Dr. Chris Hefner

Follower of Jesus, husband to a beautiful wife, father of 2 boys, Sr Pastor at Wilkesboro Baptist Church, author, professor, PhD grad from SBTS and blogger

[Dr. Chris Hefner @chrishefner]

We just returned from the SBC Annual Meeting. Here are six observations about the meeting from Orlando.
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Are your loves ordered properly? Do you love God first and others next?

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Our loves reflect who we are as people. We are shaped by what we love, by who we love, and by whether or not we have been loved.

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Wow! UNC baseball!

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Be attentive to divine appointments. You never know when God may have someone for you to connect with.

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Summer is here (not officially), but still. My youngest son says that when school is out, summer has arrived. How can we make the most of our summer? Here are some spiritual tips for following and enjoying Jesus this summer. https://t.co/6Fas50GcKG

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We never graduate from the gospel...
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Recently, I preached on the topic of the Sabbath day. That sermon got me thinking. Should we consider Sabbath a noun or verb? Make the decision today to gather with God's people this upcoming Lord's Day to worship and rest.
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[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

If you’re thinking about ministry, you need an honest appraisal of the difficulty inherent to the calling. God intends ministry to be hard because difficulty brings growth.

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[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

—Richard Sibbes, A Puritan Golden Treasury, Pg. 293

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

Incredible. This guy solves three Rubik’s Cubes while juggling them.

You gotta be an image-bearer to do this one. No animal, no robot, no creature on this side of heaven can pull this off.

Our kind are different.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

That is the final purpose of his dying, not merely that we might be forgiven, or...saved from hell. Rather, it was that a new people might be formed, a new humanity, a new creation, and that a new kingdom be set up, consisting of people like Himself. – D.M. Lloyd-Jones

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

An idol is anything more important to you than God. Anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God. Anything that is so central and essential to your life, that should lose it your life would feel hardly worth living. Therefore, one can make anything into an idol.

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

Pastors,

Never forget that your family is your first flock.

Your church can always get another pastor but your wife can’t get another husband and your kids can’t get another dad.

They are your first ministry.

They are not in the way, they are the way.

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

Pro tip: Do not take lessons on pastoral cowardice from men who ran away from previous churches to avoid accountability. They know a lot about cowardice! Just not in the way they claim.

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

If you uproot an idol in your life and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back or be replaced.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.

— Robert Murray M’Cheyne

[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.

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This…

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him.”

-C. S. Lewis