Ian Smith
@mithSIM
Husband. Father. Pastor. PNW native. Christian missionary to rural Japan. Opinions are my own. https://www.instagram.com/mithsim/ .
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We need a resourcement effort in recovering and popularizing the Puritan's views on usury and usurers.
Preparing a sermon on Baptism being the sign of membership in the New Covenant; but for the life of me, I can't find my copy of the 1689.
One of the dynamics explored in the book 'The Forever War.'
You could read Beowulf today. You could just do that. It only takes a couple hours, and once you've finished, your ears will forever ring with the clamor of battle and the roar of the feasting hall.
This is literally the best book list that rewires your brain for success
Apparently, even the Groks will cry out.
When you try to support your bad theology with AI, but Grok ain’t having it…
Shakers, Cathars, Manichaeans, Bogomils, ascetic Gnostics, Encratites, Marcionites... it's almost hard to find an early Christian heresy that *didn't* take a harder line on celibacy than the orthodox
Sermon prep. Luther's commentary on Galatians is worth its weight in gold.
Saul was really good over here, what does it matter that he failed to kill all of the Amalekites? Don't people remember how great he was in the past? Maybe he's right about David.
It’s wild that Carl Trueman wrote a 300+ page intellectual deconstruction of the sexual revolution that sold more than 100,000 copies and greatly helped churches push back against insanity, and yet some folks call him an enemy because he doesn’t want anons running Christianity
Read something at least 400 years old every day (aside from your bible that is; that's a given).
We're back! Finally got the three missing volumes I needed to complete my Ante-Nicene Fathers set. Wish they matched the 1960's editions a bit more closely though.
I have LOVED using this new study Bible, so I’m going to give one away. 🚨 GIVEAWAY! 🚨 Just do these simple things to enter… 1️⃣ Follow me ( @JoshuaBarzon ) 2️⃣ Share this post 3️⃣ Comment below with your favorite book of the New Testament! 💬👇🏼 Picking the winner on Friday!
“For the man who only fears the flames of hell is afraid not of sinning, but of being burned; but the man who hates sin as much as he hates hell is afraid to sin. This is the fear of the Lord, which is ‘pure, enduring forever.’” —St. Augustine. (Letter 145 to Anastasius)
Fantastic article by @herandrews on The Great Feminization. "Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization... Everything you think of as wokeness involves prioritizing the feminine over the masculine: empathy over rationality,…
Evangelical political "engagement" is nothing but moral reaction to the news cycle. They create nothing of their own. They have no independent existence. They are passive, reactive, and mentally captured. When alone they cease to exist.
If Eric Liddell can skip the Olympics because it’s the Lord’s day, your seven-year-old is probably okay skipping soccer practice to go to church.
Many confuse Jesus’ words, “Love your enemies,” with a command to yield to all evil. Jesus said, "Love your ekthroi", those enemies who personally wrong you; a slanderer, persecutor, or offender. Show him mercy, forgive, and pray. (Matt 5:44; Luke 6:27). The polemios, though,…
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