Josh Couts

Disciple of Christ, husband to my beautiful wife, and father of three amazing kids and just trying to walk by faith.

[challies @challies]

"One grain of faith is better than a gallon of tears. A drop of genuine repentance is more precious than a torrent of weeping." (Charles Spurgeon)

[Desiring God @desiringGod]

“Let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.” —Hebrews 12:28–29

[Justin Irving @lead2purpose]

“Healthy pastors will lead healthy churches and ministries because they have learned to lead themselves first.” - Mark Dance

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

~1 Timothy 6:12

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

"Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God's assignment to serve others. And that is exactly how the Bible teaches us to view work."

~Tim Keller

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

We don’t fail in our evangelism when we faithfully tell the gospel and yet the person is not converted. We fail in our evangelism when we don’t faithfully tell the gospel at all.

—Mark Dever

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

“Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; but the Father, for love!”

~Octavius Winslow

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

~Proverbs 14:12

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

“To know that nothing happens in God’s world apart from God’s will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.”

-JI Packer

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

“Jesus is the fountain, ocean, and center of all delights and joys!”

~John Flavel

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

"Even when things look anything but divinely ordered, He is still there."

~Elisabeth Elliot

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

“Our religion will be unprofitable if it does not change our heart, pervade our manners, and transform us into new creatures.”

~John Calvin

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

~2 Corinthians 4:16

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

“Fire came from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell facedown.” - Leviticus 9:24 CSB

[Diana @espinoza_dy]

“Your justification isn’t hanging on a thread of your performance…
You can experience freedom from your past guilt because you’ve been liberated of your past sins.”

—Danny Hyde

[Nathan W. Bingham @NWBingham]

Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you. —Sinclair Ferguson

[Randy Alcorn @randyalcorn]

We were made to find our happiness in God—not apart from Him. “Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, NLT). https://t.co/hPsHnCnvmh

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.” Ephesians 4:22

Since desires can deceive, they are no measure of truth.

[Josh Couts @JoshCouts1]

Grace is not a ‘thing.’ Sinclair Ferguson explains in an interview:

“...there isn’t a thing, a substance, or a ‘quasi-substance’ called ‘grace.’ All there is is the person of the Lord Jesus—‘Christ clothed in the gospel,’ as John Calvin loved to put it.”