Ethan Campo

From Him. Through Him. To Him.

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@ArmenThomassian a room full of godly men worshipping together is effeminate? why? do you have some personal vendetta with Kauflin? slandering the faithful efforts of brothers worshipping seems effeminate to me🤷🏻‍♂️

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@joe_rigney I don’t know if it’s just the terminology, but I can’t stand the “winning/losing” ideology that has been going around recently. No matter what view you hold to, Christ is victorious. As an amill, I’ve never felt like we “lose”. But boy do postmills try to make me feel as such

[Jeff Wiesner @JeffreyPWiesner]

My daughter plays competitive club volleyball. It’s great!

We told the club from the start that we will be all in on weekday practices and Saturday tournament games but that we will not play on Sundays—including the big regional tournament on—*sigh*—Easter weekend.

Her teammates are kind but don’t understand. They joke with her about attending a “weird school” (a Christian enrichment academy for homeschoolers).

She’s lost playing time, which is understandable as coaches should play girls on Saturdays who can play trophy rounds on Sundays—even if they aren’t as good as my daughter.

All this has been hard my girl at times. No fourteen year old girl wants to be the “odd” one out. She wants to belong. And she wants to play.

Well-meaning parents have reached out to see if they can take her for us on Sundays, thinking she’s hindered by my commitments as a vocational pastor. We say, “No thank you.” But they don’t understand either. That’s okay.

Additionally, she receives mixed messages from other Christian families who either neglect assembling with their church for “family church,” or others who simply moved to other churches with more accommodating Saturday evening services. “Why doesn’t your family just…”

I’m deeply sympathetic to her. There have been tearful rides home from practice. Her young heart wants to belong, not be the “weird” one. We have to be very tender and patient with her questions.

But it’s not hard for me. Sport is a gift from God, but we don’t worship God’s gifts.

He has kindly given us six days to work and make these kinds of extracurricular commitments. And while I’m not opposed to a good pickup game on the Lord’s Day, we don’t make worldly commitments that compete with the active rest of serving our Church.

I’m very proud of my daughter. She’s honored her mom and me every step of the way—even while not fully understanding. The Lord has thus far protected her heart from grumbling against his commands and his church. I’m thankful.

Christian parent: Competitive sports will take and take and take if you let it. We must draw hard Scriptural and prudential lines in the sand from the start that we refuse to cross.

And we need to be content with the consequences, be they lost playing time, missed opportunities, fewer scholarships, or whatever.

We have to have a long vision for discipling our kids. Raising them in the fear and discipline of the Lord (Eph 6:4) means that they will eventually end up crossways with our post-Christian world.

The devil will use competitive sports to sift you and your family—to test your loves and loyalties. It will promise much but take far more than it gives in the end. Don’t buy it.

Remind your children, especially in disappointment, that Christ promises much more to his faithful followers. And our Lord never over-promises and under-delivers:

“Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands—or playing time or scholarship opportunities—for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life” (Matt 19:29).

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

and the women are victims?

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@lawsonharlow Psalms 13

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@johnandrewwords why did he hate Esau?

[Jamie Bambrick @j_bambrick]

The Christian Super Bowl Ad They SHOULD Have Made

A group known as 'He Gets Us' released an advert during the Super Bowl which, whilst perhaps well intentioned, failed to convey anything of the gospel to the hundreds of millions who saw it.

Here's my take on what they should have done.

#HeSavesUs

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@WhaddoYouMeme @RealCandaceO where in the Bible did anyone wash the feet of unrepentant sinners (“those we don’t agree with”)?

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@YeshuaFootsteps @AlistairBegg I never said she needed to be ugly/hateful. But if she’s going to share the gospel, people are going to be offended.

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@YeshuaFootsteps @AlistairBegg That is not what Begg instructed this woman to do. He advised her to attend the “wedding” so as to be “kind”.

”Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;“ (Ephesians 5:11)

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@YeshuaFootsteps @AlistairBegg Life circumstances do not give us a pass for sinning. Everyone will be held accountable for their sins no matter their situation. In no way should the grandmother stand by and condone the sins of the grandson because he had a tough childhood (which was never disclosed).

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@YeshuaFootsteps @AlistairBegg ”How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher?“ (Romans 10:14)

It is always necessary to use words in order to share the gospel.

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@YeshuaFootsteps @MercyofSimo @AlistairBegg If he had told her to attend with the intention of protesting and calling out the abomination amongst the other witnesses, that would be different. But from my understanding, that is not why he advised her to attend

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@YeshuaFootsteps @MercyofSimo @AlistairBegg I’m not saying she will do one or the other. I was just putting the scenario in question. I think she could have avoided the scenario above if Begg had advised for wisely/biblically for the sheep in his flock.

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@YeshuaFootsteps @MercyofSimo @AlistairBegg will she tho? or will she attend silently and affirm their actions with her silence?

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@XxDA7amxX @RJP757 @jhoopps but he’s using “MVP” in a way to suggest that those players were in their MVP status when playing with Bron. And we all know that ain’t true

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@XxDA7amxX @RJP757 @jhoopps Ironically… none of those players in their prime. In fact, all of them were WAY past their prime

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@WorldWideWob Wemby lost this exchange imo. Got away with some foul calls and is a liability in man defense

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@Snip3down @SCkid831 he said himself he wants to experience Free Agency. I’m my opinion, it’s not worth trading for someone who says that.

[Ethan Campo @ethan12campo]

@AdamPage85 I’m not surprised by the invited speakers when you look at who runs the conference