Rick White

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[Rick White @Rick_White]

I can't stop seeing the Cali bear licking inside Newsom's ear.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

California Proposes Another Minimum Wage Increase So People Can Afford Products Made More Expensive By Previous Minimum Wage Increase

SACRAMENTO, CA — Governor Gavin Newsom has called on the California state legislature to pass yet another minimum wage increase so that citizens can afford the products that have been made more expensive due to the previous minimum wage increase, sources confirmed Thursday.

"This new wage increase will help California households keep up with the increase in the cost of goods and services increased by the last wage increase," Newsom told reporters at a "Fight for $50" press conference. "There will be no negative effects from this wage increase. And if there are, we will just increase the minimum wage yet another time."

"It's a foolproof plan."

Some economists question the validity of this strategy, pointing out that it's only likely to lead to the rapid replacement of human workers with kiosks and robots. But these economists are probably far-right Nazi sympathizers, according to experts, and their old tweets are currently being looked at.

At publishing time, Newsom had hurriedly replaced his "Fight for $50" slogan with "Fight for $100" as the price of products had skyrocketed once again.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

Rarely do you hear well known pastors admit they were wrong. Willie Rice has publicly admitted he made mistakes at the height of the woke-revolution. Since then, Willie has sought to counteract the leftward drift within the SBC. Willie is the kind of leader the SBC needs to help restore trust in our cooperative efforts. I fully endorse Willie Rice to be the next president of the SBC.

[Willy Rice @WillyRice]

One week from today, our Southern Baptist Convention will gather here in Florida. Here are some final thoughts for my SBC family.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

Ask a simple question. Is it more likely that egalitarians will abuse the revised amendment or that conservatives would have abused the original wording? You know the answer. Prior behavior is a predictor of future behavior.

[Albert Mohler @albertmohler]

An important update on the Truth & Unity Amendment to the SBC as we get ready to meet in Orlando. We need to get this done and affirm the convictional principles of the SBC.

[Bob Bickford @bobick]

The report is live: https://t.co/LHa6YU0z5y

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@JimmyParker87 Narrator: "Nobody noticed the billboard..."

[Ryan Burge 📊 @ryanburge]

I know that there are lots of memoirs written about people leaving evangelicalism

But the data says that between 2012 and 2022, there were actually net INFLOWs into evangelicalism.

For every 100 people raised evangelical, 17 additional converts arrived from other traditions.

[Doug Ponder @dougponder]

I’m revisiting Alastair MacIntyre’s classic work, 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘦, and it hits differently after all the protests and riots of the last few years:

“It is easy... to understand why 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 becomes a distinctive moral feature of the modern age and why 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 is a predominant modern emotion....

The self-assertive shrillness of protest arises because the facts of incommensurability ensure that protestors can never win an 𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵; the indignant self-righteousness of protest arises because the facts of incommensurability ensure equally that the protestors can never lose an argument either.

Hence... protest is characteristically addressed to those who already 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 the protestors’ premises.... Protestors rarely have anyone else to talk to but themselves. This is not to say that protest cannot be effective; it is to say that it cannot be 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 effective and that its dominant modes of expression give evidence of a certain perhaps unconscious awareness of this.”

—Alastair MacIntyre, 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘦, 3rd ed. (2007), 71

[David Mitzenmacher @davemitz]

A reminder that Church Answers, who "certifies" women as pastors for $1,500 a pop, has a financial interest in opposing the Mohler amendment.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@AuronMacintyre Deep cut. Impressive

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@mithSIM @megbasham @AuronMacintyre Yes...I'm meaning those appointed to positions that should be people with some political understanding and "read the room" skills. Our appointees do not. We have some fantastic laymen that understand the political landscape.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@RealPatSawyer @DefiantBaptist @jamesjkerr Bart Barber was the president in 2023

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@martycombs5 The true test will be when the governorship is open again in 2030. Abbott must be replaced. That said, he's about to be surrounded by state officials that will force everything to the right of him.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@martycombs5 Would have agreed with this a year ago. But the four state office victories in yesterday's primary signal a pretty big shift. None of those candidates would have won 4 years ago.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

This is true. No matter how much some will opine otherwise, Cornyn was always going to lose.

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

Had Trump endorsed Cornyn then Paxton still would have won by a lot. That’s why Trump did not endorse Cornyn.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

It's official.

John Cornyn wasted over $100 Million of our donors money to get absolutely shellacked by Ken Paxton.

If the establishment wants to complain about where donor money is going, they should start there.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@thisisfoster It's Jim Burns. He's from the heyday of youth specialties and being cringe/edgy. 🤣

[Jon Harris 🌲 @jonharris1989]

Northwood Church in Keller, TX is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.

The church appears to lean further left politically than many Southern Baptist churches, expressing support for aspects of the Black Lives Matter narrative on racism and partnering with World Relief in refugee resettlement efforts. Pastor Scott Venable has stated that racism is “everywhere in the fabric of our country” and described confronting it as a “gospel issue.” He also criticized Christians who he says are “screaming about the wrong things” on immigration, instead of helping asylum seekers live in America.

Unsurprisingly, Northwood Church employs multiple female pastors and supports women preaching during Sunday worship services.

The Bible says no female pastors. The BFM 2000 says no female pastors. But Northwood Church says no.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@jasrober @jonharris1989 Jason - do ladies ever preach at Northwood during Sunday services?

[Rick White @Rick_White]

The 90's are when CCM became less campy and more respectable as a genre. Unfortunately, the trade off was far too many artists with little to no Christian virtue.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Former band members from the popular 90's CCM band Avalon have re-released the song "Testify To Love" as an LGBTQ affirming anthem and claim it's always has been about queer love.

One of those former members, Melissa Greene, writes in her Substack post alongside photos of another band member kissing his husband at the altar that "love is for everyone" and "Michael never needed to be redeemed. He was always whole and worthy."

This phenomenon of believing that we are somehow nicer than God, that Romans 1 is too harsh or that passages affirming the holiness of marriage between one man and one woman are simply too difficult to accept, is false. We go to God's word for what's true about sexuality and marriage.

If something in the Word of God seems wrong, cruel, or confusing to us, the problem is not with God. It’s not with His Word. It’s with us.

[Rick White @Rick_White]

@Carlos__Turcios https://t.co/dFkt4aJXtj

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

In Afghanistan, older Muslim men buy 5 year old girls to marry and enslave them. This is Islam.