Although godliness always increases obedience to sex God made us, the pursuit of manliness that is not the natural outgrowth of the pursuit of godliness is corrupt. Even lesbians pursue manliness.
Be assured: it’s impossible for man to pursue godliness w/out growing in manliness.
Always read NASB95 footnotes. (Don’t use more recent neutered NASB.) When fn says “Lit,” it stands for “literally” & is telling you true text inspired by God. Read and think the footnote. Read and think “seed” instead of “descendant” 100s of times across OT/NT. #Biblestraightup
Men who don’t observe Good Friday should not observe Easter. Preach it. #goodshepherd
Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? (Acts 26:8)
Red buds. Daffodils. Lilies. Nesting birds. Trees budding.
Births: Micah Christiaan Bayly 7lbs13oz
Resurrection: Jesus Christ.
He is Risen!
He is risen indeed!
Was eye-opening a while ago, realizing how the ESV translators had systematically replaced “virgin” with “betrothed” in 1 Corinthians 7:25-38. Before studying that passage I always simplistically thought that I was reading God’s words, not what modern scholars & theologians thought He should’ve said.
Yes, and that one’s especially situated to undo Paul’s logic for why we cover and uncover our heads as men and women in corporate worship. It’s a contentious topic among godly men, so I’m not intending to be inflammatory, but still, I’ve wondered before whether God allowed us to largely abandon the traditional understanding of that text and miss the point with theories like “the head covering is long hair” or “the head covering is a matter of culture” as a judgment for our rebellion in the matters which the covering is meant to symbolize. If the churches are feminist and “contentious” in practice (v.16), it’s fitting that we look like it, which means the argument and command of the text would be hidden from our eyes. We don’t willfully rebel so as to incur condemnation for going against conscience; we don’t burn the coverings like the 20th century feminists. We think in basically good conscience that head coverings are totally irrelevant in modern worship, so much so that we boldly reconfigure the passage in the ESV to make it into a “cultural matter”. But (at least I’m convinced), we disobey nonetheless.
Which of course makes one wonder what else you or I believe about some difficult text that we’ve adopted out of convenience or cultural idols or because God has permitted sin to scale over our eyes. No hope at all without the cross.
Christian fathers, show this to your children. Explain each degradation. Make clear it is the wickedness of the two men and everyone who helped them do it. Explain it is not the wickedness of the children. Explain the wrath of God against sodomitic marriage as well as renting some woman’s body to make and carry a baby for you. #Christianfather
If you don’t explain details of world’s wickedness to your children and declare the nature of Canaanites’ shame, you are not raising your sons/daughters in nurture/admonition of Lord. It is not moralism or politics or censoriousness to do so. It is godly. Be calm #Christianfather
Teach your children the meaning of degraded/glorious, abomination/virtue, shame/honor, shameless/contrite, immodest/virtuous, debauched/innocent, rebellious/submissive, vile/holy. #Christianfather
First great-grandchild just born to Mrs. Cynthia Ummel: Timothy Enoch Ummel. Cynthia is married to our eldest grandchild, Jonathan. Child is healthy. Parents are joyful. They said “Enoch” is in honor of Cynthia’s dad, Adam Spaetti: “Enoch walked with God and was no more.”
Heard of elder who resigned b/c he didn’t trust his pastor’s doctrinal trajectory. Still he stayed in the church.
Seriously? Too bad the Apostle Paul hadn’t heard of this strategy. Wouldn’t it be special to have a calling to keep the peace w/out keeping God’s truth? Sign me up. #goodshepherd
Read a bunch of reviews of a book of rank feminist heresy deconstructing God the Father yesterday. All the reviews discussed the heresy in carefully modulated terms and were disgustingly obsequious toward the female author.
Avoid these hirelings. Such men are everywhere in the Reformed church today. Their refusal to warn, but always and everywhere to merely join the conversation, is just as destructive to souls as the heretics they’re reviewing. The man who cares more about how his peers view him and whether he’ll be seen as part of the conversation bears no resemblance to any prophet or reformer of the past. He doesn’t warn. He discusses. He is a dog who refuses to bark, promising to guard but turning tail when the wolf comes for the sheep.
Which is worse, histrionic discernment or dispassionate disquisition?
Both are equally insidious because both lull us to sleep, innoculating us against the pastoral warnings that should characterize the care of true shepherds guarding their sheep. Remember the Apostle Paul characterized his ministry: “Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears” (Acts 20:31).
Read and trust men like this to pastor you. Men who don’t cry and don’t even start admonishing their flock (or limit their warnings to politics and culture) are hirelings. Run.
Was curious so tried to figure out what book you are referencing but instead stumbled upon the book “Beyond God the Father” by Mary Daly published in 1973, which apparently was a pivotal writing in the feminist movement. The summary follows:
Beyond God the Father is a book by Mary Daly that discusses the impact of Christianity on patriarchy. The book was written in 1973 and is considered a classic in feminist theological literature. Daly argues that Christianity has played a significant role in advancing Patriarchy, and that Christianity and Patriarchy are inseparable. The book was considered radical by many critics, as it called for a rejection of all Judeo-Christian religious traditions, deeming them immoral and unethical.
What strikes me in the above is apparently Mrs. Daly was better able to recognize the creation hierarchy presented in the Bible better than today’s complementarians!
Dealing with a comparable situation. A female US lecturer imported to NZ’s Carey Baptist College, the only NZ college that trains baptist pastors, teaches:
Questioned an old classmate who also lectures there. I was told he hasn’t read that, but this woman is “a brilliant scholar who is a deeply committed evangelical Christian, and unafraid to walk towards difficult topics and engage them theologically.”
No response regarding Carey’s view.
I’m contacting baptists in NZ (I’m in Australia). Out of the two I’ve talked to so far (I’ve been waiting for my lecrurer contact to reply) the one who was horrified is not part of that church anymore. I’m contacting more and will see what the response is. I have a feeling that they are already inured to the muck.
When studying in 70s at UW(Madison) & Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, became clear shepherds would not be able to preach Scripture w/out being damned as sexist, homophobic, racist, etc. We’d all have to choose whether to fear God or man. Make your choice. #goodshepherd
So godless, but even more godless are those who place sheep under this very bright false prophetess. They do not fear God or love His sheep. Love,
Yes. My take on the NZ Baptist Union is much of it is “BINO” - Baptist In Name Only. There is now a huge spread of faith expressions within the Baptist Union, from charismatic to conservative, to “inclusive”, to much eye-rolling at whatever nonsense is coming out of Carey (or Laidlaw, for that matter) at any given time. The wife of one on my friends was the OT lecturer at Carey for a while, but she was never baptistic anyway and her husband certainly wasn’t, or isn’t.
