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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It should be noted that while God thus created something which did not exist before, it is not a beginning out of nothing, because he was there to will. -Francis Schaeffer- 3/3

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thus, we begin with a monism; but with a creation by the infinite God of the material universe out of nothing, dualism now exists. 2/3

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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

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Once the believer recognizes this reality, even mundane events come alive and crackle with spiritual electricity, compelling the soul to deeper investigation into the. intricacies of God's unfolding works. -Foreword to “The Christian Journal,” by John Brown of Haddington 2/2

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The 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

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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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

as it can survive in the experience, understanding, and language of every human as it is—visible to those who see—still in the made world beautiful as it partly may be restored by good sense, lovingkindness, and good will, by inspiration, by beautiful work. “In the Thicket,” by Wendell Berry 2/2

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

God'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

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Jesus 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Meditating on Christ is the water that dryness drowns in, the fire that enflames cold hearts. -Chance Faulkner-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Do yourself a favor (especially if you’ve been hurt by others), and give this a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Loving Deeply

Podcast Episode · Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life · February 27 · 35m

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

He 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

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Only 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.)

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Andy and his children have been similarly limited and prompted by this story. -Wendell Berry, Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story 3/3

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

but as he has imagined it he has passed it on to his children, for the story has been, as it is still, a force and a light in their place. Because of the story, there were some kinds of a man that Wheeler could not be, a certain kind that he had to become, and certain things that he had to do. 2/3

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

So 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

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night — We talked between the Rooms - Until the Moss had reached our lips - And covered up - Our names - -Emily Dickinson- 2/2

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I 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

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

It 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...

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A Privileged Life

Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson | St. Stephen Reformed Church

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Having, and defending, and celebrating, instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying, the Bible masks an enormous amount of non-reading. -Eugene Peterson-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Man 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Friends, This is an important listen & it’s only 5 minutes. Please give it a hearing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Hardened Hearers

Podcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 09/23/2025 · 5m

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites. Sweetest breath and clearest eye Like perfumes go out and die; Vain the ambitión of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind. -John Webster- 2/2

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

All 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

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. -Alexander Pope-

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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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Since we can omit these acts of attention without anybody noticing, and because each of the acts involves a great deal of rigor, it is easy and common to slight them. -Eugene H. Peterson- 3/3

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It doesn’t take many years in this business to realize that we can conduct a fairly respectable pastoral ministry without giving much more than ceremonial attention to God. 2/3

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

People 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

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Sometimes a summer meal is just black-eyed peas and cornbread. And truth be told, there’s not much better.

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The sermon is not a product; it is a participation. -Lloyd-Jones-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Religious 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

In matters of God’s grace hyperboles are understatements. -Eugene Peterson-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

What 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

He 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-

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The very fact that you’re reading this on social media tells me you need to hear this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Soft-Handed Gentleness

Podcast Episode · Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson · 02/20/2025 · 5m

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs — Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings. -Gerard Manley Hopkins- God’s Grandeur 4/4

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went 3/

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Nick N. @nicnap.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. 2/

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