You can't point to Jesus and your Rolls Royce at the same time.
Either His glory, revealed by His Word, is enough to capture the attention of the sheep who hear His voice, or you can peddle the Word and preach yourself to people who aren't interested in Jesus for His own sake.
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The documentary “Forty” celebrating @MastersSeminary 40th anniversary was riveting, encouraging, and motivating. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly commend it to you. 40 minutes well spent. https://t.co/FA5pFPX2YQ
He Loves You: The Motivation of the Christian | Paul Washer – Heavenly Citizenship, Part 1
As citizens of a heavenly kingdom, how are Christians to think and live? At the Église Bonne Nouvelle conference in Paris, Paul Washer delivered four messages considering the realities and responsibilities of the heavenly citizenship of every believer. His messages centered around the motivation and holiness that should characterize the Christian, along with the believer’s dependence upon the Word of God and prayer.
HeartCry is now releasing these four messages as the “Heavenly Citizenship” series.
In this first message, Paul Washer explains the love of God as the motivation and source of life for the Christian.
“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
– Philippians 3:20
Never forget that days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Ilhan Omar said his legacy “should be in the dust bin of history” and the real thing that was “jarring” was not his murder, but the fact that people want to honor him
Evil
Denaturalize and deport
“John MacArthur’s historic sermon explains why 9/11 happened, but also ultimately why all disasters happen. And we need to know the answers because today we struggle to keep up with a seemingly endless sequence of disasters.
“We don’t need to be overwhelmed and overtaken by calamitous events. But we do need to be armed with answers. And in this sermon, John MacArthur provides those answers from Scripture, along with a powerful, divine warning to everyone about the ultimate disaster—falling victim to God’s eternal wrath.”
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Pics from our first baptismal service at Grace & Truth Community Church. Six people gave their testimonies and were immersed. What a joyous time this was. https://t.co/EMvfqhZ9J3
Almost 20 years ago, long before anyone ever thought of making a podcast series about Mark Driscoll's pastoral disqualifications, John MacArthur was privately sending letters to Driscoll, warning him of how he was endangering the purity of the church through his personal character deficiencies and his public impure speech:
MacArthur: "My primary concern has always been about the level of sensuality and worldliness evidenced in a lack of pastoral propriety and biblical decency that characterizes much of your speech and methodology. It is a concern that arises from my observations of your public ministry and which has been heightened by some of your recent webcast sermons and messages.
I didn't see anything in your letter that addresses this primary concern. In observing what you do openly and publicly, I am finding certain aspects of your ministry impossible to reconcile with the high standard of dignity and purity that the New Testament calls us to as ministers of the Gospel. That is something that goes deeper than just differences of opinion or philosophy.
Please don't feel like you need to explain anything further to me. Ultimately, we both must answer to the Lord."
MacArthur was ahead of the game, as always. And can I just say that in listening to this episode again, my heart hurt over the fact that we no longer have this wise and courageous truth warrior here with us on earth. 💔
-From The MacArthur Center Podcast, Season 1, Episode 6
It amazes me how often non-Calvinists accuse Calvinists of pride simply for believing that God has chosen them (and not others) for salvation.
Calvinist teaching couldn’t be more explicit: divine election is unconditional. God’s choice to save some and not others is not grounded in anything in or about the sinner.
His choice was made when we “were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of [our] works”—nor even because of our faith—“but because of Him who calls” (Rom 9:11). God Himself is the ground of unconditional election. He predestined us to salvation “according to the good pleasure of His will” (Eph 1:5).
Believing that God chose me and not my neighbor for salvation based on nothing in or about either of us is not prideful. It is the appropriately humiliating confession that there is nothing in or about me that would draw God to choose me—that the only way I’d ever be saved is by an exercise of God’s sheer grace. It makes no comment on why God did not choose someone else, except that it was His free and sovereign pleasure not to do so.