"[T]he establishment of religion in any given state is inevitable. It therefore comes as no surprise that the public singing of resurrection hymns which celebrate the universal Lordship of Jesus Christ run counter to the spirit of what the French literary historian Robert Faurisson aptly called the 'new secular religion' of the West"

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/when-hymns-about-christ-s-resurrection-threaten-the-established-religion

The Books section on our website is now probably the most beautiful web page on the internet.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/books

"The Pactum Institute and all of our members not only from Europe, but also Africa, North America and the Middle East, fully support the Hungarian government’s actions aimed at defending and protecting the nation’s children."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/hungary-deserves-our-full-support-in-eu-lawsuit-over-child-protection-act

Pastor Bret takes some time this week to discuss some American history concerning the blackmail of Woodrow Wilson and FDR's responsibility of getting the USA into WWII.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-ep-20-taking-a-short-look-at-woodrow-wilson-fdr-and-wwii

"Prior to the rise of the nation-state, even cities were thought of as compromising a people or an ethnos on their own. In Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos it is noted that cities and towns have a right to expel or ban civil rulers, because cities do not in the first place belong to the greater whole, 'since cities don’t consist of stones heaped together but of nations, and every nation belongs to God, to whom they owe a greater loyalty than to the king'.”

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/federalist-protestant-nationalism

The Pactum Institute stands by Stephen Wolfe.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/press-statements/canon-press-irrational-attempt-to-disown-stephen-wolfe

Please pray for Rev. McAtee as he is about to undergo open heart surgery.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-note-to-listeners

In today's episode, Rev. McAtee responds to James White's attack on Stephen Wolfe.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-ep-21-james-white-attacks-stephen-wolfe-mcatee-can-t-resist

"It is immensely encouraging that a Calvinist podcaster whose Youtube channel has 37 000 subscribers, that is, more than the entire membership of the OPC for example, now has the courage to boldly and openly share such politically-incorrect truths."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/conversations-that-matter-white-evangelicals-and-ethnic-distinctions

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/on-fathers-resisting-tyranny

"Martin Luther rightly recognized fathers as acting magistrates in cases where constitutional or official political structures acting in accordance with the interests of their families are absent."

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Pastor Bret discusses James Eglinton's introduction to Herman Bavinck's "The Christian Family."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-ep-22-revolutionary-christianity-or-anti-revolutionary-christianity

A brief rundown of Tim Keller's origins, testimony, and how he channels George Orwell's 1984.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-ep-23-the-testimony-of-tim-keller-and-his-doublethink

"Orban added that in contradistinction to propaganda by proponents of multiculturalism and mass immigration who aim to destroy national identity, it is in fact the national community itself which forms the true cultural basis for the Hungarian state."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/viktor-orban-at-cpac-the-nation-is-the-cultural-basis-of-the-hungarian-state

"God is of course glorified through our suffering for his Kingdom, but not any more or less than He is when we actually use wealth and prosperity to advance that Kingdom, the purpose for which we have been created in the first place (I Corinthians 10:31)."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/the-reality-of-covenantal-blessings-versus-the-heresies-of-the-health-wealth-and-prosperity-gospel

"Knowing God through his revelation teaches us that the worldly way of knowing is flawed. More than that, the worldly way of knowing is idolatry. When we think that we 'know' that
fire burns and bread nourishes, rather than knowing that God causes fire to burn and bread to nourish, we make idols."

- Andrew Zawislanski, Evangelical Mysticism (2023)

https://www.amazon.com/Evangelical-Mysticism-Andrew-Zawislanski/dp/1387318535/

Pastor McAtee explains how grace doesn't destroy, but rather restores nature.

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/podcasts-videos/iron-rhetoric-ep-24-grace-restores-nature

"Forsaking the supremacy of the divine, transcendent moral order as authoritative standard for societal and political arrangements in favor of the supremacy of mankind, manifesting epistemically in rationalism and empiricism, conflicts with divinely ordained creation ordinances which shape reality, inevitably culminating in an anarchy based in epistemic arbitrariness. From this anarchy, government or corporate tyranny alone is often presented as offering any kind of liberation."

https://www.pactuminstitute.com/the-pactum-blog/sovereignty-authority-and-liberty

Today we celebrate Ascension Day.

Heidelberg Catechism question 49:

How does Christ's ascension into heaven benefit us?

First, He is our Advocate in heaven before his Father.
Second, we have our flesh in heaven as a sure pledge that He, our Head, will also take us, his members, up to Himself.
Third, He sends us his Spirit as a counter-pledge, by whose power we seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God, and not the things that are on earth.