Kevin Smith

Born and raised in West Philly.

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

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[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@LondonHatch Uni-ball Jetstream. Very smooth

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

John 1:1, 14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@LondonHatch It was joining an upper middle class church of mostly White disciples of Jesus in downtown Philly in 1990. The church was 10th Presbyterian and the pastor was James Boice. The Lord used that decision to radically alter and bless our lives for the last 3 decades plus. Who knew?

[Miroslav Volf @MiroslavVolf]

The main temptation is not to reject God outright, but to embrace God as something secondary and use God as an instrument for our own ends.

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

For weary pastors: remember that ministry is seasonal. It won't always feel like this. Perseverance in the hard times is often the pathway to breakthrough. Consider Elijah waiting in I Kings 17 before I Kings 18. Without Zarephath, there would be no fire at Mt. Carmel.

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@gavinortlund Needed to hear this urgently. Thank you brother. Jesus is worthy, even of our pain. Our suffering is not the last word over us; glory is.

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

When You Say Nothing at All. Thank you brother DeYoung. I pray Christians will give this a prayerful read and apply it. So needed. Ideas I have tried to express to my congregation but you did it better. May the Lord Jesus direct us to seek His Kingdom. https://t.co/vcNCjq4ra6

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@K_A_Ellis Truly beautiful. Every music therapist I know is rejoicing.

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

Ravi Zacharias was a great man of God whose writings and lectures blessed my soul. He was used by God to strengthen my faith in the reality of God and His Christ. He will be greatly missed. To Jesus be the glory for his life and ministry. Rest well dear brother

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

Ravi Zacharias Dies of Cancer | News & Reporting | Christianity Today https://t.co/Bfp3aGEj3h

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

Evangelicals tend to want to focus only on our inner spiritual lives. Christ’s Gospel becomes only about my ticket to heaven (Col 1:19-20; Matt 5:13-16). This kind of thinking is certainly safer. But it fails to be all that the Gospel is meant to be. It fails the mission.

[Lesslie Newbigin @LesslieNewbigin]

It is a terrible misunderstanding of the Gospel to think that it offers us salvation while relieving us of responsibility for the life of the world, for the sin and sorrow and pain with which our human life and that of our fellow men and women are so deeply interwoven.

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@ThabitiAnyabwil Obviously my dear brother Thabiti doesn’t realize that grits are a hot cereal hence sugar and butter are appropriate 🤔

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

My dear sister in Christ has given us some wisdom. Thank you Lisa

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@ericmetaxas Do you believe the Spirit of the Lord Jesus lead you to tweet something so sarcastic and insensitive?

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@CoachTrimiew @LondonHatch Yes had excerpts from his writings. Sadly no one told me about his racism, only how great he was. I came across Thornwell’s racist writings first and then heard about Dabney. Felt a bit deceived by all these Reformed teachers and theologians who held him up as a Christian hero

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@JeremyVogan @scottsauls Jeremy, that is what many White Evangelicals said as the American church took part in the slave trade, Jim Crow and the extinction of Native Americans. Somehow we don’t get what it means to love our neighbor as ourselves. Our holy lives and lips should humbly expose evil & sin

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

Agree. I would add that just like our apologetics our preaching should come with “gentleness & respect.” (1 Pet 3:15) Otherwise we end being being right and wrong at the same time. This limits the good effects of our preaching. Certainly dishonors our God, who is truth and love.

[Burk Parsons @BurkParsons]

No cowardly minister who is afraid to declare the whole Word of God lest he give offense, or interfere with his popularity, has any right in any Christian pulpit. He is simply a disgrace to it and a stench in the nostrils of Jehovah. Francis Grimké (HT: @challies)

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

@diggedyfresh There goes some of my best excuses not to work out. Crap!

[Kevin Smith @SmithRevkev64]

Our devotion to Jesus is meant to be greater than our devotion to anyone or anything else. This is a real test particularly for American Christians.

[Kevin DeYoung @RevKevDeYoung]

There will come a time, sooner than we may like, when we will have to make a choice between faithfulness to God and popularity with the world.