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Cristão! Marido. Pastor Presbiteriano. Corintiano.

[Augustus Nicodemus @augustuslopes]

Há dias em que você ora e o céu parece de bronze. Nenhuma resposta, nenhuma mudança. Mas o Deus das Escrituras não deixa de governar porque deixou de explicar. No silêncio, continuamos confiando: a providência de Deus não depende da nossa capacidade de entendê-la.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.” Isaiah 26:4

A rock, not the quicksands of chaos and uncertainty.
A rock, not the riptides of lust and greed.
A rock, not the flood-prone foundations of failed obedience.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Parenting is all about being God's ambassadors in the lives of our children. It's about faithfully representing his message, his methods, and his character. It's about working to make the invisible mercy of God visible as we respond with mercy toward our kids.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Our sin-dimmed eyes won't always see. Our finite minds won't always comprehend. Our fickle hearts won't always trust. Our timid souls won't always have faith. But God is willing to be bothered with our fear, doubt, and confusion.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

You and I simply don't have the ability to win on our own.
But, it’s not our job to succeed; it’s our job to respond to the call of God in each of the situations, locations, and relationships where he places us. His promise is that when we go, he goes with us. He'll never call us to a task without giving us what we need to succeed.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.” Nehemiah 8:8

Between the Book and the people God has always appointed worshipful explainers.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Throughout the Psalms, and in The Lord's Prayer, we're given 6 reasons why the Lord would ever answer us when we pray:

1. His Love: "Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good." (Psalm 69:16)
2. His Compassion: "Answer me, for I am poor and needy." (Psalm 86:1)
3. His Grace: "Be gracious to me and answer me!" (Psalm 27:7)
4. His Faithfulness: "Answer me in your saving faithfulness." (Psalm 69:13)
5. His Glory: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name." (Matthew 6:9)
6. His Kingdom: "Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:10)

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

God has filled this world with beauty.

The beauty of the created world was never meant to satisfy our hearts. It was never meant to be the beauty that we would give ourselves to search for, live for, cry for and die for.

Rather, the physical beauties of earth are meant to be SIGN BEAUTIES. Everything we see, touch, taste and hear is designed to be a sign that points to the ULTIMATE BEAUTY: the One who created the world and everything in it.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Mercy means we don't reject others, ignore them, scream at them, slam the door in their face and walk away.
Those are all the actions of judgement.
Mercy moves me towards others because I understand that they need God's rescue, and I have been called to be a first responder.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

There's an essential spiritual discipline - with specific ramifications for families - that often gets neglected: it's the spiritual discipline of saying no.

A family becomes a healthy family when members of that family say no. When husbands and fathers say no to indulging the flesh, the home becomes a safer place. When wives and mothers say no to the pleasures of sin, the family becomes a healthier unit. When brothers and sisters and children say no to themselves, they won't bite and devour each other - both literally and spiritually!

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Here are 7 exercises that strengthen your heart and spiritual muscles:
1. Regular study of the Bible
2. Consistent godly fellowship
3. Looking for God's glory in creation every day
4. Sitting under preaching and teaching of Scripture
5. Spending quiet moments reflecting on the goodness of God
6. Reading solid Christian books
7. Spending ample time in prayer

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

The biblical reality is that suffering can be an expression of God's goodness. He's committed to using every tool at his disposal – including pain and trouble - to rescue us from sin and shape us into the likeness of his Son.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

You and I are much like the Israelites. When life isn't working out according to our plan, or when we're suffering in some way, it's very tempting for us to bring God into the court of our judgement and question his power, faithfulness, wisdom and love.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

It's so important that we're thankful for the right reasons, and for the right things. I think many of us, myself included, have settled for a shallow and superficial thankfulness, missing out on the eternal reason to celebrate.
C.S. Lewis said so beautifully: "We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
Be thankful for the control, success, acceptance, comfort, pleasure and material things that God has blessed you with. But don't be "too thankful" or too easily pleased. No, celebrate what God is working to produce in you – a redeemed heart.
Your Lord is much, much more than just a divine gift giver. He is your sovereign Savior King.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

God's most significant objective in my life, from salvation until Jesus returns, is sanctification. We want our lives to be comfortable, successful, and predictable, but God is willing to compromise all of these in order to deal with our deepest difficulty: indwelling and remaining sin.

[Augustus Nicodemus @augustuslopes]

A tecnologia amplia o poder humano, mas não corrige o coração humano.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“Even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.” Psalm 71:18

Listen up, all you 70-somethings and 80-somethings: This is one reason you’re still here.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“He humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.” Deuteronomy 8:3

God’s appointed hunger and God’s appointed manna teach this: behind all of it is the will and the word of God, and our lives hang on that.

[Alan Rennê @alanrenne]

"A liderança do marido não consiste, primariamente, em desempatar questões ou resolver impasses; mas sim em ser o primeiro a amar, a servir, a se arrepender e a perdoar".

Tim Challies, citado em Nancy Pearcey. A Guerra Tóxica Contra a Masculinidade. Pilgrim, p. 91-92.

[Augustus Nicodemus @augustuslopes]

Os crentes de hoje veem o diabo em tudo: coca-cola, maionese, desenhos animados... Mas não conseguem ver o diabo em falsos profetas pregando heresias em suas igrejas.