saw moshay

A sinner saved by Grace.

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"The Great Commission entails evangelism, church planting, the sacraments, and discipleship."
-Burk Parsons.

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

It is sad to say that the Christians are lacking discernment nowadays. Which leads us into thinking that every thing that includes God’s name is God’s Truth.

#fact #whatiswrongwithyoupeople

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

Christians are not always rewarded the same in this life for their faith (Heb. 11:1-40)

Abel was murdered, Enoch was raptured.

Daniel shut lions' mouths, others were eaten by lions.

Some are famous, others are forgotten.

Keep trusting; One Day soon God will reward us in full.

[Garrett Kell ن @pastorjgkell]

“God rarely places us in circumstances that highlight our strengths. Rather, He lovingly places us in circumstances that expose our weakness...so that He might reveal Himself as our sufficiency.” - John Henderson

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

@LFC Why not with Diaz??????

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Why Am I Still Struggling Against the Same Sins?

If you, as a disciple of Jesus, find yourself, five or ten or even fifty years after you started following Jesus, still weak in the same areas of life, still struggling with lust or anger or greed or hatred, then welcome to the Club of Discipleship, commonly known as The Church.

No, we are not here to excuse one another. But we are here to introduce ourselves, week after week, with the likes of: “Hi, my name is Chad and I’m a sinner.”

“I’ve struggled with (name-your-weakness). I have good days and bad days. Sometimes I have days from hell, where I think the devil must have me in a chokehold. Other days, I seem to do well. But even then, there’s always the nagging temptations, the subtle allurements.

If I find myself outwardly abstaining from this or that wrongdoing, all too often that’s where my heart dwells or my mind daydreams. What’s even more maddening is that when I do well and think I’m making some strong progress, I begin to feel proud of myself and—bam!—all of a sudden now my soul is flexing its muscles of arrogance and self-righteousness.

Good God, it’s frustrating. It drives me nuts. I can’t escape from my own worst enemy—myself.”

Welcome to discipleship. Welcome to the Christian life. Welcome to Jacob’s life.

And welcome, too, to the Jesus who responds to each of us by saying, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matt. 11:28-30).

One of the things we will learn from our Savior is that he did not call us to become witnesses to a complete life transformation in which we are now better than other people. Rather, he called us into a living relationship with himself and the Father through the power of the Spirit in which our true identities are now completely secure in Jesus.

Even when we fail? Yes. Even when we sin that same sin again? Yes. Will he continue to call us to repentance? Yes. Will he continue to discipline us as a father does his child? Also, yes.

Every disciple of Jesus wishes for freedom from sin in this life. But we are in this life; thus, we are still at war with ourselves, at war with the sinful nature that doesn’t tuck its tail between its legs and flee when we become Christians. It declares war.

But Jesus has won and, in him, we too have won. In fact, in him, we are more than conquerors. We are beloved. And Christ’s consistent grace over time proves that he is never going to change from being the Friend and Forgiver of Sinners.

(This is an excerpt from my book, Limping with God: Jacob and the Old Testament Guide to Messy Discipleship. For those who are doing Bible in One Year with me, this accords with Romans 7, one of the chapters we read today: https://t.co/XxNvEtNH7e).

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

@LFC He’s been saying such and such every defeat and draw. #lastmatchwasdissapointint

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

@LFC Keep changing with stupid performance and passings.

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

@LFC Please substitute Salah, Trent and Luis.

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

@LFC Arnold is playing sluggishly. Too proud of himself.

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

Gird the Loins of Your Mind? A Odd and Meaningful Biblical Expression

Peter uses an odd—and rather humorous—image when he tells his readers, “Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:13).

What? That doesn’t sound odd or humorous to you? It does in the Greek.

What the ESV translates as “preparing your minds for action” is in Greek, “girding the loins of your mind.” The verb ἀναζώννῡμι (anazonnumi), “to gird or bind up” is used only here in the New Testament. What does it mean to “gird your loins” and, more specifically, the “loins of your mind”?

The style of dress in Israel, and generally in the Middle East, were long robes. But what if you needed to work or run or fight? A long robe would hamper your movements. To fix this problem, a man would pull up his robe to shorten it, then bind it around his waist. Voilà, a long robe is thereby transformed into a pair of shorts! (See the picture for how this works)

Okay, you say, but what about loins and mind? Our minds don’t have loins, obviously.

This is simply a figure of speech. Just as a man literally “girded his loins” to get ready for action, so Peter says metaphorically to “gird the loins of your mind,” that is, “get your minds ready for action.”

Peter is likely alluding to the original exodus, when the Israelites were told to eat the Passover meal “with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand” (Exod. 12:11). That phrase, “your belt fastened” in Hebrew is “your loins girded.” In this same context, Peter makes reference to Christ as the “lamb without blemish or spot,” that is, the true Passover Lamb (1 Pet. 1:19).

Peter would thus be saying, “As those redeemed by the true Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ, stay awake and alert, with the loins of your mind girded, ready at any moment for action, with your focus upon the grace of Christ in this dark and dangerous Egyptian world.”

[Enezator @Enezator]

Forget all the police suspect chase scenes you know.

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

Don't Minimize Your Sin

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

With great sadness we mourn the loss of TGC co-founder Timothy Keller, 72, who died today, more than three years after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

To the pastor out there that's preparing his Sunday message by copying and pasting from a script created by AI.

Perhaps it feels like no big deal because you have completely relied on stealing from other commentaries for some time now and have simply given up on truly mining through the Scripture.

What you've just done is like a big, red flag telling you that you have a real problem.

Now is the time to step back into your role for real. Set aside all secondary sources and spend time isolated with just the text of Scripture. Prepare your message/study as much as possible without using any resources, before turning to others for help. This will, as you practice it week after week, retrain you to find the beauty, health, and wonder of Scripture. And never use AI like that again. It's like saying that a computer algorithm is good enough to replace a man of God working according to the gifting of God.

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

“Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.” #Romans 12:13

Contribute the needs of saints.
Don’t con the needy.

[Emily Rose Massey @emilyrosemassey]

So…we still calling Bill Johnson a “brother?” 🧐

[saw moshay @sawmoshay]

@short_tymer This is how Rocket Racoon will die in #GOTG3

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Why do we spend hours on the internet, but only minutes on our knees every day?

[Dustin Benge @DustinBenge]

Rather than seeking revelations, visions, dreams, experiences, signs, and wonders, believers need only to study and obey what they already have — the Bible.