Praise for Stories podcast
I want to commend you on the excellent job you are doing with the Stories podcast.
When I listened to Season 2, episode 3, titled “Walking in Reconciliation,” I found the episode deeply moving and so encouraging to hear of what God is doing through these two congregations in Montgomery.
I’ve shared the podcast with others and am so proud that you are telling these type of stories full of pain, hurt, sin, forgiveness and progress.
Know that I’m grateful for the fine work that you are doing. You are telling important stories of God at work in a most excellent way.
Pastor David Eldridge
Dawson Memorial Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala.
5 daily questions for you
Five questions to ask yourself daily as suggested by Valleydale Church in Birmingham
(valleydale.org)
- Am I spending time with God daily? I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)
- Am I living what I’m learning? But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. (James 1:22)
- Am I sharing Jesus regularly? For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (Rom. 1:16)
- Am I sacrificing for the Kingdom? For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matt. 6:21)
- Am I spiritually investing in others? A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34–35)
If Christians would spend less time harassing each other and more time helping other people, more people would want to become Christians.
Steve Gaines, pastor
Bellevue Baptist Church, Cordova, Tennessee
If cable news is keeping you from unity with your brothers and sisters in Christ, turn it off, unplug it, unsubscribe from it, and prioritize your church over cable.
Ed Stetzer, Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College
“Cooperation will die in a culture where public shaming thrives.”
Amy Whitfield, Executive director of communications
The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina
The ancient Greeks thought that helping others further developed one’s own soul.
The Romans thought that helping others made for a good conscience.
The Egyptians thought that helping others should be geared toward their physical condition.
The Jews thought that helping others contributed to justice and responsibility.
The Christian faith states that helping others is an ethic of love for someone and is a response to God’s love for us.
Morris Murray Jr.
Jasper, Alabama
“When the pandemic started, I prayed for a better day tomorrow.
Now I realize all days are good. They are ‘His’ days. They are filled with opportunities, challenges and blessings; each one is a gift in its own way.”
Michael Garman, pastor
Eastridge Baptist Church, Amarillo, Texas
Story in The Baptist Paper
If Scripture doesn’t support your beliefs about God, then you need to change your beliefs.
Shane Pruitt
North American Mission Board
Orthodoxy entails right thinking about the gospel. Orthopraxy involves right living in response to the gospel. The former is always first and foundational. You must believe rightly before you live rightly.
Danny Akin, president
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
You will shame exactly zero people into better behavior. But you can turn them away.
Dan Darling, Senior VP of Communications
National Religious Broadcasters
From the Twitterverse
@GaryFenton07
“Let’s have a quick prayer before we start the meeting.” Perhaps if we take our time in prayer, we could then have a quick meeting.
@MattSmethurst
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me. —Robert Murray M’Cheyne
@JoWiKi
Building a following. Building a platform. Building a name. It’s all pointless and like grasping at vapor. It seems to matter but it really doesn’t. Says the preacher, to preachers.
@haines_matt
The problem of the human heart is usually not that it doesn’t know what’s right in God’s eyes. The problem of the human heart is that it usually cares more about something else than what is right in God’s eyes.
@CSLewisDaily
“Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’” —C.S. Lewis
@TimothyLynch23
We need to get back to truth in love. A lot of people on Twitter battling for truth but have no love, and others seeking love but not based on truth. It is not either/or it must be a both/and.
@greglaurie
If you’re a true Christian, then you’re truly countercultural. Today the cultural norm is upside down. The things that we once saw as virtues are now vices. The things we once celebrated are now mocked. And the things that we once said were bad are now declared good.
@ronniep
Pray for pastors as they re-enter the mask or no mask arena. Many suffered through round 1, while others didn’t make it. Now, as many are trying to navigate through the vax debate, here we are w/more mask guidelines that will be highly politicized. Pray for your pastor.
@david_bumg
You know what the Bible “whispers” about? Policing other people’s theology. Do you know what the Bible shouts about? What God has done for sinners in Jesus Christ! Some of y’all need new hobbies.
@brocraigc
“The true purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.” —R.A. Torrey
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