Able To Stand🙏❤️♿️

@dsconsole @jonharris1989 They were put to death for trying to bring the Bible to the people in English. By whom…? Research that, friend.

@MrsManyMoons @jonharris1989 Show me where Wycliffe and Tyndale were the ones who put scripture together and had the authority to do so! Research where it came from and get informed!

If you love America. Thank a Protestant.

It’s crazy that @NASA has been releasing such quality photos of the moon. And I don’t want to be *that* guy, but I’ve just noticed some things that I don’t think add up. Let me explain 👇🏼

@dsconsole @jonharris1989 I’ll thank God, followed by Wycliffe and Tyndale.

@jonharris1989 If you love your bibles thank a Catholic!

@farmingandJesus Yes. Propitiation is a Bible word. (1 John 4:10 and more)

Penal substitutionary atonement? Yes or no and why? Scripture encouraged. 👇🏻 Actually, scripture required.

Much chaos is appearing in online JW conversations after Jehovah’s Witness’ announcement of change: using your own blood in transfusion, previously declared sinful, is now “a matter of conscience.” 10:55 discussion begins, 13:55 conscience declarations. #en/mediaitems/StudioNewsReports/docid-1112024049_1_VIDEO" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jw.org/en/library/vid…

@BillVanderbush @WesleyLHuff Romans 8 doesn’t say that the whole world is “without condemnation” but rather that there is now no condemnation “for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

It’s true that a lot of liberal theology preaches of a sentimental God who winks at sin, a crossless Christ who’s mostly a moral teacher, and a kingdom that’s basically progressive social improvement without any reckoning. That’s not the Gospel. It’s mere religion trying to make God manageable. The deeper problem isn’t too little wrath or judgment. It’s too little faith in what the cross actually accomplished. The cross is the mechanism by which God declares the whole world “without condemnation” (Romans 8) while still taking sin with ultimate seriousness. God justifies the ungodly, raises the dead (not the “improvable”), and vindicates the last, the lost, and the least. Any theology (liberal or conservative) that insists we must first get our sin-account right, feel enough guilt, or rack up enough moral points before grace kicks in is just another form of works-righteousness. Niebuhr rightly called out one distortion, but the conservative reaction often creates its own error in preaching a God whose grace is stingy until we’ve suffered enough.

The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot. When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193). Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.

In the whole Bible, we are only commanded to trust the Lord.

Relatable.🤭

@taco_talks But there’s 46 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter. So if I read Exodus “every single day” starting with Ash Wednesday, I’ll run out of Bible reading.

Are You Going To Celebrate Ash Wednesday?

@ronhenzel The continuationists say, “Look! There’s a tongue of angels! It’s in 1 Cor 13!” The cessationists say, “Tongues have ceased! It’s in 1 Cor 13!” And the battle continues, with both drawing conclusions that deviate from the text. It’s sad.

@MrsManyMoons The fact that we don’t cite the whole chapter to make a point doesn’t mean we missed the point of the chapter.

Cessationism is not only a doctrine but a fact of church history which ironically has, as a doctrine, survived innumerable prophecies of its own cessation most of which were uttered in the past 100 years due to the novelty of Pentecostalism. Another irony is that Scripture itself prophesies the cessation of the miraculous sign gifts: ⁸ …As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease… — 1 Corinthians 13:8b ESV Paul here tells us that the gifts of prophecy and tongues will end but doesn’t tell us when. But in his homilies on 1 Corinthians, the church father Chrysostom helps us out, first by speaking directly of the historic cessation of the spiritual gifts: “This whole place is very obscure: but the obscurity is produced by our ignorance of the facts referred to and by their cessation, being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place.” — John Chrysostom (c. ᴀᴅ 347-407), Homily 29, on 1 Corinthians 12:1 (“Now concerning the spiritual gifts…”), NPNF1 12:168. And he later explains why they ceased in this homily on the verse above: “…‘but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease.’ For if both these were brought in in order to the faith; when that is every where sown abroad, the use of these is henceforth superfluous.” — John Chrysostom (c. ᴀᴅ 347-407), Homily 34, on 1 Corinthians 13:8, NPNF1 12:202. Chrysostom’s contemporary, Augustine, referred to the cessation of the miraculous sign gifts in more than one place, but notably here: “So why is nobody speaking with the tongues of all nations, as people spoke who were filled with the Holy Spirit at that time? Why? Because what that signified has been fulfilled.” — Augustine of Hippo (ᴀᴅ 354-430), Sermon 267, “On the Day of Pentecost” (ᴀᴅ412), Chapter 3, in Volume 7, The Works of Saint Augustine, Sermons Part III, John E. Rotelle, ed., Edmund Hill, trans., (New Rochelle, NY: New City Press, 1993), 275. Fifteen years later, despite what some have alleged, Augustine retained his cessationist position: “Likewise, this statement of mine is indeed true: ‘These miracles were not allowed to last until our times lest the soul ever seek visible things and the human race grow cold because of familiarity with those things whose novelty enkindled it.’ For not even now, when a hand is laid on the baptized, do they receive the Holy Spirit in such a way that they speak with the tongues of all nations; nor are the sick now healed by the passing shadow of the preachers of Christ. Even though such things happened at that time, manifestly these ceased later.” — Augustine of Hippo (ᴀᴅ 354-430), Retractions (ᴀᴅ 427), Volume 60, The Fathers of the Church, Roy Joseph Deferrari, ed., Mary Inez Bogan, trans., (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1968), 55. However, he doesn’t want people to think that because the regular gifts of prophecy, tongues, and miracles as described in the New Testament have ceased, therefore all miracles have ceased: “But what I said is not to be so interpreted that no miracles are believed to be performed in the name of Christ at the present time. For, when I wrote that book, I myself had recently learned that a blind man had been restored to sight in Milan near the bodies of the martyrs in that very city, and I knew about some others, so numerous even in these times, that we cannot know about all of them nor enumerate those we know.” —Ibid. And today’s cessationist position doesn’t require that all miracles have ceased, but rather it maintains that the miraculous sign gifts have ceased. But the testimony of church history confirms that the biblical prophecy about the cessation of those gifts was fulfilled by sometime prior to the beginning of the fifth century—and perhaps even well before that, as the author of Hebrew implies here: ³ how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, ⁴ while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will. — Hebrews 2:3-4 (ESV) He not only explains that the sign gifts served the purpose of confirming the original apostolic Gospel but speaks of them as past events. Cessationism is not merely a doctrine, but a doctrine derived from Scripture and confirmed by church history.

@TNTJohn1717 I don’t feel what you’re feeling when I listen to Washer. Then again, God doesn’t call us to evaluate pastors by the way they make us feel.

🚨‼️I have watched Paul Washer for years, and the thing that always rises to the surface is not the strength of Christ but the shadow of Paul Washer himself. The tone is constantly mournful, trembling, almost as though the gospel were a funeral instead of the good news of a finished redemption. The Bible says, “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice” (Philippians 4:4), yet listening to Paul Washer you would think the dominant mark of spirituality is emotional collapse. Brokenness has its place, but when brokenness becomes the brand, something is out of balance. The New Testament believer is not called to live under a perpetual cloud of despair but in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free (Galatians 5:1). What troubles me is the subtle impression left behind. Paul Washer never says he is the standard, yet the atmosphere of his preaching suggests that unless you feel what he feels, cry like he cries, and tremble like he trembles, you must be a second-rate Christian. That is not how the Holy Ghost measures a man. Scripture measures us by faith in the finished work of Christ, not by emotional intensity. Some of the strongest saints in the Bible spoke plainly, calmly, and without theatrics. Paul the apostle wrote with authority, not with theatrical anguish. The fruit of the Spirit is not spiritual exhaustion; it is love, joy, peace, and a sound mind. Another concern is how Paul Washer often emphasizes the weakness of the believer without equally magnifying the sufficiency of the Saviour. Yes, we are weak in ourselves, but the gospel message is that “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Philippians 4:13). Constantly telling redeemed people they are miserable failures without lifting their eyes to their new identity in Christ produces bondage, not holiness. The devil is the accuser of the brethren, not the Comforter. When preaching leaves the saint more focused on self-loathing than on the blood of Jesus Christ, the balance has tipped in the wrong direction. I am not saying Paul Washer has never spoken truth, but truth out of proportion becomes error. God never called preachers to make His children feel perpetually unworthy after the cross has declared them accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6). The gospel does not chain a man to the floor of his emotions; it raises him to walk in newness of life. We need preaching that exalts Christ more than it dramatizes human misery. If a message leaves you admiring Paul Washer’s intensity more than the grace of Jesus Christ, then something has gone sideways. The cure for Laodicea is not spiritual theatrics; it is a clear trumpet that points sinners and saints alike to the sufficiency of the Lord Jesus Christ.

@Thatguyssseennn @farmingandJesus “The greatest among you shall be your servant.” Matthew 23:11

What about a royal priesthood. That’s pretty high in rank isn’t it? 1 Peter 2:9 [9] But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

“So people quote Abraham Lincoln, ‘Government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ They forget he’s quoting Theodore Parker in the 19th century, who was quoting of all people, John Wycliffe in the 13th century. And Wycliffe is saying, when we put the Bible in the hands of ordinary people, then you have a chance of government, of the people, by the people, for the people, because the Bible will be the foundation for self-government and self-rule. And without that, freedom will be impossible.” - Oz Guinness HT: washingtonstand.com/commentary/os-…

Woman shares that her husbamd and kids didn't get her a single gift for Christmas

The LORD is my shepherd; I have all that I need. -Psalm 23:1 #SundayMotivation

@TPUSA @greggutfeld I think what we learned today is that Greg is at his best when @joemachi is doing the writing.

.@greggutfeld on the way he looks at late-night talk shows

Is she America’s Grandma now? 🥰

@Protestia Is Revelation in the New Testament? Because there are mechanical instruments in chapters 5 and 15.

It's a sin to listen to gospel music with instruments outside of a church service?