For all the talk about MacArthur and co not being "truly Reformed" - which, for the record, I agree with - it must be said he's done far more to promote Reformed theology than 99% of its adherents.
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Angels are not designed as creative beings which is why they neither marry nor are given in marriage. Incidentally, this is why Satan as a fallen angel is so unoriginal. Literally every single play he runs on us has been seen hundreds of times before.
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This is your annual reminder that anyone who celebrates Rosh Hashana is anathema, a Christ-denier, and is probably super ugly.
When the enemies of God wallow in their guilt, that is the best time to exult in the forgiveness of our own.
When the enemies of God wallow in their guilt, that is the best time to exult in the forgiveness of our own.
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"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
-- Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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In Phillippians 1, we read that, "Some preach Christ from envy... whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice."
So when people punch right towards people with whom they actually agree on 90% of issues, yet take a much tamer attitude towards those on their left, we can rightly identify such people as cowards, bad actors, etc.
So when people punch right towards people with whom they actually agree on 90% of issues, yet take a much tamer attitude towards those on their left, we can rightly identify such people as cowards, bad actors, etc.
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If someone wants to argue that racism is a sin, they should first define it biblically (spoiler... They can't).
And this problem cannot be skirted by attempting to define racism under the umbrella of a biblical sin. For instance, you can't accuse someone of the "sin of robbing a bank." No, the sin is stealing, the bank has nothing to do with it.
And this problem cannot be skirted by attempting to define racism under the umbrella of a biblical sin. For instance, you can't accuse someone of the "sin of robbing a bank." No, the sin is stealing, the bank has nothing to do with it.
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Forwarded from Stoic Christian Broadcasts
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Yes, work can be an idol.
But idolizing work is not most people’s problem.
If we fear idolizing work more than we fear being unproductive, we don’t have our eyes open.
Most people in our world hate work.
Even many Christians, in an attempt to avoid idolizing work, avoid work completely.
In fact, there is a lot more in the Bible warning about laziness than warning about hard work.
A man who doesn’t provide for his household is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8
It’s safe to work. We’re required by God to work. And make sure whatever you do, do it for the glory of the Lord. (Col 3:23)
Work. Build. Subdue. Bear fruit.
Yes, work can be an idol.
But idolizing work is not most people’s problem.
If we fear idolizing work more than we fear being unproductive, we don’t have our eyes open.
Most people in our world hate work.
Even many Christians, in an attempt to avoid idolizing work, avoid work completely.
In fact, there is a lot more in the Bible warning about laziness than warning about hard work.
A man who doesn’t provide for his household is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Tim 5:8
It’s safe to work. We’re required by God to work. And make sure whatever you do, do it for the glory of the Lord. (Col 3:23)
Work. Build. Subdue. Bear fruit.
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The Jew-worship and glorification of Israel we see from boomers is a misdirected outlet of the vigorous love and righteous anger we ought to have towards our own kin and country.
But whites and America are socially unacceptable objects of that affection, so boomers, being the mindless conformists they are, redirect.
Lest non-boomers get on their high horse, following generations frequently lack even these natural affections. They are even more hollowed out, digitized, and virtualized.
But whites and America are socially unacceptable objects of that affection, so boomers, being the mindless conformists they are, redirect.
Lest non-boomers get on their high horse, following generations frequently lack even these natural affections. They are even more hollowed out, digitized, and virtualized.
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"You might know in principle that Adam should have obeyed God [after Eve ate the fruit]. What would that look like? ...If Adam doesn't eat the fruit, what does that choice look like? He just says, 'Peace out!' to his bride as she dies under that curse? And obviously eating the fruit- we know what that looks like; it looks like the catastrophe we went through in the whole narrative... So he's on the horns of this dilemma... Left door, right door, but a good protagonist finds the third way... I think we can say authoritatively what that third way was because God told the story again later as promised when He sent the Second Adam who was given a bride under a death curse and a serpent to defeat. And he said, 'Take me instead.'
That tells us what the first Adam should have done in the garden; he should have smashed the serpent's head, then gone to God with his bride and said, 'Take me instead.' And he would have been the perfect sacrifice. That's the third way."
-- N. D. Wilson
That tells us what the first Adam should have done in the garden; he should have smashed the serpent's head, then gone to God with his bride and said, 'Take me instead.' And he would have been the perfect sacrifice. That's the third way."
-- N. D. Wilson
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The land of Palestine does not belong to the Muslims or to the Jews. It belongs to Christ, and by extension to Christians.
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