Joseph Gilbert

Classical Presbyterian | BA RBC | Mdiv Student @MidAmericaSem | Rhetoric Teacher @ Providence Christian Academy

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

Grateful to @AmReformer and @tlloydcline for publishing my article, “The Theological Origins of Political Power.”

My hope is that it brings depth to our discussions of political authority and its relationship to religion within God’s created order.

https://t.co/f0MLljdwSg

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

“Only a demanding religion can beat the machines.” - @crwiley1962

You are going to read this book when it comes out. Go and pre-order it through @canonpress 📖

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[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

This is the way 🇺🇸

[Michael Moore II @igotzdahatz]

Volusia County has just proclaimed June Family, Faith & Responsible Fatherhood month. Great job County Council leaders!

@cdfusa

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

I call on @realDonaldTrump to abolish Pride Month and replace it with Traditional Family Month.

Let us praise and encourage the mothers, fathers, and families who are faithfully building the future of the United States.

The family is the foundation of a strong nation. 🇺🇸

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

@igotzdahatz @cdfusa 💪🏻

[Michael Moore II @igotzdahatz]

Volusia County has just proclaimed June Family, Faith & Responsible Fatherhood month. Great job County Council leaders!

@cdfusa

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

https://t.co/kG27EAk7JO

This is the way 🇺🇸

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a resolution designating June 2026 as Nuclear Family Month, instead of Pride month

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

@LisaMo032919 @realDonaldTrump Trump has his problems. He should still promote the Traditional Family as the foundation of all prosperous nations. This post is more about the family and Trumps responsibility to promote such. Not praising Trump himself.

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

@SonjaStilesG @realDonaldTrump And it will be again!

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

@PerfInjust Have been enjoying reading Keckermann myself. Tons of gold there.

[James Baird @james_d_baird]

am doing battle against hell with the keys of the kingdom and wife did the meme

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

@johnandrewwords Just a heads up, Vos was not a Presbyterian

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

We think of education in terms of rigor. The ancients thought of school as leisure. Knowledge is not conquered by force. It is received through attention, wonder, and delight.

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

Power is not inherently evil. It is actually a natural good that has a likeness to the character of God. Christian’s, by grace, ought to pursue and wield power for the good of those around them.

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

Petrus Van Mastricht on Justification by Faith Alone:

“Most of the Reformed state that it influences justification insofar as it is the instrument whereby we take hold of Christ’s righteousness, by which alone we are justified, that is, under the reckoning of instrumentality. This is true insofar as justification speaks of our passive justification, to the extent that from his faith alone a believer gathers that he has been justified; and if you should also understand it as the active justification of God, insofar as it is a moral instrument, that God requires it so that he may grant and impute to us the righteousness of his Son, the righteousness of his Son, so that on account of that alone we may be justified by him: and in this way the moral instrument will be nothing but the condition without which he does not will to apply to us the righteousness of his Son.”

Theoretical-Practical Theology, Vol. 5, 197-198.

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

I know this is a crazy concept… but you can be friends with those who disagree with you. Charity is in short supply today. Lord help us.

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

Melchizedek is the Tom Bombadil of the Bible.

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

"I fear all our attempts to produce political happiness by the solitary influence of human reason will be as fruitless as the search for the philosopher’s stone. It seems to be reserved to Christianity alone to produce universal, moral, political, and physical happiness. Reason produces, it is true, great and popular truths, but it affords motives too feeble to induce mankind to act agreeably to them. Christianity unfolds the same truths and accompanies them with motives, agreeable, powerful, and irresistible."

Benjamin Rush to Noah Webster, July 20, 1798. Butterfield, Letters of Rush, 2:799.

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

Grateful to Birdhouse and @CodyEdds for publishing my article, “God Understanding, God Understood, and God Beloved: The Trinity in Light of the Psychological Analogy’.

My prayer is that it would sharpen our thinking and defense of Trinitarian orthodoxy and inspire wonder in us as we worship the Triune God.

https://t.co/E4eG2jzLCp

[C.S. Edds @CodyEdds]

"The mystery of the Trinity is a mystery that ought to lead to worship. It is the doctrine that as we conform to its reality, we become who we were made to be."

@JosephGilbert_ writing about the Trinity for birdhouse today:

https://t.co/AKOtatAwOk

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

That can be a definition of nuance. Often times, however, the term is extended into a context where it takes on the idea of a ‘third-way’ or synthesis of a thesis and an anti-thesis. If it is used to bring clarity and to further our understanding of a principle then great. If it is being used to get people to give up their principles, then no bueno.

[Joseph Gilbert @JosephGilbert_]

To quote @joe_rigney

We don’t need nuance. We need clarity. Most of the time when things need to be ‘nuanced’ it is because we are not making the proper distinctions.

[Derek Radney @derekradney]

I’ve seen this quite a bit among PCA elders. The reaction to calls for nuance on left-coded issues (i.e. sexuality or racism) is strong while nuance on right-coded issues (i.e. Christian Nationalism) is portrayed as reasonable and balanced. “Nuance for me but not for thee!”