Washington State is horribly broken and devastated by the corrupt and wicked policies of a four decade Democrat reign of terror. It’s time to send @adam_t_james to the state legislature. Washington is NOT a lost cause. Reformation is coming. The primary election is just around the corner. The time for righteous change is now. Sadly, many republicans in Olympia have been so in name only. Adam James is the best man I know to represent the 12th district.
@AngelStudiosInc should make this book into a three hour epic movie. It could be gritty and intense but still stay at a PG-13 rating. It has the potential to be one of the greatest period pieces ever made. It has everything from political intrigue to grizzly bear charges. It would require three leading male actors of the highest caliber to portray Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark, along with an all star supporting cast to portray the many other incredible historical figures of the expedition. Done right, with all the muscular, masculine bravado of an older time, it would be an absolutely legendary cinematic experience.
The older I get, the more I think that Gladiator and The Patriot are the two most perfect movies ever made. Now…if mid-late stage Mel Gibson would’ve directed Gladiator, it would’ve been in Latin with English subtitles…and THAT would for sure have sealed the deal as the greatest movie of all time. But that’s ok. Still an undefeated banger.
The problem is it’s not the gospel above all, it’s Christ above all. The universe is not mystically governed by a set of propositional ideas, it’s governed by a personal Lord.
This is emblematic of the failure of the gospel centered movement. When a certain closed set of propositions are considered the boundary of Christianity’s jurisdiction, Christians and Christian leaders can wield that as an excuse to not directly engage the battle where the lordship of Christ is being tested in the culture.
This is exactly the problem with JD’s book. And it’s more than a little ironic that you would be hard pressed to find a person in the past 500 years who did more to advance the gospel than George Whitefield, but that’s not good enough for the “gospel above all” guy.
If it’s really the gospel above all, why is the application of the gospel toward his treatment of George Whitefield suddenly nowhere to be found? Was George Whitefield saved by the same grace we are that removes our sin as far as the east is from the west, or will there be an eternal footnote draped around Whitefield’s neck in Heaven: “Somehow this slaveowner got in here. Sorry, everyone.”
Far from simply “leaving his name out” in a discussion about the Great Awakening, JD went out of his way to include his name in his book along with an incredible list of impugned motives. Things that are truly impossible to know.
The double standard, i.e. how he talks about and promotes MLk is the real tell and rug pulls his entire argument regarding Whitefield.
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We do not bow at some American altar worshipping the ghost of George Washington or whatever it is our enemies imagine we must be doing. We declare the absolute and unshakeable lordship of Jesus Christ alone, and to Him we pledge our ultimate allegiance.
And we also would simply like to set the record straight. The thought that the way to avoid making an idol out of your country is to reject patriotism is just plain stupid.
You don’t avoid making an idol of your wife by loving her less.
You don’t avoid making an idol out of your children by working in some parental negligence just for good measure.
You don’t avoid making an idol out of your vocation by showing up to work and being lazy just to make sure your priorities are in the right place.
So too, anti-patriotism, or caveat-ridden patriotism never made anyone pious.
The various ironies of this clip are so thick that they aren’t even worth trying to explain. Suffice it to say, this is dumb. But it’s also hysterically funny that despite his best efforts to not end up as the guy that black Christian rappers with no last name blame for the fact that Jonathan Edwards owned slaves, that is who John Piper is. Such is life.
Being honest about the sins and failures of George Whitefield would include not leveling wild accusations about his internal motives centuries after he lived.
"We don't know all the reasons behind Whitefield's moral slide. At first it appears to have been a pragmatic calculation on his part - staying silent would cause more people to come hear him preach. At some point, however, his conviction shifted from pragmatic calculation to acquiescence. From there it became a matter of personal self-interest, and somewhere along the way, that led to a wholesale conviction change.
Perhaps Whitefield's compromise did indeed lead to larger audiences for his preaching. But now, seeing the long-term damage to the gospel's reputation (not to mention people's lives), there's no way we can say, from this vantage point, that his compromise was worth it."
-JD Greear, Everyday Revolutionary, pg. 136-137
These are sweeping accusations, with zero citations, making definitive conclusions about the internal thought life of Whitefield in which you paint him to be a calculating, almost charlatan-level, greedy racist.
And so you won't say his name, claiming he has done "long-term damage to the gospel's reputation."
And yet, you have no problem saying the name and singing the praises of Martin Luther King jr. In fact, in the same book you tell a story of how you publicly praised the good he did in a speech. There are examples of you invoking MLK's name from the pulpit of your church.
But where is the acknowledgment of his "moral slide?"
Have his known sexual perversions (extreme perversions) not caused enough "damage to the gospel's reputation (not to mention people's lives)" for you to stop saying his name from the pulpit? Far from a sentence telling people "Don't be like Martin Luther King" you don't even mention his immorality.
I don't get it. Help me understand the "nuance."
You praise the Great Awakening as the reason why America's revolution was uniquely successful. But you think the foremost leader of that Awakening (and it's not even close) has done so much long-term damage to the gospel's reputation that you won't speak his name in a sermon.
Meanwhile, you unreservedly, without caveat, praise MLK and the legacy of his work, quoting him extensively, from the pulpit.
"This weekend is MLK Day--a time where we celebrate, remember, and prayerfully continue to pursue the legacy Dr. King championed."
-JD Greear, "The Worldwide Movement" Jan 19, 2020
You accused Whitefield of calculating and acquiescing for personal self-interest... how is your double standard here not that exact kind of calculation?
A seemingly patriotic post about America with a reference to the Great Awakening signals to the Right that you're on their team. But, you have indicated that you think the Great Awakening was led by a hopeless racist.
How are men supposed to take what you say seriously? And I'm not intending to be rude. I think that is a legitimate question at this point.
I read your whole book, and I have no idea what you actually believe, apart from the fact that you are comfortable employing a double standard when using historical examples of cultural engagement to illustrate your point, which you seem to leave intentionally very murky.
"As I said, these waters can be a little murky and we should be gracious with one another as we attempt to figure it all out."
-JD Greear, Everyday Revolutionary, pg. 181
.@GovTimWalz and Minnesota sanctuary politicians PARDONED an illegal alien who REPEATEDLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED A 10-YEAR-OLD.
On June 10, the Minnesota Board of Pardons voted to grant Tou Lue Vang, from Laos, a pardon for his 2006 convictions for sexual assault—strongarm sodomy and procuring a child for prostitution. This pardon came just a week before Vang was set to be REMOVED from our nation.
During his interviews with police, Vang tried to justify his actions by saying “it is a cultural thing…to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.”
Governor Walz’s pardon shielded this CHILD RAPIST from removal from our nation. This is the type of DISGUSTING criminal sanctuary politicians are shamelessly protecting.
In 1973, seven black-robed justices decreed that unborn children have no right to life.
In 2026, five black-robed justices decreed that Americans have no right to a country.
My latest at @WNGdotorg (link below)
“The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President's Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens. In doing so, the Court adds to the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed and understood to secure equal rights for the freed blacks but has instead been repurposed for political projects that the Reconstruction Congress did not support. Because many potential applications of the President's Order are consistent with the original public meaning of the Citizenship Clause, I respectfully dissent.”
-Clarence Thomas
Thomas is undoubtedly one of the greatest Americans of all time.
@jenniferwilkin@megbasham The “burn it down” crowd would like the government to stop stealing our children’s inheritance to fund tranny propaganda, demonic teachers unions, and hatred toward our own nation.
This is completely reasonable.
Call me a stickler, but if you regularly paint public school as “government school” and “taxpayer funded indoctrination”, where those who “don’t know what time it is” send their kids, your opinion on what is or isn’t included in the curriculum is not particularly relevant. 🤓
@TimDavidBarton Tim is not only a premier scholar of American history, he’s one of the greatest storytellers alive. I’ll be reading my copy out loud to my whole family. 🇺🇸