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The modernist "liberal" progressive version of Christianity teaches that: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross." -- H. Richard Niebuhr, __The Kingdom of God in America _ This unbelief system is inert, sterile, mute, insensible, and monochrome. Worse yet: it is simply false.

de-mythologize ❌️ re-mythologize* ✅️ --- *recognize the objective meaning, wonder, beauty, and purpose of both big things and small

This Sunday morning we plan to cover (in Adult Sunday School), from the Westminster Larger Catechism: Q. 53. How was Christ exalted in his ascension? A. Christ was exalted in his ascension, in that having after his resurrection often appeared unto and conversed with his apostles, speaking to them of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, and giving them commission to preach the gospel to all nations, forty days after his resurrection, he, in our nature, and as our head, triumphing over enemies, visibly went up into the highest heavens, there to receive gifts for men, to raise up our affections thither, and to prepare a place for us, where himself is, and shall continue till his second coming at the end of the world. Q. 54. How is Christ exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God? A. Christ is exalted in his sitting at the right hand of God, in that as God-man he is advanced to the highest favor with God the Father, with all fullness of joy, glory, and power over all things in heaven and earth; and doth gather and defend his church, and subdue their enemies; furnisheth his ministers and people with gifts and graces, and maketh intercession for them.

Larger Catechism: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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...and I plan to tie this (especially #53) solidly within the 'Two Adams' paradigm. https://www.upper-register.com/papers/two_adams.pdf

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Gen X guy as his sons enter mouthy teen years be like View quoted note →

but the cat came back the very next day, oh! the cat came back he just couldn't stay away, away, away View quoted note →

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https://heidelblog.net/2026/05/the-cost-of-affectional-justification-the-turn-to-the-subjective/ Piper is good--but not great. "Love God, and love your neighbor" is the precise law that none of us can keep perfectly, and which Jesus did keep perfectly, for himself and for his people. That first part is the bad news--and that second part is the good news.

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#asknostr ...anyone heard of this: William Epstein, _Psychotherapy As Religion: The Civil Divine In America_ (

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) As an appreciator of Philip Rieff, this topic fascinates me.

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I just realized that this is probably already possible: - spin up a new Nostr VPN network - invite friend anywhere in the world over secure channel - use LocalSend/JocalSend to share files securely - shut down network ...is this overkill? ...unnecessary? ...paradigm-shifting? Would love to hear from someone smarter than me.

Where's the 'MADE IN THE USA' filter on Amazon? 😏

I heard someone suggest recently that the U.S. should just make Israel the 51st state and I honestly don't even know how to process such...what even is that? It's brain-breaking. It's not even brain-breaking, it's worse. It's almost terrifying in its naivity, its plot-losing, its... what, its Stockholm Syndrome?

so long folks, it's been real View quoted note →

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couldn't get Nostr VPN on grapheneOS to connect to umbrel, out of time to figure it out right now - maybe future release will be more point-and-click-y View quoted note →

What would be cool is having many VPNs on a device (all on at once), and a "traffic cop" app that routes certain apps to certain VPNs. --- subtext --- I installed Nostr VPN on the grapheneOS mobile device, and it borked up my Tor/Orbot setup (and nostr client apps) for a few minutes before I realized it set itself up as 'always-on' (which I thought had to be a manually-set option)