Daniel Palmer

Blessed husband. Proud father. BA-History; MPA; M-Div. Called to preach the gospel and pastor at North Roanoke Baptist Church.

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

It was interesting today that a raised ballot vote was requested on the Truth and Unity amendment. That was declined because “the rules require it [a submitted ballot].” But, is this true? Law passed the first time in New Orleans with a raised ballot vote. Why not today? #sbc26

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@Protestia Iorg’s flights to the South were covered for him.

[Doug Ponder @dougponder]

Some insider baseball for my SBC followers, especially those at the annual meeting:

Jeff Iorg’s statement that “the mission matters most” is, of course, quite true.

But the way he contrasted that with “other issues, which matter much less” should not delude anyone into thinking that focusing on issues like women pastors are “distractions” from the mission.

Don’t take the bait, brothers and sisters. “The mission that matters most” is God’s mission, but we must undertake that on God’s terms. This means we cannot pit doctrine against evangelism or missions.

The former fuels the latter. As Willy Rice rightly said yesterday, “Faithfulness today means fruitfulness tomorrow.”

Remember this when the time comes to vote for Mohler’s truth and unity amendment.

[Doug Ponder @dougponder]

The whole message was excellent, but the following clip is especially powerful.

If you’re in the SBC, give this a listen, then join me in giving Willy Rice your vote for president.

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@Jonathan_Howe Can messengers know which churches are seating messengers, and how many?

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

Make no mistake, there will be egalitarians at a confessionally complimentarian convention casting a vote on whether or not we should remain complimentarian. That is the problem that must be meaningfully addressed. #sbc26

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@JoshuaWPowell The messengers are largely prohibited from dealing with much at all — cannot even recall their own committee.

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@WilliamWolfe @nateakin @jdwredberg Pretty sure I read a defense of/support for the Law Amendment article by Nate Akin in the run up to Indianapolis.

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

Things #SBC26 should do: 1) Pass Law-Sanchez; 2) require registration secretary to publish a list of churches including city, state, website and number of messengers seated, 3) make it possible for the SBC to recall its credentials committee and elect a new one.

[Restoration News @NewsRestoration]

EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit Accuses Virginia Schools, VHSL of Religious Discrimination

Founding Freedoms Law Center files lawsuit against Roanoke County Schools and Virginia High School League, on behalf of a homeschooled student prohibited from public school sports participation.

More than 30 states permit homeschooled students to participate in public school sports funded by taxpayers—but not Virginia. The Virginia High School League (VHSL) controls eligibility rules for the state's public high school sports. Now, the Founding Freedoms Law Center (FFLC) is suing both the VHSL and member school district Roanoke County, alleging the prohibition of sports participation simply because of homeschooling is discrimination based on the plaintiff's religious beliefs.

The plaintiffs elect homeschooling for religious reasons. Their faith doesn't require their son to be shielded from public activities such as athletics, but they believe public school teachings could expose their son to educational philosophies contrary to their faith.

The lawsuit, brought by the family of a 9th grade homeschooled student, alleges irreparable harm because he was denied opportunities to compete at a high level of running granted to other students in his community. College coaches utilize data from Milestat, a system that tracks the performance of track and field athletes as a recruiting tool. The plaintiff claims the only events available to log his running times are through the Milestat system used by the VHSL.

Additionally, the plaintiff is prohibited from using high-quality, taxpayer-funded facilities to train that other students can access.

The lawsuit argues that the homeschooled student is at a disadvantage due to discriminatory practices that prohibit his ability to participate in VHSL sanctioned events or utilize the same facilities as other students in his same community.

[Kaira Willis @kairawillistv]

A Roanoke County family has filed a lawsuit against the Virginia High School League and the School Board. They’re challenging the constitutionality of Virginia’s rule prohibiting home school students from participating in high school athletics. https://t.co/9NdSAlZxky

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@jonharris1989 Thank you for your work. Has the church been contacted and asked to repent, and has the CC been formally notified?

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@dougponder @Christ_OverAll @Byzness Excellent

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@bartbarber If the convention can’t recall its own committee, it’s no longer a convention. The committee asked for guidance, got a revised SBC2000, and still insisted pastor only means lead pastor after FBC Alexandria’s dismissal in Indy.

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@bartbarber The committee, now that it has made poor decisions and flouted the majority will of the messengers, a committee which is directly a convention committee, should be able to be be recalled and reappointed by the convention. That motion was ruled out of order.

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@elonmusk @creation247 And His apostles who help us to understand Him as the fulfillment of all God promised in the Old Testament? Acts 2:42, “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching…”

[Doug Ponder @dougponder]

This is an excellent read.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Communism and Christianity stand at fundamentally irreconcilable odds because they rest on rival accounts of the human person, freedom, and authority.

Where Christ sets man free—liberating the conscience from sin and ordering freedom toward truth and love—communism operates by coercion, subordinating the individual to the collective and enforcing conformity through compulsion. Christianity understands freedom as moral and spiritual: the capacity to live in accordance with reality as God has made it. Communism, by contrast, treats freedom as a problem to be managed, something to be engineered away in the pursuit of an abstract vision of equality.

At the heart of the conflict is authority. Christianity locates ultimate authority in God, limits the claims of the state, and affirms the dignity of the person as prior to political power. Communism collapses those distinctions. It absolutizes the state, denies transcendent moral limits, and reduces persons to economic units whose worth is measured by their utility to the system. Where Christianity calls for voluntary charity, communism mandates redistribution. Where Christianity relies on conversion of the heart, communism relies on force. Where Christianity produces ordered liberty, communism produces fear, surveillance, and dependency.

This is not merely a historical observation but a philosophical one. Christianity can survive persecution because it appeals to conscience; communism cannot survive dissent because it demands total unbending allegiance. One is built on grace and truth; the other on power and control. The two are not competing paths to the same end. They are rival moral universes and they point in opposite directions.

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

@howertonjosh Thank you!

[Daniel Palmer @danjpalmer]

Just heard @pastorclint say in a podcast he doesn’t expect Law-Sanchez to make a return. It would be a travesty for it to not return and pass. #sbc26