Tim Gallant

Author | Publisher | Student of Scripture | Singer-Songwriter | Augustinian | M. Div. 2000, Mid-America Reformed Seminary | Notorious for Feed My Lambs.

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@HansFiene It makes zero sense for a manual laborer to shower just before going to work.

[Michael Clary @dmichaelclary]

My friend Da Yu left communist China for the USA twenty years ago. Last week, his American employer gave him one hour to delete his comment on a friend’s social media post or lose his job.

Da was an atheist when he first moved to Cincinnati for college. And he was excited to get away from the suffocating regime of communist China.

When he arrived here, it wasn’t long before he encountered a group of Christians who shared the gospel with him. God opened his heart to the truth of the gospel and he believed.

As his faith grew, Da became a strong Christian leader and committed evangelist. Now, many years later, he leads a small group at my church and organizes regular evangelistic outreaches for college students.

Da is a kind, smart, and godly Christian man. And he’s among the most committed members of our church. He’s an ordinary Christian who believes the Bible and has a spine. He and his wife have two young children, and she is eight months pregnant with their third.

That’s all background for what I’m about to say.

Last week, he called me out of the blue because he was faced with a difficult decision. One of his friends had just become a Christian and posted on LinkedIn about her baptism (see screenshots).

She wasn’t accustomed to making Linked In posts about Jesus, feeling as though it might be unprofessional. She wondered openly if she should keep her posts secular. But she was excited about her new life in Christ and wanted to share it.

That’s when Da chimed in with a comment on her post that there is no such thing as a purely neutral, “secular” culture. He pointed out that many companies are promoting cultural sins such as homosexuality, transgenderism, and fornication during pride month. If companies can promote those morally regressive “values,” then certainly this woman should not be embarrassed to talk about her Christian faith in public. He was simply encouraging her to be bold for Christ.

WIthin minutes, he got a message from HR. He was called to a meeting with the HR rep and the CEO where he was told he needed to take his comment on her post down immediately. Feeling put on the spot, he said he’d needed to think it over first. He asked, “what if I do not take it down?”

They said, “you have one hour to take it down or lose your job.” So he took a walk outside to gather his thoughts and pray. He spoke to his wife about it, and she told him the man she married was a man of courage, and she would stand by him. He also sought counsel from some men in our church.

Finally, he made his decision. He would not take his comment down. So they fired him. Right there, on the spot. No sooner had the call ended that his laptop was locked and he was unable to access it at all.

This whole episode is tragically ironic, given the fact that he’d moved here from China to get away from these sorts of draconian practices. But that’s the way it is with the LGBTQ regime. If you do not comply and bow the knee to their gods you will be severely punished.

In short, a good man was fired from his job for refusing to cave. He took a stand and paid a price for it. His former employers didn’t care that he’s a responsible, hard working man with a family to provide for. They didn’t care that his wife is eight months pregnant.

None of that matters. Their ideology is everything. They will crush anyone who opposes it.

I asked Da’s permission to tell his story, promising to keep him anonymous. But he responded, “Actually I think using my real name maybe better. A story becomes a lot more real with a name. I want to take a stand for it and encourage others.”

Da took a stand. You can too.

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@John_Barach @postnuance @Joseph_Spurgeon Not to mention many other believing and godly Gentiles, such as Uriah the Hittite.

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Since it's June, perhaps it's a good time to post this....

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"Paul did not deny that tensions existed. He did not deny that practical concerns were real. He asked a different question: Was Peter’s conduct in step with the truth of the gospel?"

Indeed, later in the letter Paul says that the influencers are enforcing circumcision in order to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

Theological niceties are worthless if they don't work themselves out in the oneness of Christ, head and body, so far as Paul is concerned.

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@John_Barach @wyclif @80s_channel Exactly! I was going to say, "Nobody! There's nowhere to sit."

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@dprmsy At least in certain senses, it surely was both....

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@HansFiene Movies that don't appeal to me: anything that centers around the bad guys as the protagonists: mob lords, pirates, etc. Spare me.

[Hans Fiene 🦬 @HansFiene]

People act as though it's insulting to suggest that Progressive "Christians" aren't sincere about what they believe. I think it's far more insulting to suggest that they are.

If you believe Jesus and the apostles would cheer on a child being chemically castrated, or that they'd rejoice at the thought of a woman decided to rip her child apart, limb by limb, in the womb, you are genuinely a stupid person. Imagine you grab a guy who was marching in a pride parade while wearing dental floss, and hop in a time machine with him and travel to 1st century Judea and say to Jesus, "what do you think about this?" With love and respect, you are an incredibly dumb human being if you think Jesus would say, "I'm so proud of you, my brother."

It's much less insulting to suggest that Progressive Christians see orthodox Christianity as a hindrance to building the world of sexual libertinism they desire. And in an attempt to fight against their enemies, they take something very sacred to them, the name of Jesus, and use it against them. They claim that Jesus would support their agenda, not because they believe it's true, but because they want to demoralize their opposition and shove those they consider low IQ fundamentalists out of the conversation by employing intellectually intimidating academic language.

It's ultimately the same thing that people do when the child of a politician does something they don't like. "Your father, who was a good man, would be ashamed of you." They don't believe it. They say it because pitting someone sacred to your enemy against him is the quickest and most effective way to crush him. It's an ugly strategy, but it's certainly not a stupid one.

So is it insulting to say that people like James Talarico are lying when they say the Bible supports transchildren and abortion? Sure, I suppose. But it's far less insulting than saying he actually thinks the Son of God rejoices every time a doctor throws a 12 year old's severed sex organs in the medical waste bin.

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My thoughts are here: https://t.co/NgaSrgMlhn

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@PageauJonathan That, of course, is not "Calvinism." For what it's worth.

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@BMcGrewvy How is it "obviously a love song"? It's filled with kingdom of God themes, and nothing "romantic."

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@wyclif The real tragedy is that Carvin went out of business.

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@charlesmurray Steven Wright.

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@RevDrBLee @RWurzburg @ReformedDC Your voting record is part of what reflects your intentional character, so I would say it is indeed relevant to your gospel ministry.

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Sigh. So much for my baseline approach to X. "Following" suddenly filled with accounts I don't follow.

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@John_Barach I saw Kansas at the Ryman. Rez was in Edmonton.

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@John_Barach @RevZekveld @canonpress @crossway It's also possible that Crossway has a license with an intermediary distributor who provided access to Canon+.