What would I do if I saw my wife reading <insert book here>? I would respect her as a grown ass woman and a godly sister in Christ. I’d ask her what she thinks about it and we’d have a conversation that maybe involves wine and bourbon. I’d probably do the dishes while she talked.
We tithe online. Not knowing this my youngest son looked at me today during the offering and said “we should think about putting something in the plate.” 😂🤣🤣
if a man came before our presbytery’s examination committee and left us in confusion on the ontological and economical trinity they wouldn’t pass their exams. if they proceeded to say “well only a certain type of person doesn’t understand me” they wouldn’t get a second exam. 🤷♂️
This morning South Texas Presbytery approved an overture for a study committee on Christian Nationalism. The specific language of the overture will eventually be available online, but happy to talk privately about generalities.
Yesterday I received this letter from Josh Abbotoy, executive director of American Reformer and managing director of New Founding, demanding that I retract and delete a tweet I posted last week re: American Reformer.
Wife and kids were just in an accident. Airbags deployed but everyone is okay. When it rains it pours. 🙄
Maybe we will be getting a Model Y after all …
middle of service and prompted to confess the Nicene Creed when a kid in the back belts out “I believe …” just a half second before the rest of the church
i can happily announce that South Texas Presbytery has voted to send up another background check overture. large revisions from last year. i look forward to the text being made available on the GA website in the upcoming weeks.
To be Presbyterian is to be confessionally centered. There is a modern vision of reformed presbyterianism that is potluck style quote plucking from reformed theologians. This is not confessional Presbyterianism.
I don’t know how I could ever vote for a man that’s this deranged. this isn’t a policy or party statement. my conscience wouldn’t allow it based solely on the man.
Bret Baier: “What do you say to that female independent suburban voter who feels that way to win her back?”
Trump: “First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot. Let's get that straight. If you look at all the tapes…When you have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tape…” 🤡
I kid you not when I say Chris is/has been one of the better examples of “christic manhood/alpha whatever the kids are smoking” in the PCA.
Dudes celebrating their weightlifting gains haven’t gotten to their “Jacob’s limp” stage of life. It shows.
It shouldn’t need to be said but the whole “have lots of kids and homeschool them” as a method to save the world is microwaved four decades old leftovers. And it has never work.
dang. not even Abraham, David, or Jesus batted 100% on their offspring/disciples.
everything else aside this is totally awkward promotion (which is still very much working) with a pretty terrible discount (just 10% across those books for 13 dollars?) that I am sure is working.
Doug Wilson & Canon Press attempting to profit off of Nancy’s viral clip. Note the:
✔️Blatant prosperity gospel promises
✔️Promise to reveal parenting “secrets” for a price.
✔️Price tag on the resources! 🤑
✔️Pressure & expectation on the extended family.
✔️Built in defense -
you know when it feels like you’re watching someone fall in slow motion forever? that’s been the last decade with al m*hler. absolutely incredible that he is still falling and hasn’t face planted into the sidewalk.
Young-ish Reformed people, read the standards. Chase the confessions. Don’t get hung up on the random quotes from established reformed theologians that suit the day. At best they need to be in the context of their whole work. At worst they’re a vehicle for eisegesis.
as a young man i used words like “gay” with my friends by justifying it as joking. i am grateful to the wise and mature individuals in my life who spoke firmly against this practice.
if you follow me and use this language like i did you need to know i despise it.
christians of all varieties working in all types of fields have to subject themselves to background checks for employment. existing or future ministers/officers arguing that background checks violates their conscience sounds very elitist to the average congregant.
The irony of a Protestant telling a Lutheran to go read the Bible when the Protestant is only here because Luther went, read the Bible, and said everyone should be reading the Bible is peak humor for the day.
Our neighbors came over to politely ask that we not let our kids play in their driveway. Apparently a friend of theirs saw our kids riding scooters and told them that if our kids got hurt in their driveway they would be held liable.
Another example of ways fear runs the world.
I am sad to see that some elements of the reformed and presbyterian world have already left the “grieving” period and moved into the “make this political” period about today’s shooting.
May God have mercy on the idols our hearts have made.
truth time: normally the week after
#pcaga
is really hard on me. committing so much time to preparation and the church makes me dissatisfied with my job. returning to the grind on the following monday morning feels pointless. i normally feel more alone and isolated after a week
st. peter foresaw the theobro movement: “You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.” (1 Peter 5:5, NASB)
@PresbyterTim
@liamsadams
the PCA response was insufficient. the fear over legal retaliation for mishandling of data was imo overblown. an email was relayed in OC via the clerk’s office about legal advice from denominational lawyers. it came up after I spoke in OC and I regret not addressing it since the
@CDHenry_PA
tomorrow we celebrate 18 years. i was 19 when we got married. it was only by God’s grace that our marriage survived my stupidity. sometimes i wonder what seemingly easy marriage these people are entering into that makes them feel so morally superior.
i am old, slow, and just getting around to the Begg controversy. the man spoke with wisdom and nuance. he left space open for disagreement. i think whether we’re ready to admit it a lot of social media is simply “don’t waste a controversy/tragedy.”
South Texas Presbytery has passed an Overture on Mandatory Background Checks. It will come before the 50th
#pcaga
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If you’re interested in dialoguing on it message me. Some of y’all will be getting emails regardless.
@dhanabarger
I am willing to sign myself for all five stages. I have a stocked library that indicates i was a “big fan.” and when people say “well you need to read it in context” i can point them to said library.
Maybe women are “more gullible” (sarcasm font) about scripture because certain realms of the reformed world keep telling them they should not study or teach it. Just a thought though.
@tommykeene
1) it's how I charge my Tesla, 2) faster get away in case of a zombie apocalypse, 3) faster get away in case dinosaurs break out from Jurassic Park, 4) faster get away ... you get the picture
@ErinStuvek
i’ve had some similar(ish)? i was walking through a grocery store with three of our five kids (the other two were with my wife). a woman came up and said “wow the kids in your family are so well behaved!” i answered with something like “well i hope the two with my wife are also
People assume moderates are soft because we don’t respond certain ways on social media. The truth is we’re often exhausted by faithfully pushing back on friends from each side.
At this point we need a reformed podcast that listens to all the other reformed podcasts and summarizes them on a weekly basis in max thirty minutes. It can be called the reformed podcast news network hour. Except it would be half an hour.
NQN really took a turn when December started. Twitter really isn’t the best place to do good Trinitarian theology. But some are proving it’s a great place to do bad Trinitarian theology.
I’ve decided it’s time for me to see a therapist. It’s still +50 days till our next presbytery meeting and I had two different dreams about it last night. At some point you need to acknowledge the signs.
Random Proposition: Christian Nationalism is a strange offspring of the Young, Restless, and Reformed. I don’t think the individuals affirming CN even recognized the baton handoff.
taking a family vote on what movie to watch tonight.
kenz: cora, weren’t you raising your hand?
cora: i was raising my glass …. to freedom. something i will never see again … no matter what they tell me ….
the table staring at her:
i walked my son upstairs tonight before bed. it dawned on me that i will almost certainly never again carry or be asked to carry one of my children to their beds.
nothing in scripture puts self-confidence as the birthplace of virtue.
jacob wrestles with God in his confidence, loses to God, comes away broken, and still finds himself better prepared but limited.
moses is called to let his brother aaron do all the speaking. he walks the
A clip from my
@SocratesITC
discussion with
@ericmetaxas
. Parents, if you want your sons to make wise decisions after high school, he must overflow with self-confidence. I’ve seen weak-willed young men get in a lot of trouble & follow crowds into stupidity.
The gospel makes friends out of enemies. The gospel makes different worldviews share food at a table. The gospel tears down the hedges and brings us to the cross.
American Christianity wants you to confirm to a specific political view, voting pattern, or social agenda.
I want to express gratitude to the men who thought background checks were wise and necessary. I want to thank those who thought the latter but disagreed on BCO necessity. We will continue to disagree on that issue.
My request now is that the time and effort be placed in getting
@PresbyterTim
@liamsadams
the PCA response was insufficient. the fear over legal retaliation for mishandling of data was imo overblown. an email was relayed in OC via the clerk’s office about legal advice from denominational lawyers. it came up after I spoke in OC and I regret not addressing it since the
Claim: I forced the AALC to kick out a pastor who was ministering to the Alt-Right.
Reality: A non-ordained man began an organization whose stated purpose was to infiltrate and take over Lutheran congregations with far right ideology. This included forcing out pastors from their
presbytery is by the beach this weekend. despite it being January we’ve decided to make it a family trip. at the conclusion of packing the van kenzie freaks out and running upstairs asks me “dad, would you kill me if i asked to take my westminster confession?”
me:
@Ameen_HGA
@jacobhuneycutt_
“This again is implying that marriage is a type of Apex of the Christian life without which you are incomplete or missing something.”
Yup, when we talk about marriage as an idol this is what we’re pointing at. This is a common understanding in many churches.
@BozT
Boz, I believe I understand the frustration. I was the author of the background check overture. I can admit the language needed tweaking. I’m bringing back at least one revision next year. There is more support for the idea than is being communicated by mere vote counts.