Ben Purves

Christian, husband, father, and Pastor of Community & Member Care @OccoquanBible.

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

@megbasham https://t.co/Ii4MxBTK2J has some helpful tools for this.

[The Family Foundation of Virginia @TFFVA]

The ballot never told voters that Amendment 2 inserts “gender” into Virginia’s constitutional marriage language while removing the explicit clergy-protection provision that was in the introduced bill.

That is one reason FFLC is in court over Amendment 2.

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

On November 11, 1620, 41 men signed a covenant for the glory of God and the advancement of Christianity. This covenant is known today as the Mayflower Compact. Though half would die that first winter, they rejoiced in God's mercy and providence. https://t.co/o4sdpVaeD8

[Karen Hamilton @KarenHamiltonVA]

Who are the other legislators involved in this? Virginians would like to know.

[Dustin DeVito @DustinDeVito]

My latest for @BaptistLeaders explores the consistent decline of the Cooperative Program

Adjusted for inflation, CP giving has declined 19.3% over the past 5 years

For the sake of our Great Commission work, SBC leaders must ask themselves: Why is CP giving declining year after year?

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[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD November 9, 1572:
John Knox, Scottish Reformer, preaches his final sermon at St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. Weak and near death, he is helped into the pulpit, and at the same service James Lawson is installed as his successor. Knox died fifteen days later, on November 24, 1572.

[Waterboy @GMRench]

This is wicked that the judge did this:

Ecclesiastes 8:11 (NKJV):
Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

[Rick Davis @TheRhetorRick]

God is not a biological male (unless you're talking about the incarnate Christ). God is, however, inescapably masculine. He isn't "non-binary".

[The Family Foundation of Virginia @TFFVA]

Virginia law required the full amendment text to be posted at courthouses months before the 2025 election so voters could see what they were really being asked to approve.

That step was not properly completed.

That is why FFLC is seeking a preliminary injunction on November 24 to prevent certification of the results.

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

@ChristianHeiens @MiddleearthMixr I thought Minas Tirith is Vienna, and Helms Deep is Belgrade.

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

Here’s sheet music and an English translation. https://t.co/ZE2W1P5qc1

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

“God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!” (Psalm 68:1)

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[Ben Purves @benpurves]

Psalm 68 from the Genevan Psalter became the battle psalm of the Huguenots. Learn this hymn if you don’t know it already.
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[Ben Purves @benpurves]

Translation: Should girls’ sports be eliminated and replaced with co-ed sports?

[7News DC @7NewsDC]

Do you believe that biological males should not be allowed to participate in girls’ sports?
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[The Family Foundation of Virginia @TFFVA]

URGENT UPDATE

Hearing on Challenge to Abortion Amendment Rescheduled to November 24!

The Tazewell Circuit Court has rescheduled the hearing in the legal challenge to Ballot Question 1, the abortion amendment, to November 24. The hearing had been set for November 13 and was moved because of an unavoidable conflict on the judge’s schedule.

Nothing else about the case has changed. Judge Hurley will hear arguments on all legal issues, and the Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) will seek a preliminary injunction preventing certification of the results.

KEEP PRAYING!

[The Family Foundation of Virginia @TFFVA]

URGENT UPDATE

Hearing on Challenge to Abortion Amendment Rescheduled to November 24!

The Tazewell Circuit Court has rescheduled the hearing in the legal challenge to Ballot Question 1, the abortion amendment, to November 24. The hearing had been set for November 13 and was moved because of an unavoidable conflict on the judge’s schedule.

Nothing else about the case has changed. Judge Hurley will hear arguments on all legal issues, and the Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) will seek a preliminary injunction preventing certification of the results.

KEEP PRAYING!

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

I’m thankful for this. It’s good to align with truth. This is the teaching of Jesus: “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female?” (Matt 19:4).

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

It is the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male & female.

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

No, separation of church and state and the disestablishment of the Anglican Church protected dissenting churches from being persecuted. It’s not a tool to be weaponized to silence dissent. (Before the Bill of Rights, did you know Quakers were hung in Boston, and Baptist preachers imprisoned in Culpeper?) Instead of punishing dissenting churches, the state should expect churches to preach and speak to all areas of life, and all the more when law reaches into theology and ethics. This is especially true with the biblical doctrines of the sanctity of life and marriage.

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

Why would a pastor sue Virginia on the proposed marriage amendment? Here are five reasons why this lawsuit is necessary. @Christ_OverAll @WSHStand @TFFVA @BaptistLeaders @WNGdotorg @sbcvirginia @DailySignal @FRCAction @DecisionNews https://t.co/xxIZ7A6Giu

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

Read Romans 1-3, and Hebrews 13:4. No one gets a free pass for sin, all are called to account, all need to repent and find forgiveness in Christ. No one is righteous, no one at all, except for our Lord Jesus Christ. We are saved by grace alone, and not by our works.

[Ben Purves @benpurves]

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
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