I'm not at ETS but this is. I'll bet the @ReadBakerBooks rep is really hoping these sell because carrying them twice is too much. To whomever is manning the table, I sincerely apologize but the good news is that got your workout.

“Every time people like Joe Rogan or Dennis Prager, who didn’t get the shots but used early treatments, assert that they had milder cases because of their choice of therapeutics, they get attacked for not choosing the sacred therapeutic.”

Mr Musk, Christianity withstood 270 years of persecution from AD 40-311. Likely thousands were martyred in the third century alone. We needed no strong man to defend us nor were we fighting any culture war against the pagan Roman Empire. I am not saying that there is no value in standing up for natural marriage and against the trans sexual revolution. There is but Christianity depends on the ascended Lord Jesus for its continuing not on our efforts in this world. Under Ahab there were only 7,000 who had not bowed to Baal. As Paul wrote, "So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace" (Rom 11:4). Christ will preserve his church.

There is a Jew who is in charge of everything behind the scenes. His name is Jesus of Nazareth.

Not sure why Dispensationalists struggle to understand the traditional Christian view. It's not the that the church "replaced" Israel. It's that national Israel was, for a time (beginning 430 years after Abraham, according to the Apostle Paul, but what does he know?) the church. The church began with Adam after the fall. It continued with Noah, then Abraham, and then the Lord added the national covenant with Israel on top of what had already been but Israel was the church. If you're a Dispensationalist, this might be unfamiliar to you but it's right out of the Bible. The Hebrew Bible uses the noun Qahal for the covenant community. The LXX (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, which influenced the New Testament) uses Ekklesia. That's the noun that we translate as church. Gentiles were already being added to the church under the types and shadows (the Old Testament broadly) but in the New Testament, after God the Son became incarnate, obeyed in our place, died, was raised, and ascended to the right hand of the Father where he reigns over all things and especially his church until he comes again, the promise made to Abraham, that he would be the Father of many nations, began to be fulfilled and so Gentiles (which is was Abraham was before he was circumcised) are being added to the church. Israel is not being "replaced" because Israel was never at the center of the story. Jesus was. Don't believe me? Please read Jude 5 or 1 Cor 10. Who led the Israelite church out of Egypt and who was with them in the wilderness and against whom did the Israelite church rebel: Jesus. He is the Israel of God (see Matthew 2). He was always the Israel of God. Everyone, Jew or Gentile, who is in Christ is the Israel of God (See Gal 6). That's Paul's message in Romans 11. All the elect are being saved. Paul says that, yes, Jews are still being saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. He's one of them! But the dividing wall has been broken down (see Eph 2). In Christ there is no Jew or Gentile (see Col 3 and Gal 3). In other words, the "supercessionism" charge rests on a series of false assumptions and assumes what it has to prove: that National Israel is the hero of the story and that anyone who isn't Dispensational is a "supercessionist" (replacement theologian) and therefore antisemitic. Well, we worship a Jewish Messiah. We read an almost entirely Jewish Bible (64 of 66 books). Many of us look forward to a future mass conversion of Jews to faith in the Jewish Messiah, Jesus. I have my doubts about whether that's what Paul is saying in Romans 11. I think he's saying that all the elect, Jew and Gentile alike, will be saved but lot's of non-Dispensationalists have held to a future conversion of the Jews before Jesus returns (once, btw). So, please, stop saying this. It just makes you look ill-informed. You can either be a historic Christian, a Reformation Christian, or a Dispensationalist but you can't be both.

Dear American Christian, I see that Joel Osteen's is the number 2 podcast for "religion and spirituality." In the words of Bob Newhart, "Stop it!" Joel Osteen is not a Christian minister. He's a minister of health, wealth, & self-esteem, not Christianity. R. C. Sproul is #30.

We would be a younger nation had we not murdered 60 million babies.

The entire ecumenical church: No, there isn't.

The current Administration wants you to pay $5.00 a gallon or more. They are religiously committed to reducing (or possibly ending) domestic oil production. They hate your pick up. They hate your suburban house. They hate you. Pls remember that.

Read the Apostolic Fathers (most of which date between AD 100-150). They quote Scripture and distinguish Scripture from tradition. They had access to Greek translations if the Old Testament. They regularly allude to and quote the New Testament. By AD 150 Justin had access to the gospels and st least some of the epistles. Thirty years later Irenaeus knew the four gospels and the epistles. By the early third century Scripture was being widely used and read in churches. The idea that the church thrived without Scripture is contrary to fact.

It's interesting that he doesn't conclude that you're fundamentally wrong about hesitancy but that your informed hesitancy is inconvenient for the prevailing narrative/message. Isn't that what science is supposed to do, be inconvenient?

Serious question: Why no masks or soc distance? I’m really frustrated w/Gov Newsom too but by not distancing & wearing masks isn’t GCC giving the gov’t an opportunityto ping them not for faithfulness but for defying legitimate health orders?

FYI, this is completely unhistorical and rubbish:

Um, uh. Who's going to tell them? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Our presidential candidates are a judgment on this country.

Notice how he frames the story. He made a little mistake a HE lost everything. This raging Narcissism. It's all about him and how mean people are being to Him. He's minimizing what he did and he's not telling the whole story. This the manipulative behavior of an abuser. Even more fundamentally he still hasn't reckoned with his sin. He committed adultery twice. After he was caught the 1st time he was graciously given another position in another congregation. He doesn't mention that. Abusers & manipulators omit key details like this. The church, to whom he had sworn to submit, just like he swore vows to God, quite reasonably removed him from ministry. He repudiated their love and guidance and continues to posture as a minister in Christ's church. If a car salesman stole cars from his employer would anyone hire him to be around cars? If a physician murdered two patients, would any hospital allow him to work there? If a Christian did these things he would repent humbly and accept the gracious decision of the church. As to his claim that Scripture nowhere forbids an impenitent two-time adulterer to serve as a pastor: rubbish. "Therefore an episkopos/pastor/elder/overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach...Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil." (1 Tim 3:2,7). "If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions...." (1 Tim 6:3-4; ESV). "Fight the Good Fight of Faith But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses." (1 Tim 6:11-12). "Godlessness in the Last Days But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." (2 Tim 3:1-5).

I'm 57. I took an undergrad degree in poli sci. I was raised a Humphrey Democrat. I've never heard an elected American officer holder say what she just said. "By any means necessary." That's a remarkable expression.

Shepherdess is not a biblical church office. It's not in the PCA BCO. How does a presbytery not know that one of their congregations has "shepherdesses"?

No, it’s about the murder, by Communists, of 100 million people in the 20th century.

It's getting closer ⁦@LexhamPress⁩

These are dads, brothers, & uncles—not super heroes but real human beings who took their lives into their hands to rush toward certain danger and possible violent death. Danger and death was potentially behind every corner. They kept pushing until they found the threat.

It exists! (I knew it did because I saw it on the Internet and @pastorperks and Scott McDermand showed me their copies this morning during our record recording). Dv, it will be released on November 12.

This is not Reformed theology.

Some of you are just discovering Mark Driscoll. A little history before you go all in.

The Bible isn't a culture-war weapon. It's God's holy Word. Should it be available to public school students? Yes. Do I want public school teachers explaining it? No. They're not equipped to do that. Should students understand how important the Bible was to the Republic? Certainly. Should they be assigned to read portions are a part of a program of general literacy? Sure. It's not a magical talisman, however. Just having the Bible in school isn't going to produce good citizens.

Of course females may edit books. If you think they may not, you have an odd ecclesiology.

Bec it signals a growing movement in the USA?

I reserve the right to ignore anyone who puts gender pronouns in his Twitter bio.

This sort of language and teaching is the result of not being able to distinguish nature and grace.

A tradition (believer’s only baptism) that didn’t much exist (if at all) until c. 1519 unbaptizes the entire church before then and most of the church since then and they complain when I say that they aren’t Reformed. You must be catholic (lower case c) before you can be Reformed. Unbaptizing virtually everyone until 1519 (but they’re aren’t Anabaptists in any way! LOL) is hardly a catholic thing to do. Some Baptists will howl when they read this further illustrating my point. They genuinely don’t understand what it means to say that the rest of us are unbaptized. This is because they seem unable to see things from anyone else’s point of view. For us to say “you are unbaptized” is to say “you are outside of the church and therefore outside of salvation.” I understand that the Baptists don’t see it that way. From the perspective of historic Christianity, Tom’s comment is high-handed to say the least. Again, why would Baptists want to align themselves with a tradition (i.e., the Reformed) whom they regard as unbaptized? This makes no sense.

"Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean" (Lev 13:40; NASB95). It's in the Bible.

These people are loons.

What I say to everyone is not to give money to addicts posing as needy people. It does not help addicts to give them money. What they need is to detox. Then they need to get sober. Giving them cash with which to buy booze/drugs only makes their situation worse.

And some have become abusers of the sheep.

People have asked me why I block this kid, why I'm so hard on him. This is why. He's a stubbornly ignorant and a nomist (legalist). This clever little post is a repudiation of the Marrow Theology and of the gospel of free grace.

I’ve learned to pay attention to what’s happening on the ground. Maybe it means nothing. I don’t know. It’s interesting that voters in DEN either didn’t know or care. That might mean something. Why is it problematic to pay attention to her?

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Amen. I don't know a pro-life advocate who disagrees.

@NARAL @Doritos Uh, fetus is Latin for "baby." They don't need to be humanized. We are human at conception.

This is why you need to read Dennis Johnson, Ed Clowney, G. Vos et al. Yes, we CAN interpret the OT the way the Apostles did and we MUST.

This is Christless.

This is Reformed theology.

This not Reformed theology. In the Reformed understanding, God has ordained to work through the admission of the children of believers to the visible church to bring them to new life and true faith. The admission of covenant children to the visible covenant community is church growth. "For the promise is to you and to your children...."

This is complete nonsense! There are many reasons to celebrate Reformation Day. I shall proceed to enumerate them. First, the Reformation, symbolized by the Ninety-Five Theses (but not at all summarized by them) represented a rejection of false damnable errors.

Is this a parody of a university account? In a university, by definition, there are lots of different points of view presented. There is disagreement and scholars even make, wait for it, arguments in favor of this view or that.

If a man “smacks” his wife he should be arrested & prosecuted by secular authorities and brought before the elders for ecclesiastical discipline also. If he is verbally abusive, that is also a cause for ecclesiastical discipline.

Praise God for his grace to us sinners.

12% of all TV characters are LGBTQ. That’s 3x greater than the general population. bbc.com/news/newsbeat-604299…

The URCNA, OPC, PCA, RCUS, RPCNA, and ARP have each said that it's a defection from the Reformed account of Scripture. In by baptism, stay in by cooperation with grace is not good news but is why we had a Reformation in the first place.

Virtue signaling is lazy but intoxicating. Doing real history, dealing with complex, fallen people in their own time and context, is hard work and thus done much less frequently and especially on social media.

Literally ALL the Protestant Reformers, who recovered the gospel for us, taught/practiced infant baptism & none were congregational in polity.

Carl Trueman is still alive, has not apostatized, nor has he left his family or church. Apparently "every single one of them" is yet again shown to be a false and potentially defamatory statement. A private apology is a start but it's only that. Carl asks for a public apology. That's an appropriate second step. Carl Trueman is a gracious and godly man. He is a gift to the church.

Just saw a post from Baptist Guy lumping "liturgies" together with "smells and bells." These two things are not the same. Every congregation has a liturgy. The SBC in which I worshiped for four years, had a liturgy, even if they didn't know it. Ending every service with an altar call is a liturgical--not a biblical or helpful act but a liturgical act nonetheless. There are good liturgies and bad liturgies. If you don't know what a liturgy is, and if you're not consciously shaping your liturgy, according to scripture and the historic informed practice, then you likely have a bad liturgy. The Reformed tradition can help you here. See below. 👇🏼

This is not the ecumenical faith.

Apparently preaching the gospel, administering the sacraments, catechizing the children, visiting the sick, and helping to educate future pastors and laity counts for nothing. The only thing that counts is the culture war baby!

If I ever get a turtle he will be named Turtullian. That's all.

Going to try to take my own advice. I will be here less. You can reach me at the Heidelblog. heidelblog.net/2020/09/re-th…

Trying to hide your sin from God😂

What I don't think people who've no experience in the Protestant mainline don't understand is that devotion to it nearly cult-like. It flies under the radar because, well, who pays attention to the mainline any more and why would they? But for some the mainline represents the old Protestant cultural hegemony, i.e., "when we were in charge." We here = WASPs. As Zoomer implies, it's not about fidelity to the truth as defined by the ecumenical creeds and Reformed confessions. The PCUSA, to which he's devoted, hasn't actively taught those things for decades, if not a century. They actively persecute and ecclesiastically prosecute those who teach them publicly. So, his program isn't fundamentally a Christian agenda. It's a cultural agenda. The same is true to a degree of Aaron Renn's advocacy of the mainline. This approach ignores the distinction between Christ and culture (or nature and grace). It rests on romantic nostalgia for a time that, judged by the Reformed confessions, never really existed or if it did it wasn't for long. Old Princeton was or became an outlier in the Presbyterian mainline almost from it's beginning in 1812. Mainline P&R churches were in trouble in the 18th century already across Europe and in the New World. Actual confessionalists (e.g., John Thomson) in the Presbyterian mainline in the early 18th century were marginal and marginalized by the revivalists. Ironically, apologists for the Presbyterian mainline have become what they hate: advocates for the lost cause, which is how Machen is frequently characterized. The world has moved on from the mainline. There is a reason the Reformed churches confess marks of the true church. The mainline doesn't have them (any of them) and hasn't for a long time. Go find a church that preaches the gospel purely, administers the sacraments purely, and uses church discipline correcting the sheep (Belgic Confession art 29). The historical truth is that, for the most part, the confessing Reformed churches have always been "churches under the cross," i.e., marginalized, persecuted, and even martyred. More Reformed Christians were martyred in the 16th century than any other group, by far, including the Anabaptists. We weren't that powerful or influential culturally in the 17th century. The Synod of Dort was like Apollo 13 returning with a broken ship. We hit a window that had things been a degree this way or that, would not have happened and almost as soon as the Synod happened, that window closed and the orthodox were skunked even in the Netherlands by Erasmian-moralist-subjectivist-latitudinarian civil authorities. The same is true of the Westminster divines in England and Calvin in Geneva. We were rarely culturally influential and when we were it was only for a moment. When people point to culturally influential Presbyterians in Modern America those figures are rarely confessional orthodox. Machen was an outstanding exception. In other words, those trying to resuscitate the mainline in hopes of renewed cultural influence and glory are beating on the chest of a long-dead corpse.

When people say things like, "Who really knows what the Federal Vision (FV) is?" I know that either 1) that person hasn't done any reading of the FV lit or 2) that person is on the way to becoming a Federal Visionist. We know what the FV is. It's not that complicated: In by baptism, stay in by works/cooperation with grace. "In" = receives all the benefits of Christ conditionally and temporarily in baptism. The Joint FV Profession explicitly says that those who have been truly united to Christ can fall away. That's it. There's more to say about how they got there but that's the core of it.

Dear @Ligonier Why is Wilson’s content content on your site? Are you unaware of his rhetoric, theology, & behavior? I’ve asked privately. Now I’m asking publicly. heidelblog.net/2021/09/it-ca…

Narrator: He wasn't. God the Son incarnate is at the right hand of the Father. In the Supper he feeds his flock, on his body & blood, by the mysterious work of the Spirit but the elements are not substantially changed.

Nature is not an artist but God is.

It's been 38 years since I graduated from ⁦@wscal⁩

Dear World, Kenneth Copeland is a lying wolf. He has nothing to do with historic Christianity. He’s been scamming the gullible for decades. Don’t feed him.

One of our students, who graduated today, made one of these for each of the faculty. I really like mine.

I know that the clerk of the PCA has apologized and submitted his resignation from the positron but it nonetheless needs to be said that Darryl Hart (@ReallyOldLife) is a godly man, a devoted to his wife, a devoted and faithful OPC ruling elder who has blessed multiple congregations, helped to plant the Escondido OPC congregation, and been a sterling colleague to many of us privileged to serve with him.

This guy's effectively saying that sinners are not welcome to hear the law & the gospel. He is wrong. His attitude is the mirror of the left-influenced mainline churches. He has become what he hates. Dear pro-abortion American, you're welcome to attend services in most gospel-preaching churches. You're welcome in confessional Reformed churches. We're all sinners saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. We don't think that you're a demon or worse than we. God's law condemns us too. We are convinced that all God's image-bearers have a right to life and we pray that the Lord will soften your heart and help you to see this truth. We love you, because Jesus loved us first, and want to demonstrate that love. This guy doesn't speak for us. heidelblog.net/2016/08/all-w…

In case you are unaware, this is standard boy behavior. Carry on.

Show us that you've never read a lick of Reformed theology.

If you haven’t changed a diaper, you’re not a grown man.

This is why Hermeneutics (the way we interpret texts) matters. His Hermeneutic led him to the completely wong conclusion. The issue with the rich young ruler was never his $.

This is not Reformed theology.

This is not Reformed theology.

How is it not defiant? GCC agreed to masks & soc distance for 3,wks but when the city appealed & won GCC responds by defying the city re masks & distance. Agsin, why not meet the city where they can, by multiple svcs, masks, & distance? Why celebrate disobedience?

I confess that I’m astounded that rational grown ups have Tik Tok accounts.

There's nothing new about the history of infant baptism. The debate between Aland and Jeremias is quite old. Jeremias tried to make more of ambiguous second-century evidence than he should have. Aland can't explain the early third century evidence. Ferguson's large book doesn't add anything to the argument. The claims about emergency baptism are just unpersuasive. Here is a historical rock on which to stand: Tertullian and Origen acknowledged infant baptism as a fact in AD 206. There is no evidence in either case that emergency baptism had anything to do with it. There is no indication of any controversy. There is no indication that this was a change in policy or practice. Tertullian has been interpreted as rejecting infant baptism, but that is not necessarily true. See the articles on the HB. Augustine unambiguously said that infant baptism was the universal, apostolic, practice of the ancient church. History is not the reason why anyone becomes a Baptist.

If your child’s teacher has a TikTok account, that is all you need to know.

No, the greatest enemy David faced was David, i.e., sin, the flesh, and the devil. He didn't turn away. He looked with the intent of lusting (Matt 5:28). That, his desire to conquer her, led to murder.

That infants are sinners wasn't invented in the 16th cent. It's in Ps 51:5. Augustine affirmed it contra Pelagius in the 5th century. It's Christian orthodoxy to teach that in Adam's fall sinned we all. We sin because we are sinners. We don't become sinners when we sin.

There were more classical references in a given episode of Looney Tunes than in most high school English classes today.

Um, I'm not sure how to tell him but the founders solved this problem a long time ago.

I see the con but where’s the Ref?

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You took membership vows when you joined the church. Did your kid's traveling sports club die for you? Does your kid's traveling sports club administer the holy gospel or the holy sacraments? I didn't think so. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? (Matt 16:26; ESV)

If you don't read Greek, don't complain about mistranslations. Dr Wolf should know better but over time, scholars get used to be treated as omnicompetent. We aren't. I've been reading the Greek NT for 40+ yrs. She's completely wrong.

POTUS 46 is going to resume the border fence. So, it’s not racist and xenophobic now?

🧵Some of you have never read the Definition of Chalcedon and it shows. It's not a "Roman Catholic" creed. There was no "Roman Catholic" church or even a pope (in substance) nor the 5 ecclesiastical sacraments yet. There's no need to fear it. Start by reading it slowly and carefully.

HT: Heidelmemes (no, I don't know who it is. No connection to the HRA)

What exactly makes this coalition “Reformed”?

Never ask, “Am I elect?” Instead: “What did Jesus promise?” For God so loves sinners that he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Please ignore biblicists telling you that they understand Scripture better than the Council of Nicea. They don’t.

Read this slowly.

🧵Dear Baptists, the Reformed Churches confess infant baptism. They do so because their covenant theology leads (one cov of grace, multiple administrations) them to it. You deny it, bec your covenant theology leads you to your conclusion. We have different covenant theologies.

Some of you thought that N. T. Wright was the intellectual/theological savior of the West. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️

This is a major reason why I say Baptists aren't Reformed. This strikes at the heart of Reformed theology.

Denault: "“The Baptists believed that before the arrival of the New Covenant, the Covenant of Grace was not formally given, but only announced and promised (revealed).” Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology, 62. This is not Reformed theology.

Marxism is directly responsible for the deaths of somewhere around 85 million people in the 20th century. It’s nothing to celebrate.

Sola fidelitate (through faithfulness alone) is not sola fide (through faith alone). Anyone selling you justification through Fidelity or faithfulness or allegiance is leading you away from sola fide, away from resting, receiving, and leaning upon Christ and his finished work alone. What we re-learned in the Reformation is that justification through faith alone, by grace alone, in Christ alone leads to fidelity, not the other way round .

Hey kids, this is why Calvin talked about a “rule of worship.“ This is why Heidelberg 96– 98 says what it does. See also Belgic 7; WCF 21.1.