@jeretics @JoshuaTorrey More Kirby Joseph INTs incoming.

@echppll Yep! I love to pull this fun fact out in Tolkien conversations!

@KevinRVasquez Thank you!

@PNWOzarker @SEdburg @sassiterian Right. And I'd bet, nobody is saying they should, if they are coming from a place of good faith.

@SEdburg @PNWOzarker @sassiterian Yes. But we don't require that anyone write that out in detail as an exception. We'd end up right back where our father's before us tried to correct.

@jeretics @presbyterianpew @sassiterian @fredgreco I think the substance of the matter is are we giving the Lord his due worship on the Christian sabbath? If any sort of enjoyment is keeping us from worship, both corporate and private, we ought to consider whether we continue to do that thing.

@JordanAW1991 @KimmieClag79 @sassiterian Right. I don’t think it is within the scope of the king’s authority to determine what is and isn’t acceptable on the Xian Sabbath. Not his sphere. So, if you are wanting to be polemical, you say no to “recreation” against him. I don’t think we need an EO on acceptable sport.

@JordanAW1991 @KimmieClag79 @sassiterian This article speaks to some of the historical context. JV Fesko’s book on the Theology of the Assembly dives into this. I think a kid’s play can rightly be considered a necessity or duty as well. I have a duty as a father to play with my kids as well.

@revpmr @bustarymez96 @coltonlbrewer @derekradney But it does seem like enrollment is up. I don’t think that means we don’t need to address the rising cost of seminary. Plus, we still don’t have pulpits filled.

@jeretics I agree!

@jeretics Structure it as a signing bonus or something do magical cap wizardry. I'd rather have d-line, o-line, and secondary signings frankly.

@jeretics A one year Super Bowl deal?

@coltonlbrewer @derekradney They are bigger in giving members. I'd be shocked if they were bigger in giving capacity of per member. Presbyterianism in the US historically engages the wealthy. We have some very large churches and a very wealthy membership.

@derekradney @coltonlbrewer Doggedly grass-roots until we want to create something binding from the top down or to silence something. We employ that as a rhetoric device.

@bustarymez96 @coltonlbrewer @derekradney My guy. We literally OWN a seminary. An ATS accredited seminary. One do the greatest tragedies of the last 150 years is the loss of theologically conservative institutions. Pipelining to all these smaller ones may lead to that again!

@coltonlbrewer @derekradney I was asking this in another thread else where, why can’t Covenant Seminary be cheaper for members of PCA churches? Under care of a presbytery? Minus $100 a credit hour. How do we fund this? Churches and presbyteries give money to the seminary to lower the cost.

@derekradney I'll add, requirements to get scholarships or grants from the presbytery requires in-person, full-time course work. Nothing online counts for that.