Derek Logsdon

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[Alex DiPrima @Alex_DiPrima]

This concern from Sinclair Ferguson about the danger of Christo-monism and its possible connection to the contemporary enthusiasm over preaching Christ from the Old Testament is worth contemplating, especially given Ferguson’s pastoral experience and theological pedigree.

[Matt Damico @mattpdamico]

"See that you join with the congregation as frequently as you can. Let not a slight degree of weakness or weariness hinder you. If it is a cross to you, take it up, and you will find it a blessing."

- John Wesley

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

The fool in Proverbs…

Is convinced he is right (12:15)
Quickly shows annoyance (12:6)
Is hotheaded and reckless (14:16)
Spurns discipline and correction (15:5)
Wastes money (17:16)
Delights in airing his own opinions (18:2)
Is quick to quarrel (20:3)
No peace around him (29:9)

[Southern Seminary @SBTS]

“Because the hardest place to be godly is in ordinary life.”

In chapel, Sam Emadi, Senior Pastor of Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky opened 1 Timothy 3 and reminded us that pastoral ministry is built on ordinary faithfulness. The qualifications for elders are not about platform or personality, but about steady, everyday obedience in the unseen places of life.

Pastors model the Christian life. That work begins long before ministry starts, in the daily pursuit of godliness.

[Alex DiPrima @Alex_DiPrima]

“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.’” - C. S. Lewis

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

What is the purpose of affliction and trials in the Christian life?

“To make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.” (2 Corinthians 1:9b)

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

Is a small group that meets at two different times one small group or two small groups?

Is a church that gathers at two different times for two different services one church or two churches?

Why are we more careful with language for small groups than the church?

— Mark Dever

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

Moses took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it. (Exodus 32:20)

Never exchange years of faithfulness for what can be destroyed in a moment.

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. - Proverbs 28:13

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Roman’s 5:1)

Christians don’t live by performance, but by promise. — Mark Vroegep

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

@JeffreyPWiesner What would your response be for churches in other cultures/contexts where time is more fluid?

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

Anger is the drawn sword of relationships.

Before the sword strikes, it’s drawn. When annoyance rises in the heart, the hand moves to the handle. This shifts to fury when it’s waved in the air, ready to strike.

Anger is a drawn sword that leaves casualties.

- Christopher Ash

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

@JeffreyPWiesner “Our greatest danger as a Christian is to live upon our activity. The ultimate test of a preacher is what he feels like when he cannot preach. This is why our relationship to God is to be the supreme source of our joy.” - Martin Lloyd Jones

https://t.co/sNh4aUXuBd

[Nick Roark @NickRoark]

What is the "one main end of our calling" in pastoral ministry?

Richard Sibbes: "to lay open and unfold the unsearchable riches of Christ; to dig up the mine, thereby to draw the affections of those that belong to God to Christ."

-Richard Sibbes, The Love of Christ (Carlisle, PA: @banneroftruth, 1639/2022), 259-260.

[sᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴀɴɪᴏʟ @ScottAniol]

The most faithful pastor you know might have 75 people on Sunday. Faithfulness isn't measured in metrics. Keep preaching the Word. God gives the growth.

[Nick Roark @NickRoark]

"Nothing but heaven, or rather Christ in heaven itself, will content the child of God.

In the mean time, His presence in the congregation makes their souls, as it were, heaven."

-Richard Sibbes, Works (@banneroftruth), 2: 21.

[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)

[Derek Logsdon @Dlog95]

A Map of Christian Sanctification
- Andy Davis, An Infinite Journey

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Nothing will make you so lonely as unconfessed sin.