Brad Large

Men are far too consumed with other people’s sin.

There’s a huge need to reclaim an understanding of the Spirit. I’m finding JI Packers book “Keep in Step with the Spirit” accessible and a good diagnosis of where we are at. It embraces the Spirt, and debunks our materialist and new age understandings

@GovMikeDeWine Thank you most kindly for showing the people of Ohio who the globalist sellouts truly are. Game on. Putsch for Ohio

Bo, I'm glad he did that, but the issue of the day is folks don't understand how widespread functional female officers are, even though churches are bold to make it public via livestreams, blogs, and newsletters. It's out in the public. They bury once you say something privately. But their convictions don't change, accountability is shirked, and the rot continues to spread. According to the BCO, Christ exercises His kingly authority through pastors, ruling and teaching the Church through the ministry of men, thereby mediately enforcing His own laws (Preface I; cf. BCO 3-1, 3-3). As officers of the Church, pastors and elders are granted ordinary ecclesiastical power to act severally, including reproving the erring, not only jointly through formal courts (BCO 3-2). Elders are explicitly charged to watch diligently over the flock, so that no corruption of doctrine or morals enters the Church, and to exercise oversight not only of the particular congregation but of the Church generally when called thereunto (BCO 8-3). Moreover, Church authority includes the duty to bear testimony against error in doctrine and immorality in practice, within or without the Church (BCO 11-2). Because the stated ends of discipline include the glory of God, the purity of the Church, and the warning of others (BCO 27-1), public sins, by their very nature, cannot be adequately addressed by private means alone and therefore require public rebuke. Consequently, a pastor who refuses to address public sin publicly is not being restrained by the BCO; rather, he is neglecting the very duties the BCO imposes upon him as a minister of Christ, duties that are moral and biblical in nature, not merely denominational. I am not within the PCA. I am merely a lowly, independent Reformed pastor, and I’m quite aware of my station. But credibility with men who quietly set aside their own constitution in the name of being “winsome” churchmen is not something I am especially eager to earn. If the PCA falters, it will not be for my lack of trying to do what little I can in the margins of a busy life. A crusade? That’s cute. But if it collapses into schism and corruption out of a gentlemanly refusal to endure a public ordeal, that outcome will not be mysterious, and it will not be mine to own. It will happen on your watch. It will be your fault, along with all the other churchmen (including you, @JoeCristman).

The @ohiogop has done nothing out of fear of losing the “centrist” vote, which means that they’re not conserving anything. They stand for nothing and compromise on everything.

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I this this went south with Scleiermacher and continues to be a problem as people have traded Christian apologetics for logic seasoned with emotional appeal. It would be a huge change to rely on the Bible and common sense.

I’m reading “Knowing God” by JI Packer. One thing that stood out was how righteously angry God is to anyone who thinks they can fool, trick, or tame Him into letting them into Heaven. What a wrath such a one as that will face when they realize the cost of what God had given.

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@CharlesTingler I'm glad he said this. I hope people realize that this ecumenism is only possible with a Protestant view of the church

Bishop Mar Mar said it plainly and he was right. This is exactly where I stand. Protestants, Orthodox, Catholics, the Church of the East, all of us belong to the same family of God. We are all children of God. The constant dividing and labeling has gone far enough. It needs to stop. Trinitarian Christians are not enemies. We are one people who confess the same God. Heaven is not divided by denominations. There are no labels there. This message cut through the noise and spoke the truth. It grounded me and affirmed what I have already known in my conscience. This was a powerful and needed message.

@AuronMacintyre @GMRench @AuronMacintyre they asked for a clarification, which I gave. You represented me as saying something I did not say, and do not believe. I am glad you accepted my clarification, but you didn't ask for it. You accused me falsely. You should know better.

@jonharris1989 This is the military pronunciation. This is what Troops have called it for a long time. It’s not exactly a tourist destination.

It was always Chatar until 5 minutes ago and now it’s Cutter? (Qatar)

Here is an excerpt from a book of mine that @FoundersMin is publishing in 2026. The topic, fittingly, is hell. It is especially written with the lost in mind, so if you have any unbelievers in your life - send them the link. Think of it as a gospel tract founders.org/articles/what-…

@thisisfoster I have several friends who simultaneously discovered vintage cameras and film photography.

Prediction: Pre-AI media will become sought after and very valuable. Also, analog media will make a big comeback.

Gate keeping? Like shouting down TE Brindle? pcaprayerandlament.com

I was stressed about a paper for seminary on how God’s will is essentially reality. I got an A- Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

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If you’re ever like, “man, I need some new material for my confession time…” Just read the Ten Commandments. Problem solved.

One of the biggest parts of being in God’s army is simply being steadfast and drawing fire.

There have always been two kinds of anti-woke people. 1. The procedural critics. They object to the analytical framework of wokeness. They think the oppressor-oppressed lens is flawed, that the focus on hegemonic power distorts reality, and that the tools themselves are destructive. Their critique targets the method, not the conclusions. 2. The substantive critics. They believe wokeness is simply wrong. It inverts moral reality, treats the virtuous as villains, attacks the family as an instrument of oppression, and insists patriarchy rules a world that has been under the control of a feminist gynocracy for a couple generations now. This divide was unavoidable. It is not wrong to say that cultural power exists or that people can be blind to reality. What was wrong was how the woke applied those ideas. They called good evil and evil good. I have always opposed wokeness on those terms. But many procedural critics want a third-way position that lets them speak against wokeness without being seen as too aligned with the right. They do not want to say women and people of color are simply wrong, so they retreat to critiquing the tools rather than confronting the conclusions. It lets them appear neutral while avoiding the moral clarity the moment requires.

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Good take on rightly viewing ministry audiences. Contextualization is not a reason for animosity from other Christians. But it can create false dichotomies and allow false identities to take over the culture.