Adam Duncan

Follower of Jesus Christ/husband/dad/son/ brother/ #BBN/ #GoReds/ #whodey

[Kentucky Baseball @UKBaseball]

VICTORY, KENTUCKY!!!!!!

[PaulsCorner-VerseQuest @TNTJohn1717]

🚨‼️Most Christians never read 2 Chronicles because they think they already read it in Kings. That is exactly why they miss it. Kings shows you history from the throne down. Chronicles shows you history from heaven down. Kings explains political failure. Chronicles explains spiritual cause. Kings tells you what happened. Chronicles tells you why God let it happen. One book gives you the event. The other gives you the verdict. If you only read Kings, you know the story. If you read Chronicles, you know the mind of God behind the story.

Chronicles is not interested in impressing you with human strength. It is obsessed with exposing spiritual reality. It skips over military details and zooms in on altars, priests, repentance, and covenant. Because in God’s economy, the battle was never decided on the battlefield. It was decided at the altar long before the first sword was drawn. “For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him” (2 Chronicles 16:9). That verse alone explains every victory and every collapse in the book.

You begin to see a pattern. When a king seeks God, he becomes stronger than nations. When a king forsakes God, he becomes weaker than himself. Asa defeats an army of a million men by prayer. Jehoshaphat wins a war by singing. Hezekiah watches God destroy 185,000 Assyrians overnight. But the moment pride enters, protection leaves. Because God was never defending their swords. He was defending their obedience. The strength of Judah was never military. It was spiritual alignment.

Chronicles is the autopsy report of a nation killed by spiritual drift. It shows you that collapse never begins outwardly. It begins inwardly. The temple grows cold before the walls fall. Worship fades before protection fades. The king compromises before the kingdom collapses. That is why Chronicles matters now more than ever. Because it proves something modern Christianity has forgotten: God does not abandon His people suddenly. He withdraws gradually, one compromise at a time, until what remains is structure without presence.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I went back to Luke this morning just to revisit the story of Christmas… and Luke 2:7 hit me like an arrow to the chest:

“She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in cloths and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”

We romanticize that line so much that we forget how brutal it actually is. If the gospel narrative is true, then that’s not a cute nativity detail. That is the most explosive statement in human history.

The God who created galaxies entered His own creation… and there was no room for Him.

No royal welcome, no palace, no safety, no honor, not even a bed. He comes into the world He made, and the doors are closed in His face.

This is the single greatest scandal of Christianity: God doesn’t supervise salvation from a throne. He steps into it. He doesn’t arrive in glory. He arrives vulnerable. He doesn’t come intimidating humanity into submission. He comes as a child who can’t even hold His own head up. If you were inventing a religion, this is not the story you’d write.

Luke is quietly showing something staggering about God’s character:
He wins, not by force, but by love.
He saves, not by domination, but by self-giving. He comes close, not as a King demanding space, but as a Savior entering even when there is “no room.”

And that manger isn’t sentimental. It’s confrontational.

It confronts our pride, cos humanity has always had space for power, wealth, celebrity, and status… just never space for God unless He serves our plans.

It confronts our illusions of strength cos God is showing that real power isn’t the ability to crush. Real power is the courage to empty yourself for the sake of others.

It confronts religion, cos God bypassed temples and elites and arrived where animals feed… then announced His coming not to emperors, but to shepherds.

Luke 2:7 tells us who God is.

He is not distant, He is not indifferent, He is not cold sovereignty. He is the God who chooses weakness so He can stand with the weak. He is the God who walks into human pain instead of observing it from afar. He is the God who would rather be rejected with us than reign without us.

If this verse is true, Christianity isn’t just another belief system. It’s a radical claim that the deepest power in the universe is love; not might, not fear, not spectacle.

So yes… this verse broke me today.
Because if this is who God is… then hope isn’t sentimental. Grace isn’t theoretical. And Christmas isn’t “cute.”

It’s God stepping into history quietly…
exposing us gently… and saving us completely. Luke 2:7 isn’t a children’s story. It’s a revolution.

Merry Christmas 🎄❤️

[Robert Bortins @TheRobertBshow]

You get 18 summers. Then they're visiting.
You get 940 weekends. Then they have their own.
You get 6,570 bedtimes. Then silence.
Time is the only real currency of parenthood. Spend it wisely.
You can't earn more.

[Darwin to Jesus @darwintojesus]

Lesson Six: Practice Gratitude

“Give thanks in all circumstances.”

Gratitude shifts your mindset.

It helps you focus on what you have, not on what you lack.

Gratitude is one of the keys to joy and contentment in any season of life.

[K-LOVE @KLOVERadio]

Forgiveness isn’t about pretending it didn’t hurt. It’s about trusting God to make something beautiful from what was broken 🩵

[Crossway @crossway]

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!
—Revelation 4:8 (ESV)

#Verseoftheday #ESV

[Kentucky Baseball @UKBaseball]

SERIES VICTORY, KENTUCKY!

Final | UK 8, No. 2 Tennessee 2

The Cats win a series in Knoxville for the first time since 2016.

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

What is the best advice I can give to a young American Christian man?

-Stop attending Christian conferences.

-Stop listening to podcasts and YouTube preachers.

-Stop wasting your time on the latest Christian controversy, especially, in the "Reformed" community.

-Do not be made merchandise of. This is the end goal of many social media Christian "influencers."

Seek the Lord. Press in. Fast. Pray. Discipline your body and mind. Get away from the noise. Learn of HIM. Think of the Apostle Paul's example in Arabia. Get away from the noise.

This will produce much more fruit in your life. You will become a man of your own Spirit-led convictions. You will not be a parrot. You will not be a prophet or spokesman for the next popular preacher.

American Christianity is being throughly judged and exposed no matter what "stream" you swim in, especially the greater Reformed movement, which I've been apart of the past 15 years. Put away mainstream Americanized Christianity. Invest your time, talents and money into your local church, with real flesh and blood relationships. Seek the Lord while it's still the day, because the darkness is fast approaching.

“The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.” -J.C. Ryle

-Bryan Schrank (moderator of Ryle's X page)

[Kentucky Baseball @UKBaseball]

Headed home with a sweep!

[KyBaptistConvention @KentuckyBaptist]

FIRST-PERSON: The little things https://t.co/RX4wf9q7bM via @kytodayeditor

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis with one of the most insightful paragraph ever written

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis, perspective reset

[Adam Duncan @Adam_2292]

“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.”
Psalm 18:2 ESV https://t.co/CGU6qRKQLo

[Luke McCown @luke_mccown]

All of our knees will bow and tongues confess that Jesus the Christ is King of Kings and Lord Of Lords; whether by choice or by command…

Either way we all bow.

#hisnameisJESUS

[SpurgeonBooks @SpurgeonBooks]

"If God did not mean to hear us, he would not bid us pray."

— Charles Spurgeon

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

When @TimKellerNYC was 24 years old, he was a new pastor in rural Virginia. Alice was an elderly Christian who had suffered enormously in her life.

More than four decades later, Keller still remembered her perspective.

[Adam Duncan @Adam_2292]

@JCRyle Amen

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

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ESV Chronological BIBLE Review and GIVE-A-WAY!!

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"There are plenty of chronological reading plans on various Bible apps. But I've never taken to the time to sit down and read though one and I'm glad I didn't. Why? Well, a Bible app cannot show you the TRUE VALUE of what a chronological reading plan truly entails. Flipping through this Bible, I immediately realized the importance of it."

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