Justin Taylor

Christian, husband, father, church elder, book publisher, historian, Husker fan, blogger at Between Two Worlds and Evangelical History

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

@JLawrence10_ We were warned

[Benjamin L. Gladd @DrGladd]

Matt Harmon and I relaunched our podcast, Biblical Theology Briefing. 🎙️

We've got six episodes lined up for season 1, and I can't wait to share them with you.

First episode: "What is Biblical Theology?"

https://t.co/XWAXnQbn3k

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

@scottrswain Really helpful. Also makes me think (more broadly) of this Spurgeon quote: https://t.co/ZrX79zXude

[Scott R. Swain @scottrswain]

It can be spiritually helpful to the person praying to spell this logic out in prayer: "God, I am depending on you for this [C] because of this [D]."

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

I’m not sure you even have to be a card-carrying Calvinist to think that 85% of academic criticisms of Calvinism are either uninformed, or critiquing something that bears little resemblance to a meaningful Calvinist intellectual tradition.

[Colin J. Smothers @colinsmo]

9 months from now you could be holding your newborn daughter
9 years from now you could be teaching your son to ski
19 years from now you could be at your daughter’s graduation
29 years from now you could be meeting your first grandson

or

you could be at another concert.

[Robert P. George @McCormickProf]

Embracing a concept of marriage as a form of sexual-romantic companionship or domestic partnership (something that happened long before the advent of "same-sex marriage") was, I believe, a tragic mistake. That's why I join *Greater Than* in working to restore in law and cultural the historic conjugal understanding of marriage--an understanding that prioritizes the needs and rights of children to the desires or perceived interests of adults.

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

Why would the Big Ten Commissioner want this top-5 matchup on Peacock? Also, the TV crew obviously had no idea what Reink Mast looks like. They tried zooming in on two different blonde bench players. (Uh, if a guy can't play due to the stomach flu, he's probably in the bathroom, not sitting on the bench.)

[Denny Burk @DennyBurk]

This is an important story. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America had a pastor promoting racist errors.

The RPCNA not only defrocked him, but they also excommunicated him.

These errors must be likewise repudiated wherever they are found.
https://t.co/1QMkHL9GjG

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

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[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

@khjamieson What a life! Just last year she was asking a friend at Eden where she could get a large print ESVSB—at age 99! (We sent her one.)

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

Lady Elizabeth Catherwood (1927–2026)

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[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

If you've ever struggled to figure out what to believe about whether the Father has more authority than the Son in eternity past—the Trinity debate in 2016—this may be the most helpful interview you can watch. Kyle Claunch is a masterful teacher:

https://t.co/Onql5iaN5S

[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

@mattleeanderson @scottrswain Barry Danylak's work is also worth consulting: https://t.co/xlbmA1zSfX

[Scott R. Swain @scottrswain]

Every example of misery in the Gospels (being blind, deaf, lame, sick, dead, etc) represents specifically covenant curses pronounced on Israel in Lev 26; Deut 28 due to their covenant infidelity.

Correspondingly, every mercy they receive is promised covenant mercy (Deut 30:3).

[Amy Welborn @amywelborn2]

Here's a link to the full text of Vance's speech at the March for Life.

It was a nice speech but then there's - as even he acknowledges - the "elephant in the room" - which he doesn't get specific about, but is of course the administration's refusal to roll back the previous administrations policies on chemical abortion pills.

He speaks of life as a gift and the need to continue to build a culture of life, but what are two of the greatest obstacles right now to forming a culture that sees life as a gift of unique human being with rights and meriting protection?

How about - easy, legal access to chemical abortion as well as the creation and destruction of human life in laboratories, policies that his administration supports and even promotes as a good.

We’re not trying to argue to the Supreme Court anymore. We are trying to persuade our fellow citizens that we must build up that culture of life. "

Doing nothing about chemical abortions and promoting IVF...doesn't help.

@JDVance

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[Justin Taylor @between2worlds]

Find and follow truth-tellers like @DavidBahnsen: equal weights and measures, not cowardly tribalism that only sees sin and compromise in one direction.

[David L. Bahnsen @DavidBahnsen]

I scrolled my top ten sources for people furious about various left wing 2020/21 cultural absurdities, particularly as it pertains to gender, life, and other traditional conservative values issues … those loudest about being principled and angriest about evangelicals who were silent in that moment requiring cultural courage. I scrolled them and went back as far and deep as I could to see their boldness now in the face of HHS sanctioned support of Planned Parenthood, and the barrage of predictable RFK moves against traditional values re: life and marriage etc (many other places of compromise and capitulation besides HHS). You know how many incidents I found of “courage” and “people calling out” such things?
Zero.
I found zero.
We live in a day and age of tribalistic cowardice.
If I ran this same test around economic principles most of the culture war zealots of 2020 would actually be SUPPORTING the state-sanctioned moves to central planning of the last year.

I will be clear as can be: those who were quiet and cowardly in 2020/21 deserved scorn - it was a despicable assault on our values.
Those silent (or even cheerleading) now, also deserve scorn - not just for the same cowardice they once accused others of, but for rank hypocrisy.

The future belongs to the truth-tellers.

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

A generous donor has now make this book from Oxford University Press free of charge. Click the link at the bottom of the article to get a copy.

[Dane Ortlund @daneortlund]

C. S. Lewis, letter to Mary Neylan, January 20, 1942:

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptations.

It is not serious provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience etc doesn't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home. But the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes are airing in the cupboard.

The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present to us: it is the very sign of His presence.

--The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 507