This article we wrote almost a year ago seems apropos today: https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/a-dispatch-of-dishonesty?r=e0x10&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Excellent analysis of the downfall of American evangelicalism and the Young Restless Reformed movement. https://youtu.be/XBH0alrGiJ4

JUST IN - New York has released its first official breakdown of what share of people is currently hospitalized because of vs. "incidental hospitalized" with Covid after two years into the pandemic.

43% are hospitalized for a reason other than Covid and just happened to test positive.

https://twitter.com/alykatzz/status/1479552490764967940

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Keep pushing. Hold the line. Don't give in. At the very least, it buys you time. But it may just prove successful in preventing this evil.

JUST IN - Austria: Mandatory vaccination reportedly postponed until April due to "technical implementation problems."

In addition, data protection experts criticize the project because it introduces a kind of an unlawful dragnet search.

To date, more than 61,000 complaints against compulsory vaccinations have been submitted to the Austrian Parliament.

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Check out my friend @DerDritteAfrikaner 's website https://sprachwerk-e-v.myshopify.com/. Very interesting stuff- but it's in German, so make sure you turn on GoogleTranslate!

*And confessional Presbyterians. Westminster Larger Catechism Q161:

How do the sacraments become effectual means of salvation?

The sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not by any power in themselves, or any virtue derived from the piety or intention of him by whom they are administered; but only by the working of the Holy Ghost, and the blessing of Christ by whom they are instituted.

The controversy over infant baptism is more to do with reading modern notions of autonomy into the New Testament. There is a presupposition that a person must make the choice himself without any 'coersion' by others.

But think for a moment. You didn't choose or consciously will to exist. Others appointed that for you. You don't choose who your parents are. God appointed that for you irrespective of your free will.

You don't even choose your name. Your parents gave it to you. Even the information you receive as you grow up is not something you can choose with complete 💯 control.

In the NT, salvation is always by a Grace that precedes and is given without consideration of anything. To therefore say that infants cannot be Baptized is to in my eyes at least, especially given the efficacy of the Sacraments, to be saying God actually takes something in the person into account when He wants to save him. In this case being his age and free will to believe.

When it comes to Christians’ view of money and material blessings, two errors predominate. On the one hand, there are the prosperity gospel charlatans. On the other hand, there is a modern strain of asceticism running through evangelicalism which views money as a bad thing. Today, I would like to refute it and contrast it with the biblical doctrine of material blessing. https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/developing-a-biblical-view-of-wealth

Doug Wilson killing it with these fatherly romantic advice letters. Take a good listen, bros. https://youtu.be/jnleqLU-VkE

We have ECO, the EPC, and the PCA. Why do we need one more vaguely Reformed denomination?

The problem with nearly all conservative splits is they expect to roll back the clock to ten minutes before the liberals induced the split, then expect to carry on from there.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/january/reformed-church-in-america-rca-alliance-of-reformed-churche.html

The fractionalism of conservative churches is a sign that all of them are failing to keep themselves from drifting left. I've written about how we can fix this previously: https://protestantpost.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-in-leftist-controlled

JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court blocks Biden's federal vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses with a 6-3 vote.

The OSHA Act does not authorize such expansive powers, the highest court said.

However, SCOTUS allows Biden's other vaccine mandate for healthcare employees at facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds to stay.

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I'm honored to announce a Lutheran-Reformed dialogue between myself @DrBasedologist and my friend @ErikTheRed_22. The discussion will take place in a live voicechat on my channel, (https://t.me/protestantpost, and make sure you follow Erik's also: https://t.me/Confessional_Lutheran) at 8 pm EST Sunday the 16th. It should run for about an hour, and towards the end, we'll take some questions from the chat. We'd both sincerely appreciate your attendance.