Elijah Sabbagh 🇺🇸🌲

To have others fail in duty to us may be a heavy cross; for us to fail in our duty to others is a fearful curse. — William Gouge

@1Lordbuddy Obedience is not legalism

Pastor's Morning Walk 186: Give Not Thy Strength to Women. Woe to Hypocritical Leaders

This is exactly right. Distinguishing ethics and politics is not placing them at odds but recognizing their distinct subjects (man as individual vs civil community) objects (moral acts as individuals for the good life vs acts as publicly ordered to the common good), operations (reason/will vs civil authority and custom), ends (good life vs common good). They are related in the sense that ethics is the precondition of politics (as that which defines the good life) but politics completes ethics by ordering man as social being to the common good. Politics is architectonic. But that doesn’t mean that all the content of ethics enters politics, as if the civil authority prescribes all moral acts. They are distinct, so you ought to be both kind to the illegal immigrant (give him a glass of water) and then turn him into ICE.

Don’t confuse ethics with politics. You should show kindness to your immigrant neighbor (ethics). You should also support policies against immigration (politics).

Grateful to @AmReformer for publishing my new article on the natural and supernatural ends of man. My hope is that this article can bring as much clarity to the issue of nature and grace as I have to offer. americanreformer.org/2026/04/the-na…

One of the benefits of choosing our version of William Gouge's Of Domestical Duties, is that Gouge draws heavily from church fathers such as John Chrysostom in outlining God's design for families. He also cites the laws of Justinian, showing how Christendom has made wise laws on the family. What's more, Gouge draws from the Greek and the Roman philosophical traditions, showing how the light of nature supports God's order in the family. Footnotes also include the precise Hebrew and Greek terms of Scripture. You will miss a lot of this if you read any other modern reprint of this book.

"Of how many hours doth the Sabbath day consist? Of four and twenty (Gen. 2:3). The Sabbath is called the seventh day: so as it is a seventh part of the week: therefore so many hours as make up every of the other days (which are four and twenty) must be accounted to this day." –William Gouge, The Sabbath's Sanctification (1641, spelling modernized)

@Brian_Sauve My first thought was “Wow he looks skinny” 😂

>post video about new album >83% of comments are about my post-cut physique >feels good man >total success >also back the album

The marks of a godly woman vs. an ungodly woman according to Scripture... A godly woman -is the wife of one husband -has a reputation for good works -brings up children -shows hospitality -washes the feet of the saints -cares for the afflicted -devotes herself to every good work An ungodly woman -is an idler -goes about from house to house -is a gossip -is a busybody -says what she should not Therefore, young women pursue, according to the providence of God, pursue.... -marriage -bearing children -keeping house -giving the enemy no occasion for reproach (See 1 Tim 5)

Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world! He is not here, for He is risen!

Matthew 28:19: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations (τὰ ἔθνη)…”   ἔθνος (ethnos) = “a body of persons united by kinship, culture, and common traditions, nation, people” (BDAG).

Thank you @BerithPress! I am very excited to read both of these.

If piety has some relation to virtue, and the state's intrinsic end is a virtuous citizenry, then the state must have some intrinsic principle and means to promote piety.

“Christian conferences” don’t exist, because conferences are not in the redemptive kingdom, they can’t save you, and only individuals and churches are “Christian.”

Being direct in a masculine way is actually a mercy. Don’t dance around it. Say what you think. Pull no punches. Be frank and friendly. Say it in love. Don’t qualify everything to death. Don’t make people read between the lines.

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.” Psalms 33:12

I’m almost never alone. There’s usually somebody in the room, or just down the hall. But tonight it’s quiet, just me and my German Shepherd out on the back porch. Fire going. Papers spread out. I’m working through church officer training for this Saturday. The house is in that in-between state. I’m looking forward to my kids getting home. Some are at a roller rink with my wife, one’s out with his wife somewhere, another’s at a young adult Bible study. The usual noise of the house is scattered across the county tonight. So for a little while, it’s just me. And I found myself thinking about you single guys. Not the ones who’ve chosen it and are content there. I mean the ones who want a wife. Who want a house full of life and noise and responsibility. The ones who feel the quiet a little more than they’d like to admit. I just want you to know, tonight, I’m praying for you. Don’t lose heart. Don’t drift. Don’t let the waiting make you soft or bitter. The world doesn’t need more boys killing time. It needs you. It needs steady, godly men. Men who are ready when the Lord puts something in their hands to build. Stay at it. God sees you. And in His time, He knows how to fill a house. Until then, don’t grow weary in doing good.

There is a single thought pattern that will either make you or break you. I've found this to be true again and again. It's the choice between these two thoughts: 1. "Things are happening to me." 2. "I am happening to things." What I mean and why it matters:

“O blessed is the nation in which both administrations [civil and ecclesial] have conspired with one mouth and one mind to maintain and increase sacred communion along with civil society!” Junius

"The female sex loves with greater intensity so that it may nurture more powerfully, while the male sex loves with greater judgment so that it may instruct more skillfully." ~Burgersdijk's Oeconomics and Politics (Coming soon. It's excellent.)