thenerdychristian

08/11/2023

In my own life, I find that when my life most lacks discipline, depression is often around the corner.

Choose the life you want (including your faith life) and seize it with habits of discipline. The life you want will not simply happen to you.

08/11/2023

Okay, so comes from an Italian Catholic background, but is now Reformed.

, on the other hand, grew up among Protestants who often believed Catholics weren't even Christian, yet now finds some unique value and things to learn from through our Catholic brothers and sisters (and he's not quite Reformed, either).

Join us friends for a livestream as we discuss!

07/11/2023

Anger is a fire. It will burn you up if you don't control it, while it can be a useful tool if contained.

Be careful with anger out there, y'all.

04/11/2023

Today or tomorrow, pay someone a compliment. 😊

Such an easy way to add happiness to the world.

03/11/2023

Let's see more of this. 😊

02/11/2023

This one's for the real OG LOTR nerds. 😎🤓

30/10/2023

This one is for you leaders out there.

Thoughts?

Primary source: Christianity Today

27/10/2023

This is from an interaction I was having with an ardent atheist on my Threads page over the last couple of days.

Wanted to share here, because I think this correction to the line of thinking leads somewhere important.

Very few people who ask why God allows humans to engage in genocide, racism, war, etc. ever ask themselves why God allows them to engage in their own sins and vices.

It's when we realize that "if we want God's good Lordship in this world, it starts with our own lives and our own WILLING submission to Him," that we can truly come to know Him and do His Kingdom work.

Just some thoughts.

26/10/2023

Have you felt this, too, in the last year or so?

Something's up. And I'm all about it.

25/10/2023

Thoughts?

23/10/2023

I am super stoked to hear from you guys on this.

Just kind of thinking out loud here. Curious to hear y'all's thoughts on stuff like this.

23/10/2023

I don't love this topic, or even putting too much time towards discussing it, as I honestly find the conversation to be useless in most instances due to few listening ears and many entrenched thoughts and misconceptions.

But I figure you all deserve to hear a minor exploration of my thoughts on the topic and have an opportunity to ask Qs about how I make sense of certain passages as a non-Calvinist, so here you are!

Be there or be square!

22/10/2023

If you enjoy party games, check out .

You can get the game at the link in my bio! 🔗 Looking forward to seeing where this thing goes!

20/10/2023

Most of my comments for the past few days have been people arguing in comments about predestination, women teaching, and a handful of other small topics.

All this on days-old posts, too. 🤦🏼‍♂️

People have been talking back and forth for like a whole week, without even actually listening to anyone in the thread, and for what?

Some good arguments have even been made, but for what? Like, what's the goal here?

I say this 'cause today I myself received a notification of a comment, I disagreed with it strongly, and my first impulse was to respond, but then very quickly felt the Holy Spirit say, "Nah, don't sink the time."

Sometimes, those conversations matter and should happen. But if we talk minor and non-salvific doctrine more often than we talk (or act out) the Gospel, we have a problem.

18/10/2023

Some morning thoughts.

Btw, I've been guilty of this momentarily at many points in my life as a Christian also.

I want to emphasize: the key for the Christian is our point of return. Do we drift from Christ's Lordship and return to it, or is it absent altogether?

14/10/2023

Me when my wife beats me at .

Just might have to rethink my life choices if I lose when this thing arrives in the mail. 😆

You can get the game, too, at the link in my bio! 🔗 Seems like a fun one to me!

11/10/2023

I will put the link to the report from Channel 4 News in my story. It highlights the incredible toll of absolutely evil and brokeness experienced by many.

I encourage you to turn it on during work, a drive, while cooking dinner – just sometime today or tomorrow and listen.

You will probably hear some things you were aware of. You will certainly hear other things you were not aware of.

I think this will be the last bit I touch on this over the coming days because I don't want to overburden you all with grief.

I understand it can be hard to see and hear so much about the evil that has occurred in the last week.

Just remember, those of us safe at home can choose to turn it off, to not listen, to ignore it, and go back to blissful ignorance.

Millions of others this week cannot. Even if you need to stop listening for some time just for your mental health (secondhand trauma is real), don't stop praying and interceding.

Cry out daily for the innocents and for those broken hearts in the region where our Christ once walked.

10/10/2023

It is wise to equip ourselves with knowledge in the face of tragic times.

Without all the facts, we are easily manipulated by smooth talkers and ill-intentioned powers. Don't be manipulated. Be an informed, wise, and discerning follower of Christ.

This is why I say both to pray for Israel AND for the people of Gaza. There are many layers of victims here at the hands of a horrific evil.

09/10/2023

I'm ready for the unfollows from this one... 😬 But the work of reconciliation is what Christ calls us to.

May we Christians be reconcilers, even in the face of massive pain, suffering, and evil.

Don't miss the Isaiah 6 excerpt at the end. God's words are way more important than mine. The real hope and aspiration we have is in those.

Also, take a listen to the music I put as the background here. The full song by is a truly beautiful reminder.

Peace and blessing, friends. Pray today. Cry out for those who are too wracked with pain to even speak. 🙏

02/10/2023

Don't miss this livestream! Might get a bit interesting...haha

22/09/2023

I think a lot of Christians add to Scripture or remove certain parts for all sorts of reasons.

I just find it particularly ironic when people who talk about how Progressive Christians don't respect God's Word end up twisting, ignoring, and/or adding to Scripture themselves to justify extra laws they find important/valuable.

Paul himself said it's good to abstain from wine (or meat even) if your consumption makes your fellow Christian stumble (Romans 14:21), but that obviously presupposes that it's okay otherwise.

Plenty of other Scripture to share on the topic, but the point of this post is chiefly to say, "Don't add to God's Word. Don't subtract from God's Word. And flee from those who do either."

21/09/2023

Aight ladies and gents, how often for you?

Knowing I'm a nerd, my wife asked me the Q last week before this was as big of a thing. Hahah. Figured it might be fun to share our text exchange about it.

18/09/2023

This week will truly be a "Week in Review," as we'll mostly be touching on some comments/responses to posts and ending with a word from thoughts I was having in church this morning.

Hope to see you there!

13/09/2023

The distinguishing factor of life after death, of the New Heavens and New Earth, is God's complete and unclouded presence. Revelation 21:3 points out as much. We're invited into that, in part, today.

As Paul says, for now we see God indirectly, "through a mirror dimly, but then we will see face to face."

Still, we can encounter that God and walk with Him today. If you haven't yet seized the beginning of eternal life with Christ, you can do so right now.

10/09/2023

My firstborn turns 4 today. 4 years ago, I became a pops to Henry Haylett.

This kid is incredibly sweet, kind, and caring.

He is a big brother who demonstrates great love for his little sister.

He loves his friends and gets sad if others don't stop to say hi and share hugs when he gets to daycare.

One of his favorite scenes of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is when Miles Morales' dad makes him say "I love you, dad," before he leaves him at school. Henry always laughs and tells me, "I love you, dad," after that scene.

This kiddo takes after his dad and loves superheroes, Star Wars, Mario, Sonic, and many other great nerdy bits of media.

Being a dad is great, and has provided me with many new understandings of how God relates to us.

Proud to be dad to this awesome 4-year-old boy. 😊

08/09/2023

"He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves." Colossians 1:13

Salvation is about so much more than the moment of our physical death and what comes immediately after that.

07/09/2023

What do you think?
(I share musings like this every so often. Feel free to follow for more.)

04/09/2023

Week In Review #8 - Is Deathbed Salvation "Fair?"

I know it says 9:15pm ET, but that's just because I'm running a bit late in getting this posted up today and IG requires an hour notice for these posts to go up. Lol.

See y'all tonight!

28/08/2023

Hosea is full of gems like this. One of my favorite books of the Bible.

27/08/2023

This week I dared to make a post simply intended to remind everyone of the importance and value of civility in politics.

Ended up garnering hundreds of comments and most of them were not civil.

Irony.

Today, we're going to talk about universal Christian principles we should all hold to within our political beliefs (and speech), whether we lean Left, Right, or whatever else.

21/08/2023

Will be a quick Live tonight, but solid content for discussion!

19/08/2023

It is such a relief knowing that no matter how much I mess up, or how much people mess up against me, none of us can mess up God's ability to make good out of our misteps.

15/08/2023

An exhortation for church leaders with a bit of gray in their hairs.

Empower the Timothy's of our time.

14/08/2023

Everything we do in ministry after meeting the pressing needs of our church members should be the cherry on top.

If we are so focused on external ministry that we fail to love and support needs within, we'll just create revolving doors, replacing burnt out and abandoned congregants with fresh recipients of external ministry (who will one day be neglected long-time parishioners themselves).

Church, love each other we'll. And let that mutually expressed and received love and support provide the fuel for your ministry to the world.

13/08/2023

9pm ET tonight. Be there!

This is something I haven't talked about a whole lot on the page because I didn't want to come across as if I was just doing all of this to "sell something."

This page is independent of my startup efforts. It is not simply another "marketing channel" and I would hate for it to be perceived as such.

However, while I was on my little IG break, I really felt God convicting me that it's time for me to use this page to share the teaching, message, and specific mission that He's been cultivating in me for nearly a decade now.

It's time for me to be known not only as "the nerdy Christian," but more as "the nerdy Christian who is on a particular mission to help the Church look more like what we see in Acts 2 & 4." Haha.

So we'll unpack some of that today and start the conversation!

13/08/2023

We moderns could learn much by looking more to the wisdom of the forefathers of our faith, those who figured out how to lead Christ's Church and practically apply Scripture while first establishing that Church's roots.

07/08/2023

06/08/2023

This last week, we had posts go up about God's expectations for sexuality and some theological takes on what aliens may be.

Let's unpack some of the background things behind those 90-second videos!

We also routinely see comments about the Problem of Evil, so let's talk about that too.

We'll open with quick answers to some submitted questions!

Hope to see y'all there!

30/07/2023

Aight y'all, we're back this evening for another IG Live covering your Qs and comments!

Comment any other Qs you'd like to talk about, and if I have the time (and knowledge) to speak to them adequately, I will!

27/07/2023

Something to contemplate this morning. 🤔

As a nerdy intellectual who loves acquiring knowledge, I myself have to think about this all the time, too.