Tony Reinke

Christian, husband, dad, journalist, author of new books, reader of old books, host of Ask Pastor John, and @desiringGod Senior Teacher.

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HIGHLY recommend this excellent film on the life and legacy of Tyndale from @crossway …. https://t.co/D8bBHzwY1a

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Christmas Day!

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It’s a metaphor for the fast-passing years of parenting. These are the desert rock formations our son shot from an FPV drone at 700 feet. Now he’s flying over them at 7,000 feet and before long he will fly over them at 30,000 feet. It’s surreal. Same rocks, different altitudes. Hard not to think back to the little boy with his drone.

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Many of you have asked what happened to all the drone video, and that season sadly passed and morphed into plane season. But I just came across this video of Sedona from March 2024 (Mammoth Rock).

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Many of you have asked what happened to all the drone video, and that season sadly passed and morphed into plane season. But I just came across this video of Sedona from March 2024 (Mammoth Rock).

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Surprisingly fun flying week. Favorite airport was Wednesday (Page). Second favorite airport today (Sedona), for a little air/car show.

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“Woman, I do not know him.” (Luke 22:57)

“… rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.” (Acts 5:41)

English Annotations (1657): “Peter rejoices in stripes, who before, was afraid at a damsel’s words.”

Print version forthcoming, 9:20, online only for now: https://t.co/wysZAShIPA .

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“… God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy …” (1 Tim. 6:17)

English Annotations (1657): “All the sweetness of outward blessings stands in this that they are reached out unto us, from the hand, and sanctified by the blessing and grace of a merciful Father (Ps. 37:16; Pro. 15:16; 1 Tim. 4:5; 6:17). It is the love of God which puts sweetness into all outward mercies.”

Print version forthcoming, 4:443, online only for now: https://t.co/oOlIziq7VN .

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“… behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” (2 Kings 2:11)

Spurgeon: “Have you never wished that you could ride to heaven in a chariot of fire, like Elijah? I did once, until I reflected that if a chariot of fire should come for me I should be more afraid to get into it than to lie down and die upon my bed!”

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We have a live URL: https://t.co/ltGU4LBhrZ

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⚠️ I’m issuing a level 3 Voetius alert! ⚠️
Diatribes is coming soon in English from @BerithPress, likely within the month. I’ll return with the link when I get it. For now, the never before seen cover image.

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Writing: The notes and updates I was getting from this retreat were impressive, but I had no idea all the sessions were going online. Here they are. A gift!

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"Christian writing starts with knowing God. You must know God to make him known."

Watch every session from our 2026 Writers' Retreat for free on YouTube now!

Featuring teaching from contributors including @mike_reeves, @danhames, Rebecca Rine, Alex Reindl, @chancefaulkner and Anthony Gosling, these sessions will help you think about how God can use your writing for his glory.

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The sophisticated plainness of an accidental literary artist.

Peter Auksi (1978): “Tyndale’s artistic example had a seminal influence. In the homiletic or controversial work of Latimer, Bradford, Hooper, Becon, Jewel, and Whitgift the literary historian can find a studied plainness in diction, syntax, and appeal or an equally artful richness in rhythm and evangelical similitude that echo Tyndale insistently. What became, for seventeenth-century Reformers, an identifiable ‘plain style’ or a ‘rhetoric of the spirit’ appears in a compelling if nascent form throughout the pioneering prose of a remarkable artist, William Tyndale.”

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One other comp fits here, the 1526 facsimile from Hendrickson (9781598562903, cloth) and the 1534 retypeset ed. from Crossway (9798874911454, leather).

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Nathanael Ball (1683): “The world was not reconciling itself to God, but God reconciling the world to himself. God’s love is always the first love.” (2 Co 5:18–19; 1 Jn 4:10, 19)

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John Howe (1682): “To pray to God that he would do this or that, finally and ultimately for anything other than his own name, is humbly to supplicate that he resign the Godhead.”

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Richard Vines (1662): “That which makes grace the nurse, not the mother that brings forth; a crutch for the lame, but not life to quicken the dead; that which makes God the finisher, but not the author of faith, this is not Scripture doctrine.”

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Bonnie Kristian, *In Defense of Evangelicalism* (2026)

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William Bates (1680): “Consider the end for which man was designed in his creation. Was he sent into the world in the business of that foolish emperor [Caligula] who employed an army furnished with all military preparations to gather shells upon the seashore?”

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John Preston (1631): “For having no end above himself it is impossible that he should have any end but himself.”

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Stephen Charnock (1682): “God cannot will anything as his end of acting but himself without un-deifying himself.”

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Piper on the purpose of the Lord’s Prayer: “You are not on earth just to avoid starvation. You are not on earth just to avoid condemnation. You are not on earth just to avoid temptation. All of that is simply preparation for something. What’s it really about? What’s the Lord’s Prayer for? Once you’ve got all that taken care of, your whole life is before you, what are you supposed to do with it? My belly is full. My sins are forgiven. The devil is defeated. Now Lord, take us and use us for your glory as a God-besotted people.”