Peter Crombie

Christian • Husband • Dad • Carpenter • 'expert'

[Peter Crombie @petecrombie]

He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
Matthew 28:6 ESV

[Nathanael Blake @NBlakeEPPC]

Interesting start to the World Cup knockout rounds
🇨🇦 vs 🇿🇦
On one side is a racially-polarized nation declining into third-worldism despite incredible natural resources, led by a ruling party that views its history as colonialist oppression.
On the other side is South Africa.

[Peter Crombie @petecrombie]

@MateoPelon It's the first thing that comes to mind every time I see Ron MacLean.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Here’s a simple way to get unstuck when you’re worried, overwhelmed, or overthinking a decision.

Ask yourself one question:

What kind of thing am I dealing with?

Most issues fall into one of three categories.

1. Settled Things

These are things that have already been decided.

Your birth family.
Your nation of origin.
Your height.
Your past decisions.
Your upbringing.
Things you did.
Things done to you.

Some of these things were decided by your own past actions. Others were decided by God’s providence. As Paul says in Acts 17:26, God determined our appointed times and the boundaries of our dwelling place.

You can’t go back and change these things.

So the question is not, “How do I undo this?”

The question is, “Does this have any bearing on what I should do now?”

If not, leave it alone. Don’t spend your life fighting settled things.

2. Action Things
These are things you have some real control over.

Your diet.
Your exercise.
Your spending.
Your work ethic.
Your attitude.
Your friendships.
Your theological knowledge.
Your presentability.
Your habits.
Your skills.

These are your controllables.

You may not control everything about your health, finances, relationships, or future. But you usually control more than you think.

So if the issue falls here, don’t overthink it.

Take direct action.

Start small if you have to. Make the call. Go on the walk. Open the Bible. Apologize. Apply for the job. Pay the bill. Clean the room. Do the next faithful thing.

3. Prayer Things

These are things outside your direct control, but not outside God’s control.

The economy.
The weather.
The housing market.
The availability of a suitable spouse.
Other people’s choices.
Timing.
Open doors.
Closed doors.

You can’t force these things. You can’t grab the steering wheel of providence.

But God can act.

So you take indirect action through prayer. You ask. You wait. You prepare. You remain faithful. You do what you can do and trust God with what only He can do.

So ask yourself:

Is this settled?
Then accept it and learn from it.

Is this actionable?
Then do something.

Is this outside my control?
Then pray and trust God.

This is a simple framework, and yes, it’s a little reductionistic. But that’s the point. The goal is not to explain every complexity of life. The goal is to get you unstuck.

Most people waste too much energy trying to change the past, control what belongs to God, or pray about things they simply need to obey.

So categorize the issue.

Then act accordingly.

Accept what is settled.
Act on what is yours.
Pray over what belongs to God.

[BertaProudDad @BertaProudDad]

🚨BREAKING🚨
Carney announces another 2 BILLION to Ukraine!
That’s More Signatures For Alberta Independence!

#AlbertaIndependence

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Canada is insanely stacked - perhaps the best team ever assembled. If the US manages to somehow beat them it will be the greatest hockey upset against a Communist power since the Miracle on Ice.

[YEGWAVE @yegwave]

Should the Province of Alberta cease to be part of Canada and become an independent state?

Important: please repost to reach a larger sample size after voting 🗳️

[The Most Albertan Man in The World @MostAlbertaMan]

whos ready to free alberta!

I support alberta independence

[5 Solas @5Solas]

Christians should.....

[Nathan Zekveld @RevZekveld]

It is Alberta day today. I love my province and the people of it.

Here is a bit of my timeline in Alberta.

When I was around 16 yrs old, I attended a Reformed youth conference near Edmonton, at which my Dad was speaking.

In 2014-2015, I worked for an oilfield service company, based out of Wembly AB for 10 months. I spent a lot of time driving to and from Ft Nelson and a couple times down to Grande Cache. One of my co-workers and I listened to a lot of history lectures from Pastor George Grant and a sermon or two from Pastor Ken Wieske. All in an F-150. Sometimes an F-350. That was also my first time working 170 hrs in 10 days.

In the summer of 2016, I worked as a pastoral intern in the URCNA churches in Ponoka and Lacombe. I got to know some folks from Red Deer and went fishing once on the Red Deer River.

This was also the opportunity for my first in-person date with Ashley who is now my wife. We started talking a month or two before while she was living in Langley, BC and I was going to seminary in Hamilton, ON. While I was a pastoral intern, we met for the first time at a coffee shop in Calgary, after which she came up to Ponoka/Lacombe for a couple days. We even ran a pro-life booth in Red Deer as one of our first dates.

In 2022, the church that I attended in 2014-2015 called me to be their pastor. I accepted and have now been pastoring in Grande Prairie AB since 2022.

Alberta is beautiful, with majestic mountains and beautiful plains. It has the potential to become one of the most prosperous strips of land in the world. Alberta only entered the Canadian Confederation in 1905. It has had some prominent Christians in its history, and my experience with Alberta churches has been a positive one.

Here is a prayer for this province.

Almighty and most merciful God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. We pray for this province. Give us men and women who love You and love this province. Give us strong churches and healthy families. Give us young men who work hard and do it to your glory. Give us young women who fear you and do not fear anything else. Give us prosperous businesses, and the freedom to build them without the crushing tyranny of bureaucracy and endless rules. Help us to build rigorous schools and help our children to be critical thinkers who seek the good of this province. Help us to order our society in a way that we build virtue throughout this province that does not go the way of anarchy, but freedom in Christ. Give our pastors boldness, our politicians integrity, our farmers patience, our workers virtue, our academics honesty. Help us to live in covenant with You, so that worship, true Christian worship would be the heartbeat of our life together in this province. For that reason may the good news that Jesus is Lord and that He has died and risen again sound forth throughout this province. Send out Your Spirit before us, and with us, and in us, so that we might accomplish this in your strength. In the strong Name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“Liberty and equality are mutually exclusive, even hostile concepts. Liberty, by its very nature, undermines social equality, and equality suppresses liberty – for how else could it be attained?”

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

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[clinthumfrey @ClintHumfrey]

Lots of discussion about the election results in our home.
We anticipate a big move by the returning Liberal party to expand federal power at the expense of the provinces.
Maybe the minority government will be hobbled a bit, but Parliament doesn't seem to be consulted as much anymore. Look at what Mr. Carney was able to implement without Parliament and without a seat himself.
The expansion of federal power will lead to a general approach to nationalizing everything.
The oil industry will be reduced by [green] taxes and then nationalized [the end game]. Those internal tariffs on Alberta will support Ontario industries penalized by American tariffs.
Agriculture will have the same reduction until we have central planning for all crop and livestock production.
Health care will be nationalized as provinces prove inept to fix it.
Banking and social mobility will be tied together more and more.
It's all lamentable.
But the the thing that is the worst of all is the betrayal of our children and children's children.
It is consigning them to be functionally "home-less": Without a personally owned home, reliant upon UBI, and government housing. Look up the housing "schemes" in the UK. Read the government's own policy brief, "Future lives: social mobility in question".
The regional biases remain in Canada.
The "Left" was united across Canada and reveals the problem with mass secularization.
Alberta has the opportunity to keep robustly growing as a province, being creative and acting like a true participant in the changing world. This robustness could even lead to the dynamic prospect of a new nation, inspired by the pioneering spirit that settled Canada, and pioneered the West and lead to the benefits of our modern world.
Alberta could do this. But as a Quebecker friend said to me about separatism in that province, "Quebec cannot separate, because Quebec is not godly. It would be disastrous".
If you are thinking about a new adventure for Alberta, as I am, then I would ask you also to start by reconsidering the claims of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The bible built the West. The bible has always said men are men and women are women.
Recent generations have said we don't need the God of the bible. But look where that has got us.
"Come to me", Jesus said, "all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
That's the post-election action I hope and pray many in Alberta will take first.

[Peter Crombie @petecrombie]

@macinithappen86 @dansudfeld @anderben97 And Ben is right, tonight. And that's great. Still cheering for the Oilers, make no mistake.

[Peter Crombie @petecrombie]

@macinithappen86 @dansudfeld @anderben97 Just keeping it real, Mac. There's a careful balance of speaking truth and love, but a guy's got to draw the line somewhere...

[Peter Crombie @petecrombie]

@dansudfeld @macinithappen86 @anderben97 I'm an Oilers fan first, but I chose LA to win in the Crombie Playoff Challenge...

[The Buck You Will @TheBuckYouWill]

@nationalpost 🛑🛑PLEASE KEEP SHARING THIS.🛑🛑

THE MOST EYE-OPENING POST YOU WILL SEE TODAY.

Never vote Liberal.

Please share this far and wide.

WE SHOULD NOT ACCEPT THIS NOR CAN WE GO ON LIKE THIS.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

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[Liberty Dispatch @_LDCanada]

He is significantly more committed to the destruction of Canada than Trudeau ever was

[Liberty Dispatch @_LDCanada]

Of all the ways Canada can serve as an example to teach the rest of the world, this is certainly one of the saddest and most disappointing.

[Liberty Dispatch @_LDCanada]

The largest public sector union is calling on the Federal Government to take over Canadian companies that desire to move their operations to the United States.

We've known they've been Commies for a while, at least they are brazenly open about it.