Kyle Horne

Horrific. "They seized my baby and sliced him in two with a knife. My second child woke up. They split his head with a machete." This is the reality of what Muslim extremists are doing to Christians in Nigeria. The MSM and the UN are silent.

50,000 Christians massacred in Nigeria since 2009. 🇳🇬 33 Christians massacred over Easter weekend in northern Nigeria. 🇳🇬 27 Christians were massacred on Easter Sunday in Plateau state Nigeria. 🇳🇬 Meanwhile, the Pope is visiting a mosque in Algeria.

@drantbradley Dr. Bradley, in a big enough group you are going to find plenty of everything. Though basically all of the men that I know and see that are doing bold, difficult, dangerous kingdom building work are evangelicals. What group did you have in mind that is producing a better ratio?

Evangelicals don't have an elite problem. They have a formation problem. They raise bubble-wrapped cubicle boys and then complain about them later becoming passive men. Raised for passivity, destined for people-pleasing.

The most important video you’ll watch today. He is Risen.

@RMeena21620 @GuntherEagleman Rajesh, thanks for asking. We believe Jesus died on the cross to take the punishment for our sins so we can dwell with God forever. This is the ‘gospel’ or ‘good news’ that Christians talk about. We celebrate his death and resurrection for us.

@GuntherEagleman Out of curiosity - why do you celebrate someone being nailed and tortured? No offense, I'm just wondering if it's supposed to be a happy or sad holiday

🚨 INCREDIBLE! This is a stunning drone light show depicting Jesus on the Cross (the Crucifixion) It was created as part of the “Jesus Jesus Jesus” Holy Week event by The Church on Master’s Road in Manvel, Texas. Thousands of synchronized drones lit up the night sky during Good Friday to tell the Gospel story in a powerful, modern way. Absolutely breathtaking!

An award-winning 35-year longitudinal study asked how parents succeed in passing on their religious convictions. The study found two surprising results: First, “having a close bond with one’s father matters even more than a close relationship with one’s mother.” In other words, fathers wield influence, whether they want to or not. Second, the relationship with the father must be warm and close. A father can be a leader of the community, a pillar of the church, a moral exemplar, but if he is perceived as cold and distant, the child will not follow him, will not adopt his spiritual and religious convictions. Here's the study:

New research indicates that fathers build bonds best with their children (and craft secure attachment in them) by "destablizing the child" in a "safe environment. Fathers in the study had a unique ability to make their children laugh and therefore create more perceived safety for the child which led to stronger attachment. Mothers made children feel safe too, usually with repetition and soothing, but the laughing and playing did not make the children as attached as it did when fathers performed it. Several things jump out from this at me: First, a father who is relaxed enough to laugh and play indicates a safe environment. Fathers are biologically the providers of safety, so if dad is relaxed, the world must truly be safe. Children may be picking up on this. Second, being worthy of a father's time and attention is a huge marker for kids. A father's attention may actually mean more in many cases, as we've seen in other studies. The bond with mom is equally as important, but sometimes the bond with mom is taken for granted, where the bond with dad is taken as remarkable due to perceived other demands on his time. What this means: Dads, you've got to be playing with your kids. As silly and disruptive as possible. They need this from you. It's one of the strongest ways they can bond to you. More about the research: psypost.org/laughter-plays…

@ClownWorld @grok who is the interviewer here?

@thriving__kids Agree

@pinehusk I think both are valuable and play different roles. I think chores/household responsibilities do build mental toughness (confidence) and resiliency (learning new things) but I also believe different levels of these are achieved playing sports. Especially team sports.

How do we build mental toughness into kids👇 I work with kids, I coach kids sports, and I see my kid's peers Many kids today are very weak mentally and lack any sort of mental resilience These kids grow up emotionally immature and unable to cope with the stresses of life Part of raising kids to have a successful life is to give them the tool to build a strong mindset This includes not doing things for them. They need to be given challenges to figure out and have success. They need to experience failure and see that they are capable of overcoming it. Its never too early for parents to begin challenging their kids to build their mental toughness.

@adamh0 @ClayTravis @weareangelcity Why not do away with male/female categories all together?

There’s a difference in biological males playing in biological female sports in pro leagues as opposed to high school or college. The difference is a professional league is a job. And in a real world job, this kind of stuff happens all the time. If you don’t like the way, the job is ran or who’s employed at that said company find another job. That’s life.

A women’s soccer player for @weareangelcity wrote an opinion piece arguing women’s soccer needed to put policies in place to keep men from playing women’s soccer. Her teammates held a press conference and called her racist and transphobic. This is insane:

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Continuing our hypothetical situation, if JS was a false prophet, would you see the BoM as still a legitimate testament of Jesus Christ, or would that make it illegitimate, or something in between?

@pinehusk @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women It was divinely inspired. If you read it, you will see how much it teaches and leads the reader to have faith in Jesus Christ. If you sincerely ponder and pray about it, the Holy Spirit will give you a witness it is true, as He has done for me.

Reminder that this is how Joseph Smith “translated” the golden plates to create the Book of Mormon.

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women And if he was clearly demonstrated to make false predictions and therefore be a false prophet, what would be your best explanation for the Book of Mormon?

@pinehusk @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women It might - but it doesn't explain the Book of Mormon, which is clearly obsessed with Jesus Christ and His teachings, delivering His Gospel in a clear narrative format, even when He visits His people as a resurrected being - it is of God and Moroni invites us to know it.

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women I see what you mean - the existence of the book itself points to his legitimacy, note the contents as compared to himself. That's fair. Based on the test in Deuteronomy, if you came to believe that JS made a false prophecy, would that make him a false prophet in your eyes?

@pinehusk @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Yes, I agree with the Bible's test of a prophet, as found in Deuteronomy. It's not circular reasoning to say the Book of Mormon is proof that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. Either it was translated as he said, or there's another reasonable explanation for it's existence.

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women I have read it. Do you agree with the Bible's test of a false prophet?

@pinehusk @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Have you read the Book of Mormon? It's another testament of Jesus Christ, written about 600BC, and ending about AD 400. Within this span of time, the Nephite nation learn of Jesus, He visits them after His resurrection, and they write of His teachings and prophecies.

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Of course, it's going to be a path of circular reasoning if we test a potential prophet by his own theological worldview. If you test Muhammad by the Quran or JW's by their books, they all pass. This is what Deuteronomy offers as a test. Would you agree with this?

@pinehusk @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women The Book of Mormon. If you begin reading it today, abiding by it's precepts, pondering it and sincerely praying about it, you will feel the Holy Spirit more in your life, to testify that the Book is true, and to testify of our Savior, Jesus Christ. churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptur…

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Of course there are many organizations growing and doing humanitarian work. I'm asking you what objective standard would you use to know if JS is a false prophet or not.

@pinehusk @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women For one, I wouldn't expect the fledgling Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be as successful as it was and is today, or it's radical influence for good to be felt as strongly as it is today. x.com/TeeplesCY/stat…

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Thanks for sharing. How would you know if he was a false prophet?

@pinehusk @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women If Joseph Smith was a false prophet, and the Book of Mormon was some counterfeit, then a lot of questions would need to be answered, especially regarding the contents found in the Book of Mormon. Because it would mean to say that Joseph Smith was a really, really good guesser.

@spencerg83 @Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women Spencer, by what criteria would you know for sure that Joseph Smith was a false prophet?

@Pastor_Gabe @Steadfast_Women A lot of falsehoods have gone out since Joseph's claims of angelic and heavenly visitations. Satan never wanted the Book of Mormon published, and tried to frustrate God's plans by having the 116 pages go missing. We don't know where they went. But God knew this would happen.

@DefiantBaptist @pointy_elbows @conservmillen What is the skillset or specific ability she is incapable of the same way men are incapable of birthing babies?

@pointy_elbows @conservmillen It’s not just that she’s not called to it. She needs to realize that she’s not capable of it at all. It would be like saying that men are able to birth babies. That’s the level of chasm we are talking about.

You will never hear a better definition of Complementarianism than this. Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) says that she could be a pastor since she has been gifted that way, but she chooses not to because God said so. The implication is that men and women are interchangeable widgets with all the same gifts, but God has arbitrarily declared that men are to do this, and women are to do that. It was evidently His goal to make women feel perpetually frustrated by giving them gifts that they would never be able to use! 🤯