James Baird Why can the magistrate require you to lawfully swear an oath (HC 101/WLC112) if they have no jurisdiction in the 1st table of the moral law?

We are too soft on our vows it seems.

When I visited Utah last year for Presbytery, the airport was straight out of a third-world, yet the churches are not benefiting even as many likely favor such conditions.

Anon: have you equipped your family and church for the ongoing queer invasion of the churches?

Lee Irons (the heir apparent of Kline, now an officer in the PCA) also affirmed, from the floor, that the entire chapter on the law in the Confession should be re-written. I was as his OPC GA trial.

Unpopular opinion: the churches need to frankly confront their limited options and influence instead of the happy-clappy talk.

There are typically two types of complainers about "black pilling": 1. Those too uninformed, naive, misinformed, etc, to know what moment in history we find ourselves. 2. Those with a personality that cannot handle the truth.

Unless churches confront the false-guilt among their leadership, this will metastasize beyond control.

A rule I live by, and my answer to objections like this: "If you don't want people to find your garbage, don't leave it lying around." The burden is on the publicly transgressive to not transgress, not others to hide it. Elders should be above reproach.

Just started “Is the church pro-gay?” And this is my mood right now

It's all emotionalism. Yet to doubt a "stars" supposed conversion is to get everyone riled up.

A helpful overview of LCMS happenings, with parallels to the Reformed world, like all the implicit egalitarianism.

Too many pastors already used pre-made sermon outlines, etc. way before AI became a thing.