Peter Mahaffey

Christ follower, husband, father, pastor of Royal York Baptist Church.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

There’s a particular type of intellectually-inclined Protestant who has tradition-envy and sociological insecurity about their Protestant upbringing and so, in time, they go to Rome. I am convinced this journey stems primarily, though not exclusively, from a failure to do the reading. Reading Reformed Orthodoxy and the Reformed Scholastics will quickly disabuse the anxious Protestant that they must turn to Rome for intellectual depth.

[Dr Jordan B. Cooper @DrJordanBCooper]

I recall a conversation with a highly intelligent RC student who was asking me some very specific questions about the logic of the Lutheran view of predestination relative to a specific passage in the Summa. When I shifted the conversation to Ephesians 1, arguing that the position was derived from an exegesis of the text rather than philosophical coherence, he looked at me like I had two heads. After more time talking about the issue, it became apparent that he had never actually wrestled with the issue Biblically on anything but the most surface level. He didn't even know what Ephesians 1 was about until I read it to him.

This gets at a problem I see often among young students of theology today. There is extensive knowledge of certain elements of the history of dogma (a good thing), but almost no engagement with the Biblical text itself. This direct engagement with the Biblical text really is what is most appealing about the Reformation.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

This is the best part from Pierre Poilievre appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast;

"Those who push a socialist ideology have a gross contradiction in their view of human nature.
They say that human beings are wretched, self-interested, greedy when they’re in the private voluntary economy, but they’re angels when they’re in the governmental economy.

They argue that the government should just control everything because then we have all these angels that will decide for us."
🎯

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

An award-winning 35-year longitudinal study asked how parents succeed in passing on their religious convictions.

The study found two surprising results:

First, “having a close bond with one’s father matters
even more than a close relationship with one’s mother.”

In other words, fathers wield influence, whether they want to or not.

Second, the relationship with the father must be warm and close. A father can be a leader of the community, a pillar of the church, a moral exemplar, but if he is perceived as cold and distant, the child will not follow him, will not adopt his spiritual and religious convictions.

Here's the study:

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

The Trinity was not ruptured at the cross. Father, Son, and Spirit were united in the act of atonement.

Keeping this in view guards against many theological errors!

[Samuel G. Parkison @samuel_parkison]

"To say that God alone created all things—without any assistants or instrument, by his own agency (Isa 40:12-14; 44:24), and to say that God created all things through his Word (and Spirit) (Gen 1:1-3; Ps 33:6), is, in John’s judgment, to say the same thing." @scottrswain

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Those who look to idols become like them (Psa 135:15-18).
Those who look to the Lord are radiant (Psa 34:5).
You will become like whatever you fix your gaze upon.

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

Beautiful.

Hollywood Star Jessie Buckley praises marriage and motherhood during her Oscar-winning speech, dedicating the award to every mom

“I would like to dedicate this to the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.”

Marriage isn’t a trap.
Babies aren’t burdens.

Motherhood is a gift.

[Luke Stamps @lukestamps]

"A Christianity that believes it has no other function than to be completely in tune with the spirit of the times has nothing to say and no meaning to offer. It can abdicate without more ado." -Ratzinger

[challies @challies]

1/ Few pains cut deeper than the loss of a child. And few pressures test a marriage more severely. When our son died, people gently warned us that grief might pull us apart rather than draw us together.

[Peter Mahaffey @MahaffeyPeter]

The gifts of common providence are not comparable to those of covenant love. - Matthew Henry

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

The term "theological liberalism" is thrown around a lot.
When push comes to shove though, it still boils down to Richard Niebuhr's summation of what theological liberalism truly is: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross" (Kingdom of God in America, 193).

Liberal/progressive Christianity is more than that but it is no less than that, and it will always come down to it. Niebuhr's words 89 years ago are just as applicable in 1937 as they are today.

[Matthew Barrett @MattMBarrett]

The church is the society of the Holy Spirit. -Augustine

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

The Renewed Hope Act of 2026 would help locate & identify unknown children depicted in sexual abuse material. There's an urgent need for more federal resources to make that possible.

We’re watching closely to see how Congress responds.

God bless Tim Tebow and his ministries.

[Peter Mahaffey @MahaffeyPeter]

God have mercy!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Tim Tebow shows senators a map of the United States showing every single location where someone is downloading, sharing, or distributing CSAM.

“We are losing the battle, and we are losing the war, and boys and girls are suffering for it…”

“Every red dot that is on there is someone that is downloading, sharing, or distributing [CSAM].”

“55% to 85% of them are also hands-on offenders, and we know that your average offender has thirteen victims in their lifetime.”

“The scale of harm right here in America is, to a certain extent, hard to comprehend, but that's why we're here.”

[Peter Mahaffey @MahaffeyPeter]

"Religion tends to make men, not cowardly, but truly valiant. The righteous is bold as a lion."

Matthew Henry reflecting on Abram's rescue of Lot in Gen. 14

[Peter Mahaffey @MahaffeyPeter]

For there are some who do not wish to be thought dull, so they often busy themselves with an unnecessary number of investigations and are deceived by an excessiveness of intrigue. - Gregory the Great

[Peter Mahaffey @MahaffeyPeter]

So thankful for the example the Ben Sasse is demonstrating in this moment. Pray for our brother!

[Sola Media @solamediaorg]

Ben Sasse:

"One of the weird lines @timkellernyc used to say is, 'I hate this, but I would never want to go back to the prayer life I had before pancreatic cancer,' which I thought sounded pretty weird. . .But then I felt, what a blessing that I'm saying, 'Lord, come quickly, Maranatha. Thank you for all of the different things that I used to cling to that right now seem really, really trivial because they're actually really trivial.'"

@BenSasse

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

A recent statement by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez illuminates the Marxist ideology which continues to take hold of American politicians. Here are my thoughts.

[Peter Mahaffey @MahaffeyPeter]

Weakness is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies. - Richard Sibbes