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@bethanyshondark Jumped into the comments looking for the people who would suggest simply returning it to Costco 😂

Seeking advice: We have had a couch from Costco for about three years. It’s falling apart, mostly thanks to heavy wear and tear from six kids. I’d like to replace it. But do I just wait until we’re past heavy wear and tear stage. Or

I have a lot of respect for Piper, but if I posted Deuteronomy 7:3 – "You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons" – with vague commentary in the middle of a national debate about what it means to be an American, every person currently defending him would rightly assume I was making a political point and they'd be livid. Piper posted Leviticus 19:34 in the middle of that same debate. His defenders say he's simply quoting Scripture, as if that settles it. It doesn't. A tweet is never just its words. The person tweeting brings context the words can't carry. Timing does too. What you conspicuously leave unsaid often says more than what you actually wrote. Everyone in this conversation knows Piper chose that verse and not a verse that could be coded rightwing and the choice is doing political work whether he names it or not. Pointing to the text alone is special pleading. You can't claim a post is just Scripture when you know perfectly well it isn't.

“Compassionate” progressive policy - on abortion, immigration, or anything else - can be summed up by Proverbs 12:10:“the mercy of the wicked is cruel”

Christians, being gullible isn't Christlike, it's sinful. When you fall for weaponized empathy and spread leftist propaganda while calling it 'love,' you're not showing true compassion. You're functioning as agents of chaos and enablers of evil. My latest for @BaptistLeaders centerforbaptistleadership.org/christian-stop…

“Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t marry the same sex.” “Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one.” “Don’t like gender ideology? Then don’t transition.” This is the lazy, morally bankrupt argument of a culture that’s traded truth for comfort. We act as if every serious issue can be reduced to personal taste, like picking a flavor of ice cream. Like whatever we believe has no implications outside of ourselves. You wouldn’t say: “Don’t like child abuse? Don’t abuse your kid.” “Don’t like racism? Don’t be racist.” “Don’t like drunk driving? Then don’t do it.” Why not? Because we instinctively understand that some things are just wrong, and not just for me, not just for you, but for everyone. Because they hurt people. They corrupt innocence. They distort reality. And they destroy the moral foundation we all depend on to live in a functioning society. The idea that all moral issues are private choices is a lie. These things don’t stay in your bedroom or your clinic or your brain. They seep into schools, media, law, culture, and the next generation. Everyone pays the price for the lies we choose to accept. So no, it’s not just “your choice.” It never was.

When one admin imprisons Christians praying outside of buildings in which helpless babies are being murdered And the other admin arrests people who are shutting down worship services We don’t have a “both sides” situation in this country

Sadly, the one thing that left-wing and right wing extremists have in common is targeting houses of worship for violence, vandalism, and acts of intimidation.

Pastors and churches, there are solutions to alleviating this kind of threat. If you don’t know what they are, what are you waiting for? Get your men together. Get trained. Be vigilant. Love your neighbor.

Christians need to wise up and recognize the irreconcilable collision course this nation is on with the ideological project of progressivism. What we saw today—ideologically deranged activists intruding into a church, frightening children, and intimidating worshipers—is not a bug; it’s a feature of a diseased worldview fueled by lawlessness and abetted by feckless rulers that must be decisively defeated. Politics is not meant to change hearts—it's meant to order society by promoting the good and putting protesters like this in jail. The only way out is through.

If you are surprised to see such a large volume of professional class leftists acting in psychotic fashion in response to routine immigration enforcement, remember the conduct of this same group during covid: masking babies, terrifying children, boycotting family, shuttering schools, purging dissenters, and signaling their “virtue” to in-group peers with ever more extreme, painful and draconian measures.

Every day, for the prior 4 years under the Biden Administration, our country was mass invaded and forcibly occupied by illegal aliens. Innocent American children were raped, mutilated and murdered. Entire towns (Springfield, Columbus, Eu Claire) were resettled. Entire neighborhoods were turned into refugee camps. Entire communities were transformed. Schools and medical systems ravaged. The treasury raided. Walkable communities made unlivable. Family parks made into crime scenes. Communities scarred, besieged. These are incomparable crimes against nation and citizen. Yet, not one day in that long and brutal nightmare did the corrupt press show one tiny microscopic fraction of the outrage they now hurl at the brave HEROES courageously reversing this invasion in the face of unceasing far-left assault. That is because the corrupt press is a key instrument in the Left’s quest for national dissolution.

ICE is doing what should be very mundane work of deporting people who aren't allowed to be in the country anymore, by law. Just as they have for years. However, a bunch of lunatics, encouraged by the media and reckless democrat officials, have decided that basic immigration enforcement is 'literally fascism' and declared war, turning routine enforcement activity into dangerous civil war cosplay. And people are getting hurt because of it. The federal government has every right to enforce immigration law, in every jurisdiction of the country. The legal fiction of the 'sanctuary city' is completely irrelevant. Municipalities don't get to set their own immigration policy, and they don't get to obstruct federal law enforcement. And they certainly don't get to foment and deploy an army of dangerous foot soldiers to physically attack federal agents, for no other reason than a political disagreement over immigration law. It's actually insane that this even needs to be said. These people are coming dangerously close to committing insurrection, and the consequences of that will be monumental. This is not the fight they want, and everyone with even half a brain should be urging these Democrats to seriously back off immediately. If Democrats believe our immigration laws are wrong, we have an election coming up in November and they can run on an explicit platform of repealing these laws, ending immigration enforcement, and re-opening the border. But they won't, because they know that platform is a loser outside of a very few very far-left districts. So they'll continue to pretend that routine immigration enforcement is actually a replay of 1939 Germany, and continue to send mentally unwell liberal women and antifa activists out to risk injury and legal peril in order to win a few news cycles. Very very sad. And it needs to stop.

How DARE this man, who used Romans 13 to defend unlawful practices like vaccine mandates and church shutdowns, now try to say that the requirement of Christians to submit to lawful authorities does NOT apply to illegal immigration. Seriously, how dare he. No evangelical leader is more of a hypocrite and a blind guide than Russell Moore.

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@NateSchlomann I don’t think the division was over the assassination (which was evil), I think it was over whether Charlie was actually a martyr (he wasn’t ), and whether he said racist things before he died (which he did)

Yes, exactly. If you get to this point - where there is division on something as morally clear as the assassination and legacy of Charlie Kirk - that is a terribly unhealthy church. It is a complete and total failure of leadership on JD Greear's part, and it should be disqualifying. The reason it's not disqualifying is that the ministry model that leads to that level of church division is the basic operating system at most "conservative" evangelical churches. The evangelical church is so sick, but most pastors are complicit, so we're not gonna make the changes we need to. Everyone just does the "everything is awesome" dance, and we keep doing ministry as usual while the culture collapses around us.

The reason government programs are so inefficient is that, unlike a commercial company, the feedback loop for improvement is broken, because they have a state-mandated monopoly and can’t go out of business if customers are unhappy. No matter how bad the service is at your DMV (sorry to pick on DMVs), you still have to use your DMV, because it’s a monopoly.

People might wonder why I fight so hard in theological battles. There are many reasons, but one in particular stands out. I once met a child who shared something with me: "Jesus died on the cross for my sins." This child would believe whatever gospel was given to him, and what is given to him trickles down from what his parents and pastors believe. That's why I don't hesitate to call Richard Rohr a heretic and warn people about the apostasy of Jen Hatmaker. It's not to be mean. It's to protect the beauty of "Jesus died on the cross for my sins." I will die before I let some heretic take that away from a child.

Three minor differences: -Our guy was a law-abiding husband and father. Your guy was a woman-beating menace and a drug-addicted thief. -Our guy was murdered by a trans terrorist for expressing Christian beliefs on gender. Your guy died of a fentanyl overdose after trying to defraud a convenience store while being lawfully restrained by a heroic cop, according to trained protocol. -When our guy died, our side wept, prayed, and forgave. When your guy died, your side murdered dozens of innocent people and burned down half the country. So yeah, totally the same.

STATEMENT: "We should not tie Christianity to a political party" RESPONSE: What do you mean by "tie"? If by "tie", you mean NOTICE things like... // Radical moral asymmetry between the proposed policies of the parties // One party elects, platforms, and cheers open statements of the gospel and one party opposes and vilifies it // When the ideology of one party spreads, more people become Christians and churches have the wind at their backs... and when the ideology of the other party spreads in a culture, openness to the gospel plummets and churches are hindered ... that is not "tying", that is honesty that helps and protects the flock and encourages righteousness in our culture that results in blessing. Or if by "we should not tie", you mean it makes you uncomfortable when political leaders from one party make open and clear statements of their faith as the reason for their policies, then... A) Get the political leaders of both parties to publicly state, elect, cheer, and platform clear expressions of Christianity and submission to its principles. It is not one side's fault that the other side openly opposes Christianity. B) The outcome of that logic is you, a Christian, opposing any political leader publicly stating their faith in Christ because it would "tie Christianity to their party." I think deep down in your heart, you know that Christians opposing public statements of Christianity is an evil thought that falls under the category of "if you deny me before men, I will deny you before my Father who is in heaven."

ALL OF US. We need to get bolder against the spirit of the age, more courageous in our actions, more precise with our theology, and more unashamed of the gospel. Fill the deficit left by these Titans.

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