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husband, father, pastor, bjj brown belt

Joined April 2016
“Out of the love of the truth and the desire to bring it to light…..” That is how Luther began his 95 Theses.
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Many of the early church fathers viewed justification as a forensic declaration of righteousness. - Dr. N. Busenitz, 'Long Before Luther', pg. 87.
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This is why it is so important that actual deeds of obedience are underneath the status we have!
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What say ye thou who sayeth the church existed in the OT?
Replying to @DrGladd
Equally: Is the church a secular political assembly? Yes! Acts 19:32 So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for THE ASSEMBLY [ἡ ἐκκλησία] was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together. NARRATOR: though ἐκκλησία is a common word with many uses, the NT church is neither Israel nor a political assembly (1 Cor. 10:32, etc.).
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The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. — Proverbs 12:15
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“Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.” - C H Spurgeon
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According to the DHS statement, I was incorrect in the section about Samuel being in the States legally. I believed because he was working in Ohio he was. None of that justifies the racist, hate filled rhetoric spewing forth by CN anons. Pray for him and his family.
Samuel Sey, @SlowToWrite, is a friend of mine and precious brother in Christ. He is in the United States legally, married to an American wife, and the father to dear children. These Christian Nationalists going after him are showing themselves not only wrong but psychotic.
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Samuel Sey, @SlowToWrite, is a friend of mine and precious brother in Christ. He is in the United States legally, married to an American wife, and the father to dear children. These Christian Nationalists going after him are showing themselves not only wrong but psychotic.
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Well, if the report from DHS I online is correct, then Samuel was not presently in the USA with correct visa status, and I was incorrect in my original tweet about that part. I was sure since he was working in Ohio that he was of the necessary status. He is a brother in Christ.
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“Toleration is the grave of reformation.” —Thomas Watson
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You can be dispensational and not: a) blindly affirm secular state Israel, b) believe weird things such as the Sermon on the Mount is for Israel only, c) believe that faith precedes regeneration, d) deny Active Obedience. It is called Reformed Dispensationalism.
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EFS …has been exposed as a deviation from Nicene orthodoxy… It is a form of social Trinitarianism… ~ Carl R. Trueman
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The Puritans were marked as skilled preachers. But it was not so much their oratory skill - as good as that would have been - it was the fact they preached Christ to the saint and to the lost sinner. They preached the need to live for Him fully from the heart.
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When Martin Luther finally grasped the doctrine of Justification he said it was “as if a gateway to paradise had been opened”.
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“So I hated life… thus I hated all the fruit of my labour” (Eccles. 2:17-18) “Moreover, every man who eats and drinks sees good..it is the gift of God” (Eccles. 3:13) Things change when we bring God into the picture (time and time again).
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There is an ocean of difference between being a peace maker and a peace keeper. The former works through things in accordance with the revealed will of God and the latter works through things in accordance with the path of least resistance. Be a peace maker. Blessed are….
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Weary saints need the gospel.
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The King keeps His best wine in the cellar of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford
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