Matt Kennedy
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Married to @revannek, 6 kids, pastor of Good Shepherd, Binghamton NY, Anglican, Reformed, etc.
Joined September 2019
I have four daughters. That means I have spent approximately 1/3 of my fatherly life watching the six hour version of Pride and Prejudice.
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My oldest son Aedan proposed to his girlfriend Adaliah (Addy) today. Addy’s family are close friends and her dad is our junior warden. She said yes
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I buried a man today. He spent the last quarter of his life serving his wife, severely disabled by a stroke. He fed her, bathed her, changed her, combed her hair every day for 25 years. She died 2yrs ago. He was broken, longing to be with her. Now he is. He was a Christian man.
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I used to think that stealing was wrong. But then my child told me that from a very young age he has felt compelled to steal. He did not choose these longings and he has struggled his whole life to suppress them, knowing that people would never accept him for who he is. 1/9.
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"Groomer" is the perfect word for adults who want to isolate groups of children from their parents, talk to children about their own adult sexual proclivities, and who want to teach children to think about their core identities in sexual terms.
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Pope Francis: “People are fundamentally good”. The apostle Paul: “There is no one good, not even one”.
"We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good," says Pope Francis.
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It has recently come to our attention that Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego have put forward the argument that any Israelite who bows down to King Nebuchadnezzar’s golden statue has departed the faith and become apostate. 1/15.
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You know you're dealing homeschooled kids when they want to have a PG Wodehouse party. This is about 6 years ago.
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Should I take communion if I am continually falling into the same sin over and over again? . Here's Martin Luther's answer: “If you feel that you are unfit, weak, and lacking in faith, where will you obtain strength but here? Do you mean to wait until you have grown pure and.
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He Gets Us: “Jesus doesn’t teach hate”. Jesus: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.”.
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Please pray for a young woman in our congregation who has refused to participate in her workplace's Pride events or wear Pride symbols distributed by her employer. She may be fired this week because of it. She and her parents are visiting with a lawyer to discuss options.
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The long game has always been for Christians to marry, have as many children as possible, raise them in the faith, and educate them classically. Leftists do not need large families to pass on their ideology. They simply corrupt other peoples kids in public schools and colleges.
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My grandmother, who I loved very much, was a selfless person who no doubt thought she was doing us a favor by insisting that there be no formal funeral service after her death. She hated the thought of anyone “making a fuss.” She specified instead… 1/11.
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There is no such thing as gay marriage. Christians will never affirm such an abomination. Fine us, sue us, imprison us, or kill us, we will never celebrate or affirm that perversion. Christian clergy will never preside over that blasphemy. Jesus loves sinners too much for that.
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Found out that my 20 year old daughter sent a suitor packing yesterday because he was “basically unchurched,” only attending when it pleased him, and, as a result, didn’t have any “maturity or depth as a Christian.” I’m super proud and have no shame bragging about her publicly.
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@NeilShenvi Even if the intent is not to molest, isolating children from their parents, conditioning them think about sexual relationships, sexual morality, their bodies and sexual feelings in ways that will leave them open to perverse sexual acts, is grooming.
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But the human soul yearns to mourn in the face of death. It must be done. It cannot be avoided or suppressed. Death is the great enemy that divorces body from soul, the union we all know in the depths of our being that should never have been torn apart. 6/11.
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"No credible Old Testament scholar thinks Moses wrote the Pentateuch" . Jesus: "For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”(Jn 5:46-47).
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"Speaking the truth in love" has nothing to do with tone. It doesn't mean, speak the truth in a nice way. It means that the motive for speaking the truth to a person is not to harm but to do good. The truth may well hurt and offend, but love requires that it nevertheless be told.
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Now that our children are older and none of them are in jail and all six are believing and generally pleasant to be with, I think I'll give some parenting advice. We didn't make any of this up ourselves, we gleaned it from various books and other parents but here's what we did1/7.
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I should clarify that the woman nearest on my right is not my daughter, but my wife. Next to her (on her right) is my mother-in-law and then my youngest daughter's legs propped up on the coffee table.
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Great to see Alisa Childers’ excellent response to Gavin Ortland’s underhanded attempts to get her to take down her interview with Megan Basham.
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While royal burials are far from what you or I can expect, the ancient words, the ceremonies, the hymns - you can have those. Those belong to the Church and they can be for your family and loved ones however humble your circumstances. Please don’t neglect this gift from God. 11.
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Christian says Christian things at a Christian college. Left: Fire Him.
A petition is calling on the Chiefs to dismiss kicker Harrison Butker for making several dehumanizing remarks during his commencement speech at Benedictine College on May 11th. Here’s what the three-time Super Bowl champion said about women, Pride Month,
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I’m leaving Protestantism and the church of “what’s happening now” for the ancient See of Peter. Because the true Church, founded on the Petrine Rock, stands in continuity with and submission to the authority of Holy Tradition.
The Pope addresses his conservative critics in the church. "Conservative is one who clings to something and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude," says Pope Francis. This Sunday on 60 Minutes, the Pope sits down with @NorahODonnell.
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This conference is itself racist. There is no such thing as the “white church.” There is only the church. Events like this divide Christians on the basis of skin color and do violence to the Gospel.
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Things Jesus taught that some/many in the modern church find embarrassing .1. That the Old Testament is God's word and contains no error (Matt 5:17-19, Jn10:35). 1/16.
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John Chrysostom on abortion: "You see how drunkenness leads to whoredom, whoredom to adultery, adultery to murder; or rather something even worse than murder. For I have no name to give it, since it does not take off the thing born, but prevents its being born. 1/2.
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There is no distinction between sex and gender. Your sex is your gender. Your gender is your sex. Anything else is from the evil one.
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If you are preparing to die, please do not place the burden of “celebration” or “informality” on those who remain after you. Let those who love you be borne through the necessary grief in the arms of the Church and through her, Christ himself 9/11.
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Lots of people: "Actually, March 31st has always been the 'Transgender Day of Visibility.' The White House has proclaimed it a national holiday for the last 3 years. It just happens to be on Easter Day this year.". Me: You think this explanation makes everything better?.
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Biblilcally, your gender is your sex and your sex is your gender. Anything else comes from the evil one.
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A hard and skeptical man we’ve been praying for for about 10 years, who’s attended Good Shepherd with his believing wife, turned to Jesus tonight. Thanks be to God.
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It doesn’t get more ironic than Phil Vischer, Russell Moore, David French et al, teaming up with one of the most influential and powerful atheist producers in Hollywood to take part in a film attacking Christians who have far less power and calling the film “Power Worshippers”.
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My daughter has decided to answer the question by saying: Before reading this book, I did not understand just how important it is to embrace the inerrancy of scripture and defend it. Now I do. I have changed in that I am even more committed to studying the bible. 5/5.
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If you were mad when John Piper gave Rob Bell his farewell. If you were shocked when he, Brian Mclaren, Jen Hatmaker, Du Mez and now Andy Stanley apostatized, here's a hard truth: you're bad at discernment. Listen more to the people who warned you even if they make you mad.
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Hearing my son's story made me reconsider my own prejudices and deeply held beliefs. The command against stealing was given under the Old Covenant at a time when God apportioned land to each tribe. Personal or family possessions, in that context, had a sacred meaning. 2/9.
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This is a great moment for Christians to identity false bretheren in our ranks. If there is a professing Christian upset about the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade, that’s not a Christian.
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Mourning cannot and must not be avoided. And, thanks be to God, the Church has by and large preserved her ancient liturgies, tried and tested by time, to meet this need. 7/11.
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In two days, this Friday, we pay off our church mortgage. It's been more than 15 years since the Episcopal Church tried to crush Good Shepherd under its booted heel. They took the 150 yr old sanctuary and our family home. Now we are the largest Anglican church in Binghamton 1/2.
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The vast majority of abortions are driven by the same impulse that drove Herod to murder the children of Bethlehem…the child is a threat to personal sovereignty. If he lives then my ability to do as I please is compromised. Oprah calls this murder mentality the “American dream.”.
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I can only accept that this is who God made him to be. That's what love looks like. For too long those who long to take other people's things without permission have been marginalized and criminalized. No more. There must be a third way. 8/9.
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Once more into the breach: Bathsheba was not raped by David. There's nothing at all in the text of 2Sam to support that notion. The author of 2Sam knows perfectly well how to describe an actual sexual assault, see Amnon's rape of Tamar (2 Sam 13). 1/5.
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I propose the term "proactive generosity." So many people are caught up in greed, but the proactively generous person takes action to relieve the greedy of the source of their sin by relieving them of their possessions. 5/9.
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In seminary, I was taught to preach for 12 to 15 minutes using what was then called the “narrative” style which, essentially, meant retelling the “story” of the biblical text in modern terms. Biblical exposition, we were told, would be irrelevant to the average parishioner 1/9.
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"Why can't Christians agree to disagree about sexuality?" .Sexuality resides at the heart of the Christian faith because God made us male and female to tell the world about Christ and his Church. To reject what the bible reveals about sex, therefore, is to reject the Gospel.
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We, however, are under the New Covenant. It is true that the apostles and Jesus, still under the rigid influence of the Old Testament, sometimes said negative things about stealing. But they also tell people to give to whoever asks and not to recover what has been taken. 3/9.
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The more I study Old Covenant law regarding the poor, widow, alien, slave, and the fatherless, the more absurd the notion of a merciless Old Testament deity becomes. The more I study the Gospels the more absurd the notion of a harmless, emasculated, wrathless Jesus becomes.
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Sola Scriptura has rendered Protestantism subject to the chaotic winds of cultural devolution. I am fleeing to Rome where the solid anchor of the See of Peter and Holy Tradition will be a secure refuge against moral and theological error.
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This leads me to conclude that there is a trajectory in the New Testament that undoes property ownership to such an extent that Resurrection people should not even say that taking something without the owner's permission is "stealing" (such a clobber word). 4/.
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No, “looking out for the interests of others” doesn’t require parents to sacrifice children to godless state schools any more than “loving your neighbor” requires wearing a mask. We are commanded to raise our children to love and serve the Lord, not make them wards of the state.
Jen Wilkin said on TGC that if a Christian doesn’t send their kid(s) to public school “b/c it’s what’s best for our family” that other Christian’s need to push back on that & remind them sending their kid to public school is for the greater good and used Phil. 2:4 to back it up.
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If you have been moved by the queen’s funeral, that is because the queen in her wisdom loved her family and people well. She gave herself to the ancient ceremonies knowing these would be salve for the hearts of those who loved her and give glory and honor to her Lord. 10/11.
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. may have been wrong in the primitive setting of the Mosaic community, but Jesus has changed all of that. Since my child, a good person made in God's image, bearing the fruit of the Holy Spirit, deeply desires to take other people's possessions, 7/9.
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This proactively frees the greedy to live into a more generous way of being. Proactive generosity is an act of love. To make a long story short, after much prayer and study I've discovered that taking other people's things 6/9.
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I love it when Christians in England, Europe, and Australia, who’ve been silent or complicit as their governments legalized abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage and adoption, forbade homeschooling and religious expression, mock American evangelicals for fighting the culture war.
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Good for Uganda. May they continue to resist western colonialist efforts to force our dissolute and perverse sexual culture down their throats.
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I’m not sure yet where I fall on the young earth/old earth debate. But that Jesus produced fermented wine and baked bread and cooked fish in an instant tells me that with God things can look old and yet be very very new.
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The last thing you want is a church the "unchurched love to attend". You want a friendly welcoming church where the unrepentant feel uncomfortable because they're convicted of sins and so, by God's power working through his word, turn to the cross of Jesus Christ for forgiveness.
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No one needs to conjure up new words or songs or things to say. Words have been given to us, and acts, and ceremonies, and hymns that allow us to grieve and yet not as those who have no hope. 8/11.
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@TimothyDEasley Five years ago I committed to reading through the fathers. I’ve made it through to the Nicene fathers. It’s hard and slow going, mountains of material. It’s helped inoculate me to the claims of Roman Catholic and Orthodox friends who tell me what “Holy Tradition” says. What they.
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We're on vacation and in between trips, so we decided to attend the Baptist church down the street from where we live. The former, now retired, pastor there had always attended Good Shepherd during his vacation, so we decided to check it out. 1/9.
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The book of Hebrews is a sermon by Paul transcribed by Luke.
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This is deadly. Orthodoxy, with regard to the doctrine of Grace, is far worse than Rome.
So long as Galatians is in the Scripture, this false teacher is to be avoided.
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It is biblically and logically inconsistent to be both anti-abortion and anti-death penalty.
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This remains one of the best Babylon Bee headlines ever written.
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Drag Queen Story hour is grooming and sexual abuse 100% of the time.
Reminder for Evangelicals: Your child is 93% more likely to be groomed and sexually abused in church than at drag queen story hour.
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If you attend a church wherein the Gospel is faithfully preached and the sacraments are rightly administered, there's no need to travel to Asbury or anywhere else to know the saving presence and power of Christ. Just go to church, confess your sins, receive his forgiveness.
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When I was 17 I paid for a friend to abort her baby. It wasn't my child. She was afraid and ashamed and wanted to escape. I thought I was helping her. It was the worst thing I have ever done (and I've done lots of bad things). I wasn't a Christian at the time, but 1/4.
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Find someone who loves you as much as David French loves defending sexually perverse gender twisting public obscenities.
FIRE has sued a Texas university after its president banned a drag show (and declared his intention to ban the show "even when the law of the land appears to require it"). FIRE is right. This is "textbook viewpoint discrimination."
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Opened David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament to 1st Peter. The title reads “First Letter of Peter” with the subscript, “author unknown” followed by the first line, “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. ” Closed the book. No sense wasting time with nonsense.
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Alistair Begg's sermon on Luke 15 in response to the dispute over his trans wedding advice is heartbreaking. 1. There's no sense that he's listened fairly to the actual points his friends have made to him. 2. He caricatures his critics as Pharisees and fundamentalists. 1/2.
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Shepherd's for Sale is nothing like Jesus and John Wayne. JJW was written to condemn "white evangelicals" as racist misogynists bent on gaining power as evidenced by their vote for Trump. It was a poorly argued, ideologically shaped, propaganda pamphlet for Cultural Marxists 1/2.
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The Script “I met a wonderful person who is doing x. I used to think x is sinful. But meeting this wonderful person led me to “revisit” the biblical texts. I discovered they are far nuanced. I came to the conclusion that loving people who do x is more important than gatekeeping.”.
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A poll recently posted by Kevin M Young (not DeYoung) suggested majorities of evangelical Christians now support gay marriage. That's false. The percentage of evangelical Christians supporting gay marriage is 0%. Any 'Christian' who supports gay marriage ceases to be a Christian.
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God did this on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist who praised Jesus, a week from conception, while still in the womb of his mother Elizabeth.
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We missed the Eucharist and being with fellow Anglicans but what a great testimony to the Communion of the Saints and the invisible union of the Church in Christ. 9/9.
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Andy Stanley, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Pope are modeling hell’s most successful modern tactic for subverting the church and destroying souls: Affirm that orthodoxy is “true” but that applying orthodoxy is unkind, harmful, and traumatic. IOW truth is the enemy of love.
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This interview is fantastic and seems like the tip of the iceberg for Russell Moore et al. In just 25 mins Megan Basham links Moore’s funding to hard left, pro-trans pro abortion groups. When her book comes out with all the receipts, some very public careers should end publicly.
Ep. 96 How did a self-described conservative evangelical like Mike Johnson wind up supporting the anti-Christian policies of the Biden administration? He’s not the only one, as Megan Basham explains.
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Just got back from forcing my wife and three adult children to vote as I commanded them. It feels good to be a patriarch.
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I should add that even if you do everything right as a parent (and you won’t) your child can still end up taking the wrong path. This is a fallen world and the flesh is powerful. Trust Jesus confess your sins, receive his mercy, and pray for your kids every day.
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One addendum. Had there been just laws and consequences on the books when I was 17, it may have been that I would have been too afraid to break them and my friend would have had her baby and nobody would have had to die.
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The slogan "Preach the Gospel, if necessary use words" makes as much sense saying: "feed the hungry, if necessary use food" (David Ould).
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“…The unjustified taking of life is sinful. Therefore, all members and clergy are called to promote and respect the sanctity of every human life from conception to natural death” (ACNA Constitution and Canons II.3.7) . Dr. Ortland is a canon theologian in the ACNA.
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The Bible has no historical errors, contradictions, mistakes, or inaccuracies. It needs no addendum since Jesus promised to give his disciples "all the truth." Therefore, it is all-sufficient. Every moral system, philosophy, theory and/or ideology stands or falls by its measure.
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If you feel revulsion at the thought of two men kissing romantically or engaging in sex, that's good, your feelings are in harmony with God's created order. What he abominates, disgusts you. So, of course you're not going to spend any money watching that rediculous movie.
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About years ago, maybe more, I committed to reading through the fathers. I’ve made it through to the Nicene fathers. It’s hard and slow going, mountains of material. It’s helped inoculate me to the claims of Roman Catholic and Orthodox friends who tell me what “Holy Tradition”.
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When skeptics say there’s no evidence of a census involving Quirinius before 6AD, what they mean is: We're going to pretend that this 1st century, primary source document called Luke that describes a census involving Quirinius before 6AD isn’t evidence.
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the last 24 hours:. Me: hi friends, we’ve raised great kids applying these child-rearing principles used by the whole human race for the last 10 millennia until 15 minutes ago. Woke Twitter: child abuser!. Also Woke Twitter: mutilating children’s genitals is totally fine.
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Having a hard time deciding what to buy your wife this Christmas, think about it theologically. You are one flesh with her. What's hers is yours and what's yours is hers. So buying yourself a present *is* buying her a present. You're welcome.
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Since the Twitter world knows next to nothing about the Matt Chandler leave of absence beyond what has been reported, it's wise, I think, to pray for him, his family, the woman, the church, and her elders, and not assume the worst.
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I’ve presided over funerals in which families, trying to honor the wishes of their departed loved ones, have wanted to bring in balloons, play rock and roll, tell wild stories about the deceased’s youth…all in the effort to run from grief and mourning and solemnity 5/11.
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