We have lost a father
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Federal money is only 1% of NPR’s income.
Getting govt out of media control and funding is one more step in protection of Christian public confession of faith. While UK and EU increase their censorship of Christian witness, America reverses direction.
A mélange
President Trump is badly wrong in his response to the outcry over his administration’s refusal to release whatever they have re the Epstein case. He should initiate an independent inquiry.
President Trump is not even close to being the right man to reassure the American people on this one. Wake up, sir, and submit yourself to the voice of the people.
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“Reform?”
UK’s growing censorship regime most notorious in prosecution of Christians praying outside abortuaries, but extending far beyond, must end our historic most-favored-nation relationship. “Their oppressors are children, and women rule over them” (Isaiah 3:12).
Christian Nationalism’s “Christendom” is here on full display. Next they will enfranchise dogs and cats. “Fur babies are people, too.”
Excellent Christian witness by MP Kruger. Note his attribution of UK’s wicked decadence to wickedness of pastors of Church of England.
Each parish’s pulpit has failed their parishioners, and thereby destroyed the nation. It’s time for 16th century Reformers, Puritans, and 19th century Evangelicals to come again. His cure is the return of the Church’s pulpits, faith, and witness.
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I’m not at all familiar with the sort-of parallel situations of the Reformed Churches on the Continent over time, but what might a compare-and-contrast between them and the CoE tell us? Separately, I’d imagine the Lutheran Churches on the continent would have tracked in a way very similar to the Church of England - and maybe for the same reasons.
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What we awake to each morning is our sin and God’s righteousness. We must repent. We must plead with God to make us holy.
Read the prophet Jeremiah. The solution to Babylon taking God’s nation captive was not to preach against Babylon’s corruption. It was to preach against the Church’s corruption. God called His covenant people to repent.
Stop blaming everyone else. “It’s me O Lord.”
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The future of our nation will be determined by God raising up men who love Jesus and, because of that love, will feed His flock. Men who will give up fame and fortune to tend His sheep.
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How is this speech not proof of English Erastianism?
The link between this place and the Church of England isn’t merely ceremonial. The prayers we say here at the start of every day aren’t just a nod to tradition. Our democracy is founded on Christian faith. And indeed this Parliament remains the lawgiving power of the Church of England. We in this place have the responsibility to approve or disapprove the doctrine and the rules of the church. And that is as it should be. Because the Church of England is not some private club, just another eccentric denomination. The Church is the chaplain of the nation, and through the parish system in which every square inch of England has its local church and its local priest. We are all members. We all belong even if you never set foot in your church from one year to the next. Even if you don’t believe in its teachings, it is your church, and you are its member.
Erastianism leads to the kind of nominalism MP Kruger speaks of here. Erastianism could explain the mess they are in today.
Whether or not the original WCF is Erastian (the context of its production supports that conclusion, but that is debatable), the American revisions certainly and thankfully dismantle that possibility.
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Rules for good arguments:
In online arguments, criticizing a movement and criticizing a man are different. Criticism of a movement is a function of the critic’s judgment of that movement—not of every adherent of that movement. Thus his criticism is not able to be refuted merely by some adherent declaring his criticism is not true of himself.
On the other hand, when a critic names a specific man in his criticism, the argument then depends on the critic producing quotes proving his criticism of the man to be true.
Adherents of a movement are not the perfect keepers of their movement’s reputation. They can’t simply carry the field by declaring the critic of their movement to be a liar.
A man himself, though, is able to defend his own reputation by saying, “never said or thought that.” It then is incumbent on his critic to prove his criticism by producing quotes of the man which prove the criticism to be true. If he fails to produce those words, the integrity of the argument is protected by his simple retraction of his criticism.
Note that the movement has two claims: “nationalism” and “Christian.” We may easily grant that they are nationalists; that part of their politics has been proven to everyone’s satisfaction. But “Christian?”
Since God’s love for His sons is proven by His discipline of us, it follows we prove we are His sons by submitting to His discipline.
When we don’t submit to His discipline, we call into question whether we are His sons.
Today, let us prove our sonship. Father, help us.
For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives. -Hebrews 12:6
Newly married, my wife and I were so evolved. Men and women were the same. We would have loved WNBA and USWMNT.
Now when we see pics of grown women making their living punching, posting up, and slide tackling each other, we ask ourselves if this is what their mother taught, their father wanted, their pastor preached?
We’ve ruined sex. It’s become a parade of deformities and we’re so proud of ourselves.
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Claiming to preach like Calvin b/c we go verse by verse is like saying we golf like Scottie b/c we start at 1st hole and finish at 18th.
Take any of your sermons and compare them to one of Calvin’s. Don’t fool yourself. None of us preach anything like Calvin. Read his sermons.
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The restoration of discipline nationally and internationally defines Pres Trump’s agenda.
Yes, not everywhere, but it’s been constant.
Good on him.
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It’s noteworthy the pushback Christian Nationalists give to the UK’s Christian Nationalism. They deny it because the UK doesn’t follow their own definitions of what is and is not “Christian.”
Of course, this matter of definitions is the whole ballgame. Who gets to issue the authoritative definitions? The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, or rather the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synond? Maybe Reformed Baptists? Maybe the Presbyterian Church in American? Maybe rather the Orthodox Presbyterian Church? Maybe the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North American? How about the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches or the United Reformed Church?
How about the Evangelical Free Church or the Southern Baptist Convention or the Christian Reformed Church?
Christian Nationalists don’t have to choose because none of them are civil authorities, but Oliver Cromwell didn’t have the luxury of indecision.
Here observe the naïveté of Christian Nationalists. Having no civil authority and governing no one, they declare their definitions willy-nilly.
"We all agree that the United Kingdom is most certainly not Christian Nationalism. We know what we mean when we say ‘Christian Nationalism’ and Lutheran and Baptists and Anglicans don’t have a say! Sec. Hegseth is a card-carrying Christian Nationalist, you know very well.”
Well alrighty then.
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Strange state churches, lying in ponds, distributing Christian Nationhood, is no basis for a system of government!
Supreme executive Christian power lies with the masses not some farcical aquatic cathedral ceremoy!
Sorry, but the old Monty Python bit came to mind reading your post.
And let’s not forget current US Roman Catholic population is around 60 million (but for sake of argument let’s half it to 30m to account for nominalism). Largest Protestant denomination in US is Southern Baptist around 13 million membership. Less than half the RC conservative number. Of course that’s membership, so we could say SBC and RC are around the same size, but even then I’m doubtful - SBC is notorious for not cleaning up rolls. Maybe they have in recent years?
But as for non-liberal Reformed denoms? They are micro denoms - PCA 400k members; OPC 35k members…
American ‘Christian Nationalism’ will be Roman Catholic. Reformed don’t stand a chance if we sacrifice religious freedom for ‘Christendom’.
Delusions of grandeur.
EDIT:
Here’s a little more data (see table titled Self-Reported Membership Stats)
Roman Catholic
From Crisis magazine March 2025:
Let’s run these numbers:
340 million Americans
19% self-identify as Catholic: 64.6 million Catholics
20% of those Catholics: 12.92 million practicing Catholics, or 3.8% of all Americans
Southern Baptist
They report almost 13 million members, but only 4 million weekly attendance (1/3).
It is safe to assume that the rest of the denominations have inflated numbers. And let’s not forget Mormons – 17 million members.
And Reformed Protestants? Miniscule.
But – most importantly – how many of the practicing, weekly attenders across all denominations are regenerated, having true faith? Many are called, few are chosen. Forget politics, we need the evangel
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