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@614clinton No. As Dr. Jay Adams said in his book Competent to Counsel, some dysfunctional behavior often mischaracterized as mental illness is actually sin and should be confronted as such.

Do you think being transgender is a mental illness?

Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science... The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

@TomBuck @SlowToWrite "Reformed Echoes" on YouTube is already doing something similar using an AI image of C.H. Spurgeon. However, they seem to stay faithful to his sermons.

@SlowToWrite How long until a mega church does this after their pastor dies?

This is dark. This is what happens when society loses what it means to be made in the image of God. This isn't Val Kilmer. It's a soulless image mimicking him.

@MommaFrankie The Trinity Psalter Hymnal (or something similar)

What book belongs on everyone’s bookshelf besides the Bible?

@winextension @sciencegirl Maybe it's Joseph of Arimathea, the man who loaned Jesus his tomb for the weekend.

@sciencegirl He sure doesn't look like a guy in his thirties ..

The Turin shroud, brought to life by AI

Praise God for this public profession of faith. I too made the same profession in an IFB church many years before I understood the Doctrines of Grace. Understanding that it's not our words or actions that save us, but the regenerating work of God’s Spirit that precedes our faith, let us encourage this man to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ rather than critique his profession. Yes those who evangelize such men need to present the gospel biblically, but thanks be to God He uses His Word, however weakly to draw men to Himself.

Hopefully, he means to say that he was convicted by the Holy Spirit what a wicked, self loving, God hating, hell deserving worker of iniquity he is, and he fell on his face begging God for mercy in Christ Jesus. If that is his testimony...praise God. If not, all the false converts are shouting for joy for an anathematized free will gospel found nowhere in scripture..and praising "him," not the God of the Bible who saves His elect.

Here's a great help from John Owen for any believer serious about dealing with remaining sin.

@RevReads289 @BibChr There's no dishonesty here. Some are saved and some are not. Sins have been atonement for. But it is apparent there is some limitation. God is not unjust, he does not atone conditionally, sins are either wiped away or they're not.

@BibChr All Christians lie from time to time. This post is an example of dishonesty. Don't be like Dan and lie about the beliefs of others.

All Christians believe in Limited Atonement. Only universalists don't. It's just a question of how you limit it.

@JulieAVoorhees @Protestia No not exactly, yet much worship today is more pragmatic, man-centered and experiential rather than providing a holy and God centered atmosphere to meet with God and hear his word IMHO. There certainly can be flexibility but within scriptural bounds.

@CaptCredence @Protestia But they were actively ignoring the requirements laid out clearly by God. I don’t think the same standard applies here.

This is not a special service, or a themed-church event, or a muscial interlude before the message, or anything of that nature. This is the everyday, run-of-the-mill, praise and worship time for an SBC church in Florida Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.

@JulieAVoorhees @Protestia Nadab and Abihu would like a word. 😉

@Protestia Ok. I completely get the sentiment here. My SBC church doesn’t do this. However….why shouldn’t they be able to use technology to praise and worship God? Created creatures using created stuff to worship our divine Creator.

This is understandable considering the state of youth in the contemporary evangelical church, and considering that Paul Washer has a limited time to challenge them. Contemporary sermons and music is predominantly upbeat and lacks the conviction of men like Jonathan Edward's and Charles Spurgeon (upon listening/reading their sermons you would say the same thing). While the sufficiency of a God centered gospel should also be present, it is the man centered entertainment culture that necessitates this in my opinion.

The Gospel of Maybe Paul Washer’s Fear-Pulpit, Fruit-Inspection Religion, and the Assault on Biblical Assurance Some men preach like they are trying to rescue sinners from hell. Paul Washer often sounds like he is trying to rescue God from sinners. Everything is framed like a courtroom cross-examination, not a gospel invitation. You do not hear, “Come unto Christ and rest,” you hear, “Come up here and prove you are real.” It is a style of preaching that feels powerful to the flesh because it is sharp, intense, and suspicious, and it convinces the listener that fear is the same thing as conviction. But fear is not the gospel, and intimidation is not the Holy Ghost. The worst part is that it is wrapped in biblical language so it sounds safe to people who do not read their Bible with any discernment. He can quote verses about holiness and warnings and judgment, and he can say the right words about grace and faith, but then he turns around and builds a whole salvation culture on tests, evidences, and ongoing proof. In that system, the cross is not the finished payment. The cross is the entry ticket to an endless audit where you spend the rest of your life trying to confirm you are not a fraud. A gospel that will not let a soul rest is not the gospel the apostles preached. God did not write the New Testament so Christians could live on a leash, choking on uncertainty. He wrote it so they could know what Christ did, know what God promised, and then walk in the liberty of sons, not the panic of suspects. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life” (John 5:24). Everlasting means it does not need your weekly emotional temperature check to stay valid. 1. The Fear-Pulpit That Produces Performers Paul Washer’s brand is fear as a spiritual tool. He talks like the main problem in the average church is not unbelief in Christ, but a lack of dread, as if terror is the missing ingredient of revival. He pushes people to be “afraid,” and he treats peace like presumption, like it is dangerous for a man to be sure about eternal life. That turns the Christian life into a revolving door where the same people keep “getting saved again” in their head every time they stumble, because the preacher trained them to interpret weakness as proof they were never born again. This approach does not purify the church the way people imagine. It teaches the hypocrite how to act, and it teaches the tender conscience how to bleed. The hypocrite hears the rules of the performance and learns to mimic the language of brokenness, tears, and intensity so nobody questions him. The honest believer hears those same rules and thinks, “If I do not feel enough, mourn enough, cry enough, hate sin enough, then maybe I am not real.” One becomes an actor. The other becomes a prisoner. Neither one is learning to look unto Jesus. The New Testament method for dealing with false profession is not to replace Christ’s promise with a lifestyle scoreboard. The method is to preach the gospel plainly, disciple believers, expose wolves, and use church discipline when needed. It is not to turn every sermon into an interrogation lamp. The gospel invitation is not “prove you are saved.” It is “believe.” “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name” (John 1:12). 2. Turning First John into a Club for Beating the Sheep One of the most damaging moves in Washer’s teaching is how he handles First John. Instead of treating First John as a letter to believers about fellowship, growth, confession, love, and discernment, he treats it like a courtroom exam designed to determine who is saved and who is lost, and he says it bluntly. If you claim to know God but your life pattern does not match the standard he is pressing, then you are a liar, and he does not care about your inner claims or your feelings of certainty. That is

@TodAshby LOVE the Trinity Hymnal! I've used them at home for 50 years+, and when I was fortunate to attend a church that used them.

I love it when new books arrive. This one’s a little different.

@EricLDaugh Is it time for some western counties to consider seceding to West Virginia again?

🚨 BREAKING: Virginia's first Muslim Lieutenant Governor Ghazala Hashmi was just sworn into office on the QURAN, in a terrifying sight Wake up, America. Islam is not interested in assimilating, it's interested in conquering YOU. Including the liberals. REPEL ISLAM!

@greg_price11 Time for some counties to reconsider joining West Virginia?

BREAKING: Abigail Spanberger's first act as Governor of Virginia is to repeal Glenn Youngkin's executive order that mandated state and local law enforcement cooperate with immigration enforcement. Elections have consequences.

@5Solas2 @TomBuck The only thing we can say for sure is that IF he was appointed to eternal life, he believed.

I don't doubt for one second if Scott had genuine faith and repentance right before he died he's with Christ in heaven. I also don't doubt that God is able to bring that about even after the statement Scott put out. My problem is with people celebrating what Scott wrote as if it was a demonstration of what saving faith is. He essentially said it's safer to bet on Christianity being true than not. He also said he's an unbeliever but if he woke up in heaven he would believe then. That's too late. He also talked about being qualified to get into heaven. Which is also another demonstration that he didn't understand what Christ accomplished on the cross. I'm sure you probably agree with this but just elaborating for anyone else. People act like I'm hoping he wasn't saved. That's not the case. I just want people to understand what actual conversion and saving faith is.

Pascal's Wager isn't the gospel.

@Heidel_bro1563 ... and that's good news because otherwise no one either could nor would have even wanted to be reconciled to God on His terms.

Calvinism accurately reflects or portrays the gospel. God chose without condition (unconditional election) specific people from among utterly fallen mankind (total depravity) and made full atonement for those people's sins (limited atonement), regenerated them to want to seek after God (irresistible grace) which they would not otherwise do, and keep them from falling away (perseverance of the saints).

“Calvinism is the Gospel, and nothing else.” -Charles Spurgeon

@Pastor_Gabe While both weather and traffic are ordained, insofar as the "wicked" are involved in traffic, you may consider quoting from select imprecatory psalms instead 😉

“When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.” —A.W. Pink A convicting reminder when I was complaining about traffic today.

@furious4hope @Truth_matters20 God in his sovereign purpose brings difficulties into our lives (James 1:2 ff; 5:11), and we trust him in what he is doing (Rom.8:28) for our ultimate good. Indeed many of God’s people rejoiced in their sufferings (Heb. 11:35)

@Truth_matters20 These were not God’s plans. They were the enemies plan, that God turned for good. Know the difference!

"God has a wonderful plan for your life" debunked: "The wonderful life that God had for Stephen was to be stoned. The wonderful life that God had for Peter was to be crucified upside down." The Gospel isn't about health, wealth and prosperity. It's about repentance and faith.

"The revelation made of Christ in the blessed gospel is far more excellent, more glorious, and more filled with rays of divine wisdom and goodness, than the whole creation and the just comprehension of it, if attainable, can contain or afford. Without the knowledge hereof, the mind of man, however priding itself in other inventions and discoveries, is wrapped up in darkness and confusion. This, therefore, deserves the severest of our thoughts, the best of our meditations, and our utmost diligence in them. For if our future blessedness shall consist in being where he is, and beholding of his glory, what better preparation can there be for it than in a constant preview contemplation of that glory in the revelation that is made in the Gospel, unto this very end, that by a view of it we may be gradually transformed into the same glory?" - From John Owen's introduction to The Glory of Christ