Anthony Bradley
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The black church has an extremely high ecclesiology. It always has. The black experience in America in centered on the church. The solution to personal change & social chance in neighborhoods is the church. Sadly, many “Big Eva” “Reformed” leaders dismissed the black church…
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Remember when Derek Redmond’s dad put fatherhood on display before the entire world when his son tore his hamstring during the Olympics?
#HappyFathersDay
#HappyFathersDay2021
#dadsmatter
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America, the man in this photo can end school shootings. It’s called a “father.” Teen boys who have close, intimate, joyful relationships with their fathers will likely never be a crime statistic. Good fathers are the most effective way of ending young male criminal deviance.
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Explain this: how are we able to look at lower class whites who live in trailers parks and distinguish them from them from other white people, declare them, non-representative of whites but blacks in housing projects somehow represent the whole of “black America?” Explain below…
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This is Fr. Mark Goring, a Catholic priest. Ask your Protestant friends to critique what he says here. Thoughts?
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@itvnews
Are you all looking for an alien from another planet? You all actually posted this?
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When inner-city black kids commit crimes there is a discussion about family breakdown & bad parenting. When a white upper middle-class 18-year-old murders 10 people with racial motives, he’s an individual unaffected by parenting—bearing no parental role in his actions.
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It just shows how intellectually superior Catholics are at articulating their faith. A Protestant would not have been able to do that. Anglicans could. Most evangelicals would say, “there’s no gospel in his answer.”
#ReligiousStudies
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This is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Their founding dates back to the early-4th century & so does their Alexandrian liturgy. Imagine inviting one of them to your church’s “Traditional Service.” Or imagine thinking that English hymns are old, by comparison.
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Parents of 20-something men, this is what your son is encountering out here, so if he’s not dating anyone don’t shame him for it. Thoughts on her perspective?
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He was so excited to hear about his role in the Christmas play! He’s teaching us something…
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The main cause of the vitriol against Du Mez et al is that the TGC, SBC, DG, 9 Marks, Acts 29, Calvinist etc. world never saw itself as a sociological object of critique. There is now an entire academic world focussed on their failures & Reformed men are losing their minds.
A history of evangelical conferences as a window onto evangelicalism writ large, with attention to $, race, gender, power, networks, theology.
Who wants to write this one? I’d read it in a heartbeat.
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One the tragedies of the Christian parenting books from 1970s-to-early 2000s is the over-focus on parents disciplining children/making kids "obey" rather than modeling apologizing & repentance. Parents are the chief repentance officers in their families, if not teens won't talk.
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Dads play differently with their kids. We have good psych data on what those differences & how they help children developmentally. Fathers are necessary. This is Tank Tolman. His daughter’s reaction at the end tells the story. Do you think she said, “Again Daddy?”
#DadsMatter
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A friendly reminder: the experiences & issues amongst 19% of the black population do not represent the experience/needs of the 81%. Only 19% of black Americans are truly disadvantaged. “Black people” is not a euphemism for injustice or deprivation. Don’t conflate race with class.
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These people don’t understand “code switching.” When I’m in a black church preaching it is 100% different than a white church. His father is a black preacher! He went to college Bowdoin College in Maine & spoke differently there. He’s back home speaking pre-Bowdoin. Relax!
We have a very serious plague of theater kids occupying positions of power in government.
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Gaston County, NC. This is the
#blackchurch
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Parents, if you have Apple products, you can buy your child an Apple Watch & avoid buying them a smart phone for years. They can call, text, very few apps, you control incoming/outgoing calls and texts, you can track their whereabouts, etc. Buy the watch, delay the smartphone.
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Think about this: the most rebellious thing a teenager can do today is avoid social media, avoid substance abuse, and aspire to live a quiet life of working hard, getting married & starting a family in their early 20s, & minding their own business. These are todays rebels.🤦🏽♂️
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This 12 year-old is meeting his incarcerated father for the first time ever. He’s only seen pictures until this day. How would you describe this boy’s anticipation/reaction? God Behind Bars is a ministry that reunites children with their incarcerated dads. This changes lives!
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@NoCapFights
Wait, did he call him “Dr. Chu.” Like, this HS teacher has a PhD and has to deal with this?
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It’s hard to expect “revival in America” when your denomination was formed as a resistance movement against slave abolition, then supported Jim Crow, fought against MLK, merged faith with GOP idolatry, & conspired to cover up decades of child abuse, sexual assault, & etc.
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If 78% of the black kids in Mississippi didn't graduate high school, we'd blame "systemic racism." If 65% of black women disproportionately die at childbirth in Georgia, we'd blame "racism." But, for some reason, racial disparities in abortion is women "choosing" health care.
Abortion is the most lethal form of racism and the leading killer of Black Americans.
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So the Iowa player instigates a gesture and an LSU player responds in kind but the LSU player (oddly) is called classless. Question: why do you think the LSU player became the focus of this controversy & not the Iowa player who started it? What’s different about them?
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The other part of police work people often don’t see. Richland County, SC.
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Dr. Du Mez sidebar: Again, I don't understand why her book is so controversial. Historians & sociologists of religion have been making these *exact* same observations for decades in academic press books. It just shows how intellectually/academically isolated evangelicals are.
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The TGC/DG/etc. world is a Christian culture lacking epistemic humility and discourages self-critique. Internal critics are called “anti-gospel.” They built an entire platform based on critiquing *everyone* but themselves & taught an entire generation of pastors to do the same.
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Imagine how many parenting books could be rewritten & how much less young adult deconstruction there would be, if fathers were taught that joy was a higher responsibility than disciplining. Teens don’t rebel against joy.
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Modern white Calvinists, in their arrogance, conflated their religious culture with “the gospel” itself. To critique their religious culture is somehow equivalent to critiquing Jesus, the gospel, the Bible, etc. It’s unreal!
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My guess is that bow tie wearing Republicans in the South aren’t used to Democrats reading the Bible to them in the halls of government. For too many evangelicals, the Bible is the gospels + Paul. But the black church tradition draws from the entire canon.
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Be more angry at John MacArthur and his errant theology than Kristin Du Mez. Let me guess, "he gets the gospel right" so why care about anything else.
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Is there a country somewhere in the world where people aren’t constantly demonizing each other & fighting over political & social issues? A place of relative social peace where folks eat good food, hang out, read books, watch sports & sleep 8 hrs per night! Asking for a friend.😎
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If you're a pastor or in ministry in of any kind, stop what you're doing right now and listen to this. Play this in church on Sunday. It's just 5 mins. If you parents teens, watch this tonight and talk about it with your kids.
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At Clemson, the football players and Coach Dabo S. regularly hang out with the school’s special needs students. Clemson has the best campus culture in America. What other football program does this with their on-campus special needs college student program? Clemson is the best!
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The other key player here is this man’s wife. In our current culture of safetyism, most boys don’t get to experience this kind of self-confidence building adventure with their dads. Two people trust the father here: the wife & the son. This man must feel so respected & loved.
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What’s hilarious to me is how culturally “white” this entire coffee/church discussion is. 😂 People on both sides seem clueless about this. I just read a tweet from someone saying coffee is needed when tired with children. What? In the traditional black church this is a…
Can we reassess whether Sunday coffee-sipping in the sanctuary fits?
“Let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe.” Hebrews 12:28
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Be a rebel: find a boring church in a denomination where pastors have outside accountability, where Sunday is about Jesus (not the sermon), with unimpressive music, a pastor who explains Bible says in 20 mins or less & hardly ever posts on social media.
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Although I’m not a newsworthy “first,” I’ve been the first black person to teach theology at every school I’ve ever served. The first black person to do lots of things in my world. It would been nice to have a “Corey” during interviews over the years.
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Aggression. Fighting evil. Protecting. Providing. These were once considered aspects of “Hegemonic Masculinity” & “Patriarchal” culture, which are bad. Now, we’re seeing why it’s good to teach boys to become men who harness the power that God gave them for the benefit of others.
A politician in Kyiv said goodbye to his wife and kids and enlisted to fight Russia.
"My motherland is in danger. My kids are under the direct impact of the Russian invasion, and the only ability to stop all of them is to unite and to fight back."
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Because evangelicalism has always been a sociological coalition, not a biblical nor theological one, it’s entire American history was in direct opposition to racial freedom for blacks & black Christians from slavery through Jim Crow.
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If all boys in America experienced multiple moments with their fathers like this, what would happen?
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Parents, it doesn’t take much. What are her reactions & body language communicating about her parents?
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Been saying that we need to pay attention to young guys. No traction. We’ve slowly dismantled the spaces that produce pro-social men. The result, angry/resigned anti-social men. The data is clear so why isn’t strengthening young men a national initiative?
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@NBCNews
Come on. It’s diet. Please stop with the silly correlations. You don’t get heart disease because you don’t have a cardiologist who is your same race.
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Fathers, if play is not core to your relationship with your kids, don’t be surprised if they appear distant during the teen years. The neuroscience: fathers & children both get oxytocin spikes during play more than moms. “Joy” should be dad’s nickname~Dr. Anna Machin.
#DadsMatter
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I feel bad for Josh Butler. He was failed by his publisher & TGC. In academic publishing, our books are pre-reviewed by scholars to look for problems. Had Butler’s book been sent to theologians at Westminster, RTS, Wheaton, Taylor, etc. they would’ve caught any errors & fixed it.
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In a child’s memory, “dad” should conjure default feelings of joy. So many great things going on here but if all American boys experienced their fathers like this, prisons would close & drug dealers wouldn’t have clients…
Fatherhood is this sample...the dad deserves an Oscar for the fall! 💞
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Ok, this one got me. Really happy for her.
I can’t stop watching this six second video of Ketanji Brown Jackson moments after her history-making confirmation to the US Supreme Court
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I’ve spent my entire public career being attacked by conservative Christians. I’ve also received lots of apology letters from them. Yesterday, I received one from a white Christian guy who threatened me 5 yrs ago. These are always great to receive. Forgiveness is hard but great!
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Divorce destroys kids. They are not ok. Some parents “wait” until the kids are in college because of the ridiculous myth later is better. No, it’s always destroys them.
“Girls with divorced parents face an especially high risk of developing depressive symptoms…the exact issues reaching record-high levels among girls today…girls gripped by anxiety, withdrawing socially, and channeling their emotional pain inwards”
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Dallas: When BLM protestors and a group of blue lives matter conservatives encounter each other! Unreal!!! What’s this country coming to?
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If you’re a racial minority, don’t feel like you have to make “white evangelicalism” your life project. There are more important issues to address & the attention feeds their narcissism. The devil is active in lots of other spheres. You’re free to focus on many of those as well.
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He asked his step dad to legally adopt him. If you don’t think young men need fathers, listen to why he wants to be adopted. “You all I got…”
#DadsMatter
(🎥IG: hesagoodman).
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Why do
#TimKeller
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#DavidFrench
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In their blindness, they believed themselves to be united theologically when, in fact, American evangelicalism (Puritans to Edwards to the present) was always first and foremost a sociological coalition cloaked in theological language about “the gospel,” “inerrancy,” etc.
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I’ve seen it over the years & the response to Du Mez, Jones, Perry, Coley, et al is not surprising. Critiquing white evangelicalism will never change white evangelicalism. If that were true, we wouldn’t be here today. Black theologians had these critiques, in print, 100+ yrs ago.
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I absolutely see no need to say, “Even though I disagreed with Person X…” when announcing or reflecting on someone’s death. That’s how tribal we’ve become. To secure in-group status, we have to signal whose team we’re on when referring to someone else’s life & work.🤦🏽♂️🤮
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This clip demonstrates why the traditional black church is best suited to speak directly to those in low-income black communities. The focus is Gen. 1-2 not Gen. 3. The black church never embraced the victim mentality that “social injustice” explains Person X’s circumstances.
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So, when you teach your children that “all Christians are wrong *except for us*,” and an army of scholars pull the low hanging bad fruit of errors throughout your history, your prideful, and sadly immature, response will be “counter-attack and defend the tribe.”
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Many people are wondering why
@RepAdamMorgan
is not running for POTUS, 2024. He clearly should be, many will say!
My constituents told me to vote no on the $1.3 billion VW project ($400 million of which is taxpayer cash). But the swamp wants me to ignore those “back home.”
I’ll always listen to my constituents far more than lobbyists, big corps, other legislators, or unelected bureaucrats.
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My advice to churches searching for their next pastor: hire the guy who is a no-name, has no social media presence, whose sermons are faithful to the Text but doesn't "wow," is faithful to the Lord, his wife, his kids, and loves all of those people *more* than the church.
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Before the foul, Lebron was traveling. Right? (I’m no BB expert)
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What kind of parents raise a high school girl to do something like this?
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America, I’d like to introduce you to one of the richest men in the country and why he says, “She never fails me.” Tissues recommended.
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Francis Collins admits that they royally screwed up. What’s so crazy to me is how progressive Christians said that conservative Christians “didn’t love their neighbors” & “weren’t following Jesus” when they objected to the locked downs in the first place.
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Help me understand something. It could just be my algorithm, but the people who speak most vehemently against evangelicals being politically GOP-partisan seem silent on the Mainline churches & the religious left being no different and equally politically partisan. Why is that?
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What would you do if, during your church’s liturgy, a white dove descends behind the altar?
#LiveOrthodoxy
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So frustrating: I've been in Christian parenting circles for 25 years, I can't name a major Christian platform that centers fatherhood on joy, affection, play, roughhousing, etc., and the things we've know in psych data for 30+ years. Why is that?
Fathers, if play is not core to your relationship with your kids, don’t be surprised if they appear distant during the teen years. The neuroscience: fathers & children both get oxytocin spikes during play more than moms. “Joy” should be dad’s nickname~Dr. Anna Machin.
#DadsMatter
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If Steven Crowder treats his wife like this, why are people fans of his? Why would a conservative ever listen to a word he ever said? How can you be pro-marriage & pro-family and he a supporter of
#StevenCrowder
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Steven Crowder verbally abused his pregnant wife. And after all this and so much more he can't figure out why she filed for divorce.
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In the 1950s, they abandoned the cities (esp. adjacent to black neighborhoods) and built institutions in the suburbs, built by the government, to support white middle-class thriving. It reinforced their arrogance about being right. They’ve always believed themselves to be right.
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Parents are CJOs (Chief Joy Officers): I’ve been in circles where the parental instruction was primarily about “discipline,” fathers as stoic philosophers, drilling the gospel, but not joy (Neh 8:10). Don’t expect kids to persist in the gospel without “joy” as a synonym for “my…
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#MLKDay
: I've heard people complain that people like me have "Dr" or "PhD" in our Twitter info. & insist on students calling us "Dr." Here's why: I'm from the Bradley slave plantation in Escambia County, AL. My parents were raised in a South that referred to them as "n*gger."
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The core of preaching in the black church tradition is that Jesus came to give his people victory over sin, death, and the devil. This is why I’ve never seen the evangelical revivalist/pietist/Edwards/Spurgeon substitutionary atonement reduction ever grow a large black church (or…
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I wish parents and high school “guidance” counselors would give high school students this wisdom and parents would help their kids find something they’re good at.
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America is metabolically bankrupt. What are we doing?
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Proverbs 26:18-19, sums up my view of The Babylon Bee.
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What needs to happen to
#AbolishDaylightSavingsTime
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So now their hyper-critical chickens are coming home to roost by army of PhDs who are equipped with analytical tools exposing them every side. Calvinist culture missed Jesus’ point about the speck in the eye. They cheered like sports fans when someone said, “Farewell, Rob Bell.”
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The moral of the story: demand more boring books written by theologians who’ve spent years studying topics & are held accountable by scholarly peers. Christian publishing has declined since “platform” became the No. 1 determiner of who gets book deals instead of content quality.
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Just to clarify, you can be fully committed to the Bible’s authority, the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, a Confession of Faith (WCF, Bk of Concord, etc.), and NOT be an evangelical. Evangelical isn’t a synonym for Protestant or even a conservative Protestant or “the church.”
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Just a reminder, about 62% of global Christianity is Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic. US & UK Protestants, esp. evangelical & US progressives, center Christianity on themselves & then make normative claims about “the global church.” It’s fascinating to watch.
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I wish US evnglicl pro-life activism as a norm existed during US slavery. Had that been the ethos of Christians during slavery, we may have never had Jim Crow. Had Jim Crow never existed, like 90% of the race issues we have today would not exist. Crazy to think about. . .
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If you’re a man who complains about young adult men “sitting at home playing video games” then go pick one of them up and do something fun/constructive/dangerous/life-giving/developmental/challenging/etc! Maybe that’s why they’re at home playing video games.🤷🏾♂️
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Sometimes it’s not a conspiracy (that often requires intelligence & planning), it’s scandalous negligence. From 2005-2020, Doug Wilson, John MacArthur, James MacDonald, CJ Mahaney, etc., were all amplified b/c “they got the gospel right.” The scandal are the .orgs & conferences.
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Imagine someone telling the leaders at Nicaea in 325 that “One day, there’ll be a country called the ‘USA’ and Christians will judge the orthodoxy of other Christians based on how they vote in secular (gov’t) elections, rather than confessing what you all are working out here.”
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So now, because their chickens are coming home to roost, they are only left to play their victim card and whine like pre-schoolers. They are fragile. As soon as *their* plank in the eye is pointed out, they pout and say, “Stop hurting us.” They coddled themselves & their kids.
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Does the US have private Christian schools like this? This is the chapel!🤯 The architecture, the chapel service, the dress code, etc. Wow. This is the equivalent of a US grade 6-12 school. It’s called
“Chelt College.” Who knows this hymn? See any cell phones?
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I've changed my mind, I used to think that conservative evangelicals valued the role of fathers. I no longer believe that. A 30-year study shows that the most important determinant of faith persistence in kids is the *relational* warmth of fathers, then grandfathers.
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I love the black church. I was in tears today. Story: For about 12 years, I worked in the heart of Harlem with Greater Zion Hill Baptist Church (MLK’s denom). I had to leave my work there when King’s closed. Today, I was able to drop by. At the end of service, unbeknownst to me,…
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Dear Parents, if you want your kids to be successful in life, they don’t need to learn 3 languages, travel to 5 countries before the age of 16, play sports, etc. They just need you all to stay married. It’s *that* simple.
‘Two-Parent Privilege’ author sounds off on concerning marriage trend’s harmful impact on children
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@michaelpsenger
He didn’t call for “force.” In his own words, he just used “incentives.” Of course, if you didn’t comply with the “incentives,” you faced the threat of government sanctions. So, no, it wasn’t technically “force.” It was just, you know, “incentives.” Like, force.
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The level of entitlement here is unreal.
Kyle Rittenhouse blasts Biden for not returning calls to 'sit down and talk'
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Black church musicians!! Just different. Kirk Franklin tour…
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