A new Politico article is out about AmRef executive director Josh Abbotoy’s RidgeRunner. This was my favorite line, in the screenshot below: 🧵 politico.com/news/magazine/2…

What represents itself as Christian Nationalism is more akin to a mix of George Bernard Shaw’s autocratic Fabianism and National Socialism combined with AI and transhumanism. The promised accelerationism will continue with violent provocations.

Francis Schaeffer - The Watershed of the Evangelical World youtu.be/cXvzvivdVlA?is=cQ9Z…

Understanding the movement to create a "New Normal" is key to understanding this attempt to transform the center of Christianity - which is exactly what the Woke Left movement was effectually doing from 2011-2021. Central to "Woke" or Neo-Marxist strategies today—sustainability as the branded "new sensibility," Critical Social Justice as its vehicle, and institutions (faith, education, corporations, media) as the means of introjection. And of course, much of the strategic ideology of this attempt at evolution (mutation) is found in the writings of Herbert Marcuse (a concept from Herbert Marcuse's 1969 An Essay on Liberation). Traditional "sensibility" (what feels right, is right, reasonable, or natural) and reason repress imagination and the true liberation that is being offered by "New Christendom" or "New Normal". A "New Sensibility" (New Christendom/New Normal) is paired with a "new rationality" or critical consciousness that must replace it so people instinctively reject capitalism, private property, and old values, embracing a authoritarianism that is similar to a communistic order (This is why American Reformer published @ConceptualJames hoax article that was a rewrite of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto) . This involves "introjection"—deeply internalizing the *New Norms* until they become part of one's being. This "New Sensibility" or New Normal/New Christendom is created through propaganda in everything, thought reform, struggle sessions, and programs targeting radicals/youth (e.g., conferences, podcasts, and activism). The goal is to enable the "New Christendom" by resolving the old Christianity's contradictions internally. This is being done by using Cultural Revolution tactics: making the new norms universal, hegemonic, and irresistible while divorcing radicalized people from the past. And yes, it is the same tactic that is being used in the SBC by the Center for Baptist Leadership (AKA American Reformer). @billroach_ @RealDonMarshall @willspencer @BobTheBaptist @tundpodcast @ConceptualJames @glennbeck @realmikolson @Janet_Mefferd @HwsEleutheroi

Christians with significant and influential platforms are still willfully participating in or at best ignoring this growing problem within the Reformed world. How long will they dismiss these warnings as mere overreactions or "leftist slander" meant to undermine the church? Those excuses can no longer stand. How can we go on listening to or trusting those who continue repeating such excuses while using their platforms to "protect" and "grow" the church? There are savage wolves rising up from within the church to prey upon those rightly angered by the leftist decay we've witnessed in our country and in many churches for decades now. Many of those being drawn in are disenfranchised men seeking answers to real problems - many social but ultimately deeply spiritual problems. But the wolves are not sparing the flock, as Paul warned, they're speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them (Acts 20: 29-30). They're presenting themselves as guides to safety and righteousness and national restoration, but in reality their guidance is leading people into the other ditch by selling a perverted, reactionary political vision as though it were aligned with the truth of Christ. If you claim to follow the Lord and King Jesus Christ, you must recognize that there is a deep and destructive ditch on both sides of the narrow path, and falling into either one will only lead you away from the Gospel. Pretending otherwise only enables the spread of the same decay you claim to be defending against. "But Lord, NETTR helped us win against the left! We did it all in your name! We were based!!" Will that be your excuse before Christ on the Day of Judgment? The roots of NETTR, Schmittianism, kinism, sacralism, integralism, and related ideologies must be ripped out of the ground before they can bear even more rotten fruit and poison the minds of yet another generation in the church. And to those who have been sounding the alarm for years, continuing to speak out about this despite the slander and despite the social and financial costs that have come with it - your integrity has not gone unnoticed. I've listed only a small handful of people here, but there are others I am grateful to as well. Thanks and God bless y'all for what you do. @SovMichael @ConceptualJames @billroach_ @HwsEleutheroi @willspencer

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: I am in Moneta (near Roanoke), Virginia, to preach the 20th church anniversary of Troy Keaton and the Eastlake Community Church. The service was in a tent on campus, with close to 1,000 attendees. Ten minutes into the service, a sudden, severe weather event pulled the support poles out of the ground and blew the tent off. One of the elders of the church went to be with Jesus, and several others were seriously injured. Please pray for Pastor Troy, Eastlake Church, and this community - that the hope of our risen Savior would be theirs in abundance during this crisis.

So far, this is excellent.

I have never really followed hockey. But this year, I haven't missed a game of the Stanley Cup Finals.

Some wonder why I say @AmReformer is doing Entryism. I’ll explain in this thread, as it pertains to AmRef’s @WilliamWolfe. Here he is today, calling himself a “conservative reformer” — part of the Southern Baptist “broad base!” — and he is not “the fringe.” Is that true?🧵

“If the whole function of the minister is ‘inspirational’ rather than ‘instructional,’ then, no doubt, we may dispense with all serious study of the Scripture.” “But, if the minister is the mouth-piece of the Most High, charged with a message to deliver, to expound and enforce; standing in the name of God before men, to make known to them who and what this God is, and what his purposes of grace are, and what his will for his people—then, the whole aspect of things is changed. “Then, it is the prime duty of the minister to know his message; to know the instructions which have been committed to him for the people, and to know them thoroughly; “to be prepared to declare them with confidence and with exactness, to commend them with wisdom, and to urge them with force and defend them with skill, and to build men up by means of them into a true knowledge of God and of his will, which will be unassailable in the face of the fiercest assault.” — B. B. Warfield

I recorded this podcast back in 2022 after experiencing the entryism game being played by William Wolfe, Josh Abbotoy, and others in the New Founding/American Reformer/NatCon orbit. After many of us sacrificed our means of living and reputations beginning in 2016 to expose the transformational "Woke Left" infusion into faith, corporations, media etc -- the Woke Right came along in 2022 and have attempted to re-write history. Those who were responsible for introducing TGC, T4G, and countless woke professors and pastors to evangelicalism and reformed congregations across our nation have now magically been recast as the heroes who saved Christianity from wokeness ---- while introducing Woke Right, along with the accompanying postmodernism and critical theory that were the ingredients of the Woke Left movement that they gave birth to a decade and a half ago. The reason for all of this? Destabilization and the coordinated march into the 4th Industrial Revolution: a world without work, an equitable world, a world where distributism and the loss of liberty will end our constitutional republic. From the article that accompanies the podcast: "Throughout our nation and world, there has been an attempt to segregate previously unified groups into those that are willing to either give up individual liberties and follow a progressive road or those that are still consciously dedicated to the constitution and objective standards for truth. People in the United States have been segregated into camps of the vaccinated vs unvaccinated, critical race theorists vs “racists” or Global citizens vs “fascists”. In contrast, those that have sought to divide and conquer the United States have avoided any scrutiny while strife and hatred has spread through our nation. The technique for dividing previously unified groups has been well-used by those that seek power and deconstructive change for ages: it is called, “entryism.” Entryism is a technique that provides a means for a small but determined group to leverage their influence onto a larger sphere, by using the entered organization’s resources ( funding, existing networks of members, current tax structures ) It is most commonly associated with attempts to move an organization further leftward and is a way to remove those that will not be loyal to the incoming, change-focused regime and keep those that will be loyal and obedient in place. Where entryism occurs you will suddenly find new mandates, new restrictions and new ideologies that would have been unthinkable in previous years. Entryism is most commonly associated with attempts to move an organization further leftward but it is not exclusive to political parties; entryists could target a corporate organization, charity, society, or faith based religious group – like the Roman Catholic Church or the Southern Baptist Convention It is especially useful where a larger hierarchy does not exist. Those practicing a form of entryism many times will create a larger coalition of normally separated groups or denominations to create a previously non-existing authoritative hierarchy within their new coalition. Entryism, like the Motte & Bailey technique is meant to confuse those that seek stability and divide those that desire normalcy." This movement now assures a controlled opposition game within the SBC: a "Christian Nationalist" front that has the same goals as the BigEva Left Woke movement from a decade previous. youtu.be/AzcuzOZXPqI?si=MR1n…

Our old lab still enjoys riding in the car.

👇🏼 This. 👇🏼

A church shouldn’t baptize anyone that it doesn’t take into membership in order to make them a disciple of Jesus Christ by teaching them to obey all the He commanded.

This weekend I’ll be speaking on the inerrancy of the Bible. Francis Schaeffer was correct to label inerrancy as the watershed of the evangelical movement.

Practical advice from my PhD advisor: “You don’t have to comment on every controversy.”

He’s right. Enough is enough.

Form and function must be held together concerning the office of pastor. Let man not separate what God has joined together. The hallmark of soft-complementarianism is to separate this unity. To offer inappropriate titles is not biblical, nor is the granting of certain functions biblical.

If you want to understand our day, you must understand the ancient term misology. Misology is the hatred or distrust of reason, logic, and rational argument. It is the tendency to reject careful thinking and treat truth claims as matters of emotion, power, or personal preference rather than evidence and sound reasoning.

I was in that exact location not too long ago. We live in a fallen world.