The Bridge Church

12/08/2025

If, in order to believe you're 'SAVED'? 🤔
You have to IGNORE FACTS 🫤 SUSPEND common sense 🫤 or WORSE of all? 🤔
'NOT BELIEVE'
BIBLE FACTS?! 🤨

'not believe'
EVERY SINGLE THING
you read - IN THE BIBLE -
That JESUS's handpicked, PERSONALLY TRAINED Apostles Preached?
OVER & OVER AGAIN?
That WE HAVE TO DO TO BE SAVED?

If you DO that? 🤔
YOU'RE NOT SAVED 💔 -
YOU'RE RELIGIOUS 🤨

Only the RELIGIOUS
choose ANYTHING
over THE BIBLE ☹️

Best example? Case in point?
👉 Matthew 28:19! 👈

NOBODY with an education over the 5th Grade believes there's a NAME in the whole verse! 🙄

But to be 'loyal' to their 'INHERITED Jesus?
To their Denomination & their preacher? 🤔

MILLIONS suspend common sense & IGNORE the BIBLE FACT that NONE of the Apostles Jesus told to DO this?
DID IT VERBATIM! 😮

NOT A SINGLE 1! 🤨

(And just in case any religious folks care enough to check?
I included ALL the BIBLE EVIDENCE PROVING THIS at the bottom of this Post😉)

And to PROVE you not only have to IGNORE BIBLE FACTS in order to Baptize while saying
'Father, Son & Holy Ghost' ☹️
But also suspend COMMON SENSE? 🤔

I have provided Matthew 28:19's FACTUAL, INDISPUTABLE ACADEMIC explanation of the GRAMMATICAL DIAGRAM.

So here's YOUR opportunity to choose both Bible facts AND common sense 👉📖
- or -
REJECT BIBLE,
SUSPEND COMMON SENSE, choose your RELIGION -
& BE LOST 💔
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"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, BAPTIZING them IN THE NAME
OF the FATHER,
and OF THE SON,
and OF THE HOLY GHOST." -Jesus, Matthew 28:19

Indisputable Academic Grammatical FACTS 👇👇👇

1) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, BAPTIZING them
IN the NAME “OF the FATHER”

Here we have a Prepositional Phrase MODIFYING (Describing) the word 'NAME' 🤔
(Google it😉)

At this point we DO NOT KNOW yet WHAT THE 'NAME' of the person IS 🤔

But WE DO KNOW that since the word that MODIFIES (describes) the word 'NAME'
is the word 'Father'
in this Prepositional Phrase? 🤔

GRAMMATICALLY & FACTUALLY?

WHOEVER this person IS? 🤔
WHATEVER their 'name' IS? 🤔
They are a FATHER 😉

👉 Next in our ACADEMIC GRAMMATICAL DIAGRAM of Matthew 28:19?
👇

2) “OF the SON”
Here we have yet a 2ND Prepositional Phrase - MODIFYING (Describing) the SAME word - 'NAME' 🤔
AGAIN 😮
(Google it🔍 - or ask a Grammar Teacher 😉)

This 2ND Prepositional Modifier? 🤔
The word 'son'? 🤔
Modifies (Describes) the word 'NAME' 🤔

And NOW tells us GRAMMATICALLY & FACTUALLY?

That WHATEVER this person's 'NAME' is? 🤔
WHOEVER this person IS? 🤔

THIS person is BOTH a FATHER - AND a SON 😉
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

BUT, by EVERY RULE OF GRAMMAR? 🤔
By ALL FACTS & RULES OF GRAMMAR? 🤔

We STILL DON’T HAVE a 'NAME'! 😮

Wait. 🤔 Whaaaaat? 🤨
Aren’t the words 'Father' and 'Son' NAMES? 🤔

No.

According to ALL rules of GRAMMAR? 🤔
By ALL FACTS & RULES OF GRAMMAR? 🤔

'Father' & 'Son' are
'Descriptive Titles' - NOT names.
(Google it 🔍 - or ask a Grammar Teacher 😉)

'Descriptive Titles'? 🤔
DESCRIBE the TOPIC 😉

Since the word 'NAME'
is the Topic?
The Descriptive Titles of
'Father' & 'Son'?
Tell us something ABOUT
the 'NAME' 🤔
But they AIN'T the 'NAME' 😉

And they don’t TELL US
the 'NAME' 😉

Next?
The Last part of our
ACADEMIC GRAMMATICAL DIAGRAM of Matthew 28:19? 🤔

3) “Of The Holy Ghost.”

And here we have yet a
3RD Prepositional Phrase 🤔

Its a 'Prepositional Phrase'
BECAUSE there's yet a 3RD word
that MODIFIES (Describes ) the word 'NAME'! 🤔
The Modifying word? "Ghost" 🤔

But 1st? The word Holy in FRONT of the word Ghost?
Is an Adjective,
DESCRIBING what KIND
of 'Ghost' - Spirit - it IS!
This Ghost is HOLY! 😁❤️

But tho we know the Ghost (Spirit) is HOLY?

Since Holy is AN ADJECTIVE, NOT a NAME?
And GHOST is A MODIFIER, MODIFYING the name,
but is NOT the NAME?

We STILL don't know WHAT the 'name' IS? 🤔

{Still with me?
I mean, hardly anybody likes grammar, but this is YOUR SOUL, YOUR ETERNITY, SO DIG IN & GET THIS!}

So even tho we DON'T know what the name IS YET?

WE ABSOLUTELY DO KNOW,
GRAMMATICALLY, FACTUALLY, & ACADEMICALLY?

That WHOEVER this person IS? 🤔
Whatever this person's 'NAME' IS? 🤔

The SUBJECT of Matthew 28:19?
THIS person in Matthew 28:19? 🤔

IS a FATHER 🤔
AND, IS a SON 🤔
AND, IS a Ghost (Spirit)
Who IS HOLY! 😮❤️

But WAIT! 🤨
We STILL don’t know WHAT
the 'NAME' is! 🤨

But see, THIS is where combining GRAMMATICAL ACADEMIC FACTS
with BIBLE FACTS
to determine WHAT WE BELIEVE comes in! 😉

This is where BEING LOYAL TO THE WORD OF GOD over religion, denominations & favorite preachers comes is PROVEN.

HOW?
Because now that we have FACTS PROVING we MUST Baptize, & that we MUST do it in ONE NAME 😉

AND we have FACTS PROVING that WHOEVER'S 'NAME' THAT IS? 🤔

IS "the Father"
IS "the Son"
& IS "The Holy Ghost"? 🤔

AND since this is JESUS COMMANDING His APOSTLES to BAPTIZE in WHATEVER the 'NAME' turns out to be?? 🤔

ALL WE HAVE TO DO? 🤔

Is FIND BIBLE FACTS
for ALL the times they Baptized after this, & see HOW they did it! 😁

And THAT? Is EASY PEASY
if you CARE ENOUGH to READ it, because I'VE DONE ALL THE WORK FOR YOU!

IF you really ARE loyal to The Bible & the COMMANDMENTS OF JESUS over religion, denomination, & preacher?
👇

Here, as promised?
ARE THE INDISPUTABLE BIBLICAL FACTS.
Book 👉 📖
Chapter 👉 📖
& Verse 👉 📖

PURE BIBLE, showing HOW EVERY SINGLE ONE of these Apostles THAT JESUS COMMANDED TO BAPTIZE people
IN the 'NAME'
OF
The Father,
AND of the Son,
AND of The Holy Ghost?🤔
DID IT! 📖

So THIS DAY? LOOK IT UP! 📖
READ IT! 📖
AND CHOOSE!
CHOOSE YE whom YOU will serve!

JESUS? ✝️
BIBLE FACTS? 📖
Or RELIGION? 😒🥸

Read & CHOOSE.
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📖 Mark 16:16 📖
📖 Matthew 26:28 📖
📖 Matthew 28:19 📖
📖 Luke 24:46,47 📖
📖 Acts 2:38 📖
📖 Acts 4:12 📖
📖 Acts 8:12-16 📖
📖 Acts 8:26-38 📖
📖 Acts 10:42-48 📖
📖Acts 19:1-5 📖
📖 Acts 22:16 📖
📖 1 Peter 3:21 📖)
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"ONE Lord, ONE Faith,
ONE BAPTISM"
- Apostle Paul, Ephesians 4:5
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12/06/2025

2 of the many things I will never understand:

1) People who love to read, obsessed with fantasy because it has high drama, intrigue, espionage, and great moral lessons?
But don't read the Bible. 🥸

You know .. The Book with the highest level of all those things?

FanGurls over HUMAN FANTASY .. negligent to GOD'S REALITY 🫤💔
🥸

2) Hollywood MORONS who think they have to add drama to a Bible story. 🙄

Like ADDING 'Rock people' to the story of Noah 🤔
Because a worldwide flood destroying everything not on a boat requiring 100 years of construction?
ISN'T dramatic enough 🥸

Or .. 'The Chosen' .. ADDING David visiting Jesus in The Garden of Gethsemane 🤔
Because The Messiah agonizing over his imminent Torture to the point of SWEATING BLOOD?
ISN'T dramatic enough 🥸

Or .. 'The House of David' Season1 .. ADDING David getting sideswiped by Goliath's spear 🤔
Because a shepherd boy with a sling running straight at a 9' Tall GIANT? 🤔
ISN'T dramatic enough 🥸

Or .. 'The House of David' Season2 .. ADDING the Prophet Samuel .. standing up to King Saul by IMITATING THE WIZARD GANDOLF from The Hobbit .. holding up his staff & saying "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" 🤔
Because the Prophet Samuel being hidden by God?
ISN'T dramatic enough 🥸

The WORST part of all this?

When you combine these PERVERSIONS OF SCRIPTURE with the most SCRIPTURALLY IGNORANT GENERATION of American 'Christians' in our history to date? 🤔
They're not even going to know that's not the way any of this happened 🫤💔

Because they don't read The Bible 🙄🥸
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p.s. FYI you CAN'T be a 'Christian'? And be SCRIPTURALLY IGNORANT.
You CAN'T be a 'Christian'?
And NOT read The BIBLE.
Well .. and go to Heaven, anyway.

11/12/2025

Finally .. for 30+ years all I've ever heard preachers say about Absalom was he was a charismatic pretty boy narcissist who tried to steal his daddy's kingdom 🧐 they even give warnings about letting people get too close, (you know, like a BODY 😒).
NOT 1 of the preachers have read the story themselves, apparently .. Pentecostal parrots, just repeating what they hear their card carrying brethren preach 🤮

They usually send these Absalom Warnings to each other when someone has just left their congregation, afraid they're going to take somebody with them apparently.

But if they read the entire story instead of just repeating what they heard over a Pulpit in their own Fellowship? 🤔

They would realize that if they have an Absalom that DID try to take anything over, it's probably because they were the same kind of spiritual father that David was:
passive aggressive, involved in minute details in people's lives while ignoring the big ones that are evident to everybody who ever attends a service: 🤔
handing out dress codes to 'New Converts' while ignoring Battle Axes & acting bewildered when people keep leaving 🙄

Absalom's Father David was so passive aggressive and detached from the big problems that he ignored one of his children humiliating another one, even though the Bible was clear about what the punishment had to be. 😒

And since he didn't fulfill his positional obligation to God to protect 1 of his children from the other? When the one who was openly humiliated in front of the others began withdrawing, so did he 🫣 .. secretly relieved, believing the whole thing had blown over .. 😶‍🌫️🫥

But it hadn't, it COULDN'T, because too many of the other children knew, and because the passive aggressive father refused to do anything?
Another brother, Absalom, had to do what his father David would not do.

And then Absalom ran for his life, running from his own father - a father who had once been a warrior, but now only showed up for photo ops on the throne, or to steal other people's wives.

So, did absalom's Father - and since we're using Absalom to reflect people in the church, we need to realize that absalom's father then is the pastor - did absalom's Father admit he was AWOL?

Did the pastor admit that he was passive aggressive? 😒
Did he admit that he only fulfilled his role when it was in the palace? 😒

Or, did it embarrass him that his spiritual son had to do what God Said MUST be done, and THAT'S why he let his son stay away from the kingdom for years without even going after the one that had left the 99?

And then
when the pastor DID let the son come back - only because someone else came and interceded (Joab) - he told them okay my son can come back to church, but he can't see my face 🤔

That's like when a pastor lets somebody come back - a pastor that always talks about Restoration in the prodigals coming home - but then makes them sit for a year, and then usually never lets them do anything again in the ministry, on the usher staff, or anything whatsoever.

And then when Absalom does leave and try to take somebody with him?
The pastor says "I KNEW it", instead of "I DID IT"
🧐💔

So preacher?
The next time you want to send a warning about Absalom?
Read the WHOLE story first - its in the Bible - and then if you can admit that YOU are David, and YOU created your Absalom?

Go ahead, send a message -
but let it be a message admitting fault,
let it be a message of repentance, let it be a message telling Absalom you are sorry,
and If your Absalom forgives you?
Learn from it & do better next time.
There is no such thing as a passive aggressive BIBLE 'undershepherd' .. deal with ALL God's children in your care, & be the father God TOLD you to be 😉
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David had everything Absalom wanted.

But Absalom didn't want what his father had.

He wanted what his father WAS.

"Then Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way of the gate." (2 Samuel 15:2)

Absalom positioned himself where the people gathered.

Not to serve.

To be seen.

"Whenever a man came near to bow down to him, he would reach out his hand..." (2 Samuel 15:5)

He touched them.

He listened.

He validated their grievances against his father.

"Your matters are good and right, but there is no one deputed by the king to hear you." (2 Samuel 15:3)

Translation: Your pain is real. Your king doesn't care. I do.

Absalom didn't challenge David's throne directly.

He stole the people's allegiance.

One interaction at a time.

One validation at a time.

One "I understand you" at a time.

David didn't see it.

Not until Absalom had already won.

He was too busy being king.

Letting his son run unsupervised.

Raising him in luxury.

Never asking: Who are you becoming?

Absalom became a thief.

Not of gold.

Of hearts.

He had the beauty. The charm. The access. The father's blindness.

What he didn't have was the father's authority.

So he stole it.

Slowly. Methodically. Publicly.

When David finally saw it, it was too late.

Absalom had already convinced the elders. Mobilized the people. Declared himself king.

David had to run.

His own son chased him from his own throne.

Even his advisors switched sides.

Because Absalom had done the work.

Here's what most fathers miss about rebellion:

It doesn't start with a sword.

It starts with a son given everything except PRESENCE.

It starts with a father so preoccupied with his kingdom that he forgets he's losing his son.

It starts when a boy learns that social leverage beats actual authority.

That charisma beats character.

That validation beats discipline.

Modern churches are full of Absaloms.

Young men who learned the way to power isn't through submission.

It's through charm.

Through being relatable.

Through positioning yourself where the people gather.

Through saying: I understand you. Your leaders don't.

And the pastors—the Davids—are too busy leading to notice their own sons are becoming thieves.

Thieves of loyalty.

Thieves of allegiance.

Thieves of the next generation.

Absalom's rebellion wasn't just about a crown.

It was about a father who forgot his son was watching.

Watching how he led.

Watching how he treated people.

Watching whether authority actually meant anything.

David won every battle.

But he lost his son.

Then his son took his kingdom.

Then David watched his son die in an oak tree.

Hanging by his beautiful hair.

The very thing that made him irresistible to the crowds.

The very thing that stole hearts from his father.

It killed him in the end.

This is the scandal of fatherhood:

You can't give your son everything and expect him to want nothing.

You can't be absent and expect him to stay loyal.

You can't raise him in luxury and expect him to value authority.

Absalom didn't rebel against his father's rules.

He rebelled against his father's absence.

And he weaponized every tool his father had given him, access, beauty, intelligence, position—to steal what his father wouldn't give him.

Attention.

Presence.

Actual fatherhood.

The modern Absalom doesn't need an army.

He needs a phone.

A following.

A father distracted.

And a willingness to say: I understand you better than anyone else.

Even if it's a lie.

Especially if it's a lie.

Because the people don't want truth.

They want to feel seen.

And if their actual leader won't see them...

Then they'll follow the one who pretends to.

David's downfall wasn't military.

It was relational.

He forgot that kingdoms are built on more than rules.

They're built on presence.

On attention.

On a father who knows his son well enough to see the thief before he steals.

But David was too busy being king.

So his son became a thief.

And nobody stopped him.

Until it was too late.

—TBM

11/09/2025