Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
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Bret,
I think you mean “bestiality.”
Is it just me, or does anyone else see the inconsistancy of Miss California insisting that traditional marriage be upheld while citing her Christian faith (in news interviews after all this took place), all while walking around in front of the world swaggering her hips naked? Not to mention, the fact that these pageants are based soley on vanity? Do you think any of the modernist churches will even notice this?
I am more and more convinced that homosexuality is the curse that God is placing on us because of the unfaithfulness of those who are called by His name. Reading your blog, Pastor Bret, and the comments here are a breath of fresh air.
Thanks to you and your regular visitors.
Matt,
That is a good point. I thought of that but I didn’t really know how to express it.
A almost totally naked woman who willingly became almost totally naked in order to win a prize takes a stand for Jesus by opposing homosexual marriage.
Into the looking glass.
It’s either,
I. a difference in kind (between immodesty and abominable perversion), or
II. it’s a difference in degree between –
1. a misguided woman who’s been told:
a) her physical attributes are fair game and,
b) there’s a difference between titillation and “appreciation of beauty,” and
2. a culture that’s been told that perversion is not to be held in check by morality.
I get the problem y’all are addressing, but I think it’s less complicated than we might think…even though I had to outline it to get my point across!
Jay
I think that it’s possible to appreciate a woman’s beauty without asking her to get almost naked.
I mean, I’m as lustful at the next guy, and the carnal side of me loves going to the beach for all the wrong reasons, but I can at least, in my better moments, wish that I didn’t want to go to the beach for all the wrong reasons.
Usually though, the beach grosses me out as I see most women trying to put a gallon of body parts in a quart jar bikini.
(The following is not originally by me, but a paraphrase of someone, “whose sandals I’m not fit to lace”)
“I think I’ve decided how I’m going to deal with some of the women in our culture, from now on. If a woman comes into my church, dressed in a manner that is obviously trying to accentuate her womanly attributes, I will walk up to her (and her husband or father, if applicable, and say, ‘My, those are magnificent breasts GOD gave you…and you’ve managed to display them so prominently. (To her supposed authority) You must be so proud.’ Doesn’t it make sense that if they want to be noticed that we should oblige?”
I’m not saying this is the right response…but, MAN! wouldn’t you like to see this happen, just once?
And I don’t disagree with your point about appreciating beauty w/o nudity…I just don’t want us to be too hard on someone who’s inconsistency has probably never been pointed out to her. I also want to make sure we avoid some sort of moral equivalency between immodesty/vanity/greed and outright perversion.
Jay
BTW – you owe me however much coffee I sprayed after reading “gallon of body…quart jar bikini.”
j
Jay,
Yes, I would spend good money to behold that conversation! That is hilarious.
Your second point about moral equivalency was quite good and needed to be said.
Thank you,