Dad,
from age 1-13, you are your child's coach.
from age 13-18, you are child's cheerleader.
from 18 on, you are child's consultant.
@bettermanlife#dad#father#parenting
So many points of pain in our world. During Sunday worship, I’m reminded that our gatherings are not to be a distraction from the trouble, but a time to heighten our awareness of God’s presence and receive nourishment for the journey.
We don’t build the kingdom of God.
• we announce it.
• we seek it.
• we receive it.
• we bear witness to it.
• “we build for it” (N.T. Wright)
God builds it.
I feel like we could really use some sober-minded, humble leaders but I’m not sure we would recognize them as leaders or know how to follow them because our world is so attracted to loud.
We often go to the Bible for answers, or principles. The Bible is more of an invitation to explore the beautiful wonder of a God who longs to love us and redeem all of creation. This God of wonder, beauty, and grace is Jesus. All of scripture testify to him. To him alone.
PSA : exuberant expressions while singing worship songs doesn’t mean that you’re passionate about Jesus.
living a life of obedience by knowing Christ and making Him known, through the power of the Holy Spirit, is what it means to be passionate about Jesus.
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Day 1: The Doctrine on Which the Church Stands Or Falls (@crossway)
Day 2: Reformation Theology (@crossway)
Day 3: Simply Trinity (@ReadBakerBooks)
LIKE + FOLLOW + RT this #MBTSBooks giveaway post for a chance to receive one of these books from @MattMBarrett.
“The best attraction is the gospel in its purity. The weapon with which the Lord conquers men is the truth as it is in Jesus. The gospel will be found equal to every emergency; an arrow which can pierce the hardest heart, a balm which will heal the deadliest wound.” -Spurgeon
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods.
Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.
If I had to give advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say: Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.
C. S. Lewis, 1935 letter