Husband to @ettalinton, daddy to the boys J1, J2 & J3, and the girl J4; pastor @FBCSulphur, LA; #foster & #adopt; MDiv & DMin in Preaching @SWBTS; #GeauxTigers

Joined January 2010
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I'm firmly convinced that one of the biggest problems on Christian social media is people posting about other people or situations when they know absolutely zero about that other person or situation. We'd all be better off if we'd shut up about things we don't know squat about.
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Protestia finally recognizing that Nate Fischerโ€™s business partner at the address American Reformer and @WilliamWolfeโ€™s Center for Baptist Leadership use (as reported by @jake_meador) is a pornographer!
Replying to @Protestia
Another org promoted in the flyer is Mans World magazine. We're not going to screenshot the images, but they routinely include *pornography and pictures of naked and nude women.*
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โ€œA small segment of the population just needs to be KILLED?!โ€ This is the chairman of @AmReformer, which wants SBC control. Itโ€™s one thing to say you think the death penalty is a just measure for govโ€™t to impose on any convicted first-degree murderer. Thatโ€™s not what he said.
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This is the influence and support network behind Wolfe and Abbotoyโ€™s Center for Baptist Leaders. For Wolfe to stand and present a motion against political violence was possibly one of the most hypocritical action I have ever seen at an SBC convention.
Recall Nateโ€™s deep involvement in โ€œwarlordโ€ Charles Haywoodโ€™s creepy Society for American Civic Renewal. Haywood wants an โ€œarmed patronage networkโ€ & a brotherhood who understand the โ€œlegitimate forceful exerciseโ€ of authority. These arenโ€™t normal people. theguardian.com/us-news/2024โ€ฆ
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Just know that the president of the SBC doesn't speak for all Southern Baptists, only for himself. The only agenda for those in the Convention, and most outside it, was the protection of the vulnerable.
The newly elected president of the SBC denies that there was ever a "systematic" cover-up of sexual abuse by top denomination officials, people with political agendas had used the issue to attack the nation's largest Protestant denomination. arkansasonline.com/news/2026โ€ฆ
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JD Vance pretending that WWII ended with negotiations when A) LOL and B) the whole point of Trumpโ€™s โ€œunconditional surrenderโ€ demand was a callback to WWII is just so perfect. Maybe heโ€™s been watching his friend Tucker interview WWII โ€œhistoriansโ€ too much.
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People in the Bible Belt often have just enough religion to be dangerous. They suffer "repentance immunity" due to "religious inoculation".
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I'm not the least bit sad to leave behind the Central and East Florida infatuation with Pepsi products. @CocaCola
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"Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong." โ€”Vance Havner (1901โ€“1986)
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Take no part in the unfruitful deeds of darkness... Christian conferences should no more host this stuff than we would the works of Karl Marx, Lenin, or Stalin.
New Christendom Press is hosting a conference in Ogden, UT. One of the vendors is Antelope Hill, which is selling "The Essential Speeches of Adolph Hitler" and "The Rise of the Reich," a Nazi propaganda text published by the SS. CN brothers and sisters, it's time to get out.
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Let's keep ethnonationalism out of the SBC.
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The Southern Baptist Convention exists for cooperation in the church's mission: making disciples of Jesus. Cultural renewal is downstream from that. Don't let the cultural tail wag the ecclesial dog.
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Saw our first manatees in the wild today! And a bonus dolphin.
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This is wonderful.
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then โ€” I must report this calmly โ€” the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did weโ€ฆ?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished โ€” an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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Not to belabor the point, but this is yet another reason to sound the alarm about Entryism in the SBC. AmRef leaders like Abbotoy and Wolfe, and their SBC enablers, are working hard to turn the convention in a white nationalist direction. While feigning โ€œconservative principles.โ€
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Signs of Heresyโ€”4 Heretics change the biblical portrait of Christ, who is one Person, truly God and truly man. Heretics like Apollinarius change the true humanity of Christ, while Nestorians challenge the personal unity of Christ, and Kenoticists change the deity of Christ.
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Time for my quadannual caring about soccer. Also, watching West Coast sports from the East Coast is hard.
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Whoa!
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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Most never state how to get there because they donโ€™t want to admit publicly what we all know is the *only* way to get there: force.
Christian Nationalists who want Protestant/Calvinist confessional state never explain how to get there. They donโ€™t seem very interested in evangelism.
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