Ross Colin Shannon

Husband. Father. Believer. Member. Pastor.

[Ross Colin Shannon @rosscshannon]

"The interest on the mortgage of the sexual revolution is paid for in the poorest parts of american cities." --R.R. Reno (via Carl Trueman)

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@pj_schreiner @MBTS Congrats Patrick! Just reading you earlier this morning...thank you for serving the church, me.

[Ross Colin Shannon @rosscshannon]

"My soul is often a chariot without wheels, clogged and hindered in sin’s miry clay; Mount it on eagle’s wings and cause it to soar upward to thyself." --Valley of Vision

[Ross Colin Shannon @rosscshannon]

"'As often as you [Satan] object that I am a sinner, so often you remind me of the benefit of Christ my Redeemer, on whose shoulders, and not on mine, lie all my sins. So when you say I am a sinner, you do not terrify me but comfort me immeasurably.'" -Luther

[Ross Colin Shannon @rosscshannon]

“If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man … Christianity is not just ‘dogmatically’ true or ‘doctrinally’ true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.”

Francis Schaeffer (HT: @Christ_OverAll )

[Ross Colin Shannon @rosscshannon]

Years ago, John Piper introduced Joel Beeke on family worship with these words: "Dream a dream of beginning a two century long legacy. Maybe you think—if my parents got it wrong, I’m stuck. You are not stuck. You are born again. Traditions start somewhere." So good.

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Come, sinners, to the gospel-feast,
Let every soul be Jesus’ guest,
You need not one be left behind,
For God hath bidden all mankind.

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Directed by @JonHaidt ??? Looks like it could have been. Well done, Pixar https://t.co/UhsFQMueFK

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This classic is pure joy.

Time flies like an arrow,
fruit flies like a banana.

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Thank you, Andrew Peterson
https://t.co/hGOjL3VNXH

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

This is a wild paragraph from WSJ

$70,000 per family. Just wild.

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Let's change the norm.
https://t.co/qJ9yCLgLUv

[Ross Colin Shannon @rosscshannon]

What Is Sustaining Grace?
Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
   Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
   And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
--John Piper

[Kevin Carson @KevinCarson]

As a parent with primarily adult children, these are good numbers to consider soberly. We are but temporary stewards.

[Ross Colin Shannon @rosscshannon]

generation, from numbering themselves with his people, there would be no visible church, no ordinances maintained, and, I fear, very little preaching of the gospel." 2/2

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A good word from Charles Spurgeon: "Nothing in the world is dearer to God's heart than his church; therefore, being his, let us also belong to it, that by our prayers, our gifts, and our labors, we may support and strengthen it. If those who are Christ's refrained, even for a 1/2

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Romans 8:18 "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us."

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Headstone and Phone https://t.co/inxyCPW2Oy

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"Remedies are insufficient if they only address excuses." --Chris Moles re misplaced motives

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Classic satire here. https://t.co/QV56uKpd42