Joseph Gilbert

Grateful to @AmReformer and @tlloydcline for publishing my article, “The Theological Origins of Political Power.” My hope is that it brings depth to our discussions of political authority and its relationship to religion within God’s created order. americanreformer.org/2026/03/the-th…

"I fear all our attempts to produce political happiness by the solitary influence of human reason will be as fruitless as the search for the philosopher’s stone. It seems to be reserved to Christianity alone to produce universal, moral, political, and physical happiness. Reason produces, it is true, great and popular truths, but it affords motives too feeble to induce mankind to act agreeably to them. Christianity unfolds the same truths and accompanies them with motives, agreeable, powerful, and irresistible." Benjamin Rush to Noah Webster, July 20, 1798. Butterfield, Letters of Rush, 2:799.

Grateful to Birdhouse and @CodyEdds for publishing my article, “God Understanding, God Understood, and God Beloved: The Trinity in Light of the Psychological Analogy’. My prayer is that it would sharpen our thinking and defense of Trinitarian orthodoxy and inspire wonder in us as we worship the Triune God. brdh.org/party/god-unde…

"The mystery of the Trinity is a mystery that ought to lead to worship. It is the doctrine that as we conform to its reality, we become who we were made to be." @JosephGilbert_ writing about the Trinity for birdhouse today: brdh.org/party/god-unde…

That can be a definition of nuance. Often times, however, the term is extended into a context where it takes on the idea of a ‘third-way’ or synthesis of a thesis and an anti-thesis. If it is used to bring clarity and to further our understanding of a principle then great. If it is being used to get people to give up their principles, then no bueno.

@JosephGilbert_ @joe_rigney Nuance is a form of clarification by making distinctions.

To quote @joe_rigney We don’t need nuance. We need clarity. Most of the time when things need to be ‘nuanced’ it is because we are not making the proper distinctions.

@jamesrwoodtheo Mastricht is gold on this.

PVM on the magistrate's duties toward the church and true religion:

@jamesrwoodtheo Love PVM

PVM: "Our love of the Word should be such that ... it kindles in us a love, honor, and support for those who deliver and explain the Word of God to us (1 Thess. 5:12; 1 Tim. 5:17; Gal. 6:6)."

in nations where there is a Christian witness and translated Bible, citizens and rulers are not left with only nature to discern divine matters

“Diligent care should be taken for pregnant women in the republic, and severe punishment should be imposed on those who cause abortions or kill fetuses, or rashly expose newborn infants.” - Bartholomäus Keckermann (A System of Political Doctrine)

There are sins we continue to excuse because they seem to serve our own gain. But the Christian must cast down the idol of self-interest and submit himself wholly to the ways of his Master.

Education is about the formation of virtue in the intellect and will. It is concerned with the formation of our loves, ordering them rightly toward God as our highest good.

Course offerings at the University of Wisconsin - Madison circa 1852: >Cicero >Virgil >Logic >Ethics >Livy >Calculus >Horace >Herodotus >Archeology

@jwtweed @RefBibleCollege Looks great!

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The father is the ruler of his home. He is called to lead, not as a tyrant, nor as one who abdicates his responsibility, but as a man who seeks the good of those entrusted to his care by being present, providing direction, and exercising faithful leadership.

A faith that justifies is a faith that is always accompanied by love.

Many Christians reject charismatic excess only to drift into practical naturalism. But Scripture is clear: Angels are real. Demons are real. The supernatural world is real and it shapes human life.

"No human Sovereign hath Authority to forbid what God commands, nor to command what God forbids; but their Laws that are notoriously contrary to the Laws of God, are nullities, and cannot oblige to obedience or punishment." - Richard Baxter, A Holy Commonwealth

"God is great without quantity." - Augustine

There is no such thing as an absolutely free man. All men are born under natural obligations and governments. Obligations to Family goverment. Obligations to Civil goverment. Obligations to God's goverment. Autonomy does not exist.

God's sovereign rule over the world is not by consent. He rules by an absolute right that no man can cast off.