Wanted to cross-post something I am trying to do daily on the dit.reformed.social instance, just to spur on some discussion and encouragement!

"His fruit was sweet to my taste."—Song of Solomon 2:3.

FAITH, in the Scripture, is spoken of under the emblem of all the senses. It is sight: "Look unto me and be ye saved." It is hearing: "Hear, and your soul shall live." Faith is smelling: "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia"; "thy name is as ointment poured forth." Faith is spiritual touch. By this faith the woman came behind and touched the hem of Christ's garment, and by this we handle the things of the good word of life. Faith is equally the spirit's taste. "How sweet are Thy words to my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my lips." "Except a man eat my flesh," saith Christ, "and drink my blood, there is no life in him." This "taste" is faith in one of its highest operations. One of the first performances of faith is hearing. We hear the voice of God, not with the outward ear alone, but with the inward ear; we hear it as God's Word, and we believe it to be so; that is the "hearing" of faith. Then our mind looketh upon the truth as it is presented to us; that is to say, we understand it, we perceive its meaning; that is the "seeing" of faith. Next we discover its preciousness; we begin to admire it, and find how fragrant it is; that is faith in its "smell." Then we appropriate the mercies which are prepared for us in Christ; that is faith in its "touch." Hence follow the enjoyments, peace, delight, communion; which are faith in its "taste." Any one of these acts of faith is saving. To hear Christ's voice as the sure voice of God in the soul will save us; but that which gives true enjoyment is the aspect of faith wherein Christ, by holy taste, is received into us, and made, by inward and spiritual apprehension of His sweetness and preciousness, to be the food of our souls. It is then we sit "under His shadow with great delight," and find His fruit sweet to our taste.

This is from Morning and Evening by C. H. Spurgeon, pulled from www.romans45.org
http://www.romans45.org/spurgeon/daily.htm
http://www.romans45.org/morn_eve/this_morning.cgi

Information related to the Reformed.social instance of Lemmy

What is it?
Lemmy is a replacement for Reddit. It is part of the Fediverse, meaning you can use your account on the reformed.social instance to communicate with anyone on any other Lemmy instance, so your social circle can go beyond just those on reformed.social.

URL: https://dit.reformed.social
Sign-up URL: https://dit.reformed.social/signup

I got this domain a few years ago after seeing a need for social media / communications services that are decentralized. I wanted to help provide services on reformed.social to give a space for Reformed Christians to have discussions, make friends, and support one another, and to try to recreate the same type of experiences we have seen on the larger social media platforms, with as few of the negatives as possible.

My vision for reformed.social is to be an alternative to the larger social media / cloud giants, but still embrace a way to have a larger social circle than just the people on reformed.social. With that in mind, any services that are provided by reformed.social should have some kind of federation built in, meaning that any users of reformed.social services can communicate on other similar services hosted elsewhere.

For information on the services provided on Reformed.social, visit the Reformed.Social Services community for a list of the currently available services.

Information related to the Reformed.social instance of Matrix

What is it? Matrix is a chat / video calling / communications service. It can replace WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, etc. It is part of the Fediverse, meaning you can use your account on the reformed.social instance to communicate with anyone on any other matrix instance, so your social circle can go beyond just those on reformed.social.

Matrix needs other software to use as a chat client, as matrix is just the server itself. That's where Element comes in. There is a web version of Element that is hosted by Reformed.social, or you can download and use the application on your desktop or phone.

Element URL: https://element.reformed.social

Sign Up Information There is not an easy way built into Matrix for me as an administrator to force people to go through an approval process, which means that isn't a simple site that you can go to in order to sign up.
The easiest way that I can be a gatekeeper is to have you send a private message to me, either here or on mastodon (@[email protected]), to get an account.

Information related to the Reformed.social instance of Mastodon

What is it?
Mastodon is a replacement for Twitter. It is part of the Fediverse, meaning you can use your account on the reformed.social instance to communicate with anyone on any other mastodon instance, so your social circle can go beyond just those on reformed.social.

URL: https://toot.reformed.social
Sign-up URL: https://toot.reformed.social/auth/sign_up

Hello! My name is ang3l12, and I’m the owner of the Reformed.social domain / sole maintainer of all services hosted on Reformed.social.

I'm an I.T. Manager / Systems Administrator by day, a Father of a daughter and a son, and a husband of an amazing wife.