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Thank you to all who have read my blog over the years! My first post was April 30, 2009.  I have enjoyed blogging over the past 10 years.  However, it is time to devote the time I have used to post daily to other things.  I will not be deleting the blog as I will occasionally post thoughts but I do not plan to regularly post.  I will use Twitter to alert you when I blog moving forward. It is a little sad, but it is the right thing to do at this time.  Feel free to continue to follow me on social media through my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts. Blessings to you and your family!

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. The Law's favorite word is ''more.'' •more obedience •more striving •more doing •more, more, more. The Gospel’s favorite word is ‘’finished.’’ @birdchadlouis   “God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.” - C.H. Spurgeon That little voice in your head telling you the situation is hopeless or that you're worthless is a fear-mongering liar. Listen to the voice of your Good Shepherd. He speaks grace and truth! @pastorlabby Child of God: You're going to hear a lot of voices today. Listen for the voice of the Good Shepherd above them all. He's for you, not against you! @pastorlabby The whole point of abiding in Christ according to the rhythms of...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. The Christian life is supposed to work like this: something wells up inside us and then overflows. @JeremyG220 I don’t know why God answers some prayers immediately and not others. What I do know with full assurance is this: God's given us the freedom to ask him for anything. Perhaps in God’s economy it's most important we have the freedom + faith to ask, + we can rest in His provision. @rebekahlyons The quickest way to shut down your church’s missional response to the gospel is to leverage guilt in motivating them to reach their lost friends... Remember that the gospel will empower on its own. @jaredcwilson One way to kill your prayer life is to overthink it. @jaredcwilson      

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. If the story of the Bible is about how God saves sinners by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, then our sermons should conclude with trusting in Christ alone as our final and ultimate application. Without Christ, all the commands and promises mean nothing. Christ Alone! @jonmoffitt Jesus showed what generosity looks like when He gave His life to save us. Because of Him, we can be generous too. #thegospelprojectkids In Christ, there are no "have to's" on your to do list for today. Compelled by His love they are all "get to's." @AaronBublitz  

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. People saved by Jesus become more like Him. The Holy Spirit gives them power to live in a way that pleases God. #thegospelprojectkids We obey *from* our acceptance, not *for* our acceptance. @jaredcwilson Believers must be ready to fight a spiritual battle every day. We fight against evil, knowing Jesus won the war. #thegospelprojectkids   The gift of the Scriptures is the enduring presence of God’s voice. As long as we have this book, he is never silent. @jaredcwilson But I believe that one important reason why churches struggle to develop biblical community is because so much of what the church does enhances the congregation’s self centeredness rather than challenging and confronting it.  @jaredcwilson    

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. Those desperately clinging to Christ for His grace have not the time or energy to compare themselves to others. For they feel as if they are the worst of all sinners and have no righteousness to boast of. The law reminds us of God’s demands and the gospel of God’s grace! @jonmoffitt We come not to the Father’s house to gain acceptance, but to rejoice and be refreshed in our eternally declared acceptance in Christ Jesus. Come, see what the Lord has done. Come, eat and drink to have your faith strengthened. Come, rest in His presence. Love Sundays!!! @jonmoffitt The Holy Spirit changes the way we think and live so we can love one another as God has loved us. #thegospelprojectkids May our focus be our “awe of You” and not what we “ought to do.” @BenjiMa...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. From the way you talk about your faith, do people get the impression that Jesus is great, or that you are? @jaredcwilson The first part of a good work is will; the other, a strong effort to accomplish it; the author of both is God. Therefore we are robbing the Lord if we claim for ourselves anything either in will or in accomplishment. (John Calvin) Under the shepherding care of Jesus, failing to get what we want most is not a roadblock but the way to freedom. @JeffPierce76 Believers are God’s children—freed from sin, given power to do what is right, and adopted into God’s family. #thegospelprojectkids for the sermon cannot do any good unless there is a savor of Christ in it. (Charles Spurgeon) via @jaredcwilson The power for salvation and the sa...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. The presence of the power of the Holy Spirit is an ongoing reality for those who trust in Jesus, not because you perform but because he has promised. @jaredcwilson One of the most frequent Temptations pastors and church leaders face today is to replace a steady commitment to gospel preaching and revival prayer with human ingenuity and industriousness.  @jaredcwilson Notice that the gospel is not something we do but something that is done by the triune God-Father, Son & Spirit working together on mission to redeem sinful, rebellious humanity & establish God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. We do not do or be the gospel; we respond to it. @jaredcwilson   Our Shepherd’s goodness and mercy do not “follow” us but chase after us. ...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. Our growth in the grace of God is connected closely with our pursuit of the knowledge of God’s character and works as revealed in God’s word. @jaredcwilson From this, one may easily infer, as I have said, that everything good in the will is the work of grace alone. (John Calvin) Love is an action. Jesus showed God’s love for us when He died on the cross to rescue people from sin. #thegospelprojectkids New mercies and sufficient grace, hidden in Christ and righteous by faith, beloved of the Father and sealed by the Spirit... what a way to begin and live this day. @ScottyWardSmith A theologian of glory reads the Bible and sees himself on every page. A theologian of the cross reads the Bible and sees Christ on every page. @ZackJamesCole   ...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. "Take every thought captive to obey Christ..." 2 Cor 10:5 - Yes, Jesus, free us from thinking wrongly, selfishly, or otherwise of you. We want every brain cell to behold your beauty and obey your gospel. Flush the nonsense from our noggins. @ScottyWardSmith Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection is the gospel. We deserve to die because of sin, but Jesus died in our place. #thegospelprojectkids Even so and evermore, Jesus, school us well in panting after you. Make us masters in pant-theology. Keep us simultaneously both deeply thirsty for you and greatly satisfied in you. @ScottyWardSmith Grace’s work in your life is incomplete, so confess your neediness, choose to be dependent and celebrate God’s patience. @PaulTripp  T he power of the Gospel is...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. By sheer grace and his Spirit’s sovereign power, the Lord has launched a new-creation project to reclaim, revivify, and re-create covenant-breakers into covenant-keepers... (Dennis E. Johnson) "It is finished.” There’s nothing more to be done, concerning our salvation. Once and for all, perfectly and fully, we have been reconciled to God. The Just died for the unjust, the Beautiful One for the broken ones, the Lamb of God for the rebels from God. # ThankYouJesus @ScottyWardSmith The cross is a symbol of torture, cruelty, blood and death. Jesus turns it into the perfect display of a scandalous, unmerited love. @rjgrune Jesus, because you were fully forsaken, we are forever forgiven. Because you exhausted God's judgment against our great unrighte...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. During Jesus’ triumphal entry, the people welcomed Him as King. One day, Jesus will return as King over everything. #thegospelprojectkids The first word of Holy Week was “Hosanna!”;  the next word, “Crucify Him!”; but  the last word was “He is risen!” Jesus, no other king could vanquish sin and evil riding the foal of a donkey. No other king could break the backbone of warfare by the brokenness of crucifixion. @ScottyWardSmith May we rest well tonight in the knowledge that nothing can separate us from God's love or alter our Father's plans for our lives. He is at work in ALL things for our good and his glory. No exceptions. @ScottyWardSmith

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. “Confession frees us. It equips others, and sometimes it frees others, too. It is worth it.” - Tam Hodge @CL_USMB #usmbyouthcon Jesus commanded believers to love one another. Because of Jesus’ great mercy to us, we can show mercy to others. #thegospelprojectkids Every Christian is vitally connected to the person and work of the Spirit of the living God! @jaredcwilson In every believer who walks across the pages of Scripture we see the dark shadows of Adam’s legacy as well as glimmers of the bright beauty of Jesus, the second Adam. (Dennis E. Johnson) If we were dismayed that Adam’s offense has rendered us, his children, guilty, how grateful we can be that another Servant, acting on our behalf, withstood the test in complete obedience, so that his o...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. Paul was dedicated to Jesus, who called him to do the work of sharing the gospel. #thegospelprojectkids Christian, don't look to your behaviour, your feelings or your faithfulness. Jesus Christ is your righteousness. He is your status and your standing before God. Always there, always reliable, always the same. @mike_reeves Hallelujah! The gospel frees us from scorecards, measuring sticks, and annual reviews. Our standing in grace is inviolate, our rootedness in your love is deep, and hiddenness in Christ is complete. @ScottyWardSmith Through the gospel, we’re motivated not by guilt but by gratitude. @JeremyTreat5 The older I get, the more I realize that my most important work is abiding, not doing. @DashHouse        

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. I don’t care what you’ve done, where you’ve gone, where you are or who you’ve become; the truth is this-the sanctifying, redeeming, justifying, snatching-back-out-of-the-hand-of-the-devil-blood-of-Jesus reaches to the far ends of the earth. @storiedcareer Love is the soil where the Spirit takes root. Without the sacrificial love of Jesus as the soil, there is no fruit of the Spirit. We need His Spirit like we need air...We need to give His Spirit permission to rule & reign in us. To be released in/through us.  @storiedcareer Today, come to Christ, and know it is not your feelings of faithfulness that keep you safe in him, but his loving and almighty embrace. @mike_reeves "Flesh is not capable of such lofty wisdom as to conceive God and what ...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. "Singing general truths about God is right and good. But for the gospel to dwell in us, it’s vital to sing the specifically about Christ’s person and work." @emschumacher   Paul and Silas preached the same message to all people: “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.” #thegospelprojectkids Problems with the exhortation to “live out the Gospel”: 1) It confuses Law and Gospel. - Loving God and neighbor is Law, not Gospel. 2) It makes the Gospel experiential when it is actually objective. - Christ lived, died, resurrected, and ascended in history. @AustinDHobbs The requirement of the law on us hasn’t changed. What has changed is the means by which we can obey the law. Jesus didn’t come to abolish the law, but fulfill it.  @storiedca...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. The early church agreed that because of Jesus’ death and resurrection, He alone is all we need to be saved #thegospelprojectkids The people saw firsthand how Jesus ministered not only to the spiritual needs but also to their physical and material needs. Healing, teaching, and sustenance came from his hand, and all for their good.  @russramsey We read the New Testament & Old Testament through the lens of Jesus. It is a Christ centered hermeneutic. (Tim Geddert) @usmbchurches A church that is deeply aware of its misery & nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all-sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident & relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion & morality whenever convenien...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. So the law reveals the righteousness that God is, by which we are judged (and therefore condemned); the gospel reveals the righteousness that God freely gives to sinners through faith in Jesus Christ. @MichaelHorton_ Informed minds, inflamed hearts, engaged hands... all 3 are products of faithful preaching of the gospel. Don’t settle for your favorite of the 3 @ScottyWardSmith   The Devil is the slanderer of God's children. Christians should not take his side. @mike_reeves Jesus appeared to Saul and changed him inside and out. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. (1 Tim. 1:15) #thegospelprojectkids   Church, remember these words from @themodernpost song Grace Alone: So I'll stand in faith by grace and grace alone I will run t...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. Love is not the fruit of our labors, but the fruit of the Spirit. Love is not about trying harder, but allowing God‘s love to flow to us & through us to others. @simplestapleton So the law reveals the righteousness that God is, by which we are judged (and therefore condemned); the gospel reveals the righteousness that God freely gives to sinners through faith in Jesus Christ. @MichaelHorton_ Just love God and people is not the gospel; it is precisely that holy demand of the law that we have grievously failed to keep.… Our love toward God and neighbor is the essence of the law; God’s love toward us in Jesus Christ is the essence of the gospel. @MichaelHorton_ Many people use the Bible merely as a manual of doctrine or a guidebook for living. But ...

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the last few weeks.  This is one of the blessings of social media where we can hear the gospel from people all over the world. If you like the tweet, go and follow the person on Twitter. We can never overestimate the unleashing of new-creation power that Jesus brought about when he took his seat at the right hand of God the Father & then celebrated his enthronement by lavishing the great gift, the Holy Spirit of God... (Dennis Johnson) When affection turns to annoyance, delight to drudgery, grace to a grudge, rest to restlessness, we have forgotten about Jesus and grace. # IrresistibleFaithBook @scottsauls Conformity to Christ’s image (sanctification) is the process of dying to self (mortification) and living to God (vivification) that results from being regularly immersed in the gospel’s story of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.  @MichaelHorton_ Reduce Christianity to good advice & it blends in perfectly with t...