WS Allan

Jesus the way, the truth, the life. Saved by grace. Married, Ecumenical, Medicine, Analytical chemistry, History Stay curious stay faithful.

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

Matthew 25:40
And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

"The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of the heart, where the power of love replaces the love of power."

— Following Jesus

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

Happy 250th birthday!
Recorded June 6, 2026.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

Happy and grateful Fourth of July from Wheaton Illinois.

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

God wills freedom.
Two trees two choices.
Libertas.

Genesis 2:9
Out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

Psalm 118:5-6
Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me in a broad place. [6] With the LORD on my side I do not fear. What can mortals do to me?

[Justin Brierley @JusBrierley]

Happy 250th birthday to all our American friends! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Find out how 1776 created the post-Christian world in my conversation with @AJWTheology

👇 Watch at the link below

[Justin Brierley @JusBrierley]

GREAT OFFER: The kindle edition of my book 'The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God' is just $3.99 during this July, on all major eBook retailers (including Amazon)! 📲 🌊

Snap it up now! 👉 https://t.co/y8VxQ2mpIt

[Justin Brierley @JusBrierley]

@michaelshermer I have a new show Uncommon Ground where I’d be delighted to put you and @BishopBarron in conversation about this :-)

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

Philosophy finally makes sense. 😁

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

@WilliamMcgibney Amen.

[Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) @nofearinlove77]

“To be thankful when things go wrong is to proclaim that God is greater than our disappointments.”

— Life of the Beloved

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

Religious compartmentalization will always fail when pressure tested by the Holy Spirit, it cannot be contained.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship. Worship is grounding your significance and security in some object of love above all others.

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

Matthew 10:37
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Not stoic detachment but attachment to the Summum Bonum.
To escape the samsara of purposeless self replication.

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

@PopeLeoXIIIStan Sounds like borrowed from Hinduism.

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

@WilliamMcgibney 👍

[Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن @EveKeneinan]

Atheists really need to pick a lane.

Without God, the gods return.

And nobody sane wants that.

God renders the gods null.

It's not even hard to see why. If God is, then gods are merely creatures, perhaps powerful and splendid ones, but they don't merit worship, ever, nor are they intrinsically holy — that depends solely on their disposition toward God, whether they, the gods, properly worship God.

Since God truly is, the gods are truly null.

But a waning of the sense of the reality of God, a dark and atheistic time like ours, "the eclipse of God" one philosopher put it, will cause us to lose our sense of the nullity of gods, and many new idols will be erected.

The "New Atheists" thought that if you could remove God, you'd get an age of reason. But that isn't what happens. When you remove God, you remove any ultimate reason for things. And if you do that, you poison reason at the root, which renders it delirious.

The delirium of reason breeds monsters.

Old gods and monsters stir and wake, old cracked idols ponderously rise as golems.

Belief in God is one of the greatest goods in the world, and one of the many reasons is that it keeps the gods in check.

It also has the great advantage of being true, but even if you don't believe in God, for some strange reason, you should most definitely want to live in a society that does.

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

@worldviewdesign @LookitsMike Gemini AI matched that to Tony Robbins, but please don’t ask if I really know this to be true. 🤔

[WS Allan @WSAllan2]

@worldviewdesign Thought it was Buddhist “pain is inevitable, suffering is optional”