Here's a new account you may want to follow:
@attirespeaks (some of her pics below).

And she offers a new word:
Fylovultany (fy-lo-vult-a-ny) (noun): the quality or state of being either specifically feminine or masculine: the separation of feminine and masculine characteristics: the antonym of androgeny.

I like that word, but I've got to say, I can't find any record of it anywhere. Maybe it's a new word. We need a word like that! Clothes speak louder than words.

Macro Thesis for Fall of the West:

Can you think of a Christian educational institution that is more than 100 years old and still faithful to the Scriptures?

We are not losing at Bible study. We are losing at academics. It's what killed the Puritans and every major US denom. Van Til College

Van Til College is part of the discipleship and education program of several families in Boone, North Carolina. We are business owners who are opting out of the college path for our children.

"Van Til College" refers specifically to the spiritual and intellectual training we instill in our children, especially during the 15+ years age.

Preach the Law of God in the Public Square.

My family and I along with some friends have done sign ministry in our town. Holding signs like "Obey the Ten Commandments" at the main intersection has caused some consternation in our local Christian community. How could I hold forth the law without first building relationship or without also, in the same breath, mentioning God's grace? Or without warning against works as a wrong path to salvation?

🧵 There is no "common mode" of Christ's kingdom. Hicks assumes this and builds on it but his foundation is faulty. The civil office is not common but holy. It is a kingdom office which bears authority delegated from Christ, the King of kings.

https://twitter.com/TomHicks2LCF/status/1772995385805472029

The civil officer is a minister of God (gr. "diakonos") and an "agent of God's wrath" to "punish evil doers" (Ro 13:4). The office is an instrument of the rule of His kingdom (Ps 103:19). And the officer who does not fear and obey the King is a rebel against His kingdom.

The Bible is one word from God. When we are offended by it--perhaps God ordering the slaughter of every man, woman, child and animal in Canaan--we must repent and be shaped by His word rather than the other way around. We can't have God and Jesus on our terms, only on His terms. And there is a valuable lesson with Canaan. God gives life and God justly takes it away according to His purpose. Those who presume to put God in the dock did not create themselves or give life to themselves. Yet they presume to judge their Creator.

🧵“Why does God allow the wicked to prosper?”

The missing explanatory piece is that all of history is orchestrated for God’s discipleship of His people to maturity. As His covenants unfold, He is building Christ’s body thru trials and teaching and growth (Eph 4:11-16). The body of Christ as God’s inheritance (Eph 1:18) is the center point of history. All else turns on God’s plan for His people to grow to maturity and vindicate and prove true all the claims set forth by His prophets: Psalm 2, Psalm 72, Isaiah 2, etc.

🧵Centrality of God’s Law

God tells us the course of history in the New Covenant. His “torah” will become a light for the nations.

“The law will go out from me; my justice will become a light for the nations…my salvation is on the way...” (Isaiah 51:4) In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus talks about His people as salt and light then immediately teaches that the law is not abolished. Instruction in His law preserves man’s life and culture like salt from greater evil, shows each man his need, and lights the path to Christ.

🧵There is a false ethic that elevates the New Testament above the Old as God’s “more relevant” word for us. This ethic produces a shrunken, weakened, less fruitful gospel than the one promised in the Old Testament. The OT lays the groundwork for understanding the fullness of the New. It makes total claims on all men and shows the nations streaming to the city of God. Many reformers and puritans were headed covenantally down this road as detailed in Iain Murray’s “The Puritan Hope”.

Jesus spent a lot of time casting out demons and healing the sick. Paul said the prayer of the elders will make the sick well. And Jesus said if we have faith in Him we will do the same works He did and greater works than Jesus did because He was going to the Father. I don’t see how the great commission delivered to the disciples is a ministry for all time but the ministry promises Jesus made to His disciples for doing that ministry are not. I think we’ve inherited a tradition of secular rationalism that militates against the idea of miracles

🧵 It's a mistake to view reason as a power for good in fallen man. Instead, it is a faculty to be used for good or ill depending on the heart of the actor. With faith in God, reason is a powerful tool for God's kingdom. In rebellion against God, it is a powerful tool of Satan. It's one thing to say man uses his faculty of reason to understand God's law. It is another to say w/ Aquinas that fallen man has an "inclination to virtue" (ST I-II, Q85, A1) based on reason and that his will has a "natural appetite for good in accordance with reason" (Q63, A1).

A chief feature of western intellectual history since 1300 is the rise of apostate/secular man. His goal has been liberate himself from God by proving that he can ground knowledge and meaning in himself. He failed, ending chiefly with Hume in the late 1700's. The issue is the subject / object relationship. Can the knower (unbelieving man, the subject) validate with certainty his knowledge about the object of his knowledge.

🧵Western colonialism was a natural outgrowth of the cultural fertility of Christendom. It was a blessing of God to all nations (Gen 12:3). It was the expansion of the rule of Christian government and culture. Who writes about it this way today? Why should a godly nation not rule and disciple an ungodly nation? If God's promise to bring justice to the public square (Is 42:1-4, Is 2) is part of the good news of the gospel, why would godly nation rulership be amiss?

Some say Cornelius Van Til opposes the use of reason and the senses in Christian apologetics. This is simply not true. Consider the following quote from Van Til: "If God is absolute, man must always remain accessible to Him. Man's ethical alienation plays on the background of his metaphysical dependence. God may therefore use our reasoning or our preaching as a way to present Himself to those who have assumed His non-existence."
- Van Til

🧵"God is the Savior of ALL men, especially those who believe." (1 Tim 4:10).

What is Paul talking about? Doesn't the gospel deal with personal salvation? How can God be Savior of unbelievers?

This verse defies our traditions and challenges our understanding of the gospel. The answers are in the Psalms and Prophets which lay out the "good news" of an Almighty King who redeems His people AND brings justice to the nations (Is 42:1-4). He delivers from injustice not just the Christian but all men because every nation is within the scope of His gospel.

🧵Covenant theology determines the church's identity which drives its mission and purpose. This theology is expounded in the New Testament, but its core foundation and structure is laid out in the OT. Consider the identity of God's covenant people.

When God says in Jeremiah 31:31 that He will make a new covenant with "Israel" he is declaring in essence a "new" Israel. She is made of the faithful remnant of the old (Jer. 31:37, Ro. 11:1-5).

Covenant defines the Israel of God.

🧵The heart of presuppositionalism:

“Can the unbeliever logically account for ethics apart from the existence of a God who is exactly like God of the bible? Is any other type of god or creation scenario a sufficient logical ground of authority for ethics?” Why is Nelson Mandela better than Hitler? If one believes Big Bang, we are all just random molecules.

Unbelieving thought is massively inconsistent. This is one simple example. Christian intellectuals should call out this inconsistency in every field of thought.

Israel's redemption and God's vengeance on His enemies always go together. In Song of Moses:

"Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;
he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people"
Deut 32:43 This is confusing language to most modern Christians. They don't realize that vengeance and pay back is a big part of Jesus' mission in the earth. Consider Isaiah's recounting of the coming King and His kingdom in Isaiah 59:

🧵 Here is a covenant theology test: “What are God’s promises to Israel in the New Covenant?”

If your mind goes directly to Romans 11:25-32, that is a sign your views don’t account for the fact that God made the New Covenant with Israel including its promises. Jer 31 is clear that the New Covenant was made with Israel and Judah alone. Thus, all our reckoning of the New Cov must begin there and remain within that boundary. If we imagine a people called “church” that is not “Israel” we’ve abandoned the first premise of the New Cov.

Short 🧵— Amillennialism abandons God’s promises of blessing and cursing as “Old Covenant” in favor of a suffering church.

But it cannot abandon God’s abiding promise to Abraham: “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you” (Gen. 12:2-3). Deuteronomy 28, for example, rather than being new promises to Old Covenant Israel, is the clear outworking of God’s covenant promises to Abraham in Gen.12.

Thus, in Deut. 30, God promises that in the New Covenant, He will bring the curses of Deut. 28/29 on Israel’s enemies:

Unbelievers can't account for order, conscience, ethics, meaning or knowledge. They live each day based on the assumptions of the Christian worldview because the world makes no sense any other way.

The intellectual case for unbelief is a paper tiger.

https://twitter.com/befaithful10/status/1615221852426616834

It may be only a cloud the size of a man's fist, but Van Tillian renewal of Christian academics is on the horizon and coming our way. Reformed and always reforming.

🧵 Jesus said 2x the entire law is not abolished. Those who say the law is "fulfilled" (Mt. 5:17), read on: "Anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven." (Mt. 5:19)

A stern warning indeed. As Christians, Mt. 5:19 should be clear affirmation that the law is not abolished but that we are responsible to not set aside, but instead teach, even the "least of these commands".