Samuel Sey defenders, day #1:
"He's completely innocent. This is one big misunderstanding. Trust us."
Samuel Sey defenders, day #2:
"Okay, we're not positive he's innocent. But regardless, you're bad for wanting him deported."
Samuel Sey defenders, day #3:
"Admittedly, he's probably guilty. Sure. But let's revisit why you're celebrating immigration law. Seems evil of you."
Samuel Sey defenders, day #4:
"How important is that dumb immigration system, anyway? WWJD?"
Samuel Sey defenders, day #5:
"Ngl, never liked ICE anyway tbh."
This is basically George Floyd II: Evangelical Boogaloo.
All it took for evangelicalism to flip-flop on an important issue we've been lobbying for, literally for decades, was half an opportunity to signal our virtue and the fundamental incapacity to say, "We were wrong about the facts. Our discernment was off. We repent."
America, more than any other nation in world history, was shaped by the Christian tradition of spreading the gospel unto all nations.
Join us in celebrating International Religious Freedom Day.
.@MikeWingerii has asked for a mandate from Scripture, not a thin principle that Christians are left to stretch over a whole nation. That's a fair request of anyone claiming that God requires something.
Psalm 2 gives one, addressing rulers directly:
“Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him” (Psa 2:10-12).
This is a command to civil authorities. The Holy Spirit addresses men in their public office and commands them to serve the LORD and kiss His Son.
If magistrates are commanded to serve Christ, then political authority cannot be religiously neutral, and the nation they govern already stands under that command.
The question that remains is how a nation can faithfully obey Christ in its laws, courts, schools, and protection of life in the womb.
That is a conversation worth having carefully and charitably among brothers. It begins under the same warning and resting in the same mercy: "Blessed are all who take refuge in Him."
@40_head Nick’s Boots Trades Program. Discount for carpenters, resolable, rebuildable. Expensive, but worth it. Buy once cry once. I have a pair for manual labor, a pair for Wildland fire, and a pair for hunting.
If pastors will not lead their congregations to the polls on Nov 3, then hang a banner over every capital in this land:
“Pagan by permission of the church”
The Word of God is authoritative and sufficient, and Christ is on His throne
Preach all of Christ for all of life
The nations are God's idea. He "made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place" (Acts 17:26).
A civil servant who will not guard his own people's inheritance has failed his duty of office. And the denominational agencies that lived for decades on federal resettlement grants have no standing to lecture the rest of us about what the way of Jesus requires at the border.
@financialsamura The only metric you need is waist circumference 45-50% of height, and a chest 8-10” more than your waist for men. The weight will take care of itself.
Nations which abandon God find themselves abandoned by God and overrun by demonic hordes. This is the story of all history and it will continue until there is no more history. It is also the story of America’s future if America does not repent, beg Christ’s forgiveness, and change its ways.
@Eric_Conn 72 yr old accountant at my church who works out every day just went through several months of chemo. Lost about 10lbs. Except for his treatment days, his daughter said he missed about 3 days of work. One of my heroes.
BREAKING: Young Americans are falling further behind.
Change in median net worth by age since 2022, per the Federal Reserve:
75 and older: +37%
65–74: -4%
55–64: +3%
45–54: -6%
35–44: +5%
Under 35: -23%
The youngest households saw the biggest drop of any group, while the oldest saw the biggest gain
@Eric_Conn Our church regularly goes on foreign mission trips in arduous locations (jungles, Himalayas, etc.). If you can't carry your own 30lb ruck 16 miles, you can't go. Taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth is not for the soft and fluffy, physically or theologically.
@Eric_Conn My pastor is 50 and is in great shape. He spends less than an hour a day in the gym and 4 hours a day in his study preparing for Sunday. I did Murph with our music pastor. Our youth pastor turned down a football scholarship to pursue local ministry. No fatties here.