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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · 16d

Jesus loves you, me, & everyone else. Wouldn’t it be great if we lived like we really believe that.

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Addicted to Controversy: A Confession and a Cure

Here's what happened when I stopped consuming conflict.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Sep 7

Listen to this.

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A New Creed for Today: Nicene Faith Meets Biblical Theology

YouTube video by Early Christian History with Michael Bird

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · May 14

What if recovering the voices of early Christian women isn’t just about history—it’s about the future of the Church?
This course explores the stories of Phoebe, Junia, Priscilla, and others who led, taught, and shaped the early church—often in ways we’ve forgotten or ignored.

Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · May 14

🎉 Now Streaming on @SeminaryNow! 🎉

WOMEN LEADERS IN THE EARLY CHURCH
A new video course from @nijaykgupta.bsky.social

Watch the trailer and subscribe to watch: seminarynow.co/women-leaders-sn

#SeminaryNow #NijayGupta #WomenInScripture #ChurchLeadership

Women Leaders | Video Curriculum | Nijay Gupta

In this course, Dr. Nijay Gupta delves into the often-overlooked stories of women leaders in the early church.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Apr 22

If Jesus is risen, then your business is the kingdom and the kingdom calls us to busyness.
If Jesus is risen, then do hard things for God, crazy things, risky things, redemptive things, things which will carry over into the new creation.”

Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Apr 22

“If Jesus is risen, then put your faith where your fear is.
If Jesus is risen, then nourish his body the church, with your love, your time, your money, your service, your encouragement, and beautify his bride for the great wedding feast.

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Christ is Risen! So What Next?

Alleluia, Christ is risen!

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Scot McKnight @scotmcknight.bsky.social · Apr 20

Christos anesti!

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The Gospel for Easter

From The Second Testament, Luke 24:1-12

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Apr 20

Χριστός ανέστη!

Christus resurrexit!

Christ is risen!

Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not the comfortable Jesus that doesn’t demand anything of me but the one who bids me to take up my cross.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Mar 26

pursuing the true Christ to the end of my days. By God’s grace, may I do it! For the only comfort I need in life and in death is the knowledge that I belong to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.”

This is an excellent reminder (the whole article, not just the quote) of our call to follow Jesus.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Mar 26

“The task for me is to be a follower of Christ rather than an admirer. I must not paint for myself a comfortable Christ and say to him, “Lord! Lord!” I must do justice and righteousness unto the least of these, accepting the cross of suffering,
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A Comfortable Christ

The constant struggle for Christians is to look upon Christ as he really is.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Mar 22

It means that just as you are, as a child of God’s kingdom, focused on wanting to do right more than anything else, you already possess a kind of completion.

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Longing to Be and Do Good?

You are blessed precisely in your current state of being.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Mar 21

Amen and amen!

Christianity Today @christianitytoday.com · Mar 21

“Too often, Christians are known for rampant stubbornness and intellectual pride. In our well-intentioned pursuit of faithfulness, we have left behind something essential to the Christian life: deep humility, which requires a certain kind of open-mindedness.”

Firm Faith Doesn’t Require a Closed Mind - Christianity Today

Christians should be known for embodying the virtues of curiosity and epistemic humility.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Mar 10

Can wait to get this and read it with my kids during our nightly Bible study. Thanks for writing this @esaumccaulley.bsky.social

Esau McCaulley @esaumccaulley.bsky.social · Mar 9

Can I share some news with you all about upcoming kid's book?
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God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible: The Story of God’s Big Diverse Family

God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible: The Story of God’s Big Diverse Family [McCaulley, Esau, Coelho, Rogério] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. God’s Colorful Kingdom Storybook Bible: The Story of God’s Big Diverse Family

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Mar 6

True of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, or anywhere else we go for opinions and information!

“If … their hearts resonated more with Fox News then with Jesus, I had failed to accurately portray Jesus as our example, authority, and only King.

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I Have Decided

Jeff Mikels, a former pastor in Indiana and the author of an interesting book, is owning up to complicity and failure to disciple his church in a theopolitical discipleship that conforms to the kingdo...

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Feb 26

The church is sent into that broken world to join God in His redemptive work to save that broken world. The church is called and empowered to fix what’s wrong in our world. In our history, the church was at its best when it was taken on the real problems around them.

Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Feb 26

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“Church is more than attendance. It’s more than a place we sometimes go to talk about God. The church is God’s redemptive agent in the world. We live in a broken world.

The Whole Enchilada

By Mike Glenn

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Christianity Today @christianitytoday.com · Feb 19

“We don’t have specific instructions about how to apply [biblical commands about caring for strangers] on a national scale in a secular country, but the thrust is clear: Work on it!” writes Marvin Olasky.

The Risk in Immigration Reporting - Christianity Today

On high-stakes, high-interest issues like border policy, journalists of all views may be tempted to distort the facts or even biblical truth. Christians should hold to a higher standard.

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Esau McCaulley @esaumccaulley.bsky.social · Feb 16

One of the things that marked out the early Christians and led to their persecution was their refusal to participate in the imperial cult, most especially refusing to worship the emperor and his family often at great personal, financial, and social cost.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Dec 3

Not because entrance into heaven is a theological exam that requires a score above 60% or you fall through a trap door into hell. No—nothing like those silly religious superstitions. Rather, clarity is meant to lead to a God-bathed life.”

Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Dec 3

“Discipleship is more than thinking about the Trinitarian God, but following Jesus must include it. We want our thinking and reflection about God to be as accurate and true as possible. Why?

The Underrated Power of Theological Reflection

We cannot stop seeking to make sense of life through scripture—even if we are tired of, or wounded by, previous approaches to the Bible.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Oct 31

Jesus wants followers and not fans. We can sometimes be committed to discipleship only to the point of convenience. - Mike Bird

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Oct 27

Romans 8:28 is not as much a verse of comfort in all circumstances, but a call to join in God’s work to set the world right.

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Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Aug 23

No, we are meant to have our own part in the mission of God. We are meant to be making disciples of all nations. We are meant to be building up people in the most Holy Faith. We are meant to be continuing that thing of being salt and light in the world.”

#JesusLovesYou #GodsMission #LovePeople

Patrick Jones @npatrickjones.bsky.social · Aug 23

is proclaimed and realized here and now.

I like how Mike Bird puts it:
“What’s our mission in the world today? Are we just content to sit around and get on with things waiting for the Lord Jesus to come back, waiting for Christianity to decline? What do we do?

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