Optimistically anachronistic | NJ raised, KY aged | 1 Tim 1:15 | 1689 | SDG
Joined April 2016
- Tweets10.1K
- Following2K
- Followers378
- Likes91.9K
Society has many ideas about what true manhood looks like, but scripture connects it with a Christlike unity and edification that holds the body together.
Those who are tossed to and fro by theological and cultural fads are not mature men, as scripture defines it, but children.
This may have some relevance for our current transhumanist moment where people are trying to escape what they think are the constraints of the physical body but are in fact the gifts of the physical body.
Heaven is a theocratic monarchy with classes (Rev 4:4) and property (Matt 6:20, Mark 10:30, Rev 4:10).
Communism has historically hated Christianity because its adherents understood that Christianity is antithetical to their miserable project.
Not all, but a lot of the loneliness epidemic today is self-imposed.
People regard those with different opinions or scruples as existential enemies to be cut off or destroyed, and unwittingly become increasingly isolated in smaller and smaller prisons of their own construction.
Wholesome take, and obedient to 1 Thess 5:18.
In an age where grumbling comes easy, it takes effort to be grateful!
I'm being as serious as the grave when I say that I absolutely love this image. Sure, it's not classically beautiful, but it's beautiful in the sense that it reflects the personal and economic freedom our ancestors bequeathed to us here in the United States.
We get to own our own cars, travel when and where we please, and are constantly presented with a whole host of firms who are competing to please us and meet our needs.
This is America, and it's beautiful.
A. L. Stevenson retweeted
Francis Schaeffer called the tune. Secularist society cannot sustain a society built on Christian presuppositions. Borrowed capital runs out. Always.
Heavy laden believers, when the world mocks you for not moving the burdens they try to lay on your shoulders, take comfort in the words of your Good Shepherd who provides rest for your souls.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
A. L. Stevenson retweeted
It’s amazing how easily our flesh can deceive us into thinking that our fears are actually wisdom.
A. L. Stevenson retweeted
If you think you’re self-controlled because you’re physically fit, yet you can’t control your tongue or rule your emotions, you’re not self-controlled. You’re delusional.
Discipline over the body is commendable (and should be pursued). Discipline over the heart is Christian maturity.
“He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
And he who rules his own spirit, than he who captures a city.”
- Proverbs 16:32
A. L. Stevenson retweeted
All demoralization content on here serves one purpose and one purpose only: to take you out of the fight.
If you think marriage is a scam, you'll never attempt it. If you think "the West has fallen", you'll never try to save it.
The accounts sharing this slop are not "based". They are agents of evil who want you to offer up your life without a fight. They want you to sacrifice your love, joy, and vitality while giving you absolutely nothing for them in return.
The worst thing you can ever do in life is despair. You must guard your heart at all costs, and avoid the slippery slope of despair like your life depends on it - because it does.
Just remember that however bad things look, the battle's never over. The story isn't finished. A thousand years on earth are but the blink of an eye in Heaven, and you can never know the importance of the role you are called to play.
Gandalf summarizes it all in 2 short sentences:
“Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”
Because we understand protection in a bigger sense than mere protection from physical harm.
We literally worship a God who was physically killed and resurrected, and can list countless martyrs down through history.
Another example of Christ putting false gods to open shame is how their worship has been abandoned and even their names have been appropriated for vessels to send his people to proclaim *his* name in the heavens. *Every* knee shall bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
A. L. Stevenson retweeted
I’m not sure who needs to hear this, but Reformed Protestants do not believe that the Protestant Reformation was the start of the church. We trace our lineage back through the Protestant Reformation, through the Middle Ages, into the early church, into the Bible, and we own all of that. So Saint Patrick belongs to the Protestants, as does Augustine, John Chrysostom, and all the rest of the saints. The Protestant Reformation was not the start of a new church. It was an attempt to purify and reform the church and move it away from the abuses of the papacy and its money-hungry, power-hungry twisting of the faith that was delivered once for all to the saints.
If you shy away from certain passages of scripture because your perceived political opponents like those passages, you're already more theologically liberal than you realize.
A. L. Stevenson retweeted
Don’t let the misuse of this verse for open borders immigration policy lead you to reactionary foolishness when you hear the verse.
It’s still God‘s word.
Reformed brothers & sisters, take comfort in the words of the Lord: “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.” Otherwise, if there’s anything true here, let it be an opportunity to further mortify sin.
“[A magnet] will not draw gold or pearl, but despising these, it draws the iron to itself, one of the most inferior metals: thus Christ leaves angels, those noble spirits, the gold and the pearl, and comes to poor sinful man. ”
— Thomas Watson
Many object to “total depravity” because don’t understand what it means.
Total depravity doesn’t mean everyone is evil 100% of the time, nor that people are as evil as they could possibly be.
It simply means that sin affects every part of us; there is no part untouched by sin.
