Your (Don't Be An) Erdman backstory: #bewarethemoderates

RT @presbycast: A warning & encouragement for those "returning" to Christianity in the last several years: The normal trajectory for the fa….

RT @WVPitt: A little introduction to the ARP Study Committee on Race Realism and Kinism.

RT @scottrswain: One thing that most encourages me about the future of the PCA is that so many of its young ministers are Presbyterians.

Maybe there's a big sale that day at Lulu's Lemons. .

"When more than 2,000 men gather without rules to temper speech, chaos will inevitably ensue, particularly when discussing hot-button issues. The rules of decorum do not stifle debate; they help to make it more effective." - the estimable Scott Cook.

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RT @presbycast: Hail, Taco!.

He also knew that a non-atoning “atonement” for people not convinced of their lost condition (thanks to milquetoast preachers of vague moral uplift) was not worthy of being called good news. Then, as now, clear biblical gospel presentation was a rarity, as was a church focused.

to church members unless the gospel framing the supper pointed them to the supernatural Jesus of the bible, the God-Man. This is why Machen spent considerable time earlier in the book on orthodox Christology.

Machen on the church at the table:. Gospel and gospel rest are in view here. The “table of the crucified Lord” does not only refer to the proper administration of the sacrament. Machen knew that the Lord’s table was of no benefit. .

Westminster is church-centric, not nation- or ethnicity-centric.

WCF 25-2: The visible church, which is also catholic or universal under the gospel (not confined to one nation, as before under the law), consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion; and of their children: and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ,.

This is the working link to last night's show: Good link:

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See if the "better country" you are seeking is "a heavenly one.".

Christanity and Liberalism; read the pastoral epistles and see if Paul would commend the unsettled edgelord way. See if your way leads to contentment with the church and her people, and her Lord and His provision, or to something else entirely.

spiritual journey does not end in the sometimes-boring or (horrors!) borderline-boomerish local church, you may still be on the wrong road. If your online leaders ply a path of controversy & dissent, they may be leading you astray. Read the final paragraphs of Machen's. .

enough. A new taste for singing Psalms as opposed to praise jingles (as good as that is), an aversion to seed oils, "waking up" (aka becoming woke) re: Israel and race, "noticing things"—none of these are the fruit of the Spirit. If your (warning - terrible phrase coming). .

A warning & encouragement for those "returning" to Christianity in the last several years: The normal trajectory for the faithful is to find a settled home in a local church. Finding online affinity groups, being "based," or having newly radical political/social views is not. .