The mere fact of an immigrant being here "legally" grant no moral legitimacy.

The same government which brought them in against our will has also siphoned pornography into our homes, our dollars into parasitic pockets who refuse to work, our sons into foreign wars, pedophilia / homos / trannies into our schools, and babies from their mother's wombs.

Our government has completely violated its mandate per Romans 13.

"Though the witch knew the deep magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the table would crack and death itself would start working backward."

-- Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

If Trump's last term is any predictor, he will not be the righteous Caesar we need to overthrow the current regime in full.

But if he can hold it off for a while and make having Christian children easier, take all the ground we are being given.

"Nothing ever happens" bros, I get your geopolitical point. But thousands of our frens get married, have kids, and have them baptized every single year.

A Blessed Epiphany to All!

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

Psalm 72:8-11

Medieval Angelic Classifications:

Seraphim (Is. 6:1-7, cf. Num. 21:4-9)
Cherubim (Ezek. 10, cf. Gen. 3:24, Ex. 25:20)
Thrones (aka Ophanim, Ezek. 1:15-21, cf. Ezek. 10 & Col. 1:16)

Dominions (aka Kuriotes, Eph. 1:21, Col. 1:16, cf. Jude 1:8)
Virtues (aka Dumanis, 1 Cor. 15:24, Eph. 1:21, 2 Thess. 1:7, 1 Pet. 3:22, cf. 2 Thess. 2:9)
Powers (aka Exousia, 1 Cor. 15:24, Eph. 1:21, 3:10, 6:12, Col. 1:16, 2:10, 2:15, 1 Pet. 3:22).

Principalities (aka Arche, Rom. 8:38, 1 Cor. 15:24, Eph. 1:21, 3:10, 6:12, Col. 1:16, 2:10, 2:15)
Archangels (1 Thess. 4:16: Jude 1:9)
Angels (Matt. 18:10, cf. Heb. 1)

When passages of Scripture are taken up at random, and no attention is paid to the context, we need not wonder that mistakes frequently arise.

-- John Calvin, Commentary on Isaiah

The Los Angeles wildfires currently burning down the homes of celebrities is definitely a small foretaste of God's judgement on them.

>Luther denies the inspiration of the apocrypha
>Rome declares them canon after he dies
"How could Luther remove books like this"

God razing Tyre, Sidon, Babylon, and Nineveh -- cultural centers of the ancient world -- had great symbolic significance. Make no mistake, He is saying much the same thing to us as He said to them:

Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty— no end to the plunder! ...the countless harlotries of the harlot, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her charms.

Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts.

-- Nahum 3:1-5, Oracle against Nineveh

What we learned from the Gospel Coalition is the one can be ostensibly Reformed in their theology but completely Marxist in their cultural views.

What we learned from Canon Press is that one can ostensibly theonomist in some cultural views but also completely Jew worshipping on others.

Is our shibboleth really the acceptability of questioning the "Holocaust"? Sounds silly, but idols always are.

We are the opposite of spoiled. Few of us can think beyond the horizon of this life an imagine what we'd like to be doing 800 million years from now.
We underestimate God's gracious gifts by such a long shot that we cannot fathom how He could keep us busy forever.

The key here is your imagination, plus the recognition that God is far more imaginative than you'll ever be.

If rap and pop "music" don't make you physically sick, you need to have your ears checked. It's absolutely disgusting.

Classical music is good not just for the mind but also for the soul.

Thou King of Glory, Christ, of the Most High, Thou co-eternal filial Deity;

Thou who, to save the world's impending doom, Vouchsafst to dwell within a virgin's womb;

Old tyrant Death disarmed, before thee flew The bolts of heaven, and back the foldings drew,

To give access, and make thy faithful way; From God's right hand thy filial beams display.

Thou art to judge the living and the dead; Then spare those souls for whom thy veins have bled.

-- from the Te Deum, Dryder translation

"Nations are nothing but a collection of families. The good order of families depends entirely on keeping up the highest standard of respect for the marriage tie, and on the right training of children."
~ J. C. Ryle — Expository thoughts on Matthew 19:1-15

Collect for the Baptism of Our Lord

Father in heaven, at the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River You proclaimed Him Your beloved Son and anointed Him with the Holy Spirit. Make all who are baptized in His name faithful in their calling as Your children and inheritors with Him of everlasting life; through the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

John Calvin on the Baptism of Our Lord

He received the same baptism with us, in order to assure believers, that they are ingrafted into his body, and that they are "buried with him in baptism," that they may rise to "newness of life".....

The general reason why Christ received baptism was, that he might render full obedience to the Father; and the special reason was, that he might consecrate baptism in his own body, that we might have it in common with him.

St. Gildas (Gweltaz), a 6th-century British monk and historian, is famed for his work De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniæ (“On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain”). Writing about the Celtic Britons, whom he earnestly pleaded with to repent of their sin, he taught that their subsequent conquest by foreign races / nations (gentes) was a direct result of their persistent sin and denial of his plea.

Such a plea remains deeply relevant, for it would so appear that the British race (gens) is once again facing such a conquest.

@GildasPlea