John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹

John 3:16. Husband to amazing wife. Pastor of a great church: Olive Street PCA, link below. WTS Philly Grad (MDiv, DMin). U.S. Air Force (Ret). Italian food.

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

Awe-inspiring: "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well." (Psalm 139:14)

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

DNA is the smoking gun showing that there is a Mind behind the universe:

"Since Darwin’s day, a wide variety of people had taken an anti-evolution stance, but no one had built a positive case for Intelligent Design.

But it is not enough to show the inadequacies of natural causes; we must go on to demonstrate the plausibility of intelligent causes.

And the hallmark of intelligence is specified complexity. The structure of DNA is precisely parallel to the structure of languages and computer programs. Can we infer that specified complexity in DNA is likewise the product of an intelligent agent?

Unless we define science from the outset in terms of naturalistic philosophy, the answer should be yes."

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@ToddjeInNC @CWadeBaker Thank you, brother!

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

Two fairly well-known people in "conservative" political circles have taken to airing their distaste for Calvinism on X. The objections, many of which are strawmen, have been answered repeatedly for centuries, yet they persist on airing their objections on X of all places. When one Reformed pastor/scholar (@DanielRHyde) offered multiple times to dialogue and share with them the historic Reformed Confessional understanding of these things away from the noise of X, the response was crickets. It seems to me that they're not interested in dialogue, or in seeking clarity, but clicks, and adding followers. Maybe it's time to stop clicking...

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@jrdickens90 yes, I stand corrected. :)

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@tomstakes Every team needs serviceable back-ups who can excel on special teams. That seems to be Ringo.

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@thomasrp93 I think this is more of a Vic than a Howie thing...

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@joshlofthus Take heart, his retort was in his real accent. :) On a serious note: congrats on the 65lbs!

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

😃🤣

[Josh Lofthus @joshlofthus]

Since when did Joel Webbon talk like that? @Phil_Johnson_

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@thomasrp93 11-6

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

Not an issue, and I think to be expected, as you alluded to, given the new system. And it's probably good that INTs are happening now because they can learn from them. I think the regular season will be better--however, we should probably expect more INTs than what Jalen has thrown in previous years, esp within the first 4 games or so.

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

Just curious: I wonder if some are getting tripped up over the word "government." For example, it seems (I could be wrong!) that all sides would agree that individual magistrates are accountable to God and must promote laws that are in keeping with God's moral law (after all, Scripture is the only infallible rule for faith AND practice/life). In the case of the magistrates collectively (the government), this means they must promote true religion, i.e., they must promote only that which is consistent with the only infallible rule for faith/life--God's Word. There seems to be a breakdown between what all individual magistrates must do, and what magistrates collectively must do. Anyway, I may be off base, just a thought.

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@YourCalvinist Praise God from whom all blessings flow! By God's grace keep up the great work, brother! 🙏

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@thomasrp93 Wont, or cant?

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@james_d_baird Well done, brother—and ignore the obsessed haters…

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@bustarymez96 Congrats!

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@AdrielTweets @MeltonDuncan Can you DM me format, etc.? I have been thinking of starting something like this as well.

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@Eagles 2

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@YourCalvinist Well done, brother!

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

Excellent:

[Nick Batzig @Nick_Batzig]

In redemptive history, Israel is first a person (Gen. 32:28) then a corporate people. OT Israel typified the fulfillment of what was promised in Christ. He is the true Israel of God (Hos. 11:1; Matt. 2:15) who makes Jews and Gentiles Israel in him (Eph. 2:14–18; Gal. 3:28; 6:16).

[John Orlando 🇺🇸🇮🇹 @johnurs89]

@LigonDuncan An essential resource--a real God-send (and very timely for my DMin research project)! Thanks to you and all who contributed...just a huge blessing!