PCA Ruling Elder. Calvinist, Presuppositionalist, Gen Equity Theonomist, Postmillennialist, Reformed Presbyterian, Christian Patriarchy, Father of 8 ๐ฆ๐บ ๐
This is an excellent book, and I highly recommend all men to read it!
I liked it so much, I gave copies to my sons, all my Deacons, and have a few more copies for other young men who would benefit from them.
โWhen principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.โ
โ Abraham Kuyper
@TimGallantTN
@anqlican
@RevZekveld
@John_Barach
Hosea is addressing Ephraim and Judah, being the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel.
It is Israelโs covenant with God they have broken. They have abandoned the worship of the true God for the false gods of their neighbours.
I would read v7 โlike menโ as โlike base menโโฆ
As much as I would love conference tickets, as a household of 10 in Australia, there is no way we could afford the flights or accommodationโฆ
As a consolation price, how about a follow from
@Brian_Sauve
,
@tompawnbadil
, and
@Eric_Conn
? ๐
Narnia Reading Order:
Is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobeย orย The Magicianโs Nephew the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis?
We are about to read them with the children, but do we go by publication date or chronological order?
William Gouge said that the husband must exercise a โtrue, free, pure, exceeding, constant loveโ to his wife, nourishing and cherishing her as Christ does His gathered people.
It is time to stop calling yourself Complementarian.
Patriarchy means โfather ruleโ and is the ideal structure we find throughout the Scriptures for Family, Church, and State.
What is your favourite Bible verse? (Quote Tweet your response)
Hereโs mine:
โHe hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?โ - Micah 6:8
@AliAmongFlowers
There certainly seems to be an increased uptake IRL by younger women, not for fashion reasons, or LARPing, but due to 1 Cor 11.
For many years, up until recently, my wife and daughters have often been the only ones covering, but now the balance at church would be about 50/50.
Every strong Christian man (not just Pastor) should have a โgood books to give awayโ shelf!
Mine currently has a stack of Masculine Christianinty by
@ZacharyGarris
on it.
You are not a lone island, and you are either being discipled, or discipling.
We enjoyed family devotions around the bonfire tonight. Still working through Mark (chapter 8 tonight) before returning to the Epistles.
Family Worship Guide Questions:
โWhom do you say Jesus is?
Do you trust in Him alone?
Do you confess Him before men?โ
Donโt be tempted to black pill when you look at your nation and realise there are no political solutions.
White pill! Love God, love your wife, love your children. Get busy building your family, reforming your local church, and reaching your community:
The nation will follow.
How exciting that the sensible, Gospel-fuelled Christian Nationalist vision is beginning to get up a good head of steam in the Western world!
Faithfully keep your hand to the plow that Lord has set before you, friends!
And may God have all the glory for any good that He sends.
Thanks to
@BobFruchoc
and his AI art skills, we have the new background for the church web page banner for our new series in Colossians starting next week!
@Aidan_Michael_
Amen!
1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
14 year old son purchased an old vice from a man clearing out his workshop as he was moving to a retirement home.
He has cleaned it up and repainted it.๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
@Prolife_Sam
@limitlessleila
Exactly!
Married my first (and only) high school girlfriend, and have been happily married for over 22 years now.
Every year keeps getting better!
I highly recommend this.
We do something similar monthly (Open Doors Thursday), where we gather at church, eat good food, read the scriptures together, and sing our war hymns and psalms with gusto!
The Sing Your Part app has been a great help also.
Battle hymns are one of our most powerful weapons against The Enemy.
One of my favorite rhythms of Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship (My wonderful Church) is our monthly festival shout where we feast together followed by an hour of learning to sing our part.
We practice
Out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty Godโฆ On his vesture โฆ a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. - Rev19:15-16
For those wanting to teach their children Koine Greek (and you should), this is a fantastic resource produced by
@LinguaDeoGloria
.
As well as being available on Amazon, they also provide the whole book FREE on their website as a pdf!
They also have a Biblical Hebrew version.
IT HAS ARRIVED! Here is the first ever hard copy of A Child's Beginner Book of Biblical Greek! I will ship this first copy out to one person who likes and retweets/comments on this post. It is on pre-order on Amazon and is available for FREE PDF download on our LDG site to any
Children donโt โdeserveโ to learn to read.
Literacy is principally a gift for the reading of the Scriptures.
If they wonโt read the Scriptures, they shouldnโt learn to read at all.
@lawsonharlow
Absolutely!
But this does not mean 24/7 instant access on demand. Pastors have families, sometimes tent-making employment etc., but if you have no reasonable access, you donโt have a Pastor.
Psalm 136:
Praise God, for he is kind:
His mercy lasts for aye.
Give thanks with heart and mind
To God of gods alway:
For certainly
His mercies dure
Most firm and sure
Eternally.
A good ๐งต from
@matt_everhard
for how to study your Bible better.
Also, check out his YouTube videos where he explains note-taking systems, and especially the miscellanies notebooks etc. ๐๐ป
"In Reformed theology, if God is not sovereign over the entire created order, then he is not sovereign at all. The term sovereignty too easily becomes a chimera. If God is not sovereign, then he is not God."
- What Is Reformed Theology by RC Sproul
Sadly the Digital ID bill has now passed the Senate!
Australia has been descending into authoritarianism for some time, but seems to be accelerating.
Pray for us and our leaders!
Christ is Lord and King, and we need to submit Him as a nation, and keep His commandments.
๐จ๐จ๐จ WARNING ๐จ๐จ๐จ
If you claim that the โSpiritโ has revealed something to you that does not come to pass โฆ you are a false prophet!
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Dabney's preface to Lectures on Sacred Rhetoric: "If my readers rise from the perusal with these two convictions enhanced in their souls โ that it is grace which makes the preacher, and that nothing is preaching which is not expository of the Scriptures โ my work is not in vain."
Praise God that Jonathan is already improving after being on IV antibiotics and fluids. Also had to have an uncomfortable procedure to lance and drain quinsy.
Can swallow, talk, and eat again!
Will be on the ward overnight and hopefully home tomorrow morning.
@Mwolltto
is overnight in the hospital with Jonathan, so I am here with the children, and plagued with concerns:
Do I light the fire or will the house burn down?
If there is an intruder, what do I hit them with?
Iโm Ma from Little House peering out for Pa into the snow. ๐ซฃ๐
Mat 6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Our Apple Music generated list of โAll tracks you canโt get enough of latelyโฆโ is only
@Brian_Sauve
! ๐
There are a few other artists we listen too, but this pretty much sums up the sound track of our house at the moment.
Reject Godโs good design for this world and reap the consequences!
So much of the MSM pushes the lie constantly that women would be happier divorced, cheating, gay, or in polyamory etc.
And though this world, with devils filled
Should threaten to undo us:
We will not fear; for God hath willed
His truth to triumph through us.
Let goods and kindred go,
This mortal life also;
The body they may kill,
God's truth abideth still,
His Kingdom is for ever.
-Martin Luther
Xwitter is just a technology that can be used for good or bad.
While it can lead to death-scroll infinitely, or black-pill, it can be incredibly helpful if you are following and interacting with the right accounts.
Here is a good thread from my fellow ๐ with some suggestions:
The more and more I interact on TwiX the more I enjoy the people who Iโve connected with in here.
Iโm sharpened, encouraged, enlightened, taught, counseled, and hopefully Iโve reciprocated to certain degrees. All in the honor of glorifying Christ together.
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@Couragemylads
Churches in Australia have been shrinking and dying caused by liberal theology infiltrating the Church many years ago.
We have seen many unequally yoked marriages, children excluded from Worship with Sunday School, lack of family worship,sports & other gods taking priority etc.
The recent attacks in Australia are a horrific assault on free society. Our condolences go out to those who have been affected, and we stand with the Australian people in calling for those responsible to be brought to justice.
Following these events, the Australian eSafety
Open Doors Thursday is always very enjoyable, and now that daylight savings is over and we are heading back towards winter, light spills out of the building and into our community.
The closer we get to death, the more we realise that the only things that we have in this world of any value are the immortal souls God has placed in our care
What is the difference between a โhouseholdโ and a โfamilyโ?
If โhouseholdโ โ โfamilyโ, how many households really exist in our western world?
WSC Q19 What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under His wrath and curse, and so made liable to all miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
How we need to learn to love what God loves, and hate what God hates!
Malachi 2:16 โFor the LORD God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers oneโs garment with violence,โ Says the LORD of hosts. โTherefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal treacherously.โ