Jesus is the Christian’s hope. His joy. His love. His like. His affection. His dreams. His wakening. His life.
His Lord.
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The scholar and the thinker are in some ways mutually antithetical types. Scholarship cannot endure exaggeration. Thinking cannot thrive without it. There is no thinking without exaggeration.
As Ortega y Gasset puts it—To think is, whether you want or no, to exaggerate. If you prefer not to exaggerate, you must remain silent; or, rather, you must paralyse your intellect and find some way of becoming an idiot.
(The reader will note that I am more indulgent than Gasset in that I allow the scholar as well as the idiot to eschew exaggeration.)
The scholar evades decisiveness; he hesitates to praise or condemn; he balances conclusion against competing conclusion so as to cancel out conclusiveness; he is tentative, sceptical, uncommitted.
The thinker hates indecision and confusion; he firmly distinguishes right from wrong, good from evil; he is at home in a world of clearly demarcated categories and proven conclusions; he is dogmatic and committed; he works towards decisive action.
-Harry Blamires, “The Christian Mind”
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And we have now seen the Matt Gaetz nomination collapse. It won’t be the last.
Wheaton’s Buswell Affair: the last in the series. If you haven’t read any others in this series, don’t pass this one up. Wheaton's Buswell Affair: the better way of love - Warhorn Media
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Just did something I never do: read my FB feed of friends. Many hundreds of comments about some Antioch Pontification by men who have defended slavery in the U.S., but nary a comment abt Wheaton College denouncing and shaming their Pres. Buswell as “racist.” The ghetto gabs.
Forget Moscow. The fields are white for harvest. Feed the sheep.
I guess I’d be pretty surprised if Trump really thought he could get Gaetz through the Senate. He’s not naive anymore, if he ever was this naive. I suspect that this was intended for some other purpose.
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Purdue is engineers, IU is intellectuals.
Engineers hope, intellectuals despair.
Lafayette is growing.
Bloomington is shrinking—it’s the one thing liberals believe in.
Bloomington’s poluation:
2021: 78,988
2022: 77,358
2023: 74,028
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Suzee here with us just now, visiting. Discussing our trees and hers; the ones being destroyed by woodpeckers and late frost and storms. Married to her arborist husband, Charlie, Suzee summed up her life experience with trees: “What I’ve learned about trees is that God has his way with them.”
Yes. With gardens, too. Squash. Roses. Elections. Churches. Children. He makes us dependent on him, and we pray.
Biblically, racism is not the sin. Favoritism is. And the Biblical way to speak of favoritism is not black and white, but rich and poor. This is the language God inspired. https://warhornmedia.com/2024/11/21/wheatons-buswell-affair-the-better-way-of-love/
One of the most important decisions every pastor has to make is whether to strive to be one of the dudes in some Christian clique. It doesn’t matter if it’s religious pro-life clique, Christian Nationalist clique, Gospel Coalition clique, church growth clique, body building clique… It’s all the same.
Jesus didn’t found a clique. He called disciples whose three-year work was suffering the same unhousedness and shame and hatred He Himself suffered.
Have nothing to do with cliques. They’re always conformist, and thus demeaning.
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Bonhoeffer film…
Man’s addiction to lies is as common with our bios of villains as heroes.
A few weeks ago, Jaguar’s Santino Pietrosanti provided context for their new ad campaign https://youtu.be/fggiJ-pa3RY?feature=shared
Family pic above Pete Hegseth’s testimony to his CREC congregation in Nashville, Colts Neck Community Church Pete Hegseth: Faith, Family, Freedom, and the American Mind | Nashville Christian Family Magazine
Case in point? the Eric Metaxas biography of Bonhoeffer, which was castigated by liberals and conservatives alike for making Bonhoeffer out to be something he wasn’t (a card-carrying conservative evangelical). The film seems to completely misrepresent the man.
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New English translation by grandson (w/help of AI) of bio of Dutch reformed Pastor Kornelis Sietsma. Under Nazi occupation, he preached against the temptation of power, and for this he was arrested, tried, and sent to Dachau where he died. Those specifics begin at “3. Kees in the War.”
Hacker News links to this interesting account of how his grandson produced the English translation. Truly Free - Sietsma Family Website
News is filled with scorn for our Secretary of Defense nominee opposing women combatants in the U.S. Military. So then, here’s a short excerpt from our Majority Report presented to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America by our Ad Interim Study Committee on Women in the Military. A member of that study committee, I had a major part in producing this report submitted and received by the 2001 PCA General Assembly.
General Assembly adopted our Majority Policy Recommendations and the full document is worth reading and study.
When a wife or mother is the last line of defense, she will do what is necessary to protect her home, children, and purity. Across history, though, such women neither denied the duty of men to protect them, nor sought by their actions to blur sexual distinctions or gain independence from their fathers and husbands. This is the context in which to understand Jael’s courage when she slew Sisera as he slept in her tent.[95] Jael’s victory was to the discredit of Barak because “the Lord (sold) Sisera into the hands of a woman.”[96] Similarly Deborah took leadership in time of war, but that leadership was to call men to take up arms against Israel’s oppressors, and in her leadership Deborah was called a “mother in Israel.”[97]
In an effeminate age, it is this aspect of the text which must be driven home lest we miss the forest for the trees: God commanded a man (Hebrew 'ish )[98] to lead other men to battle in defense of their nation; that man then asked a woman to come to battle with him; that woman reproved that man for his cowardice; and under God’s authority, that woman also decreed that the man’s cowardice would be punished by the glory of victory going to a woman.
Thus even (and especially) here, the Word of God makes explicit what is implicit in the scores of Old Testament texts dealing with military matters: it is men God calls to defend their nation, even when that call is issued through the mouth of a mother, and it is to the shame of man when woman is the agent of victory or defeat. A few chapters after the account of Sisera and Jael, we read of a woman throwing a millstone on Abimelech’s head, crushing his skull. What was Abimelech’s response? “(Abimelech) called quickly to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him, `Draw your sword and kill me, so that it will not be said of me, “A woman slew him.”’ So the young man pierced him through, and he died.”[99]
There are circumstances in which a woman may well engage in physical combat, because she is the last line of defense, but such exceptions in no way invalidate the “universal binding obligation” of man to be manly, laying down his life in defense of his bride, home, and nation.
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I regret the post I wrote about sleepers in church. I have deleted it and apologize. Thank you.
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“If there’s ever conflict in your church, you’ve failed.” This is the core curriculum of legacy reformed seminaries. Their customers are the churches and they teach their students to keep churches fat and happy. Support NGA. We do it different. x.com
“Whoever is ashamed of Me and My words…” warns Jesus. “From the beginning He made them male and female,” says Jesus. These are the words Christians r ashamed of. Confess your faith. Kindly warn LGBTQ lost souls they will be judged according to their obedience to the sex God made them.
Love your neighbor.
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