Chris Whittington

Husband, Father, Songwriter, Musician, Worship Leader, Entrepreneur #REALITORIUM #BRIGHTPORTAL

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Glad to go to church today and give thanks to God for His gift of life evermore. May God arise and His enemies be scattered!

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A life well lived extends from wisdom. Biblical wisdom involves not only practical, principled, decision-making skills but eternal perspective. Eternal perspective requires understanding what makes God tick. That’s only discoverable with a firm grasp of Who God is, what He’s done, why He’s done it, what else He intends to do, and why He doesn’t want to do it alone. Grasping biblical theology is the means to these discoveries. And grasping biblical theology is impossible without knowing the Bible broadly and deeply. -Michael S. Heiser

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@val_hop Thanks be to God

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. -G.K. Chesterton

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The Triune God is in the world, nearer to us than we are to ourselves, yet the world is also encompassed by His loving presence. He does have the whole world in His hands, even while He inhabits the whole world. For Christians, being saved means being caught up into this communion, indwelled by God and indwelling in Him, and being opened up so that other people may have room in us and we in them. -Peter J. Leithart

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Scientific information about the universe does not displace God. Some have said that they searched the heavens and did not see God. The universe with its measureless spaces remains a vast mystery to us, and those who do not find God in their immediate presence, in their heart and conscience, in the Word and the Christian community, will not find him in the universe either, even though they are equipped with the best telescopes that money can buy. -Herman Bavinck

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While none of us will ever speak to anyone with Jesus’ full knowledge of people, we are to pray for the gift of discernment; and we are to give ourselves to the task of loving people well enough that we will desire to get to know them and so be able to speak with wisdom to their struggles, hurts, weaknesses, failings, and needs. -Jerram Barrs

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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime. -GK Chesterton

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Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim,
Till all the world adore His sacred Name.
Led on their way by this triumphant sign,
The hosts of God in conquering ranks combine.
Each newborn servant of the Crucified
Bears on the brow the seal of Him Who died.
O Lord, once lifted on the glorious tree,
As Thou hast promised, draw the world to Thee.
So shall our song of triumph ever be:
Praise to the Crucified for victory.

Glad to go to church today to praise and give thanks to the Living God and seeing His enemies being scattered. All hail the Crucified for victory!!!

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@terry_melle Exactly, Terry!

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God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our place is to be rubbed into the secular community, as salt is rubbed into meat, to stop it going bad. And when society does go bad, we Christians tend to throw up our hands in pious horror and reproach the non-Christian world; but should we not rather reproach ourselves? One can hardly blame unsalted meat for going bad. It cannot do anything else. The real question to ask is: Where is the salt? -John Stott

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Naaman almost died a leper because he despised God’s means of healing as “too ordinary." If you want to grow spiritually, do something shockingly ordinary: Devote yourself to the preached word of God, habitually use the sacraments to direct your faith to Christ, and spend time in earnest prayer. If these means seem ordinary, then you understand God’s goodness. Spiritual growth isn’t a mystery. Trust God, use His means, and expect Him to provide the growth.-William Boekestein

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When we behold the glory of Christ in the gospel, it reorders the loves of our hearts, so we delight in Him supremely, and the other things that have ruled our lives lose their enslaving power over us. -Sinclair B. Ferguson

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In the preaching of the kingdom, law and gospel come together. The coming of the kingdom is the coming of a King to enforce his law on a disobedient world, that is, to enforce his covenant against covenant-breakers. But the King who comes is full of love and forgiveness. So his coming is good news, gospel, not only because he judges the wicked, but because he brings redemption, forgiveness, and reward to his redeemed people. -John M. Frame

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Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you. -Tim Keller

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@JeremyBakker37 Thanks be to God

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He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning. -Martin Luther

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Join hands, then, brothers of the faith,
Whate’er your race may be.
Who serves my Father as a son
Is surely kin to me.

Rejoicing to go to church today, to join with all of the saints across space and time and sing with one voice of the faithfulness of our Heavenly Father!

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Salvation in the Old Testament meant love for Yahweh alone. One had to believe that Yahweh was the God of all gods, trusting that this Most High God had chosen covenant relationship with Israel to the detriment of all other nations. The law was how one demonstrated that love—that loyalty. Salvation was not merited. Yahweh alone had initiated the relationship. Yahweh’s choice and covenant promise had to be believed. An Israelite’s believing loyalty was shown by faithfulness to the law. -Michael S. Heiser

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Oh that you and I would never cut and divide Christ so as to choose one part of him and leave another. Let not a bone of him be broken, but let us take in a whole Christ up to the full measure of our capacity. Prophet, Priest, and King, Christ divine and Christ human, Christ loving and living, Christ dying, Christ risen, Christ ascended, Christ coming again, Christ triumphant over all his foes—the whole Lord Jesus Christ is ours, We must not reject a single particle of what is revealed concerning him, but must feed upon it all as we are able. — C.H. Spurgeon