clinthumfrey

Senior Pastor @Calvary_Grace.| Happy Rodeo Dad| @albertareformer

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

“We are contemptible to the nation, in our pressing after reformation, while we are divided among ourselves, conformable to the world, while we proclaim our unmortified lusts, pride, covetousness, ambition, revenge, self-seeking” John Owen

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

@RevZekveld Very good quote from Groen.

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@RevZekveld @JeffreyRWRath @tim__stephens Yes. Some more fruitful discussions.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

Christians and the Referendum

1. Referring back to the Referendum, it was interesting to note @JeffreyRWRath arguing that the other Independence leaders didn't add to the APP constituency that had already been built. I would argue that the work of @tim__stephens and Michael Wagner added a new constituency from among Evangelicals that were not necessarily a part of the original APP petition work. Some overlap existed, but at the events I spoke at with Michael and Tim, there were many people in attendance who had not made up their minds about the Referendum and were looking for guidance.

2. The integrity of Christians in the Referendum discussion was overall respectful, thoughtful and challenging. Those that held different views on the Referendum questions often made real arguments, for and against all of the motions, including the 10th question regarding independence. This willingness to make arguments was something lacking at times in the general discourse of others. I'm grateful that Christians can still speak the truth in love (Eph 4.15).

3. Of all of the developments in the Referendum campaigns, the call to prayer and repentance by Pastor Jeff Gooderham, (that was falsely maligned as echoing KKK slogans), was nevertheless one of the most positive things to happen in the province. Regularly governments would issue thanksgivings to Almighty God for harvests and deliverances from calamity. The distinctly Protestant call to prayer revived a practice which has lain dormant for too long.

4. A movement of prayer could be the positive outcome of the Referendum since little structural change has been offered from the status quo side, and the side wanting the change toward independence lost.

5. It is hard for our secular age to imagine, but there was a time in the past when governments would issue, as was done in 1838, a prayer proclamation such as this: "appointed by proclamation for a day of public fasting and humiliation before Almighty God, and to supplicate his mercy, that he would be graciously pleased to put an end to the troubles which agitate the province and restore to it the blessings of peace and tranquillity."

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

@dansudfeld @JeffreyRWRath @tim__stephens Agree Dan. Judgement, repentance and prayer.

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From @OfficialNHSRA Knox Humfrey at National HS Finals Rodeo @CinchJeans talent show.

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A little timeline cleanse with some calf roping from one of my boys.

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@tabes0 @ABantifash It’s all fine. And feel free to come and visit the church sometime. I’d be open to chatting in person. Have a good day.

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So this post had over 17000 views. Thank you to the people who interacted with it, including those who think I'm an idiot. 2 Cor 5.13.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

Thoughts on Referendum Day 2026

1. I will see this Day as a hinge of history, not because I think any vote will be decisive. Rather, it will mark the last regional protest against the coming post-national order.
2. I think historians will look back and see the decadence of the aging retiree class, the incumbent political class, and the internationalist business class as forsaking their children in favor of their class being vindicated, secured and heeded.
3. I think that the collapse of the Conservative movement in Canada has been the most surprising thing to see in this campaign. Harper's endorsement of Carney, the federal Conservatives active campaigning for Liberal Prime Minister, and the "separatist" Premier Smith giving up all of her provincial leverage in order to get some paper promises, desperate for crumbs from the federal table. Smith's actions, and those of the federal Conservatives are viewed as a major betrayal of their western base.
4. The "uneven weights and measures" of the campaign have been vivid for anyone to notice. The Lukaszuk campaign against the independence choice, was permitted to continue without following any of the campaign rules for third party advertisers (TPA's). Meanwhile the small band of merry warriors on the Independence side were headshy with concern for audits and accounting for their TPA's. "Rules for thee, etc"
5. Never in my lifetime have I seen the full court press of media, all politicians, the courts, and conglomerate businesses to oppose the self-determination of a people in Canada. The co-ordination has been epic, with at times, shades of Mao. Meanwhile, Louis Riel is a hero, and Indigenous bands are "first nations".
6. I am dumbfounded by the lack of resistance, or even critical analysis of the Prime Minister's aim to have Canada join the European Union. It is by definition, a post-national decision, while the Prime Minister campaigns against Alberta self-determination on a platform of nationalism. Nationalism leading to Post-nationalism does not sound like fidelity to the citizens of the nation.
7. The exhaustion of civilization in the West is illustrated by the gasping (but unintelligible) grip on the nostalgia of stability, rather than the exertion needed to honestly grapple with doing something new. Arrogance in wanting control, but not wanting to lift a finger to help, echoes the indictment directed at the Pharisees by Jesus, 'They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.'Mt 23.4.
8. A positive feature of this moment has been the willingness of many people to be stigmatized for desiring a better future on better terms. To fly the blue bore a public cost. To fly the nation-state flag cost nothing. Many made their choice on either side with thoughtful deliberation and they are to be respected. Others chose safety merely because the tall poppy will be cut down. This latter motive is not a good sign for society.
9. I have been deeply grieved to see professing "Christians" demoralize, stigmatize and shame simple Christians who want change for the better, believe in prayer, and want to offer a better life for their families. The fact that these simple Christians were shamed by the political class Conservatives (!) illustrates what Jesus said, "a person's enemies will be those of his own household."Mt 10:36.
10. I am just as confident in the vigor and victory of the kingdom of Christ today than I was yesterday, and I will have the same confidence tomorrow d.v."Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does its successive journeys run" (Watts)

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

"If sacred or metaphysical order is necessary for cultures to remain stable and coherent, then we currently face an indefinite future of flux, instability, and incoherence." - Carl Trueman.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

@TBCWR A very good article from Pastor Jacob.

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@nspector4 @globeandmail @TorontoStar Thank you for your consistency in pointing out biases and lies. Much appreciated.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

@RevZekveld Thanks Nathan. It was great to speak alongside Tim and Michael Wagner at the events Tim set up. Thankful to be a part of it.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

@krbaker13 Thank you Rick. I agree regarding the emotion for many. I think it will be interesting to see how that emotion is channeled by all interested parties in the future. Could there be a mass move of repentance and faith even? I pray it would be so.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

Thoughts on Referendum Day 2026

1. I will see this Day as a hinge of history, not because I think any vote will be decisive. Rather, it will mark the last regional protest against the coming post-national order.
2. I think historians will look back and see the decadence of the aging retiree class, the incumbent political class, and the internationalist business class as forsaking their children in favor of their class being vindicated, secured and heeded.
3. I think that the collapse of the Conservative movement in Canada has been the most surprising thing to see in this campaign. Harper's endorsement of Carney, the federal Conservatives active campaigning for Liberal Prime Minister, and the "separatist" Premier Smith giving up all of her provincial leverage in order to get some paper promises, desperate for crumbs from the federal table. Smith's actions, and those of the federal Conservatives are viewed as a major betrayal of their western base.
4. The "uneven weights and measures" of the campaign have been vivid for anyone to notice. The Lukaszuk campaign against the independence choice, was permitted to continue without following any of the campaign rules for third party advertisers (TPA's). Meanwhile the small band of merry warriors on the Independence side were headshy with concern for audits and accounting for their TPA's. "Rules for thee, etc"
5. Never in my lifetime have I seen the full court press of media, all politicians, the courts, and conglomerate businesses to oppose the self-determination of a people in Canada. The co-ordination has been epic, with at times, shades of Mao. Meanwhile, Louis Riel is a hero, and Indigenous bands are "first nations".
6. I am dumbfounded by the lack of resistance, or even critical analysis of the Prime Minister's aim to have Canada join the European Union. It is by definition, a post-national decision, while the Prime Minister campaigns against Alberta self-determination on a platform of nationalism. Nationalism leading to Post-nationalism does not sound like fidelity to the citizens of the nation.
7. The exhaustion of civilization in the West is illustrated by the gasping (but unintelligible) grip on the nostalgia of stability, rather than the exertion needed to honestly grapple with doing something new. Arrogance in wanting control, but not wanting to lift a finger to help, echoes the indictment directed at the Pharisees by Jesus, 'They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.'Mt 23.4.
8. A positive feature of this moment has been the willingness of many people to be stigmatized for desiring a better future on better terms. To fly the blue bore a public cost. To fly the nation-state flag cost nothing. Many made their choice on either side with thoughtful deliberation and they are to be respected. Others chose safety merely because the tall poppy will be cut down. This latter motive is not a good sign for society.
9. I have been deeply grieved to see professing "Christians" demoralize, stigmatize and shame simple Christians who want change for the better, believe in prayer, and want to offer a better life for their families. The fact that these simple Christians were shamed by the political class Conservatives (!) illustrates what Jesus said, "a person's enemies will be those of his own household."Mt 10:36.
10. I am just as confident in the vigor and victory of the kingdom of Christ today than I was yesterday, and I will have the same confidence tomorrow d.v."Jesus shall reign where'er the sun does its successive journeys run" (Watts)

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

The association of a prayer meeting by the most tenuous of links to something sinister like the KKK breaks the 9th commandment.

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

Birth of a Nation is a racist 1915 film that includes a black lynching by the Klu Klux Klan. The movie is credited for reviving the KKK in the United States.

This is a fact. A widely known fact.

Gerund-ing doesn’t change that fact.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

Another pejorative comment about Christians from the former Premier. Forgetting the partisan politics, this would be Islamophobic or antisemitic if spoken about a different religious gathering. Praying for you sir.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

This weirdness is from the main separatist group.

Voting for Option Two sends a message alright. A message that you want these folks negotiating the breakup of Canada, and running a Republic of Alberta.

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

October 16th is an important day to remember the question posed by JC Ryle, "Why Were Our Reformers Burned?"
Latimer and Ridley were martyred in Oxford on this date in 1555.
The reason, Ryle deduced, was their defense of the sufficiency of Christ's atonement versus Ritualism, the Church of Rome, and by application, 19th century Anglo-Catholicism.

Among many folks who are rejecting bleak modernity, I would urge them to be wary of falling into another ditch of the Ritualism that Ryle and the Reformers forsook.

https://t.co/g3WZA4iOM5

[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

@colinjfast Agree on all three counts.

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This was a very callous and derogatory comment coming from the former Premier caricaturing Southern Baptists, and disregarding the arrests of pastors exercising basic conscience rights. His comments reflect the kind of rage-baiting that he accuses his opponents of. cf. Eph 4.29.

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

Jason Kenney says @EzraLevant got "Southern Baptist grandmas in Alabama" to give "10 bucks off their Mastercard" for billboards in Alberta calling him "dictator Kenney" over pastor arrests during COVID.