Tom Mammen

Reformed Baptist

[Gary Brecka @thegarybrecka]

The healthiest people I know all have one thing in common:

They've made the basics automatic.

Sunlight.
Strength training.
Protein.
Sleep.
Hydration.
Walking.

[Tom Mammen @TomMammen]

#Henno

[No Compromise Radio @nocoradio]

Tiber?

[Tom Mammen @TomMammen]

@sanderson1611 You need to step down from the Pastor Role 1 Timothy 3: 4,5-“leading his own household well, having his children in submission with all dignity, but if a man does not know how to lead his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?”

[R. Scott Clark @RScottClark]

God the Son becoming incarnate is kind of a big deal. Read Hebrews very slowly and carefully. It refutes dispensationalism. They two were tempted to put Moses and national Israel at the center of the story.

The great point of the book of Hebrews is to say that it is not Moses or national Israel to whom they should be looking but to Christ. He is the fulfillment of all the promises. Hebrews literally says that Moses works for Jesus. Dispensationalism gets this 180° wrong.

This series will help.

https://t.co/1NVOwgejtA

[Sean DeMars @DemarsSean]

Grab hold of specific God honoring thoughts, and then refuse to let them go, turning them over and over in the mind until eventually, they work their way into the heart.

- Matthew Bingham, on Christian meditation

[Phil Johnson @Phil_Johnson_]

Spurgeon has a word for young preachers and amateur theologians who eschew the use of commentaries and other reference works in their study of Scripture.

[ⁿᵉʷˢ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJc]

Vitamin D is a master hormone that controls 200+ genes.

It turbocharges immunity, crushes inflammation, builds strong bones, & may slash risks of cancer & heart disease

Yet 40-50% of Americans are severely deficient.

If you can't get sun, you should be supplementing.

MAHA

[Mike Riccardi @MikeRiccardi_]

Christian maturity is not less than accurate knowledge of Scripture and theology, but it is more than that.

Those who care most for sound doctrine are susceptible to the temptation to divorce sound doctrine from sound living.

But if the truth hasn’t changed you, you don’t know as you ought to know.

[Tom Mammen @TomMammen]

@charlesSAMUEL_ @ZachWLambert

[Tom Mammen @TomMammen]

@robsgray Praying 🙏🏽

[Robert S Gray @robsgray]

The Cross Country Evangelism Jamaica Outreach 2026 begins...tracts are plenty, Bibles are at the ready, the amp charged. Lord please fill your preachers with Holy Spirit power to preach Christ crucified & give the people ears to hear & hearts to understand the gospel! Save souls!

[JD Vance @JDVance]

You see a lot claims that Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs because most of the fentanyl comes from elsewhere. I want to address this:

First off, fentanyl isn't the only drug in the world and there is still fentanyl coming from Venezuela (or at least there was).

Second, cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the Latin America cartels. If you cut out the money from cocaine (or even reduce it) you substantially weaken the cartels overall. Also, cocaine is bad too!

Third, yes, a lot of fentanyl is coming out of Mexico. That continues to be a focus of our policy in Mexico and is a reason why President Trump shut the border on day one.

Fourth, I see a lot of criticism about oil. About 20 years ago, Venezuela expropriated American oil property and until recently used that stolen property to get rich and fund their narcoterrorist activities. I understand the anxiety over the use of military force, but are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don't act like that.

The United States, thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a great power again. Everyone should take note.

[Duff @dgh5391]

"The patristic fathers are ours, contrary to what the papists claim."

~ J. Calvin, Institutes, Preface, Letter to the King of France

[Benjamin L. Gladd @DrGladd]

"You do not have to be of the bloodline of Abraham to be his true child, nor do you have to move to Israel geographically to become an Israelite; you merely have to move to Jesus, true Israel, and embrace him."

-G.K. Beale

[Duff @dgh5391]

This playlist literally changed my life. I came across it while I was cage stage presuppositionalism and consuming postmillennial media.

Riddlebarger's teaching stopped me in my tracks, and helped reorient my eschatology. @KimRiddlebarger
https://t.co/jEcnMFi7hW

[Scott R. Swain @scottrswain]

Lord, give us an army of Matthew Henrys, mighty in the scriptures, well-trained in scriptural doctrine and piety, in applying the scriptures to all stations of the Christian life: domestic, civil, and ecclesiastical (cf Matt 9:37-38).

[Jeff Early @Jeff1Early]

I remember watching a Ligoneir Q & A shortly before moving for seminary. Sinclair Ferguson was asked what advice he would give a younger version of himself and he said, “I only wish I’d known my Bible better so I might have been of use to people.”

I knew then and there that I needed to know my Bible A LOT better, especially if I was going to go into ministry.

My first semester in seminary I committed that I would read the whole Bible 4x that year. I have not kept quite that pace but last night I completed my 21st read through of the Bible in the last 7 years.

This discipline requires reading anywhere from 10-15 chapters a day and takes anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour total each day.

Here is how I do it:

1. I keep a print Bible on my person at all times. I do not try and read for 40 minutes straight at any single point in my day but I read 1-3 chapters as I find time, usually at transition points in my day.

2. I do not attempt to read cover to cover or chronological. I typically have 3 different sections I’m working through at the same time. Being in different parts of the scripture through the day helps to not get bogged down in genealogies, land divisions, etc.

3. I do not feel tied to a particular translation. I usually do my readings from the ESV, but I will often reach for the old KJV, and occasionally the NASB or NKJV just to keep things fresh.

4. I also use multiple different lay outs. Maybe it’s just me, but looking at different fonts and lay outs also helps keep the reading experience fresh. That said, my favorite is the single column paragraph format ESV Clarion by Cambridge bibles.

5. I track it all using an app called: “Bible Box,” that I believe is only available for iPhone. You tell the app the date you want to finish reading by and it gives you a customized reading plan for each day. I don’t pay much attention to *what* chapters it tells me to read (it always works “cover to cover”) but *how many*.

For example if it tells me I have to read 1 Chronicles chapters 1-12 I might read chapters 1-2, then check off a few chapters from Isaiah, and finish out in the gospel according to John. The app will take into account the chapters I actually did read and recalculate the plan accordingly.

Further let’s say I have a day where I don’t complete the full amount of reading. Maybe I only get 1 or 2 chapters in out of the 10-15. The app does not make me read an extra 10 chapters the next day to get me “back on track.” It spreads out the chapters I missed across the duration of the plan so that you don’t get crushed if you fall behind.

You don’t have to read the Bible multiple times in a single year, you don’t even have the whole Bible in a single year (though that is far more achievable than many think). But you ought to be reading God’s Word every day and these are just some ways to read your Bible *more* in the new year.

“It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Matthew 4:4

[Tom Mammen @TomMammen]

@MbtR10_7 @MMetaphysician “Trust me , he knows.” What books have you read on the Trinity? Guaranteed none.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”