"You can pray to him (the Holy Spirit), ask him for help, be honest with him about your desperate need for strength, wisdom, healing, holiness, and growth in your spiritual life... Approach him, seek him, implore him, and trust him."
- Costi Hinn, Knowing the Spirit
The good pastors you meet on X probably preach 45-50 sermons a year, teach classes on theology, offer Biblical counseling, have regular/frequent meetings, funerals, weddings, hospital visits, home visits,
And then on X gets told by a 25yr old that he doesn’t know theology
SMH
Healthier natural candybars 👇🏻
TRUST ME ON THIS SERIOUSLY
they are not SUPER low in calories about 175 per bar but they satiate and you’re not getting a bunch of processed sugar/ ingredients you can’t read. I make them for my husband and he said if I keep these on hand he will never sneak candy bars again.
Base layer 👇🏻
3/4 cup almond flour
1 serving of vanilla protein powder of your choice
1tbsp honey or maple syrup
Splash of olive oil
Mix this up and push it tightly into a parchment lined bread pan place in freezer for 20 min then layer the rest all at once without freezing between.
Second layer 👇🏻
Organic chunky peanut butter (do a super thin layer maybe 3 tbsp for the whole recipe) MUST BE CHUNKY. If you can’t find REAL peanut butter that is chunky get unsalted peanuts and layer those on top of the peanut butter:)!
3rd layer 👇🏻
Smashed MEDJOOL dates. Must be medjool and layer evenly on the whole thing. I use about 6 smashed dates
Top layer👇🏻
Melted dark chocolate (use a tsp of olive oil in the melting process to make it smooth)
The sprinkle with course salt while still wet
Freeze it all and store it in the freezer as well.
Makes about 8 bars 🩵 they. Are. Insane.
As it appears G3 Ministries is in the process of shutting off access to its content, @Protestia would be interested in acquiring G3's content (or even licensing it) for custodial purposes - that is, to keep it available online subject to the wishes of the original content creators. If anyone with personal access to these men (I'm fairly certain they'll continue to ignore me) can relay this message to them, ask them to DM this X account or Protestia if interested in discussing an offer.
Many of you are aware I left G3, Pray’s Mill Baptist Church, and Douglasville in August of 2025 and moved to Gilbert, Arizona. But there are some things that even 1,600 miles cannot separate me from, and this is one of them. I thought I had moved past it.
https://t.co/QvuQbJ4K0E
I’ve officially lost over 100 pounds.
It feels a little strange to even type that. I still have more weight to lose, and I’m not finished yet. But I wanted to stop for a moment and be thankful. To God and to all of you.
I’ve done this without weight-loss shots or surgery. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with those options or criticizing anyone who uses them. This is simply the course I chose and by God’s grace I want to keep going.
Thank you to everyone who has encouraged me along the way. Every comment, compliment, and word of encouragement has meant more than you probably realize.
And a special thank you to Justin at High Calling Fitness. He has taught me so much about nutrition, training, discipline, and how to approach this as a long-term change rather than another temporary diet. And to Jennifer, my daily cheerleader, even through setbacks and failures. I couldn’t do this without you.
100+ pounds down. More to go. I appreciate all the prayers. If you want to know more about how I lost the weight, let me know. I plan to make a video about it soon.
I can’t believe the so-called “curse of Ham” is back in the news again!
What is this claimed “curse of Ham”? Well, it doesn’t refer to my surname! Rather, it’s a reference to the supposed curse Noah put on his son Ham in Genesis 9, which supposedly meant all of Ham’s descendants—in this view, primarily the people who settled in Africa—are cursed to be slaves.
And this ridiculous idea is back in the news cycle again thanks to a sermon series from an Arizona pastor, Dale Partridge (who is well-known for his disparaging remarks toward various ethnic groups and for his racism).
Apparently, Partridge has been preaching through Genesis 9, spending substantial time on the so-called “curse of Ham”:
“The description of one instalment on his own sermon podcast says the passage reveals God’s design of distinctions among what he calls the ‘three macro-races of humanity’ descended from Noah’s sons, and frames later sermons as testing whether Noah’s words were fulfilled in history.
“Partridge claims ‘the African peoples’ and some people from India are the modern descendants of Ham. He teaches that they have been divinely assigned to be ruled over by, and dependent upon, the supposed descendants of Ham’s brothers Shem and Japheth, whom he identifies as White people, Europeans, Asians, Jews, and Arabs.”
Does the Bible teach “three macro-races of humanity” and a curse of servitude for Ham’s descendants? Let’s start with the Genesis text:
“Then Noah began to be a man of the land and planted a vineyard. And he drank of the wine and became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. Then Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took the garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. Then Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him. So he said,
‘Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.’
“And he said,
‘Blessed be Yahweh,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant’” (Genesis 9:20–27).
First, you will note that Ham is not cursed—it’s his son, Noah’s grandson Canaan, who is cursed! And Genesis 10 traces Canaan’s genealogy. He was the father of many of the tribes that the Israelites would eventually expel from the land of Canaan (the promised land). His descendants were incredibly wicked (practicing rampant sexual perversion like at Sodom and Gomorrah) and either were wiped out by the Israelites as God’s judgment on their sin or became Israel’s servants. The “curse of Ham”—which is really the curse of Canaan—had nothing to do with Africa or so-called skin color (we’re all the same basic color—brown—anyway, just different shades).
What about the idea that God was creating three “macro-races” here?
That idea doesn’t come from the text; it’s been read into the text because of preconceived notions or prejudice. If you start with the Bible, there is only one race—the human race. Everyone is descended from Adam and Eve through Noah (and, consequently, through his three sons). And Noah blessing two of his sons and cursing one of his grandchildren (Ham had other sons who were not cursed) does not somehow divide humanity into three races. As Acts 17:26 says:
“And He made from one man every nation of mankind to inhabit all the face of the earth.”
Biblically speaking, there’s only one race. That’s why Jesus, the Last Adam, is the Savior of everyone—He was a member of Adam’s race who died for Adam’s race to redeem Adam’s race. And that includes “a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands” (Revelation 7:9). The Bible never makes some arbitrary distinction between three so-called “races.” To argue otherwise is to read your own ideas into the text.
And the reality of there being only one race has been confirmed by the science of genetics. The genetic differences between any two people anywhere in the world are so minor (a fraction of a percent) that researchers declared there can only be one genetic race of humans.
For someone to say that the people of Africa are all descendants of Ham and therefore subject to a curse of servitude and dependence on the other so-called “macro-races” is: (1) reading ideas into the text (again, the text says nothing about Africa or skin “color” or Ham and all his descendants being cursed) and (2) ignorant of both genetics and human history. There are no genetically distinct “races,” and the descendants of each of Noah’s sons have mixed so much that it’s ridiculous to claim any kind of pure descent from Ham.
Research biologist Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson has shown through his research—which starts with the biblical timescale and the reality of Noah and his family—that we are much more connected and closely related than you might assume. You can read more about that fascinating research in Traced: Human DNA’s Big Surprise.
There is no “curse of Ham.” Those who attend the church of Pastor Dale Partridge should challenge him to show them where the Bible makes any such claims about Ham’s descendants, skin shade, Africa, and the rest of it!
Instead of adding ideas into Scripture, we need to start with God’s Word as our authority. And it’s clear from Genesis 3:15 (the first mention of the gospel) through Revelation that God’s plan for humanity has always been to save the one human race from the curse of sin. When people teach favoritism of some groups of people over others, they are committing the sin of partiality and need to repent.
@DestinSandlin Somehow, I read this in your voice with glee and through laugh tears. Sounds like the guy was in Alabama, and I found myself wishing to be "the guy with a truck". Right now I'm "the guy with the Volvo full of car seats". That's not a bad thing.
I can image this sparking an entire @NoDumbQs episode.
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
John MacArthur
(dispensational premillennial, credobaptist)
RC Sproul
(postmillennial, paedobaptist)
Two of the greatest Bible teachers of our time. Two incredible friends. Two partners in ministry. And neither said of the other that their eschatology was “destructive to the life and mission of the church.”