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Husband, father, grandfather, apprentice of the risen Lord. Life’s good!

[Dan Paterson (QC) @DanPaterson7]

Conspiracy to DEBUNK the Apostle Paul?

[Tyndale House, Cambridge @Tyndale_House]

The Taylor Prism was found by Robert Taylor in the early 1800s and sheds great light on the world in which the biblical events took place.

Sennacherib’s inscription aligns with 2 Kings, Isaiah, and 2 Chronicles, offering historical evidence for the Old Testament record.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD July 10, 1863:
Clement C. Moore died. In 1819 he helped establish the General Theological Seminary in New York City, where he taught Greek and Hebrew literature for twenty-eight years. He is also remembered as the author of the beloved Christmas poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).

Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.

Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.

Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.

Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.

Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.

Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.

[Dan Paterson (QC) @DanPaterson7]

Do "Western" names DISPROVE the Gospels?

[1517 @1517]

"Luther neither removed the Apocrypha from the Bible nor discouraged its use. Rather, he received and preserved the ancient distinction inherited from the fathers: the Apocrypha is valuable, edifying, and worthy of reading, but it is not Holy Scripture and therefore cannot serve as the foundation of Christian doctrine." -Philip Bartelt

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

New York City is now being run by foreign terrorists.

Here is: The terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, saying the quiet part out loud—on American soil, no less.

Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, as members of Congress, serve as tools to overthrow the United States government.

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

Is a personal relationship with Jesus the only thing necessary for spiritual growth? @AdrielTweets explains why the local church is vital for spiritual formation.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Lord, I believe.
Help Thou my unbelief.

That is our table prayer,
our bedside prayer,
our office prayer,
our driving prayer,
our 24/7 petition.

Lord, I do believe,
but I also don’t believe.
I am a cocktail of contradictions:
double-hearted,
forked-tongued,
pulled heavenward
and hellward
every step I take.

I fear you but I also fear failure.
I trust you but I also trust myself.
I love you but I also love the limelight.

Lord,
I am a saint and a sinner,
your bride and the devil’s whore.

Lord, I believe.
Help Thou my unbelief.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Before the King James Bible, there was a translation that changed everything.

Printed in exile.

Smuggled into England.

Hated by kings.

Loved by reformers.

This is the story of the Geneva Bible.

[a 🧵 thread… 👇🏼]

[Adriel Sanchez @AdrielTweets]

One of the beautiful things about the church is that it's a body of people who aren't united by shared ethnicity or social status, but by the grace of God. When Christ is lifted high, he draws all people to himself - Jew and Greek, slave and free. The diversity of Christ's body testifies to the power of the gospel. Only the blood of Christ can unite Simon the Zealot and Levi the tax collector in one family with Christ at the head of the table.

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

When the world is harsh, Christ remains merciful. When the world is chaotic, Christ remains a solid rock to stand on. When the world feels dark, Christ remains a light that will shine forever.

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

Happy thought: when we suffer for Christ, we are suffering with Christ. He is there.

[Adriel Sanchez @AdrielTweets]

One irony with Mormons wanting to identify with Christians is that initially the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints set itself in antithesis to all other Christian groups. Mormons believed everyone else was apostate, and that the lights had "gone out" shortly after the days of the apostles. The attempt to just be "another Christian denomination" is a PR shift, and Mormons have undergone several of these throughout their history (not to mention their own doctrinal developments regarding plural marriage & blacks in the priesthood).

The LDS church is not a true church, but uses "Christianese" to masquerade as one. Words like: grace, gospel, covenant, godhead, Christ, etc. have all been redefined by the LDS. I've had wonderful Mormon friends over the years, and I've pleaded with them to turn to Christ. The Mormon Jesus is "another Jesus" like Paul warned about in 2 Corinthians 11:4.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

What good news.

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

Simply astounding that God knows all the stars by name (Isaiah 40:26). He didn’t just create them. He *named* them.

This implies not just power, but care. And amazing creativity. Just think about how many unique names are floating around in the divine mind!

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD June 1, 165:
(traditional date)
Justin, an early Christian apologist, is beheaded with his disciples for their faith.
"If we are punished for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, we hope to be saved," he said just before his death. Christians soon named him Justin Martyr.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

🚨HERO ALERT: CRY HARDER, CAIR!

Indiana's Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is a damn HERO, and every American who values truth needs to have his back RIGHT NOW.

Yesterday, he looked the demonic death cult of Islam square in the eye and said what millions of us already know: He HATES Islam.

He called it exactly what it is — a “demonic death cult” that demands total submission, treats women like property, curses non-believers, and commands conquest over every infidel on the planet.

And he gave Hoosiers explicit permission to hate dangerous, evil ideas again.

Then he made the distinction crystal clear: He loves Muslims as individuals and prays they come to Christ.

That’s not bigotry. That’s sanity.

But here comes CAIR, the same terror-tied group labeled a foreign terrorist organization by Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas and Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida, throwing their usual disgusting smear.

They’re inviting Beckwith to a mosque to “engage with Muslim constituents” while whining that his words “could increase fear and hostility” toward Muslims.

This is their oldest, slimiest trick: deliberately conflating the IDEOLOGY of Islam with individual Muslims.

Islam is NOT a race.

Islam is NOT a person.

Islam is a totalitarian political-religious system of domination.

It is a set of ideas - ideas that say men are superior to women, that apostates and homosexuals deserve death, that non-Muslims must submit or pay the jizya, and that jihad is eternal.

Those ideas are in the Quran, Hadith, and Sira.

They do not get a free pass from criticism just because some Muslims choose to ignore the ugly parts.

You can hate the ideology with every fiber of your being and treat every individual Muslim with basic human decency.

Beckwith gets it. Amen!

CAIR pretends not to, because their entire grift depends on you never noticing the difference.

The media won’t tell you Texas and Florida have designated CAIR a terror group.

They won’t tell you CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest Hamas financing trial in U.S. history.

They just run the clip and let CAIR play victim.

Enough.

Stand with Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith.

Call evil evil.

Hate the ideology.

Love the people.

It’s good to be anti-Islam.

It is NOT good to be anti-Muslim.

CAIR, your conflation game is exposed.

The American people are done being gaslit.

[Voddie Baucham Sermon Clips @VoddieClips]

Why were people so eager to believe the transgender lies from sexologist Alfred Kinsey and psychologist John Money?

#Bible #truth #Jesus

[Dan Paterson (QC) @DanPaterson7]

Islam GPT strikes again...