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thenerdychristian Just a nerdy Christian who likes exegesis, Tolkien, maps, history, and getting to know the Creator.

03/01/2025

Man, homie really thought he ate. 🙃

Whether you believe the Bible or not, you've got to take it seriously.

Don't be deluded by your disbelief, mate. 🫡

02/01/2025

Seeing more and more of people interpreting Scripture (and ideas of things like empathy) through modern political and ideological lenses first, exegetical or theological lens second.

Happens on both sides of the aisle. Often from very influential Christian leaders. Beware.

26/12/2024

As I once told someone while arguing the multicultural reality of Heaven, "There will be Mongolians worshipping God with their cultural practice of throat singing in Heaven, and it will be BEAUTIFUL to witness, whether it's to your personal cultural taste or not."

Doug Wilson and his progeny can get the heck out with their Western supremacy crap.

Jesus wasn't culturally Western. The Westerners of His day (Greeks & Romans) were the historic oppressors of His nation.

Rome later became infiltrated by Christianity and Western culture was changed from within, over two thousand years, as it was shaped by the presence of the Gospel within it.

Human evil has pushed and pulled against the Gospel over that time, also, as things like eugenics and atheism emerged first out of the West.

To this day, the West is only so good as the extent to which it allows itself to be shaped by Christianity. When shaped by Christianity, it can express its culture uniquely and positively within the mosiac of cultures God split us into.

Similarly, EVERY culture has the opportunity to be broadly inhabited and shaped by the Gospel, expressing the image of God in unique ways.

Every culture can ALSO embrace the ills of humanity in unique ways, with culturally unique innovations in evil and suffering.

Our goal should not be to make the world Western or to reject multiculturalism. Our goal should be to make the world Christian, and to subsequently marvel at the unique display of the Gospel in every culture on God's green earth.

24/12/2024

Christmas Eve meme dump!

Merry Christmas everyone. Celebrate Jesus, God incarnate, with great joy this week. Don't let anyone rain on your Christmas spirit.

God became man so that He might live among us to die, resurrect, and save us in a way that ONLY He could, and that's CERTAINLY something to be celebrated.

21/12/2024

Just a heads up that I will probs respond to comments minimally on this one cause I'm pretty worn out today (been sick), but will try to speak more to Calvinism and my Scriptural issues with it in the new year.

Just saw some people disagreeing with a post from on Calvinism today and had to toss this out there in support of his point.

There are many verses which indicate we cannot save ourselves and that we are dead until God regenerates us, yes. But they don't say that precedes faith or makes faith possible or that faith is inaccessible for all until that has happened.

God draws all, all can respond in faith or not, and all who reject His drawing are rightly condemned. John 3:16-18

12/12/2024

Feel free to save for reference if you find this helpful. 🙃

Matthew 6:9-13 CSB
[9] “Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.

[10] Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

[11] Give us today our daily bread.

[12] And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

[13] And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

09/12/2024

When you really think about it, it is WILD that you have more things in common with God than you'd first think.

And that's all because He chose to live among us flawed mortals in our very human world in order to love and save us in a way that only He could.

Philippians 2:5-11 NLT
"[5] You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. [6] Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to.

[7] Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form, [8] he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.

[9] Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, [10] that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, [11] and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

06/12/2024

Feel free to save and come back to this to guide you in making these stages of prayer a habit in your life.

This week I ended my time praying through the prayer daily with y'all in my stories, but I put together a document that I'll post to my stories for a while as a visible reminder to continue to help you establish this habit.

God bless, y'all.

02/12/2024

To my fellas in particular:

Everything in your flesh and "manly" culture will tell you to reject meekness. Reject the ways of the Flesh instead.

The World will mistake your meekness for weakness.

Even worse, fellow CHRISTIANS will mistake your meekness for weakness.

Yes, that will be maddening. Yes, your flesh will want to prove your masculinity and strength in response.

Choose to be meek anyway.

Be like Christ. Embrace meekness.

30/11/2024

Not a question of "If" the girls of early-AD Nazareth had a crush on nice-guy Jesus.

More a question of "How many?" 😆

20/11/2024

Just a little reminder to think about today.

Obviously, not everyone on the Right or the Left falls into these extremes, but these extremes exist, they appear to be growing, and I'm seeing an increasing number of people oscillate from one to the other (e.g. staunch Leftists converting to Christianity and going full Trad or deconstructing Christians fleeing the Right and going full Leftist).

Keep Christ and His objective Truth at the center of your focus and do the subsequent work of discernment that will require of you. 🙃

21/10/2024

Let me know in the comments which of these is your favorite. 😁

11/10/2024

Sometimes you just gotta hit 'em with the FACTS. 👊

09/10/2024

It's easy to forget how wild the Gospel story of our God's love is. So here's a reminder this morning. 😊

Philippians 2:5-11 CSB
[5] Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, [6] who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited.

[7] Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, [8] he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death — even to death on a cross.

[9] For this reason God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, [10] so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow — in heaven and on earth and under the earth — [11] and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

07/10/2024

Nothing more to add. Read the Bible, adhere to its authority, and attempt to work through the tough parts with the help of the Church and the Holy Spirit.

30/09/2024

It is through the Church Fathers' words on free will and Scripture's revealing of God's will ("that none should perish," 2 Pet. 3:9) that I am utterly convinced that God, in His sovereignty, allows humans a real and free participation in His greater story, at the expense of strict universal exercise of His own will.

Scripturally, God exercises His will in some things. However, He appears to limit it in others to allow humanity free participation with Him and exercise of the freedom we bear from His image.

To me, if God in His sovereignty truly did exercise His will in all things, there is no recourse but Universalism, as God has made his desire for the salvation of all plainly known.

For more on this and a vast array of Scripture that speaks to it, Against Heresies Book IV, Chapter 37 from Irenaeus is a pretty quick read.

20/09/2024

Abortion is one topic touched on here because it's a very visible example for us in the raw data of a time when us Christians "won the battle, but are losing the war."

Comment "Awake" for a link to the full article.

This is a somewhat deeper dive derived from what began as a Threads post a couple of weeks ago. I hope you all enjoy and feel you learn something from it. 😊

09/09/2024

There are so many lessons for us modern Christians in this piece of history.

I'll be posting this up to Substack in article format this week, but wanted to give y'all the "social media version" here. 😊

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Am I inventing a connection here? Cause this feels like quite the random connected detail. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Gonna try to make this a consistent series of videos on things I find interesting in the Bible in 2025, too. Watch for more notes on layers of parts of Scripture that are fun to explore and speculate about!

"Oh, thank you for making me aware of how riches and ease will suddenly make you a better disciple and steward of my resources."

The spiritual war is real, consequential, and will whack you hard if you don't live with the full armor of God. There is certainly a very real battle between our Flesh and the Spirit, as Galatians 5 speaks of. However, we shouldn't let the reality of that fight diminish our discernment of this other fight as well.

How are you going to call a statement "not Biblical" when the Bible is what it's derived from? 🤔😆

The importance of humanity in the eyes of God is something uniquely emphasized in the Christian story. In no other religion did God live as a human and die for humans in rebellion against Him. Yet, we flawed humans are THAT important to Him. Because of that, destroying us and leading us, the apple of God's eye, into rebellion against Him is also THAT important to Evil forces. There's a big conversation and worldview to unpack behind this one question. It's a great Q to consider.

I wonder if anyone screenshotted the original ads. Seriously, @target, what was up with this? Also, swimsuit ads the last week of DECEMBER?? Like, who is using your marketing dollars to disseminate softcore child 🌽??

Jesus still scoring Ws er'day with words he spoke 2000 years ago. What a boss. 😎

Let's do our best to remember that the Bible wasn't written in English in the 21st century, and there are many layers we can learn from understanding what the ancient authors actually wrote and communicated. 😊

Little flashes of my year, including a couple memes you guys might remember! Looking forward to 2025 and seeing where this page/ministry goes with y'all in the new year!

If you're going to disagree with this, cite Scripture. And no, you cannot validly cite Galatians 3:28 and say, "There is neither Jew nor Gentile," unless you're also going to strangely argue that men and women are supposed to morph into some 3rd unified gender as Christians, as Paul continues "nor is there male and female." Obviously, gender differences persist (and we will not lose our genders in the new Heavens and New Earth), so that verse is not relevant for the purpose of rejecting what's proposed here. The verse emphasizes that our divisions in our differences fade away, not that our differences should disappear altogether. So, either feel free to cite another verse or perhaps open your mind to the verses cited in the next post. 😊

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