Brandon Howard

Husband to Megan. Father to Colton, Grayson, Hadley, Lucas, and Emerson. Student Pastor.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Alistair Begg on knowing vs. feeling in worship.

This is magnificent.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[Eric Mac Lain @EricMacLain]

God bless the folks from @GamecockFB that made this happen.

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

"Seldom if ever do I leave the pulpit without a sense of partial failure, a mood of penitence, a cry to God for forgiveness, and a resolve to look to him for grace to do better in the future."

-John Stott

[Brandon Howard @B_Howard14]

Perhaps the first step you should take when observing these trends is to ask yourself the question, “what is it that I/we are doing as leaders to cause these churches to lose their trust in us?” It is a mark of wicked pride to immediately condemn those you lead as being sinful.

[Protestia @Protestia]

🚨🚨Earlier today, SBC Exec Comm President Jeff Iorg condemned the "expressive individualism" of Southern Baptists who were designating funds to some entities and not others, likening it to CHILDREN CHOOSING THEIR OWN GENDER

Instead, he says Southern Baptists need to "surrender control" to other SB's, all the while blaming them for the sin of individualism for not blanket supporting every Southern Baptist entity.

It’s an incredibly arrogant speech, and his statements show his abject and willful ignorance to the issues people have, and has only put them in pragmatic and political categories.

[Brandon Howard @B_Howard14]

@Logos FAITHFULNESS

[Keith&Kristyn Getty @gettymusic]

"Pastors need to view themselves as worship leaders."
- @LigonDuncan at Sing! 2025

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[Tabletalk Magazine @Tabletalk]

Preaching is the chariot that carries Christ up and down the world. —Richard Sibbes

[Jeff Wiesner @JeffreyPWiesner]

Personal opinion: Fewer modern baptists would leave for Anglicanism or Rome if they only knew that their Baptist heritage flows substantially from the creedal/confessional stream of 17th century Particular Baptists and not the Radical Anabaptists, as is popularly asserted.

[Brandon Howard @B_Howard14]

@AyscueBrandon

[Brandon Ayscue @AyscueBrandon]

The new covenant is new. Crazy idea, I know.

[Brandon Howard @B_Howard14]

@HacimRamalla1 @orenrmartin You mean a type/shadow - fulfillment in the last sentence right? B/c there are differences in the two (like application of covenant sign to only males)

It’s important to note that positive commands are given in covenants and none are given to baptize infants in the New.

[Brandon Howard @B_Howard14]

@HacimRamalla1 @orenrmartin Conspicuously absent is the formulation “and your children” in the writings of Paul in Gal. In fact he says all who have been baptized have put on Christ and that if we are Christ’s then we are children of Abraham’s by faith. Faith is central to Paul’s argument.

[Brandon Howard @B_Howard14]

@thekrak3n @Particular_Drew That’s interesting, never considered the revealing of the COR in the vision but that makes a lot of sense. I also think that the Abrahamic Covenant was a type of the COR.

[Corey Bailey @thekrak3n]

A few thoughts as a former paedobaptist and now a particular baptist:

This is not convincing.

First, the suggested paradigm is flawed logic. It assumes a conclusion: the old covenants are the Covenant of Grace in various expressions in the OT.

We deny.

[Alex DiPrima @Alex_DiPrima]

“Allow yourselves silently to admit mysteries in the conduct of Providence towards you, which you are not able to comprehend…. And in those which are perplexing and puzzling, sovereignty should silence us; his infinite wisdom should satisfy, though we cannot see.” -Thomas Boston

[Mitch Chase @mitchellchase]

Christological types in the OT are a trinitarian accomplishment. God, by his Spirit, inspires OT texts to foreshadow and pattern the Son.

Typological reading is a way of receiving the witness borne by the triune God about his Son. It's reading the OT in the light, by the Light.

[Brandon Howard @B_Howard14]

@mitchellchase @ivpacademic @DrGladd @L_MMorales @brandonsandifer