Garrison Shepard

“I believe in Christ as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

“I am not what I ought to be. I’m not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am where I am.” – John Newton

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

You know what shook me when I was Muslim?

The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.

She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.

And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.

To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.

I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?

Then I realized I was the wife.

I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.

And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”

He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”

That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.

He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.

Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.

Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.

The cross was Him naming the price.

Praise the Lord.

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@Digitalliturgy Agreed. If nothing comes of it, Pepi needs to play the game of his life!

[Dane Ortlund @daneortlund]

If few can give good advice, fewer still can hear with patience advice either good or bad.

C. S. Lewis, 1953 letter

[Dane Ortlund @daneortlund]

God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence.

And he may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.

-C. S. Lewis, 1954 letter (and a recurrent theme throughout all three volumes of his collected letters)

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@Lanier_Greg Thanks for the reply! Critical scholarship issues can raise a challenge—at least they have for me. I’m learning how to ground my confidence in something more solid than scholarship alone. Yet it is still nice to have godly scholars like yourself affirm the truths of Scripture.

[Tom Schreiner @DrTomSchreiner]

You become what you consume, what you read and believe.

A discerning mind seeks knowledge,
but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

Prov 15.14 csb

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@ProducerBorland @AndyHolloway @JasonMoore @FFHitman @ProducerBorland My guy, could we get those main shows posted to YouTube a few hours earlier too?? (When they’re prerecorded) 👀

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@AndyHolloway @JasonMoore @FFHitman @ProducerBorland Anyway Spitballers and FFB Dynasty pods could be dropped on YouTube by 6AM EST instead of at 8AM??? Hard to listen to them before/on the way to work!

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@ProducerBorland @AndyHolloway @JasonMoore @FFHitman Much appreciated!

[Tom Schreiner @DrTomSchreiner]

He spreads snow like wool;
he scatters frost like ashes;
he throws his hailstones like crumbs.
Who can withstand his cold?

Ps 147.16-17 cb

[Jeff Wiesner @JeffreyPWiesner]

"It is possible to have much zeal for Christ, and yet to exhibit it in most unholy and unchristian ways.

It is possible to mean well and have good intentions, and yet to make most grievous mistakes in our actions. It is possible to fancy that we have Scripture on our side, and to support our conduct by Scripture quotations, and yet to commit serious errors.

It is clear as daylight...that it is not enough to be zealous and well-meaning. Very grave faults are frequently committed with good intentions.

From no quarter perhaps has the Church received so much injury as from ignorant but well-meaning men."

- J.C. Ryle

[Robert A. J. Gagnon @RobertAJGagnon1]

Christmas is a time in which we, the followers of Messiah Jesus, renew our faith that a child born in humble circumstances to a lowly peasant woman would fulfill the declaration through the prophet Nathan to King David that “Yahweh will make you a house (i.e., dynasty)” that will last “forever” (2 Sam 7:11, 16).

The announcing angel, Gabriel, assured Mary that this word would be fulfilled in her virgin-conceived child: “The Lord God will give to him the throne of David his ancestor, and he will rule as king over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end” (Luke 1:32-33).

In faith we believe that, after Jesus had made amends for the sin of the world on the cross and appeared to his disciples alive from the dead not merely in a resuscitated corpse but in a new-creation resurrection body, God installed him as king at his right hand, from where he projects his Spirit upon all his followers (Acts 2:33-36).

In faith we believe that God is in the process of putting all King Jesus’ enemies under Jesus’ feet, culminating in the return of the King and the destruction of the last enemy, Death (1 Cor 15:25-27, fulfilling Psalm 8:7 and 110:1).

How then can we not sing with the chorus of “a multitude of the heavenly army”?

“Let there be glory (praise) to God in the highest places (the heavens),
And on earth peace (shalom) among people of (God’s) favor.”
(Luke 2:14)

For as an angel of the Lord announced to shepherds at night, there has been born for the world in the little town of Bethlehem, in a feeding trough for animals, “a Savior who is Messiah (Christ, Anointed King), (sovereign) Lord” (Luke 2:7, 11).

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@TheFFBallers I Won-athan Taylor!

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@Lanier_Greg @dailygreek Will there be an X account I can follow where the videos will be posted?

[Collin Hansen @collinhansen]

Never gets old. From @timkellernyc at first @TGC national conference, 2007.

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@brandon_d_smith @JakeRainwater Do you or @JakeRainwater know if these articles can be found for free anywhere?

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@StuartAmidon As someone said above, it looks like their search function is just messed up. When I try “I do not permit” or “woman to teach,” the passage comes up. Also, if I try “I do not understand my own actions,” Rom 7:15 doesn’t come up. Seems it’s a bad search function, but not nefarious

[Garrison Shepard @GarShep16]

@colinsmo @YouVersion As someone said above, it looks like their search function is just messed up. When I try “I do not permit” or “woman to teach,” the passage comes up. Also, if I try “I do not understand my own actions,” Rom 7:15 doesn’t come up. Seems it’s a bad search function, but not nefarious