Charles Romer

Jesus is Lord. ✝️

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Most Reformed folks are reluctant to talk about the Holy Spirit, walking in the Spirit, prayer, fasting, demons, angels, impressions...They think they'll be accused of being a charismatic. So what! Just point them to the Puritans, Covenanters, Spurgeon, Reformers, etc.

[Charles Romer @Roamingromer2]

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[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

Here is the terrifying truth about homeschooling:

You are 100% responsible. No scapegoats. No luxury of blaming other teachers for not doing their jobs.

Zero excuses. Just you.

And there's more bad news.

Parents who choose homeschooling aren't escaping educational problems. They're trading them for a mirror that reflects their own flaws.

Your kids' biggest educational obstacle might be staring back at you in the bathroom mirror each morning.

Your impatience, laziness, and apathy don't disappear when you homeschool. They're amplified. You'll have front-row IMAX tickets to watch your own flaws shape your children in real-time, in high definition, 24/7.

When you seek more influence over your children's education (and you should) you get EXACTLY what you asked for.

For better or worse.

So what's the good news?

The good news is the same as the bad news. You're 100% responsible for these problems.

With God's grace, you can start weeding out your flaws. It's slow and painful, but taking the log from your own eye is the essential first step.

Homeschooling isn't just education for your children.

It's sanctification for YOU. Embrace it. Start tugging those logs out with both hands. This process is the path to real growth for your entire family.

Public schools offer the false comfort of an idol, a temporary opiate rather than a cure.

Homeschooling forces you to take a scalpel to your own heart and face problems honestly. It's harder, but it's real.

And one final thing...👇

[Charles Romer @Roamingromer2]

Very well thought out, captures many of my same observations and thus my reluctance to attend such seminars and conferences. https://t.co/Yn8tvTkMcU

[Charles Romer @Roamingromer2]

@TexasPreacher Nailed it! I'm with ya brother.

[Charles Romer @Roamingromer2]

@TexasPreacher When I engage with antinominians they balk at any form of obeying law and it makes me think of Kevin DeYoung's phrasing, "I sometimes think our definition of legalism is: 'Anyone who takes holiness more seriously than I do.'

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

You can always tell how much a person has read of the BIBLE by how much they detest Rome & her practices. There is usually a direct correlation.

[Brandon Scalf @brandonmscalf]

Lay elders and deacons often work forty hours a week or more at their jobs and still give another ten to fifteen hours serving the church.

The preaching pastor should at least keep pace with that.

Pastors, work more and work harder!

Ministry is no place for lazy men.

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Making it illegal to practice Islam anywhere in the USA should be common sense. And imprecatory prayers against Islam is a good thing, actually. What a wicked religion.

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

The great Scottish divine Thomas Halyburton on his death bed, 1712, was "greatly concerned for Scotland, lest a dry, formal, and merely rational religion should prevail." One of his last prayers was thus-

"The operations of the Spirit of God are ridiculed in this day, but it we take away the operations and influences of the Spirit of God in religion, I know not what is left. O! that this generation would awake to seek after the quickening influences of the Spirit. O! for a day of the downpouring of the Spirit from on high!"

[Brian Sauvé @Brian_Sauve]

To be clear, Knox is 100% correct.

The woman in her greatest perfection, the Garden of Eden, was made to serve and obey her husband, not rule him.

Many things follow, but one of them is certainly that if she tries to rule him, both she and he will be miserable.

[Brian Sauvé @Brian_Sauve]

“Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not to rule and command him.” —John Knox

What someone thinks of this quotation is a one-sentence test of whether I respect their opinion on human sexuality.

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

Comments tell me I've found a golden calf.

[Charles Romer @Roamingromer2]

@nsxanders I'm currently at Whitefield Theological Seminary and attending Grace Reformed Presbyterian Church in Greeneville and will be starting up a deaf ministry with my church in the Tri-Cities or Knoxville area in the coming year. Perhaps in the future we can partner somehow.

[Matt Cline @MrMRCline]

Pastors should be rigorously and formally trained.

They teach, counsel, and exercise authority in matters that touch your eternal soul.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Judas Iscariot walked with Jesus for three years.

He heard every sermon. Witnessed every miracle. Ate at the same table.

And went to hell anyway.

Most Christians today are modern Judas Christians.

Here's how to know if you're one of them:

Judas had perfect theology.

He could quote Scripture. He knew Jesus was the Messiah.

But knowledge didn't save him.
Proximity didn't save him.
Religious activity didn't save him.

Only surrender saves.
Judas's fatal mistake wasn't betrayal. That was just the symptom.

His fatal mistake was keeping Jesus at arm's length while using Him for personal gain.

Sound familiar?

Modern Judas Christians:

*Consume sermons but never repent

*Use Jesus as life coach, not Lord

*Want Heaven without holiness

*Follow Jesus for benefits, not worship

*Keep one foot in the Kingdom, one in the world

They pray when convenient.
Read when motivated.
Obey when comfortable.
Surrender when forced.

But they never BOW.

Jesus didn't die so you could improve your life.

He died so He could OWN your life.

Big difference.

Judas called Jesus "Rabbi" (teacher).
Peter called Him "Lord" (master).

Judas kept his autonomy.
Peter surrendered it.

One went to hell.
One went to Heaven.

What do you call Him?

You can walk with Jesus your whole life and never KNOW Him.

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 7:21

Stop being a Judas Christian.

Stop using Jesus.

Start surrendering to Him.

Your eternity depends on which side of that line you're on.

—TBM

[Anthony Diehl | Preventative Health Consultant @meathead_prof]

Imagine a family takes a trip to the theme park with their son and a young neighbor boy, and their son was promised $10 if he obeyed and did well on the trip.

On the course of the trip this unruly child is not doing well and despite repeated admonishment is continuing to act foolish so the parent takes the $10 promised to their son and gives it to the neighborhood boy.

The neighborhood boy is delighted but also warned not to gloat because they can take it right back, but they also have the right to reward their son again too and even wish to do so.

Upon arriving at the theme park, and due to no particularly good behavior on the boys part, the parents, in their desire to show mercy and bless the boys with a good time decide to give each of them $100 to spend at the arcade.

Any rational, thinking person would see that the promise to the son to give him $10 (conditioned on obedience) was fulfilled in the wonderful gift of $100 which was an act of love and mercy. Only a delusional person would say, “Well, no technically you still promised me $10 and a $100 bill, though bigger and better, is not a $10 bill so I’m not counting your promise as fulfilled.”

No one would ever think this way right?

Dispensationalism: “Hold my beer.”

This is exactly what those who keep harping on these “literal” promises to ethnic Israel are doing. The NT authors have said so plainly in a multitude of ways that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promises to Israel and that the promises include the entire earth, yet these people are like, “Nope. Not good enough! You promised me this strip of land in the Middle East the size of Jersey. How dare you fulfill it with the earth. You promised me a king on David’s literal throne.” Jesus is like, “Um, I answered that. Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool.” Dispys are like, “No, you said right here so it must be right here.”

Dispensationalism is the blind refusal to let God define terms. It’s a petulant child insisting on $10 and not being happy with $100.

Some even advocate for a third temple, complete with sacrifices even though Hebrews makes it so clear that Christ is the final and perfect sacrifice. He is the great high priest, and He is the Davidic King. Frankly this would be a heretical and blasphemous act which spits on Christs work.

One of the main problems with dispensationalism is the dumpster fire hermeneutics which really only emerged in the last 200 ish years. They insist on a literal interpretation but it’s like they never took a literature class in their life and have no concept of genre. Things in the OT that are meant to be symbolic, even when explained and spelled out with finger paint and pictures in the NT, are ignored.

How can you be a literate human with access to church history, read Romans, Ephesians, Galatians, and Hebrews, and be confused as to who the people of God are. This is the most willful ignorance or profound brainwashing.

This isn’t confusing. Peter wrote that some of Pauls words were hard to understand… this aint it.

Jesus is the seed, the root, the branch, and the tree of life. All of the promises of God find their fulfillment in him.

For those who grew up brainwashed by dispensationalism, read O Palmer Robertson’s, “Christ of the Covenants” and that will help lift the scales from your eyes and see the Scripture in new, wonderful ways.

[Zoe Miller @zoeschimke]

“Mom can you come pick me up? I started tweeting about women’s roles in church”

[Martyn Lloyd-Jones Gold @DMLJGOLD]

A MUST read from Martyn Lloyd-Jones 👇🏻