Over the last two weeks on the Ask Pastor John
podcast we talked a lot about social media, about goals for Twitter and
fasting from Facebook. Pastor John also addressed creativity in
communication, and the meaning and importance of Easter. We talked about
the value of Bible commentaries written by women, a practical
suggestion for battling lust, and how our works exceed the works of
Jesus.
What follows is a list of episodes, along with quotes pulled from each recording. Click on the titles to listen.
Jesus really is striking. Jesus really is amazing. Jesus really is worthy of the most wonderful — or the most surprising — ways of describing him truly. And the Holy Spirit regularly honors that effort by opening the eyes of the blind to see a truly-described Jesus.
We are sinners, which means we are spring-loaded to turn gifts into alternatives to God. And so what does God do? In this age between our fall and our perfection at the second coming, he uses pleasure and pain to provide us with revelations of his goodness and to protect us from loving substitutes.
The reason for saying, “I don’t permit a woman to teach or have authority over men” (1 Timothy 2:12), is not because she’s incompetent. It is not because she can’t have thoughts. In fact, the women in our church, and the woman you are married to, have many thoughts that you would do well to note and learn and learn from. And so the issue there is not she doesn’t have thoughts, the issue is how manhood and womanhood works. Continue at Tony Reinke
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