.

Rebekah Mui @ 𝕂𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕕𝕠𝕞𝕆𝕦𝕥𝕡𝕠𝕤𝕥.𝕠𝕣𝕘

@MuiRebekah

7 months

If you wouldn't joke about commiting violent or gruesome acts to children or animals, please don't joke about coercing brides into total sexual compliance @howertonjosh Too many people have been harmed for it to be funny.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Reading John’s gospel last week, I noticed that sometimes Jesus calls women “Woman”, like it’s their name and I don’t like it. So I sat with the discomfort and this is what came out… (Men can read it too 🙃)

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

“I have some questions and I know I could google it but I’d rather ask a human instead, so can we chat for a bit about Jesus?” - a uni friend 😭💛

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

maybe I’m a bad Christian but if I see one more Instagram post saying “Friday’s good because Sunday is coming” then I will riot

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

@NateWorthington It’s not about David, it’s about them. It means admitting they’ve abused power in the same way, or upheld others who have.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

This was a jarring thread to read but so necessary. Sit. Read. Weep. There’s no shame in realising your previous rhetoric was wrong. I used to say “but they aren’t actually Christians if they’re making threats”. Harm done in Jesus name — whoever it’s by or against — matters.

Jay Hulme

@JayHulmePoet

1 year

It was a Christian who took a photo of the church to prove that they were nearby, and then threatened to behead the priest and display her head in the square outside. Don't say "he wasn't a Christian" because he was. It's uncomfortable, I know. Reckon with that.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Want an idea for a way to show love to students at your church?? Offer them use of your washing machine 🧼 At my uni it costs nearly a fiver to do a load. I’m so grateful for a friend who’s letting me do it at hers. Never heard anyone talk about this before but it’s a lifesaver.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

5 years

GUYS. This is not a drill. CBBC have done an adaptation of Malory Towers. I am a mere 30 seconds in and I have already cried. You have no idea how much 9yo me longed for this.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

I decided a while ago that I would not allow men to push me away from Jesus for good but it is HARD the fact a mouth can claim his name & then say this makes me want to vomit my only comfort: you can claim Jesus & talk like this but if you talk like this Jesus won’t claim you

Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here!

@sheilagregoire

7 months

SBC Megachurch pastor Josh Howerton's advice to women about the wedding night: "Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do." @_jaystringer and I unpack this on Episode 230 of Bare Marriage!

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

this is one of the best books I’ve ever read. it opened wounds I’d put plasters over & helped me name pain I claimed not to feel. it led me — sobbing — into the healing arms of the best Shepherd.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

nothing I was taught about evangelism prepared me for how much of it is holding peoples pain and staying by their side

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

How can a day hold so much? Earlier my sister rang me, sobbing, to tell me a friend had died. I cried. Later, I called another friend, unsure if he was safe. We chatted until things looked better. This evening, I read a poem about Jesus to my uni friends. One of them said:

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

reading everyone’s Tim Keller stories has made me surprisingly emotional so obvs I started writing a poem

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

9 days

maturing is realising Abide With Me is a banger, not just a funeral hymn

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

We go home together, watch Netflix and eat 18p baguettes from Co-Op. Through it all I can’t stop thinking of the Jesus who, knowing that in 5 minutes time his friend would be alive again, wept. Because knowing things will be made right is NOT enough to stop pain. Even for God.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

imagine your words spoke the world into existence and you chose to exchange that for crying, babbling and learning to speak the incarnation will never make sense to me but I love it with every fibre of my being

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

10 months

going to Mum & Dad’s for the week and am obviously packing 8 books despite never having read 8 books in one week of my entire life

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

It still hurts. We still die, in small moments and for final times. That’s it. No neat answer or tidy bow. Just holding grief and love, together, until only one is left.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

5 years

Never thought I’d say this but I’m 100% rooting for Thomas, what a smashing lad #TheApprentice

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

shoutout to a fun lil game called “am I under spiritual attack or is my period about to start?” stay tuned for the answer in 3-5 business days

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

3 years

I had two naps today so I’m struggling to sleep. I’m listening to The Making Of Biblical Womanhood by @bethallisonbarr on Audible. My eyes are being opened to what Paul was actually saying in the household codes of the epistles. This is glorious. Why are we not proclaiming it?

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Me, never having experienced a ceilidh: Why are Christians obsessed with ceilidhs? Me, after my first ceilidh tonight: I would like these to be a regular part of my lifestyle, plz and thank you 🙏🏼

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

10 months

remember last summer, when I prayed for friends to study with? remember that? this is me now 🙃

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

I thought it must be too good to be true but tonight I started #AKindOfSpark and it is every thing I hoped. I had a lump in my throat the whole way through. I can’t believe autistic representation this accurate is actually on TV 😭😭

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

3 years

I would pay good money for ‘Gentle & Lowly: The Album’. 23 songs, one for each chapter, turning the truths on the page into songs of worship & response. I don’t have the talent or the resources to create it but man, I’m praying someone does. #washingupthoughts

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

6 months

sometimes I tell myself SAD isn’t real and then I leave for a run @ 9pm and get back before it’s dark and it starts to make sense why suddenly I love being alive again

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

4 years

As a kid I wasn’t allowed to play Monopoly on Sunday (keep the sabbath day holy & all that biz) just been in the lounge & the sibs are all playing it... Me: Mum and Dad are letting you play Monopoly?! On a Sunday?! Them: We’re planting churches instead of building hotels #genius

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

6 months

didn't know that the Holy Spirit has a back tattoo

Russell Brand

@rustyrockets

6 months

Me, Bear Grylls, The River Thames and of course, The Holy Spirit.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

imagine filling the expanses of heaven & then choosing the restrictions of a womb Jesus is incredible

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

3 years

‘What made you want to become a midwife?’ The incarnation. Perhaps not my original reason, but it’s the reason I haven’t changed my mind about it. Every baby reminds me that God chose to come and be held in human hands so that we could be his family.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

4 years

@garonnevik “His glories now we sing who died and rose on high, who died eternal life to bring, and lives that death may die”

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

God has a sense how humour because guess who’s taking a friend to church this evening 🙃

Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

gonna throw something vulnerably & controversial into the void: I love talking about Jesus & I love my church but inviting someone to church? there is so much internal resistance idk if this is something to get over or take seriously anyone felt similar? got thoughts?

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

strict baptist, baptist union, grace baptist

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

6 months

disappointed to find that this episode of Bluey is completely unrelated to the 1993 C S Lewis biopic

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

ok, but have you considered the fact that you could be my body guard & I could be your long lost pal??

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

feel like this is controversial but it’s what I’m learning recently: students need the love of Jesus in their day to day life more than they need answers & apologetics at a one evening event

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

can i tell you a story about this kindred spirit? 2 years ago I sat with a new guy at church, assuming he was a student. we got chatting & discovered he spent a year @ Yorkshire Camps - I was working at Gaines so we bonded over that. I worried I was too much in that convo. 1/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

I apologise for quoting in all caps a lot recently but allow me one more yell into the void YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE SUFFICIENCY OF SCRIPTURE AND GO TO THERAPY now to breathe and look forward to tomorrow when I will see my pastor who does both

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

10 months

prayer is so simple, I’m just chatting to my best friend prayer is so complex, my best friend happens to be the Maker of the Universe

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

as you prepare yourself for the holy risk of showing up broken to a broken community tomorrow morning, I am praying that you would be aware of our broken Saviour’s presence with you - no matter what else you find there 💛

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

10 months

what do I love most about going to a church opposite Asda?? idk but probs not that while I was buying reduced bras this morning, 1/2 my church family were doing their weekly £5 shop to get free parking it felt like an especially large game of hide & seek

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

we weren’t all made to be the main character some of us were made to be the chaotic friend that is late to everything but makes everyone laugh

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

I don’t really know what the point of this thread is except to say that God is so funny & so kind, and you never know where ordinary hospitality will take you. 13/13

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

on top of the world or on the bathroom floor you’re still: seen known loved & held by the Creator of the universe

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

3 years

If, like me, you need to hear it: Being an introvert doesn’t make you less of a Christian.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

haven’t been on time since my birth date so here’s an Easter Sunday poem 2 days late

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

8 months

we’re on BBC News bby x

Students organise new arts festival for Worcester

The free event is open to all and aims to promote emerging writers and performers, say organisers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

Jesus is beautiful. that’s it. that’s the tweet.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Sobbing. Cannot wait for autistic girls to see themselves represented in this.

Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙

@BooksandChokers

2 years

It all started with a SPARK!! Trailer for #akindofspark , coming to UK viewers on the 31st of March on BBC IPlayer and BYUtv in April. So glad to finally share this with you all Coming to BBC IPlayer, @cbbc and BYUtv very soon! Don't the cast look incredible? So proud of them

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

7 months

@goodschooling 💛💛

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@eleni_sibbald

1 year

boys behind me in the lecture are discussing Noah's ark 'I swear all the measurements are in the Bible, we could build a replica and charge Christians to come and see it' do I tell them about Ken Ham? y/n

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

when I first met one of my neighbours he told me he was an adamant atheist, couldn’t believe in God and didn’t want to talk about it so I’m moved to tears by this email sign-off 2 years later I don’t know where he’s at, but this means a lot 😭

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

i turned up to church tonight head aching lanyard forgotten also no ear plugs so everything too loud too bright doesn’t feel right but there is a room with a sofa a plant a TV i turn the volume down shut my eyes still a Christian & a cared for one at that

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

completed assignments: 2 mental breakdowns: 0 may it be so for the rest of the year 🙏🏼

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Words cannot express how much it makes my blood boil to know there are people, calling themselves Christians, wanting to kill my friends. However conservative your views on sexuality are, there is no justification for this.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

5 months

a friend is ghosting me and yesterday I reached out for the final time could you pray they respond? I’m preparing to grieve but I desperately want them to come back (ps. never ghost someone, any explanation is better than silence)

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 year

God is so fricking good I think there’s a blogpost yet to be written about ALL THE WAYS he is healing me but I am too busy living this wonderful life to write it

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

tomorrow is going to hold sadness & triggers so if you fancy chucking a prayer up for me I’d be v grateful 💛

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

3 years

My Grandpa was a curate in the late 70s… who’d have guessed that 45 years later I’d end up housemates with a gal from the same church - lovely to be @ Christ Church Fulwood today 💛 #Godthings

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

possibly the most heartbreaking part of uni evangelism is realising that my friends are not asking Qs about science, God’s existence or the validity of the Bible but that they have a strongly held conviction, often formed by others, that God simply wants nothing to do with them

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Today, God is with you. One day, you will be with him. Strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

idea: magnifi-CAT a series of children's books looking at the songs/words of women throughout the Bible, guided by a superhero cat

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

1 month

this is my friend, Ewan (left) and my pastor, Matt (right) 🧵 Ewan is a retired counsellor and mental health practitioner and when he pipes up in small group you never know if he’s gonna crack the funniest joke you’ve ever heard or convict you to your core 1/

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

6 years

“I’m a middle aged, white, heterosexual, baptist devil. Everything in the world is my fault so I’ve just leaned into that.” - @TedKluckQuotes @HappyRantPod

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

Disability shouldn’t be incompatible with ministry & yet *that* church planting article makes me feel like it is. I’m not for one moment saying they would put it in black and white like that, but it hurts all the same.

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

@lauracoytzav For those who buy one type of fruit a week…

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@eleni_sibbald

3 years

We often talk about work being cursed. But the fall affected rest too. It’s no longer natural or easy. It’s something we have to wrestle with.

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4 months

I am learning to love the book of Acts on trams & trains I am still unsure of how to apply it but come away thinking God must be bigger than this (this being anything I have previously thought of him) my favourite verse today: “he had four unmarried daughters who prophesied”

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11 months

the God who holds all things together became dependent on a placenta I think that’s pretty cool

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5 months

can’t wait to field all the “have you had a haircut?” comments at church tomorrow 🙃 #NewProfilePic

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1 year

1) I made this 2) an actual child is going to receive it for Christmas unfathomable (pictured in a way that hides the wonky bits)

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10 months

neurodivergent life hack: imagine you are a toddler and pack accordingly when leaving the house would a toddler need a snack in this time? (take a snack just incase) would a toddler need a lil activity in case things get boring ? (take my crochet just incase) etc

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1 year

came home to find John making me dinner which we eat in the garden. then Jandy made me tea in my fave mug & the 3 of us watched Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I fell asleep on the sofa. I realise my Twitter is becoming a log of my daily laments & gratitudes but I’m ok with that 💛

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@eleni_sibbald

1 year

If you’re a pastor who think this - please stop.

Dean Lentini

@deanlentini

1 year

Tomorrow. #UnderdogTheology

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11 months

when you grow up in an ex-cult there are always gonna be things you wish were different looking back but for me, Colin isn’t one of them now he’s with the God who never sleeps or collapses and every muscle & neurone in his body is working perfectly again 💛

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2 years

‘Is all creation groaning? It is. Is a new creation coming? It is. Is the glory of the Lord to be the light within our midst? It is. Is it good that we remind ourselves of this? It is.’ Happy Sunday eve ❤️

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11 months

“I’m not religious but that’s the closest I’ve come to wanting to be.” My heart burst. Another friends tells me she’s up to date on meds yet still deteriorating. Earlier she heard an animal talk to her. We are both scared of what winter holds.

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1 year

every morning the King of the universe sits with me on my setee teaches me his way of life I eat cheerios & tell him about my friends he says he already knows their names

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4 months

is it right to talk about it publicly? is this what I’m owed for being so open? do I delete the tweet? do I delete the replies? do I have anything to hide? these are the things running through my mind this evening after being in a convo about church abuse & gendered loos. 1/

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3 years

The only thing declared 'not good' in Eden was the lack of woman.

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2 years

@ceaubin This makes so much sense based on the friends I have who obsess over this 😳

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@eleni_sibbald

24 days

my toxic trait is that sometimes midnight Eleni will do the next days Wordle and let me tell you, morning Eleni is not a fan

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

11 months

being in love is a bit inconvenient, isn’t it?

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Eleni Brooks

@eleni_sibbald

2 years

“Knowing you are loved is better than knowing all the right answers” A Curious Faith | @lorewilbert

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