Doug Goodin

Let’s build Christ’s Kingdom in every aspect of life

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Here's a fun little project I've been working on for my granddaughter. If you have young kids, they might enjoy it too.

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If you help your children head down the paths of life so that in their 50s, 60s, and 70s they're even wiser than you are, you could be the foundation of a family tree. And maybe you didn't have a great example in your parents. You can start the new family line.

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In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Peter and Susan think Lucy is lying or losing her mind. The Professor asks: Is she in the habit of lying? No. Any sign she's unstable? No. Then why is disbelief your default?

A lot of lazy thinking comes from wearing a jersey. The team starts doing your thinking for you.

Come to conclusions. Hold them with conviction and humility. And don't follow any teacher, including me, in a way that bypasses your own thinking.

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Older men tell me, "I don't have anything to offer. I learn as much from my son as he learns from me." Well, if that's true, older man, you're a failure. You're a disappointment to your sons if you're learning more from them than they're learning from you.

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A wise son makes a father rejoice. (Prov. 10:1)

I've worked with a lot of young men over the years. One of the most common things I've heard: "I can't remember my father ever saying he was proud of me."

Fathers, if your son does something praiseworthy, tell him. Privately and in front of others. The Father said it out loud over his Son: "This is my Son with whom I am well pleased." We can too.

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Building the next generation https://t.co/7V18iRXUik

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Building the next generation

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Planning feels good. You get the dopamine hit. But a plan in a notebook isn't action.

At some point you have to say, I am doing this. Not I should. Not I hope to.

I hadn't played classical guitar seriously in more than thirty years. On January 1 I decided: fifteen minutes a day, five days a week. That day I got out my guitar and did my fifteen minutes.

Envision it. Plan it. Decide. Act.

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In reality, angels are not cute. They are not pudgy. They are not gentle. They do not have wings. They are fierce. They are warriors. They are mighty and majestic, constantly doing battle. We have to keep that in mind.

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Here's where we so often stop. We've been trained that salvation is justification by faith alone. But the angel says a Savior who is Christ the Lord: Messiah, King, the anointed one of Psalm 2 who sits on David's throne and crushes the nations.

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Suddenly there is a massive army of angelic beings. No halos, no wings, no harps. They're holding swords and spears. The heavenly host is a host of armies, and they're not singing. It's closer to the huzzah of an army than a lyric. They're declaring.

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Revelation 14 ends with the Son of Man on a white cloud with a sharp sickle. You can't make sense of that without Zechariah and Joel. John isn't creating new imagery. He's applying what God already gave the prophets.

Zechariah 13-14: the sword turned against the shepherds, two-thirds cut off, one-third drawn through the fire. The nations gather against Jerusalem and the city is taken. Then the Lord goes out to fight those nations. Living water flows from Jerusalem. The Lord becomes king over all the earth. And afterward, the nations that are left go up year after year to worship the King.

Joel 2: "I will pour out my spirit on all flesh." Peter tells us that was Pentecost. But Joel keeps going: blood and fire and smoke, the sun darkened, the moon to blood, "before the great and notable day of the Lord comes." The next major event after the Spirit was poured out was God's judgment on Jerusalem. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord escapes.

Joel 3: the nations gathered to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, which means "Yahweh judges." "Send forth sickles, because the harvest has come. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full."

Same pattern both times. Jerusalem judged. A remnant preserved. God turns on the nations that came against her. Then the nations come to worship.

That's the arc of Revelation 14, and of the whole book from chapter 12 on. The Son of Man is reaping. The kingdom that cannot be shaken is advancing.

(From my Revelation series.)

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A Savior, Christ the Lord (Luke 2:1-14) https://t.co/MYOnDi9gtT

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A Savior, Christ the Lord (Luke 2:1-14)

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Zechariah 13: two-thirds cut off, one-third left.

"I will draw a third through fire and shall test them by fire as silver is tested."

The remnant doesn't escape refinement. They pass through the fire and come out refined, calling on God's name.

That's the backdrop for the end of Revelation 14. More at noon.

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When God made his covenant with Israel, he held out wonderful promises if they obeyed the law. And they were all temporal. He didn't say you'll get to go to heaven. The promise was, if you obey, I will prosper you in everything you put your hand to.