Redeemed sinner; @fairgroover’s hubby; dad of 6; pastor of Waterville Baptist Church; missionary @hoperestoredNB; trying to manage it all!
Woodstock, New Brunswick
Joined October 2010
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We’ve started a newsletter for our new ministry project in New Brunswick! Here’s the first issue, a brief glimpse at what’s been happening with us as we prepare to move:
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Incredibly, the earliest Christians embraced the symbol of the cross which was a sign of shame and humiliation in the Greco-Roman world. So what's the *oldest* image of Jesus on the cross? And how often was it used? My latest: wordfirst.org/articles/whats…
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I'm very close to a public health nurse who works with high risk populations, including many new Canadians who come from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. I can assure you that this is a significant failure of public health messaging that decreases the trust in public health authorities. Women who are new to Canada, and many low income Canadians who don't live in places where elite discourse about the differences between gender and biology are commonplace, are bewildered when hearing phrases like "chest feeding" or "birth parent" or that "men can be pregnant" and you can bet your bottom dollar that that lowers trust when the same public health authorities make recommendations about life and death issues related to their child's health. This includes things that are absolutely necessary for public health, like vaccines.
"A pregnant person is a person who is pregnant."
That's the answer the Liberal-appointed head of the PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA gave when asked to define a term used in her own agency's taxpayer-funded guidance on pregnancy.
When pressed to explain how that differs medically from a pregnant woman, she couldn't give a clear answer.
Our own Public Health Agency can't even clearly define the language it publishes in its public health guidance...or tell Canadians whether a man can get pregnant.
This is what happens when Liberal identity politics take priority over clear communication about biological reality.
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“When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation” (1 Corinthians 14:26). This is not a blueprint for how things ought to be, but a description of how things were. But it was obviously problematic, and Paul intends to sort it out
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Oct 28: Trump declares, “Montreal will pay if he loses the midterms.”
Nov 3, 10:02 PM ET: James Talarico flips Texas blue for the first time in 38 years.
10:04 PM ET: Winnipeg erases a 4-goal deficit in 2:40 and beats Montreal 5-4 in OT. U.S. Olympian Kyle Connor scores twice
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If the President wants to begin again anew with the voters, he’ll fire Howard Lutnick and Peter Navarro today, end all tariffs except on China, and embrace Canada’s proposal for trade.
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“The trade war helped change Ms. Holt’s view, then, but it also exposed the contradiction of banning shale gas development while the same fuel heats the region on the coldest days of winter, delivered by tankers from as far away as Qatar and Australia. New Brunswick will burn gas, it seems, so long as it comes from somewhere else…
Ms. Holt has said she wants New Brunswick to help make Canada an energy superpower. Almost all of the elements are in place: massive shale gas deposits, a royalty system fit for purpose and a terminal that could ship it across the Atlantic. The only thing missing is a whiff of political bravery.”
Globe editorial: New Brunswick's future needs just a whiff of political bravery
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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Republicans got blown out because of the tariffs.
People will make a million other excuses, but it was, in fact, the tariffs.
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Anyone can cut down a tree with a sharp axe, but only an exceptionally strong man can cut down a tree with a dull axe. When God uses the dull axe of human preachers to chop down the trees of sin and unbelief, His glory is doubled. It proves the incomparable strength of his arm. - Joel James
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Yesterday was Elijah pouring water on the altar.
It's God's rebuke to all who think He can't build His church unless the right politicians are in power. It's Him removing idols.
Jesus is Lord, not Donald Trump, and He doesn't need Caesar. His power is made perfect in weakness.
This, 100%. No Christian should ever underestimate the evangelistic power and pastoral value of a visibly settled and calm hope in the face of fear.
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'It was very important to me 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙚 “𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙” and that the “Baptist” part was just a variation within the overall reformed tradition.'
I would like to posit that this thinking developed as a result of the increased interest in Reformed theology in the 1960s, which eventually gave rise to the descriptor of "Reformed Baptist". Whereas, historically, I believe our tradition developed to particularly view ourselves as "Particular Baptists" (UK centric) within the broader shared Reformed/Calvinistic stream.
The loss of "Particular Baptist" or similar historic descriptors as a real identifier of a concrete denomination of Christians in many of our churches (not just a title adopted by those interested in church history), combined with the placement of being "Reformed" at the forefront of our identity and the added emphasis placed on Reformed and Presbyterian divines, to the neglect of our own history and divines has given rise to this default inclination and mindset.
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My prediction for election night:
President Trump will learn no lessons from this.
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I have great respect for Dr. Carter. But as per usual with this kind of move, his critique of Baptist confessionalism and worship does not engage the best of our tradition.
My church is living proof that what he is seeking is possible as a Baptist.
And the fractious nature of presbyterianism—even in and around the PCA—is living proof that it's actually congregationalism all the way down. Every time someone changes traditions, or a church "realigns" with another denomination, the point is proved again and again.
Popular sovereignty (congregationalism) is a natural law. Read Althusius.
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This is very well put by @colinsmo.
Whenever a Baptist feels the pull toward Presbyterian polity as the remedy for the chaos and “tomfoolery” of SBC life and/or corporate worship styles, I am quick to note—with genuine respect for the polity and convictions of my brothers in the PCA and OPC—that those very denominations exist precisely because Presbyterianism is no silver bullet. The PCA and OPC were born out of earlier Presbyterian bodies that had already failed to protect confessional integrity, and their General Assemblies today frequently function as mirror images of the SBC annual meeting: prolonged floor fights, contested interpretations of confessional standards, competing cultural and ecclesiastical visions, and the same underlying reality of popular sovereignty working its way through the system.
What makes either polity structure "healthy" is the spiritual vitality of the people inhabiting them. It is congregationalism all the way down. Every realignment, every departure over Side B, Keller-influenced megachurch methods, Christian nationalism, or some other contested question, re-proves the point. Polity can constrain and channel disagreement, but it cannot abolish the fact that churches and denominations remain associations of free people who retain the capacity to dissent, exit, or reorganize.
The difference is largely one of venue and procedural form, not of substance. Popular sovereignty, as Althusius and the broader Reformed tradition understood it, is not an accidental feature of congregationalism; it is a natural law of human association that reappears under every form of church government.
I have great respect for Dr. Carter. But as per usual with this kind of move, his critique of Baptist confessionalism and worship does not engage the best of our tradition.
My church is living proof that what he is seeking is possible as a Baptist.
And the fractious nature of presbyterianism—even in and around the PCA—is living proof that it's actually congregationalism all the way down. Every time someone changes traditions, or a church "realigns" with another denomination, the point is proved again and again.
Popular sovereignty (congregationalism) is a natural law. Read Althusius.
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The Baptist churches, whether in England or in America, are certainly to be regarded as branches of the Reformed movement.
—Richard Muller
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The deepest root of catholicity is the apostolic witness in the NT. And I remain convinced that infant baptism and institutional connectionalism are no where to be found there.
