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Derek Rishmawy

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Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Theology and Presbyterianism enjoyer.

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Joined July 2012

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Derek Rishmawy

2 years

Alright, so, not that folks need me on here, but I will be off Twitter for the next month or so. School's out for summer, so I'm trying to head into dissertation mode to crank through a chapter or two this summer. Also, just restoring some needed mental energy. With that:

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3 years

Heard about an old pastor of mine who is retiring. Still married. Didn't blow up his churches. Kids don't hate him. Took his last church through some storms with integrity. Gonna focus on mentoring younger pastors. Amazing stuff. He made it.

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So my mom went to a Bible study where everybody was saying they didn't need philosophy or psychology because there were contrary to the Bible and she just gently asked where the Bible said that and if any of their pastors studied theology and it got quiet, so I am proud of her.

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4 years

So...in some personal news, the Lord has been particularly kind to us this year.

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5 years

Guys, what if Jerry falwell just doesn't know who Russell Moore is? Maybe somebody could introduce them and Dr. Moore could tell him about Jesus and the gospel.

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Jerry Falwell

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@drmoore Who are you @drmoore ? Have you ever made a payroll? Have you ever built an organization of any type from scratch? What gives you authority to speak on any issue? I’m being serious. You’re nothing but an employee- a bureaucrat.

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3 years

(My son crying as I put his pants on him) Me: nobody likes pants, buddy, but we live in a society

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5 years

Repeat 1000x daily until theology improves: God is not just a big version of me God is not just a big version of me God is not just a big version of me God is not just a big version of me God is not just a big version of me God is not just a big version of me...

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Ladies, if he: - is passionate, but kind of aggressive - keeps losing his job because has been exiled 5 times - can write 4 Discourses on the Arians, but not text you - Helped preserve trinitarian orthodoxy in the 4th Century He is not your man, he is Athanasius of Alexandria

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Derek Rishmawy

6 years

One tip to avoid arguing about politics at Thanksgiving is to try arguing about religion instead.

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6 years

grad school is spending two hours looking for and through sources so you can write one sentence saying someone *didn't* talk about an issue and have a footnote for it

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10 days

True but also

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Ryan Burge 📊

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When you think about the average evangelical, what denomination do they belong to? If you say "Southern Baptist" then you need to update your priors. Since 2012, there are more non-denominational evangelicals than SBC. Today, 40% of evangelicals are non-denom vs 18% SBC.

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4 years

Pastoral goals at 24: plant a church, grow it to several thousand, write a book, plant more churches, etc. etc. Goals at 34: make it to retirement without having blown up your marriage/family, your church, or your faith.

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5 years

I had to look this up to confirm, but here is Theodoret of Cyrus arguing for the natural cushioning of the butt as a mark of Divine Providence.

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4 years

Very quick, basic observation: it seems very straightforward to think that every sin in the NT (including, say, racism) can have a personal dimension (the flesh), a demonic instigation (the devil), and a systemic manifestation (the world).

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God, grant me the serenity to subtweet the things I cannot change, Courage to @ the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.

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6 years

Presbyterian visiting his cousin's Charismatic church.

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6 years

Still laughing at this (via @TheStarters )

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4 years

Today I took vows, had hands laid on me, and was ordained a minister of the Gospel and a Teaching Elder in the PCA. Praise be to God for his faithfulness!

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5 years

FYI, regularly skipping church for your kid to make it to weekend sporting events is also it's own form of religious instruction...

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5 years

This, but unironically.

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3 years

It's that time again

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3 years

Actually, NT authors always read the OT correctly. Sorry if this offends.

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4 years

When the Google Books preview gives you the exact 2 pages you need for your footnote.

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4 months

There is such a thing as over-prescription and over-diagnosis in the current moment, but this is an extraordinarily irresponsible thing for a pastor to say regarding real, mental health conditions and neurological divergences.

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“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.” — John MacArthur

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5 years

Would be interested in a book on pastoring by a guy who made it 40-50 years and retired without blowing up his church, or his marriage, or his relationships with his kids.

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5 years

Jesus is the God who shows up on page 1. Selah harder.

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The Bible is a 1,200 page book that doesn't introduce the main protagonist until page 939. Selah.

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“There was a time when the Son was not” Athanasius:

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Derek Rishmawy

4 years

A quick thread on "virtual communion" for churches: 1. No.

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4 years

Had to be done

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19 days

This way there is no competition between the Lord and the other god of the house, Youth Sports.

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"We can give people their weekends back" Crosspoint City Church pastor James Griffin reveals they've added a Thursday evening church service so that families who travel on the weekend for kids sports or want to go camping can still attend more than twice a month. #Lordsday

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Weirdly enough the older ladies without seminary training who have been attending the local BSF Bible study for 30 years seem holier than the trained guys online arguing they shouldn't have access to a Bible.

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GOD IS NOT JUST AN IDEALIZED VERSION OF YOU AND YOUR PET POLITICAL VIEWS PROJECTED INTO THE HEAVENS. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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4 years

It's really nice having a God who is not surprised by times like these.

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Derek Rishmawy

4 years

I renew my thesis that the Handmaid's Tale is functionally (even if not literarily) "Left Behind" for secular, progressive folks.

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4 years

Handmaid's Tale? U.S. Supreme Court candidate's religious community under scrutiny

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4 years

It is possible the internet was a mistake.

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6 years

Church Fathers ranked: 20. It 19. is 18. not 17. possible 16. to 15. rank 14. the 13. Fathers 12. as 11. they 10. all 9. were 8. integral 7. parts 6. of 5. a 4. single 3. continuing 2. conversation 1. Augustine

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Paul's opening to the Galatians: Paul, apostle sent by the Lord, grace and peace to you Galatians and Number one, HOW DARE YOU

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I am a Palestinian, I know the history, I am not a knee-jerk Israel supporter in all things, but this requires no special caveats or asterisks. This is evil. There is no liberation that comes from this that justifies it, only judgment.

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4 years

I know I am late to the discourse, but

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2 years

One very cool thing I learned online is that the ESV Bible is literally the only translation to ever have theological or ideological influences in its composition. Literally none of the other major translators even had theological views. Wild stuff.

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I will admit, this is not my primary area of research, but I am puzzled at the leap from "I read this text saying God placed a child in a mother's womb, rendering it sacred" to "therefore the government should not prevent me and my doctor from determining it should die."

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Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI): "As a pro-choice Christian who chose life, this issue is personal to me... When I read scripture, I turn to Jeremiah 1:5 which states 'I knew you before I formed you and placed you in your mother's womb.' It doesn't say the government's womb."

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6 years

Knowing the Greek and the Hebrew of the Biblical text doesn't matter much if you have no intention of obeying what it says.

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4 years

If you don't like people, don't become a pastor.

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5 years

So...I actually do have some personal news: I've accepted an offer to be the next @RUFNational Campus Minister at my alma mater, the University of California, Irvine. We're moving back to California and sharing Jesus with college students this summer.

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“In Some Personal News…”: Heading to California for a Job

The story of the Bible is one of sojourns, exiles, homecomings. Adam and Eve leave the Garden. Abraham is called out of Ur. Moses leaves Egypt, returns, and leads his people back out again in a mig…

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2 years

It's funny how often biblical stories about God's grace involve someone getting big mad about it. Prodigal son, Jonah, the parable of the 11th hour laborers. God's grace is infuriating if you don't recognize your own dependence upon it.

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2 years

Bring your front row babies to me. I will preach to them.

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4 years

Them: I feel the Lord is moving, he is doing a new thing... Me:...is it judgment? Because it feels like judgment.

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Derek Rishmawy

6 years

One good reason to celebrate the Lord's Supper every week is that there are no good reasons not to.

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Derek Rishmawy

2 years

At 6:30 tonight we welcomed Cate Nadeishda Marie Rishmawy into the world. She is 19 & 1/2 inches and 7 lbs, 7 oz of pure beauty and grace. She and mama are healthy and we could not be more grateful to our God. He is so very kind to us.

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3 years

Gonna tell my kid this was bitcoin mining

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3 years

Folks, the blessing of Luca Brasi is upon us. Yes, we are having a boy.

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Derek Rishmawy

6 years

May listen to "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" all Advent season until I die of dehydration from the tears

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2 years

The paralyzing crisis of meaninglessness provoked by the burden of absolutely self authored identities in an upbeat nutshell..

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"I know it can be really overwhelming figuring out who to be, and when. Who you are now and how to act in order to get where you want to go. I have some good news: it’s totally up to you. I also have some terrifying news: it’s totally up to you." - @taylorswift13

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3 years

Today I had the immense joy and privilege of baptizing my son, Constantine David Zaglul Hamel Rishmawy, into the body of Christ. Praise God for his kindness and glory!

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This is unspeakably diabolical evil. All the news coming out of this weekend has left me horrified, but this news as I hear my little ones in the next room—Hamas is evil. If we cannot see that, God help us.

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Babies were beheaded. I’ll say it again. Hamas beheaded Jewish babies.

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6 years

My wife and I are in a small group that is basically entirely people our parents age and you can't make us go back to young person groups. I won't do it.

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3 years

Sorry

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3 years

Reminder: Sending your kid to youth group and Christian schools can be very good additions to, but not replacements for, actually raising, catechizing, and morally forming your children.

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3 years

I am a Presbyterian. Inside of me are two wolves. One is Protestant. The other one is Very Protestant. They are both constantly winning.

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4 years

Pope saying you can take your concerns to God directly, without mediation. First Things collapsing before our eyes. Luther being quoted on what to do during plagues.

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5 years

I know it's fun to joke about youth ministers, but I just got out of another conversation with a guy who told me he really came to Christ because his youth guy took him and a few friends through a weekly study of Scripture, chapter by chapter. Can't tell you how common it is.

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6 years

I have to say, I appreciate what the church calendar does for my spirituality, giving me a regular sense of God's work throughout the year, organizing and anchoring me to the rhythms of life. Like, soon we will be entering the "Should Evangelicals do Lent arguments" season.

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8 years

#Harambe was 400 lbs. (wipes away tear) #debatenight

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Derek Rishmawy

5 years

So, in some personal news, I just passed my licensure and ordination exam for the PCA in the South Coast Presbytery. Praise God, he is kind.

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6 years

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: PRAY FOR HEALTHY MARRIAGES. For your marriage. For your pastor's marriage. For your friend's marriage. For your enemy's marriage. Pray for them all.

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Derek Rishmawy

3 years

Preach the gospel Die. Be forgotten. . . . Get retrieved by a grad student 150 years later for a dissertation in historical theology.

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Derek Rishmawy

4 years

It's astonishing. Every time I read about Woodrow Wilson he just gets worse and worse and worse.

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4 years

"This is not your grandmother's church--" Stop. I don't want it. "What?" My grandma is awesome. If she doesn't like it, it's bad.

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4 years

@cwsupermanlois Just re-run this, guys.

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4 years

Other NT scholars, sobbing through tears: "please stop... you can't just call everything Exile" NT Wright, sees a bird flying by, points: "Exile"

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3 years

Still good

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I am just gonna go out on a limb and say the impression that one ideological party might have issues with children and family is not plucked from thin air.

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Free abortions, vasectomies will be available to DNC attendees in Chicago

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So, total depravity can get preached in some weird ways, but I'll never forget what my phil prof said in our class at UCI: of the two, Pelagius was the hellfire preacher, and Augustine was the one with compassion and mercy as a significant theme in his work.

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For all the haters out there 😘

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2 years

"DON'T LOVE YOUR KIDS BECAUSE YOU'RE SCARED OF YOUR WIFE" is perhaps the weakest take on masculinity I have seen on this site ever.

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Men, Don't be emotionally attached to your children, A teacher doesn't attach to his students, A leader doesn't attach to his followers, A man who is emotionally attached to his children will be manipulated by his wife. #MasculinitySaturday

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4 years

Tim Keller: God really loves you. Twitter-nerds: whoa whoa, *Tim*, God has no real relations creatures, but only mixed ones. Perhaps you should read a theology book, my guy.

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3 years

God loves everyone you hate, which is pretty wild.

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8 years

I can't believe what I saw in that #AltonSterling video. It's unreal. Lord, bring justice. Lord, have mercy.

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3 years

Good morning

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5 years

I don't know who needs to hear this but you have freedom in Christ to not have a public opinion on everything.

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3 years

Big hot-take: Highschooler and jr. highers should be in "big church" on Sundays. Youth group should be midweek or something like that at that point.

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2 years

In other news, Constantine is eating up the fact that he's a big brother now and apparently has been since before he was six months old.

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9 years

Things I do in Barnes & Noble. #JustPlayingMyPart

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6 years

This morning I found out that one of the fathers in our congregation gives each of his children a special gift on graduation. He spends the 2 years before reading through and marking up a Bible with notes on Scripture for them personally. That is wild.

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2 years

Solidly like 20 different babies yelling, babbling, and screaming during communion at church today. Amazing stuff

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4 years

"Why doesn't God do miracles now like he did in the NT?" Nonsense. Jesus raises sinners, dead in sin, back life ever day.

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4 years

Pagans: ugh, enough with the Christian God of judgment Also pagans: look, y'all, we deserve Mother Nature's wrath

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2 years

Them: Leviticus is not about Christ The book of Hebrews:

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6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe Like Narnia under the White Witch "always winter never Christmas", Reddit is "all the comments, but no articles"

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4 years

Talked to a student today who has basically been a Christian for a little over a year. She was reading through 1st & 2nd Chronicles and in order to pay attention she created an Excel sheet to keep track of the genealogies. It was at least 59 rows and MX columns and color coded.

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I know it's not everything, I know there's deep work, systemic work. to be done. But man, I just teared up watching this ex-KKK member guided into the waters of baptism by his black pastor. The gospel at work is amazing.

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I said it last time this is a wildly irresponsible thing for a pastor to say. Again, over-prescribing happens and there is a place for criticism of hyper-therapeutic culture but this is not it. It is just bad theology.

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John MacArthur doubles down on mental illness being a noble lie. Brain disease is pathological. “Mental disorders” are character flaws. Flaws of people who don’t know how to cope with life.

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2 years

Very cool that our Lord physically resurrected and ascended to rule over the cosmos.

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4 years

Pray for @timkellernyc .

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3 years

The stunning thing about the Lord's Supper is that you get to eat a meal with God. We should never get over that.

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3 years

Anglicans? I love Anglicans. Some of my favorite Presbyterians are Anglican.

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4 years

What if, and just go with me here for a minute, what if the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases and his mercies never come to an end? What if they are new every morning?

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5 years

"Siri, show me indisputable evidence that we are culturally bankrupt and under God's wrath"

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The "Fifty Shades" trilogy holds the first, second and third place on a list of this decade's best-selling books

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Calling it ‘X’. Calling it Twitter.

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3 years

You walk with Jesus long enough, you will inevitably see friends, heroes, mentors let you down, go off the rails, and do everything they warned you against. But Jesus won't. He's true. And that's enough.

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3 years

Hearing about the SBC presidential elections as a Presby, I think I've begun to understand Canadians following US elections.

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Derek Rishmawy

7 years

This year I am thankful that in our house we still observe the Lord's rule about waiting until the day after Thanksgiving to do Christmas things, unlike much of the godlessness we are witnessing in the Last Days all around us.

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