As a young minister, I aspired to "do great things" for God.
But after watching many fizzle out and fall away from Jesus, my ambitions have been refined.
Today I aspire to simply grow in my love for God, make it to glory, and bring as many with me as I can.
Jesus, hold me fast
GIVEAWAY: I'm sending someone 3 books on the transfiguration.
1) My exegetical and theological reading
2) Patristic homilies on the transfiguration
3) Tim Chester's devotional on the transfiguration.
(https://t.co/tnGXKHafcE)
RT to enter.
How God's love for a sinner like me seems so "reckless" as if His mercy could harm His justice!
How great is His love: while I was still a sinner He saved this foe to be a friend!
How God heals and instructs my broken conscience to rejoice more greatly at His "perfect" love!
I feel blind as a bat with regards to God's will for my life. His specific will.
Except in matters of God's revealed will for me: sanctification. May I always receive this as a gift.
"Trust and obey, for there's no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey"
#ForthePrize
...the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
1 Timothy 3:15b
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
John 13:34
@churchonmill
#BaptizedImagination, man I LOVE JOY, but what a missed album this has been. So glad to find DOWN.
Praise Jesus, change my heart for you to be enough, because Jesus you are more than enough.
#PraiseGod#Rev21_3@kingskworld
“What can it mean to me, anything you give me apart from yourself?” That is to love God freely, to hope in God for God, to hasten to be filled with God, to be satisfied with him. He, after all, is enough for you; apart from him, nothing is enough for you.” - Augustine
“Let others choose earthly and temporal portions to enjoy; the share of the saints is the Lord eternal. Let others drink deep of death-dealing pleasures; the Lord is the cup allotted to me.” - Augustine on Psalm 16:5-6
What a blessing from God a true and loving friend is, and how sweet is their counsel that leads me to continue thinking of God and grow in godliness.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17 ESV
"You can't plan quality time, you can't schedule quality time. Quality time comes out of a quantity of time."
If we love someone, we should intentionally spend time with them. Thus I should spend much time with God so my finite self can at some sweet moments savor Him more deeply
On the back of faithful Christians are many knife-wounds caused by backstabbing. May we be like Peter who by God's grace repents and receives restoration and unlike Judas who perishes due to the prideful unwillingness to see his sin forgiven by another.
Wow, how loving Jesus is.
This #StudentSpotlight features Lukas Suarez, a recent graduate of the M.Div. program.
"You only have this one opportunity in life. Fully commit to it. Seminary has been one of the most beautiful seasons of my life."