Luke Collings

Senior Pastor of Yass Valley Anglican Church, PhD. student at St Mark's NTS, folk-country songwriter, Brazillian Jiu Jitsu addict, slightly music-crazy.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@sircalebhammer What we really want is Joe on your show.

"Pull up your damn Amazon! Cigars, elk meat, jiu-jitsu shorts, hunting arrows, a cold plunge bath, bullshit, bullshit, BULLSHIT!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING????"

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@stigmmaaa @mattwilcoxen I'm prepared to say that the three orders of ministry are the best application of Scriptural principles in the limitations of human structures, but not No Bishops No Church. Ordination is like marriage, it won't apply in the eschaton.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

While I have some sympathy for these sentiments and have written about the limitations of the cultural apologetics model of ministry, I wonder if this is just making the same errors in the other direction. Theologically directed ministry shouldn't kill zeal but sharpen it.

[Michael Clary @dmichaelclary]

You can complain about Gig Eva all you want, but Nick Freitas just read an entire article published by @BaptistLeaders on his own self-built platform with over 1.4 million YouTube subs

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@SPolender @MikeCosper While Volf often has interesting things to say, it's clear from his Captive To The Word Of God that he operates from a classicly liberal theological position. It is astonishing to me that so many evangelicals give him uncritical acceptance.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@ErringtonA

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@lukedsimmons @danitreweek I honestly don't think rehabilitation is her goal, merely commenting that MD appeared to diagnose some contemporary spiritual issues accurately.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@philipnation Absolutely yes. Get yourself a Gibson Hummingbird guitar and you'll be right for a gospel set on the Porter Wagoner Show.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@danitreweek But I think that's the problem, a good deal of Christians don't recognise how the line is being blurred because they don't have a clear understanding of holy affections or what The Good they should pursue is in theological terms. There is a theological anthropology gap at work.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@danitreweek I agree empathy is not sin nor in itself sinful, but it is being used to convince people (Christian or not) to concede premises that they might not otherwise do.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@ErringtonA We can get I Ride With Jesus bumper stickers...

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

I watched the entire press conference with Zelensky. There was 40 minutes of discussion up to the argument. Most people saw at most the last ten minutes. The whole video gives the proper context.

When I first watched the argument without the proper context, I thought it was possible that Trump and Vance ambushed Zelensky or were even trying to humiliate him. That's not what happened.

You had 40 minutes of calm conversation. Vance made a point that didn't attack Zelensky and wasn't even addressed to him, and Zelensky clearly started the argument.

In the first 40 minutes, Zelensky kept trying to go beyond what was negotiated in the deal. When Trump was asked a question, it was always "we'll see." Zelensky made blanket assertions that there would be no negotiating with Putin, and that Russia would pay for the war. When Trump said that it was a tragedy that people on both sides were dying, Zelensky interjected that the Russians were the invaders.

For his part, Trump made clear that the US would continue delivering military aid. All Zelensky had to do was remain calm for a few more minutes and they would've signed a deal.

The argument started when Trump pointed out that it would be hard to make a deal if you talk about Putin the way Zelensky does. Vance interjects to make the reasonable point that Biden called Putin names and that didn't get us anywhere.

The Zelensky/Trump dynamic was calm and stable. It was when Vance spoke that Zelensky started to interrogate him. Throughout the press conference to that point, everyone was making their arguments directly to the audience. Zelensky decided to challenge Vance and ask him hostile questions. He went back to his point that Putin never sticks to ceasefires, once again implying that negotiations are pointless. Why on earth would you do this? Then came the fight we all saw.

Zelensky was minutes away from being home free, and he would have had the deal and new commitments from the Trump administration. The point Vance made was directed against Biden and the media, taking them to task for speaking in moralistic terms. This offended Zelensky, and that began the argument.

I've been a fan of Zelensky up to this point, but this showed so much incompetence, if not emotional instability, that I don't see how he recovers from this. The relationship with the administration is broken. Ukraine should probably go with new leadership at this point.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@danitreweek Sister in Christ, what you need is jiu-jitsu.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@ItchySoleBro @TsarSearch @tyler_austin55 I second this recommendation.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@danitreweek I think that it's acknowledging that when you're married you have "godly" justification to be tied to the things of this world or are tempted to use worldly metrics to judge your love and service of your family.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@TimStevensAus @jimmaxcricket @rgloveroz Devastating day.

[Luke Collings @banjorev]

@lhallwriter 37. Started or read parts of several others.