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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 have so little joy because we water down the law so it doesn’t really mean when it says, and we water down the gospel, so our salvation isn’t really as big as it is. You have to accept the full demand of the law along with the full glory of the gospel. (Jack Miller) Timothy George writes, “The differences matter, but (1)they are second-order; (2)they distinguish but need not divide Baptists from other Protestant evangelicals; (3)they may be gifts to the catholic church; and (4)they may enhance rather than negate the unity of the church.”    No one Protestant house contains the fullness of Jesus. @KevinVanhoozer Only the love of God in Christ will fill you with joy and carry you through the weariness, the boredom, the shame, and the weaknes...

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. Jesus took the punishment for our sin so we can cry out to God like the tax collector and God will forgive us. #thegospelprojectkids Christian living goes by the same ground rules as Christian conversion... We never advance beyond grace. We never graduate to “deeper things.” Sanctification gets traction from the positive energy of justification. @rayortlund via @WhiteHorseInn I’m personally thankful that God doesn’t function like cosmic karma. I’m banking it all on Jesus and grace. @ElyseFitz The Bible teaches that genuine love in my heart for God is generated by an awareness of his love for me, and nowhere is the love of God more clearly revealed than in the gospel. @MiltonVincent The solas preserve both the integrity of the gospel and the unity 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. The Devil knows our name and labels us by our sin. However, the final word does not belong to our sin or the hunting accusations of the serpent. The final word speaks in a loud voice from the cross and says, “it is finished.” @GospelEconomist He's a "come & find rest" Savior to a "do more, try harder" world. @simplestapleton If you are not convinced that both your justification and sanctification is by faith and flows out of your relationship with Christ, it’s going to be hard to live with authority and confidence. (Jack Miller) Grace is so freeing, empowering. Trying to obey through the power of the Law is like putting sand in your gas tank. @jaredcwilson Martin Luther points out that the Gospels themselves can be wrongly r...

Currently, I am reading several books on the Reformation in preparation for a sermon series I am doing this summer.  Here are the books I am currently reading:

Christmas has come and gone.  So, every year after Christmas I share new books that I received as gifts.  I love to read and appreciate the gift of books.  So, here is today's New Book Friday: