Dolly Mink

@KSPrior My heart ached for you last month when you were reliving the accident-- your pain was palpable. Praying for you to find full healing from the trauma, both physically and emotionally.

Dolly Mink @dolly_mink

7 months ago

@edstetzer Just lifted you up to the Father. In Chesapeake, VA & down with a nasty cold. Need to do all things Christmas. The struggle isn't the same, but I feel 'ya, brother! 😮‍💨🤧🤣

Dolly Mink @dolly_mink

7 months ago

I get more and more frustrated with this update, @Apple . Now I can't save a screenshot to photos? What kind of madness is this?

Dolly Mink @dolly_mink

7 months ago

I am not liking the liquid glass. Hey @Apple , I want my old phone back!

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Beth Moore

@BethMooreLPM

8 months ago

Many years ago our long time pastor at first Baptist in Houston asked my husband to become a deacon at our church. Keith declined, replying that, sorrowfully, he was not the kind of man a deacon should be. I’ve thought about it a thousand times through the years. Thought about how he had more character than 10,000 others who would not blink an eye to accept such a visible role in the church only to bring their untreated carnality and arrogance, their unrepentant dissensions and rivalries to the service of the church, masquerading as pious, no few hiding their unquenchable lusts and pornographic addictions. I thought about it Sunday as I witnessed the deacon ordination of a dear brother at my church who had completed many hours of preparation through formal courses and training and as I heard the solemn promises he was making and saw him sign a document before our congregation and watched his wife put on his vestments face-to-face with him as a reminder, our bishop explained, that his ministry as deacon first began with serving her. It was so meaningful and moving. I believed my brother. I believe he will flourish in his service to the church. I say all this because of the seriousness I saw in my husband many years ago when he declined this office. I say all this because of the seriousness I saw in my dear brother two days ago as he accepted this office. I say this because of how comparatively little weight many of us seem to attach to being in leadership positions in our churches. I think perhaps Keith might have shown more maturity in his refusal than God alone knows how many others in their hasty acceptance. These words come from a very flawed woman who has been forgiven and delivered from much sin. And, in large part, because of the resultant woefully painful seasons of divine discipline over my sins, one who also wonders how on earth we who are in Christian leadership roles think we can get away with our unrepentant duplicities. I wonder how we are getting away with this if we are meeting in earnestness with the Lord on a regular basis. Are we bringing to him our confessions of sins of pride and greed and lust and covetousness and hatred and discord? I have questions because of the trouble and heartache I’ve met with my own disobedience. I ultimately didn’t have enough tenacity to resist conviction. How do we bear the withdrawal of Christ’s fellowship as we continue unrepentant in our sins against him and our brothers and sisters in Christ and our neighbors? This exposure we’re constantly seeing will not stop. Christ has come for his church. He will refine her with fire. We pray our usual prayers and we sing our favorite songs and we read our favorite scriptures to use against our favorite foes and attend all our services. So often we do all the things. All the things but what the Head of the church is waiting for. Repentance. Repentance that we — that I — have thought so little of him. So little of his words. So little of who we are — and I of who I am — in him. He stands at the door and knocks.

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Dolly Mink @dolly_mink

9 months ago

Such a good word this morning Serve with humility. May it be so.

Beth Moore

@BethMooreLPM

9 months ago

This is to you Jesus followers who are also in ministry from your big sister who has seen a lot, read a lot, heard a lot and experienced a lot. I don’t believe people surrender to a calling with impure motives. They may not know what they’re getting themselves into but it’s not the kind of thing most people imagine at that point making them rich or powerful and able to manipulate and exploit and perform. But Satan uses every possible scheme to lead us “astray from [our] sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2 Cor 11:3) I can’t say this strongly enough. Be relentless in your protection of your own relationship with Jesus. Let no one—and I do mean no one—get between you and Jesus. This is not only for your benefit. It is for theirs. Do not let your own time of prayer and Bible reading turn into preparation for messages. If you do not have regular times of prayer and Bible reading, Saint, you are already cooperating with the enemy’s scheme to lead you astray. Return to the spiritual disciplines. Nothing replaces them and you are not the exception. Do not let what you are pouring out exceed what you have invited Jesus to pour in. In the powerful words of the apostle Paul, “having begun in the Spirit, will we now finish in the flesh??” Do not hand over your prayer life to intercessors. Let your thorn in the flesh which you no doubt have and I certainly have continue to pop the balloon of an inflated ego. That’s what it’s for. Serve with humility. One word. Jesus. Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus. This ONE is all that will matter at the end of the day. At the end of our lives. Every single one of us has the capacity to lose our way and exploit the work and the gifts God has given us to make a show of our flesh. We are quick to talk about people who fall into scandalous sins but there is something much more sinister that can go on for years and everyone see it in us…but us. There is simply falling away from sincere devotion and somewhere along the way replacing our first love. We can do this, Saints. But we will not do it by accident.

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