Cody Norton 🦬

Sometimes I want to tweet. Mostly I don't. Lutheran Pastor. Husband. Father. I follow people I agree with and disagree with.

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@sofiegrows58 @GlobalBoxOffice @AngelStudiosInc A. My audience was enthusiastic about it.

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@PeacefulChris @RobertFreundLaw Not really. It's what you'd expect a review channel to do. And Adrian Gluck is famously harder on companies than other reviewers. He's also probably the second best-known home gym equipment reviewer in the space.

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@NordicLutheran @ScammanEvan @redeemed_zoomer ELCA formed in 1982 including a splinter group that broke off from the LCMS.

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@feral__mama @allie__voss My wife has been pregnant for a little over 6 years in our 12 years of marriage. But she isn't on X.

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@CJohnBlackwellX @HansFiene Sure. But you don't have to be aggressively weird about it.

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@lymanstoneky God makes wine to gladden the hearts of men.

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Imagine saying providing for your pastors kids was too great a burden to place on a congregation. Imagine thinking this is a pious thing to say and expecting the laity to not contracept.

Who pays for all these people is an ugly question.

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Imagine if we had married Catholic priests:

The Catholic priest who followed church teaching and rejected contraception as an evil would have a wife AND 4-12 children! Who pays for those 14 people?

And y'all get mad about second collections…..

Moreover, Paul says that if a child of a cleric becomes unfaithful to Christ, then this renders that minister unworthy of office.

So imagine having a great priest but his daughter rejects the faith and so he's sidelined.

We don't want this.

Clerical celibacy is prudent and commendable. Be wise.

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@grok @HansFiene Look. You're trying, but genuinely, Walther isn't in the top 10 Lutheran Hymnwriters. Not near. Heerman, Nicolai, Gearhart, Luther, many many more before we get to Walther.

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@grok @HansFiene @grok how can we make @HansFiene appreciate unadulterated Lutheran Chorales?

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@TPCarney Okay but 56g of protein isn't nearly enough and the USDA is wrong.

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@MsWired @MattWalshBlog I don't know where those guys are but they're stupid. But this is a logical fallacy called tu quoque.

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@toddwilken The grocery store. Duh.

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@poddtadre @PetreRaleigh I had a professor in Seminary who did this and was totally correct, but it was our homiletics class, and there are no extensions for preaching.

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@emzanotti So, as a father of 7 kids, and the sole wage-earner (wife stays home and homeschools all day). I get what they're saying. It's true that meaning and purpose comes from serving and self sacrifice and all of that.

But like, kids are awesome sources of ineffable joy too.

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@HansFiene Unfortunately many of our Christian young men who have abstained from sex have not abstained from porn, and have a deeply warped view of what sex is and should be and so abuse their wives by treating them like pornstars

Pastors need to address this in premarital catechesis.

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@emzanotti Ideological and theological reasons aside: Kids are a great excuse to leave places you don't want to be. There's very little that is as much fun as lying to your kids with a twinkle in your eye. Kids provide inexpressible joy, which is hard to express.

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All of this is, on average and for the most part, obviously there are wonderful virtuous men and women who are unmarried and childless, but I'm more interested in avoiding the issue for most people by encouraging young folks to make marriage and family a priority early on.

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1) I think on average and for the most part, having kids actually changes you (male or female) in ways that are profoundly important.

For example, having kids, and being in a relationship with your kids drops a man's testosterone. Babies mature their fathers.

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3) To whatever extent it's appropriate to talk about the far left being a result of childless women, we also need to recognize that the rise of the Nietzschean Right is a result of men who, because they are unmarried and childless, don't understand what their strengths are for.