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@jonharris1989 I made this awhile ago using a free trial: AI A.I. in Ai.

I thought the Children of Israel defeated AI?

@Brian_Sauve Thank you for this. Did you guys have three in one year as the song says?

I wrote this song for those facing the grief of miscarriage and child loss. Sowing in tears, but we'll reap then with joy.

@CovenantReform2 @RandallDeeb @PLeithart I used to see it the way you do but someone pointed out to me that the KJV does say to baptize the nations.

@RandallDeeb @PLeithart Nobody believes we're called to baptize "nations." You're trying to obfuscate the passage because you don't believe it.

Baptize nations, Jesus says. That is: Do for all nations what Yahweh did for Israel at the sea. Chosen nation status isn't here cancelled, but universalized, as one people after another is incorporated into the chosen nation, each receiving a new political identity by baptismal death and resurrection, each called to its unique historical vocation.

@benzornes My favorite Christmas albums: -Josh Garrels—The Light Came Down -Dominic Bali—Christmas in Cali -Michael Card—The Promise

Alright...need some new tunes to refresh the Christmas playlist for this year. What do you got?

@Gad_Hitchcock @Brian_Sauve It is about ego because what are you trying to protect a blow to? Your ego.

I abhor the very idea of ever being ugly to people that I love. But when my wife and I fight on those rare occasions that we do, I'd be lying if I said that sarcasm and biting words have never felt wholly justified. What would you advise though, for those situations where you feel like you're being disrespected, and nothing that you say is going to have an impact? It's those situations where I feel that the other person is being completely irrational and intolerable that I feel the need to interject some sarcasm. In those moments, it's not about ego for me, it's about feeling attacked, and trying to deflect the blow. It never does seem to work by the way . . . but I have yet to learn another way that gives me satisfaction that I've asserted my headship and masculinity while not crossing a line.

When your husband or your wife sins against you, a perennial temptation will be to reach for the tools of the flesh to fight back: Sarcasm Harsh words Raised voice Cutting speech The draw is strong. They seem helpful when you're sinned against. They feel righteous. They lie.

@Jeff_Palouse He’s saying guys using the Frodo/ring example for Xians giving up political power is a bad metaphor because power itself is not evil. Political power is not the ring. Just like Aragorn’s sword is not the ring. Aragorn should not give up his sword. That was his point.

Joel Webbon: Frodo shouldn't have destroyed the ring. (He should have used it to gain power.)

Waffle on about “covenant membership” and “covenant children,” but at its heart paedobaptism is a claim that sons of men are Sons of God. So however well-meaning your “inclusive” intentions might be, what your rite is testifying to is, at its root, a lie. #Jedobaptism #JedoJuly

@PLeithart Tambourines are interesting because they are more than just a drum. They are in fact quite cymbalic.

After the exodus, Miriam takes the tambourine to lead the women as they sing and dance to praise Yahweh, Israel’s conquering Hero (Exod 15). When David returns from killing Goliath, women greet him with singing, dancing, and tambourines (1 Sam 18). Discuss.

“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything” (Eph. 5:24). The Bible teaches that husbands have true authority over their wives, just as Christ is the Lord of the Church. Some Christians want to downplay this, saying things like: headship means that if there’s a disagreement, the husband has the tie-breaking vote. But if the model is Christ and the Church, this immediately becomes absurd. The authority of Christ is not merely a tie-breaking vote; it is true authority in everything. In 1 Peter 3, Sarah is identified as an ideal wife, calling her husband “lord.” This pushes back against what we might call squishy-complementarianism. At the same time, what Christ does with His authority is simply astonishing. He uses His authority to love His Bride, the Church, laying His life down for her, making her pure and holy and without any blemish. Christ does this and so lifts up the Church to sit with Him in heavenly places, to reign with Him. Christ invites the Church to speak, and through our prayers in particular, Christ has determined to listen and answer and so grant us true authority in the world. This pushes back against what we might call bluster-patriarchy. Husbands have been given true authority, and reflecting the authority of Christ, it extends to everything in the home and in his wife’s life. There is no area of marriage where a wife may say to her husband, that’s none of your business. He is responsible before God for all of it. And yet, a wise man uses that authority not to micromanage or belittle, but to love, to lead, to honor, and to lift up. We call this biblical patriarchy. God made the world to reflect His glory, and so it is that glory, in creation, is always reflected glory. As we glorify God, He glorifies His people. The Bible says that man is the glory of God, and woman is the glory of man. This means that one of the best ways to make sure that women are cherished and honored the most in a society is by honoring their fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons.

“Give it to God. Don’t flatter it with exploration, fantasy and drama. Give it to God; then go and do the washing up, or dig the garden, or take out the rubbish. Register what’s there, then take the next step of your life.” -Rowan Williams, summarizing the desert fathers on sin

If the apostles baptised entire households regardless of faith, they would have had to immediately excommunicate the unbelievers. And that’s just one of many reasons why this hybrid of circumcision and baptism is an incoherent, lazy, unworkable shambles.

@thisisfoster Yep. One o’clock and eleven o’clock. I’ve wondered if this is Doug Wilson and Bill Johnson in an elevator. Depending on the issue, one is the gold medalist and one is Eddie the Eagle. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QKwji4…

Hot take (or hot observation): Charismatic church services and high church services are incredibly similar.

@ZacharyGarris 🤦‍♂️ Baptism is not Christian parenting.

"Where the duties represented in the sacrament of baptism are properly followed up, the actual regeneration of children is the ordinary result." –Dabney

@ZacharyGarris Translation: “Since we can’t know for certain if someone has been born of the Spirit let’s change the parameters of the rite to something we can be certain of: that they’ve been born of the flesh.”

Dabney contra credobaptism: "The notion that Christ would organize His religious kingdom on earth in contrast to human society, admitting none but pure members, is plausible and pretty. Yea, the unthinking may reason, that as He is autocrat, heart-searching, almighty, His voluntary embracing of any impure material would look like a voluntary connivance at sin, and indifference to that sanctity which the Church was formed to promote. But it is a Utopian and unscriptural dream. See Matt, xiii : 24 and 47. Christ has not even formed the hearts of His own people thus; but permits evil to mix with them. A Church to be administered by human hands must be mixed; anything else is but a dishonest pretense, even among Immersionists. Christ permits a mixed body, not because He likes it, but because His wisdom sees it best under the circumstances." –Dabney, Systematic Theology, 793

Raining fish?? 🤯 I have now seen everything I need to see in life.

@Friendly_Beard @MrBully67 Millennials vape

The reason so many pastors don’t teach the whole Bible is the mistaken assumption that they have to find a moral takeaway in everything. Just teach the Bible. Awe changes people, too.

@tbayly What schism is Moscow having?

The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a point, getting sharper and harder.” Who has been warned against their schism more than Moscow? By whole denominations, churches, presbyteries, and loving brothers. Warnings dismissed. Very sad. HT Andrew H.

quite so sharp; & that there’s going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always diminishing.

@SethL_intheWord @thisisfoster @StuartAmidon Oops just saw this. How do you know those lines were wiped out? There were Nephilim post flood.

@SpecialOpp @thisisfoster @StuartAmidon Those lines were wiped out. Understand the whole picture. Unfortunately the despiritualized view of Genesis requires so many compromises in Scripture. The text means what it says. Check out Michael Heisers work in this area. Very solid, one of the best recent works.

Alright. I’m gonna say it. The Nephilim aren’t a product of fallen angel demon sex magic. Let’s fight.

@RevivedThoughts I saw one scene and it was enough for me to never watch it again. It was Jesus warning John the Baptist about his tone when preparing to talk to Herod.

I have never watched The Chosen. It's now coming to Disney Plus (which I don't have). But give me all your thoughts on it. Good? Bad? Neutral? Never seen it like me?