To grow spiritually, we must expand our love and care for others and not limit it to our family or preferred tribe.

If you want God to assign you much, be diligent to be faithful when given little.

In light of the ministerial failures we see time and time again, Dr. Neil Stewart shares a sobering warning for pastors. He recounts a story that Jonathan Gibson shared when he was in seminary. The professor walked up to the board and wrote: "character, reputation, usefulness, the love of your wife, the respect of your children, your legacy." Then the professor said, "many men will trade all that for 5 mins with a wh*re." And you could have heard a pin drop in the room.

You and your Bible – that’s IT… Why would that be a problem?? Sola Scriptura doesn’t mean isolation. @michaeljkruger with @ReformTheoSem and @TGC walks through the importance of the community and tradition around reading the Bible, and that it matters how we position ourselves in light of a Church that is thousands of years old. One of the greatest dangers in misinterpretation is actually towards individualism. Full video is out now on YouTube – available for watch here youtu.be/vOtMTh0pxAU?si=D_zz… #Bible #Scripture #SolaScriptura #evidence #truth #history #God

Lou Holtz turned around 4 programs within 2-3 years using the same 5 rules. • Arkansas: 5-5-1 to 11-1. • Notre Dame: 5-6 to 12-0. • South Carolina: 0-11 to 8-4. Not with new talent or more money - just 5 rules. Simple, repeatable, and powerful. (📌Bookmark this)

Your relationship with God is like a garden that needs to be well tended. Pull the weeds, nurture the fruit, resist intruders.

Worrying serves no purpose; it changes nothing, disturbs the peace of the mind, and steals the joy of the present moment. Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Four Signs You're a Mentally Weak Man 1: You are easily offended 2: You can't control your anger 3: You can't handle criticism 4: You can't handle adversity My latest essay dmichaelclary.com/p/four-sig…

“My father always used to say, don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.” — Desmond Tutu

Many people assume that learning a language is 25% perspiration (hard work) and 75% inspiration (being naturally good at languages). In reality, it’s 25% perspiration and 75% *strategy.* Everyone is capable of learning languages (just look at the one you’re reading now!), though it certainly comes more easily to some. But most don’t understand the mechanics of how to learn a language. They just start doing vocab flashcards and ploughing through a grammar textbook – hoping their hard work will pay off. But it probably won’t. Forgetting the eggs when baking a cake makes a dense, doughy mess. So goes it for language learning. If you don’t have the right mix of ingredients in your learning process, you likely won’t get fluent (or it will take a lot more time and struggle.) Enter, the "four strands" of language learning. This is a framework developed by Paul Nation, a leading scholar in the field of second language acquisition. The four strands are: 1. Meaning-focused input When reading or listening to your target language, you should not be thinking about the language. You should be thinking about the meaning that’s being communicated. This means you should know 95-98% of the words in the text or audio you’re consuming. It must be comprehensible - and you shouldn’t have to constantly look up words. 2. Meaning-focused output Passive consumption of language material can only get you so far. Actively using the language through speaking and writing requires greater depth of processing, so engaging in this skill commits the language to long-term memory more efficiently. 3. Language-focused learning This is where you focus on learning particular features of the language. Any activity where you are focused on the language itself rather than the meaning being communicated by the language falls into this bucket. Many language courses over-emphasize this strand at the expense of the others. 4. Fluency development Developing fluency is all about going fast, so fluency drills should always involve texts where you know 100% of the vocabulary and are comfortable with the grammatical constructions. That way, you can push yourself to comprehend the material quicker and quicker on each run-through until your brain is able to use the language quickly and automatically. __________________ These are the four key ingredients – the four types of language-learning activities – that are essential to developing fluency. Activities in each strand should take up about one-fourth of the total time spent in learning a language. The amount of time given to each strand may vary depending on the goal of the student, but the more time you put into each strand, the better you will be at that strand.

Theology 101: Love without truth is fruitless; truth without love is heartless.

"How magnificent are your works, Lord, how profound your thoughts!" (Ps. 92:5).

Did we get the names of the Gospels wrong??? The original title of the Gospels actually recommends interaction with other accounts of Jesus! Professor with @ReformTheoSem and New Testament scholar @michaeljkruger talks through what we know about the early Gospel manuscripts, and that the authors expressed how their individual narrative accounts – even in name – pointed to ONE Gospel message. There was meant to be more than one account of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection! Full conversation with Michael is out now on YouTube – you can check it out here: youtu.be/WD4gn6iNZTI?si=TmsM… #Bible #scripture #evidence #truth #history #God

Kon Knueppel went home recently and gathered with his brothers, the “Knueppel Five,” and played some pickup hoops on their driveway, the “Konplex” What it’s all about. 🔥🙌 (via @CBS58, h/t @HornetsReddit)

Theology 101: Both walking on water and walking in righteousness require the enabling power of God. The moment you forget that, you’re sunk.

Jesus can bring calm to a heart even when nothing around you has changed yet.