Peter Hoytema

@flemingrut My heartfelt condolences. Hearing a Christ-centered sermon is a great blessing. But hearing that same Christ say to us, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” as we enter his kingdom is pure glory. May that assurance sustain you as you grieve the loss of your husband.

My beloved husband has gone to the Father's house. He loved Jesus. He spent his last two decades supporting and promoting speakers who eagerly introduced Him to others. He loved to hear a Christ-centered sermon. He loved to support Christ-centered churches. He was loved in return

@JaniceDean Not even the least bit torn, Janice? 😏

Guess what I’ll be wearing tomorrow morning! 🇺🇸

@flemingrut I’m just glad JD Vance isn’t my neighbour. Because I have nothing in common with someone who believes that.

JD Vance: “It is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” This is supposed to be Christian?

@AdamSchein Here's a stat, Adam: Trey Yesavage is the 1st pitcher in MLB history to strike out 12 batters in a World Series game without issuing a walk.

What an iconic dominant performance. How bout the Blue Jays in games 4 and 5 after losing game 3 in 18 innings. And no Springer! In LA!! The talent and toughness is remarkable!

@AdamSchein If they give Ohtani a pitch to hit in the 9th I'll be shocked.

What a sensational, heart stopping World Series game.

@AdamSchein This team can beat the Dodgers, Adam.

Hoffman 🔥🔥🔥 This Blue Jays team has been great all year. Worthy AL champ. Love these bats. Love the starters. Love the confidence and resolve. The Blue Jays fans are amazing. Toronto great baseball city. 94 work stoppage killed em. Congrats!

@flemingrut I just joined BlueSky today and followed you there.

@flemingrut Be assured of my prayers for you both.

@flemingrut May the Father of all compassion and the God of all comfort be your strength and give you healing.

I am slowly (very) emerging from knee replacement surgery. Reading deeply about our national and global crises. Paul Krugman writes mournfully (today's NYT) about "White Rural Rage" and how no one seems to know what to do about it. Where, Lord, are Will Campbell's Elishas?

@JoanBandy @gpackiam Grace is primary. Repentance is our response to God’s initiative. Jesus demonstrated radical inclusivity before Zaccheus repented (“I must come to your house today”). Repentance is not the basis for our entering the kingdom. It’s the result of having been let in.

@gpackiam I like that. I like the way he dealt with Zaccheus. Yet, there’s just…something that rings off with the usage I’m hearing of it. Say Zaccheus didn’t repent. Would Jesus have been “inclusive.” Was the goal inclusivity, or did Jesus give best efforts toward discipleship?

I’m gonna be gut level honest for a second sorting this out… I don’t think Jesus just randomly loved “marginalized people.” {Breathe…Breathe!!!) He saw what the Father was doing in someone’s life and did that. He had no broad-scale plan to “be inclusive.” 🤷🏻‍♀️ Thoughts?

@trinityforum Augustine's "Confessions"

In addition to the Bible, every Christian should read _____.

@johnpauldickson @AndyStanley @NorthPoint I loved your point about Bach and our feeble efforts to capture the profound beauty of his creations (though you did quite well on your cello 🙂). Harry Emerson Fosdick made a similar comparison in a sermon preached at Riverside, NYC years ago:

I just had an amazing conversation with @AndyStanley at @NorthPoint about the best and worst of Christian history. I'm on from the 20min mark (but the first part of the service was quiet something!). youtube.com/watch?v=FCy4GT…

@aussiedave @AndyStanley @johnpauldickson So good..and it reminded me of something Harry Emerson Fosdick said in one of his sermons at Riverside Church in NYC:

I just watched @AndyStanley interview Aussie theologian @johnpauldickson. In the last four minutes, John uses Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude to explain church history and its connection to the Gospel ... Every follower of Jesus should watch this. youtube.com/live/Ns5sN81tO…

@HeraldOfPurity @kevinmyoung Everything depends on where the emphasis is placed. On us (our acceptance, understanding, repentance) or God (unmerited love, divine acceptance, prevenient grace). God does not accept us because we make ourselves acceptable.

@HeraldOfPurity @kevinmyoung That's the point. You don't accept the Gospel. The Gospel accepts you.

@HeraldOfPurity @kevinmyoung This sounds like gospel but isn't. It makes repentance the prerequisite for grace. It simply exchanges one form of self righteousness, evident in the Pharisees, for another. The gospel is grounded in grace, not our understanding and appreciation of it.

@kevinmyoung Crooks and sex workers understood that they were living in great sin and that they were hopeless without an external saviour, that's why they appreciated the Gospel of Christ so much Luke 7:36-50 Repentant sinners will inherit the Kingdom of God, not the unrepentant, proud ones

@AdamSchein Was there ever any doubt 🙄?

Maple Leafs hockey!!!!!!!!!!! Yes we can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@flemingrut When tender mercies prove stronger than the fear that stalks us, the heart is at rest. Joining you in grateful praise for God's good and abundant gifts.

My husband collapsed. No warning. Covid. Discharged from hospital yesterday after 3-day Remdesiver drip. Almost back to normal now. Without vaccine, would probably be dead. I observed the hosp staff with awe and wonder. Most had worked through those three unspeakable months 😷🙏🏽

@jaredcwilson Yes. Because Jesus carried the weight of human sin, he felt the agony of forsakenness. But the Father was never absent. The Abba he cried to was always “My God.” The One who “has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help” (v. 24).

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.

@PaulVanderKlay @Saville1559 @CRCNA Call me an optimist, but I don't think a split is inevitable nor do I think it's necessary. The deep dive on Cedric's article is enlightening. I think a similar analysis of how "confessional status" became such a focal point in the CRCNA and the HSR would be valuable as well.

@Saville1559 @PeterHoytema @CRCNA The question now is not if there will be a split, but how many pieces. The fewer the better in my opinion.

In today's video I dig into Rev. Cedric Parsel's article in Abide about the validity in the @CRCNA of the Confessional Difficulty Gravamen. This is super nerdy CRC inside baseball but might become the most important thing in the current debate. youtu.be/q7FXSy6NA-U