Mike Osborne

Husband, father, granddad, Dean of Students and Dir. of Field Education & Placement at @RTSOrlando

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

@jflavel Well done, good & faithful servants. I will miss your friendship and comradeship.

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

My thoughts on how to be a more peaceful pastor: https://t.co/V8H3cYyEcC

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

Blown away by this: “The Lord takes pleasure in his people” (Psalm 149:4). It’s hard to believe that I, who have been the prodigal son so often in my life, am the object of God’s affection!

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

All praise to God, who reigns above,
The God of all creation,
The God of wonders, pow'r, and love,
The God of our salvation!
With healing balm my soul he fills,
The God who every sorrow stills,
To God all praise and glory! - Johann Jakob Schütz, 1675

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

Excited about reading @HarrisonKey’s second memoir, Congratulations, Who Are You Again? https://t.co/O5qSPWjViK, a “retirement” gift from ⁦@rg7878⁩

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

“...the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.” Benjamin Franklin

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

I’m exhausted. I just saw “Hotel Mumbai.” Riveting, sad, violent, inspiring all at the same time.

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

Humbled, thanks for including mine!

[Randall Greenwald @RRGreenwald]

Robert Ludlum on a list of books that pastors should read?
Yes. Sort of.
https://t.co/q2VePkSV6j

[Randall Greenwald @RRGreenwald]

“To practice ministry without the company of these books, to me, is to walk a tightrope without a net. It’s possible, but oh so risky.”
My take on the five books pastors should read.
https://t.co/q2VePkSV6j

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

“Perhaps...you are depressed, and therefore it is that you think that grace is leaving you. But it will not. Your spiritual life does not depend upon nature, else it might expire; it depends upon grace, and grace will never cease to shine till it lights you into glory.” #Spurgeon

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

What would Jesus undo?

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

@rg7878 @profntwright What about Chrysostom? John, Chris, or J. C.?

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

Proud of our @UCF_MBB Knights about to face Duke in the second round. Hey, David beat Goliath. It can happen. #MarchMadness⁠ ⁠#UCFvsDuke

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

Preaching part 3 of a series on neglected spiritual disciplines at @UPCLakeNonaFL this morning.

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

Glad to be preaching and worshipping with the folks at @UPCLakeNonaFL this morning.

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

My sins, my sins, my Savior! They take such hold on me,
I am not able to look up, save only, Christ, to thee;
In thee is all forgiveness, in thee abundant grace,
My shadow and my sunshine the brightness of thy face.
-John S. B. Monsell (1811-1875)

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

Pastors (and their friends), what books should every aspiring and new pastor read?

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

I’m a latecomer to the @theavettbros but I really like their music and I’m at their concert in St. Augustine!!!

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

“Minor poets [i.e., pastors] can never run out of love sonnets. We have to keep finding new ways of saying the same thing: ‘You are the beloved of God.’” M. Craig Barnes

[Mike Osborne @meosborne]

“Those who believe they are the beloved move from one risk to the next, not because they expect to always succeed, but because they don’t care if they fail.” M. Craig Barnes, in The Pastor As Minor Poet