Jacob M.

Life hack: put your phone down. Stop doom-scrolling or whatever. Then: pick up a book. Read for 15 minutes uninterruptedly (it'll be hard at first). Do this once a day. Every day for 2 weeks. Your patterns will shift. And just like that, you'll be back to reading books!

If we are forgiven, can believers still expect discipline for their sin? youtu.be/EXAOGtQDDgo?si…

"All" always means ALL. Right? teampyro.blogspot.com/2008/12/all-al…

What comes first usually sets the tone for the rest of the day. So give the first thought of the day to God, not your worries.

Nicholas Bowling has nearly 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube and does a decent job defending Christianity. However, he believes women can be pastors and teaches that Christians can lose their salvation. That is reason enough for me to recommend not listening to him.

I wish this didn't need to be said, but it does: If you are ever in a church that treats gender/marriage/sexuality/LGBT issues as a "second tier issue" either confront it immediately or run.

"When you become a Christian, you are not made instantly holy. When we become Christians, we still sin. Our lives should change, and we should be progressing towards our conformity to the image of Christ—and that process is what we call sanctification." —R.C. Sproul

Question: "How much authority does a pastor have in the lives of his congregants? MacArthur: "None. I have no authority. My position doesn't give me any authority. My title doesn't give me any authority. ONLY the word of God has authority."

(Another oldie.) Here is what I said eight years ago about Revoice and others within the broad evangelical movement who were aggressively trying to convince others that same-sex attraction is morally neutral. teampyro.blogspot.com/2018/05/by-phi…

“The symbol of authentic Christian leadership “is not the purple robe of an emperor, but the coarse apron of a slave; “not a throne of ivory and gold, but a basin of water for the washing of feet.” — John Stott

Just War Theory: a Christian perspective on when to fight… youtu.be/xYigbWUW8cA?si…

"If you turn your feet to the path of sin, it is because you've already turned your heart from God." - Paul Washer | HeartCry Missionary

This is what real healthcare looks like. A doctor saving the precious life of a child, not ending it.

@CreedConfession Amen! This hits close to home and absolutely 100% ❤️

“What will make a difference in people’s lives when they’re dying, that you were cool?” – John Piper

John Owen, on the difference between the “obedience” of slaves and the obedience of sons: “Now, this liberty of our Father’s family, which we have as sons and children, being adopted by Christ through the Spirit, is a spiritual largeness of heart, whereby the children of God do freely, willingly, genuinely, without fear, terror, bondage, and constraint, go forth unto all holy obedience in Christ. [...] “There are Gibeonites, outwardly attending the family of God, that do the service of his house as the drudgery of their lives. The principle they yield obedience upon is a spirit of bondage unto fear, Rom 8:15; the rule they do it by is the law in its dread and rigor, exacting it of them to the utmost...; and the end they do it for is to fly from the wrath to come, to pacify conscience, and seek righteousness as it were by the works of the law. Thus servilely, painfully, fruitlessly, they seek to serve their own conviction all their days. [...] “The liberty of sons is in the inward spiritual freedom of their hearts, naturally and kindly going out in all the ways of and worship of God. When they find themselves straitened and shut up in them, they wrestle with God for enlargement, and are never contented with the doing of a duty unless it be done as in Christ, with free, genuine, and enlarged hearts. [...] “Love is the bottom of all their duties; hence our Savior resolves all obedience into the love of God and our neighbor; and Paul, upon the same ground, tells us, ‘that love is the fulfilling of the law,’ Rom 13:10. Where love is in any duty, [that duty] is complete in Christ. [...] “This gives the saints delight, that the commandments of Christ are not grievous to them. Jacob’s hard service was not grievous to him, because of his love to Rachel. No duty of a saint is grievous to him, because of his love to Christ. They do from hence all things with delight and complacency.” — John Owen, Communion with the Triune God (2:213-14)