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God doesn't need your gifts (to love you). You don't need your gifts (to prove yourself). Your neighbour needs your gifts, so serve.

God gives us Everything (His Son) and then gives us the Appreciation of Everything (His Spirit) 1Cor2:12. All for free. #EnjoyYourDay

'Everything that can be shaken will be removed' but 'underneath are the everlasting arms.' #Perspective

MT "@RichardDawkins: "Something from nothing" sounds absurd? You can't do physics by common sense." Same with theology Richard

Typing "let me Google that for you" into Let Me Google That For You is not as mind-bendingly awesome as I'd imagined http://bit.ly/vXtvlP 

As Word of God Jesus doesn't just keep God's promises, He *is* God's promise to you, earthed forever into your humanity. #EnjoyYourDay

Your Mediator lays one hand on you, one hand on God and He's never letting go. #Job9 #EnjoyYourDay

We'll enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy our crown. Gladness&joy will overtake us & sorrow&sighing will flee away. Is51 #EnjoyYourDay

"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me." Matt 5:11

God doesnt transfer righteousness into my flesh. He transfers me into Christ. I dont /possess/ righteousness, the Righteous One possesses me

For the Christian, yesterday's forgiven, tomorrow's forbidden, today is given. #EnjoyYourDay

Australia will be a while in the cricketing wilderness. But when they re-emerge, this girl will lead the way.

Preachers: Unbelievers are not 'Hercules at the Crossroads', they are 'Lazarus in the Tomb.'

God > Devil ; Christ > Adam ; Spirit > Flesh ; Church > World ; Grace > Sin ; New Creation > Old Creation ; Glory > Suffering. #EnjoyYourDay

There's one pair of feet we never mind washing. Our own. #telling

When our Maker came we deemed Him worthy of death. He died for us anyway praying, "Father, forgive" #EnjoyGoodFriday

Lose an hour, gain eternal life. #EasterTradeOff

Like a needle piercing the black shroud of death, Jesus pulls us, and all creation, thru the cross & out the empty tomb.

"Through God's tender mercy, heaven's Rising Sun has dawned on those living in the shadow of death." (Luke 1:78-79)

In Isaiah, 4 times we are 'the work of God's hands'. Twice Isaiah /describes/ God's hands: They are 'held out to us' & 'cut'. #EnjoyYourDay

Think of Job's suffering. Now think of ch42 where the LORD redeems it *all*. "He is full of compassion & mercy." James5:11 #EnjoyYourDay

A bleeding heart with an iron resolve, a hopeless optimist with a death wish, a human doormat with a Messiah complex. #Jesus

He's God's Son, the Spirit's Anointed and a Man for all men: Jesus, the Mediator, holds *everything* together. 1Tim2:5-6 #EnjoyYourDay

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Classic example of how "Jesus died for you" can come across as "law"! Preachers, especially, take note.

Weeping then joy, anger then favour, mourning then dancing, the pit then the heights Ps30 One morning soon will be The Morning #EnjoyYourDay

Gal2:20 Your "I" (active subject) has been crucified & no longer lives. Your "me" (passive object) is loved and laid hold of. #EnjoyYourDay

"Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God." GK Chesterton

#5LeviticalOfferings: Old life condemned, New offered to God, Guilt cleansed, Recompense made, Peace secured. #ChristHasDoneIt #EnjoyYourDay

"Jesus the Name high over all, in hell or earth or sky. Angels and men before it fall, and devils fear and fly." #EnjoyYourDay

It's not so much that preachers must take their hearers on a journey. Far more they must come to their hearers from an Origin

You cant reverse engineer your gospel from the existence of hell any more than you can reverse engineer your God from the existence of Satan

In Jesus, God's attitude towards you is an almighty and eternal YES. 2 Cor 1:19 #EnjoyYourDay

When life feels beyond u remember it always is. "But this happened that we might not rely on self but God who raises the dead" #EnjoyYourDay

Jesus is God's gracious approach 2u *and* your faithful response 2 God. He's God's Yes & your Amen. 2Cor1:20 #EnjoyYourDay

"If God isn't like Jesus, He ought to be." Lord Byron

God the Son praying to God the Father is not a Denial of God's oneness, it is the perfect Demonstration of God's loving unity.

Feeling lonely and afflicted? The LORD Jesus guards u, rescues u, frees u, confides in u & forgives all your sins. #Psalm25 #EnjoyYourDay

Jesus is not sin's under-writer. He is sin's under-taker. #Romans6

Emma Scrivener's #4Thought Anorexia and her Christian faith http://www.4thought.tv/themes/does-god-really-care-what-we-eat/emma-scrivener … #Stone #Cold #Fox

He's King on high, the Seed to come, 'God with u', yr Sanctuary, heaven's gift, yr Counsellor, God, Father & Prince Isaiah6-9 #EnjoyYourDay

#BritishBible "The leaves of the tea are for the healing of the nations" Anyone wanna join in?

#BritishBible "How the Blighty is fallen"

#BritishBible "Mustn't grumble" (Numbers 14:27)

#BritishBible "Scouting Thomas" pic.twitter.com/dk5fh9lP3B

#BritishBible "That's the Spirit!" (1 John 4:2)

#BritishBible "The guests at the wedding turned their water into whine."

#BritishBible "They shall mount up with wings as eagles... show offs!"

#BritishBible "Blessed are the dour in spirit"

#BritishBible "Their portion shall be the outer darkness, with tutting and huffing and the gritting of teeth."

#BritishBible Acts 8:26: "And an angel of the Lord said unto Philip, 'Pip, Pip, Tally Ho!'"

#BritishBible Acts 8:39 "Toodle Pip"

#BritishBible Last book of the OT: Malarkey

#BritishBible "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Rude sods."

#BritishBible 1 Peter 1:8 "You are filled with an inexpressible joy. And we'd rather you keep it that way."

#BritishBible Rev 8:1 "There was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And no-one knew where to look..."

#BritishBible "...Terry considered making a joke about running out of scrolls but his wife shot him a deadly glare."

#BritishBible "There is now no condemnation, only a vague but gnawing sense of utter shame and worthlessness."

Don't try to 'find your identity', God only chooses 'the things that are not' (1 Cor 1:28).

He's plunged down into our death & burst through into His life. His very being is an offer: to take our death & give His life. #EnjoyYourDay

Loving that the three people who find life in Luke 23 are criminals/murderers: Barabbas, Thief on cross, Centurion.

Preacher: If u decide *b4* prep that ur going 2preach linear points, u've decided in advance that ur not going 2get 2excited abt the Content

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There's nothing more central to God than the Lamb (Rev 7:17)

All hail the Lamb enthroned on high His praise shall b our battle cry He reigns victorious forever glorious His name is Jesus He is the Lord

"Why didnt u come earlier? Why didnt u heal?" Essentially Jesus answers: "I am not the Repairer. I am the Resurrection." #DeathThenLife

Jesus doesn't characterize judgement as "Up or Down". It's "Come or Depart". #JesusDefinesJudgement #TheFutureIsHere

I've heard of Calvinist evangelists who don't offer Christ but "offer the offer." Doesn't that cast the listener as a 'free chooser'?

That salvation is too big for you, Jesus says 'Let me take it'.
That worry is too big for you, the Father says 'Let me take it'.
That job is too big for you, the Spirit says 'Let me take it.' #EnjoyYourDay

Romans 5: Death reigned over us. Now *we* reign *in* life. When the Son sets you free, you are free indeed.

Christ didn't die so that God could love you. Christ died *because* God loved you. Romans 5:8

"Come and die" is not the price of salvation. It is salvation. It's not just free. It's freedom.

Your success at 'sin management' does not define you. Christ does. #Holy #WithoutBlemish #FreeFromAccusation #EnjoyYourDay

Dear Mormon Friends, a true experience of the Spirit does not lead to anxiety over salvation but deep assurance. Romans 8:15

"Faith Alone" is a synonym for "the blood of Christ alone". Unless we're clear on this, it will amount to mystical-works-righteousness.

Finally, I've found it... Biblical warrant for Bible Colleges: 1 Kings 18:13

Sins cleansed, darkness conquered, creation liberated, bodies raised, tears wiped away and Jesus. Face to face, Forever. #EnjoyYourDay

Are Luke4 & Acts2 expositional sermons? Yes they expose Christ as the meaning of the text. Are they verse by verse? Heck no!

U can make a fair theological case 4 'verse-by-verse' but u can't prove verse-by-verse from exposition of the apostles' preaching #telling

God has ensured that the whole world qualifies for salvation. In Adam all possess the prerequisite. We are all sinners. Rom11:32

We think of our needs as weaknesses to be delivered from. Jesus thinks our biggest need is to be needy. Matt18:3

At the British Museum see Babylonians, Persians, Greeks&Romans. At yr local church join the Son of Man's eternal kingdom #Dan7 #EnjoyYourDay

Techniques of proclamation will do little. A /theology/ of proclamation will transform evangelicalism.

Today's the last day u can "kiss the Son" according to NIV.  From now on u must take yr chances w any old son of David

<< The *ridiculous* translation decision of the new NIV over Psalm 2:

Today Benedict XVI stops being infallible and the NIV stops using its 1984 translation.

Whatever needs forgiving is forgiven. Whatever needs fixing will be fixed. Whatever needs facing, Christ faces with us. #EnjoyYourDay

The NHS, a microcosm of an older England: queues, courtesy and the class system.

After the first Adam's "death", he named his woman in the garden. After the Second Adam's death, he named his woman in the garden: "Mary!"

Why suffering? #DeepestAnswer: That we might share in the sufferings of the Son

Good news, you don't need to "find your identity in Jesus"! Christ IS your life :) #Col3

It's not just your sins - *you* have been transferred to Christ. Now you inhabit the realm of the Beloved Son. Col1:13f #EnjoyYourDay

When Jesus came to the Jordan He didn't Judge the failures, He joined them: entering our filth to bring us 2 His Family #Matt3 #EnjoyYourDay

Are you a Christian? Jesus is yours and you are His. Song of Songs 6:3 #EnjoyYourDay

Russell Brand on addiction: treat it as *sickness*, 'the gutter is within', only other addicts can help #DeepWisdom

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Jesus is King... and we're His Bride #howthesentenceshouldend

Some evangelistic strategies seem to be about laying a trail of breadcrumbs. The apostles seem more simply to serve up the Bread.

You won't find gold chasing rainbows. But there's a Golden One who wears the rainbow - Ez1:28 - He's come to find you #EnjoyYourDay

Jesus sailed thru a hurricane to get to Legion (Mark5). He was hurled into the Abyss to rescue u. Same predicament, same love. #EnjoyYourDay

"You know how we all love justice..." = a common way of justifying hell. Perhaps even more important is: "You know how we all hate grace..."

Christ is your clothing (baptism), food & drink (communion). And He's given while you're naked, famished and guilty as hell #EnjoyYourDay

Feeling suitably shriven today? God exalted Jesus to His right hand to *give* you repentance (Acts 5:31) #EnjoyYourDay

In the flesh we are but dust and ashes. By the Spirit-filled King we are crowned with beauty and the oil of gladness (Is61) #EnjoyYourDay

Today, remember you are loved at your very worst, by the very Best. Rom 5:8 #EnjoyYourDay

Life is not a race against the clock. Jesus is Resurrection. Time is not 'running out' - not ultimately. Jn11 #EnjoyYourDay

We think of the Christian life as a ‘changed life’. It's not. It's an ‘exchanged life,’ a ‘substituted life’ & Christ is our Substitute. Nee

“Christianity is not the sacrifice we make, but the sacrifice we trust.” PT Forsyth

We are SEATED with Christ, Eph1-3; WALK by Christ, Eph4-5 & STAND in Christ, Eph6. (Nee) We Never climb. #OnTopOfTheWorld #EnjoyYourDay

Jesus is totally anti-heterosexual. Can you imagine Him telling His disciples "Let your sexual desire be unto the multitude of women"?

God works triumph thru deicide. The disasters of today do not catch Him off guard or knock Him off course. Crisis is His MO #EnjoyYourDay

In evangelism, proclaiming the character of Christ is not a useful technique that establishes His 'authority'. It's kinda the whole point

Present suffering is to future glory as birth-pains are to the joy of new life. Horrifically painful. Totally worth it. #EnjoyYourDay

Through His life, death & resurrection, Christ has taken the wheel of this world, turned on the sat nav & pressed "Home" #EnjoyYourDay

The Word of God spoke in a provincial accent. #grace

Feelings are temperamental fruit. Get in the soil of community, receive the seed of the word, look to the sunshine of Christ's love. Wait.

"Everything goes on as it always has" says the scoffer. "Everything goes on according to the Word, Promise & Patience of God" says 2Peter3.

<< Doesn't this mean that our mechanical (Enlightenment) view of the world is basically the scoffers' view?

God worked a universe out of nothing, He reworked it out of sin, death and curse. I reckon He can do something with you. #EnjoyYourDay

<< But it's worth remembering what you bring to the equation: nothing, sin, death, curse!

Are you a Christian? Luke 15 tells you your standing: weak and welcomed, wretched and robed, stinking and celebrated. #EnjoyYourDay

RU worried about UP? Jesus takes care of heaven. RU worried about LATER? Your Father takes care of tomorrow...

...RU worried about OUT? The Spirit makes our labours fruitful & multiply. UR called to HERE & NOW & THIS. Which is all we ever have anyway

<< by "OUT" I mean our worries about impacting *the world* (as opposed to concentrating on *this thing*).

Jesus is your salvation, your clothing, your food, yr shelter, yr reputation. Now those r taken care of, what do u want 2 do? #EnjoyYourDay

We're not called to keep the status quo, we're called to love. And love always rocks the boat

If u can finish these sentences, u can witness for Jesus: "That's what I love about Jesus/ my church/ Life in a world made by love..."

...Throw in some "I just can't handle /this/ about the world/ my life, can you?" and you're away.

The hypocrites 'bow their heads like a reed' before the LORD (Is 58). But real faith is when the LORD lifts your head (Ps3)

<< The former make a show of humility, but are really proud. The latter walk with head held high, but are truly meek.

Receive each word 'our Light & Momentary Troubles Are Achieving For Us an Eternal Weight of Glory that Far Outweighs them All' #EnjoyYourDay

Fallen Abram mopes around the wilderness, Gen13:3. When he returns 2the altar Then he calls on the Name of the LORD. Dont sulk #run2thecross

The Spirit gave you gifts to make you serve, not to make you superior.

Horrifying article: So What If Abortion Ends Life: "the fetus is indeed a life. A life worth sacrificing"

Your connection with God is Not up to yr prayers or yr piety. It's up to yr Priest. And He ever lives to intercede 4u #EnjoyYourDay

If you want to reboot your life, try holding your nose while depressing your belly-button for 5 seconds. Failing that, try Jesus.

A 60 y.o. who's grown up in evangelical churches told me today = 1st time she's understood how Jesus is the Lamb of God. Preach the basics!

He went for a fist-pump, I went for a handshake. You may say he was the cool one. I say paper beats rock.

It covers, cleanses & cries. It purchases, pacifies, purifies. It sanctifies, slakes, sets free. His blood availed 4 me #EnjoyYourDay

Idols are idle.

Their gods wait while they work. Our God works while we wait. Isaiah 64:4 #idolsareidle

No epistle talks numbers. Size of church = irrelevant 2 the Lord's assessment in Rev 2-3. Why is it 1 of 1st things we mention about a church?

Underneath it's not 'blind, pitiless indifference'. Underneath are the everlasting arms. Deut 33:27 #EnjoyYourDay

#1Sam16: Bad news- u've not been chosen as King. Good news- yr Brother has & He shares His royalty & victory with you #1Sam17 #EnjoyYourDay

#1John1 Pretend righteousness, unconfessed sin, lonely independence = darkness. The Fellowship, Blood & Family of God = light #EnjoyYourDay

God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 1John5:11 #EnjoyYourDay

Tempted to groan under the weight of your "sacrifices"? Don't think sacrifice, think sound investment (Mark 10:29-30) #EnjoyYourDay

For Allah, creation brings relatedness into existence. For the living God, relatedness brings creation into existence.

If u knew Jesus was praying 4u in the next room u'd have confidence 4 today. Distance makes no difference, He's still praying #EnjoyYourDay

A member of Christ, 1 spirit w Him, purchased by His blood, a sharer in His resurrection, a temple of His Holy Spirit #1Cor6 #EnjoyYourDay

Want me to feel my adoption? Tell me of my Father.

Want me to know 'my identity in Christ'? Tell me of *Christ*

The world is not a factory with u pulling the levers. Consider the birds. It's your Father's house, ur His child. #Matthew6 #EnjoyYourDay

You don't avoid legalism by avoiding the law. Push through the death of the law into the resurrection grace of the gospel.

Ironically legalism thrives when you don't bring the full weight of the law to bear. Don't merely wound with the law. Let it kill.

Most Trinitarian Gospel opening? Mark. Jesus intro'd as Christ, Son of God & within 11 verses: the LORD, the Father's Son & Spirit's Anointed

<< If Mark 1 doesn't strike u as Trinitarian ur thinking of Trinity as a theological speciality not the most basic confession of Christ's ID

I love the Issues Etc motto: "It's not about you, it's about Jesus For You." If u miss the last 2 words it becomes about u again!

Some of the proudest people are those who boldly renounce all 4 Jesus. The humblest r those overwhelmed He's given all 4 them

The Angel of the LORD (Christ!) encamps around you to deliver you (Ps 34:7). Nothing gets to u w/o going thru Him first #EnjoyYourDay

My Pentecostal friends may disagree but...

From Eph 1: U have continual blessings (in Christ) or no blessings (outside Him). U don't have 2nd blessings. Unless u have a 2nd Christ?

Does "Britain's oldest man" ever die? Surely he only switches.

Do u a deal: I'll speak purely of God's one-ness from now on if we can all agree we're talking about the oneness of Jesus with His Father.

If you are hidden with Christ in God, He would have to undo His own being to reject you. Col 3:3; 2 Tim 2:13 #EnjoyYourDay

What kind of God is broken apart so the wicked can feast on Him? What kind of God is poured out so you can drink? Your God #EnjoyYourDay

#mistranslatedbooks Victor Hugo's uplifting sequel: Less Miserable

#mistranslatedbooks The Story of a Conurbation by Charles Dickens

#mistranslatedbooks Harper Lee's tale of a Romanian pop duo cut down in their prime: To Kill A Cheeky Girl

#mistranslatedbooks Celsius 232.7, 69060 Miles Under The Sea, Around the World in 11.43 Weeks.

#mistranslatedbooks Mike Horton's seminal: ianity

#mistranslatedbooks Giovanni Arpino's: "Lady Pong" & Kenneth Grahame's "Fart in the Woods"

As Witness He sees yr suffering, as Advocate He sticks up 4u, as Intercessor He prays always, as Friend He sympathises. Job16 #EnjoyYourDay

#Ps146 The LORD reigns. How does He reign? He liberates, restores, lifts, loves & watches over. No other King like Jesus. #EnjoyYourDay

Mary chose the better portion: to BE served by Jesus through His word. Luke 10:42 #EnjoyYourDay

Ps 30:6. Maybe this morning means more weeping 4u. But one morning every tear will be wiped away. And today is another day closer.

It's not the Lord's 'nasty side' that judges, it's His unadulterated goodness.

"Preach the gospel, die and be forgotten." Some Dead Guy

They didn't seek 1st the Kingdom, they fled the King. Yet the King pursued the disciples thru death 2 find them & say "Peace" #EnjoyYourDay

Gently Jesus lets Peter 'begin to sink'. "Immediately" He responds to his cry. #Matthew14 #EnjoyYourDay

We are not saved by our lives but rather saved in our deaths. Robert Farrar Capon

Grace meets us in our sins, not after them. Capon

Jesus came 2 raise the dead not repair the repairable, correct the correctable, improve the improvable. Nothing is all He needs 4 anything. RFC

Biblical expectation of church life is constantly having to bear with each other in our grievances.

The woman by the well calls it a 'shaft' (phrear). Jesus speaks of a 'spring' (pege). Life from nothingness. A Fountain from the Pit.

Preachers: Don't be smart, be smitten. (Capon-ish)

Adam => Christ... Law => Gospel. It's God's way to say No then Yes. Bear that in mind when you pray.

Though He disgusted many, Jesus was never disgusted. He's not ashamed to be your Brother and to bring you to His Father #EnjoyYourDay

#Acts15 Legalism festers at home till the light of the gospel shines abroad. Life-giving mission always exposes life-sapping theology.

Why Christmas? 1 answer: So "He can deal gently with the ignorant & wayward since He Himself is beset with weakness." (Heb5:2) #EnjoyYourDay

If we took our idea of The Judge from the book of Judges what wd we conclude? He's our brother rising up to destroy our enemies & bring rest

God justifies the wicked who, without works, simply trust Jesus. Rom 4:5. Wickedness does not disbar, it qualifies you #EnjoyYourDay

He's the Bread of life, born to be consumed. Why else would you put Him in a feeding trough? #EnjoyYourDay

#MayanChristmasSong Apocalypso Carol

Christians are 8th day people. We always live beyond the old world, beyond the old time-frame.

#christmasremakes Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Baubles

@glenscrivener Tinsel, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, surely? #christmasremakes

@RedDragonStar No I considered and rejected that option on account of it not containing baubles. #christmasremakes

#christmasremakes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Donkey

#christmasremakes Rebel Without A Claus -- I *hate* myself for this one.

#christmasremakes Being John Melchior

#christmasremakes Indiana Jones and the Temple of Gluvine

#christmasremakes When Harry Met Santa

#christmasremakes Close Encounters of the Mulled Wine

#christmasremakes Apocalypse Sprout

Today 'love' is abt finding "one person in particular who will spare us any need for people in general" @alaindebotton

Jesus was not a tourist. He took all we are & then all that belongs to us: sin & wrath included. He's ours: flesh *and* blood #EnjoyYourDay

God in a manger / Defenceless, enfleshed / Immanuel crying / And fighting for breath

God in a manger / Wriggling and raw / Stranded on wood / Enthroned on the straw.

God at Golgotha / Pierced in His flesh / Immanuel crying / And fighting for breath

God at Golgotha / Forsaken and lost / Stranded on wood / Enthroned on the cross

"Santa gives things and then goes away. Jesus shows up to befriend and to stay." Glen Scriviner dsr.gd/UKTR8Z

— John Piper (@JohnPiper) December 24, 2012

There's no higher view of humanity than the Word become flesh. Have a very carnal Christmas ;)

What's more dangerous, the gun or the myth that a gun-owner is part of the *solution* to violence? @NRA

.@NRA At the 1st Christmas, Jesus showed up 2 a genocide unarmed. He's the place where the violence ends & His people are to follow

"The Life has appeared. We have seen it & proclaim 2u the eternal life which was with the Father." 1John1 #EnjoyYourDay #HappyChristmas

Nice little update of the nativity from today's Guardian: here

In the battle between Light and darkness, the Light has arrived. No contest! #EnjoyYourDay

“I've seen the misery of my people, heard their cries & am concerned 4 their suffering so I've come down 2 rescue them" Ex3 #EnjoyYourDay

ET's last word to Drew Barrymore was law: "Be Good!" No wonder she went off the rails. #ET

The sevenfold promise of the LORD to His enslaved people: "I will bring u out from under the yoke, I will free u, I will redeem u...

...I will take u as my own people & I will be yr God. I will bring u2 the promised land, I will give it 2u as a possession." Ex6 #EnjoyYourDay

The bible doesn't say "Fall" it says Death, Curse, Exile. "Fall" is in grave danger of dualism. "East of Eden" tells a different story.

Just gorgeous: What Are You Doing New Years Eve? by Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-L...:

Turning over a new leaf? Ur 2000 years too late. A whole new world born from the virgin womb & virgin tomb: yours 4 free #EnjoyYourDay

So the answer to locating change in your one-off resolutions is to locate it in your ongoing resolutions? http://paultrippministries.org/new-years-resolutions … @PaulTripp

No need for you to make a beginning. Christ is "the Beginning" (Col 1:18). In Him all things are forever new. #EnjoyYourYear

No need to dwell on 2012. And nothing to prove in 2013. #EnjoyYourYear

It's a New Year but @mike_reeves is banging the same old 'Trinity' drum http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/december/three-is-loveliest-number.html?paging=off …

It's the one thing we must do now that we cannot do in eternity: Suffer bogus motivations towards mission

<< Witness to Christ is part and parcel of eternal life. Living it now is heavenly. It's the shape of God, His Word, His Life, His people.

Rejoice Gok, Rejoice! For She has an hourglass figure and You have A Belt! #EveryGokWanShow

Because of resurrection, the worst thing is never the last thing.#EnjoyYourDay

Preachers tell me my no. 1 problem is self-rule but, gotta say, I experience it as slavery & self-sabotage, how bout u? LINK

'This is the love of the cross... which does not find good but confers good upon the bad.' Luther. The cross crucifies a theology of glory

Job 19: Not a Replacer, a Redeemer. Not in the clouds, on earth. Not as spirit, in my flesh: "I will see Him." #EnjoyYourDay

Saved from slavery, enduring a wilderness time of trial, headed for the land of promise. @danhames nails it HERE

Here's a tip guaranteed to add 30% to any metric of success... Get the figure from An Evangelist

WARNING: In this episode of "Tweets" I occasionally attempt Being Funny.

UPDATE: Apparently this cartoon's doctored from the original here.
Sorry Kris Straub, I was an unwitting participant.  Here's his original:

You can't undo the past but Jesus has covered it and is now transforming the mess. It really is onwards and upwards #EnjoyYourDay

Eph 1:18-23 - The power of His resurrection is in you, the purpose of His resurrection is for you #EnjoyYourDay

"I want in on Jesus" <-- said to a mate in a Sheffield pub tonight. So they prayed there and then! #praiseJesus

"Whoops!" "Never thought of that!" "My hands are tied" "It's beyond fixing"<- words u won't hear from yr Father. #EnjoyYourDay

The gospel is not education for the religious, it's salvation for sinners. If we believed that, how would we preach?

God's love, which is completely yours in Jesus, is Forever, Fatherly and Forgiving: Psalm 103 #EnjoyYourDay

He didn't rescue u *so* He could delight in u. He delighted in u & so rescued u. Ps 18. U've been loved at yr worst. #EnjoyYourDay

'Who'd be a king when you can be a preacher!?' Spurgeon-ish

#TestimonyOverheard Me to Chaplain "Come to Christ? But I'm Anglican!" Chaplain: "U'd make a much better Anglican if u knew Jesus as Lord!"

"Rejoice Always!" And Paul means it. Just remember in the same letter he wishes he was dead & craves fellowship *in* suffering. #AllTrue

Jesus hasn't made safe passage for us back to heaven. He's made treacherous passage for Himself down to earth. #Christmas #EnjoyYourDay

The pressure's off: you don't need to be right. In fact it's pretty important that you're wrong. Tell God and #enjoyyourday

Christ has married us, redeemed us from every evil and adordned us with all His goodness. #Luther #EnjoyYourDay

How does that Isaiah 9 song go? "And the government shall be upon my shoulders." No, it's all on the Prince of Peace. #EnjoyYourDay

When theologians of glory complain vs election they prove their need 4 it. They clearly dont *will* God 2b God & need 2b freed! Forde-ish

Since God draws near in the Christ-child, ask yourself What does a baby want from u? Except that u come near yrself? #EnjoyYourDay

Christ doesn't simply end suffering, He enters it.

kingsenglish.info  is now rapture ready. If I'm beamed up between now & new years the heathen will have daily scheduled posts 2 think upon

Something tells me this "Street Compliments" project wouldn't work so well in England...  Very cool though.

New word for you: #Sanctumcision. It's when teaching on 'sanctification' becomes Galatian heresy. You're welcome.

"But we had hoped..." (Luke 24:13-35) What have you hoped in? It will be transformed and more than restored by the risen Jesus #EnjoyYourDay

A clever and sophisticated phrase to use in your evangelism: "I think you should become a Christian." #TryIt

Christians are groaners but not grumblers. Romans 8:23-25

Not just net gainers. Even our grtst suffering redeemed 2 grter glory: More than conquerors thru Him who loved us! #EnjoyYourDay

Adam/Christ = Curse/Blessing = Old/New = Judgement/Salvation = Now/Not-Yet = Flesh/Spirit

Instructions for Evangelist: Open your Bible. Point to Jesus. Offer Him Freely. Repeat As Necessary.

He's the Future & Fulness of the world. He's the Future & Fulness of God. If you have Jesus you have Everything. #EnjoyYourDay

"To be a receiver, to believe that the gift is complete, is to be right with God." Gerhard Forde >>

<< Therefore if we offer a "gift" that needs completing (by the sinner's response) we turn gospel into law, evangel-ism into legal-ism

"Self-esteem - the current circumlocution for pride" Gerhard Forde

Moralists use the law as a defence against God.

"This far and no further" is both God's command to the unruly and the Rule-y's command to God.

God is pulling all things through the cross and out the empty tomb

Bt the Spirit of the Son you have a new spiritual heart-beat: Abba, Father... Abba, Father... Abba, Father... (Gal 4:6) #EnjoyYourDay

Being Trinitarian is about confessing Christ faithfully. He is the Spirit-filled Son. >>

<<If we're failing to preach trinitarianly it's not cos we need PhDs in systematics, it's cos we're simply not articulating Christ properly.

Christians are God's possession. There Might be a hostile takeover. But only if they can outbid the blood of God- Acts 20:28

Sunday school, kids songs & evangelistic outlines lay the foundations. If they're wrong, preachers have a LOT of work to do!

"I don't know who God is anymore..." could be a very promising deconversion. It might just be the 1st step towards true faith

God is Joy - Ps 45:7; John 15:11; 1 Tim 1:11. #EnjoyYourDay

A love story without forgiveness is a tragedy not a comedy. Just seen #CrazyStupidLove

#CrazyStupidLove does catastrophe far better than eucatastrophe. All because no-one can really bring themselves to forgive.

"Our culture is so far back from the gospel we can't just preach Christ"? No! For this very reason we must simply preach Christ.

Planning Christmas sermons? Why not revisit the most sublime theology of Christmas ever penned. Begin here.