Aaron Morrow

Westside Elementary class of 1990. Three daughters. Timberwolves fan. Saw Doc Rivers on an airplane. EFCA church planter. Averagely average.

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@jaredcwilson @RonniKurtz @forthechurch Can you guys both describe your average week prepping a sermon? What do you work on and when (and why)? I've heard some of how Jared does it but I can't recall what Ronnie has said. Thanks!

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@PstRyanWilliams Hey Ryan. Listened to your podcast for several years. My wife and I are the EFCA Church Planting Care Directors - we create systems of care for planters & wives on a nationwide level. Heard your pod today. DM if you want to chat more, would love to talk!

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@jaredcwilson @RonniKurtz Yes, please! Haha

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@jaredcwilson Hey Jared, what are you giving up for Lent this year?

[baiting you to say “this year for Lent I’m giving up” Haha]

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@lukedsimmons Hahahaahaha This is great!

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@DaneMooreNBA You shoulda yelled "everybody clear out, Imma go one-on-one here" Haha. Sounds like you did great in there like usual.

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@DaneMooreNBA Dane, were you the only reporter in the room for Finchy's post-game press conference? On Wolves Live they showed you asking like 5 questions in a row!

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Algorithms and the Affections

John Piper (Nov. 2025): “If you had thought that your essence of humanness in the image of God was your reasoning capacity, over an ape or a porpoise, you’re in trouble. Because, guess what? ChatGPT is smarter than you are and more creative than you are in expressing things in language that is good. It can write prayers better than you can, and it can reason through hard problems better than you can. Therefore, there are people who are going to forsake the faith because they thought to be a human in the image of God was to be a reasoning person over against the animals, and they discovered a machine can do it better than they can. Crisis of faith. This to me is no crisis because of my Christian Hedonism. I do not think that my reasoning capacities are my essence. I think the soul’s capacity to delight in God is my essence. The soul’s capacity to enjoy God. No machine will ever enjoy, period. It will have the language of enjoyment. You can tell it to write a poem of enjoyment and it will use the language. That machine is not enjoying *her*. It’s not. It never will. Only human beings created in the image of God can enjoy God. Therefore, enjoyment matters. I mean, affections are who we are ultimately. The end of history, the end of creation, is not going to be merely rational creatures thinking rightly about God, little computers. It’s going to be people who are so perceptive spiritually of the glories of God that they are full of affections that are appropriate for those glories and can give expression to them. That’s what eternity will be.”

Source: Sovereign Grace Churches, Pastors Conference PreCon (November 2025)

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@jaredcwilson @LBCLiberty Looking forward to this! Do you know IN GENERAL when it'll be released?

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@lukedsimmons Hi Luke, you mentioned in a Training Day (can’t recall which one 😬) that churches aren’t biblically required to have Deacons. I’m intrigued. Can you explain more? And is that a slippery slope to believing Elders aren’t required either? This is a genuine question.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Look at Jesus. He is always weeping, a man of sorrows. Do you know why? Because He is perfect. When you are not absorbed in yourself, you can feel the sadness of the world.

[Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller]

At the heart of self-deception is a refusal to handle the most earth-shattering truth of all. If there is a God, he owns you utterly and you must obey him completely. If there is no God, your life is meaningless and nothing is truly right or wrong and no one knows which end is up

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

More often than not, the reason your life is out of control is because you're afraid of giving control of your life to God.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

If you have a God powerful enough to be mad at because of evil (because you think he could do something about it), then you have a God great enough to have reasons that you can't fully understand.

[Aaron Morrow @AaronMorrow78]

@jaredcwilson Not AI generated!

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

In all my years of pastoring, I have learned this lesson: a person’s spiritual maturity is not truly visible until they DON’T get their way. Then you see the person.

—@ErikReed

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Books have arrived! *Lest We Drift: Five Departure Dangers from the One True Gospel* officially drops Feb 4. Preorder to receive a free discussion guide and gospel-centrality assessment. RT & Like for a chance at a free signed copy! https://t.co/UXMuUodoeX

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Us questioning how God runs the world is like a 7-year-old questioning the mathematical calculations of a world-class physicist. Asking questions is always good. Knowing the limits of our own understanding will sharpen those questions.

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

Each day there are new joys to discover in communion with Christ. He is such a person that to know him is a never ending adventure. Grateful.