Wes Van Fleet

Follower of Jesus. Husband. Dad. Pastor at Kaleo Church. Doctor of Ministry. Army Veteran. Bengals fan circa 1988.

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

“He must increase, but I must decrease.” -John 3:30

[Up & Adams @UpAndAdamsShow]

This is the year the Bengals finish the job. Here's why:

@heykayadams

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Some church will always have better coffee, better music, better facilities, better speaking, better marketing.

Showcase Christ and his gospel. Nobody can improve on that.

—@jaredcwilson

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

@SnkrsStock Yep! I waited and then got the same empty cart.

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

“The eyes of our risen Savior do not droop. They are not closed in sleep. They are not sullen or sad. They burn ablaze with power and energy and insight and excitement. He sees everything with all the vitality of youth but thinks with all the wisdom of age.”
-Sam Storms

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

Being a pastor is so discombobulating sometimes. You can get a text showing extreme appreciation for you, only for the next text from another person to tell you how terrible you are. Jesus sympathizes, and he is the only place to find refuge and comfort.

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

@jasonkovacs The same thing happened to me in India. There was like 100 of us (like 9 Americans). Every prayer request was prayed out loud by everyone. I was in shock at first, but grew to love it so much.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

In all my years of pastoring, I have learned this lesson: a person’s spiritual maturity is not truly visible until they DON’T get their way. Then you see the person.

—@ErikReed

[SleeperBengals @SleeperBengals]

List of every wide receiver to win the Fred Biletnikoff Award in college and the receiving triple crown in the NFL:

- Ja'Marr Chase

End of list.

[J. I. Packer @DrJIPacker]

Holiness is essentially a happy business.

[Patrick Abendroth @PatAbendroth]

People will leave your church.

No matter what, people will leave.

Therefore, stick to the nonnegotiables to the best of your God-given ability, and when people leave because you have not met their expectations for their ideal church, wish them well and pray for maturity.

[Diana @espinoza_dy]

Ministers must understand that when they preach, it is Christ speaking to the church. God the Holy Spirt is at work through the preaching as the primary means of grace. We can Rest.

[Lindsay Patterson @LndsPatterson]

“Is there somebody that never complained. You can just lay them out.”

“Oh 1,000%. it’s Joe Burrow” - Fred Warner

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.

— Don Carson

[Jason Kovacs @jasonkovacs]

“You simply cannot love God unless you know and understand how much he loves you...When you are firmly assured of God’s love for you, you will respond by living a holy life.”

- Walter Marshall

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

@jasonkovacs My parents. Everyone was smoking weed. Pretty sure I got a contact high and was “free falling.”

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Taking Back Sunday
One Republic
Underoath
Paramore
Wu Tang Clan
Silverstein
Chris Stapleton
Phil Wickham
Jack’s Mannequin

[Jason Kovacs @jasonkovacs]

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live:

U2
Arcade Fire
Modest Mouse
Sunny Day Real Estate
Pearl Jam
Built to Spill
The Tragically Hip
Gregory Alan Isakov
MXPX
Pedro the Lion

[Wes Van Fleet @wesvanfleet]

@jasonkovacs It was my first concert. I was 13. Your list is pretty impressive.

[E.M. Welcher @EMWelcher]

To be bereft of those you love often times means a silence you did not choose. Reverence rather than cursing is the offering you can make. Here, O Lord, take my broken heart, I offer it up to you, it is all I have now, and it is yours.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“If Christ had not been raised, beauty would be merely a defiant flame in the eternal dark. The end would simply be the end of the song, the end of the Broadway run, the dirty dishes at the end of the meal.” @suzania

https://t.co/sWdapMBlbI

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“The great concern of the New Testament Epistles is not about the size of the Church, it is about the purity of the Church.”

-Martyn Lloyd-Jones