jamison brown

Reformed Follower of Jesus | Husband | Disciple

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Rousseau's foundational claim: man is naturally good and civilization corrupts.

"This sounds compassionate. It is the most dangerous idea in Western political thought.

Because if man is naturally good, then every failure, every crime, every inequality is caused by the system – never by the individual.

Responsibility evaporates.

The oppressor is always external.

The victim is always pure.

This is the complete architecture of Woke in one sentence, written in 1755."

[jamison brown @jamisontbrown]

Officially asking @amazon to #SaveStargate. As a fan since the original film and verifiable re-watcher of each season of the shows, it matters to me to see what Martin Gero's vision. Please restore this show.

[jamison brown @jamisontbrown]

@buttonslives You should check out Stonebridge Bible Church.

[Exposit The Word @Exposittheword]

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

- George Whitefield

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

Did a committee invent the divinity of Jesus, or is that just a story we’ve been handed?

In Episode 3 of Can I Trust the Bible?, Andy Steiger and I step onto the ancient ground of Nicaea in Turkey to confront one of the most persistent myths in history. Was the canon shaped by power… or preserved through truth?

Episode 3: The Council of Nicaea, dropping on YouTube Good Friday - April 3rd.

[Grant R. Castleberry @grcastleberry]

The pastor who does not know the mistakes and heresies of church history inevitably repeats them.

Every pastor should study church history, especially the major controversies and the development of the creeds & confessions that came as a result.

[Erik Reed @ErikReed]

Christianity birthed hospitals, universities, and human rights. Imagine what the next gospel wave can build.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Progressive Christianity does not work doctrinally or sociologically.

Doctrinally, once you embrace it, you no longer have a faith that resembles orthodox Christianity.

Sociologically, if Christianity is just a more emotional version of what MSNBC already told you, you don’t need to get up on Sunday morning to hear it.

My latest for @realDailyWire. https://t.co/0nCy4m5cWM

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot.
When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193).

Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.

[Shane Pruitt @shane_pruitt78]

The major DIFFERENCES
between Secularism and Christianity.

Having a Biblical Worldview means that you will live counter-culturally. Many people claim to follow Jesus, but also want to live according to the ways of the world.

This is impossible, because secularism and the Bible can’t both be embraced.

They are the opposite from one another. Choose this day whom you will serve. Here are the major differences:

1. Source of Truth

Secularism: Truth is generally discovered through human reason, science, culture, or personal perspective. It can change over time.

Christianity: Truth is ultimately revealed by God through Scripture and the person of Jesus Christ. Truth is absolute, authoritative, and doesn’t change.

2. Authority

Secularism: The individual or society is the highest authority in determining beliefs and values.

Christianity: God is the highest authority, and believers submit to His revealed will.

3. View of Humanity

Secularism: Humans are primarily the result of natural processes and evolution. Human nature is generally viewed as neutral or basically good.

Christianity: Humans are created intentionally by God but are fallen because of sin. Humans need redemption.

4. Morality

Secularism: Morality is often viewed as socially constructed, culturally determined, or individually defined.

Christianity: Morality flows from God’s character and commands and is therefore objective and universal.

5. Meaning and Purpose

Secularism: Meaning is created by individuals (career, relationships, achievements, etc.).

Christianity: Humanity’s purpose is to know, worship, and glorify God. To follow Jesus and to make Him know to the world.

6. Problem of the Human Condition

Secularism: The main problems are ignorance, injustice, lack of education, or flawed systems.

Christianity: The core problem is sin and humanity’s separation from God.

7. Solution to Humanity’s Problems

Secularism: Progress comes through education, science, political reform, or social improvement.

Christianity: The ultimate solution is salvation and reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ.

8. View of the Afterlife

Secularism: Many secular perspectives reject an afterlife or view it as uncertain.

Christianity: Teaches eternal life with God or separation from God based on one’s response to Christ. Heaven and Hell are literal and eternal realities.

Jesus is our only hope. At the heart of every problem is a heart problem. And, only Jesus can change the heart.

[Honest Youth Pastor @HonestYPTweets]

I can not state strongly enough the importance of ensuring believers know how to identify “Christian Theology” from “almost Christian Theology”.

[Neil Shenvi @NeilShenvi]

Real talk: too many evangelicals spent the last 10 years coddling wokenes.

We're now witnessing an unhinged, reactionary overcorrection.

The only solution is to stand squarely on a biblcal view of race, gender, and sexuality.

[jamison brown @jamisontbrown]

@BiblicalBeauty Does anyone have a link to the article in question?

[jamison brown @jamisontbrown]

The Bible does not call believers to fear culture, but it absolutely calls us to evaluate it.
https://t.co/7gkKeHr5HK

[J.C. Ryle @JCRyle]

When I come to church I don't want to hear a New Testament class, I want to hear preaching! -Paul Washer

[Martyn Lloyd-Jones Gold @DMLJGOLD]

'I need not worry about my salvation now; I will do so at the 11th hour'.

There is no more fatal mistake than this.

As Ryle says of the dying thief: 'Few are ever saved on their deathbeds. One thief was saved that none should despair; but only one, that none should presume'.

[G. K. Chesterton @GKCdaily]

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

[Michael Clary @dmichaelclary]

Many Christians lack basic wisdom because they cannot distinguish wisdom from obedience.

Obedience is doing what God tells you to do. God gives you a command and you obey it.

Wisdom is making a good decision what you don't have a specific command to obey. There may be several good and bad options, and you make a choice based on the available options.

When someone makes a decision based on wisdom, a foolish man will say, "the Bible doesn't tell us to do that!," thinking he's settled the matter. But that's not how wisdom works.

If Christians limit faithfulness to those actions explicitly commanded in scripture, they won't grow to maturity, because maturity requires wisdom to do what's right even when you don't have a Bible verse explicitly telling you to do it.

Lately, I see this when Christians say things like, "Jesus commands us to preach the gospel, not politics!" The person who posts this thinks he's just had a mic drop moment and nuked his opponent.

In reality, he's just made a fool of himself, because he's demonstrated his inability to think outside of the narrow parameters of what scripture explicitly prescribes. His smug Jesus Juking is a massive self-own.

Granted, there's no Bible verse that says, "thou shalt preach politics, thus sayeth the Lord of hosts." But if you read the whole counsel of God, you see the obvious implication that wise preachers must preach on political issues if they are to faithfully serve their congregations.

Ours is a foolish age. We are commanded to obey the explicit teachings of scripture, and we are also required to wisely apply the implications of scripture everywhere else.

If you don't agree with me, agree with WCF 1.6:

“The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in Scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from Scripture.”