Behind evolutionary biologists curtain, fascinating things are happening…
“We all know that sensationalism sells newspapers, and articles that portend a major upheaval make for better copy. Creationists and advocates of ‘intelligent design’ also feed this impression, with propaganda that exaggerates differences of opinion among evolutionists and gives a false impression that the field of evolutionary biology is in turmoil. What’s more surprising is how commonly conservative-minded biologists play the ‘We’re under attack!’ card against their fellow evolutionists. Portraying intellectual opponents as extremist, and telling people that they are being attacked, are age-old rhetorical tricks to win debate or allegiance.”
If your preaching is with manly zeal, but you have given over your worship singing to emotive, subjective, womanly and effeminate lisping, your manly zeal will have difficulty reversing the direction of your worship.
Praise given over to Hillsong, weak man intonation and voicing will leave you struggling to proclaim the Fatherhood of God, His Law and coming judgment, repentance, and faith.
Bring objectivity; bring the fear of God; bring manly intonation and voicing back to your worship and it will propel your preaching to manly zeal—which is what the prophets and apostles always had, and why they were killed.
No pastor during the past fifty years has preached 1Timothy 2:14. We’re cowards. Yet linguists report women lead the language change that neutered our Bibles. And this. As Bob Dylan sang, “When you gonna wake up?”
It might also be as simple as the key/register of the songs; as someone pointed out in the days when I was involved with Promise Keepers, “many of our songs are sung in a register that is just a little too high for men to sing comfortably in”. And getting men to sing in the first place is hard enough.
Again, dear brother Scott Tibbs serves us well. You really should subscribe. I’ve watched him engage unbelievers in. the public square for decades, now, and he’s model for what Job might look like today out at the city gates.
Here Scott warns Christians against online super apostles seeking status as influencers. Excellent.
Gunners have no trouble singing. Maybe men don’t sing when they don’t love? In his “Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life,’ Law pointed out that men who say they can’t sing (in worship) never stop singing in the pub. Love,
Regarding BLM/ICE RIOTERS, this from “Russian Under the Old Regime” by Richard Pipes:
The imperial government invariably over-reacted to radical challenges, carrying out mass arrests where restraint would have been in order, and exiling where arrest and brief detention would have been sufficient punishment. By various bureaucratic-police devices, which will be detailed in the following chapter, the government increasingly restricted the civil liberties of all the Russians, alienating law-abiding citizens who otherwise would have had no truck with the opposition. The radicals, having quickly learned how beneficial to their interests government overreaction was, developed elaborate techniques of “provocation", that is of baiting the police into brutality as a means of gaining public sympathy for themselves and their cause. The net effect was for public opinion to shift steadily towards the left. The average liberal found himself in a great quandary as to how he should react to the mounting civil conflict.
While he disapproved of violence, he saw that the authorities also did not stay within the bounds of law; his choice was not between “law and order” and violence, but between two kinds of violence, one perpetrated by the (seemingly) all-powerful state, the other by misguided but (seemingly) idealistic and self-sacrificing youths, struggling for what they conceived to be the public good. Faced with such a choice, he tended to opt for radicalism.
This kind of dilemma is clearly reflected in the writings of Turgenev, in this respect a typical Westerner and liberal. But even an arch-conservative like Dostoevsky could not entirely escape it. He for whom radicalism was explainable best by recourse to demonology admitted once to a friend that he would have been incapable of turning over to the police hypothetical terrorists overheard talking about a bomb planted by them in the Winter Palace.
The unwilling, half-hearted, often tormented recruits from the centre constituted a critical asset for the radicals. The technique of purposefully driving the government to the extreme right and to violent excesses, first developed by Russian radicals in the late nineteenth century, has ever since served as the most effective weapon in the radical arsenal. It paralyses the liberal centre and prods it into joining ranks with the left against the increasingly extreme right, thereby assuring, over the long haul, liberalism’s self-destruction. (HT Daniel C.)
Son Taylor, Grandson Jackson, and Fernando last night in Bloomington. Thousands were in line and Fernando stayed looong after the closing time, greeting every last one of the thousands in line before he left. Stand-up Christian man.
This text from Grandson Daniel Crum who was in Assembly Hall for the watch party (w/17k others) and reports:
“I forgot to tell you all, but after the IU game everybody in assembly hall went quiet for Mendoza’s interview until he said glory to God and the entire stadium erupted as loud as when we scored”
Here’s AI translation of Bible from Hebrew/Greek. It translates Hebrew “אָדָם” “humankind” in Genesis 1:26.., but “אָדָם” in Genesis 5:2 “Adam” (“He named them Adam”).
Always argued for transliterating אָדָם in 5:2 & and across OT “adam” and אָדָם the first man “Adam” (w/uppercase “A”). “Humankind” doesn’t protect Hebrew name for race (אָדָם) being derived from male of species.
Climate change and severe weather started with “wind chill” when they left off temp and took to telling us how we’d feel.
Hillsong helped.
Jordan Peterson is the antidote.
Why have I never watched movies abt the supernatural; angels, demons, vampires, spirit world; the “uncanny?”
"Perhaps the clearest sign of the transformation in our world is that today many people look back to the world of the porous self with nostalgia. As though the creation of a thick emotional boundary between us and the cosmos were now lived as a loss.
“The aim is to try to recover some measure of this lost feeling. So people go to movies about the uncanny in order to experience a frisson. Our peasant ancestors would have thought us insane. You can’t get a frisson from what is really in fact terrifying you.” (Taylor, “Secular Age”)
