Shannon Kiepke

Thankful for the faith that God so graciously gifted me with to believe in His only Son, Jesus Christ! Homemaker, 5 Solas

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

“The Lord is coming and in the coming of the Lord lies the great hope of the believer, his great stimulus to overcome evil, his main incentive to perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord.”
~~Spurgeon

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

@hbcharlesjr Praying now for the Lord’s comfort.🙏🏻

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

@5Solas “The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him, For He sees his day is coming.”
Psalms 37:12-13

[Jon Benzinger @jonbenz]

Christian, your comfort is not the goal of your life. Your conformity to Christ is.

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

@reformedhg Recipe please😊and thank you!

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

June reminder:
“He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly thereafter”
2 Peter 2:6

“Pride goes before destruction”
Proverbs 16:18

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

@AdamPage85 🙋‍♀️me too!

[pagemasta @AdamPage85]

Thank you to the hundreds and hundreds of people who came out to our Good Friday concerts tonight. God was truly glorified. I was asked by several on the way home if I could share my homily from this evening. Hope this blesses you:

There is nothing visibly good about Good Friday. Friday is betrayal. Friday is injustice. Friday is a rushed trial in the dark and a crowd shouting for blood. Friday is nails through hands that healed the sick… Feet that carried good news… A back that bore the weight of the world’s sin. Friday is where everything looks like it’s falling apart. And if we’re honest, that’s not hard for us to understand right now. Because we live in a world that still feels like that Friday sometimes. Wars rage. Families fracture. Anxiety rises. Truth feels negotiable. People feel lost, angry, divided, tired. It still feels like darkness is winning. So why do we dare call this day “good”? Because what looked like defeat was ACTUALLY the greatest victory in history.

On Friday, Jesus Christ did not lose, He laid down His life. On Friday, sin was not ignored, it was fully paid for. On this day, evil was not unleashed, it was exposed, absorbed, and defeated at the cross. Isaiah says, “It pleased the Lord to crush Him…” Why? Because through that crushing… God was crushing our sin. That’s why it’s good. Not because it was easy, but because it was necessary. Not because it felt victorious, but because it secured victory.

And here’s where this matters for us tonight: If you rush past Friday to get to Sunday… you will never understand how deep your need is. We love resurrection. We love hope. We love empty tombs. You don’t get Sunday… without Friday. Just like you don’t get life without death. You don’t get forgiveness without a cross. And if we skip the cross, we reduce Christianity to inspiration instead of salvation.

I’ve seen something that I can’t shake. A few years ago, I stood in Golgotha, the place many believe was the hill of the skull, where Jesus was crucified. It’s a limestone ridge, and if you look closely, you can still make out what looks like a skull in the rock. But what struck me wasn’t just the hill. It was what was in front of it. There was a massive public transportation sign: buses moving, people rushing, schedules, noise, distraction. And that sign was positioned in such a way that it covered the face of the skull. Covered it.

As if the modern world had just built over it. Moved on from it. Hidden it behind movement, noise, and urgency. And I remember standing there thinking. That’s not just Jerusalem, that’s us. We have not removed the cross, we’ve just obstructed our view of it.

We’ve covered it with busyness. With headlines. With politics. With entertainment. With endless distraction. We don’t like to think about sad things or deal with things we need to deal with because of the way it makes us feel. But regardless of how we feel.

The cross is still there. The sacrifice still stands. The work of Christ is still finished. We’ve just learned how to live like it’s hidden behind something more “urgent.”

Good Friday calls us to move the sign. To stop. To look again. To see what we’ve covered over. Because behind all the noise… behind all the movement, behind everything competing for your attention. There is a hill. There is a cross. There is a Savior. And He is not asking you to admire Him in passing. He is calling you to behold Him, and believe. So tonight, we don’t rush. We sit in Friday. We feel the weight of it. We acknowledge the cost.

We remember that our sin is not small, it required the Son of God to die. "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." - Romans 3:23. But remember why the Gospel of Jesus Christ is called the good news: because Friday is not the end of the story.

Because the same Jesus who cried, “It is finished”… was not declaring defeat; He was declaring that everything necessary for your salvation is complete.

"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast". Ephesians 2:8-9

So why is it called Good Friday? Because on the darkest day in history… God was doing His brightest work. Because when the world gave its worst, God gave His Son. Because through death… He brought life. And because for every person who trusts in Christ, Friday means this: Your sin is paid for. Your guilt is removed. Your eternity is secured.

"Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” Romans 10:9-11.

Tonight we honor Friday. Because without Friday, there is no forgiveness. And because of Friday… Sunday is coming. #GoodFriday #ResurrectionSunday

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

@AshleySheatz @anahnemoo Many of us share this story of God’s transformative work in our life! We must never forget, Christ has redeemed His harlot Bride! To Him be all glory and praise!

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Pastor Paul Lamey of Grace Community Church in Hunstville Alabama, and one of the contributors for the Shepherd's Bible, talks about his article "Encouragement for Pastoring Difficult Sheep"

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[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

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Jerry Wragg, senior pastor of Grace Immanuel Bible Church in Jupiter FL and general editor of the new LSB Shepherd's Bible shares the heart behind the project. ⁠
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[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

“we are still, to weep to the praise of the mercy that we have found, and to tell to others, as we have breath to speak, that
the Lord is a great sin-pardoning God.”

~Spurgeon

[Jayson York @jaysonyork]

This is the best response to the Washer stuff.

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

🚨JUST IN: A Small plane flown by a 19 year old pilot with one passenger successfully makes an emergency landing on Indiantown Road in Jupiter, Florida.

There were cars on the roadway, but the pilot somehow managed to land without hitting a single vehicle.

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

“Believe and confess ‘Jesus is Lord’”

Satan: Yep

“Submit to Christ’s Lordship and obey His commands”

Satan: Nope

It sure seems like a lot of Evangelicals share the same view 🙁

[Jerry Wragg @Jerry_Wragg]

Especially when they regularly claim that assurance comes “only through Christ” without explaining the claim.

What are we to make of the various warning passages (2 Cor 13:5; Col 1:22-23; Matt 24:13) that seem to indicate the potential of a true child of God apostatizing?
Wouldn’t this approach tend to foster an unhealthy introspection,
external performance, and ultimately weakened assurance?
No! God has created us in Christ Jesus and prepared long ago that we should walk in good works, YET the ordained means by which
He brings about our preservation is the manifold commands, admonitions, encouragements, and calls to faithfulness.

We might look at the matter in this way:
Eternal Security → Promises God’s faithfulness, Describes
God’s securing power, Explains God’s sovereign purposes, Ascribes to God exclusive glory

Assurance → Grows with Christian faithfulness, Manifested
by increasing holiness, Shaken by a ravaged conscience, Fades with patterns of neglect and rebellion

God will do what He promises, but we are warned to practice what He commands (Heb. 10:23). God’s warnings against unbelief are
intended to forge an active and passionate growth in His grace, to prevent the self-deception of false security, to test levels of
faithfulness, and to cause sober reflection on the dangers of unbelief. These warnings will have different impact, depending upon the maturity level of each believer:

For the strong Christian– Warnings offer a reminder to press on all the more, and an abiding confidence that one has obeyed these cautions.
For the weak but willing – Warnings provide a
graphic deterrent to future patterns of sin. They display the specific care of God in pointing to dangers; They engender a greater dependence on grace.
For the weak and stubborn – Warnings bring instant clarity to trouble (chastening); They bring greater conviction to the conscience; They expose unbelief as the source of all stubbornness.
For the hardened – Warnings call for the justice of God, thereby upholding holiness; They confirm the traits of apostasy; They declare the absence of true
conversion.

[Shannon Kiepke @luvsofl]

@usuallypregnant Biblically, it’s not just his right, but his duty. A husband’s leadership and protection is God’s kindness and grace in a woman’s life.

[Michelle Lesley @MichelleDLesley]

The older I get, the more I realize how wise God was to instruct us in Titus 2:3-5 that younger women are to be taught, trained, and discipled by older women, not by their contemporaries - especially those who are influencers, podcasters, and evangelical celebrities.

Even the "Reformed" ones.

[𝐽𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑦 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑟 @peregrinus75]

We have a new taste and savour, love and liking by the Spirit of Christ; and look on the law, not as a burden, but as our privilege in Christ.

#WalterMarshall