Spent some time on a boat last week. Leveling up the angling know-how for the sake of posterity. #angling #fishstr #getoutside

Hooked something this morning anyway. #fishstr #angling

Well said.

MidBest.

Trying out a popper with a trailing worm. Beautiful day on the lake. #fishstr #angling

Idolatry is subtle. Make God your goal.

Beautiful evening at the water's edge trying out some new tackle. #fishstr #angling

"I think therefore I am"? #biblestr #christianostr #reason

Proof of (half) Murph. #provideandprotect

We might see less of a groundswell in favor of female pastors if the men in that office didn't act quite so much like women. #semperreformanda

Sin is not in your best interest. #semperreformanda

Good day on the river yesterday. #nature #universeovermetaverse

Doctrine matters. Don't be deluded by plausible arguments. "The papist says we are justified by faith because it disposes a sinner to his justification...We say otherwise that faith justifies because it is a supernatural instrument created by God in the heart of man at his conversion, whereby he apprehends and receives Christ's righteousness for his justification." -William Perkins, A Reformed Catholic #thelawandthegospel #semperreformanda

"All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out." -John 6:37 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day." -John 6:44 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life." -John 6:47 "But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you." - John 10:26 "And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand." - John 10:28 It certainly sounds like Jesus knows who His sheep are before they know they're His, and He calls them to Himself irresistibly, and they believe, and those who believe already have eternal life and will never perish, and that Jesus really wants them to know without a doubt that they are really His and need not fear losing salvation, because that demonstrates the depths of His love, the glory of His character, and motivates to far greater works for the sake of His name. It is absolutely ludicrous to say a justified person can lose their justification. Christ knows His own. This is the freedom of sonship. Don't content yourself with slavery to a harsh master. Don't be content with being out on probation. Don't keep making mud pies in a slum because you can't fathom a holiday at the sea. God is bigger and better than you can imagine. There are oceans of grace in Christ.

Any work done for justification is by definition not a work of God's grace but a work of the flesh. This includes baptism, the Lord's Supper, and lifting a finger.

Your response to the gospel makes up no part of the basis on which God reckons you righteous.

All of the goodness of God is promised us in the gospel. If it is promised of God, then it depends not on us and our cooperation, but on God who raises the dead. (Rom. 9:16)

The good news of the gospel is not that God's grace enables you to attain to righteousness if you cooperate. The good news is Christ has attained to righteousness for us, and grace enables us to rest complete in Him (Col. 2:10).

If your own good works make up even the slightest portion of the grounds on which you believe God will justify you, you are no longer under grace. #repent #semperreformanda #marrow

Paul speaks of salvation as a matter of being crucified with Christ. Then, if it were possible for a person to lose their salvation, it would require un-crucifying oneself. I can only imagine this would be very difficult to accomplish. #gm