It truly is astonishing how God’s word speaks to the current questions , problems, and challenges of life. Today, like many days past, I had something heavy on my heart and I opened God’s word to my assigned reading and God was waiting to encourage me with great precision

Preachers: one of the best pieces of advice a mentor (Dino Rizzo) gave me when I was a young preacher was “SMILE.” This is good news folks, smile more!

Most disappointing golden globe host ever.

I have so many subtweets I want to post every day of my life. Restraint is a virtue that I’m struggling with today HAHAHHAHA • this is actually a subtweet of a subtweet #irony

The same Sun that softens the wax hardens the clay; and so it is with the Gospel message. To the soft receptive heart it softens even more & to the hard heart that refuses to listen it makes it even harder.

Just got out of a 2hr creative mtg finalizing some plans for an amazing @sidecarleader resource specifically for church planters! Can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on bc it is going to help so many planters #churchplanter #churchplanting

When you just poured a cup of coffee, filled to the brim, and then you sneeze the most fierce sneeze of your life. #TheWorst

“He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”-George Herbert #GuiltyOfGrace

Lately I have found such humor in watching young preachers “talk & sound” like sages. HahahHa. I get it, some people are “old souls” but as I get older I realize that there is so much I still don’t know and what I thought I knew was only my echos of another sages true wisdom.

“Post-Bible Christianity is a short layover to an eventual post-Christianity altogether.” -Comer • In other words, the Christian’s you encounter that deconstruct the scriptures and throw them out will eventually throw out Christianity altogether.

There is no formation to JESUS without a centrality of scripture. Scripture was central to the life and way of JESUS and you cannot follow him without scripture being central in your own life.

Watching the #Oscar2023 I may have felt the 80s vibration strong and yelled “boobie traps” when my boy Ke Huy Quan won! #GooniesKid

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Hero of Grammys = Miley. Loser Of the show = Taylor. Zero HONOR Taylor Swift . What a disappointment #narcissist

“You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, it is a discipline.”-Aristotle

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known & truly loved is…like being loved by God.” -CS Lewis • you are not a problem to be solved. You are a person to be loved.

“The test of a true shepherd is not in their charisma, but in their willingness to sacrifice for the sheep.”-John Stott #Pastor #Leader #GoodShepherd

“Silent Saturday” is the day between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. What must the disciples have felt on that silent day? Grief, confusion,complete disappointment, disbelief? But resurrection was already in motion reminding us that even when God is silent He is not absent.

Excellence unlocks Influence. - Favor is given but influence is earned and one of the best ways to earn influence on your team, in your organization or in your industry is to be REALLY GOOD at what you do. Excellence is t perfection but it’s constantly improving and growing

Many Christians trust Jesus w/ their eternity but fail to surrender their everyday lives to Him as King. We want Him to keep us out of hell while we keep Him out of our relationships, $, sexuality, and work. Tozer once said, ‘If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.’”