Lance Mason

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Biblical truths about ethnicity and identity:

1. God providentially gave us our ethnicity

2. There is no such thing as "race"

3. We are all part of one race, the human race (Acts 17:26)

4. Our ethnicity is neither evil nor sainted

5. We have no New Testament call either A) to hate our ethnicity and abandon it nor B) to preserve the purity of our ethnic heritage

6. The gospel unites people in church, marriage, and family (through adoption) who are not the same ethnicity or background

7. This gospel unity is not only possible, but is a living display of the beauty and power of Christ's finished work that creates "one new man" (Eph. 2:15)

8. It is wrong to demonize "white" people for being "white," just as it is also wrong to call "white" people to preserve their "Anglo-Saxon" bloodlines as a moral duty

9. The gospel is the Christian's central identity; Jesus is our all

10. We work for the good of the "city" where we live (Jer. 29:7), but we recognize the Great Commission call to make disciples of all tribes, tongues, nations, and peoples

11. Missions is very hard and costly work, opposed at every turn by Satan, but we MUST send out missionaries all across the world

12. While we have freedom to move, we have no call from the New Testament to bunker down in isolated Christian "boroughs"; we have a New Testament call to be "salt and light" in the midst of unbelievers (Matthew 5)

13. Jesus has ALREADY won it all--his redemption is perfect redemption, he is building his church *now,* his kingdom is in no way dependent on any given nation-state, and he will perfectly resolve all the chaos before us

14. As Christians, we do not live in fear and anxiety, even in dark days, but in patient trust in the God who is working all things for his glory and our good

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

There are many children, young and old, who can’t stomach Father’s Day. They have deadbeat dads, abusive fathers, men who have failed them. Some of them are scarred for life. To them, the whole purpose of this day is senseless, if not revolting.

There will be no phone calls home, no backyard BBQs, and no sappy Hallmark card. “Lord, just let this day be over,” they pray, “and let me get on with my life without being reminded of that man.”

I lack the wisdom, and the experience, to counsel those who have been hurt so deeply. There is no pain like the pain of being mistreated by those who, above all others, you rightly expect to love you unconditionally.

This, however, I do know. When men do not live up to their callings, when they live only for themselves, there remains a man who will never do that to you. When men abuse the innocent, and do the unspeakable, there is still a man who never once will treat you that way. If even father and mother forsake you, brother and sister turn their backs on you, the whole world hate and curse and damn you to hell, there is a man who will stand shoulder to shoulder with you through it all, never leaving your side.

This man is not your father. He is your brother. He came down from heaven to suffer abuse for you, to know what it’s like to be hated and mistreated and abandoned by those nearest and dearest to him.

And he has a Father who wants to adopt you, to make you part of his family, that he might care for you as no earthly father ever could.

This man, this Jesus of Nazareth, will get you through Father’s Day and will bring you into the arms of a Father who is truly worthy of the name.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@euthyphro Maybe consider a Pollinator Fascinator as another addition to your bee keeping wardrobe

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[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@AndyStanley I’ve listened to hundreds of his sermons. I am so grateful for his teaching.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@euthyphro Is the idea that the visually impaired can then ‘play’ the text and hear what the picture is about? Or?

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@euthyphro Just curious, do you write the ‘Alt’ description on the photos you post? Or is that some sort of AI wizardry? I think I only notice it on your posts.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@euthyphro I really like the colours!

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@TheRightMelissa And because of Hebrews 10:25 “not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@TheRightMelissa Yes. There I first saw something different in people.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@TheRightMelissa Great question that all should seek an answer to in the Word, and think on with fear and trembling.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@harlanddwhite @TheRightMelissa @TC2604 Amen. God knows our heart.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

'Why don't you settle down?': Prime Minister Trudeau admonishes heckler at Ukraine event https://t.co/BUIzvgb63K

[LWFMinistries @lwfministries]

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@euthyphro Since you are so young, you have time to try it out, and course correct if you change your mind.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@IHearTheCall20 @koraxhs Except that the bible says to pray.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@euthyphro I experience this with both genders. I let it go. I’m either wise or just worn out.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@shaunwalker7 Praying for a peaceful resolution 🙏

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@SamoBurja I hope it’s a mild case.

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@Andrewnsnyder Praying 🙏

[Lance Mason @lanclamas]

@daisyldixon Well I once heard it said that holding anger toward someone is like drinking poison and hoping that they get sick.