Aaron L. Garriott

Husband & father | minister | managing editor @Tabletalk, @Ligonier | author:

[Aaron L. Garriott @AaronGarriott]

Dear Christian,

There will always be a more articulate preacher than your pastor. You can always find one more intelligent, more aligned with you theologically, more attuned to your concerns. But you will not find another who bears primary responsible for the care of your soul. Yes, enjoy the abundance of teaching we have at our fingertips. Read the books. Enjoy the podcasts. But look first and most often to your pastor to be fed the Word of God. In the Lord’s goodness and providence, your pastor is the one entrusted with delivering you your main courses of God’s Word. By God’s design, it is from his trough that your food comes. So eat with thanksgiving. Make his job of serving double portions a joy (Heb. 13:17). Cover his infirmities. Encourage him. Pray for him. Receive his ministry with joy.

[Aaron L. Garriott @AaronGarriott]

The least sin is worse than the greatest affliction. —William Bridge

[James Dorman IV @alfredsparks]

We tend to think that some conversions are more remarkable than others. But they are not.

It takes the same grace of God to save the most respectable person in the world as the most lawless person in the world.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression, Pg. 71

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Negligence in duty starves assurance. —John Flavel

[Bradley Pierce @bradleypierce]

You do not advance the truth by hiding it.

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There is something, even in the hearts of the most eminent saints, that will never be fully satisfied as long as they are on earth and Christ is in heaven. —J.C. Ryle

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You are being discipled by what you behold. Be careful, therefore, what you set before your eyes.

The eye follows what the heart loves, and teaches the heart to love what it sees. Lot looked toward Sodom. Eve saw the fruit. David fixed his eyes where they did not belong.

If you behold filth, do not be surprised when your heart grows filthy. If you behold resentment and cynicism, bitterness will take root. If you behold extravagance, envy will follow. The soul is shaped by its gaze. Take heed what you behold.

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One of the reasons R.C. Sproul used to assign dictionary readings to his seminary students.

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

One of the benefits of a real paper and ink dictionary is the possibility of learning the meaning of words you were not looking up.

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Few sins feel as ordinary—and yet are as destructive—as slander, backbiting, and talebearing.

Slander damages a person’s reputation through deliberate falsehood. Backbiting speaks unnecessarily of another’s faults, even when the facts are true. Talebearing—what we often call gossip—traffics in information the hearer has no rightful claim to know.

The ninth commandment exposes how seriously God regards these sins. A reputation can be wounded in ordinary conversation as surely as a life can be endangered in court. And what makes these sins especially dangerous is that they often leave little room for redress. A whispered accusation can travel farther and faster than a public defense. This happens more than we realize.

But Christians must be warned not only against speaking slander, but against listening to it. To receive malicious speech is to participate in it. The gossip-listener is not innocent. Wisdom does not delight in scandal. It examines reports carefully, refuses to assume the worst, and remembers that the person who gossips to you will likely gossip about you.

Truth alone does not justify speech. Love stewards truth. Christian charity covers what does not need to be exposed, refuses to broadcast a neighbor’s sins, and seeks peace rather than suspicion.

We've all done it. We've all seen it. Yet, as James reminds us, these things ought not to be so.

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Understanding the early church is vital for recognizing where we are today and for learning from both the early church’s successes and its mistakes. Our June issue surveys the early church and how it can help us minister faithfully today in our own time. https://t.co/dzprBdPWaJ

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Discontentment tempts you to dream of being faithful where you wish God would place you rather than being faithful where He has placed you.

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Every Christian, no matter how sanctified, ought to be able to say: “I am still my own worst enemy.”

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It’s release day. Grateful.

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A happy marriage is a blessing—one that sometimes seems elusive.

Yet in Christ, true joy is possible.

Today on @RYMRadio, watch as William and Rebecca VanDoodewaard join @AaronGarriott in the studio to discuss Rebecca’s new book, A Happy Marriage.

https://t.co/YkjtOUD3j9

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How astonishing to consider that every person on this platform will be dead within 100 years & made to give an account to Almighty God! Have you closed with Christ?

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.@AaronGarriott's new book Thy Deepest Distress: Anxiety and Depression in the Christian Life will be released next week!

Find out what he has to say about it: https://t.co/WJYJInaliY

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Self-pity is pitiless. —Josh Owen

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Today these two new books from @Christian_Focus came in the mail. Both by good friends. @AaronGarriott's is the best book I've read on the subject, and I'm looking forward to now reading @MD_Adams90's!

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A couple of previews of my new book on the kingdom of God published by @ligonier

On substack: https://t.co/XneX1ViHMP

On Youtube: https://t.co/X91s4HBA4v