Tim Keep

[CRCNA @CRCNA]

The CRCNA has issued a statement regarding the recent mass shootings in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH. "We call on all members of the CRCNA to take an active stance against false narratives and to stand up against racism and acts of white supremacy."
https://t.co/PGuwizFbdI

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

For Luke (11:1-13), the point that our prayers should be consistent and persistent is secondary. Primarily, the parable is theocentric - our God is one who will *certainly* answer.

Knowing this, persistence in prayer makes even more sense.

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

In the practice of prayer, we must remember the overwhelming *previousness* of God's speech to our prayers.
Just as a child learns to speak by being spoken to, we learn to pray by hearing God speak to us through his Word.
- Keller on prayer

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

@JoelRenkema

[Center for Excellence in Preaching @exclntpreaching]

Fresh every Monday, CEP offers sermon writing ideas, illustration ideas, textual insights for the four Lectionary texts coming up the next Sunday as well as a new Spanish language sermon starter. Check them out on the CEP homepage! #preaching
https://t.co/VVlIUHCiSX

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

'Fear of the Lord' is to take God with the utmost seriousness as the premise from which life is to be discerned and lived... It requires attentiveness to some things rather than others, to spend one's energies in response to this God who has initiated our life.
- Brueggemann

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

Israel's response to God's law must not have a shadow of fear that their ultimate salvation depends on obedience. They have to learn to live not in the hope of attaining salvation by moral or religious striving but in the sheer gladness of a salvation already freely given by God.

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

As we to listen to the Law, concentrate on the tone of voice and the actual content of the Word spoken. Then we find we are confronted by what is gracious rather than terrifying, by the offer of love rather than a burdensome code, by a promise more than a demand.
-RS Wallace pg 2

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

The Sermon on the Mount is not to be commended, it is to be carried out.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

Keep: I'll be here until about 4:30

@JoelRenkema what's yours?

[Eden Dranger @Eden_Eats]

Your campaign slogan is your last name + ":" + the last text you sent.

Mine is

"Dranger: yeah not everyone drives on Sunset Blvd"

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

"We believe that our good God... seeing that man had plunged himself into physical and spiritual death and made himself completely miserable, set out to find him, though man, trembling all over, was fleeing from him."
BC17
Such an honest picture of what it means to be lost in sin

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

In short, Christ and all his benefits, the love of the Father, and the grace of the Son, become our portion only in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
- Bavinck

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

"The word providence means that God supplies the world with what it needs. It is an act of God's mind not only, but also of his will, a carrying out of his counsel. It is an activity by which from moment to moment he keeps the world in existence."
Bavinck, ORF, 178

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

"Thus the confession of the Trinity is the sum of the Christian religion. Without it, neither the creation nor the redemption nor the sanctification can be purely maintained."
- Bavinck, Our Reasonable Faith 161

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

Regardless of the answer, this is probably an important question with which to start.

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

Should Christian parents give their child a smartphone? https://t.co/RlllqpCtpw

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

CS Lewis on love - he gets at the inherent risks of loving and the certain fate one who never takes those risks.

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

The one foolproof way to prevent a broken heart. https://t.co/OzlNbVykRg

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

This is so important to remember; strikingly similar to truths about marriage.

[📖✨Open-Book Christian ✞ @OpenBKChristian]

"Plant yourself in a faithful church. Any church you plant yourself in is going to have problems -- and you're one of them."
-- @MichaelHorton_

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

Todd Billings on Colossians 3:1-4:
Since our lives are hidden with Christ in God, our victories are not always visible in this life, and we can have confidence that God writes the end of our stories - not tragedy or death.

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

@EricJDirksen What are you using? I am leading a group in our church this semester going through the Belgic and have only found one resource that I've found helpful.

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

Martyn Lloyd-Jones compares paying compulsory taxes today to being forced to carry a load for Roman soldiers for a mile. Jesus said to go with them 2 miles (Mt 5:41). Can you imagine paying *all* our taxes willingly, let alone paying extra?
MLJ, Sermon on the Mount, 286

[Tim Keep @tim_keep]

A relevant sermon from Richard Lisher on the necessity of truth in a chaotic and post-truth world. John 1:29-34
https://t.co/gsapEVGAnR