Brandon McLean Smith

Reformed Presbyterian | Neo-Calvinist | Archival Editor at Westminster Magazine | Host of The Scottish Tempest: The Life of John Knox podcast

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

Not a lot of Church History podcasts out there... So I decided to fix that. "The Scottish Tempest" is a project I'm working on under Westminster Media on the life of John Knox. The first episode is almost 2 hours long and it drops on Monday. Be sure to give it a listen.

[Westminster Seminary @WestminsterTS]

Introducing a new Podcast series from Westminster Media. "The Scottish Tempest: The Life of John Knox." Episode 1 will be dropping Monday morning.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

We're all surrendering to something... she just decided she'd rather it not be demons.

[Dylan Allman @dylanmallman]

Tragic. There is nothing brave in surrender, however calm the face that announces it.

A woman who could have belonged to herself gave the entire life away to be held by something that demands her obedience and demands her gratitude for the chance to give it.

Every good day from here gets credited to the thing she knelt to. Every bad one gets pinned on her for not kneeling hard enough. She'll spend decades thankful for the privilege of obeying.

A life primed to be wasted, by her own hand, with a smile.

[Kuiper Belt Productions @KuiperBelt117]

😅 Love my Presbyterian Brothers!

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

Why is every pillow on earth way too thick except for mine?

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@OpenNoteGrapple VERY common amongst wrestlers and I myself will probably be guilty of this.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@Knightly_Hist The whole “they can’t aim” thing was based off of them letting Luke, Leia, and Han go so that the Empire could track them to the resistance. They were ordered not to hit them.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@iamwjs67 While Khabib's technique may have been sharper it's also important to note that Gaethje probably learned from that loss.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@joshcurrie87 Could also have a nice Blade Runner inspired nickname too. "Batty"

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

“I’d like to introduce you to my 3 sons… Anger, Battalion, and Creature”

[Spurgeon Church History, Assoc of Pilgrim’s Coffer @PuritanTruths]

DON’T NAME ME THAT!

The Puritans gave us some wonderful things, but apparently baby names were not always one of them!

I thought some of my grandkids had unusual names, but the Puritans have us all beat. Some of these names sound more like sermons than birth certificates!

Consider these real Puritan names:
If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned

Dancell-Dallphebo-Marke-Antony-Dallery-Galleiy-Caesar

Fly-Fornication

• Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith
Job-Rackt-Out-Of-The-Ashes

No-Merit

Abstinence

And perhaps the most famous of them all:

Praise-God Barebone (pictured below)

Can you imagine a teacher taking attendance?

“Fight-The-Good-Fight-Of-Faith?”

“Present.”

“If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned?”

“Here… but please just call me Chris!”

Maybe our generation’s unusual names aren’t so unusual after all!

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

Actually a very good description of the tension between definitive and progressive sanctification.

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

Conor McGregor admits he's still battling parts of his old self and says money didn't bring him fulfillment:

"Man, I'm different, brother. I find myself in a fight still — between the old ways that don't serve me and the new ways, the new version of me, the new man I am. I find myself in competition, in a battle with that.

Money isn't the be-all and end-all. It's not life... Look what it brought to me. Still, even now, I can feel it somewhere.

There are forces that try to get their claws into you in this life, and I don't want to give it energy. I don't want to give it life."

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@PerfInjust Can’t please them all huh?

Is this horseshoe theory?

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

This is unintentional Dispensationalism. The Church (Israel) did get corrupted until all that was left was the stump of Jesse. It got so bad that it went all the way down to a single man. Even still… the gates of hell did not prevail.

[☦︎ 𝔓𝔞𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔠 𝔓𝔦𝔩𝔩 ☦︎ @patristicpill]

Every Protestant eventually says the same thing:

“The Church got corrupted.”

Islam, Mormonism, JW all say this.

Every fake restorationist needs Christ’s Church to vanish so their sect can appear necessary.

The gates of Hades did not prevail.

Cope.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

"You see that movement out there in the woods?"

"Yeah, is that a deer or a person?"

"Just take the shot. If you can't tell the difference, it doesn't matter."

[ˆ𐃷ˆ @flirtaeyeon]

people who are against abortion always sound extremely dumb

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@BOXINGnBBQ You can see in the video the doctor says "no, he can see" and nod his head. Then Goddard says "I want to let this go" and the doctor nods his head again and says "yeah."

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

This is like moving to Japan and acting like you can dictate what it means to be Japanese after living there for only 3 years.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Elliot Page: "Healthy masculinity to me is… like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down."

Don't womansplain masculinity to us ma'am.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@KnoxiteTheocrat But he’s a philologist… so he feels for some reason that he can sneer at the people who benefit from his line of study.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@valorthodoxia @autocorrect2_0 I won't say this is a strawman, but it is not an accurate description of reformed protestant soteriology. In the protestant view, justification, sanctification, adoption, regeneration, etc. are all benefits that flow from union with Christ.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@YariLogos To try to avoid the idea that God's wrath is poured out upon sinners in judgment and that Christ saves us from that wrath is to reject ALL of these passages.

[Brandon McLean Smith @B_McLeanSmith]

@YariLogos Or what about Colossians 3:6-7?

"For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them."