Caleb Seals

Christ follower, Husband, Father, Discipleship Pastor at Arrowhead Church, formerly @FRCdc

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Aslan is a beautiful picture of sacrificial manhood--the alpha-protector, the warrior savior, the lion who lays down his life for his beloved as a lamb. Aslan is a fictional image of Christ the true king, the ruler who wins by dying and rising again.

Touch not Aslan.

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

Tranny Aslan confirmed.

It’s not about making good art.

It’s not even about making money.

It’s about humiliation and hatred of what is True, Good, and Beautiful.

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Here's Aragorn's INCREDIBLE introductory shot in "Fellowship of the Ring."

Aragorn is a marvelous example of manhood: he is very gentle and very kind, but at the same time he is a dangerous man. Courageous and fearless, he faces down evil to the death.

Be like Aragorn.

[Alisa Childers @alisa_childers]

This is what will keep the church from going soft.

This is what will solve the spiritual crisis facing our young men and women.

The unflinching proclamation of the gospel is what real strength looks like.

This is what will save America’s sons.

[Desiring God @desiringGod]

“God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” —2 Timothy 1:7

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“Abortion says, Die! God says, Live!
Abortion says, Not mine! God says, Mine!
Abortion says, Abhorred! God says, Beloved!
Abortion says, I won’t! God says, I will!
Abortion says, Cut off! God says, Grafted in!
Abortion says, I own my body! God says, I give my body!
Abortion says, I hate! God says, I love!” —Clinton Manley

https://t.co/5GXaML6f6h

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

We have to learn to think in categories. God has established 3 instititions with 3 different roles:

Family
Church
State

We then ask, “what is the role of an individual disciple and what is the role of the church in this situation?”

Great Commission. Easy. Love your neighbor. Duh.

Then we ask, “what is the role of the State and the role of the leader of the State in this situation?”

Bear the sword (Romans 13, protect the country). Easy. Punish the wrongdoer (enforce laws). Easy. Leaders have a responsibility to people under their care they don’t have to people not under their care. Therefore, the leader of a nation prioritizes what’s best for their nation. Easy. So, Christians should be ok w that.

Think in categories. Walk and chew gum. What you’re doing is conflating categories and imputing the role of the church and individual to the State.

It would be like saying to a father “the Bible says to love orphans, so you have to adopt 300 orphans into your family and harm your own children to do it, or else you’re disobeying the command.”

I can simultaneously allocate over $8M of my church’s budget to foreign missions, much to Islamic nations, rabidly share Christ and meet needs of Islamic families in DFW (my church does all of that), and oppose immigration policies that will longterm harm our country with 0 contradiction.

Gotta think in categories.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9

The great paradox of the Christian life.

Like bounty perfected in blight. Wisdom perfected in folly. Joy perfected in sorrow.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

“I wish at [my player’s] age, I would’ve gone much deeper into a relationship with Jesus Christ… To me, the most important thing is to God with all my heart, soul, & mind.”
- Tennessee HC Rick Barnes

(via @TreyWallace)

[Bruce Pearl @coachbrucepearl]

18 yrs ago Tennessee went on the road and beat a great Memphis team at FedX Forum in what was a Super Bowl type of event. At the time the most watched game in College Basketball history took place in Tenn, not Ky, NC or Ks! How bout them Vols! @espn @Volhoops865

[Jonathan Parnell @jonathanparnell]

“I trust God so much that I do not doubt he will provide whatever I need for body and soul, and will turn to my good whatever adversity he sends upon me in this vale of tears.
He is able to do this because he is almighty God; he desires to do this because he is a faithful Father.” (Heidelberg, Q26)

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

It's Christ or chaos.

There is no way out of the death spiral our culture is in outside of repentance unto the Father.

Yes, there is a radical moral asymmetry between the moral visions of the modern Right and Left, so that there is no such thing as "Christ-full progressivism."

At the same time, a ChristLESS conservatism will spiral into an abyss as well.

Christ or chaos? Choose this day whom you will serve.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

Deadly drought. Ripping wind. Blistering sun.

In the vine you will survive.

But nothing will save you if you cut yourself off.

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

“How the mighty have fallen.” 2 Samuel 1:27

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

This. Is. Just. Perfect.