Rick Whitmer

Jesus lover. Visionary, intentional, leader-strategist for: my marriage, my kids, and Christian ministry. I pursue excellence.

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We refuse shallow faith.
We refuse thorny Christianity as normal.
We refuse to make peace with compromise.
We refuse to lower the words of Jesus to fit our lives.
But we also refuse shame, despair, and self-salvation.

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church cannot be reduced to watching the Super Bowl. It is more like joining the team, practicing together, eating together, being corrected, enduring together, and being sent together.

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A small kindness ever encourage you? ✨

If God puts someone in your path who needs encouragement, send that text, give that coffee or cupcake or hug, sit with them.

Seemingly small acts of kindness go far. 🌤️

#YouAreNotAlone
#FindingHope
#HopeInHardTimes
#FaithOverFear

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You belong to the One who bought you.
And that is either unbearable or beautiful depending on whether you trust the Buyer.
If Jesus is a tyrant, that is terrifying.
But if Jesus is the crucified and risen King who gave Himself for you, then belonging to Him is life.

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You are loved so deeply that Christ purchased you with His own blood, and now your whole life belongs to Him.
That is unbelievably offensive to the modern self — and unbelievably freeing to the surrendered heart.

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@PhilCooke They’re leaving the church because they were never discipled.

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@christopheryuan @McJuggerNuggets Lead on, Christopher. This is evil, murder and tone deaf.

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@Sean_McDowell You ask what I think? Who cares what I think. God is God, and I am not. We chose sin and its consequences, not a perfect and all-loving God.

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Modern American church leaders to today’s teens and young adults:

“You clearly want Acts.
We can’t give you Acts.
Here’s a cruise and a girlfriend…?”

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@ericmetaxas And yet the early Church faced all of this and more, and changed the entire culture by winning hearts with the Gospel.

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@ericmetaxas No. It’s a 50/50 issue over which hour. Later or earlier. This is not a 90/10 issue, Eric. Leave it status quo.

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@christopheryuan Lead on! Focus should cut and paste.

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How P*rnography Affects Women - from body image to self-worth

🚨Triggers: ab*se, self-h*rm, r*pe, tr*fficking

Annalisa shares her story of hurt & hope. More in new 🎙️! 🎧

#HerStory #HealingJourney #MyStory #GodsLove #PornExposureAwareness
#Hope #thriveinthemess

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Living with a Miracle, Trusting God with our Child - We're not promised tomorrow. We have to be ready. We can choose to trust God or not.
More in our latest ep 🎙️
#beautifulmess
#thriveinthemess #chronicillness #trachkid #hopeinthehard #rarebutreal #OneDayAtATime #YouAreNotAlone

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@elonmusk How great is our God!

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The Value of Apologizing to Your Child – “A child needs to see as a parent we know we were wrong. I’d say, ‘I’m sorry Mommy talked like that, or said that. I shouldn’t have responded that way.’”
#parenting #motherhood #fatherhood #thriveinthemesspodcast

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“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today
Is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips
Then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.
That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
What if I stumble, what if I fall.”
@dctalkofficial

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Thrive In The Mess means a Blooper Reel! 🤪 😂

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#thriveinthemess

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Podcast out! Life can be messy! But we don’t walk through the mess alone. Join some authentic conversations with laughter, hope, & faith.
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