Out of Our Minds Podcast: leadership and conflict
This series has lain dormant the past couple of years, but now after careful consideration, it will continue. What was under consideration?
The series has been dormant due to my realization a few years ago that documenting the history of a church is more complicated than James Herriot documenting the history of the animals he treated, and their owners…
https://warhornmedia.com/2025/08/26/the-kindness-of-the-lord-26-renewing-a-commitment/
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I finally read this, and it is so frustrating, because adoption itself is so hard. Too hard, in fact. But meanwhile surrogacy is literal child trafficking and is completely legal, leading to the expected results, such as children ending up with sexual abusers.
But all of that is kind of beside the point, which is well-made by the article, that children are commoditized and not protected. Very sad. Their proposals seem very good.
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Fascinating What We Find in the Sewers - by Calum Drysdale
It’s not possible to put together words that properly convey the wickedness of this MAN who killed young children in a worship service glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ.
Make him nameless. Multiply his shame. Recount the shame of his father. Of his mother.
Don’t talk about guns. Talk about fathers.
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Is the United States a Christian nation?
Yes.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-countries-with-the-largest-christian-populations/
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… Make him nameless. Multiply his shame. Recount the shame of his father. Of his mother.
Possibly a daft question, but: at what point would you say that a father was not responsible (to be point of having their shame recounted in the way you suggest) for the behaviour of their (adult?) child? There was a real-life case of that in the UK last year, with one especially reprehensible crime, when it eventually came out that both the perp’s parents were members in good standing of a local church.
Difficult. My observation is that such acts of bloodlust are usually connected with familial sins which leave the child at sea spiritually, emotionally, mentally, etc. And God has made the father’s authority, influence, and responsibility primary. School shooters are children shooters, and delving into their past would likely demonstrate the sexual dysphoria which is commonly associated with fatherlessness of one sort or another for which the absent father is almost always principally culpable. This is my observation through the years.
So what of cases where the crime is committed by a child of confessing Christians?
Two things. First, their confession of Christ would not lead me to think their fatherhood and motherhood was not defective and sinful in very major ways. Think David and Absalom. Eli. Samuel.
Second, shame is a grace from God which causes men to flee sin. We may regret that David had the shame of his sons Scripture records, but that shame was and is very helpful to cause both the wicked and holy ones to learn and flee both David’s sons’ wicked acts as well as David’s bad fatherhood. Love,
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He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them man (Hebrew “adam”) in the day when they were created. -Genesis 5:2
Pastors today refuse to use this name God chose for our race. We’re ashamed of God’s word, so we replace it with “human beings.”
Pastors will defend themselves, “English usage has changed.” Truth is pastors have changed English usage.
Forget “human beings.” Honor God by using His name for us—“man.”
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Thanks; this does make things clearer. This commentary on Samuel and his sons brings out your point, although there are big differences between him and Eli as well.
Samuel’s Sons Disappoint (1 Samuel 8:1-3) | Theology of Work
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I’m not sure we know enough to say “big differences.” Maybe, but do we have anything but silence concerning Samuel’s responsibility or lack thereof for his son’s character? Love,
You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which do not see, hear or understand, but the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified. -Daniel 5:23
Men, we must examine ourselves.
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Kennedy and the CDC:
Reform is mayhem. Every deep-seated interest screams that he has integrity. Remove him and his supporters scream, “How dare you. You’re killing children!”
The CDC guys are bad. Maybe some are good. Reform can’t stop to distinguish between the two.
Clean house and start over. The CDC is worth the pain of reform.
Why did we create Department of Homeland Security when we already had Department of Defense?
So what, Department of War will focus on aggression?
Leave Department of Defense as is and get rid of Department of Homeland Security.
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Have you read “The Grace of Shame?”
“We are all tempted to leave behind the words of Scripture that condemn our generation’s pet sins. Today, sexual sins such as effeminacy, sodomy, and lesbianism are very popular, so even pastors in conservative churches are working to show how sensitive and understanding they are of these sins and those who commit them. One of the principle ways they demonstrate this sensitivity is by avoiding the very words God uses to condemn these sins.
“We would never say so, but our abandonment of God’s words condemning these sins shows that we think God was wrong to shame these sinners. God shouldn’t have been so hard on them in His language and His judgments recorded in the Bible.
“Our generation is precious with our language and there are few places we’ve changed our language more than the way we speak of sexual sin.”
Forget socials. Get Biblical. Get real.
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“Can we trust the government?”
Andrew & Tim are joined by UBonn Economics prof Pastor Jürgen Von Hagen for discussion of role of trade in peacekeeping, land and farm subsidies, central banks, the Fed’s independence…
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