Kyle Hoffsmith

Family Ministry Pastor @oldnorth_church// reader//runner//Cleveland and Philadelphia sports fan//co-host of the Word in Youth Ministry podcast

[Kyle Hoffsmith @Kyle_Hoffsmith]

Youth Pastor: the noun pastor is more important than the adjective youth.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Desire not emotion to feel God. Rather desire God, and you might feel His presence.

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

Spiritual shipwreck rarely happens in a moment.

More often, it is a slow drift from the course Jesus set for us.

Hymenaeus, Philetus, Phygelus, and Hermogenes once ministered w/ Paul.

Demas once loved the world to come.

Judas heard all of Jesus's sermons.

Beware of drifting.

[Mitch Chase @mitchellchase]

Today marks another full month that my Biblical Theology site has been up and running.

Why not subscribe? It has a ton of content over these past 14 months. My profile points the way.

And if you've found the articles helpful, pointing others to the content is much appreciated!

[Kyle Hoffsmith @Kyle_Hoffsmith]

I’m thankful for this great conversation with @challies about training teenagers to suffer as Christians on the @CPYU Word in Youth Ministry Podcast. Such an important topic and helpful conversation. I hope it encourages you as you minister to students!

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Judging a church worship service based on how it made you feel is one key sign it wasn't God you were going there to worship.

[Dane Ortlund @daneortlund]

Praying without an open Bible is talking to God;
praying with an open Bible is talking with God.

[Bobby Jamieson @bobby_jamieson]

“Time spent in prayer is never time lost.” - Mark Dever

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

One of the reasons I try not to make fun of Pentecostals and Dispensationalists is that the Lord used a man who was both to save my mother.

In 1969, she was a 23-year-old sixth-grade public school teacher in California. Some of her students were using drugs, and she wanted to help them but didn't know how.

A fellow teacher told her about a speaker who was working with teenagers to help them turn their lives around. She brought several students to hear him speak.

It was David Wilkerson (1931–2011). In 1962, at the age of 31, he had written a bestseller, The Cross and the Switchblade, a memoir of his ministry to gang members in New York City. In 1970 it would be turned into a movie starring Pat Boone as Wilkerson and Erik Estrada as Nicky Cruz.

My mother—who grew up in an Italian-American home on Long Island, occasionally attending an Episcopal church—had never heard the story of salvation before: that God saves sinners who repent of their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

She thought about Wilkerson's message for several weeks.

At a ski party a month later, on February 14, she went out in the cold and snow by herself and looked up and prayed: “I don’t know you, God. I don’t know who Jesus is and the Holy Spirit that that guy talked about. BUT . . . if what that man said is true, somehow show me.”

She didn’t see any fireworks. She didn't feel all that different. She just went inside where everyone was partying.

But God began a work in her that night. She soon sensed abiding peace and an unquenchable thirst for God's Word. The Christian principal of her public school began discipling her.

There's not a single day of my life when she has not prayed for me. There's not a single day when she is not in the Word. I am a blessed man, beyond all measure.

Happy Valentine's Day, Mom, and happy spiritual birthday.

#HeSavesUs

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

Time cannot heal all wounds.

But Jesus can.

Bring your pain to Him.

He is making all things new.

[SBC History @SBCHistory]

OTD in 1950, Dr Bill Wallace, 43 years old, was found dead in his jail cell in China where was arrested while serving as an @IMB_SBC missionary. Read more about this faithful man at https://t.co/sDN7mDoeSr

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

"I may forget God, but He will never forget me." - elderly sister suffering from dementia

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

What is Jesus doing in heaven right now?

He is...

Seated as our King and Priest (Heb. 8:1)

Mediating the New Covenant (Heb. 9:15)

Preparing the believer's eternal home (Jn. 14:2)

Interceding on our behalf (Rom. 8:34)

Awaiting the Father's command to come for us (Heb. 10:13)

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

When @GregGilbert visited a Christian bookstore in a closed country.

Powerful insight.

[Kyle Hoffsmith @Kyle_Hoffsmith]

If we expect at students to have a biblical marriage later, then we need to teach them what the Bible says about marriage today. I enjoyed this conversation with Dr Jim Newheiser of @ReformTheoSem the CPYU Word in Youth Ministry Podcast. https://t.co/m0tr3oAe27

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Michael Jordan shooting a free throw with his eyes closed, 1991

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

"Judas heard all Christ's sermons." - Thomas Goodwin

Let us not be satisfied with hearing the Word.

Lord, help us to receive, believe, and apply it.

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

Didn't you call your wife from the sideline phone..

"We were winning and I was wondering if I could make an outside call from that phone..

I dialed up my house and said what are you doing" 😂😂 @JoeMontana #PMSLive

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Baker Mayfield at the Pro Bowl Games: "My last pass I threw was to Derrick Barnes in Detroit." 🏈😂

[Ligon Duncan @LigonDuncan]

"Jesus is the embodiment of all that the temple was intended to be."

~ Dr. @michaeljkruger, A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the New Testament: The Gospel Realized (p. 118). @crossway @ReformTheoSem

[Sports Spectrum @Sports_Spectrum]

“My identity can’t be in football, it can’t be in the things of this world, it’s got to be in Him.” — 49ers QB Brock Purdy

https://t.co/d4lC4y4dNV