You’d never know by glancing at these two radiant human beings that they’ve tackled two bone marrow transplants in less than a year because Stephen is fighting multiple myeloma. Today, on my sister’s birthday, would you pray for her husband’s healing? #BloodCancerAwarenessMonth

One thing that’s wonderful about being around people who are pure hearted is that they attend to the image of God in others. I don’t think it’s incidental the promise “Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God” precedes peacemaking.

So grateful for our time at First Norfolk

“Yet you did not return to me...” is the refrain of Amos 4 repeated 5 times. Still God pursues with a repeated offering: “seek me and live.” (Ch 5) In the end God promises: I will raise up I will repair I will rebuild, restore, plant That’s a vision of eternal spring

The wonder of resurrection is bound to the paradox of incarnation. “We are tempted to look for God in the invisible, intangible, in the ethereal...But the incarnation is the death of abstraction. Salvation came through a body, redemption through a man.” Jen Pollock Michel

One take-away from Leviticus: Blood was a symbol of life, not death. “For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life.” (Lev 17:14) pairs beautifully with Jesus’s invitation at the Last Supper, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood...” (Matt. 26:27)

“Love is the widest, choicest door into the Passion. God saved the world not by sitting up in heaven and issuing antiseptic directives, but by becoming man, and vulnerable, in Jesus. He died, not because he despised the earth, but because he loved it.” Robert Farrar Capon

“You are going to see invisible faith through your visible life... Living faith doesn’t just feel compassion; it shows compassion.” Courtney Doctor 🔥🔥🔥 on James 2 #TGCW21

One of the many advantages of pursuing your theological education in Fort Worth at Southwestern Seminary.👇🏻

Matt Queen Southwestern Seminary Lifeway Research Scott McConnell ReplantBootcamp Bob Bickford North Greenville University Ken Hemphill Thomas Nelson Bibles @kwpriest Looking forward to spending some time with you

The Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan has horrific implications for women and girls. It was gunmen from Pakistan's Taliban who shot Malala Yousafzai when she was 15-years-old because of her advocacy for education. Lord have mercy. Heavy hearted today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=COElcZ…

I know of no one more synonymous with healthy churches and who in himself embodies more of what we want to see happen through our Hemphill Center than the 7th president of Southwestern Seminary, Ken Hemphill. Grateful for this act by our trustees to honor my president. swbts.edu/news/trustees-…

We are excited to release our Preaching & Teaching Galatians online series; recorded at our 2021 Fall Conference: youtube.com/playlist?list=… To order the companion book “Free Indeed” contact [email protected]

“Ring the bells that can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen Sculpture by Allison Evonne Street. This show at the gallery at Life in Deep Ellum is stunning. #artandtheology

Excited to announce I have signed a contract w/B&H Publishing for a book entitled “Convictional Cooperation,” to be released at #SBC23. It will be a fuller exposition of thoughts/reflections expressed in my post-#SBC22 Baptist Press column (baptistpress.com/resource-libra…). Prayers appreciated!

The church will never reach a lost world if we expect them to clean up first. That’s a religious pharisee’s attitude. We sing “Just As I Am” and then expect people to come just as we want them to be. That’s not Jesus. That’s not a church.

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Use Waze to drive to R F, N 730 County Road R, Watertown, WI: waze.com/ul/hdp8vzhj0uj…