Tag: jesus
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February 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Baptism and Circumcision; NETTR; Critique of Theonomy; Modern Israel; Conspiracy Theories and Identity Politics; Drugs and the Demonic; Immigration; Presbyterianism, the Public Church, and the Culture War; Etc.
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.” — James A. Garfield — “Life’s tough. It’s even tougher when you’re stupid.” — John Wayne — “The key to compounding is continual reinvestment. It does not matter how low the rate of…
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Son of Man
Jesus’ most frequent title for himself is “Son of Man.” Why did Jesus refer to himself this way? Son of Man is Jesus’ way of calling himself the “Son of Adam.” In Pauline language, it means Second Adam, or Last Adam. It means he inaugurates a new humanity, Humanity 2.0. But there’s more. In Daniel…
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Jim Jordan’s Ecclesiocentric and Hermeneutical Critique of Theonomy
I do not recall the source of these notes, but they are a helpful summary of Jordan’s criticisms of theonomy. I have a couple of different versions here. These notes are based on Jordan’s lectures “A Theocratic Critique of Theonomy,” given in 1991. — How to think about Biblical Law Introduction• When Christianity first came…
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Covenant Infants Dying In Infancy
From the Synod of Dordt, Canon I, Article 17, Concerning the Salvation of Infants Dying in Infancy: Since we must make judgments about God’s will from his Word, which testifies that the children of believers are holy, not by nature but by virtue of the gracious covenant in which they together with their parents are…
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More January 2026 X Posts and Other Miscellanies: Romans 11, the Jews, modern Israel and Anti-Semitism; Churchill on Bolshevism and Zionism; Baptism/Paedobaptism; Abortion; Islam; Socialism; Alfred’s Theonomy; Headship and Marriage; Future Orientation; Birth and Marriage Rates; Identity Politics; Etc.
[5] Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: [6] Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD. [7] And some of your…
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April 3, 2022 Sermon — Thank God and Do What You Want: The Good God, the Good Creation, and the Good Life (1 Timothy 4:1-5)
One of the most vexing questions Christians wrestle with is how to relate to the things of this world. Christians are constantly discussing and debating the right way to relate to God’s creation. There are at least a couple reasons for this. Sometimes the Bible is silent on a particular issue. The Bible gives us…
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Sermon Manuscript from August 14, 2022 — Liturgical Warfare (1 Chronicles 20:1-30
In addition to what we read from 2 Chronicles chapter 20, I will also read from Acts chapter 16. I will begin in verse 16. “Now it happened as we went to prayer that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune telling.…
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Baptists and Paedobaptism: The Inescapable Covenant
Parents who believed Jesus was the Messiah brought their little ones to Jesus to be blessed by him (Matthew 19, Luke 18). The disciples objected (this is the closest anyone in the NT gets to being Baptist.) Jesus override their objections: “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to…
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1/25/26 Sermon Follow Up: Biblical Israel and Modern Israel
Quick recap of the sermon, followed by various notes on the “Israel issue,” the “Jewish Question,” and anti-Semitism: The NT presents Jesus as the true Israel. He takes up Israel’s mission and fullfills it by keeping covenant with his Father in just those ways that ways that Israel historically broke covenant with God. He becomes…
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I Belong to God: A Covenantal Catechism (Revised)
Introduction Question 1. Who are you? I am a child of God. Question 2. What does it mean to be a child of God? It means that I belong to him and he loves me. Question 3. What makes you a child of God? Grace — God’s free gift of love that I do not…
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