Levi State

Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ; Thou art the Everlasting Son of the Father.

[Credo @CredoMagazine]

Happy Reformation Day! 📜🔨

We're giving away two copies of @MattMBarrett's "Reformation as Renewal" with @ZonderAcademic to celebrate!

LIKE, REPOST, and FOLLOW for a chance to win

[Harrison Ford @rhford123]

I asked ChatGPT to analyze a job posting I found for a senior pastor of a growing, mid-sized church and to list the competencies needed to do the job well.

They're not unreasonable , but when considered cumulatively the pastoral burnout problem makes more sense.

[Plumbline Faith @PlumblineFaith]

In the New Testament, elders emerged within a local assembly based on proven character …

As they served God’s people through relationships, plurality, example, persuasion and earned respect.

Today, we instead hire a “Senior Pastor”from the outside based on external credentials …

To rule over an organization called a “church” through appointment, position, hierarchy, titles, command and control.

Big difference.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It’s about the need for a Christian restoration.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.'

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

BREAKING: The Baby Olivia Act has been signed into law in Tennessee.

This law ensures that over 1 million TN public school students will be taught scientifically accurate information about when life begins using world-class educational materials like Live Action’s Baby Olivia.

TN joins North Dakota in leading the way in human development education in schools. Watch what students across the nation will see below.

[Stephen Simpson 🇺🇦 ProperGander @BamaStephen]

This is Pastor Loran Livingston. He has some thoughts about Christian Nationalism and the new Trump Bible. Do you agree with what this pastor is saying here?

I do.

[Levi State @statel]

A good read, an experience that is true for our family.

A New Generation of Anglicans https://t.co/vBpupPnUNw

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD April 9, 1945:
Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenburg, only days before the American liberation of the POW camp. The last words of the courageous 39-year-old opponent of Nazism were “This is the end—for me, the beginning of life.”

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Adoption is the highest privilege of the gospel. The traitor is forgiven, brought in for supper, and given the family name.

[Levi State @statel]

@DrJordanBCooper So good!!

[Levi State @statel]

... I am WITH you even now! My strength us made perfect in your weakness!”

My friends may we find strength in the one who went before us and comfort from the one who is WITH us in it!

[Levi State @statel]

Lenten Thought: As we wander in the wilderness of Lent be reminded that unlike Christ, we don’t enter the wilderness of our own temptations alone. Rather we face the anguish of our sin and brokenness with the one who says, “Do not despair. For I have ovecome the world...

[Jeff Vanderstelt @JeffVanderstelt]

Another biblically informed deconstruction we need to embrace: there are NOT 2 tiers in Christianity known as clergy and laity. All Christians are clergy (priests) and all Christians are laity (everyday people).

[Brett Kunkle @BrettKunkle]

“The modern church is producing passionate people with empty heads who love the Jesus they don’t know very well.” – Voddie Baucham

[Tea with Tolkien @TeawithTolkien]

on the twelve days of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

12 at the council [of Elrond]
11 pipes for smoking
10 Dúnedain
9 in the Fellowship
8 elven cloaks
7 palantíri
6 months to Mordor
5 Istari!
4 little hobbits
3 Silmarils
2 towers
and the 1 Ring to rule them all!

[Levi State @statel]

@TeawithTolkien @samuelwonacott

[Pete Greig @PeteGreig]

millions & millions
hearing the good news
of Immanuel tonight
let preachers preach it
choirs sing it
children see it
let pubs host it
rulers fear it
mothers hold it
let those alone receive it
those afraid perceive it
those with broken hearts believe it all again

[Andrew King @drandrewmking]

🚨Book Giveaway🚨

Closing 2022 by giving away a copy of our book on Christ in the Old Testament. RT and follow to enter.

Winner announced 1/1/23

[Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah]

In Jesus Christ, we see who God is.

God doesn’t exalt himself, he humbles himself.

He doesn’t come in power or might, but as a helpless child needing care.

He doesn’t demand status or wealth: he is born in a stable, surrounded by shepherds.