Happy Tax Day everyone. Reminder on this day 30 years ago Grandma Gilmore refused to pay her taxes and had her home seized by the IRS. Starting the domino effect that eventually lead to Gilmore joining the tour and me losing another gold jacket. Thanks a lot Grandma.
This is close, but not near enough. Submitting to the authority of and giving your life to Jesus is not the same as agreeing with some things He said. I hope you meant the former.
If I hit this dictation button after sending a text and it beeps and stops my music one more time,
I’m gonna find everyone at apple and put them in a rear naked choke hold
Even if I turn off dictation I somehow hit the voice note thing
The send button should not have multiple functions in the same spot
"We have got to stop scolding young men for virtually any drive, desire, or masculine instinct they have. Those are God-given, and should be harnessed for his glory."
Because Beth graciously responded publicly, I want to do the same. Beth, couple quick things...
1) The creation mandate to "be fruitful and multiply" is given as sort of the "default mode" of humanity. This was the general *command* (not suggestion) given to mankind as a general whole.
So yes, it is *definitely* a good thing to encourage people in general toward marriage and children, and marrying a cute girl who loves Jesus and having lots of kids is *definitely* a way to live a consequential life.
I didn't say it was the ONLY way, but I definitely think it is not only *a* way, but the *primary* way God would have most people do it.
2) I'm speaking as a man to young men, and I can tell you with a very high degree of certainty the vast majority of men need to apply the command, "It is better to marry than to burn with passion" more than trying for Paul's singleness, which even he acknowledges will be the exception rather than the rule.
3) Probably just an accidental oversight, but you omitted in your reply the "who loves Jesus" part of my encouragement to young men when looking for who they're marrying. I did not say "just look for a cute girl"
4) I surely don't think you're saying this, but for any onlookers who are - good grief. Surely, we're not scolding young men for wanting to find a woman he's attracted to to marry?
If anything, the Bible sets forward the example that a man should be and stay passionately, joyfully attracted to his wife (Prov 5, SoS, Gen 2)
We have got to stop scolding young men for virtually any drive, desire, or masculine instinct they have. Those are God-given, and should be harnessed for his glory.
5) I fear this is a good example of CS Lewis' admonition that Satan is always confusing Christians to try to solve the opposite NET problem they are facing and "bringing a fire extinguisher to a flood."
We have generationally-low marriage rates, generationally-low birthrates, the collapse of the family, people waiting until their 30's to get married (long past their biological clocks and most fertile years), cultural population collapse, and the rise of "stay single, wine-down-Wednesday, and travel, YOLO culture"...
I don't think the primary problem we are facing is that young men are too focused on marrying godly women when they are young and having big families.
If you're a young man and want your life to be consequential and fulfilled...
1) Bend your knee to Jesus
2) Go to church
3) Read your Bible & pray everyday, and live out of it
4) Find a cute girl who loves Jesus and get married young
5) Have at least 1 more kid than you think you can afford
6) Work hard to build something with your life instead of complaining
It is not the critic who counts. Be the man in the arena for the glory of God.
I think shooting a father in front of his children because he was having a discussion with college kids was actually the most brazen attack on free speech
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.
Ours is just beginning.
Political violence is a feature, not a bug of progressivism.
Because progressivism is built on top of a Critical Theory lens that sees the world through "Oppressed vs Oppressor" categories rather than a Christian Theology lens of "Right vs Wrong", it trains people to see opponents not as mistaken, but as evil oppressors.
If you believe someone is mistaken, you try to persuade them (what @charliekirk11 did).
If you believe someone is an evil oppressor ("literally Hitler!", "fascist", "existential threat to democracy", virtually everything and everyone is "racist"), you will feel a moral obligation to stop them.
This is why there is radically disproportionate violence emerging on the Left.