Jon Oglesby

Jesus follower. Executive Director of Larry H. Miller Utah Summer Games. Lover of food, books, music, & running.

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew absolutely everything he knows. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, Confident in Prayer
https://t.co/uSGCKgtLVY

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

There are some people who pretty much only you can reach. There are some hands that pretty much only you can hold and comfort. There are some needs that only you will resonate to and even see and meet. Do you know what this means? It means you’re not here by accident. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, "Our Vocation: Lay Ministry"
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

You may think you believe in God, but when suffering comes, it separates out the impurities in your faith and you see, “It’s really my reputation, my success, my wealth, it’s this person in my life, it’s my approval, it’s power, comfort, control, or whatever. These are the things I’m really believing in, and that’s the reason why I’m up and down and up and down, why I’m so anxious, why I’m so angry.” When suffering comes, it brings out the impurities in your faith. It shows you how little you really believe in God. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, "Our Cross: The Path of Suffering"
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

The love you’ve always been looking for from your parents, you’re going to get in the arms of your Father. The love you’ve been looking for from your spouse, you’re going to get in the arms of your ultimate spouse, Jesus Christ. The significance you’ve been trying to get from your job or your achievements or your art or your political causes or whatever—you’re going to get when the triune God says to you, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” – @timkellernyc

Sermon, "Our Birth: Cosmic"
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

If you believe in Jesus Christ, you believe he died for your sins, and you ask God to accept you for Jesus’ sake, then the Holy Spirit comes into your life, and for the rest of your life there is now a death-resurrection pattern to how you grow. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, Encountering the Risen Jesus
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

In 1986, the American Medical Association published an article titled "The Physical Death of Jesus Christ". It details the entire process of Jesus' trial to His death on the cross.

In Luke 22, before Jesus is arrested, it is written that He was in great distress & sweating blood. Although rare, it is recognized as Hematidrosis, a condition caused by high levels of stress.

At the time, the crucifixion was considered the worst death for the worst of criminals. But this is not all Jesus faced. He endured whipping so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. He was beaten so horribly that His face was torn & His beard ripped.

A crown of thorns, 2-3 inches long cut deeply into His scalp. The leather whip used to flog Him had tiny iron balls & sharp bones. The balls caused internal injuries while the sharp bones ripped open His flesh. His skeletal muscles, veins, & bowels are exposed, causing major blood loss. Most men do not survive this kind of torture. After Jesus was severely flogged, He was forced to carry His cross while people mocked & spat on Him.

Crucifixion was a process meant to instill excruciating pain, creating a slow & agonizing death. Nails as long as 8 inches were driven into Jesus' wrists & feet. The Roman soldiers knew the tendons in the wrists would tear & break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support Himself to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the courage...Jesus endured this reality for 3 hours!

The Gospel of John writes that after Jesus' death, a Roman soldier pierced His side with a spear & blood & water came out. Scientists explain that from hypovolemic shock, the rapid heart rate causes fluid to gather in the sack around the lungs & heart. The accumulation of fluid in the membrane around the heart is called a Pericardial effusion & the lungs is called a pleural effusion.

To the world, Christianity is as foolish as it can get. They believe it's for the weak. But when you are confronted by the reality of the cross, it's clearly not a pretty sight. It is brutal & horrific.

This is the weight Jesus carried. The weight of the sins of the world, all so that we can live. God's wrath is fully satisfied in Jesus. This is what it took. Repent & believe! Jesus is “God among us” in the flesh. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus loves you so much that He went through this spiritual and physical punishment for your sins and mine.

Jesus is the LORD, Almighty God, Everlasting Father.

Thank You, Jesus.

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

The one thing you want more than anything is to love and be loved, and to know you’re going to love and be loved in the future forever... That’s the deepest need of your heart, and unless you believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that need goes unfulfilled. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, Clothed With Power
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Jordan Rolfes @CoachRolfes]

Good Friday

Pause and pray at each today:

6:00 AM – Jesus is tried by Jewish leaders
7:00 AM – Taken to Pilate, then Herod, then back to Pilate
8:00 AM – Sentenced to death
9:00 AM – Crucifixion begins
12:00 PM – Darkness covers the land
3:00 PM – Jesus dies
5:00 PM - Jesus laid in the tomb

“It is finished” - Jesus

He did this all for you and me.

Sunday is coming.

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

Christians should be anti-glitz. You should love your neighbor, which means you turn to the person who happens to be in your path, to the person who is next to you, and you don’t care how many social media followers they have. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, Mission
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Jon Oglesby @thethunderrolls]

The Man on the middle cross said I could come… me, a broken, lost, despicable sinner. He said I could come.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Gospel gold from @AlistairBegg.

No better week to watch. Never gets old.

[Jon Oglesby @thethunderrolls]

It’s all a gift from God. All of it. I had a hard day today but the fact my hard day is so easy is the gift of God.

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

Christianity says salvation is by free grace, wondrous grace, amazing grace, crazy grace, absolute grace. Why? Because Christianity says we’re not saved by our life; we’re saved by his.

We’re not saved by our fulfilling the requirements of the law and loving and doing. We’re saved because he has done it all. He has fulfilled all of the requirements. He lived the life we should have lived. He died the death we should have died. He did it all in our place, and when I believe in him now it becomes mine. I receive it as a gift. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, The Pool
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Lecrae @lecrae]

Heaven is not full of good people. Heaven is full of people who know they’re not good enough. - Wes Huff

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

Jesus Christ is going to have a wedding day, and this is how history is going to end, according to the Bible. On that day, all of us who have learned to love Jesus Christ and see his beauty, but only by faith in this life, will see his beauty by sight. We will fall into his arms as it were. The long waited-for union will occur, and it’ll be the feast to end all feasts, and it’ll go on forever. It’ll be the joy that’ll end all joys, and it’ll go on forever. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, The Feast
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

Jesus had a far higher view of John the Baptist and his ministry than John the Baptist did. Jesus believed he was a person of momentous historic significance. John the Baptist did not. He says, “No, I’m not anybody special. I’m not anybody of significance.” Who was right? – @timkellernyc

Sermon, The Lamb
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Trevor Sheatz @TrevorSheatz]

It's hard to be a prideful Christian when you understand that literally everything we have is a gift from God.

[Jon Oglesby @thethunderrolls]

When you know Jesus, you want to grow. I’m the most broken guy you follow, I guarantee it, but I continue to grow thanks to Jesus. I will grow in my relationship with Jesus, in spite of my self-induced speed bumps, till I go home to be with Him.

[Gospel in Life @gospelinlife]

If you don’t understand the absolute imperative nature of growth, if you don’t yearn to grow, if you don’t see yourself as foolish, as young, as a baby, you don’t really understand the nature of the Christian faith and the nature of the Christian life. – @timkellernyc

Sermon, "Principles of Christian Growth, Part 2"
https://t.co/9Ap8AxLQEr

[Oliver Burdick @oliverburdick]

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

C.S. Lewis

[Trevor Sheatz @TrevorSheatz]

The Christian life is a constant, ongoing battle against the flesh, the world, and the devil. Do not retreat. Stay grounded in Jesus.

[Trevor Sheatz @TrevorSheatz]

God did not save you because he saw something good in you. He saved you because of his own mercy and grace. We were dead in our sins, and he made us alive together with Christ (Eph. 2:5).

[Jon Oglesby @thethunderrolls]

@TheCinesthetic A few thoughts - 1) this movie elevated the Millenium Falcon to a true character of its own. 2) The thrill of after the concussion missiles hit is outstanding; 3) escaping with inches to spare is the mark of any cinema hero. This scene plays it well with both Luke and Lando.