Brian Reynolds

The first two chapters of Galatians are interesting in many ways but an important one not generally noticed is the fact that Paul had been raised up by the Spirit independently from Jerusalem. He was accorded equality with Jerusalem in ministry but his independence preserved Jerusalem from being a sort of synod or headquarters. The Head was is in heaven, not on earth, and He would raise up independently whom He will. This is an important truth for all would-be churchmen and ecclesiastics.

@DSPetolicchio Started out as a socialist workers party (they retained that label) but were vehemently anti-communist, ant-Bolshevik, anti-leftwing socialist. Their base of support was from the far-right and from conservatives within church, military, and industry.

Was hitler far right or far left?

@ebcelkhorn Amen.

@wordsofthislife God is very gracious to use any of us, that's for sure!

I got to listening to IFB preachers on YouTube. Some observations: 1. Seems like showmanship not preaching 2. Very little in the way of Bible exposition 3. A fascination with things “old fashioned” 4. Obsession with the KJV 5. Many derogatory comments about women

@ebcelkhorn What I’ve learned is that every movement and group within the professing church has its own failures, embarrassments etc to put it mildly. Thus we should not to paint all with the same brush.

@wordsofthislife There's definitely cringe out there. It's hard to see any of that in relationship to my own tradition, but I know there are times if you go back far enough. Thankfully, my flavor has always been more interested in doctrine and exegesis than in grunting and growling in the pulpit.

@ebcelkhorn How can you be a Fundamentalist? - you don’t use the KJV 😉

@wordsofthislife This is from a 2009 article by the man who literally wrote the book(s) on Northern Baptist fundamentalism. As a self-identified Baptist fundamentalist, I try to give people just a bit of perspective on the broad range of views and practices within the movement.

@ebcelkhorn Maybe it’s just a strain among them and if independent then you can’t blame all for the style of a few. I have no idea how Baptist churches function lol

@wordsofthislife You could listen to a few of mine. I can't speak for every church in our statewide fellowship, but the pastors I know personally are not showmen. The churches are unapologetically independent, fundamental, and Baptist. FWIW

@JonMcK1647 James White’s “King James Only Controversy” is very good.

@GazawayJustin Yes I would need a bigger sample size to judge a whole movement. But my observations were accurate in regard to the few I’ve heard.

@wordsofthislife This is true of some. Not the majority in my opinion.

@Noahs_Arc_98 @ebcelkhorn You may be skinny now …

@wordsofthislife @ebcelkhorn Hey, I'm a skinny lad but i can put one of these away easily. That's how good they are lol my main issue is that it's $30 a sandwich

One of the things I miss most about living in NYC! When I could afford it, there was nothing like hot pastrami from Katz's Deli.

@ebcelkhorn @Noahs_Arc_98 This would be a meal for six in a lot of places.

@wordsofthislife @Noahs_Arc_98 There's a reason we Americans are all obese...

God's promise endures: thoughts of peace, a future, and hope, from Israel's return to our eternal home in His presence. “God’s Faithful Promises” by Alexandre Leclerc

Whatever one’s opinion of the Iran War I think all would admit it is impressive ** how Israel (in particular) is able to so precisely locate human targets. ** I don’t use that word flippantly seeing human lives are involved

@_P3te_Belcher 😂

Ngl JWs were cooking when they named their buildings "Kingdom Hall"

I played some rap music backwards and it said Jesus was Jewish and the Jews were still God’s chosen people

@Bookm_Danno love it

“Greet one another with a holy kiss” is kind of touchy and uncomfortable for Anglo-Saxons like me. But in Italy I learned to get used to it being with the brethren there: right cheek then left cheek.

William Kelly about people who say prophecy is a “non-essential” doctrine (it’s from his commentary on Revelation ch 1) 👇 The objection to the study of prophecy arises from a root of unbelief, sometimes deeply hidden, which supposes all blessing to depend on the measure in which a subject bears immediately on one's self or one's circumstances. Thus when some cry out, That is not essential, I would ask, Essential to what? If they mean essential to salvation, we agree. But then on what a ground do such objectors stand! The anxiety to examine only what they deem indispensable to salvation shows that they have no consciousness of salvation themselves, and that this need of their souls is the only thing they are alive to. Now all hold that not prophecy but the gospel should be put before the unconverted. The coming of Christ in glory, which is the centre of unfulfilled prophecy, ought to be terror to their hearts, instead of a mere question for interesting discussion. To the believer indeed His coming is "that blessed hope." We wait for the Son of God from heaven, and we await Him not only without anxiety but with joy, because we know Him to be "Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come." But for any man, who has not peace by faith in Him dead and risen, to occupy his mind either with this, the church's hope, or with the events of which prophecy treats, is but a diversion of which the enemy can make fearful use, if it be not a proof of utter deadness of conscience as to his own condition before God, — though I am far from saying, that God may not make use of that truth to arouse it. On the other hand prophecy is essential to our due appreciation of Christ's glory and of the glory that is to be revealed. To slight prophecy therefore is to despise unwittingly that glory and the grace which has made it known to us. It is the plainest evidence of the selfishness of our hearts, which wants every word of God to be directly about ourselves.

Since Covenantalists are fond of quoting 2 Corinthians 1:20 as the death blow to Dispensationalism it may be appropriate to quote one of the early Dispy writers on this passage:

The world stands guilty of the murder of God’s Son yet the call is still “Come!”