Bentley

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Bentley

Bentley

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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ferrismattic It seems to me the unregenerate will is free and accountable for choosing all things 'earthly' - outside of Christ. (to be like God) Conversely, upon regeneration, the will is released to freely choose all things 'earthly' in accordance and relationships to Christ.
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Matt Ferris
Matt Ferris@ferrismattic·
Augustine’s “On Free Choice of the Will” is an early work in which he affirms a human freedom that closely resembles later ideas of ‘libertarian’ free will, especially the power of alternate choice. Later, during the Pelagian controversy, he moved away from this and articulated a view much closer to compatibilism. His earlier stance was a tradition he received from: Justin Martyr Tatian Athenagoras Theophilus of Antioch Irenaeus of Lyons Clement of Alexandria Tertullian Cyprian of Carthage Lactantius Athanasius Ephrem the Syrian Hilary of Poitiers Cyril of Jerusalem Basil of Caesarea Ambrosiaster Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa Ambrose of Milan Didymus the Blind Jerome Vincent of Lérins
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
The Reformed movement has recently moved in a highly cerebral, uptight, contentious, and legalistic direction. We need to recover a joyful spirit today. A warm spirit. A fun spirit. An open-handed spirit. A peacemaking spirit. A thankful spirit. A hopeful spirit.
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TrendingPolitics.ca@TrendPolCa·
POLL: @NVanCaroline tops BC Conservative leadership favourability and would put the party ahead of the NDP in a head-to-head election — Research Co.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@birdchadlouis Revelation assumes a working relationship with the OT. The constant informational bombardment from those attracted to science fiction and horoscopes make it difficult to see the encouragement it brings to churches (and individuals) who are compromised, tired, or misdirected.
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Chad Bird
Chad Bird@birdchadlouis·
To understand the final book of the Bible, Revelation, you must return to the first book, Genesis. Revelation frequently draws on Genesis to explain both God's current work and his future plans. A clear example of this appears in Revelation 17:6, where "Babylon the Great" is described as "the mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations," and in Revelation 18 when all worldly power is destroyed as Babylon falls. Why is worldly power depicted as Babylon? The roots trace back to Genesis 11 and the Tower of Babel. In Hebrew, "Babel" is written exactly as "Babylon." There, humanity’s sinfulness and arrogance are on full display. Throughout the Old Testament, Babylon evolves into the symbol of worldly power opposed to God. It is an emblem of rebellion, persecution of the faithful, and human pride. In Revelation, Babylon the Great embodies all anti-God forces but is ultimately destroyed when Christ returns. In place of Babylon, Christ will bring the New Jerusalem, a city for his people, where they will dwell in resurrected bodies, enjoying perfect communion with God in the new heavens and new earth. The New Testament references Babylon twelve times. Matthew uses the Babylonian exile to frame Jesus’ story within Israel’s salvation history, highlighting Babylon as a turning point between Abraham, David, and Christ. Revelation and 1 Peter use Babylon as a cryptic symbol for Rome. Like ancient Babylon, Rome was an imperial oppressor that besieged Jerusalem and desecrated the temple. The Bible consistently depicts Babylon as the ultimate ungodly power, making it a fitting symbol for any empire, past or present, that stands against God's kingdom. Ultimately, Revelation 18 promises that Babylon, the world’s rebellion, will fall, and Christ's people will find their eternal home and joy in the New Jerusalem. ____ We read Revelation 18 today in Bible in One Year: 1517.org/oneyear
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@j_bambrick There is a moment when a man who has been 'fed from the living Bible beside the daily bread' realizes that his family has grown up to serve God, and through the crises of life, he and his first wife are still disciples. That moment is a recognition of the grace of God.
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Jamie Bambrick
Jamie Bambrick@j_bambrick·
Classic midwittery. Anyone who thinks they can’t learn, grow, be convicted, be challenged or be exhorted by someone who is not quite as intellectual as them is actually much dumber than they think they are.
Miles Smith IV@IVMiles

There's a moment when smart Evangelical/Reformed guys in college or grad school go to a Sunday service and it hits them they're smarter and more sophisticated than the guy in the pulpit. They start thinking about Rome. I get it. Srsly DM me. Happy to talk. No judgement.

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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@TexasPreacher If you can't live with the fact that Christian 'giants' think differently than you, I'm not saying you're lost ... well, maybe I am.🙂
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Ryan Denton
Ryan Denton@TexasPreacher·
If you're not a 6-day/24-hour guy, I'm not saying you're lost, but your cosmology has been captured by philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@j_bambrick Abe called out of many nations; Adam called out of proto-hominids. So... where are the other proto-hominids?
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Jamie Bambrick
Jamie Bambrick@j_bambrick·
NT Wright is a bad theologian’s idea of what a good theologian is like.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@Joseph_Spurgeon I was about 14 yrs old, in the church, hearing fantastic stories about what the life of sin was like. It was the 70's. I was fascinated and wanted a testimony just like that. So I went out and got one. Turns out the only story worth telling is about Christ and not me.
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Joseph Spurgeon
Joseph Spurgeon@Joseph_Spurgeon·
I happen to believe several things can be true at once: 1. That a woman or a man who engaged in sexual immorality can receive the grace of God and can be made pure and holy. I believe that a man or woman who engaged in this sin is not forever screwed up and, if God wills, can find a happy marriage and be a faithful daughter or son of God. 2. That sexual morality is extremely shameful, and that it's good for shame to be on sexual immorality. Adulterers, fornicators, and all the rest should be ashamed of their sins. If someone's been forgiven of these sins, they probably shouldn't go around the internet announcing all their past. 3. That young men should not be shamed if they don't want to marry a woman with this kind of past. It is a good and right thing to want to marry someone who has remained pure until marriage, and it's good that we want to encourage that. 4. That you can be a Pharisee about that in such a way that screams, " at least I'm not like the other person." 5. That the gospel is very important and vital to know that it does take the worst of sinners and restores them. Many are fighting for it and it is worth making sure that we don’t obscure it. 6. believe a lot of these discussions are probably best handled off the internet, and that many of the people fighting over this are yelling past each other and wrongly impugning each other.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ostrachan @michaeljknowles I'm not sure I want to be remembered, identified, or objectified by my past. My testimony is in reference not to myself, but to the One who redeemed me, loves me, sustains me, and in Whom will do the same for you - wherever you find yourself.
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
That's not a fair characterization of what Trevor said, Michael. You have a big platform. Tell the truth. We believers are born again. We're saved from darkness. We're not making ourselves better day by day. We're not religious. We're radically converted out of sin. Ashley, Trevor's wife, has shared her testimony for years. The screenshot below is of a document she wrote about six years ago (May 2020), when she was single. I asked her to write this after she publicly shared how Christ saved her and washed her by his blood. As you can see from the screenshot, Ashley gave much more texture to her sinful past than Trevor did. Again, this was six years ago, and this was when she was single. She has freely testified to the lavish mercy of God in saving her, and she has done so without any shame. You have wronged a good man, Michael. He didn't call his wife a "whore." But the reality is this, friend: we are all deeply sinful people. We don't need spiritual uplift and moral improvement. We all need a radical new birth. And our Savior, Jesus Christ, is not ashamed of our pagan past. He has married us--the bride of Christ--despite our sins and failings. To go back to the Old Testament, we are Gomer, and he is the greater Hosea.
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Michael Knowles
Michael Knowles@michaeljknowles·
"Dad, what should I do if I want to have a good marriage?" "Well, son, my first piece of advice is to avoid calling your wife a whore, reformed or otherwise, to strangers on the Internet."
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Huff
Huff@Huff4Congress·
My wife and I were both virgins before our wedding and we’ve stayed faithful over twenty years of marriage and she’s birthed our four children and still looks like a fitness model thanks to excellent dietary and exercise habits and this is possible for you too, young man.
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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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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@TexasPreacher Years ago I was in a prayer mtg with 2 old missionary wives. Their husbands had been fed to alligators. Their perspective on cremation was rich and why I didn't question it when cremating my 17 yr old daughter after she drowned. This post annoys me.
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Ryan Denton
Ryan Denton@TexasPreacher·
I've preached quite a few funerals, and one trend that bothers me is cremation. It is a pagan concept, though of course most people don't know that, nor would I fight a grieving family over it. But Christians should be buried. They should not be incinerated and put into a pot or scattered along some shoreline. “It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.” One of my favorite places in the world is an old cemetery where the gravestones intentionally face east. Just as the sun rises in the east, so believers wanted burial to testify that they were awaiting the dawning of the last day, when Christ will appear and the dead will be raised. Thus even in death, and especially in an increasingly pagan culture, our bodies and the way we bury them can bear witness to the resurrection. Christians should make use of the opportunity.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ostrachan Ok, but I wish that rap was sin 🙂
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
Christians aren't bound to one musical style. There is no Hertz level that is pure. We can worship God in countless forms. WE ARE FREE IN CHRIST. Congregational worship differs from personal listening, sure. But Jesus has set us free from legalism and the edicts of men.
Owen Strachan@ostrachan

Christian rap has blessed me greatly over the years. Two amazing songs: 1. Beautiful Eulogy | "Worthy" youtube.com/watch?v=hLX_65… 2. Cross Movement | "What Do You See?" youtube.com/watch?v=pDzPIe… We can glorify God in diverse musical styles. We have freedom in Christ (Gal. 5:1)!

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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ostrachan What attracted me into the ministry as a young man was the exaltation of ministers and biblical characters. These were the 'greatest' in God's kingdom. This is an appeal to the flesh and is wrong. Most (if not all) of us are Israelites; not Moses.
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
Christians often feel like their lives don't count for Christ. Unlike missionaries, pastors, and leaders, their life is small. But God's glory is in a quieter life, too. Caring for a spouse with dementia. Raising little ones to know Christ. Serving your church as a single person. Doing your job day in and day out for 40 years. Brewing the coffee on Sunday morning. Being a friendly neighbor where you live. Counseling a young couple through marital trials. Leading a small group that blesses numerous folks. Doing hospitality when you can. Taking the Lord's Supper to saints in a nursing home. Visiting the sick. Calling a discouraged friend. Apologizing to someone you've hurt. Persevering through an extended season of hardship. Bearing with a family member who's challenging. Patiently talking through years of broken communication. Reaching out to a new family at church who feels lonely. All these things matter. All these things are seen by God. All quiet faithfulness will be rewarded by God. There is glory in the little things, friends.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ferrismattic Unlike Jesus who was more than an interpretation. Jn 1:18 (ἐξηγήσατο)
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Matt Ferris
Matt Ferris@ferrismattic·
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. Acts 9:36 Translated is διερμηνεύω (diermēneuō) to interpret, a variation on ἑρμηνεύω (hermēneuō) whence "hermeneutics."
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ostrachan @elimcgowan @PerfInjust @irishpresby @ZacharyGarris The apparent degree of cultural assimilation in the USA seems exponentially higher than in Canada, where 'multiculturalism' is a core principle. Multiculturalism (IMO) is a disaster. Expecting pagan cultures model Christian unity is not even Biblical. They can't.
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
@elimcgowan @PerfInjust @irishpresby @ZacharyGarris This is a twisted knot of bad thinking in numerous directions. But here's one of the funniest angles: it treats countries like America as if we've never had immigration before. We're a nation of immigrants. Many of them share skin color but nothing else--and they've coexisted.
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Eli McGowan
Eli McGowan@elimcgowan·
Page 44 of the Stephen Wolfe (@PerfInjust), Rev. Sean McGowan, PCA (@irishpresby), Rev. Zachary Garris, PCA (@ZacharyGarris) report: “The Gospel does not supply the earthly features necessary for living well together in civil society. No matter how desperate some might be to make “unity in Christ” the all-encompassing principle in civil life, and no matter how pious they think it sounds, it simply does not work. Indeed, it cannot work. One condition for people to live well together, collectively and in the civil context, is the sharing of cultural or ethnic particularities by which people see themselves as a we—a people united by a national way of life—and the Gospel does not provide these things, at least inherently or immediately.”
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@douglaswils This posits that form precedes emotion - and yes it can. However, as I am not a robot, I am happy to respond emotionally to my Saviour. Sometimes He comes to me before I enact a ritual. Imagine that.
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Douglas Wilson
Douglas Wilson@douglaswils·
Worship is service in the presence of God. Praise is part of that worship, but worship itself consists of assembling before the Lord, and doing together what He requires of us. 1/3
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ScottAniol I have no problem worshipping God emotionally... ... because I'm not a computer, nor a book, nor a robot. Mark 12:30
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sᴄᴏᴛᴛ ᴀɴɪᴏʟ@ScottAniol·
We've reduced worship to a feeling you have during the music. The biblical vision is far larger: a covenant people gathered around the living God, meeting him in Word and sacrament, sent back into the world as witnesses. The feeling, if it comes, is a byproduct — not the point.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ostrachan Humility: They may not be wolves; I may be wrong. Lord, vindicate your Word and let the love of Christ be the takeaway for those in whom I am at odds.
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
Dear Christian: are you "eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace"? Simple question for us all from Ephesians 4:3.
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Matt Ferris
Matt Ferris@ferrismattic·
Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God, to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.” Rev 19:17–18 Bird is ὄρνεον (orneon), whence ornithology, the study of birds. This passage is the culmination of a theme elsewhere in Scripture. Birds associated with judgment or apostasy. Babylon was said to be the haunt of every unclean bird. The curses in Deuteronomy 28 warned "your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air." In Ezekiel 39 God summons the birds eat the "flesh of the mighty" after the defeat of Gog.
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Bentley
Bentley@BPSteegstra·
@ostrachan In Canada we are about to experience a whole lot of good and a whole lot of Glory ...just sayin'
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Owen Strachan
Owen Strachan@ostrachan·
If there is no God, suffering has no ultimate purpose. But there is a God, and he uses suffering in profoundly redemptive ways--both for our good and for his ultimate glory.
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