Ryan Hall

Life with Jesus is an endless hope. Life without Him is a hopeless end.

I read Numbers 11–14 recently, and Moses’ leadership hit close to home. If you lead people, this won’t feel theoretical. It’ll feel familiar.

"work will be optional" and all will be rich. What a foolish thing to conclude. How will AI solve the problems inherent in human nature when we all expect handouts that are controlled by corrupt AIristocrats? This endgame will be a D I S A S T E R if people fail to account for how AI will intensify human depravity. Lots of dead robots in junkyards and dead people in the streets on the line here.

"Assuming the current trend of AI and robotics continues, which seems likely, the AI and robots will be able to do anything that that humans want them to do, essentially, so hopefully not more than that, but AI and robotics will be able to provide us all the goods and services that anyone could possibly want so you wouldn't need to work. People will be able to wherever they want with their free time. Work will be optional. I just want to separate out from like what I wish would happen versus what I predict will happen. Because people get confused about that. They think that what I predict will happen is what I wanted to happen. What I predict to happen is not the same as what I want to happen." 一 Elon Musk

@lukedsimmons Use sermonmapping.com for the best feedback.

3 ways for a new preacher to get better faster: 1. Do a full run-through in an empty room a few days before 2. Gather a small group to give input on application and illustrations before you preach 3. Ask an experienced leader for specific feedback

@BiblicalBeauty Somehow that sweater was predestined to reappear in our age. What does it mean?

John MacArthur brilliantly explaining why we don't need to agonize over trying to understand how God's sovereignty and human responsibility work together: "People say, 'Oh, I can't understand election and I can't understand how it fits with choice.' Look, I can't understand a lot of things, and you know what it proves to me? No man wrote this Bible, because man would never have written a book with so many absolutely inexplicable mysteries. And the fact that we have those apparent paradoxes which we can't resolve is one of the greatest proofs that God wrote the Bible, because whoever wrote this has a mind beyond my mind. I'm so glad I can't understand everything in the Bible. If I could understand everything in the Bible, it would be written by someone like me, and we'd be in a lot of trouble. I want a God who knows more than I do. So you just have to live with that. When we come to a passage that talks about people choosing to believe in Christ, preach it with all your heart, and when you come to a passage that talks about them being chosen before the foundation of the world, preach it with all your heart. And when people say, 'How do you reconcile that?' Say, 'I don't have to. I just believe it.'

Rosaria Butterfield on the inevitability of the patriarchy: "The Bible teaches biblical patriarchy, also called complementarianism. I use those two terms as synonyms because I believe they are. My support of patriarchy did not come easily or because I suddenly started to believe that men were good. 'No man is good' Psalm 53:1-3 declares and Romans 3:10 restates. But because men are evil and not good, we need godly men, men who have committed their lives to Jesus and who live under the authority of a true Bible-believing church to protect their families, their churches, and their neighborhoods from the dangerous droves of wolves. If you look at women's sports today, you look at drag queen story hour, you look at all this nonsense, you are going to see something—men are going to be in charge, whether it's men gyrating in front of five year-olds in the library or it's godly men who lead this university and your churches. It's not which, it's not whether men are going to be in charge. It's which men you want in charge. We need more warrior pastors, warrior Christian presidents. The droves of vile and perverse ideas that are out there are sickening. We need protection from that. We cannot go to war against the very solution God gives us."

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This is absolutely mind-bending. By locking the camera to a fixed point in the sky rather than the ground, this stunning timelapse perfectly visualizes Earth's rotation.🌍🌌 It really puts our movement through space into perspective.

“So people quote Abraham Lincoln, ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ They forget he’s quoting Theodore Parker in the 19th century, who was quoting of all people, John Wycliffe in the 13th century. And Wycliffe is saying, when we put the Bible in the hands of ordinary people, then you have a chance of government, of the people, by the people, for the people, because the Bible will be the foundation for self-government and self-rule. And without that, freedom will be impossible.” - Oz Guinness HT: washingtonstand.com/commentary/os-…

60% rating and dropping. They got way off track from a buddy mystery thriller. Hope Netflix faces reality. rottentomatoes.com/tv/stranger_th…

"Suspicion often creates what it suspects." - C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters) Beware how easily we can develop false narratives about people based on assumptions or misinformation.

@BroSpencer sermonmapping.com is a great way to improve preaching.

I’ve seen dozens of men disparaging what is said here, and I gotta be honest…I agree with the man. Going through the intellectual exercise of explaining a text without bringing the people to a verdict that has eternal consequences is not what churches need. Ravenhill would have agreed with this clip.

@TomBuck sermonmapping.com helps preachers get better.

We don’t preach merely to transfer information to the mind but to seek transformation of the heart.

@JCRyle sermonmapping.com helps preachers get better.

Wow, this clip by Washer is triggering many. What Washer says here is what Ryle has written about in the past. Ryle wrote... “Ministers have sought to build churches with intellectual preaching, polished sermons, and rhetorical displays; but they have forgotten that the heart is the road to the understanding. People must feel before they will believe.” “We may preach with perfect correctness of doctrine, language, and exposition, and yet produce no feeling, no conviction, no result.” True preaching must aim at affection, conscience, and will—not merely the conveyance of information. “Let us take heed that we preach the truth warmly, affectionately, and experimentally… Let us labor to preach so that people shall feel we are in earnest, and that we speak because we believe and feel the things we say. This, under the grace of God, is the great secret of reaching hearts.”

@mike_reeves sermonmapping.com = better preaching

A sermon is not a lecture. It is not absorbing trivia. It is a heart-shaking assault on darkness and the very gates of hell, trumpeted forth so that sinners tremble and saints quake in wonder.

@JCRyle sermonmapping.com = better preaching in the world

When I come to church I don't want to hear a New Testament class, I want to hear preaching! -Paul Washer

@lukedsimmons I created it. Let me know if you want to discuss it 🙌

@RyanJHall I've seen that! Very cool

Over the last 3 years I've evaluated nearly 100 sermons from good Bible teachers who are eager to grow. Here are the recurring areas that need improvement: 🧵

@michaelsobrien Cchs no recruits 34 man roster 47 Maroa Forsyth 68 man roster 0. No excuses. Tough people win.

I'm just getting ahead of the private vs. public school discourse about to take over for the next ten days. The idea of splitting the IHSA so that rich private schools and rich public schools can BOTH win state titles strikes a public school kid from Joliet as laughable.

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@elonmusk please include passing references to the progress you are making in "mimetic polyalloy" in your Tesla calls, citing how vital Liquid Metal will be in the future. Bonus points if you estimate completion by 8/29/29.