Servant of Christ Jesus my Lord, Husband to Britney, Father of five, Pastor of Mount Zion Bible Church, “Chapel Library”, & VP of FirstLove Ministries,
@RonDeSantis Thank you Governor Desantis for the past 8 years of your leadership in the state of Florida. I am truly grateful to The Lord for your desire to govern intelligently, morally, and reliably under stress. From one sailor to another, Bravo Zulu, & Hooyah!
@kizziahai The self-authenticating nature of the scriptures alone provides this in our material world. The prophecies of scripture foretell hundreds of minute details of the coming and timing of Christ. Independently verifiable across the ages. Timeless.
@kizziahai If the kind of coherency you’re talking about is subjugated to the passage of time, conditioned upon it, and changed by it, then it ceases to be objective. It is too small of a sample size. Objective truth is of necessity immutable. Only an immutable eternal standard will suffice
@RealShahriqKhan Amen! He was tempted in everything, like as we are, yet never sinned! The Captain of our Salvation was made perfect through the things which he suffered on our behalf, so that he could be a faithful advocate and mediator.
@Eggsneedlove2@zeeemedia Good question. It’s not a matter of capacity. God could indeed guide an evolutionary process if he so chose. However, that was not the process he chose, but rather a literal 6-Day creation. Evolution contradicts the plain revelation of scripture.
@WesleyLHuff Thanks Wes for saying this.
The crucial role of Christ’s assembled church in this world is unique and exclusive to his people, and cannot be carried out except by communal participation in the means of grace and functional accountability to one another. Too many loners…
We must be very careful, as the recipients of the knowledge of The Holy, that we do not diminish the Almighty God down to some mere utility for our practical benefit. God is God, in awesome wonder, regardless of how we feel that fact may translate to our practical benefit.
Powerful and personal reflections from Francis Schaeffer on prayer, suffering, and the sovereignty of God during his battle with cancer in 1981:
"God is not a dispensing machine. God is a personal God, and I must allow Him to answer my prayers in the light of His wisdom instead of my limitedness."
Franky Schaeffer: "And that's not a cop-out?"
Schaeffer: "Not at all. It's rooted in the heart of all things and that is, He's infinite; I'm finite. I'll tell you something, nothing could terrify me more, and I'm being very serious, nothing could terrify me more than that I could ask for anything today and get it, because I don't know enough."
Franky: "Including, for your own health?"
Schaeffer: "Oh, absolutely. Just as much as for anything."
Franky: "Are you willing to say that as a person who, ok, let's face it, has cancer that's serious enough so it could be killing you?"
Schaeffer: "Yeah, of course...
If I could wave a wand or push a button and get rid of it, in one sense, of course I'd do it. Who wants cancer? Let's not kid ourselves. It's no pleasure to live with this thing on top my head all the time...
But on the other hand, more profoundly, I think I can honestly say sitting here that I would rather trust God's wisdom than mine."
In the best 2 min explanation of the gospel you’ll ever hear, Voddie Baucham tells us why the virgin birth was so important:
“Because if He’s born of ordinary generation, He’s born in sin … but because He’s not, He’s clean and His record is clean!”
1 Corinthians 2:1-2 (NASB95) 1 And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.