🧵Puritan Wisdom on Sanctification: How Holiness Is Wrought in the Soul🕊️

The Puritans didn’t see sanctification as an optional add-on.
It was the necessary fruit of salvation.

Let’s unpack their Christ-centered, Spirit-driven theology of holiness. 👇 1/ Sanctification is not self-help.

The Puritans knew: It’s not “try harder” religion.

Thomas Watson wrote, “Sanctification is a supernatural thing; it is divinely infused.” (A Body of Divinity)

It’s grace-powered holiness.

🧵 How to Die Well: The Lost Puritan Art of Dying Daily

Modern life hides death behind hospital curtains.

The Puritans stared it in the face and taught Christians how to die every day.

A thread on Puritan mortality, hope, and the art of dying well. ✝️👇 The Puritans weren’t morbid, they were prepared.

They saw death not as an interruption but as a divine appointment.

So they cultivated a daily readiness to die, what they called mortification and dying to self.

Modern Christianity has replaced the Gospel of repentance and faith with a gospel of relief and feelings.

We don’t want to be born again; we just want to feel better.

This is not Christianity.
It’s spiritual anesthesia. The therapeutic gospel tells you:

“You’re not dead in sin, just deformed.”
“You’re not a sinner, just misunderstood.”
“You don’t need to repent, just rest.”

But without the conviction of sin, there is no need for a Savior.

It’s Monday. You don’t need a new mindset.

You need the Puritan doctrine of vocation.

Before the "grindset," there was godliness.
Before hustle culture, there was holiness.
Here’s how the Puritans turned mundane labor into majestic worship: 🧵👇 Moderns think work is a necessary evil.

Puritans saw work as worship.

They didn’t just show up to jobs; they showed up before God.

Your office isn’t a prison. It’s a pulpit.
Your labor isn’t lost. It’s liturgy.

Nice pastors didn’t just weaken the Church—they disarmed her.

They traded swords for slogans. Truth for tone. Conviction for comfort.

And now the sheep can’t even recognize a wolf.
👇 You think Satan fears “nice”? He laughs at it.

What he fears is a blood-bought Church led by bold men who preach sin, judgment, and salvation in Christ alone.

Nice doesn’t cast out demons. Truth does.

Our culture runs on complaints. Grievance is the new gospel. Victimhood is currency.

But there’s one thing the enemy can’t monetize, gratitude.

In a world addicted to outrage, thanksgiving is rebellion.
🧵 A thread on the power of gratitude (and a free gift at the end): Two delayed flights. One bad attitude.
No storm. No crisis. Just my exposed heart.

I wasn’t praising God for protection; I was grumbling about convenience.

That’s when it hit me:
Complaint reveals more than the circumstances. It reveals our theology.

The black-and-white photo below went viral.

Caption: “Before sagging, bonnets, and Walmart PJs were worn in public...”

It’s not just nostalgia. It’s a rebuke. We used to dress like we belonged.

🧵 From Dignity to Disorder: This isn’t suits vs. sweats. It’s about the collapse of culture.

When we dressed with honor, it wasn’t vanity. It was identity. It said: I belong to a family, to a Church, to a standard.

Today?

We dress like we’ve been abandoned by all three.

Gossip has split more churches than heresy ever has.

And most pastors don’t even realize how much damage it’s doing until the whisperers go silent.

Then the air clears. The peace returns. And people finally breathe again.

This is what happens when the gossip stops. 🧵 Gossip doesn’t just destroy reputations.

It wrecks churches.
It stalls missions.
It fractures fellowship.

And it’s tolerated in too many churches, as if it’s just a quirk. Let’s stop treating sin like it’s personality.

They don’t just want your vote.
They want your kids.
Your son’s manhood.
Your daughter’s innocence.
Their hearts, minds, and loyalty.

And while we were trying to be “family friendly,” the Left was recruiting.

🧵Let’s talk about it: The Left has been more evangelistic than most churches.

More relentless than many fathers. More strategic than many pastors.

This isn’t cultural drift. It’s spiritual warfare. And it starts with your home.

The Church was never meant to be soft. But softness has become our brand.

We tiptoe around sin like it might sue us. Whisper truth like it’s a secret.

And wonder why the world no longer takes us seriously.

This isn’t compassion. It’s compromise.
👇🏾 The Church is not a hospice for sin. It’s a hospital for sinners.

But we’ve confused comfort with care. We hug when we should warn. We coddle what God calls rebellion.

That’s not mercy. That’s malpractice.

We don’t talk enough about the wounds left by isolation in the Church.

Not scandal. Not abuse.
Just… silence, distance, and shallowness.

It’s a different kind of faith wound, one born from friendship forgotten. 🧵🪡 Jesus had friends. Real ones.

He walked with them, wept with them, and broke bread with them.

Why does the modern Church treat deep friendship like a luxury instead of a necessity?

The Church isn’t suffering from too much division.
It’s suffocating under silence, called “peace.”
Too many leaders are bowing to the idol of unity.

Unity is not built on truth, but unity is bought with compromise.
👇🏾 You’ve felt it:

The pressure to keep quiet. To “be gracious.”
To avoid the awkward conversation.

But what we call love is often just fear… dressed in Christian language.

I’ve wrestled with this one. There’s a kind of "Christian love" today that hugs sin, dodges truth, and calls it grace.

That’s not holiness, it’s heresy in a hug.
Here’s what the Church has forgotten 🧵 The Church HAS forgotten how to hate, and it shows.
We tiptoe around sin like it might sue us.
We whisper truth like it’s a secret.
But Scripture doesn’t stutter:
"O you who love the Lord, hate evil!" (Psalm 97:10a)

Bill Belichick and Shannon Sharpe prove it:

Success without covenant leads to collapse. You can win trophies and build brands, but lose the battle for marriage, and you lose everything that matters. 🧵 Marriage isn’t a cultural relic; it’s a creation mandate.

Before there were governments or armies, there was marriage (Genesis 2:24).

Abandon it and you aren’t just breaking tradition—you’re breaking reality.

Want to know when a civilization is collapsing?

Listen to how its people speak. Profanity was once shameful.

Now it’s mainstream—from TikTok to Congress.
Filthy tongues reveal filthy hearts. And filthy hearts bring judgment. 🧵 The surge of profanity among women is just the surface rot. The deeper reality is that the whole body is sick.

From the home to the halls of power, the language of death now rules.

The smell of weed is everywhere. It's at the grocery store, in the drive-thru, and the gas pump.

They didn’t just legalize a drug. They normalized sedation.

Now a generation is high, passive, and hollowed out—
And nobody is sounding the alarm. So, I will ⏰. The weed isn’t just in the lungs. It’s in the minds, in families, and in the schools.

This isn’t just about marijuana. It’s about the cognitive sedation of a collapsing nation. (1 Peter 5:8)

How did we go from homosexuality being a sinful act to a sacred identity?

This shift has reshaped morality, law, and even the meaning of humanity itself.

Here’s how it happened — and why it matters 🧵: 1. For most of history, homosexuality was understood as behavior, not identity.

It was a sinful act, like adultery or fornication.
(Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1:26-27)

You did it. It didn't define you.

I’m 56. Life taught me the hard way—and I paid in time I can't get back.

Don’t make excuses. Don’t blame your past.
Here are 10 truths that’ll punch you in the soul if you’re ready for them: 1. If you're still blaming “life” at 40, you're not stuck—you’re soft. You weren’t handed a curse. You chose comfort over calling. Own it.

Today is not your day.

It is the Lord’s Day.

Slow your heart. Still your soul.
Christ is risen. Worship Him. The Puritans spoke of Sunday as the soul’s fair day. A time to trade earthly distractions for heavenly treasures. Come empty-handed. Leave filled with Christ.

Most Christians today aren't just malnourished.
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They are spiritually starved — and too weak to fight the dragons breathing down their necks. 🧵 2. They mistake noise for strength.
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They mistake crowds for revival.
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They mistake feelings for faith.
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All the while, their souls grow thinner, and their armor rusts.

Every Christian needs a strong foundation.
Here are 5 essential doctrines every believer must learn, love, and live.
🧵 The Doctrine of God (Theology Proper)

Who is God?
He is holy, sovereign, eternal, omnipotent, and unchanging.

A low view of God ruins everything. A right view grounds everything. (Jer. 9:23–24; Isa. 6:1–5)