David Lepine

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True for Chinese and Mexican, but when I had Italian food in Italy it was like I was tasting real spaghetti for the first time.

@branleed47 @oblatenate I am also interested to know if @oblatenate 's talk was recorded.

@oblatenate Wish I could have been there! Do you know if the talks will be made available? If not, maybe you can just redo the talk on my voicemail…just sayin😆

Thanks to Fr Brandon for giving me the chance to think deeper and more clearly about vocations - about the office of Reader especially - and for putting me into contact with so many brilliant and holy minds. This conference is truly delightful.

@Empty_America "Rigid Indigo" (i.e. raw denim) can be had for $30

Even teen jeans are somewhat cheaper now. We get the boys George Strait Wranglers, they are about $50 in today's money. So back in 1999, that equates to maybe $25. Less than half the cost of acceptable teen age jeans in the 90s.

Then again, when I was a teen you *had* to have at least Levi's, and I remember them costing at least $60+ in the late 90s, which must be like $120 today. Now I just get Rustlers from Walmart for $16. The old Levi's were imported even back then, so it was a pure rip off.

@aaron_renn His church is in a denomination called the Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church, which was formed in 1997 and apparently has a total of 3 member churches covref.org/pages/church-d…

The name of this guy’s church suggests he may be in the RPCNA, which is one of the small groups I mentioned that’s not a product of schism. Nevertheless, this redefinition of terms and rewriting of history (and so arrogantly) is an example of why so much of evangelical teaching is not to be trusted. If they are unwilling to acknowledge the basic history we can all look up on Wikipedia, and instead rely on bespoke definitions to create a different historical narrative, what else have they done that with? It’s sort of like when I read John Piper’s analysis of women in military combat and see that it’s not an accurate representation of what happened. It makes me wonder what else he’s telling me about gender also isn’t an accurate representation.

@RevJimOPC "Redeemed Omer"?

From living room, to rented chapel at a private school, to a store front, to this building in eight years. Redeemed Omer is an ignorant clown and should be ignored.

@scottrswain Who sings that text to DARWALL? I don't see any matching instances on Hymnary. All the Trinity hymnals use BEVAN by John Goss.

I SHALL BE SAFE, FOR CHRIST DISPLAYS HIS CONQU’RING POW’R AND GUARDIAN GRACE DARWALL 6.6.6.6.8.8

@thesebearguns Oh wait, never mind, not the Gobbler. I see it was a black ops. Welcome, Office Space!

@thesebearguns The Gobbler! I was doing that last summer.

I joined a local men’s fitness group and did a ruck this morning at 6am

@johnlepine @aaron_renn You can drive 10 minutes outside of Bentonville AR to attend Little Flock Primitive Baptist Church, est. 1843

@aaron_renn In Oklahoma you’ll see a lot of Free Will Baptist. In Arkansas there’ll be Church of Christ in the mix. A few weeks ago in Missouri I saw sign for a Primitive Baptist Church.

Driving back roads in Tennessee and Kentucky, half the churches were Missionary Baptist and the other half were General Baptist.

@PresbyInn @BrandonCorley99 Where would you start reading him?

@BrandonCorley99 Bonaventure was a shining light. A lot that Protestants can (and should) learn from him.

Samuel Clarke: Bonaventure, born in Etruria in Italie, of Noble and devout Parents, was of a winning countenance, very studious, and a great follower of Alexender Hales. He engraved in his study that saying of our Lord, Learn of me, for I am meek, &c. and to keep his minde from swelling, he would sweep rooms, wash vessels, make beds, &c. He was very cheerful in ministring to the Poor: and when he met with any persons that were troubled in minde, he would not leave them till they found comfort. He was much in Meditation and Prayer: In Preaching he sought to inflame the hearts of his hearers: His words were not Inslantia, but Inslammantia, not High-swelling, but Inflaming.

@johnlepine The Parry tune is great, but sing it to this Horatius Bonar text: youtube.com/watch?v=4Yda2w…

I don’t want to hear any whining about how weird dispensationalism is from the country whose favorite hymn is William Blake’s “Jerusalem.”

@HaffnerMusic @PresbyInn Do you have a lead sheet for Psalm 82 (WINSTEAD HILL) that you'd be willing to share with me?

@PresbyInn We haven’t! open.spotify.com/album/1y8A3SPF…

Why have so many Reformed churches given up on the singing of Psalms?

@chrbaxter_yt @aaron_renn @PresbyInn trinityowasso.com Traditional in some ways, but the design is actually for a "fellowship hall" that can be used for worship — not a sanctuary. Very different from Covenant.

@aaron_renn @PresbyInn what’s that PCA church in Oklahoma that is doing a real bang up job of building traditional?

Covenant Presbyterian (PCA) in Nashville is the only Protestant church I’ve seen with a new building that’s a high quality version of a traditional church.

@nealjclark1 youtu.be/mu2lOOQeHF4

Has anyone noticed that the hippy wigger stoner types say “I appreciate you” instead “thanks” or “have a good one”. I don’t like it shocking no one I assume

@GiffLasta Interesting. Would’ve expected you to go for Jefferson.

@DavidRLepine Austrian. Obviously.

If we sing "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" at church, which tune should we use? (examples below)

@GiffLasta @dmichaelclary Unforgivable they did that to a great tune like ABERYSTWYTH

@DavidRLepine @dmichaelclary Ever heard the hymn “God of Earth and Outer Space”?

This is what it looks like to "contextualize" to people you don't know or understand. Worship leader Brandon Lake says he wants to keep a fictional man called "Bubba" in mind with his song selection. "Bubba" won't want to sing lyrics that have too much Christianese in them, like "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty." Lake has it exactly backwards. Lake thinks "Bubba" is too ignorant and backwards to know what the word "holy" means. And "Bubba" might be a manly, blue collar guy, as his name suggests, but that doesn't mean he's stupid. I wonder if "Bubba" would want to sing some of these lyrics written by Brandon Lake: "I wanna dance like David I wanna faith like Paul I wanna break my vase Just to anoint You Lord" Lake seems to think watered-down, overly emotive songs are what reaches men. When, in fact, songs like Holy, Holy, Holy, songs he's dismissing, lift men's hearts by upholding the glory and majesty of God. Lake's songs will be forgotten within a decade. Churches will still be belting out "Holy, Holy, Holy" 100 years from now.

@GiffLasta @dmichaelclary Hey, that’s one thing we can agree on 😊

@DavidRLepine @dmichaelclary There’s no negotiating genuine desire, David, and there’s no accounting for taste. I’m not obligated to like every classic Anglican tune (not a big fan of the old 100 either) any more than I’m obligated to like the Star Wars Eucharistic prayer in the 1979 BCP! 😝

@GiffLasta @dmichaelclary “Sorry General Patton, that tune is actually horribly unsuitable for your favorite hymn. If only you’d lived longer.”

@GiffLasta @dmichaelclary Aren’t you Anglican? And you have no appreciation for Anglican choral music? “Sorry fellas, your music doesn’t sound epic like something out of The Hobbit, so I hate it.” Sad. youtu.be/ljmykqz5vPk

@GiffLasta @dmichaelclary The Joe Stout video you posted features the Greg Wilbur tune. It’s a good tune and fine for you to prefer it, but it’s dumb to say that the standard tune (ALL SAINTS NEW by Henry Cutler) sucks. Listen to Joe Stout sing it to a metrical text of Psalm 110: youtu.be/_wOvQBm5Pmw

@dmichaelclary The standard tune sucks though—this one is much better. x.com/GiffLasta/stat…