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

Defend ⚔️ Strengthen ⛰️ Build 🛠️

"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

#WhiteBoySummer

Paul argues conclusively in Romans that the Covenant of Grace exhibited in the New Testament Christian Church is exactly the same Covenant of Grace God established with Abraham. In Galatians, Paul goes so far as to say that if you are in Christ, regardless of your ethnic derivation, you are a child of Abraham according to the promise. Galatians was not written to ethnic Jews. Calling Greek believers “offspring of Abraham” is a monumentally significant theological statement. It goes to the very heart of how Christians should read the Old Testament. The Old Testament either applies to us with equal force and relevance as it did to the Israelites who lived under that administration of the Covenant of Grace, or it is utterly irrelevant and useless for Christians. Few, if any, Christians would ever publicly and openly espouse such a radical position. But what difference does that make if, as is typical in Evangelicalism, the Old Testament is relegated to realm of legend? Even among those who swear by the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible, many can be found who absolutely ignore or neglect the Old Testament, which amounts to the same thing as rejecting its relevance.

In the words of Gary North, the Old Testament is the Word of God, not the Word of God Emeritus. It applies to us completely. To functionally degrade it's authority is to create a de facto deuterocanon.

Read it. Live it. Obey it.

The rise of the nondenom denomination.

Largest Protestant group in the USA (ARDA 2020)
https://redd.it/1882ukv
@r_mapporn

*see Santa outside the store*

Me: “Homoousios” or “Homoiousios?”

Him: What?

Me: You’re not the real St. Nicholas.