Christopher Stites

Practicing the way of Jesus. Pastor at @tmcelmhurst 📚 Tolkien Nerd @tolkienwonder

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God will often use the very thing that wounded us to bring us healing.

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"What can the devil do more than slay us? What after that?" - Martin Luther

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Give the man his trophy and his ring.

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STEPH 👀

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We’re starting a new teaching series this Sunday working through the false expectations we have of the church compared with the Gospel vision for the true community that Jesus calls us to.

This is for everyone who has had unmet expectations.

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@epazitive Kuminga!

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@epazitive This is cray!

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“So it may be said that the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, moved by it to praise and thanks.”

- #Tolkien

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This Sunday I taught through what the Bible says about LGBTQ and why it comes to the conclusions it does.

Something worth thinking through as a follower of Jesus living in this culture.
https://t.co/zBmFdeeFw3

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Reflections on leading @tmcelmhurst this last year! What a ride!
https://t.co/5sFcnsA42k

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Creating your own truth might feel like freedom but it becomes a crushing burden to sustain.

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"Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community..."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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If you want to make sense of the cultural moment we are living in, I highly recommend this book. It shows how we got here and where history is trending.

Accessible and intriguing.

Strange New World
by Carl Trueman

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Paul spent so much time in his epistles helping the churches combat false teaching with the truth of the Gospel.

This should be interesting...

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Ever since the Garden of Eden Satan has been manipulating God's Word and twisting His truth.

This Sunday we start a new series looking at some of these in the culture and what God really has to say about them.

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Worthy is the lamb who was slain.

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"Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His willingness." - Richard Trench

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Gratitude keeps grace feeling fresh in your heart.

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"Jesus' dozen disciples in John 6 represent a much bigger kingdom force than the five thousand who came for a free meal."

- @jaredcwilson

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“Penitent hookers enter Heaven ahead of smug virgins”

- @daneortlund

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Devoting ourselves weekly to praying together through upward praise, transparent confession & faith-filled petition has been one of the best decisions we have made as a church.

It is the work behind all the movement we are seeing. Thank you @DanielHenderson for your example.