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‘Christian, the more holy thou art on a sabbath, the more holy thou wilt be on the week following.’
Thomas Watson
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Pastors, if you will stop using attendance and financial reports as the metric to evaluate your ministry, you will probably find yourself less discouraged.
Instead, use spiritual fruit, pastoral faithfulness, and perseverance to evaluate the usefulness of your ministry.
When men seem zealous in some duties of religion, but are cold and frozen in others, it is a sign of hypocrisy.
Thomas Watson
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Pastors, if you are faithfully preaching God’s word every Sunday and laboring to shepherd, disciple, and care for your people, then you are doing faithful pastoral ministry.
Use this paradigm to evaluate your ministry instead of some high bar of results that God alone brings.
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The righteous are not those who have no sin, they are believers against whom the Lord will not count their sin.
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What’s the problem with making our sexuality our identity?
Adam Curtis explores this question, and many others, in conversation with Simon Wenham in his latest PEP Talk Podcast @solascpc ‘A Better Love: Sexual Identity and Sharing Christ.
Thanks so much for having us, Simon.
Christian: Read everything you can by Schaeffer.
#OTD May 15, 1984:
Francis Schaeffer, evangelical apologist and founder of L’Abri, dies in Minnesota. Known for books like Escape from Reason and The God Who Is There, Schaeffer equipped Christians to confront moral relativism and engage culture through a biblical worldview.
I don't subscribe to the speaker's sexual ethics, but she gives a marvellously brave rebuttal against the current gender madness prevalent in the cultural west.
Great question.
Baroness Berger (@lucianaberger) reiterates the fact that not a single Royal College will attest to the safety of this Bill.
Why do some Peers believe they know better than those who would have to deliver it?
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This is a classic articulation of the "logos/rhema" distinction.
Logos = written word of God / logic / reasoning
Rhema = spoken word of God / "now word" / "revelation" (the "word of the Lord came" to a prophet)
The only problem is that this distinction is false. 👇⬇️🧵 1/
‘Many are miserable by loving hurtful things, but they are more miserable by having them.’
Saint Augustine on Psalm 26.
‘To venture upon the occasion of sin, and then to pray, “lead us not into temptation,” is all one as to thrust thy finger into the fire, and then to pray that it might not be burnt.’
Thomas Brooks
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Movements don’t die suddenly. They drift.
Mission → maintenance → monument.
Multiplication interrupts the drift.
Church planting keeps churches and networks outward-facing and alive.
If you missed the article earlier this week, it’s worth your time: revdaveharvey.com/2026/03/17…!
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Young man - early 20s maybe - sitting opposite me on the Tube, absorbed in reading The Bible.
