Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/09/2026[I]n both existence and morals, Christianity gives a unique and sufficient answer in regard to the present dualism, yet original monism. In existence, God is spirit – this is as true of the Father as of the Holy Spirit, and equally of the true of the Son, prior to the incarnation. 1/3 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The unfolding events of time and space manifest the immediate hand, of God at work. Everything that happens brims with divine purpose and significance. 1/2 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 30/06/2026[T]he fine arts, poetry-anything that festively raises up human existence and thereby constitutes its true riches —all derive their life from a hidden root, and this root is a contemplation which is turned toward God and the world so as to affırm them. -Josef Pieper- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 19/06/2026If you listen to nothing else, listen to this today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comGod Our FatherPodcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · June 17 · 48m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This is worth your time: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comHeaven, a World of LovePodcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · June 12 · 46m 010
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 27/04/2026The industrialization and bureaucratization of society over the last two hundred years has stripped the world-and the men and women who inhabit it—of its magic and mystery. -Carl Trueman- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/04/2026God's Truth as God knows it as it can be told in a human tongue as it can survive translation from one tongue to another as it can survive interpretation by scholars as it can survive the teachings of teachers 1/2 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Jesus Christ is more than our entry point into Christianity. He is the substance, the object, the centre, and the fulfilment—he is the ultimate end towards which all of reality points. He is the heartbeat of Christianity. He is our all. -Chance Faulkner- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Meditating on Christ is the water that dryness drowns in, the fire that enflames cold hearts. -Chance Faulkner- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Do yourself a favor (especially if you’ve been hurt by others), and give this a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comLoving DeeplyPodcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · February 27 · 35m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 26/01/2026He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself. -C.S. Lewis 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Please give this a listen. It is needed in today’s climate: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comLoud Opinions and Little PrayerPodcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 01/22/2026 · 5m 010
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Only two chapters in and can’t stop tearing up seeing my own sentiments (of the idea of place) put into words — the very thing that happens with each Port William book I read. (And I’ve read them all— many of them a few times.) 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/01/2026So in their memories the way went: a passage through the dark, undertaken familiarly by men of their kind in their time. So Marce remembered it to Wheeler, who told it to Andy, who in a world radically changed needed a long time and great care to imagine what he heard, 1/3 200
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Do yourself a favor, and give this a listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comWrath: The Case of EsauPodcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · 10/17/2025 · 32m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I died for Beauty - but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room - He questioned softly "Why I failed"? "For Beauty", I replied - "And I - for Truth - Themself are One - We Brethren are", He said - 1/2 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 01/11/2025It is time for my semi-regular posting of this sermon. I have listened to it twice in the past two days and have benefited greatly both times. Please give it a listen. www.tinysa.com/sermon/10211...tinysa.comA Privileged LifeDr. Sinclair B. Ferguson | St. Stephen Reformed Church 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Having, and defending, and celebrating, instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying, the Bible masks an enormous amount of non-reading. -Eugene Peterson- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King– Else, wherefore born? -Tennyson- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Friends, This is an important listen & it’s only 5 minutes. Please give it a hearing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comHardened HearersPodcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 09/23/2025 · 5m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 31/08/2025All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying; These have but their growing prime, And man does flourish but his time. Survey our progress from our birth— We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. 1/2 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. -Alexander Pope- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 05/08/2025[E]verything, especially everything that looks like wreckage, is material that God is using to make a praising life. -Eugene Peterson- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025People hear us pray in worship, they listen to us preach and teach from the Scriptures, they notice when we are listening to them in a conversation, but they can never know if we are attending to God in any of this. 1/3 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Sometimes a summer meal is just black-eyed peas and cornbread. And truth be told, there’s not much better. 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The Word of God is not simply the content of the Bible, but the voice of God speaking to us in and through it. -Kevin Vanhoozer- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 07/07/2025This deserves a wide hearing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThe Inside Out KingdomPodcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · 07/04/2025 · 42m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/07/2025The sermon is not a product; it is a participation. -Lloyd-Jones- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Worth a hearing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThe Glory of God’s ProvidencePodcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 06/27/2025 · 6m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Religious people obey God to get things. Gospel people obey God to get God — to resemble him, to know him, to delight him. We do, out of love. -Tim Keller- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Do yourself a favor and give this a listen — best five minutes of listening you’ll do today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThings Unseen with Sinclair B. FergusonChristianity Podcast · Updated Daily · Many people today think that seeing is believing, but Christians know there is more to life than meets the eye. We must look beyond this momentary life to unders... 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 26/04/2025In matters of God’s grace hyperboles are understatements. -Eugene Peterson- 021
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. -Gerard Manley Hopkins- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces. -Gerard Manley Hopkins- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025He has a sin of mine, he its near brother, Knowing them well I can but see the fall. This fault in one I found, that in another: And so, though each have one while I have all, No better serves me now, save best ; no other, Save Christ: to Christ I look, on Christ I call. -Gerard Manley Hopkins- 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This is worth hearing by as many as can hear it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comBe Angry, Sin NotPodcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · 03/03/2025 · 46m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 21/02/2025The very fact that you’re reading this on social media tells me you need to hear this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comSoft-Handed GentlenessPodcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 02/20/2025 · 5m 000
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 02/01/2025The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 1/ 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Ordinary time is not what biblical people endure or put up with or hurry through as we wait around for the end time and its rocket lunch into eternity. It is a gift through which we participate in the present and daily work of God… 1/ 100
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Scripture is not an inert object to be studied, as if reading the Bible were an "I-It" relation. It is rather a means for encountering the living God, "the primary means by which God presents himself to us.” 1/2 110
Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 26/11/2024What he was he continued to be; what he was not he took to himself. In the beginning he was, uncaused; for what is the cause of God? But afterward for a cause he was born. 1/ 110