When should we correct a fellow Christian? It's a question of wisdom but here are some points to ponder comparing the costs to the benefits:

1) How serious is the error? The more serious, the greater the benefit of the correction.

2) How much authority do you have on paper? The more authority on paper, the greater the responsibility to correct.

3) How much authority do you have in the bank?* The more authority in the bank, the more likely correction will be heeded.

*The distinction is illustrated by say, our friends, who if they suggest something to us, we'll probably listen (authority in the bank), but they have no authority over us on paper. A good synonymn would be "influence."

4) How likely is it that the issue will be corrected by someone else, or corrected by the individual himself. The more likely, the less your responsibility to correct.

The first Reformed catechism was the Geneva Catechism, written by John Calvin in 1545. His printer was running a tight deadline, and so he had a courier running back and forth to bring each successive page of the catechism to the printer as soon as Calvin finished writing it. Taking a much more conversational tone, it's a wonderful supplement to the Westminster Shorter, whose first question is directly inspired by Calvin's:

Question1 Master. — What is the chief end of human life?
Scholar. — To know God by whom men were created.

Enjoy reading all 373 questions in the pdf!

Protestantism is the result of reading and believing the New Testament.

Reformed Theology is the result of reading and believing the Old Testament.

Apologetics are a wonderful tool for answering unbelievers, but as you defend the faith, remember that your interlocutors are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness (Rom. 1:18) and are not good faith debaters.

Underneath their intellectual facade lies a twisted Gollum heart of rage and rebellion. Peel back the thin paint, and you will find ugly altars to sin, webs of self-deciet, and burning jealousy.

Beneath the fig leaves is only shame. Conduct your apologetics accordingly.

“As God made all things for Himself, so He orders the end of all things made by Him for His own glory. For being the most excellent and intelligent agent, He does reduce all the motions of His creatures to that end for which He made them.”

—Stephen Charnock, A Discourse of Divine Providence p. 11

A 5-part litmus test for identifying solid spiritual leaders:

1) Do they acknowledge and abhor sodomy, homosexuality, and transgenderism as unequivocal evils?

2) Do they affirm the authority of the Scriptures and regard them as inerrant?

3) Do they acknowledge and abhor the ubiquitous hatred of Whites?

4) Do they confess the ancient creeds and consistently hold to more exhaustive confessions (Westminster, 1689, Concord, 39 Articles, etc.)?

5) Do they themselves have solid spiritual leaders and peers in their lives? Truly, bad company corrupts good morals.

Really excellent talk. The core nugget is that classically, the "two kingdoms" were understood not as sacred vs secular but as visible vs invisible. The core question is this: Two kingdoms, but how many kings? And how many laws? The correct answer is, "Only one."

https://youtu.be/BLKguSkgDxI?si=GMDGLTT1zH2w1Aq7

Psa 90:12  So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

👑Ave Christus Rex👑
#WhiteBoyChristmas

The Issue with Reedemed Zoomer's "Reconquista": It attempts to use the left's tactics against the left.

The left is able to quietly infiltrate institutions because they have no problem with lying and are foxes scared of open direct conflict. This strategy suits their slimy natures.

Conservatives, however, are lions willing to engage in direct confrontation and unwilling to be duplicitous about our core convictions. Name a single instance where conservatives have quietly crept into an institution and successfully taken it.

The "Christmas is Pagan" lie is a demoralization tactic. Reject it.

The early church settled on December 25th as an attempt to calculate the actual date of his birth, either by reckoning from the Crucifixion or from the Annunciation. The best calculations back up six months (Lk. 1:26) from John the Baptist's birth (historically celebrated as June 24th by the Roman Catholic church), which is itself calculated as 9 months following Zechariah's temple rotation, which ended ~September 22nd. An ancient tradition also reckoned Christ's conception as occurring on roughly the same day as his crucifixion.

December 25th was noted by ante-Nicene Fathers such as Hippolytus in 204 A.D., and Tertullian (c. 200 A.D.) as being the date of Christ's birth, and this appears to be well-established by the time of post-Nicene Fathers such as Chrysostom, Ambrose, and Augustine who view December 25th as a given.

This date does not line up with the oft-cited Roman pagan Saturnalia celebrations, which were on December 17th, later expanded through the 23rd. And while Saturnalia did predate Christmas, there is precisely zero record of Christians intending to borrow from pagan celebrations, and aside from the date, the only other characteristic supposedly borrowed is gift-giving. Most modern scholars admit our modern tradition derives from the lore of St. Nicholas, and the Saturnalia gifts were generally small gag gifts and wax figurines.

December 25th was earmarked by Christians before Emperor Aurelian estabalished the "birth of Sol Invictus" (the central celebration of the new Sun-god cult) as December 25th in 274 A.D. Additionally, December 25th was selected since it was the date of the winter solstice on the Roman calendar. No contemporary sources (Christian or otherwise) suggested the church lifted Dec. 25th from Sol Invictus. The first person to do so was an obscure Syriac Christian writer in the 12th century.

Finally, it ought not surprise us that God should providentially select a date so near the winter solstice, as the sun's hours begin to lengthen, to give us a savior. The final Messianic promise of the Old Testament is that "the Sun of Righteousness shall rise with healing in his wings," (Mal. 4:2).

Merry Christmas to you and yours, and keep smacking down pagans, heretics, and liberals.

Prepare your hearts and minds to celebrate Christ's birth with these selections from George Frederick Handel's great oratorio, The Messiah. Please stand for the final track, the Hallelujah Chorus.