The Virginia Center for Public Theology

Christ above all. Defending Christian Ethics in the Town Square.

[Jason Garwood @JasonGarwood]

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[The Virginia Center for Public Theology @VirginiaCPT]

From our time at Virginia Tech this past winter.
Repent with us.

[Jason Garwood @JasonGarwood]

Abolitionists are not being pedantic when we insist on a distinction between abolition and pro-life. We believe abolition is the biblical response to moral atrocity. God’s law is always the standard.

[The Virginia Center for Public Theology @VirginiaCPT]

Many good conversations were had with students, and we trust that seeds were planted and that God will give the growth in His sovereign timing. #AbolishAbortion #ChristAboveAll

[The Virginia Center for Public Theology @VirginiaCPT]

An incredible day of agitation and evangelism yesterday at George Mason University. Around twenty abolitionists descended upon Virginia’s largest public university to expose the evil of child sacrifice and proclaim the crown rights of King Jesus.

[The Virginia Center for Public Theology @VirginiaCPT]

2) GO be salt & light.
3) Call and write your legislators and urge them to OPPOSE this bill.

It has already passed the Senate; it currently sits in the House.

[The Virginia Center for Public Theology @VirginiaCPT]

Virginia Democrats, who hate Christ and love injustice, are still working on SB137–a bill that would severely hinder public ministry at the murd*r mills.

1) Pray imprecatory prayers against them. Daily.

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[Jason Garwood @JasonGarwood]

The Jezebel spirit is strong with this one.

[The Virginia Center for Public Theology @VirginiaCPT]

Weak Republicans gave us this.

And our own stupid sins.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Here's what Virginia Democrats have introduced so far. This list is truly insane:

>Bans future attempts to clean up voter rolls (HB111)
>Makes it illegal for state agencies distributing federal dollars to NGOs to investigate whether they're engaged in fraud (HB1369)
>Makes it illegal to hand-count ballots (HB968)
>Allows mail-in ballots to be counted one week after election day (HB773)
>Allows for absentee ballots to be received and counted for three days after election day (HB82)
>Gerrymanders the state with a 10-1 or 9-2 Democrat Congressional map (HJ4)
>Creates a state-level equivalent of the VRA (HB967)
>Eliminates the requirement that large last-minute campaign contributions have to be publicly reported at least 24 hours before election day (HB1348)
>Removes the State Board of Elections' ability to dispatch law enforcement officers to collect vote tallies from a locality that refuses to publish them (HB1321)
>Joins the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact for allocating Virginia's electoral college votes in presidential elections (HB965)
>Automatic restoration of voting rights for felons after they're released from prison and the mentally handicapped (HB964, HB963, & HB1014)
>Allows for votes to be cast "electronically through the internet" (HB493)
>Public funding of political campaigns at the local level (HB162)
>Abolishes all mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies (HB863)
>Makes it harder for judges to deny bail, even in the case of things like aggravated assault, armed robbery, and drug trafficking (HB357)
>Gives convicted murderers, rapists, and terrorists a chance to get out of prison early (HB853)
>Drastically reduces the criminal penalty for robbery (HB244)
>Bars prosecutors from mentioning a criminal's prior convictions during the guilt phase of a trial, even if it's for the same crime (HB1070)
>Transfers the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety's purview to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (SB21)
>Reduces the amount of time that the Commonwealth can compel a convicted criminal to pay court fees from 60 years to 10 (SB180)
>Taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries (HB1245)
>Bans most discretionary state contracting under $100K from going to businesses owned by White men and allows state agencies to award contracts to women or minority-owned firms that are 5% more expensive than a bid from a business owned by a White man (HB61)
>Punishes VMI for adopting an anti-DEI stance (HB1374 & HB22)
>Abolishes all Confederate-themed license plates (HB1344)
>Eliminates the tax-exempt status for all Confederate history groups (HB167)
>Renames Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples Day." (HB858)
>Makes it illegal to approach within 8ft of somebody within 40 feet of an abortion clinic (SB137)
>Enshrines a Leftist narrative about January 6 and teaches it in public schools (HB333)
>Allows localities to adopt rent control measures (HB1177)
>Increases the sales tax in Northern Virginia, adds an additional sales tax for home deliveries, raises the car tax for electric vehicles, and imposes new sales taxes for streaming services, concerts, gym memberships, nail salons, barber shops, tanning beds, tatoo parlors, dry cleaners, shoe repairs, carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, and housekeeping work for homes, swimming pool maintenance, travel agencies, and shipping services (SB730, HB1179, HB900 & HB978)
>Creates a new tourism tax on event entrance fees (HB550)
>Raises the hotel tax in Arlington (HB524)
>Imposes a new 7.75% tax on incomes over $1 Million (HB1074)
>Creates two new tax brackets, one over $600K at 8% and another over $1 Million at 10% (HB979)
>Imposes a 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes (HB378)
>Allows every locality to raise the state sales tax by 1% (HB334 & SB66)
>Raises the sales tax for Stafford County (HB1000)
>Rounds up all state and local taxes by the nearest 5-cent increment (HB954)
>Allows localities to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers (HB881)
>Imposes a new personal property tax on electric-powered lawn equipment (HB557)
>Limits the ability to use self-driving or autonomous vehicles (HB1124)
>Allows state and local government to implement traffic and speed cameras (HB1330 & HB994)
>Puts speed cameras on state highways (HB1220)
>Requiring a license to buy a firearm (HB1359)
>"Assault weapons" ban (HB217)
>Strips gun rights from anyone convicted of a misdemeanor "hate crime" (HB1015)
>Making it illegal to shoot a firearm on lot sizes less than 5 acres (HB926)
>Expands "gun-free zones" (HB626)
>Shrinks concealed-carry reciprocity with other states (HB24)
>Holds firearm manufacturers liable for gun deaths (HB21 & SB27)
>Imposes an 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition (HB1094)
>Imposes a $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors (HB207)
>Drastically raises the physical requirements to operate a firearms store (HB907)
>Makes it harder to obtain a concealed carry permit (HB916)
>Creates a new taxpayer-funded state propaganda "center" for the sole purpose of promoting gun control (HB969)
>Ends qualified immunity for police (HB 1314)
>Targets ICE by banning the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers (HB7)
>Makes ICE agents liable for civil lawsuits filed by illegal aliens (HB1314)
>Prohibits ICE from arresting illegal migrants outside of courthouses (HB1265)
>Establishes a state propaganda commission to publicize the supposed negative impacts of ICE raids in Virginia (HB1264)
>Creates a state-mandated playbook for how schools must respond to ICE showing up on their campus and bans school employees from assisting ICE (HB1260)
>Unionizes government employees and gives them collective bargaining rights (HB1263)
>Unlimited taxpayer-funded home purchases for government employees (HB164)
>Preferential hiring in State government for Federal employees laid off by DOGE (HB494)
>Defers property taxes for Federal employees during shutdowns (HB915)
>Hikes Minimum Wage to $15/Hour (HB1)
>Eliminates the minimum wage exemption for farm workers (HB20)
>Mandates the hiring of a new bureaucratic position ("Career Coach") in every single public school (HB138)
>Mandates "mental health screenings" for all public school students between 6th and 12th grade (HB355)
>Drastically curtails home school and private school independence from the Virginia Department of Education (HB359)
>Raises the salaries of school board chairs and vice-chairs (HB382)
>Free public school education for illegal aliens (HB912)
>Allows out-of-state Indian tribe members to receive in-state tuition (HB287)
>Lets students graduate high school despite failing grades (SB147)
>Eliminates nearly all academic benchmarks for college students to continue receiving financial aid (SB167)
>Somali daycare fraud pilot program (HB259)
>Expands the eminent domain powers of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (HB446)
>Reclassifies Solar farms as an "agricultural operation", thus granting it protections under the Right to Farm law (HB1091)
>More than triples financial penalties from the Department of Environmental Quality to comply with environmental regulations (HB1350)
>Mandates all localities adopt an "environmental justice plan" (HB256)
>Allocates $100 million in taxpayer funding for the production of "sustainable aviation fuel" (HB1230)
>Eliminates the ability of a health insurance provider to charge a premium for smokers (HB220)
>Adds a new insurance mandate to cover over-the-counter condoms (HB1182)
>Mandates "unconscious racial bias" trainings for nurses to retain their license (SB22)

[Jason Garwood @JasonGarwood]

Another fruitful afternoon of gospel proclamation at George Mason University. Our team did a fantastic job. I spent nearly two hours speaking with two atheists (pray for Ryan and Devin).

Both young men entered the conversation hoping to make Christianity look foolish—an impossible task. Yet both left humbled. The Spirit was at work, doing His glorious work of conviction.

Whenever an atheist leaves realizing that (1) he does not live consistently within his materialistic worldview (they always reach for metaphysical and abstract concepts), and (2) he has been confronted by the law and gospel of God—the ministry has been successful. Push the antithesis. Press the crown rights. Only Christianity makes sense of the world. Plant the seeds: God causes the growth.

[The Virginia Center for Public Theology @VirginiaCPT]

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[Cross & Crown Church @cross_and_crown]

It’s been a beautiful day at the Warrenton Fall Festival! We’ve been passing out hundreds of gospel tracts, some Bibles, literature intended to challenge the prevailing narrative regarding child sacrifice, etc. Conversations have been lively and we thank King Jesus for it. SDG ⚔️

[Abolitionists Rising 🌳🪓 @AbolitionRising]

The evolution of the abortion industry.

[Jason Garwood @JasonGarwood]

Angry transgender threatened violence against me today.

When they accuse YOU of doing something hateful, remember that it’s projection. They are guilty.

[Jason Garwood @JasonGarwood]

🌍 Couple talks I’m preparing for this year’s mission in Africa:

1) Sacramental Maturity — building off of James Jordan’s “Merit vs. Maturity” thesis (which is very compelling). Hoping to urge people to consider the wisdom of God over against the alternative ‘wisdom ‘of the world.

2) The Reduction of Christianity — emphasizing the Reformational task of applying all of Christ for all of life.

My main commitment: That human life in its entirety is religion. Consequently, man’s social, political, and cultural experiences, goals, and outcomes unfold as a service either of the one True and Living God, or an idol.

SDG ⚔️

[Jason Garwood @JasonGarwood]

When you’ve sampled the Moscow Mood and realize there’s more where that came from.