We owe it to people to tell them that salvation is free through Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, but discipleship will cost you your entire life.

It’s 3:14. Quick! Eat some pie!

And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. — Matthew 18:34-35 Period.

The Thessalonians ran Paul and Silas out of town. The Bereans welcomed the gospel eagerly and searched the scriptures to see what was true. The Thessalonians got two letters written to them, and the Bereans got none. The Bereans apparently didn’t need special correction.

What happens when you study the bible regularly: • Your love for God will grow deep • You will recognize false teachings easily • Your desires will align with his will • You will find comfort in times of trouble

I think Jesus’s words in Matthew 16:24-28 have far more importance than we’ve been giving them.

There are no trad-wives on social media. They stay humble and loving and joyous and work hard to bring their best to their husband. They don’t share pictures of themselves in tight tops or yoga pants.

The most dangerous 77 seconds ever recorded by a psychiatrist just broke containment again. Thomas Szasz, the man the entire profession tried to erase, looked straight into the camera and said: “We do not have an epidemic of mental illness. We have an epidemic of psychiatry.” Too fat → illness Too thin → illness Too happy, too sad, too much sex, too little sex → all illnesses No free will, no responsibility left — only “chemical imbalances” fixed by products you can advertise on TV while alcohol cannot. This forgotten 1:17 clip is now exploding across every timeline for a reason. Jacob

Very brave of you to post and prevent anyone from responding. 🐓

When I was Muslim, I thought God’s holiness meant He couldn’t be near sinners. We were so unworthy and Allah would be unlike anything in this world. So how could Jesus, if He were God, touch lepers? Eat with sinners? Let a sinful woman wash His feet? Then it hit me: When Jesus touched a leper, the leper didn’t make Jesus unclean. Jesus made the leper clean. Mark 1:41. Holiness didn’t retreat from the sin. He came right to it and overpowered it. I thought God’s holiness kept Him AWAY from people like me. But His holiness was so strong it could walk right into my mess and clean it instead of catching it. He didn’t avoid the unclean. He healed them by with relationship, intimacy, and touch. There’s a God who bleeds and weeps with us. And He says one thing… “Follow Me”

You know, if all the extinctionists would just go ahead and not reproduce, we'd be done with them in a generation, leaving the rest of us to make more people who would hopefully appreciate this amazing gift called life.

When I was Muslim, I used to say the Bible was corrupted. It was my go-to. Anytime a Christian showed me something, I’d wave it off. “Your book’s been changed. The Quran came to correct it.” Then one day I decided to actually test that. Not with the Bible. With my own book. So let’s walk through Jonah. In order. The way the Quran tells it. Surah 37. Jonah runs from God. He boards the ship. They cast lots. He loses. The fish swallows him. He cries out and glorifies Allah. The fish spits him onto the shore, sick. A plant grows over him for shade. And THEN, verse 147: “We sent him to a hundred thousand people or more. And they believed.” You catch that? In the Quran, Jonah doesn’t get sent to Nineveh until AFTER the fish. The preaching, the people believing, it all comes last. End of story. But here’s where it fell apart for me. Go back to Surah 10, verse 98. There the Quran says the people of Jonah ALREADY believed. The punishment was ALREADY lifted off them. Done deal. So which is it? Did Nineveh believe before the fish, or after? And bro, you know what shook me? The Muslim scholars saw this problem too. Ibn Kathir. Maududi. They couldn’t reconcile the order. So they invented a fix. They said Jonah must have been sent twice. Once before the fish, where the people repented while he was gone. Then again after, to make it official. But the Quran never says that. It’s not in the text. They had to add it. They had to patch the timeline to make the story hold together. Now compare that to the book I called corrupted. In the Bible the order is clean and it never moves. Jonah runs. The fish swallows him. He’s spit out. He goes to Nineveh. He preaches. THEN they repent. And then Jonah sits on a hill, furious that God forgave them, and God grows a plant to teach him about mercy. Every piece in order. Cause, then effect. Nothing to patch. One book preserved the prophet at his worst and kept the sequence intact. The other sanded off the order, contradicted itself two chapters apart, and needed scholars 800 years later to rebuild the timeline by hand. That was the day it flipped for me. I spent years saying the Bible was the corrupted one. But the “corrupted book” is the one that keeps its story straight. And the “final correction” is the one that couldn’t. And when you see that, you’ll never be the same.

A fantastic summary of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. — Matthew 18:14

Today’s self-help sermon is on how Jesus came to save us from being tired.

Dear Pastor, Stop asking for “amens.” If it was worth an “amen,” you’d have already heard it. Signed, Me

What did Jesus mean by this? “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruit of it.” Matthew 21:43