Nate Xanders

2/2: "So that prayer contains the exposition of our troubles, the desire of God's defense, and the praising of his magnificent name, as the psalms of David clearly do teach." – John Knox

1/2: “Whoever will pray, must know and understand that prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received...

Many such cases.

@LucasBotkin @Tekeee And ammo. My sources say ammo is about to go up.

@Tekeee Weapons. Lots of weapons.

Gold is crashing. Silver is crashing. Crypto is crashing. Stocks are crashing. The dollar is crashing. Real talk what should we buy now?

Just got volumes 3-9 of Witherspoon for $31 shipped from RHB. Volume 2 was/is sold out. Go snag them now. $3 per volume.

@SouthsideTilly If someone commits adultery, we use the term adulterer. If someone commits theft, we use the term thief. So, when a woman abuses and mistreats her husband, what term should we use?

@nsxanders Why does a term need to be used?

🧵1/ : I was explaining to my parents the book I'm reading (the latest by @DavidEdgington) b/c they've done marital & pre-marital counseling for couples for a/b 15 years, so it's relevant. I mentioned that the book addresses how counselors will not deal w/ the sin of women.

@SouthsideTilly What term should they use instead?

@nsxanders Just popularizing the term "reviling wife" is letting women down. Because anything & everything is going to be called reviling. I hope women run from any church uses that term.

The one time the ESV had a really based take on a translation they changed it back to their previously innocuous rendering within 4 years.

@DaviSeeingLight I am thankful that in the handful of cases I have personally seen play out, the session/presbytery got it right in all 4 cases in which the Church was involved. I can't imagine what life would be like for those men if the elders overseeing them had whiffed.

@nsxanders I’ve seen it first hand. Spot on

One of the most important things fathers can do is fill their home with great content. The Word of God. Biblical teaching. Psalm singing. Great books (Narnia, LOTR, etc). Great podcasts, audiobooks. Prayer. (This also means guarding against the media machine’s pig slop)

@nsxanders Luke 22:38b

ok let’s see what all the hype is about

@Donuvir Well, I'm calculating what we have now as the baseline. But your point is fair and taken.

Thanks for your post. Glad you’re reading David’s book, but I think the problem is already here- we do have “reviling wives in spades”. This is why the % of women initiating divorce is 70%. 90% if you take the subset of educated women. We also have White Knights in spades, and although I agree there’s no real courage to it (ie they are cowards) - they do have real opponents - God and the husband. For it is the husband they are siding against, and it is God’s ordering that they are overturning.

@benotero @DavidEdgington It's so true. Father's Day sermons berate men. Mother's Day sermons coddle women. (Not that we should actually be doing topical sermons on those days at all, but you get the point)

@nsxanders @DavidEdgington Oh man, you've hit on something that I've felt pretty strongly about for a while. The way the church and society in general addresses men and women is so unbelievably disparate. My daughter recently noticed the chasm in a sermon on marriage. Kiddie gloves for women.

8/ The other danger is over-correction. I think this is far less likely to happen in a majority of churches. But in some, there could be such a hard-core red-pilling on this issue that people become like cage-stagers all over again. And women will then be the ones we let down.

7/ Churches & their elders need to get ready for the down stream consequences. And if we don't change course by casting off GCT & feminist tendencies, we will harm the Gen Z marriages in trouble by white knighting & enabling sin. Failure to change course is a mistake.