Sean DeMars

@Digitalliturgy I much prefer his work on the uncontrollability of the world.

Hartmut Rosa's work on resonance (basically mental/emotional flourishing) and control is the most essential insight about modern life that most Christians are not talking about.

@DallasGoebel Or the oven!

BBQ is not throwing meat in a crockpot and pouring BBQ sauce on it.

Would KJV Translators Disapprove of KJV Onlyism? #podcast #christian #bible

The pastor who does not know the mistakes and heresies of church history inevitably repeats them. Every pastor should study church history, especially the major controversies and the development of the creeds & confessions that came as a result.

Justin Taylor: “As you turn eighty this year, which feels like a milestone, none of us knows our day or our hour, but statistically you will be seeing Jesus sooner rather than later. What is that experience like now in your eighties, contemplating seeing him face to face?” John Piper (today): “He sees to it that it stays real, because I had a heart attack last July and got three stents in here now. And I think this black eye right here is owing to blood thinners. I’m on two blood thinners and I woke up the other morning and said, ‘What’s that?’ And I went to ChatGPT. [Laughter] Doctor Chat! [Laughter] It said, number one, age. [Laughter] Thin skin. Number two, blood thinners. Anyway, the point is, God keeps me on the brink of eternity. I look at that and think, what if it covered my face!? And that’s a great place to live. On the edge of eternity. … So the effect being old has is that it forces me to demand from the Lord that he be real. ‘I want you to be *starkly real* so that in the moment of death there’s no question, there’s no doubt, there’s no fear. And the meeting on the other side would not be totally surprising.’ … I didn’t use to plead like this when I was 40. But I plead for a kind of stark, present, precious, spiritual sense of the Lord’s reality, and that’s a wonderful thing to be driven to day after day, so that my devotions now are of a special order of urgency day by day.” #coramdeopascon

THIS VIDEO CAN FIX OUR FERTILITY RATE.

Simply being an island of sanity is proving to be a church growth strategy.

It's not "feminine-coded" to call men to be gentle. Numerous traits of godly manhood are to be practiced by both men and women. For example, an elder must be "self-controlled," "not violent but gentle," and "not quarrelsome" (1 Tim. 3:2–4). This is godliness in practice.

I believe in nuance. I have a whole show about it. But you can’t nuance everything all the time. Some truths need to be stated plainly, directly, and without apology. As the author of Ecclesiastes might say, there's a time for nuance, and there's a time for straight talk. Wisdom will determine the difference. Lord, give us wisdom!

Is Everyone Who Holds to the Nicene Creed a Christian? #podcast #christian #bible

When one thinks about the pedagogical power of churchly music, it's daunting to consider how many otherwise sound Calvinistic evangelicals have been thoroughly pentacostalized by Hillsong, Bethel, Jesus Culture, et al, in their preferences and practices for corporate worship.

Whate'er my God ordains is right: his holy will abideth; I will be still, whate'er he doth, and follow where he guideth. He is my God; though dark my road, he holds me that I shall not fall: wherefore to him I leave it all. Samuel Rodigast, 1675

The KJV Only Interview: Link in the comments!

Wake Up

No pastor ever wants to disappoint his sheep. But he will. Sometimes that disappointment will come because he has failed. Other times it will come because he has been placed on a pedestal no sinful man can possibly live up to. Either way, such disappointments are a mercy to both the pastor and the congregation. - For the pastor, such disappointments free the pastor to serve his people, not as a carefully managed image, but as a sinner saved by grace who is seeking to follow Christ alongside them. - For the congregation, such disappointments remind them where their ultimate trust belongs. Their hope is not in the under-shepherd, but in the Chief Shepherd. When that becomes exceedingly clear to them (not just in their head, but in their hearts), something really cool happens: members follow their earthly pastor's guidance more gladly, because they no longer expect from him what only Christ can give.

Hey @grok why does twitter think I'm a spammer?

"Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face." - John Updike

I'll be addressing Christ and Cannabis and IVF in the real world. See you there!

Embryo Selection: The Result of Life in a Fallen World #podcast #bible #christian #ivf