Nick S.

First thing you must do to have any hope is to believe on Jesus Christ. Full subscription 1646 WCF & DPW. Native Texan. USMC Vet. Paleocon.

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

Had 2 Uber rides involving DFW airport last week with Spanish-only speakers. I wondered about how they could do the job if they can’t speak English. https://t.co/xOlCYd6f3B

[Joseph Spurgeon @Joseph_Spurgeon]

Stonewall Jackson’s local church in Lexington like many churches had a midweek prayer meeting. Jackson did not enjoy public speaking and so was initially hesitant to pray aloud in public. After his pastor had taught the congregation on the duty of public prayer, Jackson met with him to discuss the matter. He told his minister, “You…are my pastor, and the spiritual guide of the church; if you think it is my duty, then I shall waive my reluctance, and make the effort to lead in prayer, however painful.” Soon afterwards, the minister called upon Jackson to pray aloud in the weekly prayer meeting. Jackson stammered through the prayer with embarrassment, his petition being “almost as painful to his brethren as it obviously was to himself.”

Attempting to spare Jackson further embarrassment, the minister did not call again on him to pray publicly over the next several weeks. Jackson asked his pastor why he did not call on him again. When the pastor told Jackson he wanted to spare him an uncomfortable duty, Jackson replied, “Yes…but my comfort or discomfort is not the question; if it is my duty to lead my brethren in prayer, then I must persevere in it, until I learn to do it aright; and I wish you to discard my feelings in the matter.”

Might we all learn not to make our feelings the master as well.

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@ThrillaRilla369 Grocery bagger $3.80/hr 1990

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

On this day: In 1782, George Washington created a new “Badge for Military Merit" decoration, known today as the Purple Heart. https://t.co/rTRxdkiryh

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@james_d_baird “Feel the burn.”

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@bofrench Name one person you know under the age of 70 that still reads the DMN… I’ll wait.

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@AndrewKolvet Why doesn’t Kennedy move to do it himself? I guess I need to look at the Senate’s rules on who is able to make motions, but it seems like any Senator should be able to.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

At first glance, this looks like nothing more than two lovers holding each other against a garden wall. But look at what her hands are doing...

The painting is by John Everett Millais, and the scene is set in Paris, on a specific and terrible date: the 24th of August, 1572, the eve of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, when thousands of French Protestants, the Huguenots, were slaughtered in the streets by their Catholic countrymen.

On that night, there was only one way for a man to be spared: if he tied a white cloth around his arm, a sign that he was a Catholic, the killers would pass him by.

The man in this painting is a Huguenot. And the woman who loves him is desperately trying to save his life... she is winding a white band around his arm, gazing up at him, pleading with him to just wear it, to tell the small lie that will let him live and stay with her.

But gently, without anger, he is stopping her. With one hand he loosens the cloth she is tying. He will not wear it. To wear it would be to deny his faith, to save his body by betraying his soul, and he cannot do it, not even for her, not even to live.

Millais fills the scene signs of what is coming: she wears a ring, he wears none, a marriage that will never happen. And the two of them are pressed so close that you cannot tell, at a glance, whether this is an embrace or a struggle. It is both. It is a woman trying to hold a man in this world, and a man who has already made his peace with leaving it…

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@RickApplet0n Is “catamite” out of fashion still? Can we bring it back?

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@TexasPreacher May all your arrows grow into spiritual giants, brother! Praying!!

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@TexasPreacher My son just got hired by a contractor in Dallas today and starts his Electrician Apprenticeship tomorrow. Praying the Lord will prosper him and I’ll get to bounce grandbabies on my knee in a few more years!

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@AuronMacintyre White Pony is peak.

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@AlexDuncanTX What can be done to fix it? We need denaturalization and deportations, but who will do what is necessary?

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@DustyDeevers Amen! It’s all we sing! God’s songs are perfect and sufficient, and full of Christ in His person, works and offices of prophet, priest, and king!

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

The Lord Jesus called wicked men offensive names. “But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” Matthew 3:7

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

Same. Thankful for the Lord's patience with me!

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Things I was taught were “weird” when I was first converted, and yet ended up being good:

Family worship
Street preaching
The Puritans
Anything not dispy
Catechizing children
Long sermons
Calvin
Covenant children
Psalm singing
The Christian Sabbath
Fathers leading their homes spiritually

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@alphafox This is gross on several levels, however as Marine vet, I point out: she is most likely addressing a platoon of female recruits. Unless its worse than I am aware, females only train females. That said, its shameful for the nation to put women in harm's way - totally unnecessary.

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@ChristianHeiens Time to Andrew Jackson these lawless judges. Or Bukele them. Take your pick.

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@caesar_beaver Helps with context and seeing how Scripture interprets Scripture. Best available: https://t.co/GYGjWpISoW

[Nick S. @PaleoPresby]

@MordeStack @MattWalshBlog Trump needs to decide the exception and allow him to be fully prosecuted by the DOJ. He's an enemy of humanity.