@JeremyDBoreing I heard you say in one of your shows a few weeks ago that we have no more Ebenezer stones. My brother and I believe in building them. We made some music about it. We would love for you to hear it.
https://t.co/DqbEJZMd4l
Days after highlighting Nigeria’s Christian persecution in Israel, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo is mourning again — burying more church members as attacks continue ✝️😭
@dabearsblog Bad take. His record against division opponents is abysmal. He needed miracle comebacks in all the division games he won next year. Not taking away from them - great wins - but he absolutely has to be better.
The reason I highlight the pope’s strong rejection of both Scripture and Catholic Tradition is not to attack his supposed infallibility.
It is to do something more important.
It shows that the pope and the RC authority is simply not trustworthy. Because infallibility isn’t the real reason people run to Rome. It’s the sense that they have a faithful and trustworthy source for guidance and clarity in Christian truth.
But history (and the last several days) proves this is not true.
RCism’s trustworthiness is not as advertised.
Go to Scripture as your final authority. Learn from history.
Dads can’t be moms, men can’t be women, and husbands can’t be wives. If you want to end this, the entirety of the sexual revolution is going to need to be undone.
God bathing his bride is an image reflected in both the Old and New Testaments.
In one of the chapters we read today in Bible in One Year, there is an extensive and graphic description of how God found Israel like an exposed newborn child (Ezekiel 16). The evil practice of abandoning newborn babies to die was known in various cultures of the ancient world.
Metaphorically, this was baby Israel: helpless, destitute, destined for death.
But the Lord spoke life into Israel. She lived. She flourished. She matured into a young woman. Then, when she was of marriageable age, the Lord says, “I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you...and you became mine” (Ezek. 16:8).
The Lord married his beloved Israel.
But there's more! “Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil” (16:9). He goes on to clothe her in rich garments, adorn her with jewelry, and make her royalty.
God bathed his bride with water. He washed her clean.
Now, while listening to Ezekiel 16, also tune your ears to Ephesians 5. Paul says, “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,” so that he might present his bride to himself “in splendor, without spot or wrinkle” (Eph. 5:25–27).
What God does for Israel in Ezekiel is what Christ does for his church in Ephesians. He finds his bride, washes her with water, cleanses her, and clothes her in splendor. Of course he does! For the church is Israel continued and expanded, the messianic people of God under the new covenant.
Christ washes his bride in baptism. He washes us in Word-drenched water, cleansing us so that we might stand before him holy, without blemish, and clothed in his splendor.
Thanks be to God!
This is something we must not tolerate as a people. The state taking a child away from parents because the parents won’t share in the lie!
Perhaps large scale protests are in order.