WeinerDog

Christian Pastor (PCA). Reformed. Richly blessed husband and Dad of 4. Army vet. American patriot. Chicago Cubs fan. Weiner dog named Mo. God is so good!

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

The true way to love yourself and find happiness is to love God...

[Tony Byrne @_TheoMed]

Tarsicius J. van Bavel has a very good section on self-love in the thought of Augustine. See Tarsicius J. van Bavel, “Love,” in 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘴: 𝘈𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢, ed. Allan D. Fitzgerald (Eerdmans, 1999), 511–12. Or here:

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

@CovenantReform2 @ClearlyReformed @RevKevDeYoung Except it does. Just like it teaches "covenant circumcision." It's how God operates. Christian children are not pagan children; they are born into and set apart into the covenant and God has a special interest in them (1 Cor 7:14).

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

Sing it!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 UPDATE: Justin Bieber is getting nationwide recognition for praising Jesus Christ and singing 'Everything HALLELUJAH' during the FIFA World Cup in front of BILLIONS

America is a Christian nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

Beautiful testimony.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Lionel Messi on why he started crying after receiving the silver medal despite the World Cup final defeat to Spain:

“I wasn’t just thinking about losing a final. I was thinking about everything that brought me here… every sacrifice, every difficult moment, every time people doubted us, and every time this shirt gave me the strength to continue.

“When I heard the Argentina fans chanting my name after the defeat, that was the moment that broke me. We had just lost the biggest game, but they didn’t turn their backs on us. They didn’t see a silver medal… they saw the journey. They saw the heart, the fight, and the pride we gave them.

“I looked into the stands and I saw families who travelled thousands of miles, people who dreamed with us, people who cried with us. That love is bigger than any trophy. Football gives you many victories, but moments like that remind you why you play.

“I cried because I felt the weight of the shirt, the love of my country, and the responsibility of wearing this badge. A medal can be silver, but the memories, the connection with the people, and the pride of representing Argentina… those things are priceless.

“Sometimes football gives you the perfect ending, and sometimes it gives you a painful chapter. But I learned that greatness is not only measured by lifting trophies. It is also measured by how you stand when your heart is broken.

“And hearing Argentina sing my name after losing a World Cup final… that was a victory of another kind. I will carry that moment with me forever.”

—🎙️Mixed Zone

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

@toddstarnes It's time to boot them from the WH press corps, including off of Air Force One, and order his Administration not to speak to them. Two can play that game.

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

@Ron_WatkinsQ @JDVance After what Pence did, yes.

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@catturd2 So the permanent federal bureacracy increases in power, a bureacracy not accountableto the voters? Term limits sounds good but I am skeptical of them as a magic bullet.

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

@BBGreatMoments Nolan Ryan's 4000+ strike outs

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@LangmanVince No!

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@WellsJorda89710 Flipping Red and Flipping Conservative are not the same thing.

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

@irishpresby Nominal Xty is obviously dangerous and far from ideal but if one studies the history of revivals it becomes clear God typically begins with those with some knowledge but unconverted. It's why we catechize children: we stack firewood til the Holy Spirit shows up with the fire.

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

Growing up in the 60s-80s, we never locked our house or cars, and never worried about it, even if we left town for a week of two.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Comment with 🎯 if you relate

[Reformed Dogmatika @RefDogmatika]

Has your prayer life gone dry?

Read the book on prayer that helped shape the prayer life of the Puritans:
https://t.co/xQ1KWWjUuI

[Tyler C @tyler_austin55]

I had a conversation with an old acquaintance recently who believes that only evangelism really matters. After all, the world is not our home, so civil life is secondary. Building lasting things is not necessary, children are optional, having a legacy is suspect, etc. His view is that the dominion mandate has expired, and so the Great Commission is really our ultimate, only mandate.

He is married, but he and his wife do not want children. Instead, they fill their time with travelling and seeing the world. Why not? If the world is going to be destroyed anyway, and the Christian life is reduced to extracting souls from the world rather than discipling men to take up their duties within it? Why invest in households, institutions, and future generations?

This is a thinner Christianity than what the Scriptures portray. The point of being a citizen of heaven is not to despise earthly duties, but to be ambassadors of heaven here on earth. After all, it is still our Father’s world: “The earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness, The world and those who dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1).

In Jeremiah 29, God did not tell exiles in Babylon to sit around waiting for escape. He told them to build houses, plant gardens, take wives, have sons and daughters, and seek the peace of the city. The Great Commission does not cancel the dominion mandate, but rather, it restores men to God so that they can order their lives toward Christ. A disembodied Christianity is not the goal. Christ saves men with bodies, spouses, children, homes, churches, grandchildren, etc. And then he restores their nature so that they can order all of these aspects of their lives for his glory.

The Gospel does not make the dirt we till unimportant, and no faithful servant buries his tools because the Master is coming back.

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

There is no hope without this glorious truth! Amen!

[Biblical and Reformed @reformedhg]

We begin each day with the deeply encouraging realization,

“I’m accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ.”

John Owen

[Spider Tracks @Spider70S]

250 Years…

The history of the United States of America

[WeinerDog @Coldgravy5]

@RGallagher @John_Barach I was responding to John, not you. Nevertheless, Dr. Lillback's book Sacred Fire shows from numerous historical sources Washington was a committed Anglican, something you might be interested in.

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@John_Barach @RGallagher Read Peter Lillback's Sacred Fire on Washington

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@Eric_Conn Your OT analogy is false. Israel was a theocracy, America is not. Religious liberty is simply recognizing that God alone is Lord of the conscience.

[Sean G. Morris @SGMorris7]

Happy Independence Day.

Thank a Presbyterian today, and may God bless America.

#Murica #America

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📖 // 🇺🇸 🦅

Horace Walpole, British writer and politician, 1776:

“Cousin America has run off with a Presbyterian parson, and that is the end of it.”

William Jones, Loyalist Address to British Parliament, 1776:

“Calvinists by profession, and Republicans in their politics... this has been a Presbyterian war from the beginning.”

Joseph Galloway, Loyalist Pamphleteer, 1774:

“I fix all the blame for these extraordinary American proceedings upon the Presbyterians … They have been the chief and principal instruments in all these flaming measures.”
(HT: @PresbyInn)

Lord Dartmouth, British Secretary of State, November 1776:

“Presbyterianism is really at the bottom of this whole Conspiracy, has supplied it with Vigour, and will never rest, till something is decided upon it.”

Loyalist Newspaper, New York Gazette, 1776:

“The Presbyterian meeting-houses are schools of treason, where every sermon is a call to arms and every psalm a war-cry against the King.”

Ambrose Serle, British Civilian Observer, 1776:

“The revolution could not be sustained in America if it were not for the Presbyterian ministers who bred it.”

George Trevelyan, British Historian:

“In the early days of the revolution, loyalists alleged that political agitation against the Royal Government had been deliberately planned by Presbyterians… it was fostered and abetted by Presbyterians in every colony.”