Jake Wasdin

Associate Reformed Presbyterian | Disaffected Republican | Linux user | Avid reader, especially history

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@JeffDemo @SidKhurana3607 Census uses counties as boundaries. The MSA (census metro area) includes York, Lancaster, and Chester counties of SC in the Charlotte metro and their population adds us to more than how they define the Myrtle Beach MSA. But it is close.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@smi29939566 @SidKhurana3607 I don't disagree but I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment. :)

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@Christo98509126 @SidKhurana3607 Also your AI answer does show with the MSA boundaries that what I said is true. Compare the first and last rows of its answer. That was what I was saying. If you use CSA the answer will be different.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@Christo98509126 @SidKhurana3607 I used Wikipedia. Both with 2020 census and 2025 estimates, Myrtle Beach–Conway–North Myrtle Beach, SC MSA has less people than York, Lancaster, and Chester counties in SC which are the SC counties of the Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia, NC–SC MSA. It is close though.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@JoshuaBarzon Dr Oz almost beat Dr El-Sayed to being the first Muslim elected to the Senate.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@WVPitt All of the missionaries of the CoS went with the Free Church after the Disruption.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Trump has spent a decade purging conservatism—constitutional, economic, and even social (in the deepest sense of humility and respect for others)—from the Republican Party.

We should take solace in this absolute defeat because it’s a real chance to rebuild American conservatism.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

It was gas prices.
It was the war.
It was also the corruption.
The incompetence.
The tariffs.
The playing nice with Russia.
The impression of cruelty.
The overly aggressive deportations.
The accidental arrests of American citizens who were Hispanic.
The arrogance.
The ballroom.
The reflecting poll.
The golf courses.
The arch.
The Qatari 747.
The aggressive redistricting push.
The threats against enemies.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@ChristnNitemare @atrupar Well, Republicans are the party of John Brown.

[Adriel Sanchez @AdrielTweets]

I’m not opposed to statements like this in principle, but the “We’re so back!” reaction to them seems off to me. This statement is supposed to have come from the same pen of the man who just a few days ago was talking on stage about how he had been ogling Nicki Minaj’s butt. Is that what it looks like to be “Guided by an unwavering faith in Jesus Christ… working to restore the moral and religious foundations that have sustained our Republic for generations”? No.

The mixed messaging doesn’t actually serve to advance the Christian faith, but to subject it to the scorn of outsiders. Christian theologians who believed it was the magistrates job to promote piety emphasized the fact that he needed to start by modeling it personally. It is not the bare profession of religion which we are after, saying “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.” That kind of hypocrisy is poison, and yet we’re eager to celebrate it as long as our civil leaders give a performative nod to the holy faith which they contradict by their behavior.

In his 1658 sermon admonishing the Commons House of Parliament, John Owen noted that empty profession is not the glory of any nation. “Profession separated from the root from which it ought to spring, is not the glory of any people; Christ is not their glory who are his shame. Empty profession is the shame of Christ in the world, and shall not be others’ glory… But when men profess the truth of Christ, but in their hearts and ways maintain and manifest enmity to the power of that truth, and to all of Christ that is in reality in the world, this is no glory.”

Praise God for the reformation. May the glorious doctrines which transformed countless men and women in the 16c continue to transform us today. Those doctrines deserve far more than lip service, they deserve the entirety of our hearts.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@matt_everhard I imagine this is a combination of treating membership seriously (and cleaning up the roles) and the average PCA church being newer compared to mainlines (less legacy families that can be a minefield to remove from the roles and less elderly shut-ins).

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@Ferndiggity You have to be able to eat everything at a grocery store to be able to shop there? I have some stuff I buy at TJ's but I still am discerning.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@RevDrBLee Great choices. Our first song selection tomorrow is Psalm 67.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@JohnStSomething By the way I am ARP so I don't have a dog in this fight, but I do think language is changing and that modern English Bibles have picked it up in this case by not using the word "grave"

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@JohnStSomething I think the simple answer is "grave" has been slowly changing meeting. I think the more common usage of the term is more like severe or alarming (think "grave threat" or "grave illness"). I think "grave" for a person is uncommon today and may be thought of as a severe personality

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@JoshuaBarzon New Mexico has a town called Truth or Consequences but that's their weirdest street name?

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

@JohnStSomething Grave comes from Titus 2:2, where the KJV renders "σεμνούς" as grave. "Dignified" is used for this word in major modern versions including the ESV and NASB. I don't think this is a significant different as the words communicate the same idea.

[Jake Wasdin @JakeWasdin]

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@WakeUp2Politics I really enjoyed A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin.