Eric James

Husband. Father. Pastor. Slave of Christ.

[Eric James @ejames13]

Celebrated 10 years of marriage yesterday. Psalm 128. The LORD is good.

[Eric James @ejames13]

@WellBuiltStyle Dialed in...and inked up.

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

Kurtz makes an important point: The "affordability crisis" is more about social capital than financial capital. The price point to "buy into" a decent life has gone up because so much of society is dysfunctional. You have to have enough money to live in a place that isn't overrun with crime or other anti-social behavior. That was not the case a couple generations ago the way it is now.

This means the answer is not just a change in economic policy. Yes, we do need better policies (eg, lower regulation that can allow more entry level housing to be built - the affordability crisis on housing is largely due to artificial constraints on supply and artificial inflation of demand; deporting illegals would help with the supply/demand problem, but so would an ease in the regulatory burden; etc.). Beyond policy changes, we need to mend the torn social fabric. And underneath that torn social fabric is our torn spiritual fabric. The younger generation's misery has many causes, some self-inflicted, but the reality is that the social inheritance they should have received has largely been squandered. The financial squeeze is largely due to the social and spiritual liquidation of American culture.

This is the key claim:

"My argument is that previous generations received an enormous stock of social capital: trusted neighbors, functional public schools, a productive courtship culture, predictable career arcs, and a public square in which children could roam and adults could be relied upon. That stock, once given for free, has now been substantially liquidated. Instead, the young must now buy back, item by item and at retail prices, what their grandparents received as a bounty of prior civilizational investments."

This is why there is no political or economic solution to our mess. Yes, we do need political and economic reforms. But rebuilding social capital depends on the character of the people, the kinds of lives they live, and the kinds of communities they form. A high trust, morally coherent society (like America once had) cannot be legislated or monetized into existence. The problems run much deeper than policy.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

The older you get as a man, the more you realise how much of your life is just disciplining people who don't know how to behave, and emotionally stabilising people who are not able to cope.

The vast majority of people begin to look like children to you.

Must be how God sees us.

[Uriesou Brito @uribrito]

My old mentor and former Sunday School teacher here in Pensacola, James B. Jordan, sees the Old Covenant Sabbath as fulfilled in Christ’s death and resurrection: Jesus completed the old creation’s work, rested in the tomb on the seventh day, and arose on the first—or “eighth”—day to inaugurate the new creation. This makes the most sense of the redemptive flow.

Thus, the Mosaic Saturday/Sabbath is not simply transferred, regulation for regulation, to Sunday; it gives way to the Lord’s Day, when the risen Christ gathers his people for covenant renewal, judgment, feasting, and communion.

Christians already enter God’s Sabbath rest through union with Christ and weekly Lord’s Day worship, while its fullness awaits the final resurrection and consummation of creation. In essence, it's safe to conclude that the Lord's Day worship, with its covenant-renewal model/paradigm, is the fulfillment and practice of the 4th commandment for us today.
(See Jordan, Through New Eyes; Jordan, “The Peril of Weekly Communion”)

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Men used to have fathers, not just biological ones, but elders whose disapproval could ruin you. elders you actually owed something to. at some point we all quietly agreed that fatherhood was just a sperm donation and a monthly bill, that elders were boomers to laugh at, that no one has lessons worth passing down

[YOHAMI @YOHAMI]

Delete "approach". Initiate interactions with people daily for whatever reason. Not just attractive women. The shrink goes away. Be social.

[Eric James @ejames13]

@TPageCW You need Ligon Duncan’s brother in this.

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

The flyovers will continue until morale improves.

[Eric James @ejames13]

@ThomasSowell What do you mean by 'every'?
What do you mean by 'bit'?
What do you mean by 'of'?
What do you mean by 'learning'?

[Attraction Matriarch @TheXMatriarch @TheXMatriarch]

Male responsibility is not a dating tactic. It is not a husband trick. It is not a way to get more sex, though a wife’s desire often responds powerfully to a man who becomes steadier, more directed, and less emotionally dependent on her approval. The weight he carries shapes generations.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

The best person to be defeated by is your greatest student, because they demonstrate the value of your teachings when refined, adapted and wielded by more capable hands. Their victory over you is thus a victory over yourself by your own hand through them - even to lose is to win.

[Brian Sauvé @Brian_Sauve]

A godly man is courageously unflappable.

He isn't easily pushed around emotionally—whether confronted with an anxious wife, a hurt kid, or a nation in decline.

Be a wall.
Be firm.
Act like men.

This teaches your people that they can trust you even in hardship.

[Fr Calvin Robinson ©️®️ @calvinrobinson]

With all due respect, this is categorically untrue.

“Judeo-Christian” never meant “combined corpus of Old and New Testaments,” that is what we call “The Bible.”

The term Judeo-Christian originally meant a Jew who had converted to Christianity, sometimes called a Messianic Jew.

But after World War II the term was popularised by politicians in an attempt to garner sympathy from Christians towards Jews to form the post-WWII liberal consensus. The myth was that Christians and Jews share values, which is a red herring.

Now, the term is hijacked by Christian Zionists to convince Christians they owe some kind of debt to Israel, which undermines the fact Christ paid all our debts, and it ends up diluting the truth of Christianity and leading people into the heresy of pluralism.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In an 1806 duel, Andrew Jackson (the 7th American president) knew he couldn't outdraw master marksman Charles Dickinson. His survival strategy was brutal: he deliberately let Dickinson shoot him first.

Under the rules of dueling, once a man fired, he was required to stand motionless on his mark and await his opponent's return fire. If Jackson rushed his shot to beat Dickinson, he might miss. By absorbing the bullet, Jackson bought himself the time to aim with absolute precision.

Dickinson fired. A cloud of dust puffed from Jackson’s coat as the bullet struck him squarely in the chest. But Jackson did not fall. He simply raised his left hand to his chest, stood perfectly still, and leveled his pistol.

Jackson survived the immediate impact because of a wardrobe trick and his gaunt physique. Standing 6-foot-1 and weighing only about 145 pounds, Jackson wore a loose, oversized dark blue frock coat. When he took his mark, he turned sideways in a bladed stance. Dickinson aimed exactly where a man's heart should be based on the drape of the coat. The bullet hit the precise spot Dickinson intended, but Jackson's actual heart was an inch or two away. The ball shattered two ribs and lodged deep in his chest cavity.

Despite the massive trauma, Jackson masked his pain through sheer willpower and spite. He despised Dickinson—who had publicly insulted his wife—and was determined not to give the marksman the satisfaction of knowing he had landed a successful shot before dying. Jackson later said, 'I should have hit him, if he had shot me through the brain.'

Jackson pulled his trigger, but the pistol stopped at half-cock. He calmly pulled the hammer all the way back, took aim again, and shot Dickinson in the abdomen. Dickinson fell and bled to death hours later.

Jackson casually walked away from the dueling ground with his surgeon, hiding his wound until they were out of sight of Dickinson's seconds. It was only when the surgeon noticed blood sloshing inside Jackson's left boot that he realized the future president had been hit. The bullet was too close to the heart to be safely removed, and Jackson carried it inside his chest for the remaining 39 years of his life.

#drthehistories

[Daniel Concannon @TooWhiteToTweet]

Another visualization of the largest, fastest demographic decimation in world history.

If it were done to anyone else, it would be called genocide.

But when it's done to White people, it's called “diversity.”

[Bennett's Phylactery @extradeadjcb]

Reasons states wind up on this list (not exaggerating)

1. Not enough abortions
2. Not gay enough
3. "food insecurity"
4. Not enough HR rules
5. Not enough gun laws
6. Not enough therapists
7. Not enough working moms
8. Not enough affirmative action

[Eric James @ejames13]

@GiffLasta "Our relationship is great."

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

Right wing propaganda… but it’s literally just a random commercial from the 80’s.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Weak men create undisciplined homes, and undisciplined homes bleed into public life.

Every stranger who has to correct someone else's child or endure someone else's wife is paying a tax that a man somewhere refused to.

Do not make your wives and children other people's problem.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

"When Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent."

— Mencius