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Matthew Sample II retweeted
Try #LindsayClancy again.
And again if you have to.
Until there is justice for these precious babies.
Praise God for one man with stubborn courage who wouldn’t roll over and let these children be forgotten so easily.
"He chose us... He predestined us.... For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks...." God's soveriegn choice ought to lead us to gratitude. We ought not brag about what we had no say in.
Exactly the opposite. I deserve nothing, certainly not election. There is nothing in me that He would choose. But He did choose me. I can’t get over it. All I can do is worship and love Him because He chose and loved this unlovely sack of filth. Election cuts the root of self-righteousness and pride. All glory be to Christ.
Matthew Sample II retweeted
Some people worry that because they're not articulate or charismatic in explaining the reasons for their Christian beliefs that they're not justified. That's not true. Regardless of whether you can convincingly explain your reasons, you're justified in your beliefs. God is real, Jesus saves, and that doesn't depend on your persuasion skills.
If you're not an eloquent speaker or writer and you want to fulfill 1 Peter 3:15, be a living example of the hope that you have. I still remember the quiet examples of the Christians I encountered as an atheist and how that planted seeds.
AI hallmark:
On a page entitled "Best Free Photogrammetry Software," the top two picks are audio software and the Best Value software is a slideshow program. NONE of the recommended softwares have anything to do with photogrammetry whatsoever.
Matthew Sample II retweeted
Sometimes when I post images of space, I get comments like this. Either they’re trolling to make Christians look like crazed conspiracy theorists or they’re demoralized, black-pilled weirdos.
I posted images of Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and Pluto. Three of those planets you can see with these natural gizmos called “eyes” by placing them in front of another gizmo called a “telescope.” You can buy these technological wonders online or you can go to your local astronomy club viewing party and use someone else’s. You’ll see these planets look more or less exactly like they do in NASA images.
Pluto is sufficiently far away that we needed a spacecraft to see details.
But why would NASA CG images of Pluto or any other objects? If they did, there are other countries with technology who will humiliate them with images of what these planets “really look like.”
“It’s all part of a global conspiracy!” the weirdo will say.
So, they're conspiring to do what exactly?
What global agenda is served by faking images of planets? No real money, no power, no politics. Just pretty pictures and some chemistry and geology in the Solar System. And a lot of Christians on social media looking at all this stuff and thinking, "Wow, God is great."
Stop being weirdos.
(This is from a post on Notes. If you wanna get in on the action, click on the link in my bio.)
Matthew Sample II retweeted
This is in Reformed Confessions, all of them, in essentially this verbiage. This is incompatible with nominalism. And that is only 1 section of what we say on Adoption and Sanctification.
Our union w/ Christ is more than Justification. That is Confessional.
It's interesting how media colors our perception of normal life.
I woke up @ 1:10am and my bedroom door - which we leave closed - was open.
I saw no one. It was pitch black. Then I heard a barely audible whisper:
“Mama.”
I grabbed my phone and turned on the flashlight. No one to be seen.
Another barely audible whisper: “Maaamaaaaa.”
I got out of bed and looked in the hallway. My adorable, lovely, sweet toddler was standing in the hallway. Whispering my name. Acting like an 18th century ghost because he didn’t wanna wake up his baby brother, just me.
What a sweet boy, being so considerate and throwing me into a horror movie like that.
Matthew Sample II retweeted
Please note that a godly man IS NOT THREATENED by a wise and godly wife.
A godly man *wants* a wife who is gifted and offers wise counsel.
This is how a truly godly man talks about his godly wife:
“Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all" (Proverbs 31:29)
Issacharite.
How Should Christians Think about UFOs? with Tom Hicks
In this episode of the Covenant Podcast, Dr. Hicks discusses why the United States government is currently presenting UFOs to the public. He further covers reports of UFO sightings and provides a Christian response.
Tune in to the conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=aJLVJam4…
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God. (1 Peter 2:16)
Matthew Sample II retweeted
A friend, upon posting this, said, rightly, "Ever notice that the gospel is never their answer?" He is right, of course. This is Christless Nationalism. It can't have the gospel as its power since it is a political movement wearing a religious mask, nothing more. And the amazing thing is, these guys are so benighted they don't realize that without the Spirit sweeping across a nation or a culture, the powers they think they possess can, and will, be used against *them*. One major national election tilting to the left and the "ban Hinduism" mantra becomes the "ban Christianity" mantra and they won't have the slightest ground of complaint. They just don't get that our only hope, and our only power, is the gospel, not the state. Christless Nationalism is a caricature that may well have tragic consequences.
Matthew Sample II retweeted
If a man asked me about my prayer life and my Bible reading habit I’ll consider it a great token of love.
This man truly cares about my soul!
Matthew Sample II retweeted
You’re correct here in some ways, but you’re missing a few things:
Yes, the early settlers were generally morally good people thanks to their culture and religion (not their race), and yes, you do need a morally good population to justly recognize the words on paper we call laws.
But they were not without a constitution.
They wrote the Mayflower compact to solve intense violent conflicts that arose before they even landed. Our American constitution was inspired by it. The early settlers were never without a constitutional document, which shaped and restrained the people.
These puritans would’ve called themselves depraved. Their whole theology was centered on the principle of total depravity, needing Christ and the Spirit and the Law to restrain it. The law wasn’t just a product of the people, it was a recognition of transcendent truths that men should try to live up to, like the 10 Commandments.
When the pilgrims first landed, they formed a communist system that almost killed them all by starvation. William Bradford himself wrote how that system turned this devoutly religious, moral, and ethnically homogeneous group into lazy people who couldn’t even feed themselves. It was only after he initiated ownership and free trade by law that things started to turn around.
The main idea I’m pushing against here is the belief I see in the replies—that civilization and utopia just naturally secrete from white skin.
Don’t kid yourself.
It’s a prideful and delusional idea. We need a morally good population. That requires Christianity. We also need good laws. The problems won’t automatically fix themselves if we just get the ethnic mixture “right.”
The first English settlement in America began May 14th, 1607.
The American revolution began on April 19th, 1775.
America formally declared independence on August 2nd, 1776. (Yes, you read that right.)
The Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3rd, 1783, ending the revolution.
The current constitution was finally ratified on May 29th, 1790.
183 years.
No 3rd world hell. No mass murder. No rains of frogs, cultists summoning Great Cthulhu from the sea, cats and dogs living together.
None of that. Instead, those Constitution-less Americans forged a just and prosperous nation out of a wilderness inhabited by stone-age savages.
Why?
Because of who they were.
The quality of a nation is the quality of its people.
Full stop.
If you have good people and bad laws, the people will fix the laws, and make them good. If you have bad people and good laws, the bad people will ignore the laws, and they might as well not exist.
The tragedy of America is that our ancestors were so good, and surrounded by so much good, that they stopped believing that people could be bad.
And they let the bad people in.
It's easy to call this notion of good and bad people "simplistic", but on a basal level, we all know it's true. We all know there's a difference between Jeffery Dahmer and Jeff Cooper, which has nothing to do with laws.
It's just that some of us are too cowardly to confront this fact.
To declare all men depraved just as cowardly as declaring all men righteous. In reality, these two delusions are the same, because they both tell the same lie... that all men are morally equal, that they must be constrained, or liberated, to the same degree.
Wrong.
There are good men, and there are evil men, and they are different. And it is our inescapable responsibility to judge which is which, and to treat them accordingly. It is an act of supreme cowardice to shirk that responsibility.
You can always hold your baby,
Til he's running in the park.
You can always chase and play,
Til he's borrowing your car.
You can always teach him manners
You can show him how to stand
You can always teach him right and wrong
Til you can't...
"When you are on X, don't take yourself so seriously. But take other people very seriously. Take God very seriously." -from the touch-grass convo within the Triage vs. Formation conversation between @BobTheBaptist and @chrbaxter_yt