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@jchasedavis Like Aeneas!

A father should be able to squat the total combined weight of his family on his back.

Looking at the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the voters rights act makes me think how much good the Trump’s presidency has done. On one hand, he’s not fulfilling his promises for mass deportation. The economy is not really doing better and he started a new war in the Middle East. But on the other, his Supreme Court pics, have transformed the law and opened up opportunities for Republicans to gain power that were simply not available to them the last 80 years. Any honest evaluation of his presidency has to take this into Account

From the time he decided to run for the primary in 2024 I repeatedly told my friends that if he was to back off and become the AG he could do in that office what he did in Florida and when the hearts of Maga. He doesn’t have personality and he’s not very likable, but he does get results. Had he have been the AG and stacked up Win after win he could have carried the blue wall he could say yeah I wear sassy boots and I have as much personality as a piece of wood, but look what I’ve done. Unfortunately, his enemies know that they cannot give him this position because it will undermine the chances of JD Vance or Marco Rubio. It would be a great decision, but unfortunately, I don’t think it’s going to happen.

What we need in an AG is a ruthless, emotionless terminator who cares more about crushing the enemy with extreme efficiency than Fox News appearances Who doesn’t think this sounds like a job for Robot Ron?

@BreitbartNews @grok what's left of the VRA that Conservatives object to AFTER todays ruling?

An attorney for Haitians says the only reason Trump ended TPS for migrants from a variety of nations is that they're non-white Justice Samuel Alito trips him up asking whether Syrians, Greeks, and "southern Italians" are white "You have a really large definition of who's white and who's not white"

@ConceptualJames Don’t forget you live in your mom’s basement and have a big sword. You should say, “I'm an agnostic, live in my mom’s basement and a master of swords, and even I know this story. He exegetes it wrong.” Thats even more persuasive.

I find this mind-boggling, to be honest, and I'm not arguing that Christians should be pacifists or whatever. The example Wilson gives here about selling your cloak to buy a sword comes from the Gospel of Luke. I'm an agnostic and even know this story. He exegetes it wrong. In fact, he exegetes it completely wrong. The point of the story in Luke is that Jesus knows he's about to be taken by the Romans, so he instructs his disciples to get armed, even telling them to sell their cloaks to buy a sword if they must. The point is not to fight, though, as Wilson uses it to mean. The point is completely otherwise. Jesus actually makes this clear IN THE NEXT SENTENCE, BEFORE HE'S EVEN DONE SPEAKING to his disciples. He is doing it so that when he is taken he will fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah about the Messiah being "numbered among the transgressors." The context is that Romans would see an armed band as transgressors and thus take Jesus into custody upon those terms. When Jesus' disciples say they already have two swords, Jesus replies "it is enough." Enough for what? Fighting off Romans who are there to keep the law? No way. For looking like an armed band of transgressors, which would fulfill the prophecy in Isaiah? Yes. But it's not just speculation. The swords are explicitly NOT for fighting back. When Peter draws his sword in the forthcoming scene and slices the ear off a Roman in Gethsemane (where I have stood), Jesus rebukes him for it, saying whoever takes up the sword will die by it. That's one of the MOST FAMOUS STORIES IN THE WHOLE GOSPEL. His disciples weren't armed to fight back. Fighting back wasn't part of the equation. It's bewildering to me that Wilson would use this particular example to make his point. It reminds me of the time I mixed up the point of the story about the wheat and the tares because I wasn't actually all that familiar with the story but knew of it vaguely. Romans 13 (Paul, not Jesus) makes a better case for the authorities being invested with the authority to use force to maintain safety and order. Even the apt example of Jesus chasing moneychangers out of the Temple with a whip makes the case, but this other thing is simply mind-boggling to see. Even I know better.

Why are you countersignaling him. You can’t stand having someone like this in the apologist space? He’s a tool against our enemies, not a teacher of my children. Im my children’s teacher. So if you are worried his EO is going to spread, or Hes going to miscommunicate some theology, and that justified the countersignal, you are demonstrating a simple-mindedness about the nature of our struggle, who we are fighting against and who Andrew is fighting for. This says more about your read than his response. @paleochristcon

As usual, Wilson doesn’t get it. Peter draws his sword against the slave of the High Priest in John 18:10, and he cuts off the slave’s ear. Absolutely Peter is willing to kill for Jesus. But just 17 verses later, Peter denies Jesus in the courtyard a third time. So Peter is willing to kill for Jesus. But he’s absolutely *not* willing to die for Him. Many. Such. Cases.

@cuatronelson Im confused. 1) are you the guy in the video and you are saying that you are doing in right? 2) you are posting the video go someone else who’s is doing it right. Or 3) hes doing it wrong?

The SBC has a much deeper problem than just women pastors. It doesn’t even understand preaching (as a whole, not every SBC pastor. I know several GREAT preachers). By and large it’s traded models like Spurgeon, DMLJ, Broadus, for plagiarism and props.

They brought them hear against our will and will not return them against our wishes. It’s time to make famous this clause in the Declaration: “But when long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute depostism…”

@RepMcCormick You’re a coward and a disgrace

I voted to extend TPS for Haitians because I cannot, in good conscience, send people who were lawfully granted protection here, followed our laws, and built lives under our rules back to rape, murder, and chaos in a lawless Haiti. This is completely separate from amnesty or illegal immigration. Conflating the two is dangerous.

@JoshDaws You know why. Our degenerate artists have to drain every cultural treasure of its Christian substance and wear it like a skinsuit. How much do you want to be by week four they are attacked by trans Indians for not affirming their queer children.

Why?

@JoelWebbon There not. You’re an idiot.

Why are so many young people becoming Catholic? This post right here. 👇

@MZHemingway I have been saying this since the primary. Put big Ron in the position and let him do in the AG office, but he did in Florida. He can demonstrate his competence at a federal level and then he’ll be a shoe in in 2028.

Ron DeSantis would make an excellent AG.

@thisisfoster I had a thought today that I wanted to get your opinion on: Politics on the right in America today is essentially fathers and sons versus the grandfathers. Trump’s interest and the Republican parties interests are completely aligned with the boomers against the interest of Gen X and their kids. What do you think about that? Brings to mind the promise of the gospel in the book of acts. As the gospel goes out, God turns the hearts of the fathers and sons toward one another. I assume the inverse is also true.

Politics on the right in America today is essentially fathers and sons versus the grandfathers. Trump’s interest and the Republican parties interests are completely aligned with the boomers against the interest of Gen X and their kids. Sad but true. Brings to mind the promise of the gospel in the book of acts. As the gospel goes out, God turns the hearts of the fathers and sons toward one another. I assume the inverse is also true.

@JackPosobiec When the GOP betrays them, men don’t votes. Wow it’s like a haiku.

When men don’t vote, Democrats win

@MattSmethurst @timkellernyc @DailyKeller Tim Keller has done a tremendous amount of good work for the church. His sermons are still a gold mine of wisdom and many topics. I’m grateful for his life.

When @TimKellerNYC was 24 years old, he was a new pastor in rural Virginia. Alice was an elderly Christian who had suffered enormously in her life. More than four decades later, Keller still remembered her perspective.

Watching Trump go full Neo-Con, we feel like Sam when Frodo refused to destroy the ring. Can I get a JD Gollum??

I 💯 agree with this line: A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. Wise Pastors will tell Xn men to be very careful and slow around such women. Verify first. Only then proceed. They are a risky investment. Don’t be a fool. They are not neutral or positive a priori. If she’s truly repentant, you will have issues to work through, and if you are willing, God will bless you. Just don’t be a simple-minded fool who acts like there is no difference between a Chaste Xn woman of 18 and a new convert of 18 who’s slept with 10 guys. They are both forgiven, but one is in fact sexually pure and the other is not. This is why men lead in thr church. They can speak frankly snd truly. This is what Tom Buck should take away from this who episode.

My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world ​— ​what is viewed as nothing ​— ​to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)

@TomBuck A saved Pastor has courage. It take a lot more courage to tell men NOT to buy damaged good today than telling them to BUY the goods because they are labeled Rahab. Everyone knows women can be redeemed. Lots of men in the church don’t know that Delilah’s dress up like Rehab.

It could be that some who don’t effectively believe in the power of the gospel to thoroughly transform people is because they haven’t been transformed by it themselves. At the very least, if they’re saved, they’ve forgotten how the gospel has transformed them.

Apparently @tombuck has never heard of Delilah. Tom, do you deny women lie? Do you deny women who have gone through many men & now want to settle down, be taken care of, have an incentive to lie to gullible men? Has this trend increased or decreased over the past decade? Now, here’s the pastoral point you should be providing: How do you know if she’s Rahab or Delilah.

If someone argues that a former promiscuous woman is "damaged goods" and questions whether a Christian young man should marry her, remember Rahab. She was a Canaanite prostitute but became a mother in the lineage of Jesus. God redeemed her, cleansed her, and Salmon married her.