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Post by Admin on Jan 16, 2024 14:56:56 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Feb 7, 2024 15:28:14 GMT -5
DocSandlin
@docsandlin
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Over time the theology of a church’s music will be more influential than its sermonic theology.
Churches that adjust pulpit theology to Reformation confessions while adjusting music theology to the K-LOVE playlist will eventually adjust themselves right into theological pablum.
DocSandlin
@docsandlin
The “conservative” churches that piously bleat, “We’re not going to address political issues like abortion; we’re sticking with the Cross” are making a mockery of the Cross. Jesus died on the Cross to vanquish sin, not pretend as though the great legalized sins of our time are beyond God’s concern.
DocSandlin
@docsandlin
Historic biblical orthodoxy isn’t a jump ball. You don’t get to reinvent the Faith every 25 years when a bright new idea comes into your mind. 
The Bible alone is the final authority, but not you alone interpreting your Bible in your basement in defiance of all other Christians who have ever interpreted it.
The Bible teaches the priesthood of all believers — not the priesthood of every individual believer cut off from everybody else. 
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No major U.S. political party now stands for social conservatism. Not a single national Republican will champion biblical, even “traditional,” sexual ethics. This should come as no surprise since their unopposed standard bearer is the first president in history to enter office supporting same-sex “marriage.” We can further expect the GOP to cave on abortion, since he’s become such a squishy waffler on the issue.
Social conservatism is now obliged to operate outside the two major political parties. 
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God is not the distant Royalty, looking with benevolent interest on his faraway domain.
He is the pervasively present King, acting, moving, answering prayer, disrupting evil, loving, grieving, imploring, delighted, furious — not observing his will being accomplished, but personally accomplishing his will, moment by moment.
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2024 16:21:40 GMT -5
𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔡
@hwseleutheroi
One of the fatal errors of modern cultural collapse is the idea that love is an emotional feeling that can exist in all sorts of non-covenantal ways, ways outside of God's definition. Sadly, most in the church have fallen for this emotionalism rather than holding to a firmly biblical concept.
So today the news came out that in an upcoming autobiography, Pope Francis has said about homosexual "civil unions" (always the last step before getting Obergefelled), "It is right that these people who live the gift of love can have legal coverage like everyone else. Jesus often went out to meet people who lived on the margins, and that is what the Church should do today with people from the LGBTQ+ community, who are often marginalized within the Church: make them feel at home, especially those who have received baptism and they are to all intents and purposes part of the people of God. And whoever has not received baptism and wishes to receive it, or who wishes to be a godfather or godmother, please be welcomed.”
Setting aside the outrageously unbiblical, anti-gospel view of baptism inherent in Romanism, I wish to point you all to the phrase "who live the gift of love." This is the Pope of Rome. This is the allegedly infallible Vicar of Christ. The very epitome of the holder of the "deposit of faith." And he holds to a view of love defined by secular rebellion, not biblical parameters. As such, it is an attack upon true love as defined by God. Two men, or two women, living in self-absorbed rebellion against God's ways, are not "living the gift of love." And if you recognize that from simple exposure to Scripture, you have no reason whatsoever to be following this man as a religious leader.
Your support of delusional and destructive fantasies will be judged on that Great Day when you must answer to the one who said, “From the beginning he made them male and female.”
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2024 21:38:35 GMT -5
Joseph Boot
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Trying to halt the runaway catastrophe of our apostate culture from within its humanistic assumptions is like trying to stop the progress of a train by pulling back on the seat in front of you. You can't "reason" with a mad or dead man. Regeneration and reformation are required.
Recent post from Joseph Boot
God ordained the nations; that's bible. You can't have a stable & viable nation without a common faith, a common law & language, a real border & a dominant culture built upon the faith of the people. The decaying West is learning this the hard way. Repent & turn again to Christ.
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A fascinating confession on the consequences of deChristianization. Even Dawkins now identifies as a cultural Christian as the demons are unleashed in the West. A telling lesson for pietistic & 2 Kingdoms Christians on the value of Christian culture.
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Post by Admin on Mar 19, 2024 9:51:03 GMT -5
Successive British governments, Labour and Tory, have spoken out against racism while passing regulations which have only served to embed it.
Tony Blair did not seem to care for our nation state. He preferred governance from unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats both here and in Brussels. It suited his brand of left-wing politics for EU nations to lose their values and identity: far easier to hand more power to Europe if national interests and cultures could not get in the way.
Mass migration, at least in the short-term, also worked economically. With an eye on the single most important metric to judge prosperity, New Labour realised immigration would boost growth. With growth in the population would come growth in GDP, a demand for housing and infrastructure and cheap imported labour to power British business. This merry go round would apparently keep working as long as the population kept growing. But in reality, it was a Ponzi scheme.
Cheap imported labour has kept a lid on wages and removed the need for businesses to upskill and automate. Our economy is now being run on the lines of a developing country; productivity in the UK has been poor for years. Millions of British citizens are “economically inactive”. Our public services are buckling and our housing shortage is chronic.
Arguably a bigger problem was the lack of will and inclination to culturally integrate those coming to the UK. And so “multi-culturalism” was born. This didn’t create a “melting pot”, but rather led to the celebration of discrete new cultures running parallel to and isolated from the British one.
David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, one after the other, played the same game. Johnson and Sunak took immigration to staggeringly high levels. Last year, net migration reached 745,000. Some 5 million foreigners have been given visas to the UK since 2019 – that is 8 per cent of our population.
This drastic increase coincided with, or was perhaps the trigger for, the rise of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion regulations. And these new rules and guidelines have, perhaps unintentionally, given rise to progressive discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, sexual preferences and/ or gender identity.
DEI is now practised by virtually every institution, government department, public service, educational establishment and business. The Armed Forces’ spending on diversity and inclusion personnel has doubled to nearly £2 million over the past half decade. It was revealed last year that the RAF had instructed staff to stop choosing “useless white male pilots” for training courses.
There is a very real risk that meritocracy has been all but ejected in Britain today, along with equality in the eyes of the law. If we continue too far down this path, how much which is traditionally British will survive? There has been a near-constant assault on our language and our past. We’re told that both need decolonising, that celebrated historical figures were “racist”.
It is surely hard to deny that DEI is becoming a Trojan horse for the hard-Left to promote ideologies designed to destroy the idea of the nation state. That it has become an excuse to peddle “critical race theory” and the idea that some races cannot be subject to discrimination. We ought to have a shared language, history, culture and territorial integrity; a settled social and cultural construct. If DEI celebrates and protects some cultures but excludes others, it is open season on everything traditionally British. If some groups are being discriminated against, how can we describe multiculturalism as anything but a failure?
People are waking up to the prejudice created by DEI and damage done by multiculturalism. A by-election has just been marred by sectarianism and accusations of intimidation. Anti-Semitic slogans have been projected onto Big Ben. The Tories seem to believe the answer lies in a new definition of extremism - but this will not tackle the root cause.
We must dramatically reduce immigration, institute a programme of integration for people living in the UK, require the primacy of our British culture, end the obsession with DEI, require all are treated equally and proudly teach our children the truth about our wonderful history.
Martin Luther King had it right. People should be judged not by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.
Ben Habib is deputy leader of Reform UK
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Gender equality, Woke, Racism, Reform UK, Immigration
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2024 23:41:19 GMT -5
DocSandlin
@docsandlin
The Christian desire to shed our earthly body and live as pure spirit in the Lord’s presence, while understandable, is more gnostic than biblical. Paul makes clear in 2 Corinthians 5 that he doesn’t desire an existence of pure spirit but, rather, a spiritual embodiment. While this isn’t a substitute for the final resurrection body, it does disclose a vital biblical fact:
Man was created never to exist without a body. 
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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2024 14:39:34 GMT -5
The Church Effeminate
The Church in America has been bleeding men for decades because the Church in America has unfortunately been taken over by women of both sexes.
Far too many “Evangelical” churches have either compromised and allowed women into Eldership and the pastorate.
OR they have TECHNICALLY held the line on the issue of women in leadership,
But the men that they raise up to lead the church is so effeminate and emotional that they may as well have a woman leading anyway.
And when the church is led by women of both sexes, men feel as though they have no place at such a church.
It appears to them, that to be apart of such a church is to check your masculinity at the door.
This is perhaps nowhere more evident than in how a church conducts it’s Lord’s Day Worship.
A man does not (or perhaps should not) want his Lord’e day worship to consist of looking at a worship pastor with perfect hair flanked by ladies who are all trying to outdo one another for the tightest pants award (unfortunately the male worship leader is winning).
All the while they sing of The risen Christ as though his primary purpose was to be our cosmic boyfriend.
This is how the Church loses Men.
Yes,Jesus is the groom and we are the Bride. BUT, he is also the conquering king! He is the a lion of Judah! He is the one worthy of fear, reverence, and awe!
I want to be clear here. I’m not saying there is no place for songs that extol the glories of our personal union with Christ, and the wonderful fact that he is the lover of our souls.
But there is a reason that Scripture uses an abundance of different metaphors and imagery to describe how we relate to our Lord.
We need to make worship masculine again. I am incredibly grateful to be apart of a denomination (The CREC) that sings of both Christ’s tenderness AND Christ’s strength, His love AND his victory over his enemies.
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