Rebecca Ortiz

[Presbycast @presbycast]

The new "bro flair" phenomenon (Lapel Pin Nationalism) represents a sort of self-expression and signaling more appropriate to insecure teenagers dividing into cliques than to serious churchmen seeking to welcome and care for all kinds sheep.

[•R•S• @Ay_Blinkin]

What is your favorite painting by an American artist?

[Rebecca Ortiz @Becca_Parrott]

@SummrWrites @Noash22 Hahah I love that for you

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@SummrWrites @Noash22 Will this be your new house purse?!

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

So freaking epic

Inject this into my veins

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[Joseph Spurgeon @Joseph_Spurgeon]

“Where no oxen are, the manger is clean, But much revenue comes by the strength of the ox.”
Proverbs 14:4

This passage is often used to justify having a dirty house because you have kids. But it’s not the point of the passage to say that the manger isn’t supposed to be clean. Rather the point is that profitable things require hard word and carry with them much risk. If you have oxen it requires work to keep the manger clean while without the oxen there is no work. But the oxen are worth the work.

Good things require work and they require risk. Love, the greatest of good things, often involves risk and work. For example, when you get married you open yourself up to the risk of being hurt. You can be the victim of spousal abuse, infidelity, and divorce. To love your spouse is to be vulnerable in some way to their sins.

I’m not suggesting you remain under abuse but rather when you get married there is an unknown future. Make a wise choice but there is still risk.

To have children is to risk hurt. You risk the possibility that your wife may die in childbirth, that one of your children may have birth defects, one may die early, or one may grow old and rebel against Christ. The more you have the greater the risk.

To love is to be vulnerable to pain. You could go the way of the feminist and refuse to have children. You can go the way of the MGTOW and not get married. Sure the manger will be clean. Sure you won’t be hurt but you lose the unsurpassable profit of true love for another. Furthermore your selfishness will also cost you just as much pain.

But if you don’t risk, you will never know the joy found in kissing a wife without shame, hearing your two year old say I love you, watching with pride as your grown son holds his baby son in his arms, and seeing others come to know Jesus.

God didn’t make you to be sheltered from all risk. He didn’t make you for self-preservation but for self-sacrifice. You were made to give of yourself. That is strength and there is much more profit in that strength than many oxen.

[Rebecca Ortiz @Becca_Parrott]

@DunsonMartha 😊lovely ladies

[Rebecca Ortiz @Becca_Parrott]

@SummrWrites Oh man, it’s been a delight. We haven’t yet watched the newest one though!!

[Summer Jaeger @SummrWrites]

I lost friends ~10 years ago because I opposed the idea that we needed to create “safe spaces” in the church universal based on skin color.

A TGC Women’s conference was hosting a “women of color only” hour. I think that was foolish, gross, and capitulating to the spirit of the age.

My beliefs haven’t changed, and I’m still okay with losing friends over it.

One ought to be unashamed about their skin color, but making it a point of pride or division is a different aim altogether.

I still oppose division in the church based on skin color, and I always will.

[Jon Harris 🌲 @jonharris1989]

I read Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto when I was 18.

I read and watched speeches and Nazi propaganda in WWII and Holocaust classes in grad school.

There is no problem with reading source material if you know how to handle it.

The issue is whether material containing anti-Christian views was positively promoted at a Christian conference.

According to the man (Adam) running the booth, he was there to promote national socialism.

The front page of Antelope Hill Publishing makes their focus pretty obvious. They sold books at the event like “The Sword of Christ” by Kevin Macdonald (not source material) that promotes an explicitly Darwinian view of race.

If learning about opposing views is the justification, then there’s no reason to object to the flier either which linked Christians to much worse material. After all, Christians should understand false religions right?

It all comes down to the purpose of a Christian conference, the pastoral oversight to guard attendees from false ideas, and the responsibility to protect the reputation of speakers who repudiate such unchristian ideas.

Those are the working issues. Most of the X conversation misses the issues entirely.

[Rebecca Ortiz @Becca_Parrott]

@SummrWrites Summer, always the hype lady🙂‍↕️

[Kristan Hawkins @KristanHawkins]

"She was born without a brain. If you feed her, you're just prolonging the inevitable."

Let that sink in. Doctors actually told this family to starve their newborn baby because she would "die in a few days," and sent them straight to hospice. They completely wrote her off. But instead of listening to the "experts," this family chose to trust God.

And it only took ONE doctor who was willing to give her a chance to change everything.

Look at her now. She is a thriving, happy, beautiful 3-year-old proving the entire medical establishment wrong. This is exactly why we fight the Culture of Death so fiercely. A medical diagnosis is not a death warrant, and a child’s right to life, as well as basic nourishment, should never be decided by a bureaucrat in a white coat.

[Rebecca Ortiz @Becca_Parrott]

@zoeschimke There is nothing like buying candy bags at Bass Pro. Nothing

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@DunsonMartha Lovely. God didn’t have to make creation like this, but He did 😍

[Danielle (Dani) Treweek @danitreweek]

Many of the comments on this post explain why I spent four years of my life researching and writing a PhD on a theology of singleness. And why I published that PhD as a book. And why I wrote a popular level book on the same topic. And why I founded a resourcing ministry focused on it. And why I travel all over the country and the world speaking with Christians, church leaders and church communities about it. And why, four days ago, I sat weeping with a married woman I just met as she shared with me that a decade ago one of her closest friends had been taught to so despair of her ongoing and unchosen singleness that she drove her car into a tree and was killed immediately, even as none of her friends knew the grief she had been carrying until they discovered her journals while they were packing up her house days after her funeral.

Those comments are the why to all of it.

[Rebecca Ortiz @Becca_Parrott]

@SummrWrites Great response.

[Kasia @gospelinpoland]

I desire for my daughters to marry young and have large families. But I’m also aware that I’m not the junior Holy Spirit. If marriage and a large family are part of the Lord’s plan for them, they will come in His time and according to His wise providence.

[Valerie Kyriosity ✝️👑 @KyriosityTweets]

Unwanted singleness is a gift the way any affliction is a gift. Seems to me that accepting it submissively for as long as it lasts is great preparation for marriage. As is being fruitful in that stage. An I'm-gonna-sit-here-and-pout-till-I-get-a-husband attitude is self-idolatry.

[Rebecca Ortiz @Becca_Parrott]

@SummrWrites Felt was my first thought.

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