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12 Jun, 8 tweets, 2 min read
1/ A thread....

So this guy pretended to be me and emailed our church email which forwards to me.

So I rolled with it and pretended to be our church secretary and had some fun.

Gmail is the fake me and the Info email is our "church secretary." Here we go... Image
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11 Jun
1/ A thread on sex, marriage, and children...

Our society, in general, is rejecting the biblical teaching that marriage, sex, and children are inseparable and interrelated components of a household.

So much so that if one is missing there are real and lasting consequences...
2/ For example, a marriage that is sexless is an exceedingly difficult marriage. Sex is one of the chief benefits of marriage. It helps alleviate sexual temptation and is source of comfort in a fallen world. That is the teaching of Scripture and the Westminster Standards.
3/ Sex that is marriage-less is destructive. It leads to children growing up in homes with a single parent and is a major cause for abortions.

Moreover, there are the improper emotional bonds that it creates between two people with no covenantal commitment made to each other.
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23 May
A Christian Theory of Attraction thread...

My thesis is simple: both sexes are attracted to the sex-specific attributes that are central to fulfilling the creation mandate (Gen. 1:27-28).
1. The creation mandate has two interrelated commands 1) be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth & 2) subdue and rule the earth. In other words, God commanded mankind as a whole to reproduce image-bearers (children) that will subdue the earth for God’s glory (culture).

So…
a. Mankind is designed to have fruitful sex.

b. The fruit of that sex (children) is essential to creating God glorifying culture.

c. Therefore, the fulfilling of the command requires the sexes to cooperate biologically.
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19 May
Thread...

When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.
The reason for this is not due to some defect in women; on the contrary, it is exactly because God designed them to be the knitters-together of a society. Comity & harmony are women's forte & their ability to influence others toward such togetherness is both good & glorious...
...in its proper context. If you think of polite society at its best, of the way that it tempers the hard edges of men & establishes a structured space in which everyone can be included & feel confident of a place through observing the proper decorum, this is largely driven by...
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Michael Foster Profile picture
17 May
1/ Names are powerful...

So we named our children with a pattern and a purpose.

Boys after Christian men in church history that influenced me, girls after important places in history of the church.

Here’s their names and why...
2/ Hudson Taylor is named for the missionary to China James Hudson Taylor.

I tell Huds to be a leader of men and lead them to take risks in spreading the gospel.
3 Athanasius Clive is named for Athanasius of Alexandria and C.S. Lewis.

I tell Athan to stand for the truth and against the lies with wisdom and unrelenting strength.
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14 May
1 “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” - 1 Sam 16:7

So this means looks don't matter, right? Wrong. Let me explain…
2 This verse is saying what we all know: looks really matter to people.

Someone might say: Sure, looks matter to people but not to God. Really?

So then is finding certain attributes attractive a product of the fall?

Maybe some of them, I suppose. But all? No...
3 God is the designer of our desires & we naturally find His design desirable.

We care about appearance because God made us to care. Our bodies are wonderfully made (Ps 139:14). The fall has marred our design but not obliterated it.
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5 May
Well, Carl got Aimee wrong. What’s one more?
Some Baxter quotes from The Reformed Pastor:

“It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.”
“You are likely to see no general reformation til you procure family reformation. Some little obscure religion there may be in here & there one; but while it sticks in single persons, & isn't promoted by these societies, it doth not prosper, nor promise much for future increase.”
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