"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight." — Proverbs 3:5-6 (NET) #LanternFaith: https://t.co/NDMzhH51tQ
I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.
If you are a Christian your confidence today rests on foundations that cannot be shaken. If God is for you, and He has not spared His own Son but delivered Him up for all of you, then He will graciously give you all things with Him. (Rom 8:28–39) And please don’t hear this as a platitudinal X post: it flows from the reality of your election. God chose you in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless, predestining you for adoption as His children according to His pleasure and will.
The Puritan theologians are helpful here, and understood something vital about this assurance: election and covenant work together, offering troubled believers a double source of assurance; you can plead the covenant with God, asking Him to fulfill His promises, while simultaneously finding comfort in the sufficiency of His prevenient grace and the immutability of His will in election. Your election is not fragile or conditional on your performance, as I’ve said before, your salvation is received not achieved. God’s immutable decree of election proceeds from His perfect counsel, the basis for maintaining His people in sanctification and imparting to them an inward principle of holiness.
Yet this absolute promise does not leave you passive. God’s love, made known to you, draws you out of yourself toward Him in orderly, faithful obedience. The conditional promises of the covenant are inseparable from your daily renewal of it through prayer, meditation, and worship. Your obedience becomes the very means by which you experience and confirm what God has already secured.
Anchor yourself in the permanence of God’s word. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will not pass away. (Matt 24:35) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness. (2 Tim 3:16–17) In this word, your election is declared, your redemption is promised, and your perseverance is guaranteed — not by your strength, but by His.
Hey @DrFrankTurek I made a free Bible study website. Let me know what you think! "The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing." — Psalm 23:1 (NET) #LanternFaith: https://t.co/NDMzhH51tQ
"And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose," — Romans 8:28 (NET) #LanternFaith: https://t.co/NDMzhH51tQ
@JackPosobiec I built a free real time Bible collaboration website! Check it out.
"I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me." — Philippians 4:13 (NET) #LanternFaith: https://t.co/NDMzhH51tQ
As I get older, i'm starting to realize that the purest form of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. In any bond how much they care about you is found in how much they consider you.
If only there was a way to stop this type of “software error” that allowed non citizens to vote in our elections.
I hope Senators @CoryBooker and @SenatorAndyKim will join us in voting to pass the SAVE America Act to ensure that only eligible American voters can participate in New Jersey elections, and all elections across the United States.
"For I know what I have planned for you,’ says the Lord. ‘I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope." — Jeremiah 29:11 (NET) #LanternFaith: https://t.co/NDMzhH51tQ
For nearly 30 years, America has had an Alien Terrorist Removal Court specifically designed to rapidly remove foreign nationals tied to terrorist activity—and apparently nobody ever used it. Until now. The Trump administration has reportedly submitted its first case. Limited process. Sealed evidence. Rapid removal. Congress created the weapon. Trump may finally be using it.
Jump into the Word with me! Here's a highlight from John 3:16: "For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eter..." (NET) #LanternFaith https://t.co/NDMzhH51tQ
"I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." — Galatians 2:20 (NET) #LanternFaith: https://t.co/kgwoR1K3G9
This is what was missing from Trump's speech:
1. We are expelling every Chinese citizen immediately.
2. Severe sanctions have been placed on China
3. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Merrick Garland, Bill Barr, Christopher Wray, and hundreds more have been arrested.
4. America is ending the H1B program immediately.
TRENDING: People are saying that ABC, CBS, and NBC should lose their broadcast licenses for refusing to air President Trump's national address on election security.
They are calling on the @FCC to yank their licenses.
I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father;
through Him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
He came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
He suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and His kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the Giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism
for the forgiveness of sins,
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.
Amen. 🙏🏼