Coach/Counselor/Pastor to Clear River/Worship. Word. Table./ Husband, Dad, Poppa./ Running the race, learning endurance. James 1: 2-5 = life verses.
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"He is not ashamed to call them his children." (Hebrews 2:11)
Let that sink in: Jesus knows EVERYTHING about you—every struggle, every failure, every weakness—and He is NOT ASHAMED of you. You belong to Him. #BelovedOfGod #UnashamedIdentity #AdoptedByGrace
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When we produce "mean and angry Christians," it is the "inevitable result of failing to center everything on becoming people who have the character of Christ." -Dallas Willard
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“When you are arguing against God you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.” - C.S. Lewis
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God not only requires perfect obedience but also graciously provides through His Son. In addition to atonement, Jesus positively fulfilled the divine requirement by His perfect obedience.
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Jun 11
"If I had to choose between all the disciplines of the spiritual life, I would choose Bible memorization, because it is a fundamental way of filling our minds with what it needs." -Dallas Willard
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Jun 11
In Galatians Paul polemicizes against law and works, announces the freedom of those who are baptized into Christ.
Then he ends with:
*What matters is faith working through love (5:6).
*Through love be slaves to one another (5:13).
*Bear one another's burdens to fulfill the law of Christ (6:1-1).
By my reckoning, there are 10 (count 'em!) exhortations in chs. 5-6:
*Walk by the Spirit, 5:16
*Let us walk by the Spirit, 5:25
*Let us not be boastful, 5:26
*Restore the wayward, 6:1
*Bear one another’s burdens, 6:2
*Let each one examine his works, 6:4
*Let the one who is taught share good things with teacher, 6:6
*Do not be deceived, 6:7
*Let us not lose heart, 6:9
*Let us do good, 6:10
All that was good under Torah is revived in Christ.
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Jun 10
Love doesn't ignore sin. Love defeats sin, by confronting it and forgiving.
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Jun 7
"If you're tired or worried, you're in good company. If you feel like you've fallen short, welcome. If you've been hurt by church or confused by faith, there's still room for you at the Mercy King's table..."
- From The Mercy King
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We want the storyline of our lives to go from strength to strength, from success to success, and end happily ever after. But throughout the Bible we see something completely different — a persistent narrative pattern of life through death or triumph through weakness.
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Jun 6
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”
— Winston Churchill
D-Day was 82 years ago today.
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Alleluia!
Jun 6
“When I look at myself, I don’t see how I can be saved. When I look at Christ, I don’t see how I can be lost.”
– Martin Luther
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This is deeply moving…
Jun 5
“All things are yours,” Paul says. Thomas Traherne (Centuries of Meditation, 2.64) reminds us that our possession isn’t domination but love.
When we love all things, all things are our treasures, gifts for our enjoyment. When we love all men, “the world quickly becometh yours. . . . For all their persons are your treasures.”
We don’t love things too much. We love too little. We are made to love, and must love all things “infinitely, but in God, and for God: and God in them: namely their excellencies in them.”
We dote on this or that, but that’s not an excess of love. It reveals a defect in our love for other things: “Never was anything in this world loved too much, but many things have been loved in a false way: and all in too short a measure” (2.66).
Consider how God loves “a river, or a drop of water, an apple or a sand, an ear of corn, or an herb.” He knows “excellencies in it more than we: He seeth how it relateth to angels and men; how it procedeth from the most perfect Lover to the most perfect Beloved; how it representeth all His attributes; how it conduceth in its place, by the best of means to the best of ends: and for this cause it cannot be beloved too much. God the Author and God the End is to be beloved in it; Angels and men are to be beloved in it” (2.67).
When a man lusts for a woman, or a woman for a man, the problem isn’t an excess of love: “They love . . . not too much, but upon false causes. Not so much upon false causes, as only upon some little ones.”
A man desires a woman for her physical beauty; his love shouldn’t be diminished but intensified. He should love her “for being God’s Image, the Queen of the Universe, beloved by Angels, redeemed by Jesus Christ, an heiress of Heaven, and temple of the Holy Ghost; a mine and fountain of all virtues, a treasury of graces, and a child of God” (2.68).
Traherne the mystic was going into ecstasies over grains of sand long before Blake was born: “O what a treasure is every sand when truly discovered! . . . . What a world would this be, were everything beloved as it ought to be!” (2.67).
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'Love the sinner, hate the sin'....from none other than Augustine:
"And when you judge, love the person, hate the vice. Don't love the vice for the person's sake, nor hate the person for the vice's sake. Your neighbor is the person; the vice is your neighbor's enemy. You show that you love your friend if you hate what harms your friend...
So learn justice, to hate only vices, and to love people. If you stick to this, and practice this sort of justice, so that you prefer even vicious people to be cured rather than condemned, then you have been doing good work in the vineyard."
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Jun 5
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
— Spurgeon
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Jun 2
People treat God’s sovereignty as a matter of controversy, but in Scripture it is a matter of worship.
— J. I. Packer
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May 30
Some church will always have better coffee, better music, better facilities, better speaking, better marketing.
Showcase Christ and his gospel. Nobody can improve on that.
—@jaredcwilson
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May 29
Came across this Chesterton quotation again, which I posted several years ago:
"The aim of human polity is the making glad of the heart of man. There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or in any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier."
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May 29
Christianity declares the highest form of masculinity to be found in a crucified God.
Those who find this to be weak or effeminate tell more about their own insecurities than they do about the God of the Bible.
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May 27
Jesus does not despise us for our weakness. Instead, it moves him with compassion, and compels him to draw all the nearer to us. #TheMercyKing
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