Luke Holmes

Never fails

Sometimes I think of Abraham
How one star he saw had been lit for me
He was a stranger in this land
And I am that, no less than he
And on this road to righteousness
Sometimes the climb can be so steep
I may falter in my steps
But never beyond Your reach
-Rich Mullins

Prayer is not a way in which we order things; it is a way in which we become ordered.
- Eugene Peterson

Death enters through one man’s obedience
Life is restored through one man’s obedience

Sin came through temptation of a woman
Salvation came through one born of a woman

The enemy conquered humanity by tasting of a tree
Christ conquered the enemy by bearing suffering on a tree

-Anselm

Sometimes you gotta put on the jams.

OTD in 1854 Sam Houston was baptized at Independence BC, the oldest continuously active Baptist church in Texas.When told his sins were washed away Houston reportedly replied, “[I] pity the fish downstream.” He also demanded his wallet be baptized with him as a sign of his total surrender.

"Nobody knows 1500 pages about God, not even in German."

Carlyle Marney musing on Karl Barth

“God weeps with us so that we may someday laugh with him.”
- Jurgen Moltmann

OTD in 1525 Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz and George Blaurock are sentenced to bread and water in the tower by Zwingli and other Zurich authorities because of their Anabaptist beliefs and practices.

Today my church celebrated our 90th anniversary. Church has had a tumultuous couple of decades and it was a wonderful time of healing, celebrating the past, and anticipating the future. And this really awesome cake!

"Anyone can sing in the light, but it’s those who can whisper a doxology in darkness who are truly grateful."

A Fathers Legacy https://open.substack.com/pub/lukeholmes/p/a-fathers-legacy

This where I post from. Al Capone’s jail cell

This where I post from. Al Capone’s jail cell