Ryan Smith

Coram Deo.
A husband, father, pastor, and friend.
Learning to be present while seeking His presence.
Ps 104:5

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

@Alice_MiaX Dallas Willard quote I love “Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning”

[Oklahoma Football @OU_Football]

TOP-FIVE TAKEDOWN IN T-TOWN

[Mark Hallock @MarkHallock]

The pastorate will crush any man who isn't anchored in and regularly refreshed by the truth of the Gospel. I don't care how gifted a speaker or leader he is, how intellectually astute or go-getterish. He will not be able to shepherd the flock apart from Gospel-thick thinking and living.

- B.A. Purtle

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

Thunder are CHAMPIONS!!!
#ThunderUp

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

#ThunderUp

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

THE THUNDER ARE BACK IN THE FINALS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2012 🔥

A new Big 3 and a new chance to bring a championship to OKC ⚡

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

SGA IS YOUR 2024-25 NBA MVP 🏆⚡️

32.7 PPG | 6.4 APG | 5.0 RPG

OKC GOT ONE 🌟

(via @ShamsCharania)

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

“God’s grace does not find those it is to choose, but makes them fit to be chosen” - Augustine

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

“That God would lay down His life for another.”

Can we even comprehend this kind of love?

https://t.co/CZivA6dB63

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

You are not the author of your life; God is. Every aspect of it—every location, situation, relationship, triumph, defeat, sunny day, and dark night—was written into his sovereign book before you took your first breath. Your story has been written by the wise, powerful, and gracious hand of the King of kings.

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

God wants you to be holy. Through faith he already counts you holy in Christ. Now he intends to make you holy with Christ. https://t.co/8n8BVxeTXI

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

@vulturetrades Ai

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

“There will be three effects of nearness to Jesus:
1. humility
2. happiness
3. holiness.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

@LEAPTRADER_ Nice! Checklist.

[Ryan Smith @RyanJaySmith]

@vulturetrades Script

[DallasAWillard @DallasAWillard]

There is no one, no matter how far down on the human scale they may be, that cannot be blessed if they will receive the kingdom through faith in Jesus Christ. No one. #DallasWillard #TheScandalOfTheKingdom

[John Starke @john_starke]

At the core of a Christian ethic is love, even for our enemies. Not celebrating their views, not affirming all their positions, but you must love.

You cannot practice Christian morality and use the Enemy’s weapons of slander and mockery. This is not soft, it’s cruciform.

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Man, the local church is just the best thing going!

[Jeff Wiesner @JeffreyPWiesner]

This pandemic of pastoral disqualifications should probably compel more pastors to give up platform-building “for the gospel” and embrace a kind of evangelical anonymity instead.

Love and be known by the Lord…your wife…kids…church…close friends.

And let that be enough.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

God’s discipline is a sign of his perfectly faithful father-like love, not a tool of his condemnation.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved by it — moved by who God is and what He has done for you.