Tweets of The Week 5.18.13

For the second week in a row, I offer you “Tweets of The Week.” Kind of like a #FollowFriday, I offer you the tweets I liked the most from the various people I follow on Twitter. Without further delay, here they are:

Gave a guy’s car a jump at the store and some random stranger comes up just to make fun of my cables. It was like blog comments in real life

— jaredcwilson (@jaredcwilson) May 11, 2013

Why You Aren’t Benefitting From Sermons j.mp/13OXnCn

— J.A. Medders (@mrmedders) May 12, 2013

The Holy Spirit is not a performance-enhancing drug for Olympic Christians. He is essential to any real Christianity.

— Ray Ortlund (@rayortlund) May 13, 2013

If sin still lives inside us and the work of grace is not complete within us, then we are people in constant need of divine help.

— Paul David Tripp (@PaulTripp) May 14, 2013

John Piper and Mark Driscoll Talked Me Off the Bridge ow.ly/l3ZaI

— jaredcwilson (@jaredcwilson) May 15, 2013

Theology is the art of persuading people of the wisdom and goodness of God so that they can better understand themselves and God.

— JT English (@jt_english) May 15, 2013

Moses = Mini-Israel = Jesus (Or, The Bible is Kinda Like Inception Sometimes) wp.me/p2DWnH-13p

— Derek Rishmawy (@DZRishmawy) May 15, 2013

Sometimes I need to learn more theology. Other times I need to believe the theology I already know.

— Zachary Lee (@zacharytlee) May 16, 2013

The gospel makes us good at theological-one-downmanship, that is, choosing to humble ourselves rather than criticize others

— Scotty Smith (@ScottyWardSmith) May 16, 2013

Grace enables you to obey, but never uses your obedience as a condition for your relationship with God.

— Paul David Tripp (@PaulTripp) May 16, 2013

Don’t confuse emotional highs with worship. It is not a feeling but a lifestyle. Real worship is tested during emotional lows.

— Lisa Robinson (@theochick) May 18, 2013