Tim of the Cross

I’m a Christian man who believes the Bible and seeks by God’s grace to follow its teachings. Son of the American Revolution. Reformata et semper reformanda.

[Tim of the Cross @TPaulAll87]

Jesus Christ, as my Savior, accepted me.

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Mat? What mat?

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@Protestia I notice he’s not pouring coffee on the stage. Does that mean the stage is not meant to be used? 🤣🤣

[5 Solas @5Solas]

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[Tim of the Cross @TPaulAll87]

I shared this with the young men of our church not long ago. Young men are eager to learn and they took these admonitions to heart.

[J.C. Ryle @jcryle]

5 Dangers For Young Men by J.C. Ryle

1. Pride
“Young men, do not be too confident in your own judgment. Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don’t trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men, and especially to that of your own parents. Age gives experience, and therefore deserves respect.”

2. Love of Pleasure
“Youth is the time when our passions are strongest, and like unruly children, cry most loudly for indulgence. Youth is the time when we have generally our most health and strength: death seems far away, and to enjoy ourselves in this life seems to be everything. ‘I serve lusts and pleasures’, that is the true answer many a young man should give if asked, ‘Whose servant are you?'”

3. Thoughtlessness
“Not thinking is one simple reason why thousands of souls are thrown away forever into the Lake of Fire. Men will not consider, will not look ahead, will not look around them, will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present days, and wake up to find they are damned for a lack of thinking. Young men, none are in more danger of this than yourselves. You know little of the perils around you, and so you are careless how you walk. You hate the trouble of serious, quiet thinking, and so you make wrong decisions and bring upon yourselves much sorrow.”

4. Contempt of Religion
“This also is one of your special dangers. I always observe that none pay so little outward respect to Christianity as young men. None take so little part in our services, when they are present at them, use Bibles so little, sing so little, listen to preaching so little. None are so generally absent at prayer meetings, Bible Studies, and all other weekday helps to the soul. Young men seem to think they do not need these things, they may be good for women and old men, but not for them. They appear ashamed of seeming to care about their souls: one would almost fancy they considered it a disgrace to go to heaven at all.”

5. Fear of Man’s Opinion
“It is terrible to observe the power which the fear of man has over most minds, and especially over the minds of the young. Few seem to have any opinions of their own, or to think for themselves. Like dead fish, they go with the stream and tide. What others think is right, they think is right; and what others call wrong, they call wrong too. There are not many original thinkers in the world. Most men are like sheep, they follow a leader. If it was the fashion of the day to be Roman Catholics, they would be Roman Catholics, if it was to be Islamic, they would be Islamic. They dread the idea of going against the current of the times. In a word, the opinion of the day becomes their religion, their creed, their Bible, and their God.”

[Tim of the Cross @TPaulAll87]

John 15:16

“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

[Tim of the Cross @TPaulAll87]

The only one who ever started a church was Jesus Christ himself.

[hbcharlesjr @hbcharlesjr]

Good morning. The Lord be with you today.

[Wretched with Todd Friel @WretchedNetwork]

When pastors refuse to preach God's Word with authority, congregations drift into wickedness and face eternal ruin apart from Christ.

[Tim of the Cross @TPaulAll87]

Psalm 118:24

“This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

[Tim of the Cross @TPaulAll87]

@ScottRoberts You lost me at “KLOVE.”

[Wretched with Todd Friel @WretchedNetwork]

Wrinkles and bodily aches are not purposeless accidents. God sovereignly orchestrates human aging to loosen our grip on earth and ready us for heaven.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.” John 6:37

“Yours they were, and you gave them to me.” John 17:6

This is the precious reality of election, irresistible grace, and perseverance all in one.

All he owns are elect. All the elect will come. All who come are kept.

[Tim of the Cross @TPaulAll87]

“[H]uman precepts and teachings … have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.”

—Colossians 2:22b-23

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@WICKED_Queen12 I remember when Wi-Fi was just starting to become a thing. The interim was DSL.

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Remember it well and, as odd as it sounds, fondly.

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@GenXTalks1 Don’t go swimming less than an hour after eating.

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Property taxes should work like unicorns. They shouldn’t exist in the first place.

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Purify the Church.