Yes, the bump before the pull. A lot of stuff here. FWIW, I lean away from concluding stuff like this is intentional, same as with the horrible Brooks foul in Game 2.
More film work and decisions for the league office on Jordan Poole’s reach and apparent grabbing of Ja Morant’s right knee. Morant is undergoing evaluation now after leaving game with a limp.
To preach the Gospel without calling people to a holy life undermines the Gospel.
Jesus died and rose to create a people who follow Him in loving obedience.
We are saved by grace alone, but saving grace is never alone.
Obedience to Jesus is not legalism, it is Gospel worship.
A fish absorbs oxygen from water, not air, so it's free only if it is restricted to water. If a fish is ‘freed’ from the river and put out on the grass its freedom to move and even live is destroyed. Real freedom is finding the right restrictions, the ones you were designed for.
“Paul returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:21–22
Baby Christian lesson: You must suffer.
MLJ to preachers:
Whenever you allow your relationship to the truth to become purely theoretical, you are falling into the grip of Satan.
If you do not feel as much of a desire to sing when you're alone in your study as when you're standing in the pulpit, you are in bad shape.
This great article by Philip Gorski- "Where Do Morals Come From"- shows that secular theories cannot account for ethical life. I.e.- no one really believes their moral values are socially constructed or produced by evolution--even if they claim it. https://t.co/ucz0v4ySsu
Our pleasure and our duty,
Though opposite before;
Since we have seen his beauty,
Are joined to part no more:
It is our highest pleasure,
No less than duty’s call;
To love him beyond measure,
And serve him with our all.
- John Newton