Dave Chesser 🜋
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Dave Chesser 🜋
@DaveChesser1
Christian, nationalist, father and vet. God wants men to be strong, I help them get there. Keto, kettlebells, kungfu may or may not be involved.
Post Falls, ID Katılım Eylül 2022
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All of the folks getting mad at me for pointing out that cremation is not a Christian practice…..
Y’all are going to be real upset when you hear my position on:
1. Birth control
2. Being an organ donor
3. Women wearing jeans regularly
4. SSRIs
5. Euthanasia
6. Eating industrial slop
7. Women going to college
8. Women in the workforce
9. Men who are unable to work hard labor
10. Voluntarily sending your kids to public school
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@StChad_1517 your AI missed the "cradle Orthodox" thing. When I visited, it was mentioned more than once that cradle EO were basically "better" than converts. I found that interesting since the cradle types often couldn't explain anything
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@Carol52538896 oh dear. don't let our fellow Lutherans know you listened to an outside source lol. Truth is truth no matter where you find it
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Do “Contemporary Annotations”rebel against the Word of God?
Listened to a 5 minute Sinclair Ferguson podcast. He provided quite a contrast to the “contemporary annotations” our LCMS put out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…
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@ImDanChapa thanks but I feel we could be doing a better job explaining to others the beauty of our tradition. Lutherans spend too much time arguing with other Lutherans and RC/EO IMO.
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@DaveChesser1 We are not irrelevant, brother. We carry the gospel of Christ through the ministry of our daily lives as I can see you are doing.
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Not a single Lutheran. I’m pleased we don’t align with earthly powers and ambition.
“But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.”
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12
Heath Taws@HeathTaws
Presbys lookin pretty good here
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@Infanttheology Really want to make RC mad? Remind them that without Luther, there would have been no council of Trent in the first place!
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Sometimes I think Martin Luther's eventual vindication will take place not only among all Protestants but Roman Catholics as well!
How can they not eventually make him a saint?!
Are even elite Roman Catholic apologists dusty on their theology?
Where does my argument fail?
Theology Like a Child@Infanttheology
I've got a new article up at the @Gottesdienst2 blog. What was the real point of the Council of Trent? I'll tell you what I suspect. It was an effort to *exclude* the very Augustinian branch of the western church -- & *include* those with Pelagian tendencies. Link below.
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@matt_e_cochran really sad. I can watch my 20 year-old son play RDD2 and talk with him about it. Infinitely preferable
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Now what's it like when you fast forward 40 years and this is all you have to show for it?
Cam 🎮 (@CamXPetra)@lastofcam
This is what being married with no kids looks like.
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@___mithrandir_ I had no idea the idea of liturgy as adiaphora went as far back as 1959. I was reading Pastor Schenk's take on the sacraments
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My least lcms opinion is that liturgy isn't as adiaphora as some think.
Bad worship practices lead to bad theology, or at least bad ways of thinking about theology.
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@___mithrandir_ DS3 is amazing! Has real power you can feel. DS 1 feels disjointed and leaves me irritated.
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Setting 3 is undoubtedly the best, but the other settings still retain the bones of the mass. The language, the specific music or canticles, etc: that's adiaphora. If your parish prefers setting 1, cool, genuinely. But abolishing the mass entirely? That just seems perilous.
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@WmWeedon @Canonandcreed did a great video a little while ago addressing the many falsehoods in Fr Josiah’s popular book, “Rock and Sand,” re: Luther - worth checking out if you haven’t 👍
youtu.be/AYhee7sCO-4?si…
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This is just one of. Dr. Cooper’s best videos responding to sheer silliness spouted by Fr. Trenham. Keep up the good work, my friend!
Just and Sinner@JustandSinner
This is an off-the-cuff reaction video to a clip from Fr. Josiah Trenham in which he speaks about Protestant views of church history. youtube.com/watch?v=QDERYY…
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@matt_e_cochran Is Bierman a better choice than Harrison? It's like lesser of 2 evils at this point. Who will continue these trends less?
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@DaveChesser1 We've certainly adopted the world's tactics on demographic replacement--baptized with pious verbiage, of course. That's one of the big reasons they react to CN like a vampire to a cross.
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Imagine how LCMS demographics might look if, instead of hokey evangelism programs, we taught people to be fruitful & multiply and instructed women to be busy at home loving their husbands & children.
It's always a good time to start trusting God's Word.
Ryan Burge 📊@ryanburge
Some absolutely INSANE numbers about the Amish. Average woman gives birth to 6 children in their lifetime. ~4% of first births are to unwed mothers. But here's crazier numbers: They convert virtually NO ONE. 154 total in 100 years. Retention: 85%
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@matt_e_cochran We're already prepared to move past it. Synod's days are numbered
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I suspect the LCMS as a whole is too feminized, antinomian, and liberal to reform itself.
But in 20 years, we'll look quite different because half of us will have died of old age.
So use the time wisely and do your best to pass local leadership to today's "radical" young men.
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@derekbalsley Preachers like Denton need to believe this stuff so they can sleep at night. He has no idea of the spirituality in EO nor could he appreciate it
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Why my family became Orthodox:
- Theosis as man’s purpose/meaning
- Man as divine, not depraved
- Sin as infection, not merely infraction
- Faith as participatory, not merely propositional
- Full embrace of the spiritual realm
- Real sacraments, real presence in Eucharist
- Least affected by modernism/post-modernism
- Apostolic succession, genuine authority
- Logic/reason submits to mystical/spiritual
- Theological depth, nuance, paradox
- Beauty, symbolism, rich meaning
- God (& cloud of witnesses) present in the Liturgy
Ryan Denton@TexasPreacher
I've noticed young men are into RCC/EO because it's trendy, not bc it's true. They like the colors, buzz, & pomp of the thing. It's cooler than to settle for the simplicity of Christ & worshipping Him in Spirit & truth. It's vainglory that leads them, not the Spirit of God.
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@LutheranAnswers It seems ingrained in us. We have zero influence because of it. Very frustrating.
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Once Again: Lutherans would have better results if we stopped arguing against the Rome of 500 years ago.
NattyStag@NattyStag
In my 6 months working with a Roman Catholic Zoomer I’ve noticed this. -Lutheran understanding of the Lord’s Supper -Lutheran understanding of Justification by Faith Alone -Lutheran understanding of Salvation -Lutheran understanding of Works.
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@megbasham you have no interest in Rome dictating policy because Israel already does and you're 100% fine with that
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I am not trying to make my Catholic friends, who I love, angry with this statement. But this entire episode is starting to explain to me why so many Americans were concerned about a Catholic president for so long.
I have no interest in Rome trying to dictate American policy. And if it continues to loudly make its opinions heard on our foreign policy, I believe they’re going to find a lot of American Protestants feeling a lot less ecumenical than we have been in the more recent past.
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@DarthHarryson how do you feel about the perpetual virginity of Mary? I was surprised at how many Lutherans believe that. I disagree with him on that one
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@DaveChesser1 I most certainly agree! Allow me to clarify: I judge his doctrinal claims through the lens of the Book of Concord. Where he disagrees with the Book of Concord (as is most prominently seen in his earlier writings, such as his endorsement of purgatory) then I disagree with him.
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That's why I judge Luther's writings based upon the Book of Concord... 😉
Dr Jordan B. Cooper@DrJordanBCooper
"One must not judge Evangelical doctrine by Luther's earliest writings, those composed between 1517 and 1522, at the very beginning of the Reformation." - Johann Georg Walch
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@Jorrrmungandrrr @shebringsjoy synod has done a great job scrubbing his email and comments off the web, but yes that's how it came across
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@DaveChesser1 @shebringsjoy My point is, for someone in his position and regarding such a weighty issue, even a lack of opposition should be considered a ringing endorsement.
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I am very confused about synod politics, and wondering why Pastor Biermann would be running against Pastor Harrison for the job of synod president.
They both seem similar enough to not make a huge difference.
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@DrJordanBCooper @shebringsjoy It also matters you're competing with CPH and doing a better job for a cheaper price. Can't support you enough in that endeavor
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@shebringsjoy It does kinda matter to the AALC, because a faction of the LCMS really dislikes us (and me in particular), and is desperate to cut all ties with the AALC. So, to some degree, those politics impact us.
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