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Andrew Esqueda

@Andrew_Esqueda

Pastor, wrestling coach, gin in the summer bourbon in the winter, beer snob, coffee connoisseur. Opinions are my own

West Chester, PA Katılım Ocak 2013
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@EWErickson @WilliamWolfe I’m sorry this happened. The grace of Christ covers all. I’d also then caution the way you treat Christian’s who disagree with you. Have some grace for them too, Jesus does for all of us. Case in point, I disagree with you on a ton, I still think you’re worthy of God’s love.
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Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson@EWErickson·
Dear Christians, Please pay attention to this. It is important. @WilliamWolfe has dredged up a tweet from 2009 in an attempt to shame me. He holds himself out as a Christian and has declared me a fake Christian. I wrote a book with an entire chapter about this tweet, how it affected my family and friends, and how wrong it was. William uses it to attempt to police me and shame me. William behaves as if his heart is unregenerated, and he shows his lack of grace every day. He uses Christ as a cudgel, not as a salve. I wrote this and plenty of other tweets. My life is an open book. William, who has previously decried cancel culture, has summoned a seventeen-year-old tweet to hold over my head. He went to seminary, got the grades, but missed the point of God's redeeming love. He is graceless, does not love his neighbor, and is also a humorless bully. William does not like that I have repeatedly called out his behaviors, so often directed at sound Christian pastors who will not politicize the church. So now he enters my timeline regularly with old tweets of mine. Christ forgives. William shames (or tries to). The problem, however, for William is that I do not need the affirmation of anyone who applauds his efforts, and he needs the affirmation of many he continues to alienate with his behavior. He wants to be a Baptist Leader, but has no clout outside a Twitter following. He leads nothing but a website. On Good Friday, several million Americans will tune into my radio show to hear the Gospel. I spend every Good Friday ignoring politics and the headlines and focusing on the greatest story ever told. On Good Friday, William will scold someone else on Twitter, and few of his Twitter followers will even care. I'll let the God of all creation judge me on the Last Day. William will, on that day, be surprised he does not get to sit on the throne, the toilet maybe, but not the throne.
William Wolfe 🇺🇸@WilliamWolfe

Erick Erickson says if you claim Christ is King, you have a “special obligation to the truth.” Curious, Erick, was it a true statement when you claimed Supreme Court Justice David Souter was “goat f—king child molester?” Was that true? Or is it somehow okay for YOU to claim Christ and make false statements? Are you special? Is that why you get published at @WNGdotorg? Because you’re so committed to the truth?

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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@RcgWho47810 @AndrewTWalker @EWErickson @DennyBurk It’s obvious you’re working with a particular ideological framework that you’re sunk into, so there’s really no point in dialogue with you if you’ve already decided everything you believe. This will be my last post on this. Wish you all the best
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RCGWho
RCGWho@RcgWho47810·
@Andrew_Esqueda @AndrewTWalker @EWErickson @DennyBurk "Fuller Theological Seminary houses the M. Scott Peck archives....The collection, which includes publications, awards, & correspondence, is located at the DuPlessis Center at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California." A school housing an M Scott Peck library isn't conservative.
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@RcgWho47810 @AndrewTWalker @EWErickson @DennyBurk I have a masters of theology and biblical studies from Fuller Theological Seminary, hardly progressive. However, Fuller believes in knowing God with your heart and mind; they engage in serious scholarship with those they regularly disagree with, inside and outside the institution
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RCGWho
RCGWho@RcgWho47810·
@Andrew_Esqueda @AndrewTWalker @EWErickson @DennyBurk Your progressive apparently. You likely agree with illustrious,progressive institutions like Harvard & Princeton. If you're agreeing with the status quo among secular humanists, it's a good clue that you might not be agreeing with actual scripture. God's ways are not man's ways.
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@howertonjosh This is not the belief of historic Christianity. This is a mixture of Dante’s inferno, Left Behind, and purgatory. And, a total lack of/misunderstanding of the distinction between time and eternity.
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Josh Howerton
Josh Howerton@howertonjosh·
This reality about heaven doesn't happen until the very END. There's a lot we will never fully understand, but we can rely on what the Bible tells us about what's coming 👇
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@RcgWho47810 @AndrewTWalker @EWErickson @DennyBurk So you think this is a theological commandment and claim that has to do with salvation? Also, you can’t be taken seriously quoting from the KJV which is from the Textus Receptus which is notoriously one of the most faulty translations we have
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RCGWho
RCGWho@RcgWho47810·
@Andrew_Esqueda @AndrewTWalker @EWErickson @DennyBurk 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Matthew 19:4-5
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@David_J_Bier A loss of neighborliness. It’s led to loneliness, depression, anxiety, broken relationships, etc, and has pushed people into non-universalized ideological corners. I’d argue it’s one factor leading to societal decay
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David J. Bier
David J. Bier@David_J_Bier·
What are the most negative trends in American culture from your perspective?
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
The harm these #christian influencers are doing to the witness of the gospel is unreal. The saddest part is they’re doing it unwittingly. They’ve time and time again put their ideology in front of their theology, and more commonly, their ideology is their theology
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@shane_pruitt78 Dude, you know Ishmael is given a blessing in the Bible, right? And, that Islam is part of the Abrahamic religions? And, that J Smith and Russell are never mentioned right?
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Shane Pruitt
Shane Pruitt@shane_pruitt78·
Did you know that Jesus mentions Muhammad (Islam), Joseph Smith (Mormonism), and Charles Taze Russell (Jehovah’s Witnesses) in the Bible? “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves (Matthew 7:15).”
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@AndrewKolvet I was in the ATL airport for 4 hours yesterday, they were literally just standing around talking to each other.
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Andrew Kolvet
Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet·
ICE just fixed Atlanta's airport in a matter of hours.
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@BenZeisloft You might want to take a look at the countless amount of men in the evangelical sphere who have covered up their abuse of women or had their cronies cover it up for them, before you start lambasting women. Women have been tolerating the despicable behavior of men for centuries.
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Ben Zeisloft
Ben Zeisloft@BenZeisloft·
God can save sinners and redeem their broken pasts. You will not find me making fun of these two or their marriage in any way. With that said, this post is striking a nerve because it comes in the context of a deeply broken social contract, including and especially in the church, where young men are expected to tolerate infinite bad behavior from young women even as older men and older women refuse to hold them accountable. If the evangelical church in our day did not have a reputation for effeminacy and refusing to acknowledge the sins of women, many of which are actively destroying our civilization, perhaps our presentation of the gospel to the culture would be taken more seriously.
Trevor Sheatz@TrevorSheatz

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

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Allie Beth Stuckey
Allie Beth Stuckey@conservmillen·
Weekly attendance at a *Biblical* church is the greatest indicator of holding a biblical view on abortion and sexuality, which is why evangelicals and evangelicals alone are holding down the fort on these issues.
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge

Majorities of weekly attending Catholics and mainline Protestants agree that: Gay and Lesbian people should be allowed to marry Homosexuality should be accepted by society Majorities of weekly attending mainline and Black Protestants agree that: Abortion should be legal

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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@conservmillen No, you’re the lone bulwark against serious theological engagement. Not all evangelicals, but certainly your flavor
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@shane_pruitt78 Yeah cause that’s exactly what Jesus did with Zacchaeus and the woman caught in adultry, the prodigal son…
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Shane Pruitt
Shane Pruitt@shane_pruitt78·
Jesus didn't hangout with sinners because he affirmed and accepted their lifestyles. He spent time with sinners to show them their need for a Savior, and to teach them a different way of living.
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@esaagar I just finished waiting in it and got pretty lucky with my timing. 1:45 hours in precheck, most people waiting 2-3 hours in precheck, and regular is 5+. The staff who are working are as cruelly doing a pretty good job in light of three awful circumstances
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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@howertonjosh What is a “bible believing” Christian? Also, there are wonderful churches in Canada and Portland.
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Josh Howerton
Josh Howerton@howertonjosh·
If you’ve ever wondered why progressives (media, higher ed, the arts, etc) hate and target Bible-believing Christians so much, this is why. They (we) are literally the only group left in America holding back a tidal wave of evil they’re seeking to legislate and advance. Remove evangelical Christians (or just get them to sit out elections / think “eh, the gospel is neither right nor left, doesn’t matter”), and the United States becomes Portland or Canada in one generation. And that would be the (tragic) cultural inheritance we pass down to the future Church and our grandchildren… to our shame.
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge

Evangelicals are the only religious group where a majority do not agree with these 3 statements: Abortion should be legal Gay and lesbian people should be allowed to marry Homosexuality should be accepted by society

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Andrew Esqueda
Andrew Esqueda@Andrew_Esqueda·
@alisa_childers You clearly have no understanding of the history or purpose of the Apostles and Nicene Creeds.
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Alisa Childers
Alisa Childers@alisa_childers·
I've said from the beginning that the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed are not enough. They are good and I affirm them. However, they were written in response to and/or under pressure by the heresies of their day, and spoke to specific doctrines that were under fire. For example, neither creed mentions anything about sexuality, yet Scripture is clear that the sexually immoral will not inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 6:9) So, can someone be considered an orthodox Christian yet celebrate fornication? I say no. The question of the essentials is much more complicated than simply asking, "Do you affirm the creeds?"
Holy Post Media@HolyPost_Media

The label “heretic” gets thrown around way too easily these days. If you profess the Nicene Creed & the Apostles’ Creed, you count as a legitimate Christian. Period. Christians will always disagree about important political & social issues and matters of doctrine. But at the end of the day, if someone affirms the essential truths outlined in the creeds, they are not heretics or apostates. 🎙️Holy Post 670 with @philvischer, @skyejethani & @kaitlynschiess

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@EWErickson @WilliamWolfe @RcgWho47810 @AndrewTWalker @DennyBurk @howertonjosh @David_J_Bier @shane_pruitt78