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America, more than any other nation in world history, was shaped by the Christian tradition of spreading the gospel unto all nations.
Join us in celebrating International Religious Freedom Day.
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An Invitation to Roman Catholics
forchristskingdom.com/2025/1…
This Reformation Day would be a great time for Roman Catholics to consider swimming the Tiber to the green pastures of historic Protestantism.
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Human vs AI is often a false dichotomy.
The best use of AI has careful human control.
The best human workers use AI judiciously.
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Studying covenant theology and keeping in mind to check my covenant epistemology so I can have a sound covenant ontology in which my covenantal exegesis can operate smoothly so that I can make covenantal application in my covenant renewal service to the Triune covenantal God.
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Well, it looks like my Schmitt article is out in rotation again almost three years later. Carl is the gift that keeps on giving. I suppose that it might be time to set the record straight. Read below.
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“Wherever there is Animal Worship there is Human Sacrifice.” - G.K. Chesterton.
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under the Antichrist the church declined from the purity of doctrine to idolatry and image service
when seeing the judgments of God over the church through the Turks, for her idolatry, they should have renounced their idolatry and repented
—a Brakel, 17th cent. Dutch Reformed theologian
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I’m delighted to begin PhD research at @UnionTCollege on Presbyterian political theology
thanks to @GJShearer and @martyncowan!
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Please join us in prayer for these new students as they begin their classes.
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Or how about … liberty (in a republican sense) is a means ordered to the common good as an end, license being the vicious misuse of liberty for merely private advantage? Liberty without a telos/reason is liberty that has lost its way.
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William Ames the political particularist:
“Political society as well as domestic has been sanctified by God, but, whereas a certain form has been prescribed for domestic (and ecclesiastical) society, it is not so for the political. The latter is left to men's liberty so that, acting as a unit with power, they may ordain the society which best makes for the establishment of religion and justice among themselves.”
-William Ames, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦, bk. 2, ch. 17.7
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it was my great privilege to fill the pulpit today for my friend @RobPacienza at @coralridgepc
what an incredible church!
service here: youtube.com/live/QDut2seUnwI…
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Birthright Citizenship was written for freed slaves, NOT the anchor babies of illegals.
Pass it on.
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“The Gospel of Christ does not abolish the political orders,” says that pious soul, Philipp Melanchthon. We, in a similar manner say: Theology does not abolish philosophy and jurisprudence, but elevates both and directs them to the service of Christ.
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William Gouge + @ZacharyGarris = 🔥
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We are nearly ready with this.
(Need to add the translator's name, etc.)
Lord-willing we will release it soon.
We have been steadily adding ebooks and trying to fulfil promises made.
Alsted is in the final stages too.
More announcements soon, DV.
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"Philosophy must submit to theology just as Hagar to Sarah. She must submit to teaching and correction. But if she does not obey, expel the immoral woman."
Clement of Alexandria
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If the civil magistrate cannot make theological determinations, and if theology limits politics, then the magistrate cannot determine his own limitations.
VanDrunen’s view is incoherent here, and other places.
There's no indication in the New Testament that civil magistrates are qualified to be making judgments about doctrine.
“There aren't any of the people on the other side who really think that they want Donald Trump or Joe Biden being the arbiter of ecclesiastical orthodoxy.”
“But there is a problem with saying, ‘This is the ideal political structure for when we get our guy.’ That's totally unprincipled. We don't think about the church that way. We don’t say, ‘Here are the things that the pastor should do when we get the pastor that we really want.’”
“So you have to ask the principal question: What are the qualifications for the civil magistrate and what are their responsibilities?”
“Where in the New Testament — where anywhere in scripture, not talking about the Mosaic Law and talking about the covenantal Israelite king — where is there anywhere talking about a gentile nation in which the requirements for the magistrate are put in these theological terms or that the magistrate has the qualifications for making those determinations?”
“Think about how careful the New Testament is in 1 Timothy 3. These are the qualifications for those called to office. And you know how hard it is for us, for those of us ordained to office to do that work well. There's no indication that civil magistrates have those sorts of qualifications to be making those kinds of judgments.”
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