Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬

My beard is meant to convey aggression and opposition to feminist ideals.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

@lukedsimmons I appreciate the discussion that you sparked.

Praying for you and those in your congregation.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

I am not sure that I follow the syntax here. BUT we have had a long day. Me and the older daughters wrapped up by delivering eggs to the neighbors.

It does not seem that this exchange will have a fruitful end that is worth the time for either of us.

I pray you have a great evening and a wonderful week.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

Respectfully, your guess would be wrong.

My wife is given 8-10 hours a week completely alone. One hour each morning of the work week. The infant sleeps while the older girls do farm chores with me before I leave for work.

My wife is currently doing another lap through Proverbs right now and reading a new (to us) book by Elizabeth Elliot.

Then she has every Saturday morning completely to herself as the five of us load up and get breakfast at our local diner, then hit the farmers market, and run trash to the dump. We usually cap that off with some time at the park. Weather permitting of course.

Not sure what part of my initial comment would have struck a nerve with you to assume that my wife is some sort of neglected victim.

She is the jewel of our home.

I agree that women are not an extension of “male hood.” We are firm believers in the peculiar glory that God has endowed upon us as man and woman. Husband and Wife. Father and Mother.

Those glories have obviously evolved as our lives have changed seasons but the lines have not blurred.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

@Georgia638 @lukedsimmons I pray my daughters will cement similar memories in the years to come.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

@lukedsimmons For additional context, I have a 5 year old, a 3 year old, a 2 year old, and a 6 week old.

They already have a favorite hymn and the 5 and 4 year old are very close to having the Apostle’s Creed committed to memory.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

If your mind were changed following a conversation with an anonymous account on social media I would have pause for your congregation.

So rather than attempting to convince you to immigrate to my camp, I will view this brief interaction as two complimentary instruments in a composition. Where both of us say true things with no need to negate the other.

So I agree mom and dad need time. But I would ardently challenge mom and dad to have that time in the wee hours of morning or night while the kids sleep. As your children get more services under their belt they will become more fluent in the liturgy, their young brains will soak up the hymnody much faster than ours. Soon they will need the hymnals less than us. Soon they will recite the Creeds with slurred pronunciations.

To rob them of that sacred time would be an injustice in my eyes. Again, I say this not to bind your conscious, but to opine on the beauty of a family attending service together for several years now.

I also say all of this as former children’s pastor at a thriving church plant in a major metro area.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

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[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

Funny how you don’t see people carrying umbrellas until it starts raining.

[Old Hollow Tree @OldHollowTree]

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[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

@MiamiCanes1971 @EASPORTS Is this rage bait or is Timmy dumb?

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

@canonpress I placed an order and accidentally shipped it to the wrong address a few minutes ago. I don’t see an easy way to cancel the order. Can you all manually change the delivery address?

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Old Guys Hanging Out At Denny's At 6 A.M. Having Better Day Than You Could Ever Dream Of https://t.co/0ZSCBRBbXP

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

@rasta_edits

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

I don’t want my streets to be “vibrant” and I don’t want my local “food scene” to be “authentic”. I want my city to be quiet and clean and orderly. I want to go to the diner and get American food. I want my waitress to speak English. The rest of the world sucks.

[Joshua Torrey @JoshuaTorrey]

today my own sin has been the more pressing conviction. today my own pride is the pressing matter.

God find me receptive to the work of the Holy Spirit to redeem and rescue me.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

He is Risen.

[Joseph Boot @DrJoeBoot]

Just 2.4 percent of Americans are Jewish. Only 20% even attend a service monthly. If your Christianity is so feeble that the 30% of Americans practicing the Christian faith (about 70% identifying as such) cannot win the public space, the problem is not the synagogue but the church. Stop blaming others like a victim and win people to Christ and teach Torah - if indeed that remains part of your worldview.

[Anchorage’s Patriarch 🦬 @kernelwildfire]

@SouthwestAir I am on a flight to Denver right now. Flight attendants have been exceptionally helpful. Apparently even the pilot is helping in my goal of making my connection. All signs were positive and then I was bumped from my flight that I had every indication of making.

Anyway I can get back on my flight?

[Creeds & Confessions @CreedConfession]

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