Rhys Demman

Pastor of King's Reformed Evangelical Church in Creston, BC

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

@Canada "Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."-1 Cor 6:9-10

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

"God’s word is instructive for us, and you need to be ready. God had given a story for you so that you can know what He would have you do in this time of doubt."
https://t.co/YBKX3byyPR

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

@KerryLynneFindl Love what you are doing Mrs. Findlay! Let's make BC a place where Abortion and MAID are outlawed too! Protecting lives must begin with the most vulnerable!

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

It's important for Christians to remember that phrase from John Knox, "One man with God is always in the majority." Homosexuality month makes it seem like the whole world is against us. But Christ reigns, and all the proud will kneel before the King!

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

BC Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay responds to NDP attacks in a CBC interview this morning.

"We are not the extremists. They are the extremists. They're ideological extremists and they have had very radical policies that have hurt British Columbians."

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

@sesamestreet Thanks for showing us your true colors. I always like to have clarity on who the groomers are.

[Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC) @crechurches]

A Declaration Against Doctor-Assisted Murder

Man is made in the image of God (Gen 1:26–27). His life is not his own; it is a gift from the Lord. The prerogative of death belongs to him alone (Dt. 32:39).

The covenant with Noah grounds the civil sword upon the image itself: “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image” (Gen 9:6). The blood of the image-bearer cries out from the ground (Gen 4:10), whether it be shed by another’s hand, by a man’s own hand, or by both. The white coat and signed consent form do not silence the ground.

Three times the Torah forbids the boiling of a kid in its mother’s milk (Exod 23:19; 34:26; Deut 14:21). The prohibition is a parable in law. The mother’s milk is given to nourish the kid and help it grow to maturity. To boil the kid in the very milk that was meant to sustain it is to invert the order of creation, turning the instrument of life into the service of death.

The physician’s knowledge and skill are consecrated to the maintenance and restoration of health, an extension of the healing ministry of the incarnate Son (Matt 4:23; Luke 4:40). When he uses his gifts to kill, he is, by way of analogy, boiling the kid in its mother’s milk. The hands trained to bind wounds are ripping them open. The needle used for life-saving medicine is turned into an instrument of execution. The physician’s vocation is inverted, and the inversion is not made righteous by statute.

Self-murder is a blasphemous attempt to seize the prerogative of judgment (Gen 2:16-17). The man who murders himself passes judgment on his life. He tries to sit in the seat that belongs to God alone, and he reads out the sentence.

Job refused this temptation. His wife set before him the Adamic bait, “Curse God and die” (Job 2:9), and he answered, “Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” (Job 2:10). The patriarch chose silence where his wife counselled rebellion. Our Lord, greater than Job, bore his sufferings to the appointed hour and commended his spirit to the Father (Luke 23:46). He did not expedite death but entrusted himself to his Father’s timing. He did not seize the cup; he drank it down to the dregs. The Christian way of dying follows him.

The self-slayings of Saul, Ahithophel, Zimri, and Judas (1 Sam 31:4; 2 Sam 17:23; 1 Kgs 16:18; Matt 27:5) are each marked by the shadow of the curse. The tools of modernity do not alter the nature of the act. An infusion administered by a physician under government regulation is not a different thing in kind from the sword on which Saul fell.

The advocates of medical murder speak in soft tones. They call it compassion. They call it dignity. They call it choice. The vocabulary is gentle, the legislation is gentle, the protocol is gentle, but it is unlawful murder. To rename the killing of the image of God is not to alter the inherent violence of the act, but only to cloak the truth in an attempt to seduce the weak to sin.

The modern church must not forget her ministry to the suffering and the dying. James commands, “Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord” (Jas 5:14). The dying saint is not to be ignored, but visited and comforted. The work to be done at the deathbed is the work of the gospel: confession, absolution, communion, and the prayer of faith. Where this ministry is practiced in faith, suffering becomes a truly redemptive blessing (Col 1:24).

The Bible does not condemn the use of painkillers. It does not forbid a Do-Not-Resuscitate order. It does not demand that every available intervention be pressed to its last available hour. The Christian view is not that we must preserve biological life at all costs. Refusing extraordinary treatment is not murder. There is a radical difference between declining the next round of chemotherapy and asking the doctor to administer a lethal dose. The first leaves the question of the hour with God. The second attempts to seize it from his hand. The line between letting die and murder is the line between covenant fidelity and covenant breaking. Those who blur the line are not being merciful but rebelling against God.

Therefore, as ministers of the gospel and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command all civil magistrates to outlaw this wicked practice and promote the high calling of medicine as a ministry of life (Rom. 13:4). We furthermore charge physicians and citizens everywhere to refuse all participation in this grievous sin and to call upon their civil magistrates to protect and promote life according to God's law.

*Toby Sumpter, Presiding Minister of Knox Presbytery CREC

*Garry Vanderveen, Presiding Minister of Boniface Presbytery CREC

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

Politicians are only temporary, even those who are "rulers for life." Don't get caught up in the myth that politicians can fix our problems. Our problems begin with our failure to worship Christ as we have been called to.

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

@DrClownPhD *Ellen

[John Moody 🇺🇬 @resisfertile]

Brothers,
Your words matter.
But your life matters more.

No one respects a man whose words and life are at odds.
Especially not his sons.

And it isn't enough to point to past faithfulness.
Past accomplishments.
Past courage and discipline and skill.

"Oh, I played football or baseball in high school or college..."
But today you are 60 pounds overweight and get winded walking from your car to a second floor office.

"Oh, I have benched 225..."
But today you can't even do five pushups.

"I taught Bible study for many years at church..."
But today you haven't picked up your Bible in weeks nor lead your family in family religion.

"We used to go on dates and used to talk with your mom so much and dot on and dance with and flirt with her..."
But now your wife is adrift of your affection and attention as you sit on your phone for hours a day.

How many men do you know who are still stuck or lost in what they did... yesterday?

Your wife and sons need to see your strength... today.

They need to see your faithfulness... today.
Not some decades old trophies on a wall while dad has atrophied before their eyes into a lesser man.

Brothers, may God help us all be like Caleb, who could say even in his age,
"As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in."

Brothers, where are you growing today?

Where can you say, today, see my faithfulness, my courage, my skill, my perseverance, my strength?

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Insane chart on the death of marriage:

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

I have been recently looking closer at the Candidates for BC Conservative leader. Nearly all my first impressions of every candidate were wrong. It's important that we keep our eyes open and look closer than what we see in passing on social media. #BCpolitics

[John Michael Clark ⚓ @FamilyCaptain_]

Christian husband: “I’m willing to die for my faith in Christ!”

My brother in Christ, you’re not even willing to endure persecution from your wife when she disagrees with something you’ve said.

If her anger or passive aggressive cold shoulder is enough to get you to back down from what you think is good and true, keep building that muscle, man of God.

[₩₳Ɽ ₱₳₮Ⱨ @WarPath2pt0]

Counterpoint--

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

Canada has become like Rome, but there is still hope if the Church will rise to the challenge!
https://t.co/jx0mPpcoux

[John Moody 🇺🇬 @resisfertile]

You either force your morality on them...

Or they will force their perversion on you.

Most won't admit this because they are too weak or cowardly to fight.

[Nathan Zekveld @RevZekveld]

The Church is Israel, reconstituted, as a nation of priests who are called to bring the blessings to the nations.

The Old Testament Temple was a centre of social, economic and political transformation when the people were trusting God and acting in obedience to Him.

The same is true of the New Testament Temple, the church, the assembly of believers.

We see a beautiful expression of this at the end of Acts 2 and Acts 4 and then as the principle of generosity is passed on through to the end of Acts, and then takes on various forms in the letters and then in the church of all times and ages and locations.

Jesus is Lord. He is the eternal king over the reconstituted Israel.

He will have dominion from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

@21WIRE And even in the midst of this: Christ must reign until He has made His enemies a footstool for His feet. "The Kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take council against the Lord... He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord hold them in derision." Ps 2:2,4

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

I'm going to keep posting this Alstair Begg clip "The Man on the Middle Cross" (less than four minutes in length) every Holy Week, because its message is true in 2026, it will be true in 2036 and it will be true in 3036.

"If i take my eyes off the cross, I can then give only lip service to its efficacy while at the same time living as if my salvation depends upon me.

And as soon as you go there it will lead you either to abject despair or a horrible kind of arrogance.

And it is only the cross of Christ that deals both with the dreadful depths of despair and the pretentious arrogance of the pride of man that says you know, I can figure this out."

[Rhys Demman @DemmanRhys]

@Rambo26924136 @JasminLaine_ It is neither brave nor beautiful.