Truth Vindicated

The correct Christian posture toward the Jewish people.

It turns out @ConfessingKite @TruthVindicated exists.

Cosmological Worship is the ultimate end to God's predetermined plans for both Israel and the Gentile nations. Check out the whole "Awakening the Conscience" course in the comments below. #theologythursday

@richbarcellos Jesus seems to think so in Luke 24

Types can be types without the Bible explicitly identifying them as such? Huge, if true.

How does someone teach and minister the Bible while living in an 8 year affair? The only way I can make sense of it is a completely seared conscience.

What is Hanukkah? #Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication, remembers God’s faithfulness to preserve His people during the Maccabean period (2nd century BC), after the temple in Jerusalem was desecrated and later restored. (1/7)

This remains ever-helpful from @richbarcellos. I've shared it with many people. sermonaudio.com/gb/sermons/126…

@wretchedmarine @lecternleader Saw this in HEB today, guess I'll pick it up next time!

Its time. @lecternleader

@bendellwerry Depends on the day you ask. Today, if I was called up, it'd be Malachi 1.

Why we're Baptist.

There's some sort of psychosis in our nation. A kid comes home from school with a Gideons Bible and they think it's about to be 1940s Germany. Meanwhile they're electing literal Muslim communists (the two most dangerous ideologies smashed into one) as mayor of NYC.

Three aspects of union with Christ from Hebrews 2:9-13 1️⃣ His death is our death 2️⃣ His glory is our glory 3️⃣ His holiness is our holiness

The pastor is: -an ambassador of God to men -a teacher of the holy oracles -a leader in the sacramental host -a ruler in the house of God -a guide to troubled souls -a watchman on Zion's walls (Adapted: Thomas Murphy's "Pastoral Theology)

@birdchadlouis @LibertyEthics Brother, this is not what natural law means.

@LibertyEthics No. There was never a command to celebrate the Sabbath in Genesis. help.1517.org/knowledge/do-c…

It’s not. The Sabbath was a law for the Israelites under the old covenant. Christians celebrate the resurrection on the Lord’s Day.

@PresbyInn This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. Could you expand a bit on what led you away from sacramental physicalism? Does Scotus address this somewhere?

1. I was Dutch Reformed 2. I read Thomas on justification and sacraments, and his physicalist account of them made initial sense to me, esp after reading Maximus the Confessor and Ephrem the Syrian. Further reading in contemporary Christology further solidified this (if you've ever read Ratzinger's Christology you understand what I mean). 3. With more reading of the fathers, I became Catholic for 8 years. 4. I discovered the work of John Duns Scotus and found that Aquinas's account was not unimpeachable, and that there was a high likelihood that he was wrong on these matters (or, at least, needed some revisions). 5. I discovered, through research that was emerging and becoming available online, that the Reformed had followed Scotism in reaching a number of its conclusions. 6. I continued reading the fathers and found that the accounts popularly given by apologists about how the fathers agree with current Roman positions was far messier than that. The Fathers don't agree with each other on a lot and approach theological questions from different starting points. 7. The Roman Catholic Church, at its head, has massive corruption and is becoming increasingly comfortable with being a liturgical NGO. I tried living with this cognitive dissonance for ~5 years of my time as a Catholic, much coping was done. In addition to my local parishes being mostly a social club for boomers who think if they keep the church in the 1980s their kids will come back (they won't). 8. I decided that the tradition that raised me, that fed the faith of my ancestors, and that acknowledged that the church has, can, and does err (and has to be constantly re-formed by the Word of God, & yet is real and with a real authority) was right. And that I had made a mistake in leaving it. 9. I returned to the nearest tradition to Dutch Reformed that was available to me (Presbyterian).

My favorite part of Nehemiah is him threatening to throw hands (and actually following through) with the people profaning the Sabbath or marrying pagan wives. I'm not sure of the best way to apply this to the pastorate 😂

@Landon2LBCF Actually it rewires success for your brain 😉

Actually, this is the best book that will rewire your brain for success… but not in the way you’d expect.

Here's the primer on the different forms of Baptist Covenant Theology that I hinted at yesterday. I hope it's helpful! youtu.be/oxoa1YIZTF8?si…