Shell

@howertonjosh Lakepointe first Lady Jana, so beautiful. You're a blessed man to have such a Godly wife/helper 🙏🏼

Birthday girl (bday date tonight, birthday in 2)

@howertonjosh Praise God, so thankful for your teaching. If a Shepard doesn't protect against the ravenous wolves, he's a hireling. Keep protecting with the sword 📖

Have started to get more questions about why I do stuff like this. Quick response... 1) Not every pastor should, and not saying I'm doing it perfectly. Guarantee I'm not. 2) I've come think of discipleship in terms of "Air War" and "Ground War." - Air War = applying the Word to PEOPLE and FAMILIES "down there" - Ground War = applying the Word to culture "up there" Just like in a military conflict, if you have no Air War it doesn't matter how many battles you win on the ground, the Enemy just flies in, bombs your wins, and un-does everything you did. I feel like that happens with Christians: If we don't combat the lies they are inundated with in culture, Enemy "air war superiority" is undoing for the next 6 days (via social media, journalism, entertainment media, higher ed, etc) what we did on 1 day. 3) Many of the "false teachers" of this era are not in pulpits. They are on podcasts, YouTube pages, Twitch streams, etc doing reverse-discipleship and frequently twisting the Scriptures to do so. In 1960 a pastor could generally keep his sheep from wolves by controlling who he allowed in his pulpit. In 2026, people are carrying entire packs of "wolves" in their pockets... so as a shepherd I'm trying to go there too. 4) I refuse to let my pulpit get hijacked by the issue of the week. On weekends I'm preaching verse by verse through books. Stuff like this gives me the ability to combat bad teaching my people are hearing without letting my pulpit get hijacked. (Not saying everything Tucker said in this clip I reacted to = bad teaching, listen to ep) 5) If pastors refuse to help their people think Biblically through the issues of the day, someone else will help them think UNbiblically about them. If godly people don't, godless people will. 6) It is counterintuitively an avenue for evangelism. One takeaway I had from watching the effect of Charlie Kirk's life was that what is often called "the culture war" can be a PLATFORM for the gospel, rather than a distraction from it. 7) Last year I read a book that touched on church leadership and pastoral ministry during the era of the American founding. Pastors leveraged Sundays to preach through books of the Bible, but many leveraged the mid-week gathering to teach their people about "Christian statesmanship" (applying Biblical principles to society, local politics, culture, etc.) We accidentally backed into doing that with Live Free. *All that to say, I GUARANTEE I'm doing it imperfectly and this is not going to be every pastor's "thing." I've always been drawn to "Christ and culture" thinking. But I'm doing my imperfect best for the above reasons.

@howertonjosh I designed a women's LIVE FREE hat. "LIVE FREE" in rose gold embroidery,denim front, cream mesh back, bill white, and two white strips around the back. I think it could sell! Also, women can customize it with a decorative hat chain. I think this would be a hot sell!

@howertonjosh The Bible condemns theft and covetousness, which necessitates the recognition of private property, contradicting socialist ideals. Christian love requires structural economic justice (socialism), HOWEVER, that Christian morality is centered on VOLUNTARY action. LIVE FREE bro.

Coming to believe ~90% of the political differences among Christians boil down to a failure to distinguish between the Biblical roles of the individual, the church, and the State. No, God did not command governments to forcibly redistribute wealth. Yes, God commanded Christians as individuals to practice charity. Individual Christians in Acts “gave willingly and not under compulsion.” Christians in Acts did not vote for the Emperor to increase the marginal tax rate and call that “generosity.”

Good morning. Jesus is King 👑

@howertonjosh Please share this with Carlos and Chat G Paul C, it was just too good youtube.com/shorts/q4ClGpO…

@Pontifex I'm sure Israel used these tactics on the Philistines, NOT

I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable, sincere, and responsible dialogue.

Praise be to God youtu.be/a8i2BEMXhc8?si…

🚨You are in a PROPAGANDA WAR. Still don't believe me? Give me less than 10 minutes 👇

@w_terrence You know who didn't care about her "dignity" her brother husband

Ilhan Omar just told me to F** OFF After I laid out the basic Poison Control steps anyone should take after being sprayed with an unknown substance… She said she didn’t follow any of them because she feared “losing her dignity” more than losing her life. This doesn’t make any sense

@conservmillen Goodness, I thought this was a Babylon Bee article. Did anyone check to see if she burst into flames, or turned into a pillar of salt?

Thank you for the lengthy shoutout! I’ve got a response headed your way.

@WellsJorda89710 @DeplorableD77 x.com/bebesunshine/s…

@LangmanVince I don't remember the same outage when Ashli Babbitt was murdered, 🤔

Is there anything worse on planet Earth than a crazy eyes radical liberal white women like this psychopath?

@indicatorfn SAHM trying to raise godly children, in a dark world

@travelgalgreen @howertonjosh Josh is absolutely about the Numbers. The number of people saved, lives changed, marriages saved, orphans adopted, addiction chains broken. Lakepointe is in the Discipleship business and I am here for all of it 🙏🏼❤️. May you have a blessed day!

@Shell69802456 @howertonjosh “Please sacrifice family time to create internet content I can watch.” Josh loves this stuff - it’s how HE gets to be an influencer. So yeah - lowly church staffers and volunteers - get to work.

Insider-baseball to church staff members on Christmas Week: There can be a temptation (especially if your church has lots of extra Christmas services) for church staff to be a little discouraged and wish they were home this week. I can't encourage you strongly enough to reject that with all your heart. In addition to the high honor that the Lord chose you "for such a time as this" to be on the field this week, there will come a day for most of us when we are old and crusty and at home drooling on ourselves in rocking chairs Christmas week (hyperbole, don't freak out about ageism or something please). And I have a feeling that when that day comes, we'd give anything to come to back and pour everything we had out on a week like this one more time. All gas, no brakes for the glory of God, the joy of the world, and the salvation of the nations this week.

@DrFrankTurek Read my Bible more, so that I will know what God has planned for me ❤️

What personal goals have you set for 2026?

Total nerd moment, this is amazing

My point, God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called. We all fall short of the Glory of God and he loves us anyway. With everyone making new years resolutions, make a change and give your life to God and let him change you forever.

JACOB was a cheater,PETER had a temper,DAVID had an affair, NOAH was a drunk,JONAH ran from God,PAUL was a murderer,GIDEON was insecure,MIRIAM was a gossip MARTHA was a worrier, RAHAB was a prostitute, THOMAS was a doubter,SARAI was impatient,ELIJAH was suicidal,MOSES studdered.

@howertonjosh Merry Christmas howerTeam! Pro photo tip, take a pic of your family in the reflection of that giant green Ornament, it's a fun idea to save for memories.

Merry (unshowered) Christmas from the #HowerTEAM ! We love you and we love Jesus Christ… (Felicity needs it to be known she was being tickled in this picture)