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Keith Plummer

11 months

Remember—the purpose of a Bible reading plan is not to keep you on schedule but to keep you in the Word. If you miss a meal, it’s foolish to give up eating.

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Keith Plummer

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9 years

Just had a burger at IHOP. There's a reason it's not IHOB.

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@mylifeisbeau @daviddashcoby For the better, let's hope.

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"If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost." -Francis Schaeffer

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Read. Books. Long articles. Hard things. Things that will make you work to understand. Things that resist your desire for brevity and speed. Things that will help you become a better thinker and writer yourself. Things that will foster patience. It's not too late.

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It's kind of ironic that people who once chanted "Build that wall!" participated in a Jericho March.

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My adult daughter who's planning to go to a coffee shop to do homework asked if I wanted to come and do some of my own work. When my adult kids still wants to spend time with dad, the answer to such an invitation is a no-brainer. Packing my bag!

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I suspect that for many Americans who speak of a personal relationship with God, "personal" is a synonym for "customizable."

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2 years

The 18-year-old white supremacist shooter who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket drove hours (approximately 200 miles) to a predominantly black neighborhood to cut down innocent people who never imagined that grocery shopping could be deadly. There aren’t words.

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5 years

"I prayed about it" does not mean "I'm right about it."

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1 year

“A strong confidence in the end of the story does not undo or justify the absence of grief in the middle. A mature faith adds its tears to the sadness in our world.” -Pastor Chad Scruggs

TN Pastor Returns to Pulpit Months After Daughter Killed in Shooting

Pastor Chad Scruggs, whose daughter was fatally shot in a mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school in March, has returned to the pulpit

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Keith Plummer

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8 years

I'm tired of all these Super Bowl commercials vehiclizing cars. #NARAL

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6 years

@stevis78 As fleeting as a vapor. Maybe faster.

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Self-control, not damage control, is a fruit of the Spirit.

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5 years

Note to self: There are too many important issues of substantive complexity for you to have an informed opinion on all of them. This isn't to excuse your ignorance but to encourage your restraint. Read this note often.

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4 years

I'm convinced that addiction to controversy is a thing.

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3 years

By a "personal" relationship with Jesus, too many actually mean an individualistic relationship with Jesus, a concept foreign to the Bible.

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4 years

When you're tempted to think the gospel is too good to be true, remember—it's even better than you think.

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4 years

Other people's idols are so much easier to tear down.

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5 years

The size of your "storm" is proportionate to your importance/threat to the devil. God, deliver us from American narcissanity.

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You must be important.

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3 years

@reachjulieroys Pastor, if you're going to walk around the stage with an open Bible in hand, teach from it. It's not a prop.

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4 years

If I only care what the Bible says when it agrees with what I already think, I don't really care what the Bible says.

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6 years

What a difference an apostrophe makes.

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4 months

“If we really want to keep our children safe, we should delay their entry into the virtual world and send them out to play in the real world.” - @JonHaidt , 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

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5 years

Rereading The Magician's Nephew. I don't think I can ever read Aslan's singing Narnia into existence without getting a little choked up. It's beautiful. And Uncle Andrew's insistence that he's only roaring is such a gripping depiction of the sinful suppression of truth.

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8 months

Our son got married yesterday and we are very happy!

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2 years

Christianity’s Golden Age is eschatological not historical.

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7 years

Increasingly people seem to care more about whether an idea is from the left or the right than whether it is true or false.

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6 years

A lot can change in 3 years...I hope.

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9 years

Just had a burger at IHOP. There's a reason it's not IHOB.

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3 years

If as the president of the United States you scream when people kneel for the National Anthem but say absolutely 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 when people storm the U. S. Capitol Building, something is seriously wrong.

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8 years

. @realDonaldTrump said he could bring people together. Based on how #NeverTrump is trending, looks like he was right.

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3 years

I face the new year with no assurance that it will be different but with all confidence that Jesus Christ will be the same. That is enough.

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2 months

This is so bad for so many reasons. Overmedicalization is a problem. But so too is oversimplification.

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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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3 years

@johnmacarthur Wait. The nation wasn't rebelling against God before today?

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3 months

I am not ashamed to say that I use the Oxford comma even in texts.

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4 years

The older I get, the answered prayers I'm getting more excited about are those involving changes in me rather than circumstances around me.

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2 years

Preacher, the Bible is to be the pool into which you dive, not the diving board from which you leap.

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4 years

A verse a day keeps the context away.

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3 years

Attaching a Bible verse to a false teaching doesn't make it "biblical."

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3 years

I don't have to be awake very long before realizing my desperate need for God's mercy.

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2 years

No matter how high our view of God, it is too low.

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2 years

Do not mistake harshness for boldness. Cruelty is not the opposite of cowardice.

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4 years

I must meditate more on Christ, not to avoid the magnitude and gravity of life's problems but to face and endure them.

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1 year

Frequently heard: “If God exists, why doesn’t he do something about all the evil in the world?” Never heard: “If God exists, why doesn’t he do something about all the evil in me?” The problem of evil is always everyone else’s problem.

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3 years

Reductionistic thinking can basically be attributed to one thing.

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It SHOULD drive anyone with a love for Jesus and the Scriptures that bear witness to him crazy.

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4 years

Life is one long lesson that satisfaction is only to be found in God alone.

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4 years

It's easier to war against the culture than against one's own flesh.

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3 years

All of American Christianity's problems can be boiled down to two things: exaggeration and reductionism.

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2 years

A verse a day keeps the context away.

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3 years

For I do not do the reading I want, but the dozing I do not want, that I do.

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4 years

Scripture must increase, news must decrease.

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4 years

No one had to tell me to smile for this one! So proud of these two!

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2 years

No passwords in the new heavens and earth!

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4 years

I'm encouraged by the honesty and self-awareness displayed in a line from a student reflection paper: "I find it easy to enter theological debates but difficult to meditate on theological truths."

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3 years

There is too much nonsense going on in the name of Jesus.

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I doubt many contemporary ministers would be so eager to adopt the titles of Prophet and Apostle if they were treated like biblical prophets and apostles.

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4 years

American Christianity doesn't need saving, it needs repentance, revival, and renewal; and no politician can deliver those goods.

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4 years

If 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 is constantly misunderstanding and misinterpreting you, it's at least worthy of consideration that it might not be them.

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3 years

No quantity of "Likes", retweets, or shares can match one divine "Well done."

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump More time in the locker room? Won't that mean more locker room talk?

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4 years

When these days are past, let us not forget them on future Sunday mornings when we're tempted to complain about having to get up, be impatient w/ each other for not being ready, and maybe even fuss on the way, that our agitation might be replaced by gratitude.

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4 years

I have a gnostic joke. Whether or not it's funny is immaterial.

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3 years

Please, somebody! Make Hermeneutics Great Again.

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“It is time for war! Stop the steal!” preacher Joshua Feuerstein told rally on Jan. 5, a day before the Capitol insurrection. “We as the church of the living God are standing up saying, ‘We’re not just mad at hell, but we’re mad as hell.”

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I hear or read about laying down my life for my wife and entertain grandiose thoughts of heroic self-sacrifice that I'll likely never have to face and the Spirit's like, "Why don't you just start with picking up after yourself?"

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3 years

If you're in ministry, frustrated because God hasn't extended your "platform", you might consider thanking him for graciously sparing you from greater temptation.

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4 years

The "secret" of the Christian life is to stop looking for secrets and to read, study, and obey what God has already revealed in Scripture.

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4 years

"Evangelicals urgently need to develop a public language, philosophy, and posture that shows our loving concern for the common good of all, and not just the common good of fellow believers.

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In the current climate one of the most profound ways Christians can be constructively countercultural is by not being quick to take offense.

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Humanity is too proud to have invented the doctrine of salvation by grace alone.

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@reachjulieroys Too many pastors are wannabe stand-up comics and they're not good at that either.

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4 years

Pro-life AND pro-truth shouldn't be too much to ask.

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If you attend a numerically small, biblically faithful church, you’re still part of something “big.” If American Christians thought more globally and historically, we’d be less susceptible to the allure of largeness.

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The listener is the gossip's accomplice.

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Christians shouldn't be asking whether a lie is red or blue before rejecting it.

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"Everyone in American life at least pretends to believe in some objective moral norms. When forced to choose, though, between the objectivity of morality and the idolatry of politics, morality loses, more often than not." - @drmoore

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7 years

Many online exchanges need to turn into face-to-face encounters where voices are heard and tears are seen. Behind pixels are people.

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4 years

@ProjectLincoln On the other side of "Excuse me" for likely the first time.

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3 years

File under "Things Science Can't Do."

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Science has 'ruled out' humans having souls, says Brian Cox

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We tend to believe in progressive sanctification for ourselves and demand entire sanctification of other Christians.

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I am immensely grateful for this brother's example in life and in death. Mourning his death, praying for his family, rejoicing that his faith has become sight.

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump So, you didn't know George when you described him as an "excellent guy" to the Washington Post?

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Basil of Caesarea:

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2 years

Observation in a supermarket parking lot: many who think it too far to return carts wear fitness apparel.

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3 years

Imagining a pastor preaching on a Sunday morning, ending abruptly, and adding, "The rest of this sermon will be available to my Patreon supporters."

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4 years

"We can know the Bible front to back and be adept in our understanding of systematic theology, but if we don't love our neighbors, we're not being Christlike." -Giboney, Wear, and Butler, 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (&) 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

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4 years

The "Reply" button should be significantly bigger than "Reply All."

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4 years

Reminded my apologetics class tonight that memes aren't arguments.

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I believe that among the tears the Lord will wipe away from his people's eyes are those shed in mourning for the present state of the church that he will finally beautify. Let us weep in hope.

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Person. Gender. Marriage. Tolerance. We're running out of things to redefine.

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5 years

"I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether." -Neil Postman

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There is no way to follow Christ and have all pre-conversion loyalties unaltered.

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Jesus' followers are to be cross-bearing and cross-shaped, not just cross.

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Craving controversy and quarrels is a symptom of spiritual sickness. (See 1 Timothy 6:4)

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4 years

Due to the overabundance of podcasts already in existence, I've decided to skip starting a podcast and move directly to setting up a Patreon account.

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3 years

Watching the full interview. Damning.

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President Trump’s claims of vote fraud in Georgia are “fantastical, unreasonable [and] lacking in any factual reality,” says Gabriel Sterling, a top state election official, who is also a longtime Republican and Trump voter.

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Chris Wallace arriving home later tonight

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Amazon’s rationale for discontinuing Amazon Smile makes no sense.

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7 months

I fear that even among many Christians there is a greater focus on “𝘮𝘺 purpose in life” than on “𝘵𝘩𝘦 purpose of life.” To listen to some, it’s as though the latter question is inconsequential and/or incomprehensible.

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