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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Unity? With whom the queer heretic? The implicit positioning clothed in Johnson’s comment is that he is actually of the elect. It’s one thing to struggle with one’s sin but quite another to claim the propensity as one’s identity as if the outward manifestation (acts) of that identity are sinful while the inward condition is not. Evidently Mr Effeminate is strong enough (he says) to ward off the desires but God is incapable of renewing the mind of the Sodomite. As a person thinks in his heart so is he.
Hello Mark!
The most recent lingo is to deny that they are identifying with their sin and to instead say that they are just admitting that they experience same-sex attraction.
Then why the need to identify with the label “gay” or its corollaries? Jesus says that a man who looks at a woman with lust is an adulterer, but should we accept a pastor (or any Christian, for that matter) who says, “Hi, I’m Bill, a Christian adulterer!” Or, better yet, Jesus says that anyone who says to his brother “raca” is a murderer and worthy of hellfire. Should we accept a pastor or Christian who says, “Hi, I’m John, a Christian serial killer!” People who want to accept homosexual identity into the Church are either deceivers or the deceived.
If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed. There is no reason to associate one’s personhood with the ways of the flesh in any way. There is only the person of Christ into whose likeness we are being made; and what remains to be sloughed off through sanctification in this life, or purifying fire before we enter the next.
Excellent Joshua. Thank you for leaving that comment.