West Virginia born, South Carolina resident, Covenanting Seceder, Pitt Grad, Husband, Dad to 4...ARP minister, former USMC 4641,
#h2p
#letsgobucs
Jeremiah 6:16
I hate asking for help, especially financial, so navigating right way to do this.
Along with brothers
@PastorAndyWebb
and
@GeraldMarkJames
I'm as well fundraising for a vision trip to assist SEED ministry in Rwanda.
Anything helps. More info at link:
I refer to this culture as "Nashville Conservatism". It's fake from top to bottom & just as, if not more, sexually licentious as anything coming from the Left.
Pro-'Merica, Pro-Gauche, Pro-Jesus-On-Sunday, & Antinomian to the core.
Loves the old paths as designed by Magnolia.
Viral ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl appears on stage at a Zach Bryan concert sending fans into a frenzy.
A TikTok video of her taking the stage has surpassed over 7 million views.
As a heads up to father's out there:
I have yet to talk to a family who chose travel ball, whether it be baseball, soccer, softball, etc..., that:
1) Came out other side stronger as a family, 2) Didn't express regret at the financial outlay, or 3) Saw their kids grow in Christ.
My youngest son "crossed" himself before his at bat, kissed his hand, and pointed at the sky...he then hit a home run.
I think by law he's not Presbyterian anymore.
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@heyjohnrussell
at the DNC: They called us rednecks back in the 1920s, because striking workers from all different races wore red bandanas around their necks as they fought and died for respect and a living wage. Their fight yesterday is our fight right now.
So my oldest son sent emails to all 30 MLB teams asking for free stuff (don't hate it). The only team he heard back from was the
@Pirates
. Love that his hometown team answered. 😁
#LetsGoBucs
At the same PCUSA presbytery meeting where I was removed from the rolls as a student of theology for endorsing substitutionary atonement, a girl was passed who described the trinity as an orgy.
This may sound nuts, but the PCUSA is LESS heretical today than 100 years ago. Back then, denial of the trinity/resurrection was common. Now it's rare.
Yes, it's gotten way more SOCIALLY progressive, but that's just cuz the culture has, and the liberal wing follows the culture
If you call Lee a "traitor" it's evidence of 3 things:
1) You're neither a small "r" republican nor a small "d" democrat. You're a big "S" Statist.
2) You're uninterested in educating yourself on life in 1861.
3) You don't know what the words "Virginia" or "United States" mean.
I realize I'm a bigoted loon, but all the justification I need for the Canaanite genocide is:
"But of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive." - Deut. 20:16
No need to apologize for God.
Was the conquest of Canaan genocide or just? This is one of the toughest objections to Christianity. I devoted a lot of research to it and condensed my findings into an hour long video.
Literally every Reformer quoted Aristotle at length, Calvin speaks positively of him all over the Institutes. Aristotle was required reading at Princeton Seminary and Union Seminary. Cicero's Rhetoric was required reading for homiletics in R.L. Dabney and W.G.T. Shedd's classes.
I can't even believe we have to have a conversation about pregnant women and unborn children in combat.
What a barbaric time to be alive.
Scratch that, even barbarians have more care for women and children than our military leaders.
1) 1948 Israel isn't Biblical Israel.
2) American troops shouldn't be engaged in offensive foreign wars.
3) What happened over the weekend isn't the result of Israeli State policy.
4) Hamas isn't good because people you don't like support Israel.
5) Wanton murder is bad.
Men, stop looking outside your immediate Presbyterial milieu for fathers in the faith and/or to establish your belief on theological issues.
That dude at the conference is not your mentor, nor is the guy on the internet.
I don't know if these things are connected, but as I've become more & more traditionally conservative (aka non-GOP) I've become more angrily anti-war. Not anti-military or a "pacifist", but just have a severe reaction against the Military Industrial Complex & their foreign policy
Vance's book described perfectly my own experience growing up in Clarksburg, WV. A town destroyed by the opening of China, and murdered to death by NAFTA.
No GOP candidate, and certainly no Democrat, has ever spoken for my peeps. We ain't suburban moms or Bushite free traders.
If you don't know who Emmett Till is you are fairly ignorant of American history. It's like not knowing who Sacco and Vanzetti is.
If I learned about it in West Virginia public schools, then not sure what your excuse is.
@AndyRichter
I'm old enough to remember Democrats questioning the parentage of Sarah Palin's child with Down Syndrome, and then mocking her when she defended Bristol.
The "Christian Flag" was designed by a socialist to promote the Uniting churches movement, was adopted to express that purpose by the National Council of Churches, and has no place in a sanctuary of a bible-believing church.
Same for USA flag. Jingoism has no place in worship.
No. There are two bad assumptions here.
1) The only "ministry" I have is the pastor of the church I have been called to serve. The word "ministry" implies some kind of parachurch requirements.
2) The folks in pews don't need my half-butt political philosophy, they need Jesus.
A "Reformed" ministry that is not regularly preaching against the bloated idolatry of the state, the self-deification of government programs, welfare, and redistribution of wealth -- the pagan shrine of our day -- that ministry is not Reformed in any meaningful sense of the word.
@CovenantReform2
No, it's a jeremiad written by a Unitarian jezebel advocating the sword of the flesh be used against the people of the South, despite her own state making oodles of money off the slave trade. It's moralistic hypocrisy of the highest order.
Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:
UPDATE on Christian Nationalism
#pcaga
Overture. I shared a previous version. This is the version passed by South TX Presbytery. One of the Authors sent me this and asked me to take the other down.
OVERTURE from South Texas Presbytery “ ___ ”
Whereas, there has been debate
So...something is finally starting to take shape. This is the most insane (and stupid) thing I've ever taken on...
See you on the flipside as I reach all those page goals. 🤣
Well, I finished
@PerfInjust
's book. Have thoughts, will write them up, probably next week. A 475 pge book needs to marinate a little before getting too much into a review.
I'll say this. Maybe I'm just a dullard, but I think I read a different book than most reviews I've seen.
I genuinely don't get why Dr. Clark is like this on social media. He's rude & disrespectful.
He blocked me for noting a misreading of a text, & then talked about me behind a block, like he does to Aldo. One can disagree & think a person is wildly wrong without acting like this.
No offense intended to anyone, but I've been fairly gobsmacked to be honest by this conversation. The story was in our public high school history books in WV in 1996. We went over it in U.S. History in college. His murder was the catalyst for so much of the civil rights movement.
If you don't know who Emmett Till is you are fairly ignorant of American history. It's like not knowing who Sacco and Vanzetti is.
If I learned about it in West Virginia public schools, then not sure what your excuse is.
They don't do this to Islam because they know the god of the Quran is not real.
They mock the God of the Bible because they are in rebellion against Him.
I’m excited to announce a project that we are currently working on, which logically follows from our belief that Christian culture is the product of healthy local churches.
We are beginning the process of forming Boniface Fellowship.
It will be a regional fellowship of reformed
Just knowing basic facts about American history is not choosing a "side" in the woke wars nor is it supporting whatever "the current thing" is. A lot of the conversation around this is Grade "A" stupid.
No offense intended to anyone, but I've been fairly gobsmacked to be honest by this conversation. The story was in our public high school history books in WV in 1996. We went over it in U.S. History in college. His murder was the catalyst for so much of the civil rights movement.
Tbf, Robert L. Dabney was a minister in good standing in his presbytery, so it would be fit and proper for him to speak at the general assembly of his church.
#confessyourunpopularopinion
The "well actually..." posts from Reformed intellectuals and think tanks coming against MacArthur are incredibly tone deaf and continue to miss the point.
Trump's victory is a part of the Isaiah 3:4 judgment on the nation. We are governed by children, he's just the biggest one of them all. The fact no one can dethrone him despite his obvious wickedness is more about the GOP's own evil that it has owned for generations.
Kamala Harris says when she talks to parents on the campaign trail, one of their top concerns is that their daughters won't have access to abortion in college
If the rumors about the end of the new Indiana Jones movie are true, I will laugh in the theater harder than I did for the Rise of Skywalker, which gave me some legitimately huge unintentional laughs.
Did the flood of Noah cover the entire planet? Here I argue that the biblical story can be responsibly read describing a local event.
My sincere belief is that the church's witness and unity is better served by allowing for that view.
I spend way too much time reading Wikipedia articles on towns I'll never visit and they all have the same section when it comes to economics.
"[Town A] was a center for [insert industry] production until 1980 when government regulation caused [insert industry] to disappear".
(Vance is like a lot of us from the dead Midwest and Appalachian coal and mill towns...we're conservative Democrats stuck in the GOP because the Left is bat crazy insane.)
Hey look, its another Yankee moron who has never been been west of the Delaware or south of Philadelphia bearing false witness about a whole section of the country...the only people group of course its okay to stereotype and lie about.
So I know I promised a review of
@PerfInjust
's book "Christian Nationalism". However, after writing about 10,000 words I figure what I am actually going to do is write a book called "Christian Localism"...(1/2)
You know what Aristotle didn't know?
Jesus.
The Church.
The Bible.
"let brotherly love continue" makes no sense to those who don't know these things.
Do not be deceived, friends. Kinist philosophy is on the rise in evangelical circles, and should have no place among us.
The children's song "Father Abraham" is a verse-by-verse reminder of the promises of the covenant sign and its being passing down from generation to generation. In other words "Father Abraham had many sons and you are one of them and so am I" is an apologetic for infant baptism.
My son has reached that level of teenager where he has his hat on backwards, listening to Metallica on a loud cd player, in our side yard playing cornhole.
Scene overhead leaving mass:
Man: that went long today.
Woman: it always runs long when they do a baptism
Man: they should give you a heads up if they’re going to be baptizing someone’s kid.
Very glad to see the PCA push back against SSA.
Even more glad to see the very high numbers of elders present both in raw numbers & percentage in comparison to ministers.
Presbyterianism always works better when elders/ministers have parity.
A strong PCA is good for the ARP.
@RevKevDeYoung
Sad to see you pushing this lie. In an era where we are nearing a majority of births out of wedlock and massive cultural dysfunction you choose this to stand on? We are truly living in a time of men without chests.
@michaelbd
I don't understand how I could have common cause, or even what I would be "conserving" with folks who think it is conservative to rent-a-womb. The number of metaphysical questions I would disagree with a person in favor of such is too many to count. What even is the GOP?
Divorce is bad.
A kid on son
#1
team's parents got divorced between seasons and dad's a coach. Kids live with mom. Dad still coaches, shows up by himself. After practice I watch his daughter fight tears and say goodbye while he tries to be stoic & drives off by himself. Sucks.