Jesus + Nothing = Everything God Promised - ow.ly/wPLnt

It is an uncrucified craving for significance that topples many in the ministry today. Everyday we must go to war with this!

While Scripture reverberates with the reality of our no-condemnation status, it also loudly echoes the truth that failure to obey God’s Word brings heaviness upon the conscience (Ps 32:4; 38:1–10, 18; Rom 2:15; 1 Cor 8:12; Heb 12:11–14). When the Spirit’s conviction is ignored, guilt compounds, and the conscience becomes dulled and speculative, and leads ultimately to pride (1 Tim 1:5–7). In the absence of true repentance, the result will be spiritual lethargy (exhaustion). What some diagnose as weariness from trying to earn God’s love is very often pride and self-pity trying to excuse guilt. The danger here is obvious. If we always comfort someone’s weary heart with justifying grace, they will fail to see the squandered sanctifying grace that frequently lies behind their spiritual fatigue.

A lot of Grok-egesis on this outlet

“To take God's Word in vain is to read it without faith, to hear it without obedience, to quote it without submission. It is to reduce divine truth to an intellectual theory, a religious tradition, or a self-help slogan. God is not silent about such dishonor. He esteems not the proud, nor the clever--but the broken-hearted saint who reverences and clings to His Word as life itself. God's Word is His love letter to His redeemed people . . .   stained with the blood of His Son,   sealed with His Spirit,   and full of precious promises. If we would honor God, we must tremble at what He has spoken. Let His Word correct us, rebuke us, humble us, and lead us. Let us never handle it lightly or foolishly, but receive it with meekness, as God's voice in print.” —C.H. Spurgeon

Evangelicals often claim that ministry ambition is “a sincere desire to influence others for Christ,” but for many that line has become a mask to hide a love of preeminence. We’re warned of it in James 3:16. It’s in all of us, and it must go! May we learn to live in V17.

If you’re going to claim that Scripture gives greater emphasis to one truth over another, don’t do it by glossing over the whole counsel God to bolster the claim. We all emphasize truths we’ve come to love, but our favorites sometimes cause us to miss Scripture’s entire emphasis

"Too often, problems that could be solved turn into conflicts that split churches and destroy ministries because one or both sides assume they live above these infirmities and iniquities." - Dr. Dave Doran dbts.edu/2025/04/03/pietism-…

"In the end, though some may achieve their 15 minutes of fame, all legacies shrivel into dust, forgotten and swept aside by the broom of time." thanks for the reminder, Dave Harvey. revdaveharvey.com/2025/03/31…

36 yrs a pastor, exegete, Calvinist, non-covenantalist, premillennialist, and Biblicist (who values historic creeds). Go ahead, use all your favorite insults for how theologically inept you think I am, you don’t know me at all. And your X cheap shots will not age well in the end.

The media loves using shock & awe terminology: “slammed,” “destroys,” “ended career.” Now immature believers use the same, claiming they’ve “destroyed,” “ utterly ended” an opponent’s doctrinal view with only a verse or two cited on X. Such a proud, juvenile evangelicalism.

Seven Deadly Sins committed On “X” 1) Returning insult for insult 2) Feigning humility while boasting 3) Meddling in quarrels not our own 4) Being quick to judge, slow to hear 5) Unwholesome speech 6) Despising correction 7) Excusing all of the above

Guthrie: “The Bible is an armory of heavenly weapons, a laboratory of infallible medicines, a mine of exhaustless wealth…a guidebook for every road, a chart for every sea, a medicine for every malady…a balm for every wound. Rob us of our Bible and our sky has lost its sun.”

[Christ] met death as none had ever before-in all its unmitigated bitterness, unalleviated agony, and most appalling circumstances: His dying pillow, a cross; His attendants, murderers; His medicine, wormwood and gall, that when we die, we fall sweetly “asleep” in Him (Winslow)

“Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.” —Calvin

The minutest particle of grace has eternal glory in it,…Faint not in your trial of faith. There is not a sweeter way to heaven than along the path of free grace, paved with hard trials. It was the way which He trod who was “full of grace.”

Carol Swain grew up in a shack without running water with 11 brothers and sisters. She was much feted in academia upon her emergence but quickly engaged in heterodoxies that got her blackballed and went on to become an evangelical Christian and a Trump supporter. That's why her outraged demands for accountability for Claudine Gay stealing her work carry no weight with anyone that matters. She lacked the implicit knowledge of how to stay within the right-thinking consensus that Gay learned at Exeter and therefore became a pariah while Gay made a rapid ascent to the very pinnacle of all academic leadership. Roland Fryer was abandoned by his mother early and his abusive father was convicted for rape, leaving him to fend for himself in the streets as a teenager. He righted himself and became the youngest tenured professor in the history of Harvard University, a favorite of the then-President of Harvard Lawrence Summers, and one of the most productive scholars at Harvard University, studying subjects seeking to find ways to ameliorate the condition of the black underclass. Soon after publishing a study demonstrating that police officers were slightly more likely to shoot white suspects than black subjects, he became the subject of a sexual harassment investigation. He ended up suspended for a year and the lab where he studied ways to ameliorate the condition of the black underclass was shuttered -- despite the fact that the female best friend of his accuser told investigators and went on the record with the press that his accuser was typically the instigator of the sexualized banter that occurred in Fryer's lab. The dean of Harvard College who delivered this punishment was -- Claudine Gay. Gay is the scioness of one of Haiti's wealthiest families and a graduate of Exeter. She obtained tenure at Stanford on the strength of four published papers, and was poached by Harvard. She has gone on to publish a total of eleven research papers and no books -- a record that a professor told me was easily in the bottom 5th percentile of all professors employed at peer institutions. Seven of those papers have been shown to have violated Harvard's rules on academic citation. All of these professors are beneficiaries of affirmative action -- Swain and Fryer overcame great adversity and disadvantage to do high level academic work that was generally regarded as of the first rank by their peers. They fulfilled the promise of that policy by taking opportunities granted to them on the basis of considerations beyond the strictly academic, given the diminished opportunities available to them in youth. Gay is a child of privilege who learned how to play the game among other elites -- she stole from Swain and shut down Fryer on her path to the presidency.

.@PierrePoilievre HUMILIATES left-wing journalist, casually flips script on him while eating an apple. This is how it's done 🔥🔥🔥

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