Zachary Garris
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Pastor (PCA) | Author: Honor Thy Fathers (), Masculine Christianity () | Student of American Presbyterianism
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Some thoughts on DeYoung's article on the American changes to the WCF:
(1) He is correct that the American version moved away from the Westminster Assembly view of church-state relations, including the *duty* to suppress heresies and the like.
(2) However, I don't think he makes
KDY: "A church officer in the OPC or PCA, for example, who subscribes without exception to his denomination’s version (the American version) of WCF 23:3 is implicitly rejecting the view that the civil magistrate has the duty to purify the church, to suppress heresies, and to call
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Homeschooling is not about sheltering children.
It is about preparing them for warfare for Christ.
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I recently posted that I am moving away from using the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible. I wanted to explain more of my concerns with the ESV. It's not that the ESV is overall a bad translation (though I do have some criticisms). But I am concerned about the regular
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If a Christian college wants to attract students and make an impact for the future, it should be:
(1) explicitly right wing theologically & culturally.
(2) academically rigorous with competitive admissions.
(3) strong in liberal arts (classics, theology, history).
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My wife showed me a local mothers’ social media forum where a woman posted that she was considering abortion and asked for advice.
Tons of women commented justifying a past abortion and encouraging the woman to go through with it.
Then they belittled those who advised against
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Two essential facts to know before expressing an opinion on American church-state relations or the CN debate:
(1) The 1st Amendment (1791) only prohibited a federally established church. This is evident by the language ("Congress shall make..."), as well as the practice of state
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In 1786, Virginia enacted “A Bill for Punishing... Sabbath Breakers," which fined citizens for working on Sunday and included exception language ("work of necessity or charity") echoing WSC 60.
That bill's author? Thomas Jefferson
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Women should marry, have children, and manage the home.
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In his defense of telling a grandmother to attend her granddaughter’s same-sex wedding and even give a gift, Alistair Begg attacked American Christians for being “fundamentalists” who don’t understand “nuance” like British evangelicals.
Ah yes, the British evangelicals who
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Countless Christian parents have taught their daughters to pursue careers over marriage & babies.
And countless preachers have never said a word to the contrary.
Almost 80% of women ages 25-34 are in the workforce. This is an unmitigated disaster for the American family. Birth rates plummeting. Families in disrepair.
Before 1970, women reported far greater levels of happiness than men. In 2022, far less. Make Motherhood Great Again.
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The church must preach that all people have a duty to marry and have children.
No one else will say it.
And yes, we have a Bible verse for this one.
I’m meeting more and more old people without grandchildren.
Most tell me that they taught their kids to pursue their dreams.
Apparently, they assumed those dreams would include children. They were wrong.
They try to force a smile when talking about it, but obviously they’re
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A simple Wikipedia search reveals Zelenskyy “supports… free abortion in Ukraine, and the legalisation of prostitution and gambling. He opposes the legalisation of weapons.”
Sometimes there are no good guys.
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The good news is Roe may get overturned in the coming months.
The bad news is someone leaked a draft opinion, quite possibly so that the 5 majority justices would be intimidated to change their vote. We should pray for them.
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Calvin commenting on 1 Tim. 2:15 ("but she will be saved through childbearing..."):
"the Apostle does not speak merely about having children, but about enduring all the distresses, which are manifold and severe, both in the birth and in the rearing of children... when a woman,
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If you only talk about guns, you don’t have to talk about absent fathers, lack of community, antidepressants, godlessness of public schools, abandonment of Christ, etc.
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The US birth rate dropped to 1.62.
The church can’t do much about the economic challenges caused by civil government (though Christian magistrates can).
But the church can & should condemn feminism and call women to fulfill God’s design for motherhood.
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The word οἶνος (wine) isn’t used for the Lord’s Supper in the NT, so this point is irrelevant.
But we do know people were getting drunk on whatever Paul served (1 Cor. 11:21).
I think I’ll follow Paul instead of the temperance movement.
Hot take:
Grape juice falls well within the broad category of οἶνος, and there is absolutely no biblical command that the οἶνος served at Communion must be intoxicating. In fact, there is no reason at all it should be.
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I saw someone say “pastors don’t need a Master’s degree.”
Yes, the Bible doesn’t require pastors to have degrees, but to teach the Bible well requires significant education—Greek, Hebrew, theology, history, philosophy, etc.
The whole point of churches requiring a seminary
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This is the inevitable outcome of an “evangelicalism” that includes egalitarianism.
It is now commonplace for evangelical Christian colleges & seminaries to hire women as theological professors.
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I’m not aware of anyone in the PCA who wants to hear from David French.
The
#PCAGA
assembly-wide seminar will take place on June 12 at 8 am. The topic will be “How to Be Supportive of Your Pastor and Church Leaders in a Polarized Political Year.” The panel of speakers will include RE Paul McNulty, TE David Coffin, RE Randy Hicks, and David French.
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While we’re at it, let’s also reassess Sunday grape juice.
Can we reassess whether Sunday coffee-sipping in the sanctuary fits?
“Let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe.” Hebrews 12:28
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This one-star Amazon review is great advertizing.
Black Friday deal on Masculine Christianity.
Only $14.99.
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When the sexual revolution gives you a plummeting birth rate, millions of dead babies, and drag queen story time, you have to decide whether you are going to watch your civilization die or overturn the entire thing.
May the end of Roe be the start of a new reformation.
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It’s almost like the old critics were right that feminism would corrupt our women & institutions.
Rep. Greene makes fun of Rep. Crockett's fake eyelashes and all hell breaks loose.
You have to watch the entire exchange.
SNL couldn't create a skit like this:
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“I'd rather be in a democracy than a state in which the government is officially Christian.” -Tim Keller
Does he mean a secular (or even anti-Christian) democracy is better than a Christian monarchy or republic?
I can’t make sense of this.
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It helps if you understand that the Republican Party has never been a “conservative” political party.
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12 Republicans voted for same-sex marriage.
There is no conservative political party in America. Just a party with some conservatives.
U.S. Senate votes 62–37 to advance the marriage equality bill to protect same-sex and interracial marriage under federal law.
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The word baptizo means to wash, and there was no Welch’s in the 1st century.
Let the tweeter take up a Greek dictionary.
βαπτίζω = immerse
οἶνος ≠ intoxicating wine
Let the reader understand.
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At this point we have to ask—which major Christian publishers have *not* gone liberal?
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Maybe not a good idea to tear down statues of people in heaven.
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Some brief political thoughts:
(1) The Republican Party, for the most part, has never been that strongly opposed to abortion (so its recent platform change is no surprise).
(2) Murder laws, including laws against abortion, have always been a state issue per the U.S. Constitution
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Egalitarianism is false teaching and undermines holiness.
It tells Christians not to do the very thing the Bible commands, and to do the very thing the Bible prohibits.
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Some people do not want to hear this, but it needs to be said:
Children are superior to dogs.
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“I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man” (1 Tim. 2:12).
… except when teaching men the Bible in college, training ministers in seminary, and teaching men theology in any setting outside the pulpit. In those cases we can cave to the feminists.
This is the inevitable outcome of an “evangelicalism” that includes egalitarianism.
It is now commonplace for evangelical Christian colleges & seminaries to hire women as theological professors.
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Van Drunen said he doesn’t want Sabbath laws because non-Christians don’t “understand why we rest on the first day of the week.”
The principle seems to be ‘civil laws should only exist if they are sufficiently understood by non-Christian citizens.’
Total R2K nonsense.
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Having read Stephen Wolfe’s ‘The Case for Christian Nationalism,’ it’s clear to me that most critics of CN have not actually read the book.
Note to all the aspiring critics out there — critique goes a lot further when you know what you’re talking about.
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Preachers need to preach the gospel, and politicians need to bring about Christian law & order.
It’s both/and. One without the other is not sufficiently Reformed.
This is where Doug Wilson and I seem to disagree. The "solution" to America is, in large part, political. We should not use revivalism or political theology to escape politics. Christian nationalism is a *political* project, not simply a call for ministers to preach the Gospel.
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The better alternative is you start worshiping Christ and then you won’t feel left out.
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A courtroom acquittal scene is a beautiful picture of the gospel—the big difference being we who are actually guilty are declared righteous in Christ.
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Did DeYoung really give Wolfe’s book a 1 out of 5 star? Bc that’s just silly.
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Reading on the decline of Sabbath practice in America after the Civil War, and two major factors were: (1) people not knowing the Sabbath during wartime, and (2) the influx of Catholic immigrants who didn't practice the Puritan Sabbath.
This fueled Sunday activities (railroads,
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In response to a question a few days ago about America's history of slavery, I gave a brief answer that I hoped would express my biblical anti-slavery position, but I recognize that I was insufficiently clear in how I addressed the matter. I sincerely regret and apologize for not
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PCA sent a letter to US government officials condemning transgender surgeries, especially on minors.
This is Christ’s church doing its job.
"For these reasons, we condemn the practice of surgical and medical gender reassignment, especially of minors, and we humbly petition you to protect the lives and welfare of minor children."
Attached is the full letter commissioned by the PCA General Assembly to the US Govt.
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(1) Women are not to teach or exercise authority over men in public worship (1 Tim. 2:12).
(2) Leading prayer in public worship is a form of teaching (by example) & exercising authority (by representing the assembly before God).
Therefore, women are not to lead prayer in public
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Vischer, Tisby, Du Mez, Moore, French
Dream team lineup of bad takes.
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A wife is to “submit in everything” to her husband (Eph. 5:24), which implies he is the spiritual leader.
Good and necessary consequences.
The Bible doesn't ever command men to be the spiritual leader in their marriage.
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Permitting women to read Scripture in public worship is a modern innovation.
"The reading of the holy scriptures, in the congregation, is part of the public worship of God, and ought to be performed by the Ministers and Teachers."
-Directory of Worship 3.1 (1789) Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
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A good rule for theology: (1) defer to the Westminster Confession & Catechisms, (2) and if not covered there, defer to consensus views in church history (where they exist).
Chances are they got it right & you just haven’t studied enough.
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“He is most the man who can always govern himself.”
- R. L. Dabney
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For those who say “there is no such thing as a Christian nation”—do they say the same about a Muslim nation?
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Trueman:
“Christian nationalism…is unlikely to pose a significant threat to society at large. But it may well prove to be a threat in the much smaller world of our congregations and denominations, where a confusion between church and world and between the power of the Word and
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A rightly-ordered political theory teaches God’s law, including the command to worship the Triune God.
Thus, God may very well use the promotion of Christian Nationalism as a means of turning hearts to Christ.
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Things Presbyterian sessions brought discipline for in early 1800s America:
· non-attendance at worship
· failure to present children for baptism
· Sabbath breaking (e.g., working, fishing)
· profanity (e.g., "damned if I care")
· drunkenness
· breach of promise
· refusal to pay
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Americans don’t value babies. Which is why they don’t honor mothers. Which is why they send their women to war.
Asst. Secretary of Defense John Kirby explains that the U.S. military needs to pay for abortion access so that women can defend our country.
Bottom line: Kill the children so that their mothers can go fight in wars.
I can’t believe this is real.
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David and Nancy French don’t even like the PCA.
The
#PCAGA
assembly-wide seminar will take place on June 12 at 8 am. The topic will be “How to Be Supportive of Your Pastor and Church Leaders in a Polarized Political Year.” The panel of speakers will include RE Paul McNulty, TE David Coffin, RE Randy Hicks, and David French.
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Sadly, Ohio joins Michigan in directly voting for the legal right to kill babies in the womb. God have mercy.
This is a good time to reflect on the deficiencies of democracy.
I for one think such a direct vote should never be allowed.
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I used to read passages in the Old Testament about the Canaanites and think, “Did people really do these things?”
Living in America in 2024, I no longer ask that question.
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Christians should strongly consider alternatives to sending off daughters (and even sons) to public universities.
First email I see in my inbox this morning begins like this:
Thank you for all the great work you gentlemen do. I just wanted to share that you’re exactly on the right track, because look what 2 yrs at USC has done to my previously Christian, healthy daughter, who went to only
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Of course, Begg’s ancestors—the British Puritans—make modern American evangelicals look like liberals.
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Feminism is corrupting our churches because pastors refuse to preach the whole counsel of God.
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This is where Sabbath-breaking leads.
Love wins ❤️
Come out for the
@CapitalPrideDC
Parade & Festival on June 8-9 to celebrate
#Pride2024
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One major difference between older theologians & modern theologians is how the latter tend to make bare minimum applications. They simply do not reason the way the older Reformed did.
For example, one of the 2001 OPC reports on women in combat argues the church shouldn't address
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Someone should write a book on the Reformed tradition on gender…
The situation in Reformed seminaries today is basically that we must cherish and adore the Reformed tradition and its contributors but also denounce as "dangerous" anyone who follows that tradition on gender, ethics, law, and politics.
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Sad to hear this. Complementarianism has not held the line (and Piper was the best of them).
It's traditional Christianity or bust.
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People have been saying “the Constitution is dead” for a long time.
It’s not unique to CN. It’s not dangerous.
And it’s not controversial to those who have studied American history & “constitutional law.”
Christian Nationalists are officially crossing a red line. They are now saying, boldly and unequivocally, that the Constitution is dead.
A biblical response to this dangerous argument.
YouTube:
Spotify:
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“the best political policy to…end abortion”?
Ban it.
That’s how we treat all other forms of murder. This one’s not complicated.
...every year. I know abortion is a sin, but the Bible doesn’t tell me the best political policy to decrease or end abortion in this country, nor which political or legal policies are most effective to that end. The current political parties will say that their policy most
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No-fault divorce laws not only made it easy to get a divorce, but they also changed the legal culture.
Lawyers & judges involved in the divorce process today rarely advise the husband or wife to keep the marriage together. But it didn't use to be this way.
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There’s no greater work than that of motherhood—having babies, caring for them physically, and nurturing them in the fear of the Lord.
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Why are you surprised that the NFL—an organization that claims the Lord’s Day as its own—condemns a man for affirming traditional Christian morality?
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Not sure why it's controversial to say the Constitution is "dead."
The 20th century is the history of the Supreme Court turning the Bill of Rights on its head & stretching the language of delegated powers to the point that there are essentially no limits on the fed. government.
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There is no such thing as a “Judeo-Christian” tradition.
Trying to follow the Old Testament apart from Christ is anti-Christ and undermines Christianity.
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So much for the whole “Protestantism leads to liberalism” argument from Catholics.
Rome has moved well to the left of many Protestant denominations.
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Egalitarianism considers male headship to be “abusive” in itself.
Christian counselors adopting such doctrine are helping to destroy marriages.
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1 Corinthians 14:34-35 is so clear they argue it’s not actually Scripture—even though there are *zero* manuscripts without it.
Feminists essentially conceding defeat.
Been saying for years that 1st Cor. 14:34-35 makes no sense in context, was likely inserted, & should be flagged as dubious. This is the most thorough & sophisticated analysis I’ve seen supporting that conclusion.
Don’t look to these verses for Pauline views on women in church.
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Russell Moore is unfit to speak about anything. Unless it’s how to sell out the brethren.
The question is what it has always been- fit or unfit. And the answer was obvious all along. Character matters, still.
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Just noticed a bad change NASB 2020 made to Galatians 3:26 that misses firstborn son inheritance status.
"For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus." (1995)
"For you are all sons *and daughters* of God through faith in Christ Jesus." (2020)
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I am pro-Psalm singing. But there is just no way Paul in Col. 3:16 limits "psalms & hymns & spiritual songs" to "psalms."
Non-Psalm "songs" are sung in Rev., & "song" in the OT (LXX) is used for both Psalms & non-Psalms. No reason we can't put other parts of Scripture to song.
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I finally made the full switch to the NASB 1995. I’ve been preaching from it, but now it’s also my reading Bible.
I was hesitant bc there’s a NASB 2020 (which is a downgrade). So I considered the LSB (a separate update to the NASB 1995), but I can’t get on board with “Yahweh”
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We could use some more Old School Presbyterian Mood.
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Clark quotes me while I’m blocked, talks down to me, and then strawmans my position.
But if we want to talk history, CN has much deeper roots than Clark’s R2K.
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A big reason why so many Christian women have become career-driven is that older Christian women are not training the younger women in the domestic sphere.
The don’t practice Titus 2:3-5:
“Older women likewise are to . . . train the young women to . . . [be] working at home.”
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Several years ago I submitted two theological articles to TGC. I was told it would be better to write something more experiential.
So I said forget that and started my own website.
When your coalition is so narrow it only encompasses “the gospel”…
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Narrow complementarianism is a plague upon the Reformed church.
Proponents repeat the trope that male rule “isn’t in the Confession.” But they ignore that:
(1) the 16/17th c. Reformed wrote plenty on the subject,
(2) Westminster didn’t spell it all out bc it was assumed as
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It’s not getting much news, but former PCA pastor Scott Sauls has joined the ECO, an egalitarian denomination.
Sad to see him move in this direction, but good to see egalitarians leave the PCA.
A Tale of Two Presbyters - The Biggest PCA News You Never Heard
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There’s no reason to articulate a role for women that undermines God’s calling of motherhood & homemaking.
The biggest problem facing the evangelical "complementarian" gender theology is its inability to articulate a compelling role for women apart from wife and mother. Unsurprisingly, this is unappealing to women with talents and inclinations beyond that, or who are single.
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If the church should not speak against transgender surgeries performed on minors (and abortion), then there are no political issues the church should address.
Clark’s R2K produces an impotent and irrelevant Christianity.
Today
@RScottClark
authored a post regarding an upcoming overture to the
#PCAGA
petitioning the government to renounce sins related to transgenderism. That article can be found here. 1/12
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If the New York Times doesn’t hate your church, is it really Christian?
I do hope the PCA is prepared to shrug off the drubbing that is likely coming their way in the New York Times this Sunday...
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Just saw a Themelios book review that used CE instead of AD.
Are conservatives conceding this one already?
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How dare Christians talk about manhood from the Bible.
The “biblical manhood” industry is a scam.
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“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and SHALL protect each of them against Invasion.”
-US Constitution, Art. 4, Sec. 4
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In 1879, Presbyterian pastor Stuart Robinson noted that 37 of the 38 states had Sabbath laws, which were “adequate to the protection of the Sabbath."
Yet there was still increasing Sabbath "desecration." Robinson blamed 3 things: (1) the triumph of Sunday mail 50 years prior,
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(1) Presbyterians aren't Marcionites. We use the OT.
(2) We aren't biblicists. We deduce good & necessary consequences from Scripture (WCF 1.6). And we have the Reformed orthodox as an example here (i.e., the guys who were actually able to produce the Westminster Standards).
Here's everything the New Testament writers had to say in support of 1) a heretic-executing Xian Prince, and 2) Christians taking political control of a majority non-Christian country and ruling over it:
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