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Associate Pastor @ProvidenceKirk Teacher @veritaspress Married to @Mary_Beth_1 … Ecclesiocentric Postmillennial Presbyterian

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On this episode of the Kuyperian Commentary Podcast, @HesslerKyle talks about the theology of work and about the upcoming @Worksbased Conference in Fort Worth, TX. Check it out!

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Episode 132: Theology of Work

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Christian Nationalism is bad because of the Spanish Inquistion which killed *checks notes* about 5,000 people over the course of 354 years. A neutral secular state is good, even though the secular Reign of Terror in France killed *checks notes* 40,000 people in under 11 months.

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"I just don't understand why we can't get more men interested in church." My brother in Christ, worship at your church is 20 minutes of swaying with your eyes closed and singing, "Hold me tight, Jesus, and give me smooches."

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Matthew wrote Matthew. Mark wrote Mark. Luke wrote Luke. John wrote John.

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Fun fact: Not only did Josiah destroy pagan temples, but an archaeological find from Lachish dated to the time of Josiah shows that he sometimes turned pagan altars into public toilets to further humiliate the false gods.

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King Josiah has the temple of Baal destroyed.

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Is the Trinity in the Bible? Yes There is only one God (Deut 6:4) The Father is God (1 Jn 3:1) The Son is God (Heb 1:8) The Holy Spirit is God (Acts 5:3-4) The Father is not the Son (1 Jn 4:14) The Son is not the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:7) The Holy Spirit is not the Father (Jn 14:16)

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Hey folks, I have an idea that I think would fix lots of problems in our culture today. It's pretty complicated, though.

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"I'm afraid that if Christian Nationalists got their way, then people wouldn't be allowed to worship literal demons in public" is the weirdest take I've seen this week.

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Okay, I'll bite. What are the thousands and thousands of Bible verses that command nations to have open borders and unlimited immigration?

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This is just getting silly.

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If someone insists on saying Yeshua instead of Jesus, better buckle up. Because you're about to hear some really insane theological takes.

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If your parents taught you that sex is only permissible for a married man and woman, and that made you question God's goodness and struggle with your faith, the problem isn't "purity culture". The problem is your own wretched, sinful heart.

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We know Jesus used wine at the Last Supper because...Passover. We know the early church used wine. Paul had to tell the Corinthians to stop getting drunk at the Lord's Table. Instead of "what verse demands we use wine?", we should ask, "What argument exists for using Welch's?"

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I think every baptized Christian should be able to eat at the Lord's Table with every other baptized Christian.

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Prior to 1962, sodomy was a felony in every state. "Conservatives" like Ted Cruz don't want to conserve anything except the progressive victories of yesterday.

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This Uganda law is horrific & wrong. Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” is grotesque & an abomination. ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse. #LGBTQ

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The difference between Dune and Lord of the Rings in one quote.

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The Great Tribulation sounds terrible! I'm glad I wasn't there for it!

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For those who have trouble making distinctions: The first is what Christian Nationalists, theonomists, etc. are accused of wanting. The second is what they really want.

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Every English speaker should be able to read and understand Shakespeare, Donne, Spenser, and the King James Bible without any difficulty.

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When I say I'm a Christian, I don't mean that -Christianity makes the world better -Christianity gives me inner peace -Christianity makes me happy It may do those things, but that's beside the point When I say I'm a Christian, I mean that the teachings of Christianity are true

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Nikki Haley is literally the meme.

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In her acceptance of her third place finish, Nikki Haley says that Iowa made this a two-person race.

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He's right. Go read this book and get AD 70-pilled.

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The Great Tribulation already happened.

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@Brcremer God does own truth and morality. God does own our nation and its culture. God does own marriage, family, and human sexuality. Any deep conviction that contradicts God is a wrong conviction. Period. Christians have no reason to honor falsehood or pretend God hasn't spoken.

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I think about Rome every day. And I think about how Carthage was economically and technologially farther advanced than Rome. But Carthage sacrificed babies. And that's why Carthage deserved absolutely everything it got. People enslaved. City destroyed. Land salted. 1/2

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In the ancient near east, a horse was a battle animal. A ruling king rode a donkey. This is why, when David proclaimed Solomon king, he put him on a donkey and rode him through Jerusalem (1 Kings 1). 1/2

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Perhaps the greatest apologetic against Christian nationalism is in what we celebrate on Palm Sunday. Instead of riding in on a majestic horse, Jesus rode in on a donkey declaring that His Kingdom is not of this world. He could’ve easily taken Jerusalem and overthrown the Roman…

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I want sodomy laws back. While we're at it, let's end no-fault divorce and implement civil penalties for adultery and fornication.

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"Every time people have tried to make Christian nations, it has led to disaster" My brother in Christ, I implore you to pick up a history book about the time period between the 4th and the 17th centuries.

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Every time a New Testament text interprets an Old Testament text, it does so correctly.

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Ackshually...

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@JenkinLuke Sure, I get it, but the problem is, we aren’t Apostles. We cannot read the OT and point to Christ at will. We must only do so when we have clear proof that the text is pointing to or ultimately fulfilled in Christ lest we are guilty of gross allegory.

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"Protestant churches are ugly." A few of the Protestant churches here in Lynchburg:

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Why, yes, I believe in old earth creation. 6,000 years is pretty old.

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@benzornes You're not gonna belive this, but... It was Peter.

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By all means, do the Santa Claus thing with your kids. Play it to the hilt. After all, who doesn't want to be responsible for their child's first experience of crushing existential doubt as they realize they can't trust what their parents tell them about the supernatural?

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In case anyone is still wondering what to do on Christmas morning...

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"It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies...The fact that the gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time - this is what convinces me." -Christopher Columbus

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Also, it's much more reasonable to believe that the people living a generation after these books were written knew who wrote them than that they were all wrong and some German theologians counting vocabulary words 1,800 years later figured it out.

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Properly speaking, there is only one Abrahamic religion: Christianity.

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Ah, the joys of a secular, non-religious state. So glad we don't have "wars of religion" or witch trials anymore! (image from "Lethal Politics" by R.J. Rummel)

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@AtheistRepublic Since it is inconceivable that all bills in circulation can be genuine, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all counterfeit.

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If you think "in six days God made Heaven, Earth, and Sea, and everything in them" means "God began a series of events that led to the formation of the earth after 9.5 billion years," then I don't want to hear you make fun of Baptists who say the wine in the Bible is grape juice.

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@DLgodlessbitch "Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars." Rodney Stark

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Proof of atolkienism: If Tolkien wrote LOTR he could have written it so that nothing bad happens If Tolkien were good he would want to write a story where nothing bad happens Bad things happen in LOTR Therefore if Tolkien did exist, he was either not the author or he was evil

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@irwin_josiah Does loving my neighbors mean letting them break into my house? Should I have an open door policy with no lock on the front door?

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"But if we do communion weekly, it will stop feeling special!" Good. Eating communion together as a church should feel as normal as having dinner together as a family. Special things are going on, but the action is shockingly commonplace. Plain bread and wine with God's family.

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helpful Venn diagram

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We were talking about the authorship of Hebrews in class the other day, so I decided to do my own research. Turns out it was Paul.

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Good work today, folks.

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Yesterday I woke up, got dressed, and ate breakfast. Now in the time I was getting dressed, I went to the bathroom sink, put toothpaste on my toothbrush, and brushed by teeth. *Liberal Bible scholars > Aha! He told two different contradictory stories about his morning routine!*

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genesis has two creation stories!

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Could you all please stop saying DW? I can't tell if you're talking about Doug Wilson or Daily Wire.

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I wonder how many people are reticient about wine in communion because they've bought into the psychologized, unbiblical idea there there is a disease called alcoholism instead of a sin called drunkenness.

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@JoshBishop Can we stop using the word "alcoholic"? Drunkenness is a sin to be repented of, not an incurable lifelong disease.

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Dear heresy hunters on X, It's not too late to make 2024 the year you stop using "justification" and "salvation" synonymously and accusing people of teaching justification by works because they rightly teach sanctification as part of salvation. Sincerely, Reformed Theology

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HE IS RISEN!

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"But what will our church sing if we don't use Hillsong???" Some suggestions:

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@UnitarianChrist St. Nicholas is ready with his "Naughty or Nicene" list.

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Someone should tell Abraham, and Judah, and Joseph, and Moses, and Salmon, and Boaz, and Uriah...

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Since this seems to be the topic of the day... Dads, you should have a list of qualifications in your head for young men who want to court your daughter. And the list should be *much* longer than: 1) He's a Christian.

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Halloween was not originally a pagan holiday. Christmas was not originally a pagan holiday. Easter was not originally a pagan holiday. All the things you were taught to that effect is a bunch of nonsense from late 19th century pagan anthropologists like James Frazer.

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PSA for my Baptist friends: I know many of you already do this, but for those who don't, please trace your history to the English Baptists. The Anabaptists at the time of the Reformation are not your ecclesiastical forbears, and also they were mostly insane.

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"We don't want abortion to be illegal. We want it to be unthinkable!" Hey, you know a really easy way to make something unthinkable? Make it a capital crime.

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Matthew wrote the book of Matthew. Mark wrote the book of Mark. Luke wrote the book of Luke. John wrote the book of John.

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Praise the ESV and no one jumps to the conclusion that you're an ESV Only-ist. Same with the NASB. But say you like the KJV best and everyone assumes you're a KJVO weirdo.

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I don't care how old or large your denomination is, how beautiful its churches, how rich its liturgy, or how many great theologians it can boast. If you can't police your own ranks and ensure you don't have liberal pastors promoting feminism and perversion, I'm not interested.

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It's why Ziba brought a gift of donkeys for the king's household. (2 Samuel 16:2) David's sons rode on them (2 Samuel 13), and Abaslom was riding one at his death (2 Samuel 18:9). Jesus riding a donkey was a clear declaration that he was the king prophesied by Zechariah. 2/2

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Just a reminder that traditionally Christmas is a 12 day feast, beginning on December 25 and lasting through 12th Night (January 5). You should still be listening to Christmas music, eating cookies, and celebrating. And leave your decorations up!

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Postmillennialism doesn't have much scriptural support except for the Lord's Prayer, Great Commission, Jesus' kingdom parables, the entire book of Hebrews, every time Psalm 110 is quoted in the NT, the whole trajectory of the Covenant of Grace throughout the Bible, and Revelation

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About the history of Halloween: Yes. We've all seen that Chick Tract about the evil pagan origins of Halloween. And, no, none of it is true. Here are some fun facts about the real history of Halloween as we know it today. 1/

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And I think about how economically and technologically advanced America is today. And how much of our economy is built on easy access to child sacrifice. And how, if we don't put an end to it, we deserve every judgment as a nation that we could possibly get. 2/2

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@ZachWLambert The reality

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Traditional denominational lines aren't the real dividing lines in the Church today. Presbyterians, Baptists, Anglicans, Lutherans, etc. who have rejected the poison spirit of the age must stand shoulder to shoulder against those who would make the Church like the world.

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"Do you want to regulate what two consenting adults choose to do?" Yes. If two adults consent to do something wicked, it is still wicked. "Consent" isn't a magic ethical disinfectant.

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The ladies who run @ExamingMoscow are doing their best to do the Lord's work, but it's obvious they are hampered in their efforts by a lack of good, quality information. This is clearly because they have never been close to the inner ring. 1/

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Since this did the rounds yesterday, I thought I'd take the opportunity to add a few notes about authorship. Matthew wrote Matthew. Mark wrote Mark. Luke wrote Luke. John wrote John. ...and for a bonus... Paul wrote every book from Romans through Titus (and also Hebrews).

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New Christian Nationalism logo just dropped. Hope it doesn't cause any controversy.

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Happy Mickey Mouse Public Domain Day!

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I'm feeling very opinionated. Who wants an opinion? 1 like = 1 opinion about a random subject

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Some Christians lament that the church today doesn't look just like the church in the New Testament. This is a large part of the house church movement among other things. This is like lamenting that your grown children don't look and act like they did when they were 3 years old.

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@YossiNetanyahu @TheRhetorRick The bible is NOT an historical text.

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@redeemed_zoomer Also treating "Protestant" as a monolithic, unified group. I've read Romans Catholic apologists quoting guys like R. C. Sproul and Joel Osteen in the same paper as if the two shared any sort of group identity whatsoever.

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@JakeNomada Hmmm.....

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@reaganbush84fan Hotter take: the gov't should have nothing to do with education, either at the primary or secondary level. No gov't run schools (elementary, middle, high, or college), no gov't students loans, and no gov't rules requiring or regulating education.

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"Christians shouldn't celebrate Christmas because God didn't command it." "Wait, don't you celebrate the 4th of July and Thanksgiving?" "Those are civic holidays." "Okay, what if the civil government declared a civic holiday on Dec. 25 to celebrate the birth of Jesus?" "No."

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@Skylar_Byrne Hmmm... It's almost like you stopped the quote there for a reason...

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“Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” - Jenna Ellis probably

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If you can’t find a better way to declare the lordship of Christ than to use a controversial phrase just because you want to prove you can, perhaps you should reevaluate your motives and priorities in invoking this phrase in the first place.

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A quick, back-of-napkin primer on the federal vision controversy.

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@plittleton Nazis weren't animated by the church. The Nazi party sought to subvert the church for its own ends. It promoted a Marcionism/social gospel that went well with the liberal leanings of the German church. As Machen pointed out though, theological liberalism is not Christianity.

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James B. Jordan on the identity of the true Israel.

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Now compare that to Matthew Henry's description of Samson: "...a great patriot of his country, and a terrible scourge and check to its enemies and oppressors. He was an eminent believer and a glorious type of Him who with His own arm wrought salvation.” 2/3

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This is a completely reasonable take by Doug. I, along with all Presbyterians (not just those *scary FV Moscow folks*), believe that God positively commands Christian parents to baptize their children. Why would I want my daughter to marry a man who won't let her obey God?

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