Jake Naumcheff

Disciple of Christ, Son, Brother, Owner of CrossFit Laminin, Galatians 2:20

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Francis Schaffer in 1982 answering the question of what has gone wrong with evangelicals that allowed the Christian consensus to be lost in our nation:

"I think a false view of spirituality, a Platonic view of spirituality which follows Plato, but certainly isn't biblical. And that is that spirituality is shut up to a small area of life...in this view, everything is worldly that isn't in this little box of spirituality. Now, as I look at the Bible, this is exactly 1000% backwards.

There are certain sinful things that God tells us are sinful, and we ought to take those and set them aside...and then, everything else is spiritual."

Robertson: "Elaborate on that. Everything then in the world, because you're saying that Jesus has a plan and a worldview and a purpose. He's not just God of the church; He's God of everything."

Schaeffer: "Absolutely. He made it. And one day, the wonder is, Jesus is coming back and is going to be the redemption of all things...God is interested in the totality of life—art, music, literature, but also the political life. So true spirituality means the Lordship of Christ in the totality of life and not just a small part of it."

Robertson: "The liberal press, particularly, would try to keep conservative Christians or evangelicals out of political life, and there's this great pressure to make fun of you when you get in politics, and they don't think it should be. And there are many Christians who say yes to the same thing. Now, what do you say to them?"

Schaeffer: "Well, they're wrong."

Robertson: "Christians should do what? Run for office, vote, register, get involved? What ought they to do?"

Schaeffer: "Well, we ought to realize that in the viewpoint of the Scripture, life is not divided up into watertight compartments, that all of life should be lived for the Lordship of Christ. Now, what exact portion each one of us should have is according to the Lord's leading for us...but the rule to lay down is that Christians have a responsibility for the society in which they live.

We're to be the salt. We're to be the light...By our silence, by refusing to be what God tells us to be, the light of this culture, the salt of the culture, we are the ones responsible before God for the mess we're in."

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Piper: “I have met people who cannot feel loved by God, it seems, unless their *own worth* as a person is the basis of God’s love for them. And therefore my whole theology is anathema to them. It makes me weep. The Bible does not teach that God loves us because of *our worth*. He loves us by sending his own Son to die for undeserving, ungodly enemies, thus *giving us worth* (Rom. 5:6–10). And that worth consists in the beauty of our conformity to his Son (Rom. 8:29). He loves us at the cost of the life of his Son in order to display the greatness of his grace in our beautification for his Son’s Bride. This is what it is to be loved for the glory of God.”

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

C. S. Lewis, just to remind you what's important as we head into 2026

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

This is vain, petty, vindictive, and corrupt. It’s grievous beyond words that this kind of rhetoric has become the norm from the President. But this one is a special kind of ugly.

A father and a mother allegedly murdered by their son, and the president responds by airing his personal grievances and by grandstanding about his achievements as president. Unbelievable.

[Dane Ortlund @daneortlund]

Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

If I had to give a piece of 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

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

You can name sin without self-hate.
You can tell the truth without shame.
You can break cycles without losing yourself.
You can go forward, not because you're strong but because you're loved.
That's what this book is about.
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-Michael Keller

[Kevin DeYoung @RevKevDeYoung]

I don't normally comment on the news of the day, but the shooting of Charlie Kirk is so wicked and so grievous. It's sad to see my own kids affected. Like many Gen Zers, they love his videos. I'm grateful for the many times he clearly and cheerfully made much of Jesus Christ. If you want to honor his legacy, pick up a Bible, read about Jesus, and see what Kirk believed in. May God bless his family. May God bless America.

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

It feels like we are sitting on a tinderbox. Here’s the prayer that is in my heart and on my lips right now:

“O LORD, revive Your work in the midst of the years,
In the midst of the years make it known;
In wrath remember mercy.”

-Habakkuk 3:2

[Herman Bavinck @Herman_Bavinck_]

Justification is the doctrine on which the church stands or falls. Either we must do something to be saved, or our salvation is purely a gift of grace.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Alistair Begg on knowing vs. feeling in worship.

This is magnificent.

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

President-elect Trump says that on Day 1 of his new administration he will end Biden policies which support “gender affirming care.”

No more mutilation of children.

[David L. Bahnsen @DavidBahnsen]

I believe the biggest message may be in two states that Harris actually won - New Jersey and Illinois. Harris only winning two deep blue states by 4 or 5 points that Biden won by 17 points is a screaming message about progressive culture war failures. From crime to police to migrants to school board issues, etc. - even blue states become pragmatic when progressive ideology runs amok. This is not a political failure, it is a cultural one. Critical theory and its insidious ideological cousins are failures - and politics follows culture.

[Jake Naumcheff @JNaum220]

“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age” - Titus 2:11-12

Grace trains holiness. Not law.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Grace alone.
Faith alone.
Christ alone.
Scripture alone.
God’s glory alone.

#ReformationDay

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

“Any time you preach Christ and His salvation as the meaning of the text rather than simply expounding biblical principles for life, you are preaching towards renewal.”
-Tim Keller

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.'

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

"If your presentation of the Gospel does not expose it to the charge of Antinomianism you are probably not putting it correctly."
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

From an older article by Kevin DeYoung on politics and the church, with two things he does as a pastor and three things he does not do.

✅ As a pastor, I pray publicly for leaders and for controversial issues.

✅ As a pastor, I speak to controversial issues as they arise from the text of Scripture.

❌ As a pastor, I do not provide voter guides for the congregation.

❌ As a pastor, I do not encourage voter registration drives in the lobby after church.

❌ As a pastor, I do not give a public platform to candidates in our church (or candidates visiting our church), especially during an election season.

On these last three, he writes: "However common these things may be, I do not believe they are wise. They presume for the church an authority that she does not have, and they present an obstacle to fellowship that need not be present."

And on voting, he writes: "Voting is generally a good thing, but I have no biblical authority to say a Christian must vote (would we exercise church discipline on someone who didn’t?), nor do I think that voting is such a necessary expression of the fruit of the Spirit that it is the church’s responsibility to get people registered."

https://t.co/B9bRb20rWg

[Expositors Collective @expositcllctv]

“Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God”

- J.I. Packer