Jeff Turner

Husband, Father, Disciple

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

When Nathan confronted him, David didn’t say, “What about Saul?” Instead we got Psalm 51.

—@DanDarling

[Jeff Turner @eljefebsm]

🔥🔥

[Isaac Adams @isickadams]

.@MarkDever, on Adam at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil & Jesus at the roman tree, the cross:

"At the first tree, we fell; at the second tree, we rise."

[John Starke @john_starke]

“The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows.”
—Thomas Merton

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

White supremacy is evil and it is helpful for us to say so without qualification. This should be uncontroversial within the church but unfortunately that cannot be assumed right now.

[Trevin Wax @TrevinWax]

“The Lord shows mercy, not because we deserve mercy, but because He delights in mercy.”

- Thomas Watson

[𝐎. 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 @TheAlanNoble]

There's been a lot of arguments about whether Christians should aspire to be "winsome"--whether it's effective in this post-Christian or "negative" world, using Renn's terminology.

The answer is that sometimes it is effective and sometimes it's not. You winsome, you losesome.

[Sam Stephens @samstephens91]

When Christians say things like, "We tried being kind and it didn't work," in response to a lack of political gains, we betray a misunderstanding of what it looks like for the gospel to "work."

[History Defined @historydefined]

The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri that were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE). IT'S the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. With x-rays, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia

[Jeff Turner @eljefebsm]

@howertonjosh @gavinortlund Agreed

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

“I am the least . . .”

• AD 55: “of all the apostles” (1 Cor. 15:9)
• AD 60: “of all the saints” (Eph. 3:8)
• AD 62: “of all sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15)

Christian maturity is downward. It is growing not less aware of your unworthiness, but more.

[Jeff Turner @eljefebsm]

So cool!

[Arys🏺🪶 @ArysPan]

Byzantine and post-Byzantine era manuscripts and documents, as well as classical ancient texts of Homer, Sophocles, Demosthenes, Hesiod, Aristotle, and many authors from Hellenistic period are stored in the library of Great Meteoron, one of the wealthiest of its kind.
#History

[Jeff Turner @eljefebsm]

Yessir!

[Jack Turner @jack_t_02]

Go watch the film! https://t.co/3oCH3dLjT9

[Trevin Wax @TrevinWax]

That Jesus is friend to sinners is only contemptible to those who feel themselves not to be in that category.

- @daneortlund

[Jeff Turner @eljefebsm]

@DrPJWilliams Thanks so much for that article!

[Jared C. Wilson @jaredcwilson]

You and I swim against the tide in a sea of accusation every day. But Christ comes walking on the waters, quieting the storm with grace.

[Rhyne Putman @rhyneputman]

"The OT may be likened to a chamber richly furnished but dimly lighted; the introduction of light brings into it nothing which was not in it before; but it brings out into clearer view much of what is in it but was only dimly or even not at all perceived before." -Warfield

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

1980s: “self-esteem” movement
1990s: “self-made” movement
2000s: “self-help” movement
2010s: “believe in self” movement
2020s: “self-love” movement

it’s all the same humanism wearing different masks. however, you were created to trust in Someone bigger than “self”.

[Jeff Turner @eljefebsm]

Our God is so big, he can use Mathematics to reveal his transcendent ordering of the universe. For me, math has always been more in line with the problem of evil 😂. Cf. Why God Makes Sense in a World that Doesn’t” by @gavinortlund

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Toxic positivity is pressuring people to look on the bright side. They have to suppress anxiety, anger, sadness, and grief.

Healthy support is shielding people from the dark side. You invite them to express their pain, and show them they're not alone and won't feel it forever.