Josh Miller

I exist to know and make known the triune God - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He has come that we may life. Glory be to the exalted Christ.

[Robert A. J. Gagnon @RobertAJGagnon1]

Historic links between LGBTQ and pedophilia.

[Maksimologija @maksimologija]

This is a good example of fake antiquity being used as an apologetic for Orthodoxy.

What you are hearing in this video is not “the sound of eternity” or “ancient hymns”. 🧵

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HEARTBREAKING: Her 10-month-old baby was cut in half with a knife in front of her, her husband shot dead, and she watched them split her second child's skull with a machete. They also amputated one of her hands.

This is life for Christians in Nigeria. The media remains silent.

[Josh Miller @pastorjmill]

@DavidAFrench And I hope people don’t ignore the many obvious predictions made about where your own self-promoting capitulations will lead.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

They spend $16K on their son’s travel baseball career. The kid has a nutritionist. Parents are spending $16k a year on travel baseball and calling it ‘opportunity.’ It’s not opportunity. It’s parental foolishness & idolatry dressed up as ambition & success. #WormwoodFTW

[Jim Hamilton @DrJimHamilton]

This is a fascinating article on many fronts. Political correctness v. natural law--they fought the law, and the law won.

[Josh Miller @pastorjmill]

@MattWalshBlog It is the same issue with the conservative platform of downsizing gov’t. I believe in downsizing gov’t as long as no one loses their federal job and no one loses their gov’t assistance.

[Josh Miller @pastorjmill]

@RealJamesWoods https://t.co/ruQBWAoHK5
Immigration in gumballs. Once you watch you can’t unsee.

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Communism and Christianity stand at fundamentally irreconcilable odds because they rest on rival accounts of the human person, freedom, and authority.

Where Christ sets man free—liberating the conscience from sin and ordering freedom toward truth and love—communism operates by coercion, subordinating the individual to the collective and enforcing conformity through compulsion. Christianity understands freedom as moral and spiritual: the capacity to live in accordance with reality as God has made it. Communism, by contrast, treats freedom as a problem to be managed, something to be engineered away in the pursuit of an abstract vision of equality.

At the heart of the conflict is authority. Christianity locates ultimate authority in God, limits the claims of the state, and affirms the dignity of the person as prior to political power. Communism collapses those distinctions. It absolutizes the state, denies transcendent moral limits, and reduces persons to economic units whose worth is measured by their utility to the system. Where Christianity calls for voluntary charity, communism mandates redistribution. Where Christianity relies on conversion of the heart, communism relies on force. Where Christianity produces ordered liberty, communism produces fear, surveillance, and dependency.

This is not merely a historical observation but a philosophical one. Christianity can survive persecution because it appeals to conscience; communism cannot survive dissent because it demands total unbending allegiance. One is built on grace and truth; the other on power and control. The two are not competing paths to the same end. They are rival moral universes and they point in opposite directions.

[Jason Keith Allen @jasonkeithallen]

"Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy." - John Calvin

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

New York City just elected a Muslim socialist and antisemite as Mayor. Virginia’s new Attorney General has fantasized about violence against conservatives.

When voters knowingly choose leaders like this, it says something deeper about the condition of our culture. Arguments alone can’t reach minds that have already closed themselves to truth.

This is what judgment looks like.

Christ is Lord.

[Pastor Rich Lusk @Vicar1973]

In his speech tonight, Zohran Mamdani said, "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no problem too small for government to care about.” This is a good working definition of statism - the idolatry of the state. No problem is too big or too small for the state to solve. Government can fix all your problems. Government is god.

It should be obvious this is unAmerican. America’s system of government was not designed to be a statist system, which is a major reason why America has been so successful historically. The US Constitution was designed to leave a great deal of freedom and responsibility to individuals and families. It left room for other institutions, like the church, to play a role in solving problems. In Mamdani’s NYC, government will provide total solutions. But how can the state solve all problems without having all power? And all wisdom? How can the state be the solution when so many of the problems that need solving were created by the state? How can the state attempt to solve everyone’s problems without creating a host of new ones? Will any of these proposed solutions have trade-offs? If the state is the solution to people’s problems, does that mean people don’t have any responsibility for their problems themselves? As usual, socialism gets judged by its intentions rather than its results. How many immigrants have fled to America from nations where the government promised something similar to Mamdani? It hasn’t worked elsewhere and (to the extent Mamdani can actually implement his agenda) it won’t work here either. Reagan’s quip still holds true: the scariest words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

More importantly, Mamdani’s philosophy of politics is unbiblical. The state, according to Romans 13 and elsewhere, does not exist to solve all our big problems and care about all our small ones. The civil magistrate is given the sword to be God’s deacon (servant) and the avenger of his wrath in the civil realm, promoting the good and terrorizing evil. The purpose of the state is not to provide “free” healthcare, transportation, education, or even cellphones. Everything the state does, it does with the power of the sword. But the sword is only wielded righteously when wielded in accord with God’s law. A biblically ordered state doesn’t care about your problems; it cares about God’s justice.

[Steve Meister @SteveMeisterVDM]

Is wrath, properly speaking, one of the divine perfections or attributes of God?

No.

God's wrath is an anthropomorphism, a relative expression of the effect of God's justice on sinners. And understanding that distinction matters for the gospel.🧵

[Josh Miller @pastorjmill]

@thisisfoster So true. If you have ever been confused by the left's infatuation with Islam this is their common denominator. Their ideologies advance under the threat and celebration of death.
"I have come that you may have life," is a declaration of war against the gods of this age.

[Mike Riccardi @MikeRiccardi_]

“I believe that it is because the doctrines of grace have been too much kept from the pulpit, that the pews are getting so empty.

“Leave the doctrines of grace out of the preaching, and you have left the marrow and fatness out of it.

“What is there to make the people rush to your houses of prayer, and crowd them, if there be no preaching of the election of grace, — no declaration of particular redemption, and effectual calling, — no proclamation of the blessed final perseverance of the saints?

“If you leave these glorious truths out of your preaching, you have put on the table nothing but the horseradish and the parsley, but the joint of meat is conspicuous by its absence.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Michael Reeves @mike_reeves]

Christians don’t yo-yo in and out of God’s favour based on how good we are or feel. Every day, because of Jesus, we can sing: “my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness” (Isa 61:10).

[Josh Miller @pastorjmill]

@NCAA_PR Spineless. Never should have taken an EO.

[Tom Hicks @TomHicks2LCF]

The two kingdoms can and should serve each other. This is a noble aim. But I deny that Christ’s redemptive kingdom depends in any way upon a well-ordered society or political order for its advancement and growth. Christ delights in advancing His redemptive kingdom in ways that always demonstrate He alone is the one who does it.

[James Engerbretson @engerbretson]

Working hard in Ecuador to bring you more @riotandthedance. Thanks for all who watched the first 4 episodes on @AngelStudiosInc. We’re not quitting.

Here’s some iPhone selects from the past 24hrs.