Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Husband, Father, Christ Follower
📚 Author of "The Overlap Life"
🎥 YouTuber & Debater
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[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

The resurrection is the truest thing about your future. Truer even than your deepest wound. God has the final Word, and His Word is good.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Heaven is coming here. That changes everything about how you carry your grief, your doubt, and your Monday.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

If your faith only has categories for forgiveness and eventual escape, it has not yet said enough about healing, restoration, and the future God is actually bringing.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

The Christian hope is that pain is temporary. That Easter Sunday was stronger than Good Friday. That the grave has been breached and the future has already entered the room.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

God is making all things new. Not all new things. All things new. Your tears matter. Your body matters. Your ordinary Tuesday matters.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Groaning is often what faith sounds like when it refuses to quit before dawn.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Five lies quietly shape how millions of Christians experience God. Most people have no idea which one they are carrying.

I made a quiz to help you confront the lies and see God & His People accurately: https://t.co/I8xaKo08XS

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

If Easter felt hollow this year, you are reacting honestly to a version of the resurrection that has been made too small.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

The resurrection was an invasion. The first crack in the brokenness of the world. God's declaration that creation itself is worth saving.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Pain interprets. Pain teaches. And the lies it whispers about God are the ones that do the most damage.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Your pet is coming back. Not as a consolation prize. As part of a plan that was always bigger than you imagined.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

The strongest atheist arguments against God have a biblical answer MANY Christians have never heard. It all comes down to eternity, and what Christianity is ACTUALLY claiming it looks like.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

What you were designed for in Genesis 1 & 2 is what you're destined for in Revelation 21 & 22. Everything in between is about the journey home.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Asking "will animals be in the New Creation?" is like asking "will there be trees?" Of course. They were always part of the story.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Jesus still had scars after the resurrection. The wounds weren't erased. They were transfigured. That's what God does with suffering.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

Romans 8 says ALL creation groans and awaits liberation. If we don't believe that animals are included, we'd better have a good reason why; and I don't think there is one.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

The difference between compensation and defeat: one pays off a debt, the other heals a life. God doesn't do balance sheets. He does resurrection.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

"Animals receive no compensation for their suffering. Their evil is not defeated." Unless you realize the story is longer than the suffering, and God intends to restore and renew them along with all the rest of His good world.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

If God makes all things new and not all new things, your theology of the future should include everything He already made and called good.

[Timothy Barber (The Overlap Life) @tim_theoverlap]

The Hebrew word for "soul" first appears in Genesis 1 describing fish. Not humans. Fish. Maybe we should rethink who "has a soul?"