Haunting refections on suicide and the social/structural nature of despair and human isolation from Herman Bavinck. "The multitudes are guilty, but only one is sacrificed."

I'm sorry but if you do not cheer for the Calvinist hurdler you are my enemy. I need her to win every medal.

"It’s remarkable that, at the turn of the 20th century, Bavinck foresaw the dangers of the emerging eugenics, racism, and nationalism in German philosophy—which were in vogue at the time, even among Christians." - N. Gray Sutanto christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/june-w…

Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? A. That I am not my own, but belong— body and soul, in life and in death— to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.

My mom on the debates

oh you forced yourself to abstain from something you wanted and deprived yourself of something you enjoyed purely as a gesture to prove your piety? no other reason? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite john calvin

A super vivid, beautiful rainbow followed me for 30 minutes all the way home tonight after a really difficult day and this was literally me

Suppose a man loses his earbuds. Does he not light up his iPhone and search under every couch cushion and in every charging spot until he finds it? And when he finds it, he texts his friends and says “nvm found it 😮‍💨🙌” I tell you…angels rejoice like that.

I’ve said it before and will say it again but to be Gen z and bear witness to the increasingly severe apostasy crisis of my dear peers and friends while the christian leaders I look up to fight among themselves to determine who is the most “woke” is incredibly disillusioning.

Ezekiel if he wrote a cookbook:

One of the best preventative acts against ‘deconstruction’ is to live in another culture and attend churches there to realize that the ‘problematic’ church culture you grew up with is merely local, limited, not synonymous with Christianity itself.

Academics love to say "most famously" and then describe a fact that 9 people in the world are aware of

Calvinist Motivational Posters

*youth pastor voice* do you know who was DEMURE and silent as he was led unto death on the cross? Who was fully MINDFUL of the sinners for whom he died? Let’s open our bibles to mark 14,