Austin Lee

John MacArthur and Charlie Kirk three years ago

Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

What an incredible read from Wikipedia co-founder @lsanger about his unexpected path to following Jesus: larrysanger.org/2025/02/how-a-… "Might 'God exists' be the best explanation? It might, I conceded."

How Do You Know Your Name Is Written in the Book of Life? How do you know that your name is written in The Book of Life? You do not explore the hidden mind of the Almighty on a mystic quest to read his thoughts. You do not look inward to gauge the cleanliness of your hearts. You look outward, to Christ, who is the Book of Life in the flesh. God the Father has written your name not in words but in wounds. The nail-pierced hands, the thorn-encircled brow, the spear-hewn side—in those bleeding wounds is the ink by which your name is inscribed. Before you did anything good or bad, before you were conceived, even before the foundation of the world, God the Father tattooed your name upon the body of his Son. He wrote it in the Book of Life. And in time, he preached to you that, apart from him, you are dead and damned. But by his Spirit, he called you to repentance, he called you by the Gospel, he worked faith in your heart, he baptized you, he forgave you, he made you his child. In other words, he showed you your name, in letters bright and clear, written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Do not worry yourself with vain speculations about some hidden, secret decision that God made ages ago about who would be saved. Fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, the one in whom God reveals his fullness to us, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, the one who wills that all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Read only this Book of Life, Jesus Christ. See your name written there in the waters of baptism, in the forgiveness spoken, in the body and blood of the Supper. Christ Jesus is the Book of Life. In him and him alone our names are written.

"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?" Psalm 8:3–4

Only after the death of my son, Luke, did I realize how unpredictable and vacillating emotions can be, including how we feel toward God. There were moments, almost mystical in nature, where God seemed as close as my eyes to my tears. Touching. Intimate. And there were moments—more like days and weeks—where he seemed as far away as warm beaches are from the ice and snow of Antarctica. I loved the Lord. I was appalled by him. I warmly welcomed him. I coldly rejected him. Such ups and downs, noons and midnights, are the stuff of suffering. My own harrowing experience also helped me better understand Job’s vacillating emotions. In particular, I better appreciate now how Job can go from pleading for his day in court with God to wishing that God would “look away from him and leave him alone” (Job 14:6). Or as the psalmist says, “Look away from me that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more” (Ps. 39:13). Go away, God! Come near, Lord! So it goes in the spinning, turbulent vortex of a believer’s life when we are swept up into pain and confusion as to what God is doing with us. I am grateful that we serve a Lord who is ready and willing to hold us as we weep, struggle, fight, and attempt, in our meager and limited way, to grasp both the magnitude of earthly losses and the greater magnitude of our Father’s heart. I am reminded that even our Lord Jesus, within a 24-hour period, uttered both of these prayers: -“My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done” (Matt. 26:42). -“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46). God heard and answered both prayers of his Son, in his own time and in his own way. And he will do the same for us, followers of that same Son, children of our heavenly Father.

Jesus is the forgiver of our past. He not only erases our long list of sins, but writes in their place his lifetime of good deeds. His love transfigures our past by making our past his own. He is the companion of our present. He wakes us every morning with the words, “I am with you. You are baptized. Nothing that happens to you today will alter my devotion to you.” He is the hope of our tomorrow. The thundering storm on the horizon he will quiet with his grace. Whatever will happen cannot change what has happened: in the fires of his love he has welded you to his own flesh. He and you are inseparable. Before you take another step, live another day, Christ has already lived it. His resurrection molds our future. In his empty tomb is fullness of hope for our future yet unlived. No matter our past failures, our present struggles, or our future sorrows, Christ will always hold us fast.

This is fantastic! All glory be to Christ our King!

God Slumming with Humanity? When the Son becomes one of us, this is not God slumming with humanity. It’s not like a human becoming a bug, or an eagle a flea. No, the incarnation is not so much God-made-small as it is humanity-made-big. The God who made man in his own image outdoes himself: He makes himself into his own image and thereby exalts us. Jesus becomes what we are—a woman’s child—that he might make us what he is—a child of the Father. That’s what Christmas is all about. One small step for God, one giant leap for mankind. He becomes no less, but we become infinitely more in him.

No exaggeration — this might be the best press conference in sports history. I don’t care about softball but I’ve got a favorite team now

“All death can do to Christians is make their lives infinitely better.” —@TimKellerNYC (1950–2023) Now with his Father, our prodigal God.

“Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.” — John Flavel

“And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.” Revelation 22:5

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. CS Lewis

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” — Jonathan Edwards

Every single miracle Jesus did pointed to the greatest miracle of all: standing before a perfectly holy God CLEAN AND SPOTLESS through the shed blood and imputed righteousness of the man Christ Jesus.

On days like today, Christ’s return seems even more wonderfully glorious. No more sin. No more war. No more evil. ‘Come Lord Jesus.’

@A_Varrasso216 My guy! Thank you much! And need to 😂😂

Happy birthday to a dude who has been one of my closest and best friends since I got out here to ND! @AustinJLee21 Happy birthday fella...lets hop on a bird and head to the North East soon!

@A_Varrasso216 That’s my fault man.

Feel bad for AV because he rly is a damn good coach...management built this team away from his strengths...tough for him to succeed this season...however now they need to get a coach who will coach the style the current team has been built #Flyers

FCA Tonight in the Norway Room, Student Center! Great opportunity to meet other athletes in a different light! Any questions please feel free to reach out. @AustinJLee21