Carl Peet ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

Christian | Husband | Father- 4 | Pastor | 1658 Savoy | Welshman | Christ Ruling + Reigning | Preach Christ + Him Crucified 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[Aaron Edwards @aaron_p_edwards]

"A huge part of the problem is that the average British person today can't tell the Christians apart from the non-Christians in everyday life because our lives look almost identical. One simple way that Christians in Britain can grow in boldness and show the reality of their faith to the world is by doing entirely normal Christian things in public again."

https://t.co/o3ELy8vOfn

[EFCC @efcc_uk]

Lord, have mercy on us.

[Carl Peet ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @RevCarlPeet]

@matt_everhard Thanks!!

[Chalcedon Foundation @RJRushdoony]

The problem is us.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD March 6, 1901:
Amy Carmichael, serving as a missionary in India, shelters her first temple runaway, a young girl dedicated to the Hindu gods and forced into prostitution to earn money for the priests. Founding the Dohnavur Fellowship, she rescued hundreds, raising them in a Christian refuge.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

"The countryside is not a slice of untilled nature. It is a human institution built over centuries in the image of the people who made it."

— Sir Roger Scruton

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Let's check in on Gerald the Planet Killer.

Gerald is a four-year-old Hereford cross in a field near Ledbury. He weighs about 600 kilograms. He has been busy this morning.

6:14am - Woke up. Began destroying the planet by eating grass.

7:02am - Continued environmental catastrophe by walking slowly toward the water trough.

8:45am - Committed a war crime against the atmosphere by exhaling.

9:30am - Did a pat. In a field. Where it will become part of a complex nutrient cycle that has been running successfully since before humans existed.

11:00am - Grazed a section of meadow, inadvertently aerating the soil with his hooves, spreading seeds in his dung, creating habitat for dung beetles, and sequestering carbon through the root systems his grazing stimulates.

Noon - Had a lie down.

The scientists monitoring Gerald's methane output have calculated that this methane, derived from grass pulled from British soil, is part of a carbon cycle that has been net neutral for ten thousand years of continuous cattle domestication.

They have not been asked to present this finding anywhere.

Gerald is unavailable for comment. He is destroying a particularly threatening patch of ryegrass on the south side of the field.

Someone stop him.

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.”

-Martin Luther

[Carl Peet ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @RevCarlPeet]

Boom!

[Carl Peet ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @RevCarlPeet]

Monday encouragement- press on!

[Brooks Potteiger @BrooksPotteiger]

Reforming Christian–in the fray and fighting for the good, true, and beautiful–you will take shrapnel. You will take slander. You will face resistance and reviling, that is, if you're doing it right. It's baked into the job description (John 15:18-25).

Remember, you are not allowed to fear.
You are not allowed to fall back.
You are not allowed to be shaken by what has no substance.
Nor fretful of what is fading.
It's against the Law.

Get these glad commands from Psalm 37 in your bones, and get after it with a redemptive swagger.

(Psalm 37:1–6)
1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
2 For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.
3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“Beware of placing even the smallest drop of your confidence in anything apart from the Gospel.”

-John Calvin

[Spurgeon Library @SpurgeonMBTS]

"The new converts put fresh blood into the veins of the church."

— Charles Spurgeon

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD March 1, 1744:
John Newton, the future author of Amazing Grace, is seized by a naval press gang while ashore in England and forced into service aboard a Royal Navy ship. The harsh conditions and discipline he endures at sea will shape his journey toward faith and later abolitionist efforts.

[sᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴀɴɪᴏʟ @ScottAniol]

Christianity is not self-improvement with Jesus sprinkled on top.

It is death and resurrection. The old man doesn't get better — he gets buried. Something entirely new rises in his place.

We keep selling the improvement version. No wonder it isn't working.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD February 28, 1944:
Nazi soldiers arrest Dutch Christian Corrie ten Boom and her family for sheltering Jews in their home. Though the hidden Jews escaped detection, Corrie and her family were sent to concentration camps. She was the only one to survive, later sharing her story in The Hiding Place, a testimony of faith and forgiveness.

[Aaron Edwards @aaron_p_edwards]

We could simply keep inviting people to our churches and hoping they will organically decide to go and disciple the nations the way our Christian forebears did

But that just isn’t what tends to happen. Why? Because in most churches people are taught simply to plough all their efforts into growing their own individual churches.

In the more liberal-leaning evangelical churches, there will be much talk of justice and social action, but never in a way that really means to pull up the socio-political trees that actually need pulling up, and certainly not to plant new trees that will last beyond their own revolutionary generation.

On the other side, in the more conservative-leaning evangelical churches, very little vision for kingdom societal transformation tends to be given beyond the call to stay faithful, make converts, and await the Second Coming.

But the Biblical vision is to actively bring God’s kingdom to bear upon our society, all the way up and all the way down. This is how we bring salt and light to the world, as Jesus called us to (Matt. 5:13-16); it’s also how we remain faithful to Him.

Evangelism remains crucial. But as we evangelise, we should be calling people into that transformational mission of the kingdom.

In practice, this means new converts must be taught that to believe in Christ is not merely to receive an individual benefit (e.g. eternal salvation). It is also to be summoned to be a benefit to the world by bringing Christ wherever they go, at all levels of society, for the sake of the world which God so loved that he gave His one and only son for it.

[Carl Peet ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @RevCarlPeet]

@aaron_p_edwards Great church.
He inhabits the praises of His people!

[Carl Peet ✝️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧 @RevCarlPeet]

@JustinPetersMin @p_billjohnson Unforeseen circumstances! #ProfitNotProphet