S L Fain

Pastor at HarmonyBC Husband to my Love, Lisa, Father to my treasures, Jacob, makenna, and Andrew

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.

And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.

To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?

Then I realized I was the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.

And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”

He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.

Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.

The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord.

[S L Fain @beardown4christ]

But the lovingkindness of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him…
— Psalm 103:17

My unfaithfulness or disobedience never exhausts Gods commitment to me. His covenant love renews itself daily.
I may fall short but He never fails or falls.

[Andrew King @drandrewmking]

🚨Book Giveaway🚨

I’m giving away a 𝒑𝒓𝒆-𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 copy of our latest CSC volume on Joshua! RT and follow to enter. Tag a friend for an extra entry.

Winner announced 6/20

[Greg Laurie @greglaurie]

Though some are gifted to be an evangelist, and some may not be called to be an evangelist per se, every Christian is called to evangelize.

As Paul said to Timothy, “Do the work of an evangelist” (2 Timothy 4:5 NKJV). We’re all called to preach the gospel.

We’ve been entrusted with the Great Commission—to go into all the world, preach the gospel, and make disciples of all nations, teaching them all things that Christ has commanded us...

Continue reading "How to Evangelize Effectively" at https://t.co/JAheDIMUDU

[David Jeremiah @davidjeremiah]

"Until the Holy Spirit comes to live within you because you have invited Christ to be your Savior you haven't been born again."
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The Holy Spirit You May Not Know | Dr. David Jeremiah

[S L Fain @beardown4christ]

#Godhears

[Andrew King @drandrewmking]

🚨Giveaway Time🚨

I’m giving away another copy of our CSC Philippians commentary! Follow & RT to enter. Tag a friend for an extra entry.

Winner announced 4/21.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

When things are moving very fast and people are losing their minds, it’s important to stay grounded. Turn off your phone, read scripture, spend time with friends, and remember internet fury is not real life. It’s going to be ok.

[S L Fain @beardown4christ]

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
— Galatians 2:20

[Forrest Frank For Jesus @forestfrank]

This generation normalizes everything… except righteousness. I always choose Christ.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you?

This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at @ChildlikeMedia.

[Mike Mayer @mikemayer22]

17 years ago today, David Wright sent Team USA to the WBC semifinals with a walk-off hit.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by C.S. Lewis hits so hard:

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.”

[Grant R. Castleberry @grcastleberry]

It’s hard to be prideful while praying.

Pray without ceasing.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Son stops mid race to give his mom a kiss during the Special Olympics

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Jack Hughes, who scored the game winning goal for the United States:

“This is all about our country. I love the USA.”

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Outstanding point from Wes Huff on The Shawn Ryan Show on why it had to be Jesus:

"There's something that sets apart the Christian worldview with Jesus, that He's a real person that really lived that we can point to. You know, in one sense, if the Buddha didn't exist, you could still technically have Buddhism. You could have the philosophies. You could have the noble truths...It didn't have to be Gautama Siddhartha who came up with those things. It could have been anybody.

Likewise, in Islam, it could have been anybody. It didn't have to be Mohammed. The god of Islam could have chosen any person to be the prophet that he revealed his truth to, but it does have to be Jesus. It cannot be anyone else. And there's a historical grounding of the Christian faith that the tomb is either empty, or it's not."

[Voice of the Martyrs @VOM_USA]

REMEMBERING MARTYRS: In February of 2015, 21 men were killed by ISIS on a beach in Libya. They could have saved their lives by accepting Islam, but knowing what awaited them, they chose Christ. Christians around the world continue to draw inspiration from their faith.