Luke Gossett

“There’s no high culture without low culture.”- Wendell Berry || @Ascension_Pres (OPC); PhD in Semitics @ CUA

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

"wer spricht von siegen? überstehn ist alles."
"Who speaks of victory? Survival is everything."
--Rilke

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@DZRishmawy In a healthy way, this trepidation keeps me focused on "Thus says the Lord" proclamation and less focused on "I think" or "in my opinion" statements.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@NoWarChristian @IVMiles While I fully agree, Dark is so good.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

Providentially preaching 2 Cor. 13:11-13 on this Sunday, (Trinity Sunday). I'm packing the liturgy as full of the trinity as possible. Join us if you're able as we confess a wonderful mystery!

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis’ incredible observation on friendship

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@warne Gossett family lullabies from the psalter-hymnal include: psalms 23A, 23C, 47a, and 67b. My older kids still request these.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@warne @porterharlow @realDaveCias @hchorey If you've never watched "Stop Making Sense" you're missing out.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@porterharlow @realDaveCias @warne @hchorey

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@warne The motto of Presbyteries everywhere

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@NPWhite717 Yes, but "Losing Battles" about drove me crazy because it was too real.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@AndrewMillerOPC My take was basically sorrow that makes Christians run to Jesus is the only profitable sorrow. I think that incorporates Lamentations. At the tomb of Lazarus, Jesus’ sorrow precedes his work (there in microcosm) but also his suffering precedes his glory.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

1/2 "For only in respect to sins is sorrow a profitable thing; as is evident in this way. He that sorrows for loss of wealth repairs not that damage; he that sorrows for one deceased raises not the dead to life again;

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@AndrewMillerOPC Homily 15 on 2 Corinthians, specifically on chapter 7.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@NoWarChristian @sassiterian This is the way

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

@NoWarChristian Log off and read books. Sorry, those are the rules.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

2/2 But Paul with his gospel lens knows the truth of it all. The substance of the glory, joy, of unimpeded fellowship and approval from God makes the greatest earthly burden a feather.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

1/2 I don't think most of us, most days, would write or think how Paul does. Calling his suffering a "momentary lightness of affliction" which prepares us for "an eternal weight of glory." Most of us think of suffering as the weight and glory as a fleeting momentary lightness.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

If you view pastoral ministry as a primarily a theological / mental exercise, then how do you pastor those with a keener theological mind? Pastoring is far more than being "right" about a passage, it is about pointing people to Jesus right in the midst of their current struggle.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

4/4 At @Ascension_Pres this Sunday we'll sing and look at Zechariah's song, the benedictus.

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

1/4 "O LORD Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,

[Luke Gossett @RabbiLuke]

3/4 “As a prophet John has only one foot in the old covenant; the other is in the new. He is the last prophet, the forerunner. His birth and office are on the threshold between the two testaments.” ~ François Bovon