Kip' Chelashaw

This is how to flee porn.

@Vicar1973 Thank you.

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Excerpt from a recent wedding homily, based on Mark 10:6-9: In Mark 10 Jesus defines what marriage is. We could sum it up this way: From the beginning, marriage has been one man and one woman sharing one life. What is the most important word Jesus uses to describe marriage? We might think when it comes to marriage words like “love” or “honor” or “forgiveness” are the most important words to use – and they are important — but Jesus doesn’t use them. THE most important word Jesus uses is that word “ONE.” Marriage is about the two becoming one. Marriage is about ONENESS. The two become one. Marriage means oneness. One mission. One last name. One home. One bed. One bank account. One family. One flesh. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. ONE LIFE. Marriage is the deepest form of oneness we can experience this side of the world to come. Oneness means union and unity. Oneness means the joining of your hearts and your bodies and your lives. It means the two become one. Marriage is not a math problem – math would never never tell us 1 +1 = 1. Marriage is not math, it’s a miracle. Jesus says GOD is joining you together today. God is at work in this ceremony. He will work through the words you say, the promises you make, the symbols you exchange. Even though I’m the officiant of your service, I’m really just a by-stander, another witness to what GOD is doing. God is knitting the two of you into one new thing – that’s what marriage is. A new family is being formed today and this is the work of God. Oneness means companionship and covenant. In Malachi, the Lord tells the men of Israel that their wives are their companions by covenant. Marriage is a covenant of oneness, a covenant of companionship. Jesus takes us all the way back to the beginning to explain that this is God’s design. When God created Adam, he was TRULY happy in the Garden. But we was not FULLY happy until God gave him a wife. Adam was created good – but it was NOT GOOD for Adam to be alone. He could only enter into the goodness and happiness God created him to enjoy when God provided a wife for him. The great 17th century British pastor Thomas Gataker said, “There is no society more near, more entire, more needful, more kindly, more delightful, more comfortable, more constant, more continual, than the society of man and wife.” Gataker said a man’s house is half unfurnished and unfinished, and not fully happy but only half happy, until he is completed by a wife. In marriage the two become one. And you experience the fullness of that oneness as you pour yourself out for one another. You pour love out of yourself and into the other. That shared love, that exchange of love, that mutual love, is the life and soul of your marriage. Your lives are completely intertwined by this love, completely twisted together as one. But as modern people, we tend to get this wrong. This love should certainly include feelings, but it is not limited to feelings. It’s really a love that manifests itself in action, in willing, desiring, and acting for the good of the other. This is not a love solely based on fluctuating feelings. When you take your vows in just a minute, you are not going to say anything about the feelings you have for one another today. There is wisdom in those ancient vows you will be reciting – it’s an old wisdom and the old wisdom is better than the new wisdom. The old wisdom is undefeated. Rather than describing how you feel in this moment, or even you will feel in the future, the vows you will take will commit to a course of action towards one another from this day forward. You will promise to be there for one another no matter what – no matter what happens; no matter how good or bad the times are; no matter how you feel on any given day for years to come. You will promise to fulfill the duties and obligations that come with the marriage relationship. You will promise to do certain things for one another, come what may, til death do you part. That promise is what God’s Word calls a covenant. Again, marriage is a covenant of companionship. In this marriage covenant, you become one in the deepest possible way. What does it mean to live as one in the covenant of marriage? It means that when you bless you spouse, you are blessing yourself. It means that if you were to harm your spouse, you’d be harming yourself. It means should you ever have an argument (and you probably will!), the goal cannot be defeating your spouse because you’d really be defeating yourself. The goal has to be working together to solve the problem because then you both win. You will never face a problem in your marriage the two of you cannot solve if you you tackle it together, as one. You are one – so it’s impossible for one of you to win and the other lose. You are one, so you win or lose together. It’s impossible for one of you to succeed while the other fails – you will succeed or fail together because that’s what it means to be one. There is nothing competitive about marriage. If one of you keeps score, tallying up who does what or keeping a record of wrongs, you both lose. Marriage doesn’t work that way. You see why that word “one” is so important?

Why is Islam like this? Answer: Because Mohammed was like this. A pedophile.

Why do we inject a vaccine meant for adult risk groups into every newborn? The truth reveals a story of shaky science, ignored safety signals, and hidden agendas. midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-is-every…

When I was Muslim, I compared Muhammad’s last words to Jesus’ last words. Not just the facts, but the spirit behind them. And bro, the difference is staggering. It shook my devout Muslim faith. According to Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad’s final words included: “May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians. They made the graves of their prophets into places of worship.” Those are words associated with his final moments. No forgiveness. No reconciliation. No peace. Now compare that to Jesus. Beaten, betrayed, tortured, hanging on a cross with nails through His wrists, Jesus says: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And then: “It is finished.” One dies speaking curses. The other dies extending forgiveness. One ends by drawing lines and reinforcing division. The other tears the veil and reconciles heaven and earth. And whether people like it or not, final words reveal something deeply personal about the heart. That contrast shook me. Because one man’s final moments reinforced separation, while the other’s changed eternity through mercy, sacrifice, and love. Please sit with that honestly.

@MusingsOnChrist @PLeithart So you read "all things are ours" as Christians have access to all of God's word?

@PLeithart Paul is affirming universal access to God’s Word by all believers (v 22) and the totality of Christ’s authority (23). Paul is not justifying some claim for any supposed church having universal jurisdiction in this age (18). He also blasts carnal deceivers who foster pride (19ff).

This is pagan pretension to power masking itself in the guise of Christian theology. There is only One who has universal jurisdiction: God, who is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Neither the church nor the state is God. Therefore, neither has universal jurisdiction.

This is incontrovertibly true. However, Christians still seem to lift up and praise those who simply give away money (their own and others) to charities, nonprofits, and missions. We should praise the entrepreneur just as loudly.

False Teacher Alert! If you read the Bible, you will discover that those who advocate abstaining from certain foods teach the doctrines of demons! "But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer. (1 Timothy 4:1–5)

Kuyper (famously): “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, ‘Mine!'" Need to Augustine-ize, totus-Christus-ize that: There is no square in over which the body of Christ does not cry, "Ours."

In Scripture, a covenant means two lives are bound together by a promise, by faithfulness, and by obligations, our God always makes covenants, not deals. That’s what sex, in marriage, is meant to express, it’s the physical partaking of what a covenant is. When a man and a woman come together, they’re not just sharing an experience, they’re sealing something, and the feminine body especially mirrors this idea. A woman’s body quite literally receives and carries what is given. It’s built to make something eternal out of something momentary. That’s what a covenant does, it takes what is offered and turns it into life. It’s the same pattern God built into creation itself. Christ gives Himself to the Church, and the Church receives Him and brings forth new life. Our bodies tell that same story, of receiving, transforming, and nurturing, of creating life, of giving life. That’s why Scripture calls marriage, and the “one flesh” union, a reflection of Christ and the Church. That’s what sex was always meant to reveal, and that is also why it is impossible to be done casually without enormous moral, ethical, spiritual and physical cost to our bodies, and to our souls.

Women occupying prime church leadership roles or expounding the word during public worship have been the rarest of exceptions historically until recent decades. HT: @p_sandlin

@_Theopolis Good work. Thanks. And you could add Isaiah 52 & Ezekiel 36.

Christians Should Baptize Their Children, but Not Because of Circumcision theopolisinstitute.com/christians-sho…

This is meritocracy. At the right tail of the bell curve, women are not non-existent but they are extremely scarce. This might help dispel your bewilderment over why you are not at the table.

@jarrodrichey @NewSaintAndrews I have a young man I'd love to attend this in summer 2027.

Come spend the middle two weeks of July with me and other music teachers and church musicians from around the country at the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute at @NewSaintAndrews college. music.nsa.edu/csmi/

When Ascension Day is given its proper due, the gospel shines as public truth, a fundamentally political message of the royal Conqueror that has decisive import for both nations & individuals.

Pastors here in Kenya especially those with buildings should plug into this.

A clear explanation of the joy that the assurance of pardon given by a minister of the gospel offers.

@TheRobertBshow How can we get something like this going in Kenya, East Africa?

For more information fill out the form on our website: ics.regfox.com/cc-plus-underg… We will have 5 to 10 locations starting this year, and 100s in the near future.

Classical Conversations is launching the Classical Fellowship, where students can get there Bachelors Degree and continue the great conversation. Alum get guaranteed admission. Total cost of the program < $30,000. Dedicated Mentor. Small Cohorts.

'I remember when I prayed for what I now have.' That sentence has rebuked me more than once.