Now Available for Pre-Order The Law for the Lawless: How to Restore Order in the Church, the Home, and the Nation By David Mitzenmacher | Foreword by Thomas K. Ascol In this book, I seek to recover a vital yet neglected doctrine: the civil use of the moral law. Rooted in

One thing they don't prepare you for in seminary is how frequently someone will shake your hand, and then five minutes later mention that they're fighting a cold. 🤧

"This is chaplaincy at its best: holy men answering the sacred call to minister the gospel to America’s soldiers in the most austere environments, for God and country." https://t.co/WFRvv82JlX

Great @WNGdotorg article from my friend and classmate, Chaplain Andy Schmitz (US Army) "Chaplains serve warfighters best when they stop imitating emotional support officers and instead shepherd the souls of a flock who have answered their nation’s call"

We are going to make the Chaplain Corps great again.

"The vast majority of Muslims around the world, quite consistent with their own convictions, do not want to join the civilizational project of the West [...] Just in case you wonder, they say this out loud." - @albertmohler at @WNGdotorg: https://t.co/k3FYiz0jpS

Scripture and the light of nature (2LBCF22.7) make clear that God has appointed a proportion of time for rest and worship. Rest from our labor is a public confession that we are finite and only God is infinite. Rest is an acknowledgement that God made us for ordered loves that

Sometimes, God uses "cheaply made cinedocs" to humble the proud.

Published copy in hand of my @SBTS doctoral student @davemitz’s new book on the second use of the law. Dave is sharp as a tack and this book is worth your time—give it a look.

I have complicated tastes.

Baptist pastors/scholars with good, pro-American, biblically sound public & political theology that are doing good work and you should follow: @DustyDeevers @jrwhitehead @samwebb1876 @marcminter @davemitz @dmichaelclary @jchasedavis @DavidSchrock @tomascol @AndrewTWalker

Yeah, I'll be doing a 5K today. (5 kinds of pie.)

Watching the #MacysThanksgivingParade makes me feel old and uncool. "Up next: Grammy winner Tall Josh, TikTok influencers The Catsup Twins, and the Broadway cast of Wikipedia: The Musical."

"—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best. Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789. George Washington"

"—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord —To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us"

"—to enable us all to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually —to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed"

"and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us. and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our transgressions"

"-for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed —for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government —for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed"

"That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks —for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation —for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence"

"Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be."

"Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor"