Jim Wells

[David Hoffman @TrustlessState]

If USA beats you in the World Cup

That country has to call it Soccer until the next World Cup

New rule I just made up

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Justification gets you out of Egypt, but sanctification gets Egypt out of you.

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@BrazilBrian Urbanization

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Have started to get more questions about why I do stuff like this. Quick response...

1) Not every pastor should, and not saying I'm doing it perfectly. Guarantee I'm not.

2) I've come think of discipleship in terms of "Air War" and "Ground War."

- Air War = applying the Word to PEOPLE and FAMILIES "down there"
- Ground War = applying the Word to culture "up there"

Just like in a military conflict, if you have no Air War it doesn't matter how many battles you win on the ground, the Enemy just flies in, bombs your wins, and un-does everything you did.

I feel like that happens with Christians: If we don't combat the lies they are inundated with in culture, Enemy "air war superiority" is undoing for the next 6 days (via social media, journalism, entertainment media, higher ed, etc) what we did on 1 day.

3) Many of the "false teachers" of this era are not in pulpits. They are on podcasts, YouTube pages, Twitch streams, etc doing reverse-discipleship and frequently twisting the Scriptures to do so.

In 1960 a pastor could generally keep his sheep from wolves by controlling who he allowed in his pulpit. In 2026, people are carrying entire packs of "wolves" in their pockets... so as a shepherd I'm trying to go there too.

4) I refuse to let my pulpit get hijacked by the issue of the week. On weekends I'm preaching verse by verse through books. Stuff like this gives me the ability to combat bad teaching my people are hearing without letting my pulpit get hijacked.

(Not saying everything Tucker said in this clip I reacted to = bad teaching, listen to ep)

5) If pastors refuse to help their people think Biblically through the issues of the day, someone else will help them think UNbiblically about them.

If godly people don't, godless people will.

6) It is counterintuitively an avenue for evangelism. One takeaway I had from watching the effect of Charlie Kirk's life was that what is often called "the culture war" can be a PLATFORM for the gospel, rather than a distraction from it.

7) Last year I read a book that touched on church leadership and pastoral ministry during the era of the American founding. Pastors leveraged Sundays to preach through books of the Bible, but many leveraged the mid-week gathering to teach their people about "Christian statesmanship" (applying Biblical principles to society, local politics, culture, etc.)

We accidentally backed into doing that with Live Free.

*All that to say, I GUARANTEE I'm doing it imperfectly and this is not going to be every pastor's "thing." I've always been drawn to "Christ and culture" thinking.

But I'm doing my imperfect best for the above reasons.

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@missionary_com Yes to sending faithful, mature m’s to the field. But this model assumes we send m’s where viable churches exist. Secondly we do not send missionaries to be another pastor in another church, we send to the lost so that new churches be planted and local leaders be developed.

[Dean Inserra @deaninserra]

Joyful people who believe it is a great day to be alive…

Hindrances to that:

- self-righteousness
-envy
-bitterness
-entitlement.

“A tranquil heart is life to the body…”

-- Proverbs 14:30 (CSB)

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

// Charles Spurgeon vs Karl Marx //

As socialism (aka "collectivism") gains steam in our nation, here's a lesser-known story about Charles Spurgeon...

Karl Marx moved to London during the height of Spurgeon's ministry and his followers started advocating for "Democratic Socialism."

Spurgeon recognized this as evil and confronted it in his preaching, saying this like this in a sermon on Isaiah 66...

"For many a year, by the grand old truths of the gospel, sinners were converted, and saints were edified, and the world was made to know that there is a God in Israel. But these are too antiquated for the present cultured race of superior beings! They are going to regenerate the world by Democratic Socialism, and set up a kingdom for Christ without the new birth or the pardon of sin. Truly the Lord has not taken away the seven thousand that have not bowed the knee to Baal
...
The latter-day gospel is not the gospel by which we were saved. To me it seems a tangle of ever-changing dreams. It is, by the confession of its inventors, the outcome of the period-the monstrous birth of a boasted "progress" —the scum from the cauldron of conceit. It has not been given by the infallible revelation of God—it does not pretend to have been. It is not divine—it has no inspired Scripture at its back.

It is, when it touches the Cross, an enemy! When it speaks of Him who died thereon, it is a deceitful friend. Many are its sneers at the truth of substitution - it is irate at the mention of the precious blood.

Many a pulpit, where Christ was once lifted high in all the glory of His atoning death, is now profaned by those who laugh at justification by faith. In fact, men are not now to be saved by faith but by doubt. Those who love the Church of God feel heavy at heart because the teachers of the people cause them to err. Even from a national point of view, men of foresight see cause for grave concern."

INTERESTINGLY, Marx lived in Paris, Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, and London.

All developed significant Communist movements, except one: London.

Why?

In part, because a significant pulpit was willing to confront it. Unleash the pulpits.

*First heard this from my friend @adam_t_james

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@sethswindle

[Coach Gus Malzahn @CoachGusMalzahn]

Felt like old times tonight!! 🍢

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@MoneyGram no email updates and you shut down your customer service lines? This has been over 24 hours we need some type of clarity.

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

Big thanks to @MONEYBALL24 for hooking me up with some @baptistufl gear before heading back to Peru! #bufgoesglobal

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

Which QB would you rather have for your team- J.J. McCarthy or Michael Penix Jr? 🤔

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@DocStaples Eventually it has to move to 16 team playoff and bowl games disappear.

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@KirkHerbstreit

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

Next year’s college football season should just start with a playoff of who the committee thinks are the best teams and all other games afterward we give out participation trophies and don’t keep the score.

[Tate @TateRodemaker]

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[Fifth Quarter 🍢FSU 🍢 @fifthquarterfsu]

RIP to the Pirate

Truer words were never spoken

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@micahfries

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

This is the most Messi thing ever #GOAT

[Major League Soccer @MLS]

LIONEL ANDRÉS MESSI IS NOT HUMAN.

[Jim Wells @JimWells88]

@NBCSportsSoccer 🙄