Dean Defuria
@_DeanAnthony
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Aerospace Engineer turned Pastor • Husband • Executive Pastor at @Mission_Bible • Host of @ChristianlyPod • Graduate of @UCIrvine & @MastersSeminary
Orange County, CA
Joined September 2020
It is astonishing to consider that those who are redeemed are caught up in the magnificent eternal covenant that two members of the Godhead made with each other in order to demonstrate the infinite scope of their love for each other. — John MacArthur
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Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion. — C.S. Lewis
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We must never forget what is the most repellent and inexplicable trait in our Enemy; He really loves the hairless bipeds He has created and always gives back to them with His right hand what He has taken away with His left. — Screwtape
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Today I learned this is very controversial!
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Was Forrest Frank’s Healed Back a True Miracle? Watch now: https://t.co/jqZ6nkrEwR
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“The empty tomb of Jesus screams louder than any Muslim call to prayer” - @jonbenz in the old City of Jerusalem 🔥🔥🔥
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He has brought me to his banquet hall, And his banner over me is love. Song of Solomon 2:4
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The more we have experienced communion with Christ the more we shall appreciate the Song of Solomon and the more it will give light and life to our minds and powerfully communicate to us the power of Christ's love and grace. — John Owen
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Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. John Piper:
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Put first things first, and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things. — C.S. Lewis
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10 Ways to Ruin Your Church 1. Division: Causing divisions within the church over non-essential issues, personal preferences, or through gossip & slander, is extraordinarily harmful to the witness 2. Hypocrisy: When what you say about your faith doesn’t match what you do with
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If God is impassible (doesn’t have human-like emotions), why does the Old Testament contain so much emotional language of God? John Owen:
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More Christians need to read, digest, and learn from The Screwtape Letters
Send the man all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that 'suits' him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches… the search for a 'suitable' church makes the man a critic where the Enemy wants him to be a pupil. — The Screwtape Letters
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Send the man all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that 'suits' him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches… the search for a 'suitable' church makes the man a critic where the Enemy wants him to be a pupil. — The Screwtape Letters
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I warned you before that if your patient can’t be kept out of the Church, he ought to at least be violently attached to some party within it. Screwtape
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the glorious riches of theological orthodoxy seem to be paired often with the bitter fruits of relational heresy. fam, these things ought not to be (cf. Jms. 3:10). the gospel changes everything, especially relational ethics.
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