Sending and sponsoring foreign missionaries is a waste of time and money. It's the spiritual equivalent of our government sending hundreds of billions to Ukraine and Israel while our own nation crumbles.

Men, we are called to embrace the noble journey of manhood. In every step we take, let courage be our compass.

“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” — 1 Cor. 16:13

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This week, as you make mad dashes to ensure you have all the ingredients and as you worry about potential flare ups at the table over taboo topics, know that Thankfulness is the antidote for anxiety. Thankfulness allows us to talk to God, the one who can still the anxious heart; the one whom we cast our cares upon; the one who skillfully wrought us and knew us before we were born.

"How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in Hands that bled for us."
—John Newton

#thanksgiving

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Pietism is a syncretistic merger between pagan dualism and orthodox Christianity. It relies on three false dualities:

1) The duality between “spiritual” and “earthly” blessings
2) The duality between “eternal” and “temporal” life
3) The duality between “subjective & true” and “objective & false” religious experiences.

Thanksgiving is the ultimate antithesis of each of pietism’s dualities. It insists we give thanks for earthly blessings in this temporal life. It is also an external, formalized, and objective religious celebration which recognizes God’s temporal, earthly blessings as objective goods and covenant rewards.

Do your part this Thanksgiving to dunk on gay, cringe pietists.

We can't let just anyone on the council, brothers.

Why Protestants Should Read the Apocrypha:

1) The canonical Scriptures, the Fathers, and the Reformers all reference the Apocrypha and understanding them will increase our literacy with those sources.

2) Understanding inter-testamental history is key to understanding the New Testament.

3) They were highly esteemed by our forefathers in the faith as beneficial and illustrative books.

4) The Apocrypha receive the approbation of our confessions (Belgic Confession, Article 6; Westminster Confession I.III, 2nd Helvetic Confession Chapter 1).

5) Knowing the Apocrypha is helpful in Roman Catholic apologetics.

My recommendation would be to read an RSV-CE or NRSV-CE (Catholic edition).

Our best to the Irish children stabbed by an Alergian migrant (thankfully nonfatally). God bless the adults who sustained injuries in a brave attempt to protect them. Throughout all our countries and across all our creeds, let our position be:

Get. Them. Out.

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” — Shakespeare; Julius Caesar

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"Man created in the divine image, the protagonist of a great drama in which his soul was at stake, was replaced by man the wealth seeking and consuming animal.“

~Richard M. Weaver

The Definitive English Version Tier List. Within each tier, left to right is best to worst.

S - Excellent for congregational use
A - Solid versions for personal use
B - Good for supplemental use
C - For occasional reference only
D - Hot garbage and/or heretical

“[B]y the law of works, God says to us, Do what I command thee; but by the law of faith we say to God, Give me what Thou commandest.”

— St. Augustine, 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳, Ch. 22

Today is Saint Andrew, Apostle and Martyr (Andermas) day. We wish all those of us of Scottish heritage especially, a blessed day.


The Collect:
Almighty God, who didst give such grace unto thy holy apostle Saint Andrew, that he readily obeyed the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him without delay: Grant unto us all, that we, being called by thy holy word, may forthwith give up ourselves obediently to fulfil thy holy commandments, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Henry Kissinger is dead at 100, an evil man but also the last vestige of the WASP elite.

Here's to the creation of a new WASP elite staffed by us and the death of warmongers. 🍻

"God’s children are swimming upstream and live contrary to the course of the world. They are living among men, and live as men do, but are moving in a different direction than the world, and are carried along by the Holy Spirit." - Richard Sibbes

Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below,
Praise Him above ye heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen

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