Bryon Self

Follower of Jesus, Husband to Samantha, Pastor at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, Maryland

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

The best way to convince people you aren’t praying before a golden idol would be to not pray before a golden idol.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Southern Baptists can be proud that their @ERLC was one of the few notable Christian groups to stand in opposition to Casey Means' nomination as Surgeon General. https://t.co/xkSStJgvRH

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@lukestamps This is very true in a lot of the local church plants in my area. Grateful for them, and (Lord-willing) I’ll see the Lord move in my church for more of the same! 🙏🏻

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@bartbarber @CityAlight We sang it at my parents’ church 2-3 weeks after losing our 2nd in a miscarriage in 2021, & it’s been a constant source of comfort and grace since then.

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@RockWallBibles Keeping Wide-Margin, Study, and Thinline

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@JoshuaBarzon

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@JoshuaBarzon I’ve also seen multiple church plants seeking to evangelize the lost get their feet cut out from under them by these same individuals. 100% agree evangelism is more important than translation - but evangelism requires translation if you’re not sharing the Gospel in Greek.

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@JoshuaBarzon 8 or 7 would both be great spots!

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

DOJ redacted information necessary to identify who sent Epstein the “torture video email.”

@RepRoKhanna and I first discovered his name and released it Monday.

Today he resigns.

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@lukeholmes Glad to hear we’ve *always* been this way 😅

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@jaredcwilson As a Broncos fan, I’m broken. As a Jared Wilson fan, I’m super happy for you 😂

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@griffingulledge We’re doing the same this week (Friday evening service, broadcasting that on Sunday). I abhor canceling a service, but the certainty we’ve got of when the storm’s hitting & what its severity is this time made it easier.

[Bryon Self @SelfBryon]

@jaredcwilson @MBTS Sounds great!! I’d love to be a fly on the wall in that room.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.

'I feel all sleepy,' she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.

...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.

Roald Dahl, 1986

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

One of the reasons the “nevers” among the old school conservative world became “nevers” was that we predicted — accurately — that Trump’s insult comic, conspiratorial schtick would result in stuff like this. And we were precisely right.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The DOJ’s document dump of hundreds of thousands of pages failed to comply with the law authored by @RepThomasMassie and me.

One document, 119 pages of Grand Jury testimony, was completely redacted.

I explain what is missing and what the survivors and their lawyers are still expecting to be released.

[Marc Minter @marcminter]

Friends, if you invite your pastor to lunch or coffee, please tell him what you want to talk about... and be honest.

"Pastor, can we get lunch? I'd like to talk about..."

This helps him assess the urgency, and it may reduce unnecessary anxiety between now and the meeting.

[9Marks @9Marks]

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[Midwestern Seminary @MBTS]

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[Tim Chapman @TimChapman]

I loved my time at Heritage Action and was proud to be a co-founder of what was such an important part of the conservative movement. So I say this with respect and sadness:

There is nothing conservative about backing threats to a state’s federal funding because it declines to push a President’s own political agenda - that is unconstitutional and coercive to states.

What would conservatives say if a Democrat threatened states federal funding to redraw congressional maps?