Phil Thompson

Christ-follower, husband, father of 4 girls, reader, writer, reviewer. Director of Digital Strategy @NAMB_SBC. Pastor @CF_Eastside. PhD in NT from CIU.

[Phil Thompson @GospelResolute]

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@BobPritchett @HistoryGPT Gemini handles Greek MSS brilliantly. Love it so much for OCR that I have Claude Cowork using Gemini CLI for bulk transcriptions of all my downloaded PDFs.

[Phil Thompson @GospelResolute]

I find myself praying of late, "Lord, give me back my joy."

And I find myself looking for the ministry to be joyful once again.

But maybe it's God's way of turning my eyes away from finding joy in pastoring and toward finding joy in his presence. Just being there with him.

[Phil Thompson @GospelResolute]

The Gospel removes our sense of superiority, that we're some sort of trophy spouse, and shows us that we're all damaged goods.

BUT before we even made an attempt to improve ourselves, Jesus came into the red-light realm of sin and Satan to snatch us back as his bride.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.

And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.

To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?

Then I realized I was the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.

And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”

He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.

Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.

The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord.

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@dustinbattles @mementalmori I'm not entirely clear on what role he or his materials played. But he is indicated in some way connected to the project. I do wish they would have more information in that regard.

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"For what would you give your life?"

I'm going to be using that question in conversation more often.

[The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship @ARC_Conference]

"Young people today have a counterfeit formula for the good life: love things, use people, worship yourself."

At ARC 2026, Arthur Brooks argued that the West's deepest crisis is not political but a crisis of meaning, and that a generation raised online has inherited exactly the wrong formula for a good life.

His fix reverses it completely, and it's simple enough to live by.

Watch @arthurbrooks full speech from ARC 2026.

[Phil Thompson @GospelResolute]

"As certain as we are that Christ pleases God, so sure ought we to be that we also please God, because Christ is in us. And although we daily offend God by our sins, yet as often as we sin, God’s mercy bends over us." ~ Martin Luther

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@mementalmori 🤦‍♂️ so right. The Isaiah 40 suffering and comfort context is the one I was thinking of.

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@griffingulledge Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.

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"Don’t find yourself a different seminary, find yourself a better denomination." 🔥🔥🔥

Proud of these Wesleyan brothers and sisters. May God bless them in their faithfulness to the Word.

[Timothy Tennent @TimTennent]

Read my reflections on the recent decision by the UMC to no longer accept Asbury graduates starting Fall of 2027.
https://t.co/vhH77p0qQq

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Content Ministry after the End of the Search Box: https://t.co/tItiCjJSN6

[Phil Thompson @GospelResolute]

Last month, Google announced the biggest change to search in twenty-five years. The familiar list of ten blue links is no longer the front door to the web.

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In this article, I argue content ministries should not merely defend their websites from AI. They should rebuild their content into three forms: citable public answers, relationship-building deep resources, and open or licensed infrastructure for the Christian ecosystem.

Link 👇

[T.C. Schmidt @ProfTCSchmidt]

Two new sermons of Augustine discovered! There are still treasures out there waiting to be found friends, we must only look. Read all about it at:

https://t.co/0pKMPCu3g3
@roger_pearse

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@mementalmori @geekyguyjay Same. I've spent 15 years studying the book and still can't get enough!

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@ianharber Hard to say for sure, but as someone who just dropped a simple and free AI-based agent... In some cases, shipping simple or free AI products to a mass inter-generational market is going to be a more strategic approach than teaching people how to add Claude skills.

[Midwestern Seminary @MBTS]

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