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Jared C. Wilson

7 days

The Storied Life is now on sale! If you want to grow as a writer, grab a copy of this book. It will help you approach your craft with a deeper understanding of writing as an act of worship and a vital reflection of God’s image in you.

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Jared C. Wilson

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4 years

I am not overly concerned about the President's bad theology. Lost people tend to have lost people theology. I'm more concerned about the evangelicals who won't recognize it as bad theology.

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@Sams_Antics @juliagalef To Sam McRoberts' son, if he someday discovers this: You are valuable, you are worthy of love, and you are not a regret to your Creator who has made you in his image.

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"You're the preacher?" "Yes." "So you're the guy with all the answers." "No, I'm the guy who points to that guy."

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4 years

Can’t vote for Biden. Can’t vote for Trump. Feel politically homeless like me? Let’s together embrace our alien status, awaken to global Christianity, and praise our King who is going to redeem the world and us for it!

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American evangelicals are prone to panic about the waning faith in our nation. But we forget America is not the center of Christianity. The center of Christianity is seated at the right hand of the Father, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

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4 years

John the Baptist lost his head for speaking truth to power. We’re afraid of just losing a seat at the table.

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Jared C. Wilson

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5 years

If you think praying for a big sinner publicly is offensive, wait til you see what kind of terrible sinners Jesus publicly died for.

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Jared C. Wilson

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3 years

If on January 20th your outspoken concern about moral character in national leaders resumed after a four year pause or paused after a four year run, you *might* have a political idolatry problem.

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3 years

It has not been a difficult year for God.

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4 years

As you get older, you begin to suffer the occasional series of increasingly humiliating micro-injuries. "How did you hurt yourself?" I slept wrong. While I was driving, I happened to yawn while checking my blind spot. I drank water too hard.

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Jared C. Wilson

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2 years

If you’re a Baptist and you’ve said nothing about the recent political rally in a prominent Baptist church, maybe consider staying out of the Anglicans’ business.

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6 years

Someone will always have better coffee, better music, better facilities, better speaking, better marketing. Showcase Christ and his gospel. Nobody can improve on that.

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4 years

I don't know if you'll read this, @JerryFalwellJr , but you can come to God. Whatever you sin, you can own up, turn around, and find God's love there waiting for you. He was there when I bottomed out, and he'll be there for you too. Everything else may fall apart. But not him.

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Jared C. Wilson

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2 years

Is it just me, or has Wordle gotten meaner since the NY Times took over?

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4 years

If you feel politically homeless, take heart. You are feeling the tug of your heavenly citizenship, the *normality* of feeling like aliens and exiles in this world.

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2 years

I play Wordle but don't post my score. The Lord sees; the Lord knows.

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2 years

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged by Hitler's Third Reich today in 1945. "When Christ calls a man," he wrote in the opening lines of *The Cost of Discipleship*, "he bids him come and die."

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Jared C. Wilson

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7 years

Would you marry a bride if you knew at the altar she would cheat on you every day? Jesus did.

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5 years

A reminder that we begin to resemble what we worship.

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5 years

@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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5 years

Mother's Day: pastor preaches on mom's awesomeness. Father's Day: pastor tells dad to get his act together. Two sides of a non-gospel coin.

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4 years

A few years ago I got slammed for calling the prosperity gospel “witchcraft.” Welp

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4 years

Well y’all...Bethel has officially ended racism by doing a ritual and quoting a phrase found in LORD OF THE RINGS. I can’t. 🤦🏼‍♀️ end the madness.

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5 years

I stared at this for an hour and I didn't become a better preacher, but I did solve the JFK assassination.

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7 years

Today's sermon on one page

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5 years

Putting some Bible verses in your sermon is not the same thing as preaching the Bible.

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5 years

Was told recently about an online harasser, "You should meet. He's not like that in real life." Sorry, no. Who you are online is *also* who you are. The tongue is a fire, whether you're speaking the words or typing them. And the Internet is no law against the fruit of the Spirit.

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Jared C. Wilson

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4 years

To the anonymous racist who sent me an email today saying George Floyd deserved to die and I need to “grow a pair.” You go first. Sign your name and own your wickedness, you coward.

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2 years

American evangelicals are prone to panic about the waning faith in our nation. But we forget America is not the center of Christianity. The center of Christianity is seated at the right hand of the Father, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

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I've been hurt by church people more than by anybody else. And yet, solo discipleship is not a biblical option. I'll give up on the local church when Jesus does and not a second sooner.

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5 years

One of the hardest parts of ministry over the years is discovering who your friends aren't.

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5 years

Anyone else almost die hundreds of times from your wife making abrupt sighs or gasps while you’re driving?

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4 years

I was a stutterer from 1st grade all the way into college. Now I make a living standing in front of people and talking. Remember, your first chapter ain’t your last chapter.

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5 years

Jer. 29:11 is not about health & wealth. 2 Chron. 7:14 is not about the U.S. Prov. 19:28 is not about pastoral plans. Matt. 18:20 is not about prayer. Matt. 7:1 doesn't mean criticism is a sin. And, sorry 10 year old me, but Phil. 4:13 is not about dunking a basketball

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2 years

Babies leapt in the womb. 🙌🏻

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2 years

Virtual church isn’t church.

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4 years

“Designed,” you say?

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Covid-19 makes us think about our mortality. Our brains aren’t designed for that.

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"If you could lose your salvation, you would." - John MacArthur

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6 years

If you're afraid things will fall apart if you take a break, you have likely oriented your world around the idea that you are God. It is Christ who upholds the universe. You take a vacation. A day off. A nap. It'll be OK.

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4 years

My heart got hijacked by the gospel when I wanted to kill myself. This is no fad for me. It's life.

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5 years

I am pro-social justice (rightly understood), but this is a big nope. Social justice is not the gospel. Nothing we do is the gospel. The gospel is what God has done in and through the person and work of Jesus Christ his Son.

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"Social justice is not extra. Social justice is the gospel!" - @DeanKBD

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Older songs/hymns are not improved by adding those little Millennial whoop bridge-ditties to them. Please stop making them. Please stop making us sing them.

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3 years

Judging a worship service based on how it made you feel may be an indicator it wasn't God you were going there to worship.

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5 years

Not simply crude. Unchristian.

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5 years

Remember your pastors today, yes, but also pray for all the layfolk using their only day off to prep for Sunday School or Bible studies, oft-unsung heroes on Sundays who work for free, for the pure joy of helping feed the flock.

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Jared C. Wilson

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5 years

A few years back, I significantly reduced my exposure to Christian influences that prove more passionate about "issues" than Christ & I've been better off for it. If that voice you listen to isn't regularly stirring your affections for Jesus, how loud should it be in your ears?

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6 years

“We’re gonna go ahead and get started.” - every Sunday School teacher

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4 years

This should be completely uncontroversial for believers in Jesus. But here we are

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Christians should look at the energized and emboldened white nationalism movement, and at its fascist slogans, and condemn it—full stop.

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6 years

Wanna see American Christianity become revolutionary, countercultural, and powerful again? Re-hitch the Bible to your preaching, center on the foolishness of the gospel, and replace pragmatism with gut-spilling prayer. Let's make Christianity weird again.

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I am not beholden to any political party or leader. I am beholden only to Christ — and to the Church he has purchased by his blood. There I kneel; I can do no other.

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1 year

Jesus 👏🏻 was 👏🏻 quoting 👏🏻 Psalm 👏🏻 22. Read the whole psalm. Please this Friday don’t tell your people that the Father “turned his back” on the Son or there was some kind of rift in the Trinity.

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3 years

The essence of the Christian message is not "Behave!" but "Behold!"

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2 years

Ministry is just 80% reminding people of the gospel and 20%, like, setting up chairs.

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2 years

Don't be the dude out there who wants to do "big things" for God but won't unload the dishwasher. You wanna change the world? Change some diapers.

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6 years

Fellow laypeople, let’s remember that our pastors are not our employees, hired to satisfy our preferences and keep us happy. That idea is from hell, and we should send it back there.

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4 years

You can be patriotic and love America without turning the Lord’s Day worship into a political rally.

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6 years

If you don't think evangelicals venerate icons, try moving the flags in the sanctuary.

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5 years

Let yourself feel tired. Rest isn't laziness. Kill your addiction to activity. It's okay. You're not God. That's good.

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3 years

People will say increasingly outrageous and irrational things as they feel increasingly insecure and desperate. It is a glaring "tell" of idols failing.

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2 years

I did not have “wanting to warn churches about abusers is liberalism” on my Baptist bingo card at all.

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4 years

Don’t do sexual stuff with anyone but your spouse. That’s it; that’s the tweet.

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4 years

Is 2020 the year evangelicals decided hatred was a virtue?

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Jared C. Wilson

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6 years

I have no polling data to know if “men” prefer “debt-free virgins without tattoos” — maybe they do? — but I know Jesus loves without hesitation or reservation the debt-laden, non-virgin, tattooed woman who might feel shamed or hurt by that idea.

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5 years

Remember, fellow churchfolk, we pay our pastors in part to read books, to have coffee with people, and to stare out windows and think.

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I pray the Asbury revival is so Spiritually powerful that all the grifters, clout chasers, religious experience tourists, and all the Statlers and Waldorfs who showed up fall under conviction and go home changed.

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3 years

Teens, maybe you’ve heard that Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but I’m here to tell you about someone who descended from the rooftop of heaven to crash through the window of your heart. He was literally born to die hardest. Turn with me to Luke chapter 2 . . .

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If you feel politically homeless, take heart. You are feeling the tug of your heavenly citizenship, the *normality* of feeling like aliens and exiles in this world.

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7 years

White folks tired of "hearing about racism," I s'pect you're not as tired as people of color are of racism itself.

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Jared C. Wilson

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4 years

This “my church is better than your church” stuff because we do/don’t care about Covid is really, really stupid. The kingdom isn’t a competition. Pride isn’t godly. However you’re navigating these days, if you want to magnify Christ instead of yourself, maybe rethink the swagger.

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Jared C. Wilson

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6 years

If you’re mad I’d critique “app church,” please know it’s because I believe you are made in the image of God and for participation in the body of Christ, and that you deserve to be known by pastors and looked in the face and loved. I want *better* for you than “virtual community”

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3 years

If you're not generous with a little, you won't be generous with a lot. Generosity is about spirit, not resources.

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4 years

Everybody’s thinking they’re Jesus turning over tables. Wanna be like Jesus? Forgive something big, something that hurts, something that costs you.

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2 years

Hey guys, I wonder if we shouldn’t re-platform unrepentant disqualified pastors. Call me crazy

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Jared C. Wilson

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6 years

To those who feel "called" to dedicate all their time to deconstructing and critiquing the Church, don't forget that she already has a full-time Accuser.

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2 years

While we’re denominationally clarifying who gets to be a pastor — and I’m 100% on board with male-only eldership — can we include reviewing the unbiblical tradition of deacons as functional elders?

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4 years

Watching friends you dreamed kingdom dreams with walk away from the faith is heartbreaking.

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Jared C. Wilson

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8 years

Trump doesn't know what sarcasm is and Coulter doesn't know what cannibalism is.

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Try this one on them: "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse." CNN: Trump threatens to cannibalize innocent animal!

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4 years

Did you guys happen to see John the Baptist on FoxNews talking ‘bout yeah Herod’s kind of a creep but what king isn’t and consider the alternatives?

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Jared C. Wilson

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5 years

Heard this afternoon the awful news about @JarridWilson ’s passing from our mutual agent. (Yes, we share a literary agent, believe it or not.) The human heart is a fragile thing, and born broken. Praying for his family, church, & friends. Jesus, come quickly. Come fix all of this.

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1 year

You find out what a church worships by changing things.

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5 years

I am generally convinced that one of the biggest reasons KJV-onlyism persists in legalistic environments is because the outdated language is so hard for modern ears to understand. The less one can understand the Bible on one's own, the more control leaders can exert.

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6 years

To imply that black folks are lying in a widespread way about racial injustice is itself a kind of racism because it assumes they cannot be trusted to be accurate translators of their own experience.

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3 years

You can mock the younger generation. Or you can invest in them.

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3 years

I suspect one reason why some believers react so negatively to *Gentle and Lowly” is because it convicts them. Another is that they begrudge the success it has had ministering in comfort to so many in a way their own scolding and chiding has not.

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4 years

There comes a time when every church has to decide whether they're actually a church or just a place where people go to get their preferences coddled.

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4 years

Christian, there’s not a day the Lord throws his hands up about you, exasperated, saying, “I had no idea you were like this!” He knew exactly what he was getting into with you. He loves you. Despite it all. Forever.

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4 years

Whatever happens November 3, the hostility in our culture isn't going to go away, and will likely only get worse. All the more reason for Christians to renew our commitment to being good news people.

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Hillary Clinton is terrible at rigging elections.

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4 years

Q: “How long do we need to keep repenting of racism?” A: At least as long as pastors are still defending American slavery, how ‘bout?

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Please stop baptizing people you don’t plan to pastor.

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Jared C. Wilson

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4 years

Don’t forget to keep giving to your church in this no-gathering interim. Use that online pay option or mail a check or whatever. Churches have workmen who will be especially worthy of their wages in this weird season *and* the many missional opportunities before us need funding.

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Jared C. Wilson

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A concern for justice isn’t a social gospel any more than a concern for holiness is legalism. Both of those errors are real and to be avoided/rebuked but, biblically speaking, holiness and justice are inseparable.

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Jared C. Wilson

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3 years

Too many churches kill their futures by trying to re-create their pasts.

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Jared C. Wilson

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3 years

Thanks to all who engaged with this tweet, including the Reformed guys who called it “idiotic,” “eisegesis,” “racegesis” (?), and “a massive stretch.” I forgot the quotes and citation but this is actually a line from a John MacArthur sermon.

The Danger of Adding to the Gospel

Let’s open our Bibles now to the second chapter of Galatians; Galatians chapter 2. We are coming to a text this morning that on the surface is the kind of text that no one would choose to preach o

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We saw racism in the days of Jonah, where he didn’t want to see the Gentiles repent.

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4 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but porn is stealing your joy, stunting your relationships, and harming your soul.

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4 years

My church has got a gigantic worship team. It’s called the congregation.

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5 years

"I'm spiritual but not religious" really means "I'm sentimental but not theological."

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3 years

We have a ginormous worship team. It's called "the congregation."

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6 years

The Lord slept in that storm not because he didn't care but because he was in control. The gospel is a lullaby to the anxious soul.

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Racial supremacy is a ploy of the antichrist, whose hatred for image-bearers is hatred for the supremacy of Christ, who died for all men.

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4 years

Slow down. Pray. Think. Resist the hot take. Weigh your words against Scripture. Weight your words with love. The world doesn’t need your “content.” It needs your Christ.

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Pastors, you will always discover a church’s idols by changing things. People may leave. Programs may stop. Giving may drop. Gossips may divide. Activists may undermine. Staff may revolt. You be courageous.

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Be the kind of person others don't have to prepare themselves to be with.

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