No Christian’s ministry is so vital that they have transcended the need and the command to be vitally connected to a local church.

If you are not so connected, all is not well with you—no matter how successful you think your ministry is.

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“Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.”

-Hebrews 10:24-25

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Being a member of a local church is not a cure-all. People sin in grievous ways even in the best of churches.

Nevertheless, real and vital connection to a local church should be a threshold requirement of any Christian’s ministry.

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If that piece isn’t there, move on. Such teachers are not worth your time, your resources, or your attention.

Plant deep roots in a faithful, local church. Only support others who are doing the same.

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4 Feb
CRT really is a universal acid, burning through and destroying so many precious things.

@NYTmag reports on the effort—already well underway—to condemn and destroy classics as a discipline.

Utter madness.

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“To see classics the way Padilla sees it means breaking the mirror; it means condemning the classical legacy as one of the most harmful stories we’ve told ourselves.”

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“Classics and whiteness are the bones and sinew of the same body; they grew strong together, and they may have to die together.”

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11 Sep 20
Ruminating on 9-11 and differences between THEN and NOW in our national life. They are stark.

THEN: The nation was unified by national tragedy.

NOW: The nation is divided over pandemic, protests/riots, and an election.

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THEN: The nation was immeasurably grateful for and valorizing first responders, including policeman.

NOW: The nation is divided with many expressing open hostility toward policemen and wishing to disband police forces.

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THEN: The nation reveled in patriotism and love of country.

NOW: The nation is divided with many anathematizing the nation.

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29 Aug 20
Just reading a biblical scholar arguing that God's command for Israel to destroy the Canaanites cannot be excused or justified. In other words, God was WRONG in Deut. 20:16, and the Israelites were WRONG to obey Him.

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I'm not going to explain the ethics of the conquest of the Holy Land in a twitter thread. Rest assured, however, that Christianity does account for it. Even though our understanding is often very difficult for modern readers, it is coherent. E.g., ca.thegospelcoalition.org/columns/ad-fon…

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One thing I will point out, however. Christian theology takes it as axiomatic that God is good. He never does anything wrong. If your explanation of the conquest of Canaan begins with "we cannot excuse or justify" what God has done, you are no longer doing CHRISTIAN theology.

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13 Aug 20
“For most of human history, after all, families across the Western world were defined in largely biblical terms: one man, one woman, with children conceived through sex and sanctified by marriage. Everyone else was just a bastard.”

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“I.V.G. could allow individuals like our fictional Anna and Nicole to manufacture their own eggs and sperm... enabling more than two people to create a child together. And in the process, our basic notion of families is liable to get upended as well.”

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“If the techniques of I.V.G. prove feasible, therefore... A single woman, for example, might mix her egg with sperm fashioned from the genetic material of her two best male friends; the resulting child would have three genetic parents.”

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3 Aug 20
"Debates about nationalism versus assimilation figure prominently in current discourse about race. One strand of critical race theory energetically backs the nationalist view..."

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"Derrick Bell, for example, urged his fellow African Americans to foreswear the struggle for school integration and aim for building the best possible black schools..."

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"Nationalists honor ethnic studies and history as vital disciplines and look with skepticism on members of their groups who date, marry, or form close friendships with whites or seek employment in white-dominated workplaces or industries."

pp. 67-69

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1 Aug 20
My top 5 list of quintessential 80's songs.

#5 - "Jump" by Van Halen

This is the only "hair band" song on the list, but there is no "hair band" song more 80's than this one. Proof? Its prominence in the "Ready Player One" movie trailer.

#4 - "True" by Spandau Ballet

You get 100 points if you can tell me what classic 80's movie this track was a part of. Two-hundred points if you can name the scene. Three-Hundred if you can name the Disney movie a cover version appeared in. No Googling.

#3 - "Time after Time" by Cyndi Lauper



This song still holds up, and that's why so many bands have covered it over the years. My favorite cover version is probably the one by QuietDrive: .
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