Scott Moonen
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A husband, father, Christian and senior technical staff member for IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Clayton, NC
Joined March 2008
Introducing @IBMcloud for #VMware Solutions *Shared* = VMware #vCloudDirector with @iamrajeevsaxena, Dale Hoffman, and @robbins13a #VMWonIBM
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Opening #VMworld 2018 in Barcelona with a slew of important announcements from @IBMcloud’s @ArvindKrishna and @VMware’s @PGelsinger #VMWonIBM
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Köstenberger argues AD 33 is the date of the crucifixion. Jordan argues instead for AD 30 based on Herod’s death in AD 44 (Acts 12) and Paul’s fourteen years (Gal 2; Acts 11–12). It seems difficult to adjust Jordan; is there potential to adjust Köstenberger? 1/6.
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If you would anoint your babies and the mentally handicapped with oil (James 5)—and you certainly should—then you ought to baptize them as well. Be baptizing your babies in 2024 AD.
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In August 2016, IBM and @VMware announced VMware Solutions on @IBMcloud, including @vmwarevcf, which became generally available on October 14. Happy seventh birthday!
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“And you all say, ‘The times are troubled, the times are hard, the times are wretched.’ Live good lives, and you will change the times by living good lives; you will change the times, and then you’ll have nothing to grumble about.”—Augustine, Sermon on the Martyr Cyprian.
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Cross country season is over! Cary Fire went to #homeschool #XC nationals in Nashville where the high school boys took first. Ivy, Charlotte, and Asher all hit a PR, and Asher was seventeenth middle schooler (after finishing fourth at states)!
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Many people hold that Paul’s use of “examine” and “discern” in 1 Corinthians 11 shuts the door to any possibility of paedocommunion. I hold instead that it amounts to a command and warning to practice paedocommunion. 1/5.
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Preparing to discuss large–scale workload migrations to @IBMcloud using @VMwareHCX, with Goldy Aloysious and Serge Maskalik #VMworld 2018 #VMWonIBM
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Isn’t it so relieving to reckon with your sins at the beginning than at the end of the Lord’s service?.
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Do not keep your children from Jesus’s water and his table. This robs them of assurance and blessing that Jesus wants to give them; it is inadvertently telling them they are unclean, that their place is with the children of the wicked—outside. 6/7.
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@lot_lizard_heat Almanzo Wilder grew up not far from there. Farmer Boy is one of my favorite books.
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What a beautiful day it was for the @HandofHopePRC walk and 5k! Thanks to everyone who supported us. #runbabyrun #walkforlife
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But this is not “straightforward about the truth of the gospel” (Gal. 2). Jesus declares that “they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.” (Jer. 31) and commands us to “let the little children come to me” (Mt. 19, Mk. 10, Lk. 18) lest he be displeased. 7/7.
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I am committed to ecclesiocentrism and other “goofy” ideas about worship and covenant, but I also believe that some kind of symphonic theological harmonization–ordering must be possible here. General and special revelation are not actually in any kind of conflict with each other.
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“The tithe is not designed to destroy capital. It is designed to honor God as the owner of property. God acts as an owner who delegates property to efficient, obedient trustees. He operates as an owner who sets up a sharecropping operation. 1/2.
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The Holy Spirit works good fruit into us by a process of progressive loading. If you feel sore, tired, and close to your limit, it is probably working! A key part of this program is the weekly recovery meal/day that he schedules for you; be sure not to skip if you can help it.
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Two weeks to go to the @HandofHopePRC Walk for Life and 5K Run. Please consider joining us in support of this excellent ministry!
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At #VMworld @IBMcloud has lots of interesting content planned, including a session with @tonyhawk and Rodney Mullen on innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship moderated by our #VMWonIBM CTO @simonkh. Join me there!.
What do #IBMCloud and skateboard legends @tonyhawk and Rodney Mullen have in common? Find out at #VMworld this month:
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Kuyper's got it all: Christian individuals, Christian families, Christian businesses, Christian art and music, Christian localism, Christian nationalism, even Christian cosmos. So: baptize your babies, sing Psalms against tyrants, and raise a glass to the king of kings!
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This morning I listened to @ndwilsonmutters describing Chariots of Fire as a conversion story, a thought which had never occurred to me; and all day long I have been struck by the beauty of this.
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@AlexBerenson @CNN Alex, I appreciate your work and I'd love to see you do a Follow Friday. Who are some fellow reporters you appreciate and recommend following?.
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The sluggard says, “I must not do it in my own strength but in God’s.”.
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Sacraments are a double–edged sword. The children of the wicked may also experience paedobaptisms (consider the great flood, Israel’s conquest of the land, Psalm 137, and the overrun of Jerusalem in AD 70). 4/7.
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Bad design case study, courtesy @KiddeSafety: new alarm does not fit old base (left), differing in size by mere millimeters. New base (right) offers only one choice of screw distance, which does not match any standard junction box like old base did.
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I dug up some old Michael Card this morning and have been chuckling off and on over “the king whose kingdom is the heart,” wondering why it would be “worth a journey far” to meet him. @John_Barach has a more stirring idea here:.
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“Revelation is dangerous. It’s the spiritual equivalent of nuclear power. 1/7.
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Blueprints for Christendom: baptize your babies and worship like it’s gonna bring down some walls.
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“He does not ask for 1% of the seed corn He supplied. He asks for 10% of the net. The sharecropper keeps 90% of this increase. [We are] like a commissioned salesman who gets a 90% commission. [We have] a sweet deal.” (Gary North) 2/2.
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“For a long time, Christians were protected from this insane downward spiral and, when they finally dive in, you can recognize them by their naïve modernist faith. They’re always one lap behind. They always choose the ships that the rats are in the midst of abandoning. 6/7.
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My five top reads for 2023:.- Watership Down (Adams).- Beowulf (read Tolkien and Wilson; Wilson is my favorite).- The Kingdom and the Power (Leithart).- De Gaulle (Jackson).- The Anglosphere’s Broken Covenant (Wagner).
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A key theme of Proverbs highlighted by @SolomonsaysN is that being self–possessed is *not* the antithesis of being God–possessed or Spirit–led. Rather, you must be fully self–possessed *in order to* have a self that you can freely give to God and others.
The sluggard says, “I must not do it in my own strength but in God’s.”.
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The Red Sea crossing was a great paedobaptism (1 Cor. 10:2), but there are others, such as Israel’s crossing the Jabbok (Gen. 32) and Jordan (Josh. 3), and Ittai the Philistine and his little ones being baptized into David at the Kidron (2 Sam. 15). 1/7.
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The Moonen runners are running the @handofhopeprcs virtual walk for life a week from today. Please consider joining us in support of them! Participation and support have dropped off significantly this year, so the need is especially great:
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“Everything we enjoy as part of our advanced civilization, including the discovery, exploration, and development of our country, came about because previous generations made adventure more important than safety.” (Friedman, A Failure of Nerve, 83) 5/5.
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Secure hybridity and migration using @VMwareHCX on @IBMcloud, with @simonkh and Serge Maskalik at #think2018
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@owenbroadcast To a small degree this might be true of René Girard, although he seems to have been an agnostic rather than a strident atheist.
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Happy birthday to @IBMcloud for #VMware Solutions! Two years ago today @vmwcf and VMware vCenter Server on IBM Cloud became generally available. Sixteen releases later, we’ve come a long way. If you’re in Barcelona for #VMworld2018, stop by our booth and say hi! #VMWonIBM
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There are some great paedocommunions as well. The greatest and clearest are Israel’s camping at Sinai (Ex. 10:9) and God’s feeding them in the wilderness (1 Cor. 10:3). 2/7.
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Taken together, Jordan shows that the crucifixion could have been no later than AD 30, while this adjustment to Köstenberger’s argument shows that it could have been no earlier than AD 30. 6/6.
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But this is true of all Israel’s feasts (Ex. 12:26, Deut. 31:12) as well as the children of his priests (Num. 18—“everyone who is clean in your house”—with 1 Cor 7—“otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy”). 3/7.
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God is patient, but everyone will at some time experience his water and his wine, either at rest in Jesus, or in reeling and staggering and drowning. 5/7.
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At #VMworld2017, @ksolson20 preparing to talk about @IBMcloud's services and how they complement IBM Cloud for VMware
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@BonifaceOption @PastorPeter77 And @SolesJamie makes hay out of it, as usual. "You'd never read the book of Romans if the Lord hadn't shown us how to catch a wife."
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Awesome! HT: @HughHockett.
You're about to spend the next 25 minutes watching a guy solve a Sudoku. Not only that, but it's going to be the highlight of your day.
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@Wedgetweets We sing it at home thanks to @SolesJamie. We're maybe a year away from getting there in our regular Lord's day chanting at @ChristKirkNC: we sang 102 last week.
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“This is a decisive argument, which few people will take into consideration: those who defend abortion are trying to make our society go back to pre–Christian barbarism.” (Conversations with René Girard, 184) 3/3.
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“You don’t stop burning witches because you have invented science. No. It’s for religious reasons you stop burning witches.” (*Conversations with René Girard*, 22) 2/2.
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@BonifaceOption Squat/dead/curl/bench together with my 15yo son. Sometimes his older sisters join us. @AncapolitanMonk is solely responsible for getting me into this (for which many thanks!).
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If you ever thought something was good because it was Lindy, or bad because it was not, you may have been practicing natural law. If you ever thought you ought to be hospitable, honor all people, and the king ought to act as God’s avenger, you may have been practicing theonomy.
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@jordanbpeterson Jordan, your upcoming speaking event in my area requires masks and either proof of vaccination or a negative test result. I can't agree to any of these conditions. Can you?.
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#VMworld US is a wrap. Catch replays of the @IBMcloud and @IBMstorage booth theater sessions, including mine, here:
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@ADRoblesMedia I often tell my children they must sing like soldiers, and we frequently fondly recall the singing of the men of Rohan.
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The Moonen family is excited to be participating once again in @HandofHopePRC's walk for life and 5K fundraiser! Would you join us in supporting them?
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Thus, if we allow for this possibility, Tiberius’s fifteenth year begins as early as the winter of AD 28 rather than August. That makes it possible for the first passover to be in AD 28, and this is consistent with Jordan’s chronology. 4/6.
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