Fair question. For myself, I believe God has ordained that the pulpit leads the world and this man is the one who, along with his President and fellow profs at CTS, formed the antinomian and cheap grace preaching and witness of the pastors of the PCA.
Did the preaching of PCA pastors in the nineties and aughts have any impact on the revocation of sodomy laws across the country, and then SCOTUS’s Obergefell decision? Jones surely intended to influence that preaching by publicly calling for the repeal of laws against sodomy. Love,
Last Lord’s Day, a lifelong missionary to Asia brought a brief report and thanked the congregation for their support. Finishing with prayer, as he walked off the platform he had one final statement: “Obey your pastor.”
Until you learn to spot marketing hype and have the proper reaction to it—“yuck”, you’re not ready to choose a church. The cool dude/hipster you love because he validates all your youthful tastes and prejudices is never a good shepherd. Depend on it.
Mantra last night after shooting of Pres. Trump was “there must be no place for political violence.”
Hypocrisy on 2 levels. 1st what to call hatred spewed by Elite Class for past 5 yrs but political violence? 2nd what to call Democrats’ abortion platform but political violence?
Language was weaponized a long time ago. The call for an end to political violence coming from the left side of the aisle, the same folks that claimed just a few years ago that literally burning down whole city blocks wasn’t violence, but rather protected speech, is a joke.
To what extent, then, can we draw a line between the Left’s rhetoric over the last five years, and what we saw on January 6th? I am tempted to argue that what happened (for the left) was a prize case of “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind”.
Bad all around, Ross. Pres Trump should have admitted defeat, although they used other means and stole the election from us. But not legally actionable means when it’s big tech/corporate media/deep state deception and censorship. As we go through this present time, I’m reading Liberty Tree, and it’s so clear how much the American Revolution resembled today. Particularly in the driving force of change being plebian, and not Adams/Madison/Hancock/Jefferson rich elitists. Instructive. I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read it. The best way to put the association between then and now is “revolution from down under, and not top down.” Love,
The Secret Service has been refusing to give protection to RFKennedy Jr. But now, following shooting of Pres Trump, Pres. Biden figured out it might be time to give in and just announced SS will start protecting (@RobertKennedyJr)
Rethinking things in light of reading of leadership of working men in American Revolution. 2day w/MAGA men supporting PresTrump (and I expect VPVance), both men’s appeals to working men make me very hopeful. Yes we must respect authority, but Ruling Class is enemy of our nation.
Govt destroys father/mother’s authority over sons/daughters. Teachers secretly help children to murder their babies & to deny God creating them male/female. Our most fundamental govt oppression is denial of father/mother’s authority over sons/daughters. California bans school rules notifying parents of kids' pronoun change : NPR
A theory about the ‘working man’ and his current influence in American politics. I wonder if what we are seeing is not one group of ‘working men’, but two, coming to the fore:
One is what we see in terms of MAGA men.
The other is its equivalent - on the left. This group will have different priorities, but share with the first group a loathing of the ‘ruling class’, though their understanding of what that class comprises will vary. This second group will also have many more Black Americans in it as well.
We’re not blaming female agents themselves, but Democrats’ ideological idiocy that places women in harm’s way, forcing men to accept second-rate female skills which subordinate mission of protection to mission of social change.
Secret Service Director Cheatle: “The buck stops with me. I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review.”