Joshua Thomas
@joshuadthomas.bsky.social
lover of Jesus | husband to dearest Danielle | dad to sweet Violet | next-gen pastor | joy-filled dreamer
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Joshua Thomas
@joshuadthomas.bsky.social
· Jan 20
About
My name is Joshua Thomas, and if you’re reading this, you probably don’t know who I am (and that’s okay!). I’m a husband, father, and pastor with a heartbeat for helping peo…
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"When you remind yourself that you are a child of God, you can look around and give a joyful thanksgiving in every season."
Timely #thanksgiving post up on the blog for you!
Timely #thanksgiving post up on the blog for you!
Joyful Thanksgiving
“Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 CSB I love the week of Thanksgiving. I think there is something…
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"When you remind yourself that you are a child of God, you can look around and give a joyful thanksgiving in every season."
Timely #thanksgiving post up on the blog for you!
Timely #thanksgiving post up on the blog for you!
"Kindness is easy when you know the needs around you and are present to act as an example of Christ."
New blog post up!
New blog post up!
Kindness is Easy When You Know the Needs Around You
“If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him? Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in …
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November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Kindness is easy when you know the needs around you and are present to act as an example of Christ."
New blog post up!
New blog post up!
"The people in your life need you to be like Christ."
New post is up digging deeper into who God has called you to serve.
New post is up digging deeper into who God has called you to serve.
Your Greatest Ministry Opportunity is All Around You
“I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-3…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"The people in your life need you to be like Christ."
New post is up digging deeper into who God has called you to serve.
New post is up digging deeper into who God has called you to serve.
"When we choose to live a life of power, love, and discipline, we no longer allow fear to control our minds and begin living the way Jesus calls us into."
New post is up on the blog!
New post is up on the blog!
A Spirit of Power
“Therefore, I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.” 2 Timo…
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October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"When we choose to live a life of power, love, and discipline, we no longer allow fear to control our minds and begin living the way Jesus calls us into."
New post is up on the blog!
New post is up on the blog!
"Nothing can keep back you when you are empowered by a loving savior and no longer hindered from being an example of love to the world."
What Would Keep You?
“As they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, “Look, there’s water. What would keep me from being baptized?” Acts 8:36 (CSB) In reading through the book of Acts, …
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October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"Nothing can keep back you when you are empowered by a loving savior and no longer hindered from being an example of love to the world."
"You can do difficult things because of the Holy Spirit empowering you."
You Can Do Difficult Things
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8 CSB I used to desire a…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"You can do difficult things because of the Holy Spirit empowering you."
"If we let go of our pride and choose to live out the example of Christ, we will change the world for the better, together."
Better Together
“Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with joyful and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of…
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October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"If we let go of our pride and choose to live out the example of Christ, we will change the world for the better, together."
Anyone want to give me a code for the shiny koraidon and miraidon for Pokémon Violet?
#pokemon #pokemonviolet
#pokemon #pokemonviolet
September 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Anyone want to give me a code for the shiny koraidon and miraidon for Pokémon Violet?
#pokemon #pokemonviolet
#pokemon #pokemonviolet
"We are all being formed, make sure you are being formed by the life-giving words of Jesus, our savior."
Hunger and Thirst
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Matthew 5:6 CSB In John Mark Comer’s book, Practicing the Way, he makes the statement that all of us are being …
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September 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"We are all being formed, make sure you are being formed by the life-giving words of Jesus, our savior."
"Our loving Savior is worthy of our humble adoration and submission."
New post up on the blog, I pray it helps your walk and encourages you to truly worship.
New post up on the blog, I pray it helps your walk and encourages you to truly worship.
What Are You Worshipping?
“But she came, knelt before him, and said, “Lord, help me!” “Then Jesus replied to her, “Woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you want.” And from that moment her daughter was heale…
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September 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"Our loving Savior is worthy of our humble adoration and submission."
New post up on the blog, I pray it helps your walk and encourages you to truly worship.
New post up on the blog, I pray it helps your walk and encourages you to truly worship.
“I think reflection helps us have an authentic faith, because it’s easy to feel the Spirit in a dark room with worship and surrounded by others, but the true faith is reflecting on the hurt and choosing to see the beauty of what God is doing.”
Reflections: Looking Back to Move Forward
“Then Joshua set up in Gilgal twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan, and he said to the Israelites, ‘in the future, when your children ask their fathers, what is the meaning of these stones?…
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September 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“I think reflection helps us have an authentic faith, because it’s easy to feel the Spirit in a dark room with worship and surrounded by others, but the true faith is reflecting on the hurt and choosing to see the beauty of what God is doing.”
Nothing like the bummer of having a terrible drink that cost 9 bucks at a local coffee spot
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Nothing like the bummer of having a terrible drink that cost 9 bucks at a local coffee spot
"You don’t need to be validated by people, you need to be walking with Christ."
New post up on the blog, give it a read and share it for a friend.
New post up on the blog, give it a read and share it for a friend.
Evidence Over Optics
“In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” Matthew 23:28 CSB There was a video that went viral a little while ba…
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August 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"You don’t need to be validated by people, you need to be walking with Christ."
New post up on the blog, give it a read and share it for a friend.
New post up on the blog, give it a read and share it for a friend.
“Christ remains the same loving and kind creator in every season.”
Why I’m Thankful for Growing up and Remaining Joyful
“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain fell, the rivers rose, and the winds blew and pounded that hous…
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August 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“Christ remains the same loving and kind creator in every season.”
"We need to be in the Word, not for knowledge but a daily renewal of our hearts that reflects the light of Christ."
New post is up!
New post is up!
Whatever is True
“Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there…
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August 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"We need to be in the Word, not for knowledge but a daily renewal of our hearts that reflects the light of Christ."
New post is up!
New post is up!
“We need to let go of anger, bitterness, junk, and do what Jesus did. Be kind; forgive, love, and have compassion.”
New blog dropped, check it out
New blog dropped, check it out
Kind is Cool
“Let all bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice. And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave …
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July 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“We need to let go of anger, bitterness, junk, and do what Jesus did. Be kind; forgive, love, and have compassion.”
New blog dropped, check it out
New blog dropped, check it out
"That’s what Jesus is calling us into when we step into His kingdom, He calls us to greatness, a life that is so much better than what we have grown comfortable with."
#writer #blog #blogger
#writer #blog #blogger
Are You Called to Comfort or Compassion?
“Looking at him, Jesus loved him and said to him, ‘You lack one thing: Go, sell all you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.’ But he was dismayed b…
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July 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“When we choose to follow Jesus, we begin a new life in the kingdom of heaven, and it requires us to follow and remain rooted in the truth that Christ has left for each of us.”
Remain in Me: A Look at John 15 and a Daily Walk
I’ve shared in most of my posts this year, that my word for the year has been “rooted,” the idea being that I am choosing to be rooted to the truth and the source of all life; Christ. This has infl…
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July 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“When we choose to follow Jesus, we begin a new life in the kingdom of heaven, and it requires us to follow and remain rooted in the truth that Christ has left for each of us.”
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I can not imagine a better example of “telling on yourself” than announcing that you oppose Superman’s ideology.
July 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I can not imagine a better example of “telling on yourself” than announcing that you oppose Superman’s ideology.
“To love is to be so deeply rooted in faith that you cannot help but to give it freely and frequently.”
New post is up on the blog for your reading pleasure!
New post is up on the blog for your reading pleasure!
who is my neighbor?
“But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, ‘And who is my neighbor?” Luke 10:29 CSB I really love moments like this in Scripture, because it shows the nature of what sin can do to us. This pe…
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July 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“To love is to be so deeply rooted in faith that you cannot help but to give it freely and frequently.”
New post is up on the blog for your reading pleasure!
New post is up on the blog for your reading pleasure!
"God doesn’t want you to hate and talk down to yourself, He wants you to live in freedom and from that overflow, remind others that they too are made for greatness."
New blog, give it a read!
#writer #blog
New blog, give it a read!
#writer #blog
Words are Magic
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” Proverbs 18:21 I recently watched a video come on my feed from the comedian Pete Holmes, and in this short…
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June 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"I think that’s what God wants all of us to do, be rooted in truth and do good works, until the right day comes and we get to see the splendor of the season."
New blog is up!
New blog is up!
Splendor of Seasons
“Because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. Let us not get tired of doing good, for we wi…
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June 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"I think that’s what God wants all of us to do, be rooted in truth and do good works, until the right day comes and we get to see the splendor of the season."
New blog is up!
New blog is up!
You are an image bearer of the loving creator of all things, and so is your neighbor.
New post up on the blog with my thoughts and heart in the current season.
New post up on the blog with my thoughts and heart in the current season.
Imago Dei
“So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.” -Genesis 1:27 CSB “God saw all that He had made and it was very good indeed.” -Genesis 1:…
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June 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
You are an image bearer of the loving creator of all things, and so is your neighbor.
New post up on the blog with my thoughts and heart in the current season.
New post up on the blog with my thoughts and heart in the current season.
Reposted by Joshua Thomas
I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing
May 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing