Brothers, if you want to learn manhood, forget manosphere. Read/read/read Scripture. Read bios of dead men. Find older quiet men of faith & copy them. B/c manosphere gets your itch and scratches it doesn’t make them or you godly. #scratchingears
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Men looking for godly fight? Never mind Christian nationalism. Reform the CHURCH. How? Lead group of men to study “Elders Reformed.” Get rid of neutered Bibles. Expose sacramentalism. Get young men to help you w/diaconal work. Sweat & talk w/them. Pray God 2 send a #goodshepherd
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Truthfully, how does one know? Thus learn there’s no safe space between obeying/dressing/loving sex our Creator made us & the anarchy producing this latest hate crime. Not an inch of safe space between worldlings’ bondage & God’s wonderful male & female. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/utah-official-censured-falsely-suggesting-teenage-girl-transgender-rcna139062
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A brilliant proposal for President Biden. Pardon President Trump. You might just win.
“Food Fight” just dropped. Latest Out of Our Minds podcast. Read show notes abt the foodie who died on TV.
Recommend us to friends/family. #foodfight Food Fight - Warhorn Media
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Removing this post condemning the situation at Tenth. Had already said it time after time, so moving on.
wrongly placed, but see below
Speaking of dependence on others (sometimes called “plaigiarism”), if you’ve learned from a man, go out of your way publicly to acknowledge his helpfulness. And don’t just acknowledge dead men like Edwards & Calvin (and all those Puritans everyone preens themselves over quoting).
The Apostle Paul exhorts us to give “all good things” to those who have taught us, chief among which is public thanks. It doesn’t humiliate us to acknowledge men who have taught us. It’s a sign of humility, which may be the sine qua non of true virility and manhood. #saythankyou
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Wonderful ruling. Praise God for this: Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling | The New Republic
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High school retreat of Christ the Word was a great encouragement this past weekend. So grateful for these men and women, and their open minds and hearts to the things of God. Thank you.
Hi Tim.
I don’t seem to be able to comment on your Facebook posts. I was going to mention the Rick Warren sermon industry. A baptist church I attended was fed a continual stream of Rick Warren sermons. Apparently Warren said it was okay at a seminar sometime. After I figured it out and confronted the pastor, he started using other people’s sermons :). I then started noticing it everywhere. I was taken with a sermon outline at a church I visited and complimented the vicar. For some reason I looked it up online and found the whole sermon on another man’s website. None of these were acknowledged.
I have sympathy for them, especially if part of a smaller rural congregation. They are competing with extremely talented internet personalities. I also think there is room for people who acknowledge they are delivering Christian truths they themselves did not organise. But that does not describe most plagiarism we see in the church.
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After rereading your comments here, I think I may be slightly off-point, but my thumbs put in such great effort I’m reluctant to delete what I wrote above. I agree thanking people is good practice, even in church bulletins if nothing else. That way others can benefit from where the preacher gets ideas.
Dear Alistair,
Agree with you, actually. But the worst of this is the pastor’s failure to know his sheep and preach to THEM what THEY need. No time to elaborate on that at the present, though. And my comment about thanking was not my suggestion how to deal with plagiarism. It was just a thought that came out of the plagiarism discussion.
What plagiarism really demonstrates is the death of pastoral care, but this is demonstrated as well by pastors whose every sermon becomes a chapter in a book and MacArthur preachers (who claim it’s virtuous to avoid application and preaching to the conscience) as it is by plagiarism, if you follow my meaning? Love,
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I wonder what Tim Keller would say abt what Bill Hybels said abt what Andy Stanley said abt what Donald Carson had to say abt Russ Moore’s comment concerning John Piper’s response to John MacArthur’s sage advice to the nation related to Alistair Begg’s advice to that grandmother?
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NewRepublic says AL Supreme Court decision “terrifying” They’re right. Shed innocent blood & tremble before Holy God. So says the court (actually not: it was Chief Justice Parker in his concurrence): “the People of this State …have required us to treat every human being in accordance with the fear of a holy God who made them in His image.”
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In “Abortion and the Church,” we dive deep into frozen limbo & bloodshed IVF requires. Also court testimony of one of world’s premier geneticists concerning these little ones locked up “in the fridge.” Amazon.com
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Concurring with the majority in the Alabama Supreme Court decision in LePage/Fonde vs. Center for Reproductive Medicine declaring cryogenically preserved IVF children are children under the law, Chief Justice Parker cites:
Scripture
Van Mastricht
Aquinas
Augustine
Calvin (long quotes)
Bellamy
Edwards
All of them as he explicates the “image of God” in man.
Rejoice people of God!
#embryosrchildren
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Alabama Chief Justice Parker concurring in LePage/Fonde vs. Center for Reproductive Medicine includes extensive quote from Van Mastricht explaining God made man in His Image “so that he might as it were contemplate and delight himself in man, as in a copy of himself, or a most highly polished mirror, for which reason His delights are said to be with the children of men.”
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Shameless NYT mocks Alabama Chief Justice Parker and the “God” he fears. NYT disdains His Moral Law. Their thirst for blood of babies knows no limits. One day soon they will answer to Him. #nounionwithbabymurderers https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/alabama-ivf-tom-parker.html
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President Biden promoting murder of babies while petting his dog who is biting Secret Service agents are of a fabric.
Both deny man (men and women) being God’s Image-bearers. Read Exodus 21:28-29. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/22/biden-dog-commander-bite-24-agents/
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The Republican world is up in arms condemning the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision in favor of protecting IVF babies. Beyond that compassion everyone feels for the couple not able to have children, and thus wanting to use IVF, is there another deeper reason Christians and non-Christians alike across the Republican Party are decrying the Alabama Supreme Court naming IVF frozen embryos “children?”
We open up IVF’s ghoulish industrial production of frozen and dead children thoroughly in “Abortion and the Church.” Get and read it:
"Note here precisely what it is under discussion. IVF companies conceive image-bearers of God in a test tube, freeze them, make utilitarian calculations about how many babies they need, and so on.
"In August 1989, world-renowned geneticist Jerome Lejeune testified in a Tennessee court concerning what he refers to as “little ones kept in the fridge.” He opened up the ghoulish premises and procedures at the heart of the in vitro fertilization business. We quote extensively from Lejeune’s testimony because of the close application of his testimony to those babies aborted at the same early stage of development through birth control. The human life that Dr. Lejeune testifies exists after conception is the same stage of embryonic life of those little ones prevented from attaching themselves to their mother’s womb by IUDs and hormonal methods of birth control. Those babies imprisoned and killed by IVF procedures are the same age as those killed by IUDs and hormonal birth control.
“The following is from Dr. Lejeune’s court testimony…”
https://amzn.to/48wuShT
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