Josiah Lorentzen

“I have no home, until I am in the realized presence of God This holy presence is my inward home, and until I experience it I am a homeless wanderer”

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@JunkerLuther @PerfInjust The question posed was whether the nation's BMI as a whole would go up or down. Most certainly, down.

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@JunkerLuther @PerfInjust Ok, so does obedience in God result in higher or lower BMI?

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@megbasham @WilliamWolfe I can affirm the question mark. I was in the church network for years, and was shunned and rejected for desiring conservative theological clarity and concerns over leftward drift.

[Erik Reed @ErikReed]

This was a fantastic conversation. I can't wait for the book to come out!

Also, the handwringing about Dr. Mohler talking with and working with the Moscow guys on this project is very lame. These are serious conversations amongst serious thinkers. Get a life.

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@JustinDean Was fun

[Ryan Denton @TexasPreacher]

The guy didn't become a papist because of Aquinas. Don't be fooled. Millions of protestants have read Aquinas without crossing the Tiber. The man became a papist because he was lost, and he also happened to read Aquinas. Blaming Aquinas was just his out. The simplicity of Christ wasn't enough for this man, because He had never experienced Christ in the first place. If he had, all the pomp, superstition, and excess of Rome would be seen for what it is: a distraction & diminishing of Christ's glory and thus to be rejected.

[gary taubes @garytaubes]

It is remarkable what happens when personal experience contradicts medical consensus.

Thanks, Chip.

[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

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@TexasPreacher Just read this chapter in your book. Enjoying it

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@WellsJorda89710 I have all of those things and came to the exact opposite conclusion. Historical theology matters my brother. Quit learning in a vacuum

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

// Why appropriate political engagement by the church is not a DISTRACTION from the Great Commission, but a LEAD MEASURE toward it //

Show me a map of the bluest states in America.
Then show me a map of the states with the least churches.

IT'S THE SAME MAP.

UNCOMFORTABLE PRINCIPLE OF OUR ERA: If you want the advance of the church and the accomplishment of the Great Commission to get MUCH harder in a region, here's all you gotta do: Let it go blue.

Helping lead a church planting network that only plants in highly-unchurched secular areas, I can tell you this is for 2 primary reasons...

1) Strangulation by regulation.

Because progressive areas tend toward high-taxation and high-regulation, families tend to have much less disposable income to give to churches and it is MUCH, MUCH harder to get churches built.

In the words of my friend, Washington state pastor @McPherson_Josh1, "They don't make building churches ILLEGAL, they just make it nearly IMPOSSIBLE."

2) Because progressivism reframes many good things as evil and many evil things as good, it installs a plausibiity structure in the populace that makes Christianity emotionally hard to accept.

Once you start believing things like...

- Abortion is moral good and a "civil rights issue"
- Opposing transgender ideology is harmful and causes mass child-suicide
- Any acknowledgement of gender distinctions is the oppressive patriarchy
- Socialism and Socialism-lite = "compassionate caring for the poor"
- LGBTQIA+ acceptance and advocacy is "basic human decency"
- Redefinitions of "justice" toward "equal outcomes for ethnic groups" instead of the Biblical concept of justice being "equal standards for individuals"
- Etc

... Christianity no longer seems just mistaken, but evil.

And when someone is mistaken you can ignore them, but once you believe they are evil, you feel a moral obligation to oppose and stop them...

Which brings back the original point: If you want to make the accomplishment of the Great Commission MUCH, MUCH harder in a city / state / region, here's all you gotta do: Let it go blue.

[Brooks Potteiger @BrooksPotteiger]

Reforming Christian–in the fray and fighting for the good, true, and beautiful–you will take shrapnel. You will take slander. You will face resistance and reviling, that is, if you're doing it right. It's baked into the job description (John 15:18-25).

Remember, you are not allowed to fear.
You are not allowed to fall back.
You are not allowed to be shaken by what has no substance.
Nor fretful of what is fading.
It's against the Law.

Get these glad commands from Psalm 37 in your bones, and get after it with a redemptive swagger.

(Psalm 37:1–6)
1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
2 For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.
3 Trust in the Lord, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.

[Marcus Pittman @ImKingGinger]

This must be terrifying for the left!

Pete Hegseth makes a special effort to show up on stage at the end of the DoW prayer service to thank Doug Wilson for his work and friendship.

HT: Daniel Foucachon

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@EricRZimmerman @WesleyLHuff @elonmusk I used to feel the same way my brother.

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@EricRZimmerman @WesleyLHuff @elonmusk You could just read him scripture, but it’s going to sound very Calvinistic. lol

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Least surprising news ever….

Rain is wet,
Grass is green, and
Commies gonna commie.

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@HalieSoifer @MunSecConf If you are white and not perpetually guilty your entire life, you are a Nazi. Got it.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Are we paying attention yet? The choice to exclude any vestige of Marxism remains a choice. It is a menace and anyone who advocates for it needs to be considered outside the acceptable political frame of America.

[Josiah Lorentzen @josiahlorentzen]

@philvischer @ItsAnAmishThing @conservmillen No, because that’s what the word of God says. Empathy is not the standard for morality. Although right now I’m empathizing with every male who has a penis and has to read your effeminate woke posts every day.

[Harrison J. Lang @harrisonjlang]

Helpful clip from @dandarling on this week’s @TruthPublicSq Podcast. As Christians we must seek the wellbeing of our nation.