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I love Aquinas’ definition of theology: “The study of God and all things in relation to God.”

I’ve seen Disclosure Day, Backrooms, Masters of the Universe, but @pressurethefilm is the best of all: brilliant acting, true, compelling plot, tension-filled, and hope.

“Who will help me, so that you would come into my heart and inebriate it, that I might forget my evils and cling to you, my one good.” - Augustine, Confessions I.5

Men tend to get lonelier as they age. One reason is that many of their friendships are built around shared interests rather than shared inner lives. There's nothing wrong with golf, fantasy football, or talking about work. But if every conversation stays there, it's possible to spend years surrounded by people and still have nobody you can tell the truth to. I've met countless successful men who can name dozens of colleagues and acquaintances but struggle to identify a single person they could call in a moment of real pain. By middle age, many have become fluent in banter and almost illiterate in confession. The friendships that endure are often built through small acts of courage: asking the deeper question, giving the honest answer, and risking being known. Loneliness rarely arrives all at once. It accumulates quietly, one surface-level conversation at a time.

When doctrine is internalized it neither inflates nor intimidates but inspires worship.

When elders face difficult trials, it is critical to ask not only for grace to get through them but also for wisdom to learn from them. Mature elders ask: “What was the Spirit saying to us in that appointed ordeal?” We must steward suffering for shepherding.

Our spirit toward different Christians should be to rejoice in their experience of grace: “When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad…” - Barnabas witnessing the first non-Jewish converts in Antioch (Acts 11:23)

If you’ve been hurt by the church, this may be helpful: (31 min mark) youtu.be/bUZJD3CmyUU?si=iicL… @Christianbook

The Gospel makes us more human, not less. - @ScottyWardSmith

I kind of reluctantly went and had a blast—fun movie that hits the right notes of action, heart, and comedy!

If you are suffering, depressed, and see only darkness today - you are not alone. Remember: - Jacob’s limp - Joseph’s tears - Job’s agonies - David’s Psalms - Elijah’s desire to die - Hannah’s weeping - Jeremiah’s lamentations - Paul’s thorn - Jesus in Gethsemane

Life is not a story about us; it is a story about God, who has main character aura because he is the Protagonist of history.

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The incomparable grace of divine foreknowledge is that God knows in advance everything we will desire, think, and do and still chooses us.

If you’re looking for a concise, gospel-centered message on divine foreknowledge & predestination - citychurchmelissa.com/ccm_se…

Thrilled to be preaching on Rom 8:28-30 — please pray for us!