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Taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Pastor at Village Church RVA Director Reformed Baptist Institute Author https://t.co/Ru7xM8N3oY
Richmond, Virginia
Joined September 2017
My Speaker page is now available (see next tweet). This yearβs calendar is filling up fast, but I am open to podcasts or if thereβs availability, I would love to preach or speak for your seminar, conference, or event. Please spread the word and see more below!.
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You are not Billy Graham. You are not John Piper. You are not Al Mohler. You will struggle to find a church. The church will have 75 people. It will be away from your family. Legacy families will control the church. You can listen in on the committees. Their traditions cannot.
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Following Dave Ramsey, to afford the cheapest house where I live ($335,000 for 1,000-1,400 sq ft) you would need $79,000 for downpayment/closing costs w/monthly payments of $2,867, meaning you would need to make $140,000 a year take home pay. Seems like useless advice. π€·ββοΈ.
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Donald Trump pulls the presidency from a party that denies male and female, and pietists call him evil. Kid Rock asks Joe Rogan if he wants to know Jesus, and theologians mock the conversation. Sound morality and doctrine should not lead us to become such worthless salt.
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If you donβt believe Paul then you donβt believe Jesus.
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She was by my side in high school student ministry. The same for college and career ministry, both at church, and on a secular campus. She moved 10 hours away with me for seminary. We left our family and friends behind. We didn't have new jobs or insurance. We stayed there 4
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Imagine being an evolutionist and thinking homosexuality makes any sense whatsoever.
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I do hate Satan, just to be clear. Is that a crime?.
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Imagine being so arrogant you think you can cheat on your wife, leave the faith, cross dress, consistently act like an "edgy" and insufferable punk across the board, and still think you have moral standing to chastise evangelicals (here, for how they vote). Hell is hot.
to my evangelical friends who are loudly attempting to justify their votes & behaviors at the moment, despite the negotiations youβve clearly done with your morality & savior, i would invite you to consider that you cannot build the kingdom using the devilβs tools.
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As best I can tell, the main "argument" against "Christian Nationalism" is that, since we cannot have a perfect civil government until Christ returns, we should not try to have a more Christian one at all. Imagine if we applied that to our families, churches, and businesses.
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Atheists are people who devote their lives to hating a God they say they don't believe in.
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Daily Wire and Blaze Media and Babylon Bee aren't your pastors.
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The women at the tomb never publicly proclaimed the resurrection. They were very afraid, said nothing to anyone, and ran to tell the men about it.
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Tell me we arenβt under judgment.
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You don't have science without Christianity.
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People are born believing in God and are brainwashed into becoming atheists.
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Sometimes pastors have difficulty recognizing that not everybody is called to be a pastor. Business, politics, entertainment, and many other areas are fair game for Christians to thoroughly engage in without losing their faith. We should encourage these, not discourage them.
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I refuse to believe that a state in submission to the Lord is in any way a hindrance to a church in submission to the Lord.
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I consider @matcrawford a friend, but I've received a lot of texts and comments asking me about this clip, and I am admittedly confused by what he's attempting to accomplish here. He outs associates of his church he suspects are here illegally and claims his church could be.
Just watched Pastor Matt Crawford at Trinity Baptist Church in Cordova go off on President Trump's immigration policies. This guy, who's with the Southern Baptist Convention, didn't hold back on his criticism of the roundups. But here's the kicker - Senator Brent Taylor was in
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So refreshing to hear @TuckerCarlson say what so many scientists & thinkers secretly believe but are afraid to admit aloud: evolution has an absolute lack of *any* compelling evidence. Evolution is a story -fairytale-substituted for special creation for sex without consequences.
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I got back on X so I can die a happy man.
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Why do people go three decades in a church without ever having read the Bible through, familiarized themselves with the basics of systematic theology, or discipled someone?.
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The West was great because Christianity is.
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This from Christian Nationalist Andrew Walker:. "If you are an evangelical thought leader and spent little to no time over the last four years speaking out against the secular progressivism of President Biden, no rank-and-file evangelical in the pew cares what you think anymore.".
You have permission to stop listening to the high-profile critics of evangelicalism. This election just showed that their opinions really do not matter. At all. They are not prophets. They are partisans.
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βOne reason why our workingmen so universally keep clear of ministers is because they abhor their artificial and unmanly ways. If they saw us, in the pulpit and out of it, acting like real men, and speaking naturally, like honest men, they would come around us.β β C.H. Spurgeon.
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βJesus is Kingβ catches every Christian ear and motivates all Christian endeavors. It is not anti-semitic. It is not anti-gospel. Only King Jesus redeems us. Only King Jesus makes sense of reality. The Christian response to the proclamation that βChrist is Kingβ is rejoicing.
Just to make sure this is perfectly clear: Using βJesus is Kingβ for any other reason than to share the gospel is evil. Itβs not a catchy saying or motivational mantra. Iβm not impugning anyoneβs motives, since I donβt know them. Just donβt want there to be any confusion over.
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Where I come from, βfundamentalistβ just meant βChristian.β
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The truest test of a man's theology is his home.
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A number of people have asked me what's going on here. I like Owen, and his (at times, fanatical) zeal is useful to the kingdom, but we cannot conflate heat with light. I'm afraid this call for book banning betrays a sense of defeat with regard to faith in the power of truth:. 1.
Doug, can I encourage you--in all due respect, calmness, and charity--to pull Stephen Wolfe's Canon Press book, disavow it, and never publish another sentence from him?. His nationalism book unleashed absolute unblinking chaos in the church. It opened the door to the myriad ills.
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The will of the Father, Son, and Spirit are all the same, single will of God.
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The so-called Protestant retrieval project always struck me as a group of tweeds nerding out over dead guysβ nuanced abstract theological commitments nobody in the pews really cared about while detesting what they had to say about more pressing sociological concerns of the day.
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Why fear speaking up the way @TuckerCarlson did on @joeroganhq? Evolution lacks evidential backing. Evolutionists argue in a circle. Because evolution is a myth!
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When you divorce the seminary from the pastorate the fruit is always rotten.
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Another reason to believe in eternal hell.
Florida baptist pastor, Jonathan Elwing, who was arrested last week for possessing images of children being sexually abused, took photos of himself raping a 2 year old toddler. Authorities also found hidden cameras in his home & church office.
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Southern Baptists have listened to lectures from a "watching world" for far too long. Southern Baptists need qualified, credible leadership in places of power. Southern Baptists must have a voice in the public square again. The time for this is now.
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If you are a husband, you chose to, and must, love your wife. If you are a wife, you chose to, and must, submit to your husband. These are non-negotiables of a Christian marriage, and they are good.
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Several weekends ago this guy accused me of serving my own appetite, smooth talk, flattery, deceit, conspiracy, hypocrisy, then attacked my real life relations. I've never interacted with him. Par for the course on X, but why do @ostrachan and @Janet_Mefferd prop him up?
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Men do the hard things first. Men build things that last. Men leave an inheritance. That means you get married and make it work. You have children and raise them up. You move from discipled to discipling in your local church. These relationships are hard, but last, and matter.
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Christianity and liberalism are two different things.
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Fewer podcasts. More Bible. Try that.
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SBC leaders CONSTANTLY whine and complain about podcasts, social media, etc. to the extent one might think they are worried about losing control of the narrative such as with issues of abuse coverup, financial transparency, and poorly written arguments.
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The Southern Baptist Convention has far too many biblically sound, theologically conservative, well-qualified Drs to be allowing their seminary professors to play footsie with heretical views of God and those who hold them. Why are people in the pews forced to fund liberal creep?.
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Thomas Aquinas is the Taylor Swift of theology.
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Not a single shred of evidence exists for biological evolution.
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The majority of Southern Baptists voted for this.
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Ever notice how there aren't any positive arguments made from passages of Scripture with this idea that women can be "pastors" in the Southern Baptist Convention? All of it is sociological and cultural, based on mere feeling and inclusivism, the spirit of our age.
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I was hesitant, but encouraged to do this, and I've long told others when God and his people ask you to serve, you answer. My life would not be what it is today apart from the preaching of God's word and Southern Baptists, and so it would be a privilege to serve in this way.
It has been announced that Chris Bolt, pastor of theology and apologetics at Village Church in North Chesterfield, Va., will be nominated to be the 2025 SBC Pastorsβ Conference president.
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The preaching of the gospel drives people away from the faith.
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My new role as Director of Theology and Apologetics affords me the opportunity to focus more on equipping individuals and churches in those two important areas of Christian thought and action through seminars, conferences, preaching, and debates. Please reach out if interested!.
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Trump isnβt leading, or opposing, most evangelicals on federalism, IVF, anti-equal protection, and exceptions, heβs following them.
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The good news is Van Til will survive. The bad news is your theonomy probably won't.
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If you preach the gospel but do not preach the law then you are not preaching the whole counsel of God.
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Today marks one year since we officially left our previous church. If you are never willing to put yourself into a position that nobody else will touch, you will miss out on blessings God has in store for you. Although those almost 8 years were filled with trials, we were.
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No! Those who would worship God must come to the Father through Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth! (John 4:24; 14:6)
@mathiematician Right, I don't think anyone is denying that non-Christians are worshipping God in the wrong way.
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Iβm happy to be considered for the 2025 Southern Baptist Pastorsβ Conference. Imagine a Pastorsβ Conference with βunknown,β faithful pastors laboring in the word for application to ordinary pastors in small and sometimes difficult places. The vote takes place Monday afternoon.
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@megbasham βLet me be thankful, first, because he never robbed me before; second, because although he took my purse, he did not take my life; third, because although he took all I possessed, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.β - Matthew Henry.
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To this day, I've never had a classical, evidentialist, or any other type of Christian apologist explain to me how, exactly, we account for logic, induction, or morality apart from the God of the Bible.
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God knew 2025 from the foundations of the earth.
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Mike Stone might like a word.
.@drmoore: "This isn't just cat memes. We act as though it doesn't matter if we lie our way to the truth if we just bear false witness against people, claim that they're abducting pets, using every kind of stereotype and demonizationβ it's morally sick and morally wrong."
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@ohmercy_me @toottootchoo Cheapest townhome is $345,000. I'm sorry that number troubles you, but it isn't because I have "princess syndrome.".
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It was a great honor and privilege to be ordained/installed as a pastor @villagerva today.
My new role as Director of Theology and Apologetics affords me the opportunity to focus more on equipping individuals and churches in those two important areas of Christian thought and action through seminars, conferences, preaching, and debates. Please reach out if interested!.
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It absolutely boggles my mind that Christians would argue the nation ought not to acknowledge the Triune God in word and deed.
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Join a church where your pastors care for your personal holiness, not a place where you can hide, and not a place where the people are functional inclusivists in their failure to exercise discipline.
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Cornelius Van Til argued that there was "much truth. in Aristotle.".
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Note the confusion "female pastors" causes:. 1. "Personally" opposed but it's OK. 2. "Pastor" title means "non-elder" office. 3. Biblical position is pastor/elder/overseer office reserved for men, but women filling the office isn't unbiblical compromise. It's people pleasing.
Although I personally would not affirm female pastors, I cannot agree that the use of that title in a non- elder position necessarily proves a church is compromising biblical fidelity on its own.
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@cuatronelson What if you think there are a lot of feminists in the church today but not racists?.
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Today is a great day to repent and believe in Jesus Christ.
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Sadly, some of my friends and I were the target of attacks after the announcement below. That's never the way things should be in the SBC. So to clarify:. I'm not associated with CBN, don't work for Founders, and I'm not an SBC politician. I am an SBC pastor. I'm not a.
It has been announced that Chris Bolt, pastor of theology and apologetics at Village Church in North Chesterfield, Va., will be nominated to be the 2025 SBC Pastorsβ Conference president.
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Watching this Natural Law dustup with great interest. I wonder if @HwsEleutheroi and @PerfInjust could agree on something like the following:. 1. NL is necessary. 2. Everything is connected. 3. The Reformers believed NL is necessary. 4. NL is the will of the Triune God of.
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One of the main purposes of apologetics is rarely ever talked about: keep the sheep. God uses means to accomplish his end of endurance for believers. Most unbelievers don't have the patience or ability to follow apologetic arguments. Christians have the interest and framework.
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Abortion pills put babies in the grave and their would-be mothers in hell.
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The Bible teaches us to hate evil and love good.
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I am extremely proud of the young man who nominated me this afternoon and even more excited to see how God uses him in the future!. Prayers and support for whichever candidate wins later this evening.
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As the "Rowdy Presbyterians" and "Anonymous Nazi Sympathizers" bite and devour one another, I'm reminded, though we have our share of problems, and need to pass the Law Amendment or its equivalent, today is a good day to "save," support, and serve the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Leaving the Church is leaving Christ.
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Prioritizing the discipleship of your church members over the discipleship of your wife and children is disqualifying for a pastor.
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Engagement farming with Dave Ramsey is one of the best ideas for a side gig I've ever had.
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"Why do we need Greenland?". Imma stop you right there and inquire as to why you need straight pipes and 2,000 square feet and BBQ and fireworks and Buc-ees?. Americans don't ask such things.
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