Christopher Talbot

Husband and Father
@SylvanParkChrch Associate Pastor
@welchcollege Assistant Professor of Ministry and Apologetics

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

To eat, to breathe
to beget
Is this all there is
Chance configuration of atom against atom
of god against god
I cannot believe it.
Come, Christian Triune God who lives,
Here am I
Shake the world again.

- Francis A. Schaeffer

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

The city of St. Paul should be ashamed. Intimidation during a church’s corporate worship is not a peaceful protest.

[Jonathan Parnell @jonathanparnell]

The city of Saint Paul has officially determined the January 18 invasion of our church and the desecration of our worship to be a “peaceful protest.”

Here’s my question for Mayor Her:

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

You could teach an entire class on logical fallacies just from Twitter.

[Luke Stamps @lukestamps]

Ad hominem, tu quoque, and genetic fallacies everywhere.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

Simple and true.

[Kyle Worley @kyleworley]

Eugene Peterson on how to find a church:

“Pick one and stay.”

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

@pj_schreiner It’s unique and helpful.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

@lukestamps You’re right. That is controversial. And wrong.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

Might I recommend a wonderful book on the pastoral office in the New Testament? https://t.co/tKRLU7lfWE

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

@Dru_Johnson Thankful for your work.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

“There is not true evangelism that does not touch all of reality and all of life.” - Francis Schaeffer

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

"The glory of the Bible is that it is enough for every age and it is enough for every person." - Francis Schaeffer

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

Apologetics is the handmaiden of evangelism.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

@Eli_Kunkel Book worth buying?

[Jesse Owens @JesseFOwens]

“The person who has given himself entirely to God will never think that he has done too much for him.”

~Henry Scougal

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

Dr. Bradley’s ten recommendations (commandments?) at the end are gold.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

🧵My Latest: I watched an evangelical college die from the inside. Not from press releases. Not from “expert analysis.” From faculty meetings, anxious hallway conversations, and students who had no idea they were studying on borrowed time.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

I think Dr. Bradley is largely right. I think @WelchCollege is different. That said, the burden is on the institution, and those of us that are part of it, to prove it.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

🧵Christian colleges are disappearing. Here's why (in my view): 1) Christian colleges, generally speaking, are extensions of denominations. Non-denoms are now the dominant forms of Protestantism. Those churches don't promote Christian colleges or forming Christian minds.

[The Alexandrian Institute @AlexandrianInst]

We are rooted in Christ's Word—not as mere academic exercise, but as the wellspring of true wisdom. In an age of competing voices and cultural confusion, we must learn to rightly read and faithfully interpret the Word that anchors us in truth.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

Thankful for the local First Baptist Church near us that puts on a VBS for kids with disabilities. This parent appreciates it.

[Jesse Sumpter @jesse_sumpter]

One of my favorite Francis Schaeffer stories. He was on his deathbed dying of cancer and his daughter was visiting him. She says that he was going in and out of consciousness and "there were several occasions when he was much more lucid, and once I said, "Is it true?"--what a thing to say to a dying person!--and he said, "It is absolutely true, absolutely sure."

That scene captures the ministry of Schaeffer: a dying man who takes the time to answer the questions of another. And that question “is it true?” is the one that Schaeffer knew to be the most important one.

[Christopher Talbot @c_talbot]

Man. D has all the sports AND Kalamazoo and Battle Creek. But B is where everyone from D goes to vacation.

[Michigan Enjoyer @mich_enjoyer]

You just won a 2-week, all-expenses-paid vacation. But there’s a catch: you have to stay within one region the whole time. What are you picking?

[sammy rhodes @sammyrhodes]

May the gospel always reframe your politics and never vice versa.

[Blake Callens @blakecallens]

Christian, think Christianly.