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[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Slain & Standing Lamb - Revelation 5. Dive into the Bible in One year series at https://t.co/Yrg5F0E7Fx for the reading guide and to catch up on previous posts. #BibleinOneYear #Biblestudy

[Bill Woolsey @BillWoolsey]

Yes. Yes you do.

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

"The reason people get good ideas in the shower is because it's the only time during the day when most people are away from screens long enough to think clearly. The lesson is not to take more showers, but rather to make more time to think."

-@JamesClear

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

Some highlight parts of the Bible they cannot accept. As Christ-followers, we should allow the Bible to highlight the parts of our lives that are unacceptable to God.

From Mike Woodruff’s Friday Update: https://t.co/dg8IW58aHS

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

“God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but he has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.” Augustine.

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

@birdchadlouis Well said. I like to say that you CAN get a camel through the eye of a needle. It’s just that the camel will be DRAMATICALLY changed in the process.
Doesn’t quite do justice to Jesus’ teaching here, but truth is we all must be DRAMATICALLY changed by the Holy Spirit to be saved.

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

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[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

We say, “I can’t go on.”
Jesus says, “I will hold you so you can.”

We say, “But I don’t think I can even believe that.”
Jesus says, “Even when you are faithless, I will be faithful to you.”

We say, “But I feel so alone.”
Jesus says, “I am Immanuel, God-with-you, God-never-leaving-your-side.”

We say, “But what’s the point? My life is over.”
Jesus says, “I am your life. And I am never over.”

We say, “But look at what I’ve done. I’m dirty.”
Jesus says, “Look at what I’ve done for you. I have taken your dirt and smeared it all over me. You are clean, I am filthy. See me dirty on the cross. See you clean beneath it.”

We say, “Nobody wants me.”
Jesus says, “I want you—desperately, lovingly, crazily, I want you.”

All I want for Christmas is a God like that.

[Bill Woolsey @BillWoolsey]

Beautiful.

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

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[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

Here’s a great question.: "Imagine you are at the end of your life and you are granted the ability to repeat one day. Which period of your life do you choose to repeat? //snip// Does that tell you anything about how you should be spending your time today? "

-@JamesClear

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Notice how these two verses perfectly complement each other:

Hide your face from my sins (Ps 51:9).

Do not hide your face from me (Ps 27:9).

In both verses, the Hebrew verb for hide [סָת��ר] and face [פָּנִים] are the same.

Heavenly Father:
Cast my sins behind you. See them no more. Hide your face from my every wrongdoing, even from my inward sinful nature. And face me. See me. See me as your beloved, your child, because you see me hidden with Christ in you.

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

@birdchadlouis Thanks for this reminder. Such important truths here!

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

About thirty years ago, I copied these words inside the Bible that I use. They are the words of Martin Luther from the Large Catechism, in which he discusses the importance of continually keeping the Word of God in our ears and hearts and upon our lips. I commend them to you:

“Even though you know [God’s Word] perfectly and be already master in all things, still you are daily in the dominion of the devil, who ceases neither day nor night to steal unawares upon you, to kindle in your heart unbelief and wicked thoughts against the foregoing and all the commandments.

Therefore you must always have God’s Word in your heart, upon your lips, and in your ears. But where the heart is idle, and the Word does not sound, he breaks in and has done the damage before we are aware.

On the other hand, such is the efficacy of the Word, whenever it is seriously contemplated, heard, and used, that it is bound never to be without fruit, but always awakens new understanding, pleasure, and devoutness, and produces a pure heart and pure thoughts. For these words are not inoperative or dead, but creative, living words.

And even though no other interest or necessity impel us, yet this ought to urge everyone thereunto, because thereby the devil is put to flight and driven away, and, besides, this commandment is fulfilled, and [this exercise in the Word] is more pleasing to God than any work of hypocrisy, however brilliant.”

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

@birdchadlouis You CAN get a camel through the eye of a needle. It’s just that the camel will be dramatically changed in the process!

[DavidBahn @davidlbahn]

@birdchadlouis Amen!

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

If, rich or poor, you realize that your moral bank account is penniless, that you have no righteous riches to fill the wallets of others, much less God, then let me tell you about the God who, though he was rich, for your sake became poor, that he might enrich you with golden blood minted in divinity’s veins.

If your life is one screw-up after another, if your closets are so packed with skeletons that you’ve had to rent space at a storage facility for the overflow, if you’ve served time for your crimes, if you’re afraid the ceiling will collapse if you darken the doors of a church, then let me tell you about a Savior who went out of his way to hang with society’s pariahs so as to earn the nickname “friend of sinners.”

If you’re at the end of your rope, if the dark walls are closing in, if you’ve walked onto that bridge ten times with the goal of making a final dive into the black waters, then let me tell you about the God who knows you as one important and precious to him. He has a crazy, wild love for you.

Jesus says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. I forgave you before you even knew you needed forgiveness; died for you even before you were born; rose for you even before you knew you were dead and needed my life. I am your God—all yours— and you are my child—all mine.”

That’s Christianity. It’s all gift, and that gift is Christ for you.