Ryan A. Cook

Christian (Reformed: URCNA, frmr. OPC); husband; father; praying for the Church catholic; attorney.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD June 11, 1936:
J. Gresham Machen and other conservatives founded the Presbyterian Church of America after separating from the increasingly liberal PCUSA. In 1939 the new denomination changed its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), committing itself to historic Reformed doctrine and biblical fidelity.

[Ryan A. Cook @Ryan_A_Cook]

@HillbillyElder @james_d_baird @natepaschall Is that from Murray's commentary on Romans?

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD May 24, 1844:
Samuel F. B. Morse successfully demonstrated the world’s first practical telegraph. After more than a decade of struggle to patent and finance the invention, in a moment of deep discouragement he wrote:
“The only gleam of hope, and I cannot underrate it, is from confidence in God. When I look upward it calms any apprehension for the future, and I seem to hear a voice saying: ‘If I clothe the lilies of the field, shall I not also clothe you?’ Here is my strong confidence, and I will wait patiently for the direction of Providence.”
His first public message, sent from the Supreme Court in Washington to Baltimore, was a Bible verse from Numbers 23:23: “What hath God wrought.”

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Generation That Put Nation $39 Trillion In Debt Condemns Gen Z For Spending Irresponsibly https://t.co/1M70wqgxXH

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

For the record, this is the man Keller told us offered a “brilliant example of how to be Christian in the public square.”

This is why I say concern regarding the inability Keller sometimes had to rightly discern a sound Christian witness from an unsound one is justified.

It’s the same issue he ran into with his promotion of Francis Collins and Greg Johnson. So it wasn’t just what Keller taught himself that was sometimes an issue, it was also those he recommended we learned from.

[Ryan A. Cook @Ryan_A_Cook]

@JesseFOwens I would imagine that his critics will stop criticizing him when his sycophants stop quoting him and telling us we need to read his books. Fair?

[Ryan A. Cook @Ryan_A_Cook]

@FBIDirectorKash @CitizenFreePres @FBI Could we get the money back instead?

[Daniel Dreisbach @d3bach]

“There can be no true religion, till there be a discovery of your lost state by nature & practice, & an unfeigned acceptance of Christ Jesus, as he is offered in the gospel. Unhappy they who either despise his mercy, or are ashamed of his cross!” John Witherspoon, 17 May 1776. 👇

[Sean McGowan @irishpresby]

According to the Westminster Directory for the Publick Worship of God,

The call to worship is to be done by the minister.

The public reading of Scripture is to be done by the ministers, teachers, or ministerial candidates.

Prayer before the sermon is to be done by the minister.

Preaching is to be done by the minister.

Prayer after the sermon is to be done by the minister.

Administration of the sacraments done by the minister.

Benediction done by the minister.

We can argue about the place of Ruling Elders leading the elements, but it’s very clear that no lay persons (men, women, or children) were leading any of the elements.

Additionally, when WLC 156 says “all are not permitted to read the word publicly to the congregation” the DPW provides the context needed to understand who the divines meant.

Laypeople (excluding ministerial candidates) are not to read the word in public worship.

#PCA

[Ryan A. Cook @Ryan_A_Cook]

@NeilShenvi @EWErickson You left out the key word: selectively. He selectively quoted Scripture to fit his preconceived conclusion. Dishonest, both of you.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@harryjsisson Brother...

This is an actual district in Chicago.

[Rick Davis @TheRhetorRick]

Gorsuch: "What unites us is not a religion...it’s a belief in those ideas in the Declaration of Independence.”

The Declaration of Independence: "Nature's God...Creator...Supreme Judge of the world...Divine Providence..."

[Berith Press @BerithPress]

"Where there are many efforts at abortion? Where there is murder before the birth? For even the harlot thou dost not let continue a mere harlot, but makest her a murderess also.

You see how drunkenness leads to whoredom, whoredom to adultery, adultery to murder; or rather to a something even worse than murder.

For I have no name to give it, since it does not take off the thing born, but prevent its being born.

Why then do you abuse the gift of God, and fight with His laws, and follow after what is a curse as if a blessing, and make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder, and arm the woman that was given for childbearing unto slaughter?"

John Chrysostom
Homily 24 on Romans

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Today, 14,000 Americans are waking up unemployed because Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Lina Khan, and the Biden Administration insisted they were smarter and more knowledgeable about the airline industry than the airline industry itself. Technocrats kill jobs.

[Ryan A. Cook @Ryan_A_Cook]

https://t.co/pchk1LEl2g

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just called the Supreme Court "illegitimate." That follows Democratic politicians and pundits calling for the packing of the Supreme Court. Nothing says Happy 250th Anniversary like tearing down the core institutions of the Republic.

[David Burke 🇺🇸 @ConservativeTht]

Dear Democrats whining about Democracy: please explain to America how, out of 21 Congressional seats representing the 6 New England states, there are ZERO Republican Representatives, even though 40% of the electorate are registered Republicans, 48% in New Hampshire alone?

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

NEW: SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas issues a separate concurrence agreeing with the majority 6-3 decision on racial gerrymandering, but says he would have gone further:

“Today’s decision should largely put an end to this “disastrous misadventure” in voting-rights jurisprudence. As I explained more than 30 years ago, I would go further and hold that §2 of the Voting Rights Act does not regulate districting at all.  The relevant text prohibits States from imposing or applying a “voting qualification,” “prerequisite to voting,” or “standard, practice, or procedure,” in a manner that results in a denial or abridgement of the right to vote based on race.  52 U. S. C. §10301(a).  How States draw district lines does not fall within any of those three categories.   The words in §2 instead “reach only ‘enactments that regulate citizens’ access to the ballot or the processes for counting a ballot’; they ‘do not include a State’s . . . choice of one districting scheme over another.’” Therefore, no §2 challenge to districting should ever succeed.”

[Ryan A. Cook @Ryan_A_Cook]

@KenwoodInst So you think the U.S. Constitution > God's revelation?