Oh! I know this one! Just check and see how well her team performs against high school boys:
Your broader point is well-made, of course. But God will not be mocked.
I always laugh at those. My favorite matchup is the Canadian women’s national hockey team getting destroyed by the 17-year-olds of the Fort Seskatchewan Boston Pizza Rangers–and that was playing with women’s checking rules!
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‘Fascinating piece on President Barack Obama.’
This is absolutely tragic. ‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole world…’
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The prophets, Jesus, and His apostles all preached God’s law, sin, the wrath of God, and judgment. Those who listened to them knew why they needed Jesus, and thus their evangelism was hugely fruitful. Thus ours isn’t. #goodshepherd
Another daft-laddie question. When, and why, did we stop preaching the Law in the way we used to? I asked this once of Ray Comfort and he seemed to think it was about the turn of the twentieth century, tho’ he wasn’t especially clear as to why.
I have to confess that it was only a close reading of Mere Christianity in my twenties - if not later - that helped me see the need to preach the Law; not reading Ray, I must say. Before then, I would have relied on a heavy dose of apologetics.
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Since the nineteenth century, evangelism, so called, has been carefully crafted to appeal to those under the sway of the post-Original Sin conceit of Enlightenment men. But was it true conversion? Asking this question is verboten. What men believe today is that lowest-common-denominator appeals to pagans to “trust Jesus” is sufficient for eternal life. But the fruit of this appeal is men holding membership (identity) in the Church practicing abortifacient birth control, effeminacy and butchness, denial of Creation sexual order, etc.
It doesn’t matter. He’s “saved.” We’re “saved.” Everyone’s “saved.”
“Temple of the Lord, temple of the Lord, temple of the Lord.”
But what will we do in the end?
Love,
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Thanks for the explanation; which also means that the Enlightenment has more of a hold on our thinking as Christians than we would ever admit to. For example, if we buy into the Enlightenment idea of “rationality and Reason”, then we end up making our Gospel presentations about the reasonable-ness of the message. There is a place for that, and for apologetics, but it also means that we end up not preaching to the conscience of our audience.
I know that Ken Ham has blamed pretty well everything that ails us on the publication in 1859 of The Origin of Species, but maybe what actually let the genie out of the bottle was the French Revolution in 1789, seventy years previously.
Recording of Pastor Alex McNeilly’s post, “What is beautiful worship?”
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Right. Malthus and Darwin were simply a couple rotten fruits from the Enlightenment. I don’t think the French Revolution was foundationally different than the American Revolution in their ideological inspirations and underpinnings denying the Fall and Original Sin, and repudiating hierarchy for horizontalism. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [except slaves] are created equal.” “Self-evident.” Not “Scriptural.”
On our American revolution, Samuel Johnson quipped, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
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New HD version of “The Gospel Blimp” released! Warhorn Blog Posts | "The Gospel Blimp," from 1960 book to 2023 HD streaming movie
Here’s an excerpt from the fifth volume of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opus, a lengthy history of the Russian Revolution titled The Red Wheel. Note the revolutionaries’ utter disdain for the peasants, and thus the soldiers they were depending upon to keep fighting in their defense during World War I. Then too, remember Stalin’s slaughter of the kulaks, years later.
Those who love and work the land are always a grave threat to intellectuals and revolutionaries… Warhorn Blog Posts | Russian peasants and American Marines
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This is my account of one mother in Israel, Sharon Dykstra. Is there any legitimate reason why male church officers should depend upon women from rural communities married to the town barber to call other godless church officers to repentance? Warhorn Blog Posts | Three deaths: Sharon Dykstra, Bill Mouser, and Tim Keller (1)
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… I don’t think the French Revolution was foundationally different than the American Revolution in their ideological inspirations and underpinnings denying the Fall and Original Sin, and repudiating hierarchy for horizontalism. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [except slaves] are created equal.” “Self-evident.” Not “Scriptural.”
Amongst some American Christians, it is an article of faith to think of America as a “shining light on a hill”. And yet, it is a matter of historical record that many of the Founding Fathers were Deists or Freemasons. I have not seen anyone square that particular circle, or even try.
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So now we know Ohio wants abortion. Surprised? Bloodthirst is not outside the church. Bloodthirst is inside the church where pastors resolutely refuse to preach 6th Commandment. We have found the enemy and he is us. Starting w/birth control. https://abortion.evangelpresbytery.com/
Bad morning. For the babies. For “Christian” nationists.: Ohio Blows Up the Republican Plan to Block Abortion Rights
“Men of bloodshed hate the blameless” (Proverbs 29:10). This bloodguilt is significant part of explanation of hostility inside church against mothers pregnant w/5th & 6th & 7th little one. Mothers of 2 who took pill and prevented/aborted 3rd/4th/5th hate mothers who love children
America was a city on a hill. We had many righteous. In fact, I could make a case we still do when we think abt Abraham’s bartering with God over Sodom and Gomorrah and the numbers spoken of there.
The more I read history, though, the clearer it gets that homeschool moms are the target audience for today’s religious charlatans, and easily reassured and fooled. Don’t trust today’s “Christian” curriculum writers or educators to put hair on the chests of boys becoming men needing preparation for today’s church, let alone today’s public square and its electorate. Read a couple histories of political economy to get a proper picture of the rejection of Scripture and Scripture’s God which was the foundation of the republics’ rejection of vertical for horizontal so-called “authority.” Love,
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If you read what I write because it’s agreeable to you, I’ve failed you. Good reading makes us uneasy. It corrects us. That’s why the Bible is always the best reading. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts.
Where’s the dislike button? 
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I didn’t follow the Ohio thing closely, but from what I read, this week’s vote was sort of a double-bank shot against abortion. I can certainly see that some voters may have voted against raising the threshold for initiatives in OH but may also wind up voting against abortion. But the margin of defeat here doesn’t look good.
But with that said, I think banning abortion (however one wants to define that) just isn’t as popular even inside the Republican Party as one might have thought. Perhaps that explains why folks who want to protect babies (and social conservatives generally) have gotten the dirty end of the stick from the Republican Party for so long.
It seems to me borderline political malpractice that the Republican Party was basically left stammering when Roe was overturned after months of notice. It still seems crazy to me that almost no Republicans seem to be able to speak intelligently on this issue, even a year later. “Don’t permit Democrats to hack babies to death” seems like a winning message (even if it’s not all of what those of us here would like to see). But maybe I’m the one who is out of touch.
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