Jonathan Tomes

“If the Church’s disciplinary severity might endanger its peace, the presbytery shall bear with patience what cannot be corrected peacefully, lest the wheat be uprooted with the tares. Augustine writes: 
“When such discipline afflicts an individual, it strikes fear and compels repentance. But when the same affliction spreads to many, nothing remains for the faithful except grief and sighs.” 
The Church must rebuke what it can and endure what it cannot, trusting the Lord to bring about improvement or await the final harvest.” (Franciscus Junius, Ecclesiastics)

We maybe need a good early modern treatment of excommunication and its application, theoretical and practical.

@ThomasAchord Pre-tax? I think so.

If you have a large family and make <$100k, it feels like you're just paying bills. 120k feels like you can finally save. 150k feels like you have a little pocket money. Ice cream, ball game, piano lessons. >170k you feel like you're "doing well". Unbothered. Life is nice.

@MoshiMoshiMoan If you build the habitat just right, a wild wife suddenly appears to cook dinner.

Day 8 of losing my wife to Pokopia. I've begun using psychological warfare in hopes of eating again.

Rosie’s battle against a rare form of epilepsy has been tough, but she shows incredible strength. We’re raising funds for a functional neuro rehab program that could change her life. Every share and donation brings her closer to a brighter future. Please help support Rosie's full recovery. gofund.me/67144605a

We are delighted to announce our edition of Domestical Duties by William Gouge, which has a foreword by @ZacharyGarris. In Domestical Duties, William Gouge exposits that part of Scripture wherein we find domestical duties set forth, namely: Ephesians 5:21-6:9. He goes on to detail the right way that husbands and wives should be joined together in marriage, and their mutual duties. Gouge then sets forth the particular duties of wives, husbands, children, parents, servants, and masters. With over 3,000 footnotes, including several fresh translations, this book is an excellent resource for pastors and laymen alike. We have made two versions of this book: The first version is a two-volume hardcover edition, which is ideal for pastors, church officers, seminary students, academics, and theologically-minded laymen. The second version is an eight-volume paperback, which is designed to be read together in families. For example, a husband and wife may choose to read Volumes 1 and 2 together, and then the wife reads Volume 3 on wifely duties by herself, and the husband reads Volume 4 on husbandly duties alone; and then they swap volumes. Or for example, if you have children in your home, they could read the duties of children in Volume 5. Given the recent publication history of this work, we wish to emphasize that this reprint does include Volumes 7 and 8 on servants and masters: much of which is easily applicable to modern-day situations involving employees and employers, and so on. While some recent reprints have not included Gouge’s original margin notes, our version does do so. We have converted these marginalia into over 3,000 footnotes, which include the original Hebrew and Greek terms that Gouge cited from Scripture. This helps the reader to understand how Gouge drew his instruction from the text of the Bible itself, as all good teachers must do. These footnotes include, for the first time in this book’s publishing history, translations into English of Gouge’s Latin quotations, with key assistance from @postnuance. This helps the reader to understand the broader stream of historical thought on domestical issues, without having to know Latin themselves: something that was more familiar to 17th century students than ourselves, generally speaking. The hardcover full set is $65, and the paperback full set is $75. In the paperback set, every new section starts on a fresh page, as if it were a new chapter.

@crusadepepe Maybe if they had built up even more fixed income beforehand for the future?

Have retirees consider not living on fixed incomes?

“Where is your religion? Where is the reverence owed by you to your ancestors? In dress, in way of life, in equipment, in disposition, and finally even in speech itself, you have renounced your forefathers. You always praise antiquity, yet you live in novelty day by day.” (Tertullian)

📣 📖 New Release: In The Ethics of Ulrich Zwingli, Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854-1921) examines the ethics by one of the most neglected yet important early Reformers, Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531). Newly available in English thanks to @postnuance, Bavinck evaluates some of the most insightful, controversial, and pastoral aspects of Zwingli’s thought, grounding it in the Swiss Reformer’s historical and theological context. $20, Paperback, 5x8, 204 pages.

Anno CUM DEO = 1605 🧐 C = 100 V = 5 M = 1000 D = 500

I’m pleased to share my latest translation from Franciscus Junius’s works, published by @BerithPress. “The Education of a Christian Prince” is a Reformed mirror-for-princes grounded in Psalm 101, where rule is defined by mercy, justice, and the glory of God. “Such as the princes are, such for the most part will the citizens be.” berithpress.com/bookstore/p/th…

Yes it is. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC87…

@CJakedoleschal -Alzheimer’s -Autism -Epilepsy -PTSD

Did you know PEA (palmitoylethanolamide) has benefit for: -Endometriosis -Depression -Fibromyalgia -Migraines -Period pain -Sciatic pain -Carpal tunnel syndrome -Arthritis -TMJ pain -IBS

New Research: Chronic palmitoylethanolamide administration via slow-release subcutaneous pellets promotes neuroprotection and mitigates neuroinflammation in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #CellularNeuroscience

A haiku for red team twtr: Either way, MAGA Boomers will MAGA until Gulag. Tuck Carlson. Written with love!

@SteeloAndKri Pop 3 fakes scarcity.

Explain this one PSA fanboys

Started reading this gem from @BerithPress tonight. It is not only instructive, but surprisingly devotional. One of my boys saw the cover and asked, "Dad, who is the Christian Prince?" ..."Well son, let me tell you..." "Let therefore this good King (David) provide a torch for every good prince, and teach each one to what end good princes ought to strive with the most certain course. 'To You' he says, 'Jehovah, will I sing.'" - pg 10