Christian, Husband, Father, Lead Pastor at Holdenville FBC, OSU Cowboy, @MBTS Alum, love The Church, enjoy preaching and studying
Holdenville, OK
Joined February 2012
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Question for @between2worlds: how different are Crossway’s and Baker’s book on Justification by Faith Alone from Sproul? Is Crossway’s almost an abridged version of Baker’s? Are both worth owning? Thanks!
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Yes, yes, yes! This! 👇🏼
What’s the “secret” to reaching students?
There is no “secret”. But there is a constant strategy. The strategy is to do what has worked for 2,000 years.
•Be Spirit-led. (The Holy Spirit in you knows how to reach students. Let Him lead.)
•Share the Gospel. (The same Gospel what has saved students for 2000 years, still saves students today.)
•Stick to the Bible. (The Bible is always relevant. It’s not a history book, it’s a Living Book that is always the answer.)
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Psalm 12 offers a timely warning for us today. Be careful with your tongue, with your speech. The Lords words are pure and refined. May we reflect him.
“The wicked prowl on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.” Psalm 12:8
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@lukeholmes @griffingulledge @keahbone you brothers or anyone else know where I can go watch the #SBC22 Livestream archive videos? I wanna catch up on what I missed since I was serving @SuperSummerOK last week.
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Thinking about Advent Peace:
Jesus comes to us in the present and offers overwhelming peace which disarms the sins of our past and gives us a future which culminates in hope realized in the eternal presence of the Father, Son, and Spirit.
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Grateful for the past 2 days with @OKBaptists. However, I'm grieved that a subset of pastors would vocally push their own amended resolution and then immediately leave, abandoning corporate worship through song and the faithful preaching of God's word. That's discord, not unity!
This is why @stevenfurtick is dangerous. This is motivational speaking NOT biblical preaching. It is not just "off" it is wrong and false!
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." 2 Cor 5:17
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Again, a great thread here from @R_Denhollander addressing the insurance objection to the #sbcec waiving privilege. Anyone following this issue needs to read this.
This is accurate. We've raised this reality publicly and privately.
Here's the truth: there are a LOT of ways you can forfeit the right to insurance coverage, some of which may already apply and have arguably voided coverage *anyway*.
*thread*
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This is a perspective and understanding that many of our #SBCEC leaders need, not just the one on the zoom call @R_Denhollander quotes. Thank you for your perspective Rachel!
Dear EC member who answered the asked question "how much is a little girl worth?" By saying "worth having insurance proceeds to pay her", please hear my heart -
If you are going to speak those words, first ask those little girls and boys what they care about the most:
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Here's what the @SBCExecComm debate comes down to:
@SBCExecComm: if we waive privilege the #sbc might face legal and financial ruin.
SBC Messengers: if the @SBCExecComm doesn't waive privilege the #sbc will face spiritual, reputational, and financial ruin.
#sbcexeccomm
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SBC pastor here, I watched all the Sept open sessions. @SBCExecComm, if the Bible is our sole authority in all matters of faith and practice then your "fiduciary responsibility" must be overturned by your biblical responsibility! "Do justice, love kindness..." Micah 6:8
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The SBC does not need the @SBCExecComm as it's protector. Our missionaries don't need you to protect them. Our seminaries don't need you to protect them. God can do, and will do, a better job of protecting our entities than you can - He is able!
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A gift in the sense that it reveals what's broken in us. Jesus alone can fix it. Trust him to do so, treasure him above all else!
2020 is a gift from God.
This year's trials have magnified what's buried deep inside each of us: Fear, anxiety, bitterness, anger, stubbornness, faithlessness, etc.
Whatever was hiding below the surface is now coming out.
2020 is a year of testing; let it drive you to Christ!
#truth A brief but powerful statement!
Politics is an evil seductress of the Body of Christ. It promises power and the ability to save society and change people's hearts without preaching the Gospel and making Disciples.
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Today Christians do NOT gather AT church, we gather together WITH the church. The sign out front of a particular building (maybe with a steeple) that reads "...Church" signifies NOT the building but the people that assemble there!
Gather and worship the Risen Christ!
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“If you ask, ‘Why is this happening?’ no light may come, but if you ask, ‘How am I to glorify God now?’ there will always be an answer.”
“Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.”
-J.I. Packer
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