Brad Large

Husband, Father, late entry seminary student, Hunter, backpacker, Airman…I grew up Baptist.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

Men are far too consumed with other people’s sin.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

They’re not done with this guy. I’ve seen this act before.

“And forasmuch as my hand offended, writing contrary to my heart, my hand shall first be punished therefore; for, may I come to the fire, it shall be first burned."
-Thomas Cranmer

[Zachary Groff 📖 @ZGroff]

At the end of May, I publicly commented in unduly strong terms on a judicial action taken by the Rio Grande Presbytery. I was wrong to weigh in without knowing all the facts of the presbytery’s deliberations, and I regret that my comments offended brothers both in that presbytery and beyond it, to whom I now offer a sincere public apology.
Furthermore, I have decided to resign as Chairman of the Mission to North America (MNA) National Coordinator Search Committee, and I will refrain from commenting on sensitive PCA issues for the remainder of the Search. The work before us is far too important to be sidetracked by such distractions.
I am grateful for the collegiality and care the other members of the MNA Permanent Committee have shown to me while we conferred on this matter. By God's grace, MNA is in good hands. May God bless the PCA as we enter our 53rd year of ministry together this month in Louisville.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

God can render useful his own ordinances, or else he would never have appointed them.

- Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

Edwin Friedman’s book “A Failure of Nerve” is fantastic if you replace the concept of self-differentiation with “reliance on Christ” and replace “evolution” with “sanctification”

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

@lukerosiak

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

There’s a huge need to reclaim an understanding of the Spirit.

I’m finding JI Packers book “Keep in Step with the Spirit” accessible and a good diagnosis of where we are at.

It embraces the Spirt, and debunks our materialist and new age understandings

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit is a lost art. You'll find it in the Puritans, Covenanters, Reformers, Spurgeon, etc. They speak of burdens, leadings, outpourings, refreshings: all are expected when men walk with God. Today, such language scares us. We're too rationalistic.

[Casey Putsch @CaseyPutsch]

@GovMikeDeWine Thank you most kindly for showing the people of Ohio who the globalist sellouts truly are.

Game on.

Putsch for Ohio

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Bo,

I'm glad he did that, but the issue of the day is folks don't understand how widespread functional female officers are, even though churches are bold to make it public via livestreams, blogs, and newsletters. It's out in the public. They bury once you say something privately. But their convictions don't change, accountability is shirked, and the rot continues to spread.

According to the BCO, Christ exercises His kingly authority through pastors, ruling and teaching the Church through the ministry of men, thereby mediately enforcing His own laws (Preface I; cf. BCO 3-1, 3-3). As officers of the Church, pastors and elders are granted ordinary ecclesiastical power to act severally, including reproving the erring, not only jointly through formal courts (BCO 3-2). Elders are explicitly charged to watch diligently over the flock, so that no corruption of doctrine or morals enters the Church, and to exercise oversight not only of the particular congregation but of the Church generally when called thereunto (BCO 8-3).

Moreover, Church authority includes the duty to bear testimony against error in doctrine and immorality in practice, within or without the Church (BCO 11-2). Because the stated ends of discipline include the glory of God, the purity of the Church, and the warning of others (BCO 27-1), public sins, by their very nature, cannot be adequately addressed by private means alone and therefore require public rebuke.

Consequently, a pastor who refuses to address public sin publicly is not being restrained by the BCO; rather, he is neglecting the very duties the BCO imposes upon him as a minister of Christ, duties that are moral and biblical in nature, not merely denominational.

I am not within the PCA. I am merely a lowly, independent Reformed pastor, and I’m quite aware of my station. But credibility with men who quietly set aside their own constitution in the name of being “winsome” churchmen is not something I am especially eager to earn. If the PCA falters, it will not be for my lack of trying to do what little I can in the margins of a busy life. A crusade? That’s cute. But if it collapses into schism and corruption out of a gentlemanly refusal to endure a public ordeal, that outcome will not be mysterious, and it will not be mine to own. It will happen on your watch. It will be your fault, along with all the other churchmen (including you, @JoeCristman).

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

😑🤣😂🤣🫡

[Church Curmudgeon @ChrchCurmudgeon]

What’s the poorest appetizer?

The jalapeño pauper.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

I this this went south with Scleiermacher and continues to be a problem as people have traded Christian apologetics for logic seasoned with emotional appeal.

It would be a huge change to rely on the Bible and common sense.

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Ever notice that most professional apologists are really bad at theology? This is one of the worst takes I've heard.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

I’m reading “Knowing God” by JI Packer.

One thing that stood out was how righteously angry God is to anyone who thinks they can fool, trick, or tame Him into letting them into Heaven.

What a wrath such a one as that will face when they realize the cost of what God had given.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

@redeemed_zoomer @CharlesTingler

[Douglas Wilson @douglaswils]

@AuronMacintyre @GMRench @AuronMacintyre they asked for a clarification, which I gave. You represented me as saying something I did not say, and do not believe. I am glad you accepted my clarification, but you didn't ask for it. You accused me falsely. You should know better.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

@jonharris1989 This is the military pronunciation. This is what Troops have called it for a long time.

It’s not exactly a tourist destination.

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Here is an excerpt from a book of mine that @FoundersMin is publishing in 2026. The topic, fittingly, is hell. It is especially written with the lost in mind, so if you have any unbelievers in your life - send them the link. Think of it as a gospel tract

https://t.co/5tF6sfOtPP

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

@thisisfoster I have several friends who simultaneously discovered vintage cameras and film photography.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

Gate keeping?

Like shouting down TE Brindle?

https://t.co/IbRcD5Igke

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

I was stressed about a paper for seminary on how God’s will is essentially reality.

I got an A-

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

😐🙂🫡

[Josh Daws @JoshDaws]

Pastors, your job is not to suppress Christian involvement in politics.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

If you’re ever like, “man, I need some new material for my confession time…”

Just read the Ten Commandments.

Problem solved.

[Brad Large @ReformReclaimed]

One of the biggest parts of being in God’s army is simply being steadfast and drawing fire.