CREC pastor | Host of The Buffalo Reformed Podcast | Family Health Nurse Practitioner
Buffalo, NY
Joined August 2012
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Look at New York's map: a sea of red, a few islands of blue, and the blue isn't even dark. Question: did the founders care more about population or representation?
nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el… – at Elma, NY
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If you are a leader, and your factory setting for settling disputes is to rely on your position rather than your reason, your people might obey you, but they won't follow you.
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"separating sex from the covenant of marriage"
I completely agree.
But, it is exegetically sound to say:
"Denying that sex creates a marriage covenant."
Premarital sex makes women crazy. It also makes women resentful towards men. At the root of much of our cultural misandry is the fact that men have used women sexually and women are now bitter over having been used. This is not say women in general are victims of male sexual predation. Women are very much complicit in their own misery and have consented to their own destruction. They have been deceived into thinking sexual "liberation" would actually be liberating instead of enslaving.
We cannot fix the mutual hatred the sexes have for one another today without a restoration of sexual morality. If there is one irrefutable sociological truth that has come to light since the 1960s, it's the Bible was right all along, and separating sex from the covenant of marriage has been bad for everyone - men, women, and children. We cannot rescue our culture from suicide without rebuilding sexual morality.
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Ananias was told to go baptize the man who came to arrest him. Kingdom work rarely starts in your comfort zone. – at Elma, NY
"All decrees of councils… are to be examined." (WCF I.10)
Rome sees that as cheeky individualistic rebellion.
Protestants see it as faithful submission to the Spirit speaking in Scripture.
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"...the requiring of an implicit faith, and an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, and reason also." (WCF XX.2)
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Aaron Masters retweeted
But Is Also the Reason Why There Is a PR Department
"A true reformer gives the PR department fits" (Rules for Reformers, p. 19).
"When we call judicial work a distraction from real kingdom work, what work do we imagine Christ has given us that permits us to treat the protection of His people as an interruption?"
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"Willing obedience to their lawful commands" (WLC 127). The adjective is important. – at West Seneca, NY
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The Fifth Commandment teaches honor for lawful authority, not deference to whoever happens to be in power. Learn the difference.
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The next installment will be released on Thursday:
"One preliminary principle to understand about a Governing Document is that it delegates authority. A constitutional government means that a document, not a person, defines and outlines who has the authority to do what. An officeholder exercises authority because he has lawfully obtained that office, and the bounds of that authority are established by the Governing Document. Therefore, when a constitutional officer exercises authority beyond those bounds, he acts without lawful authority. And when such usurpations of authority begin to harm the innocent, they constitute tyranny, and resisting them becomes our Protestant duty."
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Vos on the 9th commandment:
"What special form of falsehood is especially wicked? Opposing the truth, by word, deed, or silence, in matters of "public judicature," that is, in the administration of justice in the courts of the state or of the church." – at West Seneca, NY
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From my sermon tomorrow:
"How can we expect to identify the demons present in society and slay them if we cannot even identify our own?
How will we be a lighthouse on a stormy sea for any who are caught in a demonic web of exploitation if we allow ourselves to be exploited by sin for the economy of our own flesh?
If we are not dealing with sin our witness will be impotent. Our church and community will be just another social club within a society of corrupt social clubs."
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"The aim of this series is to examine the safeguards by which judgment is to be reached regularly, fairly, and in accordance with established rules and principles. Those rules and principles ought to be grounded in Scripture, whether expressly stated or derived by necessary consequence, and given practical expression. We call this practical expression due process."
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Christ came to earth so that mankind might live on it in a manner pleasing to their Creator, not so that we could escape from it. – at Buffalo, NY
"The aim of this series is to examine the safeguards by which judgment is to be reached regularly, fairly, and in accordance with established rules and principles. Those rules and principles ought to be grounded in Scripture, whether expressly stated or derived by necessary consequence, and given practical expression. We call this practical expression due process."
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Go to church!
"Israel could never be threatened more seasonably than at this time, when they were repenting and praying, nor could they have been better prepared to receive the enemy; nor could the Philistines have acted more impolitely for themselves than to make war upon Israel at this time, when they were making their peace with God."
(Matthew Henry, 1 Samuel 7) – at Elma, NY
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