Elders who warn children of church against sodomy are haters. Older women who warn mothers against choosing job over children are homebodies; well-meaning but limited. Pastors who warn men against effeminacy and soft clothing have a critical spirit. #sleepersawake
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Where there is danger, warnings are appreciated. Where there is no danger, warnings are ridiculed.
Where there is no fear of God, there is no danger.
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This means twice a week.
Audio of “The Kindness of Lord (13): a pastor’s life” Warhorn Blog Posts | The kindness of the Lord: a pastor's life (13)
Now this is funny: Merriam-Webster: “Yes, ‘biweekly’ can mean both ‘every two weeks’ and ‘twice a week.’ No, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
So if we want to say every two weeks clearly, the word is “fortnightly.” Aaargh!
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LOL. That was what I meant.
Libs preen, pose, cow, hector, bully, harangue, cancel, mock, and ridicule, but never laugh. Laughter is a grace reserved for the humble. An anti-woke nightmare! Why the Fawlty Towers remake is a truly nauseating idea | Television | The Guardian
Yes - the thing that marks out ideologues of any persuasion - right-wingers, conservatives, and Christians included! - is that they are people who have completely lost their sense of humour, assuming they had one to start with.
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Audio No. 8 of “Abortion and the Church” Unborn children r distinguished by specific physical characteristics, being housed & protected w/in their mothers’ wombs. We must make it a habit to speak of intentional destruction of unborn children as “genocide.” Abortion and the Church | Audio 8: Abortion and the Church; Chapter 1 (Bloodshed of 20th century); Section 6 (Conclusion: Genocide)
Tim, that’s a great picture – was it taken after your time with us? Also I noticed your memoir-in-the-making on the pastorate (“The Kindness of the Lord”) thank you for writing.
Love,
Phil Henry
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Church of England (Anglicans) just voted to bless gay marriages and have now turned to debating the neutering of their God-language.
The nations rage. Rise up, O God!
#falseshepherds
Oh wait! You’re talking about the Cape May pic above. Sorry, and yes! It was one of the most delightful vacations Mary Lee and I have had, travelling down after your church’s tenth anniversary celebration to Cape May where we stayed for several days. Good food. Good birding. Sound of the water. Sunsets. Good eye, brother.
Dear Phil, actually, the pic I’m using on the “Kindness of God” posts I found online.
But here’s a pic I took in 2017, three years before we were your guests at Mercy Hill PCA in 2020. Not sure the PC(USA) is usiing the building any more, but if they are, it’s likely five to ten souls present. Love,
In connection with the Church of England’s embracing of heresies, I couldn’t help thinking of Stott and Packer’s utter betrayal of souls by endlessly serving as the poster-boys of high Anglicanism, promoting the CoE.
Lloyd-Jones’s finest moment was calling them out. One of many of their worst moments was dissing Lloyd-Jones for doing so. (You can read Murray’s pained account of the matter in his bio of Lloyd-Jones.)
Stott wrote some helpful stuff and Packer a few superlative things (Knowing God, Fundamentalism and the Word of God, historical intro to Owen’s Death of Death), but what awful leaders they were! And yet it is precisely their leadership that foolish Evangelicals celebrated. What was common between Evangelical muckety-mucks and such Anglican luminaries was a desperate attachment to status and social class as well as molly-coddling error.
Still occasionally have to listen to women and men speak in hushed and reverent tones about Stott the same way they do about Keller. I try to stifle myself. Most recently, I was successful.
When will we learn the difference between building our kingdoms and building the Kingdom of God?
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… What was common between Evangelical muckety-mucks and such Anglican luminaries was a desperate attachment to status and social class as well as molly-coddling error.
And for ‘Anglican luminaries’, one can now add, ‘PCA luminaries’. I know that we all want to be ‘successful’ in our ministries but we should be really careful what we wish for …
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Who is President Biden, really? Check out this account of a father, Mark Houck, who pushed a bloody abortuary escort away from harassing his 12 yr old son. It is not "victory" to avoid a worse defeat
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Audio recording No. 8 of book, “Abortion & the Church.” From Greek genos (“birth, race, kind”) & Latin caedere (“kill”) comes “genocide.” We must habitually speak of intentional destruction of preborn children as “genocide.” Abortion and the Church | Audio 8: Abortion and the Church; Chapter 1 (Bloodshed of 20th century); Section 6 (Conclusion: Genocide)
Out of Our Minds podcast drops 2nd in series on preaching. First episode dealt w/ “pulpiteer” error. Second turns to practical side of sermon prep. Out of Our Minds | How to preach, Part 2
From ChronicleHigherED. Those reforming higher ed are “malign actors?” Happy to read them squealing. Yeah/yeah/yeah some good profs and colleges… By any metric, modern higher ed is most malignant force in society. John Henry Newman, call home. #Christianmind
Teach young girls/women they’re men and this. Note Jamie Read’s report that, starting a few years ago at Children’sStLouis trans clinic, groups of high school women starting coming in together. I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
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It’s metastasized. Where I sit, the university promotes ideas that are more sane than what comes down from the governor and state legislature.