The brittle branches,
white as skeleton bones and
cold as death itself.
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Friend of Jesus. Husband to Sarah. Dad to Lydia, Chloe, Jude, Silas, and Micah. Planting a church: tccamarillo.com
The brittle branches,
white as skeleton bones and
cold as death itself.
โWhat is worship? We answer: First, it is the action of the new nature seeking, as the sparks fly upward, to return to the Divine and heavenly source from which it came.โ โ A.W. Pink
09.02.2025 00:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Our seeking of Him is only the reflex action of His first seeking us." โย A.W. Pink
13.01.2025 20:14 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐คฏ
31.12.2024 16:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โDeathโs dark shadows put to flight.โ
Yes, Merry Christmas.
Also, this cover is ๐ฅ.
20.12.2024 23:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But what is impossible has become a fact by a movement in the opposite direction. God himself in his creative and revealing being has become man and โpitched his tentโ among us.โ โ Lesslie Newbigin
20.12.2024 23:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โIt lies wholly beyond the power of flesh and blood of the will of man, to pass from darkness to light, to lay hold of the life of Godโฆ
20.12.2024 23:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hereโs a Christmas passage.
19.12.2024 16:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 09! ๐
18.12.2024 15:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โThanks be to God, He is a Savior who seeks the lost, who with eyes supernaturally farsighted discerns us a long way off, and draws our interest to Himself by the sweet constraint of His grace, till we are face to face with Him and our soul is saved.โ โ Geerhardus Vos
18.12.2024 01:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Finished โOrbitalโ today.
Plotless, but poetic. Gloriously fascinating, โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ
He surrendered His body to death instead of all... This He did out of sheer love for us... Thus He would make death to disappear from (us)โฆ.โ โ Athanasius, โOn the Incarnationโ
03.12.2024 18:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"(Jesus) saw (our)...race...wasting out of existence, and death reigning over all in corruption... All this He saw, andโฆ rather than that His creatures should perishโฆ He took to Himself a bodyโฆ
03.12.2024 18:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Chloeโs 12!
01.12.2024 20:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Legolas to Gimli, when Gimli wants to explore the caves at Helmโs Deep, but thereโs not enough time:
โDo not spoil the wonder with haste.โ
A good word for Christmastime, too. โจ
Iโm here for all the โbest books of the yearโ lists.
27.11.2024 04:33 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Can I post haiku here? Hereโs one I wrote a year ago yesterday. And I still want to hurl just thinking about that day.
Four-thousand pounds of
minivan crunched the laptop.
I wanted to barf.
โTis the season to start Christmas sermon-ing! โจ
This year, from Matthew 1-2. BORN.
Wordle 1,248 2/6
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Thank you, yes!
17.11.2024 15:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โJesus didnโt come to save us because we were worth saving, but because we were utterly worthless, ruined, and undone. He didnโt come to earth because of anything weโve done to merit His love, but solely for reasons which He fetched from the depths of His own divine love.โ
โ C.H. Spurgron