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Amen!

TO MY GREAT FELLOW AMERICANS…

@MrBeast My wife, without a doubt…

If I offered you $1,000,000 but you only keep it if the first person you call answers, who would you call?

@QuoteJung Biblical Psychology by Oswald Chambers

“The church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Sir Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity… Newton did not create gravity but recognized it” - J.I Packer (As cited in Kenneth J. Collins and Jerry L. Walls, Roman but not Catholic: what remains at stake 500 years after the Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017), 21). 
By the time the church was having discussions of canon lists and what books did or didn’t possess the mark of inspiration. The books of inspired scripture had already been written, read, copied, passed around, and disseminated for some time. 
 Paul is already being recognized as scripture within the 1st century by Peter in 2 Pet. 3:16, and Paul himself is quoting Luke as scriptural alongside Deuteronomy in 1 Timothy 5.
 And let’s not forget that the Christians in the first century had a Bible: we call it the Old Testament.  When Paul says “all scripture is God breathed” in 2 Timothy, no one is confused about what Paul means when he uses the term “scripture.”
 Just because books existed as independent documents in the form of physical scrolls and books separate from one another prior to the fourth century with them being codified all in one single unit then, doesn’t mean that they weren’t the Bible prior to that point. 
We need to be careful not to read back an anachronistic perspective due to our modern privilege of being able to easily have all the biblical books in a single-bound-volume. This is largely due to the amazing and streamlined process of publishing today.

“Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day.” — Charles Spurgeon

“I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done God wrong.” — Charles Spurgeon

I want to become soooooo financially stable that God uses my pockets to bless others.

@NiqueOtn I’d love a signed jersey! I was hoping to catch ya while you were working out with the @okcthunder . Praying for good things my man!

Many people have wisdom but no courage, or courage without wisdom. As Christians, we must acquire both. #facts #truth #therapy

It’s okay to not be okay. But, it’s not okay to stay that way when there is another way. Jesus is the Way.

@CoulterConner instagram.com/reel/DKjokZtMC…

#OnThisDay June 7, 1891: English Baptist Charles H. Spurgeon, who preached to (on average) 6,000 people at each of his services, delivers his last sermon at London's Metropolitan Tabernacle. “Those who have no master are slaves to themselves. Depend upon it, you will either serve Satan or Christ, either self or the Saviour. You will find sin, self, Satan, and the world to be hard masters; but if you wear the livery of Christ, you will find him so meek and lowly of heart that you will find rest unto your souls. He is the most magnanimous of captains.”

The Christian life, I argue, is actually quite simple. It is sin, and our desire and willingness to engage with it, that complicates it. Praise be to God that His mercy is more!

Amen. Unnecessary in the house of God!

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

“The fact that you believe you are wise proves that you are a fool.” — Charles Spurgeon