@MicahTylerMusic 3rd time seeing you perform & you KILLED it per usual. You get better each time. Thanks for making sure we’re the coolest parents ever too!
@AlyssaNaeher my daughter Maliya turns 10 Tuesday & she LOVES you! She wants to be a goalie too! It would mean so much to her if she could get a happy birthday wish from you. Help me score some cool mom points & make her day! ⚽️ 🎂
What? No. Mary is NOT the bridge to God. John 14:6 “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.’”
Mary is not only the bridge joining us to God; she is more. She is the road that God travelled to reach us, and the road that we must travel in order to reach him. #AnnunciationOfTheLord
None of this means we lose the truth in the gospel & ignore the heaviness of sin & the toll it takes on our lives. But it does mean that we are called the further the gospel (Mat 28:19-20) and to think this can be done without demonstrating the love of Christ, is ignorance.
There’s a lot of brokenness in our world right now but, the most upsetting is that when the world thinks of Christianity & God they think of hatred and judgement. Not of the love of a selfless Jesus who laid His life down & defeated death so that He could spare us from judgement.
The Bible is clear. Love your God & love your neighbor. Your male/female neighbor, your black neighbor, you Asian neighbor, your white neighbor, you LGBTQ+ neighbor, your atheist neighbor, etc. (Luke 10:27-37)
Everything broken doesn't have to be completely fixed for us to be completely fine. We can be scared & brave & frail & unbelievably strong all in the same leap of faith. We can be hurt but we don't have to live hurt.
Broken is what people are. Beautiful is what God makes them.
“Forgiveness is not adding on top of your pain a misery too great to bear. It is exchanging bound-up resentment for a life-giving freedom, thus making the mystery of the workings of God too great to deny.” - @LysaTerKeurst 🙌🏻 🔥
We're all bemoaning the celebrity Christian culture that led to the Ravi Zacharias & Carl Lentz (& so many more) sex & sexual abuse scandals.
But what if the problem is not just--or even mostly--celebrity culture?
What if it's the evangelical view of sex?
A thread.