Steve L Porter

Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of the Martin Institute, Westmont College; Affiliate Professor of Spiritual Formation, Biola University

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I didn’t realize this podcast is called “Something’s Not Right.” That’s exactly right!

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Important conversation on formation in the local church with Formation Space Podcast.

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Enjoyed this Winsome conviction podcast with Rick Langer: Doing Jesus Things The Jesus Way - Winsome Conviction - Biola University https://t.co/MQlHKzrRNC

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Richard Lovelace references a “ladder.” “Ladders are always intimidating, and it is my suspicion that Christians should always assume that they start each day at the top of the ladder in contact with God and renew this assumption whenever they appear to have slipped a rung.”

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What’s that Reese’s peanut butter cup slogan? Two great tastes that taste great together? Well, here are three great friends who write great together.

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@eng_Scrptr Great to be with you, Nijay, and Sandra Richter.

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A couple weeks ago I was in a 2-day discussion at Anthropic about the ethics of AI. To whatever the degree there’s a threat, I believe it’s due more to the failure of the church to be who we were meant to be than it is the technology.

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Excited to be representing ⁦@Westmont⁩ Martin Institute at a convening on faith, formation, and AI at Anthropic headquarters in San Francisco. Good people asking good questions.

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Practicing community is crucial: Westmont's @conversatiodiv examines how we are called to love our neighbor, to act as the “Body of Christ” to one another, and to be formed in the image and likeness of God.

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[The Center for Christianity and Public Life @CCPublicLife]

"The 'inner room' is finally the inner room of the heart. You can pray in your closet and still pray like a hypocrite. And you can stand before a crowd and pray with genuine sincerity."

CCPL's Director of Christian Civic Formation, Chris Butler (@Christhecitizen), writes for The Heart of the Public about the place of prayer in public life.

Read more: https://t.co/bJbfxwXgwV

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Blessings to James M. Houston. Pioneer of the Protestant Spiritual Formation Movement.

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Looking forward to participating in the Teleios Conference @OblateSchool in San Antonio tomorrow through Saturday.

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Martin Institute Dallas Willard Book Award Finalists
@DallasAWillard @Westmont @ivpress @eerdmansbooks @Zondervan @crossway
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Coming to have knowledge of Christian spiritual formation does not automatically transform us, but it removes one of the main ways we avoid transformation. If I don’t know how to stay on the narrow path, I can easily justify my wandering.

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Living Without Fear: Dallas Willard teaches about overcoming fear of condemnation, fear of death and the fear of bad things happening to you in this audio from Westmont's @conversatiodiv https://t.co/9qZejbkPhO

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I worry that all the talk of “flourishing” can leave us with the idea that the way of Jesus is obviously consistent with gourmet dinners, luxurious vacations, and retiring comfortably. If it is consistent, it is not obviously so.

[The Center for Christianity and Public Life @CCPublicLife]

Our public life is marked by noise, distrust, and deep division. Too often, our engagement becomes reactive and antagonistic.

In this moment, CCPL’s President and CEO, @MichaelRWear, invites Christians to attend to our inner lives by taking up the practices of silence and solitude as essential disciplines for our time.

This is a call to resist the habits that deform us, to recover the capacity to truly hear God and our neighbors, and to cultivate hearts shaped for the public good.

Answer the call at https://t.co/NfImPxDpnT

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@KyleStrobel @talbottheology @BakerAcademic Looking forward to taking in Kyle and John’s collected wisdom.

[Chris Butler @Christhecitizen]

My latest in @CTmagazine.

“Contempt also offers a counterfeit sense of community that’s forged around shared grievance…It tells us we don’t need to build anything beautiful to belong. We just need to hate the right people”

https://t.co/d2ZLwZPjZs