Cole Mire ✟ 🇺🇸

Blessed in Christ. Chosen in Him. Adopted to Him. Redeemed in Him. All things in Him.

@EddyEkofo That’s my guy, favorite preacher/theologian. What I’d give to sit under his teaching

@cole_mire Based

The “Sweet Dropper” and “Heavenly Doctor” Rev. Richard Sibbes.

“The reader will notice that Coxe, in the preface to his Discourse, indicates that he was preparing materials for a subsequent volume to be written on the Mosaic Covenant and the New Covenant, but was "happily prevented" by the publication of Owen's volume on Hebrews chapter 8. So far as the Baptist Nehemiah Coxe was concerned, John Owen's work on this part of Hebrews clearly articulated the things that Coxe himself would have said (and he recognized that Owen said them better as well)… Owen was one of the principal architects of the Covenant Theology articulated in the 1658 Savoy Declaration of Faith, and Coxe's relationship to the 2LCF, a document closely based on Savoy, is apparent. In both cases, these men, committed to the doctrines presented in those Confessions, saw no contradiction between their formulations of Covenant Theology and the full range of doctrines expressed in their Confessions.” —James Renihan, Introduction to this work put out by @BrokenWharfe

Can’t wait to dig into this one! Purchased from @banneroftruth

SCOTUS: "actually, you can't segregate people by race." Democrats:

Also, Bishop J.C. Ryle would back me up on this.

I love Cranmer, Hooker, Davenant, Jewel, Ridley, Latimer, Carleton, Perkins, and my favorite preacher/theologian ever, Sibbes. All great Reformed men of the Church of England. And the more I read, the more I can’t stand William Laud.

I love Reformed theology so much!

@RepShriThanedar We have evil men and women in politics (you’re one of them) and to y’all it’s just like “Meh it’s none of your business when a woman wants to human sacrifice their child” 😒

My favorite kind of abortion is the kind that's safe, legal, accessible, and none of your damn business to regulate. And no amount of fearmongering by describing what goes on to a half-ounce fetus with no consciousness, self-awareness, or feeling of pain is going to change that.

I took that theocompass test… and here we are

Thomas Boston said, "Regenerating grace is powerful and efficacious, and gives the will a new turn. It does not indeed force it, but sweetly, yet powerfully draws it, so that His people are willing in the day of His power (Ps. 110:3)." —Joel Beeke & Paul Smalley, Essentials of Reformed Systematic Theology, p. 311

Brilliantly done

Great cloud of witnesses, in my classroom

The "Hate Has No Home Here" crowd keeps trying to kill people.

Praise God for those martyrs who were faithful unto death. Many lessons of courage can be learned from them. “He (Robert Ferrar, Bishop of St. David’s in Wales) had told a friend before the day of execution that if he saw him once stir in the fire from the pain of his burning, he need not believe the doctrines he had taught. When the awful time came, he did not forget his promise, and, by God’s grace, he kept it well. He stood in the flames holding out his hands till they were burned to stumps, until a bystander in mercy struck him on the head, and put an end to his sufferings. And so the Welsh bishop passed away.” —J.C. Ryle, Why Were Our Reformers Burned

For my Reformed Anglican brothers: As a lover of history and theology and a history teacher, I know a lot about the English Reformation. I have great affinity for early Anglicanism. What is pretty clear to me, with the Book of Common Prayer, and the 39 Articles, early Anglicanism was thoroughly Reformed (Calvinist). Cranmer, the influence of Bucer and Vermigli, the representatives sent to Dort, all of it and the men involved were Reformed. So my question is, as someone looking in from the outside, what happened? Cranmer and Jewel didn’t want things like images in worship. Among many other things, why does Anglicanism today seem to be more of this Anglo-Catholic mess? Why isn’t Reformed theology the standard? I know about the Oxford Movement and such but what gives? Thanks for any who reply or if you want to send private message.

@EddyEkofo I’d say I’ve read a good bit but it’s still not enough. He has so much available, especially through Banner of Truth

@cole_mire True. I’ve read some but not enough

Everyone needs to read more J.C. Ryle!

I’m catholic before I am American. America is still home.

This is so good. The main purpose of baptism and the Lord’s Supper is to proclaim the gospel. “…the purpose of a sacrament, according to Cranmer, is to preach the gospel. In fact, in discussions differentiating the two Protestant sacraments from the seven of medieval theology, Cranmer would call baptism and the Lord’s Supper “sacramentes of the gospell.”” —Zac Hicks