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This quote from David Wells is practically a masterclass in the nature and purpose of theology:
Doug Ponder
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Doug Ponder
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Biblical Studies Professor @GrimkeSeminary | Teaching Pastor @remnantrva | Mostly tweet about biblical theology, ethics, and anthropology.
- A man once told me it was hard for him to sing “Amazing Grace” after learning John Newton had been a slave trader. I pointed out that he wrote the hymn after repenting of his sin. "Doesn't matter," he replied. "He still did it." Me: "Go read the first two lines again, bro."
- A friend of mine, who works in a public university, sent this to me earlier this week 👇🏻 It's p. 1 of the DEI training his department is forced to take, starting w/ an exercise that asks which intersectional identities you'd save and which you'd leave to die. This is demonic.
- Christians everywhere should pray that the Lord would do this.
- Replying to @dougponder“[I]t will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active instrument in a business at which my heart now shudders.” —John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788)
- Prayer request: We recently found out that my 2nd son, like my 1st, has a rare genetic condition that’s killing their kidneys, stunting their growth, and weakening their bones. Tomorrow is his 1st appointment, where we find out how far it has progressed. Would you pray for us?
- If you celebrated, or even shrugged, when statues of Washington, Jefferson, or Lee were torn down... but you sigh or shake your head when a statue of Satan is torn down... then you've been (deeply) catechized by the world.“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged. My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.” —Michael Cassidy cf. Boniface (🌳🪓) and Timothy of Ephesus, who was killed after trying to stop a parade for the goddess Diana
- Many Christians struggle to address the claim that we inconsistently “pick and choose” which laws from the OT may be ignored while others must be obeyed. This has been ably rebutted many times, but once more for the kid in the back of the class with his head down on the desk:
- 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️: "Why won't you attend my 'wedding'?" ⛪️: "The Man on the middle cross said I can't come."
- Replying to @PreacherWritesYeah, bro. I asked his permission to share because I think people need to see just how bad things have gotten in major government-supported institutions. Easy to think the folks calling this stuff out are Chicken Littles, but they're not when these things are really happening!
- Replying to @megbashamA friend who works as a professor in an extremely hostile university often says, “I’m post-pronoun.” This makes his coworkers wonder if the revolution has progressed so quickly that they now regressive 😏
- Yesterday, at an appointment for my son with a rare genetic disorder, my wife expressed dismay at the discovery of new symptoms. The attending doctor asked why we didn't genetically screen the pregnancy. Cue O'Connor's infamous "tenderness" that "leads to the gas chamber."Alright I gotta come out and say this is crazy. Since when is preventative medicine eugenics? And if a couple exercises their right to choose their own embryo based on what matter most to them...that's eugenics? We have lost the plot.
- Seems like a good time to remind everyone that mother sharks sometimes eat their young, female praying mantises eat their mates after copulation, and dogs sometimes eat feces. Maybe, just maybe, the animal world isn’t the place to go for lessons about sexuality morality. 🤦🏻♂️"Queer Planet" will be released in June. The documentary by NBC is focused on "LGBTQI+ tolerance" among the animal kingdom… No, this is not satire.
00:00 - Protestant church historian Philip Schaff would like a word…
Protestants are afraid to read the Church Fathers because they know it will lead them to be Catholic.
