BeeVeeNZ

Thoughts and musings from a Presbyterian... of the Bible believing kind. Praying and preaching for Christian renewal in New Zealand.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

Things I like.

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If you love Jesus you should love what Jesus loves, and that ultimately means you should be an official, active, and serving member of your local church (Eph. 5:25).

Church membership should be normal for Christians. Lives lived in regular accountability demonstrate the gospel’s reality to the world, particularly through the mutual love that Jesus identified as the mark of his followers. This is both biblical and strengthens evangelistic witness. Weaker and newer Christians gain feeding and accountability through membership, and mature and seasoned believers demonstrate authentic Christian living.

Hebrews calls believers to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” explicitly warning against forsaking assembly “as the manner of some is” (Heb. 10:24–25). This suggests participation isn’t optional but essential to spiritual health.

Church membership preserves biblical truth by establishing who bears responsibility for rooting out false teaching and protecting the gospel when leadership itself becomes compromised. Paul’s letter to the Galatians exemplifies this. I say this as a positional elder in my church — Paul appealed to the whole congregation rather than leadership alone to address doctrinal corruption. Think about it: how are you to “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal 6:2), which positions mutual care as a central Christian obligation, if you’re not actively in a membership role? Thessalonians similarly exhorts believers to “encourage one another and build one another up” (1 Thess 5:11), framing encouragement as a reciprocal responsibility that requires presence and investment.

Healthy membership equips believers to recognize heresy when taught or communicated and transforms them from passive consumers into active defenders of the faith.

Acts depicts the early church persevering in apostolic teaching, communion, and gathering daily, with believers holding possessions in common (Acts 2:42–47), a portrait of intensive communal engagement rather than individual isolated devotion or nominal affiliation.

Ultimately, practicing membership glorifies God as Christians gather to form his body, living under the life giving words of scripture, fellowshipping with one another sacrificially, and reflecting his character.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

SPICY TAKE:

"It is to the church that all, Jews included, must ultimately make their submission, for Christ is in it.”

Quote from Leon Morris, Revelation (an introduction).

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

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Thank you for putting this online! You're helping a lot of people, especially ministry leaders who don't have a lot of resource to throw at stuff like this.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@problogger Ahhh. Ok. Thanks for the reply.

Looks very impressive and I would love to be able to craft something like that.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@klattkev Immediately

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

Imma tell you something.... Your immigration policies are at the root of this. What you're doing here is nothing but grandstanding. Take responsibility.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable.

There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.

It is clear that people were targeted last night because of their background and I will not tolerate it. Those responsible will feel the full force of the law.

I’ve spoken to the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to convey my thanks to them and the frontline emergency services for their bravery in keeping people safe. I’ve also spoken to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to discuss the ongoing situation.

Appealing for calm must be the priority, and that is what I urge now. We must let the police get on with their work.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@Literal_Word @YouVersion

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@dpshde @MikeWingerii Oh yes. I stumbled upon it one day. When I asked around, turns out almost all my friends were using it already.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

Your much needed reminder that Mormons ARE NOT Christians 🚨

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.

Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.

Every creed.

That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..

Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.

Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.

When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)

The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”

Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…

“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).

I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.

Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@matt_horncastle Interesting. From what I can see not a lot of healthy people become career politicians.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

If any other nation committed acts like these, with the same frequency, coalitions would be putting boots on the ground.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Fleur Fitzsimons has used her position as PSA National Secretary to send an email to their 95,000 members to urge them to oppose the Definitions Bill.
Similarly, Grant Robertson has sent an email out to Otago University students.
This is what we are up against. When I talk about institutional influence and power it is this kind of thing. Activists embedded in positions of power and not ashamed to abuse their power.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

Poignant observation... 👇

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Apparently, job losses are only a national tragedy when they happen to people with university degrees.

Over the past decade, New Zealand has lost:

• Around 300 direct jobs at Marsden Point when our only oil refinery closed. Local leaders estimate including contractors and supply-chain businesses, the loss was well over 1,000 jobs.

• Around 120 direct jobs when the Holcim cement plant at Westport shut down, with significant flow-on effects for contractors, transport operators, and the coal industry that supplied it.

• Around 230 direct jobs when Winstone Pulp closed its Karioi pulp mill and Tangiwai sawmill, along with many forestry, harvesting, engineering, and transport jobs that depended on those operations.

• Around 230 direct jobs at Kinleith Mill when paper production was shut down, affecting contractors and suppliers throughout Tokoroa and the wider forestry sector.

• Around 175-230 direct jobs when the Whakatāne paper mill collapsed, plus the contractors, trucking companies, maintenance firms, and local businesses that relied on it.

• Around 300 direct jobs when the Waimate Meat Company closed, with major impacts on livestock transport, contractors, and local service businesses.

• Between 1,500 and 2,000 direct jobs across the coal sector following the collapse of Solid Energy and the decline of mining operations, alongside hundreds of contractor jobs in engineering, maintenance, transport, and support services.

All up, that's around 3,000–4,000 direct blue collar jobs gone. Once you include contractors, suppliers, transport firms, engineers, maintenance crews, and the businesses that depended on those workers spending money in their communities, the true impact was likely somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 jobs.

Thousands lost their livelihoods. Sure there were a few stories, but they often emphasised how necessary it was for the environment or some other cause.

In many cases, the same people now lamenting public sector redundancies were actively cheering these closures on. We were told they were necessary. A transition away from unethical or dirty sectors. Progress. The price of climate action.

Workers were told to retrain. Learn how to code!!! "You just need to adapt!"

Now the cuts have reached Wellington and suddenly every redundancy is treated as a national emergency.

The same people who told coal miners, refinery workers, and mill workers to embrace change are now horrified that policy analysts, communications advisors, and bureaucrats might have to do the same.

Losing your job is hard regardless of who you are. A miner's mortgage matters just as much as a social media manager's mortgage. A forestry worker's family matters just as much as a policy advisor's family.

But the reaction over the past decade suggests many people in our political and media class don't actually believe that. To them, a blue collar worker losing their job was economic progress and necessary climate action.

A public servant losing theirs is a humanitarian crisis.
It seems that job losses only become a national conversation when they happen to people with the power to dominate the conversation.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@matt_horncastle So if you want change, change the religion.

Ditch secularism. Embrace Christianity. That's what built the culture we all miss so much.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@matt_horncastle I don't mean to get too philosophical on you but...

CULTURE is downstream from RELIGION.

People become what they worship.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@dandarling Not every critique of Israel is a case of "borderline antisemitism."

And not everyone who is critical of Israel is antisemitic.

And Israel is definitely not beyond critiquing simply because they are Israel.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

The mere fact Elon criticized Nolan means Hollywood elites will begin the process of canonizing Nolan to sainthood.

[BeeVeeNZ @SunscreenEyes]

@problogger 1. What are some basic mistakes beginners make when prompting in the process of creating an app?

2. What prompts work best for clean, modern UI?

3. After building an app, you don't quite like the way a few features turned out. What's the best way to go about debugging?