As you age, this is when your life investments should ideally be starting to mature. Your kids are entering adulthood, and get to watch them be competent and faithful. You should be consistently progressing your career and skills. You'll be getting grandchildren! And you'll have the chance to bless the next generation and your church with your accumulated wisdom and wealth.

There is a distinct reason the Bible says to stand up before the hoary head.

A woman childless at 30 is at a 50/50 chance of never having children. It is essential to prevent this from happening.

If you are a woman unmarried at 30, settle. If you're a parent, one of your primary tasks is to help your kids select a suitable partner.

An addendum to this I recently realized. At Pentecost, the pilgrims in Jerusalem...

"were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language..."

God's redemption of Babel PRESERVED the uniqueness and distinctions of the tongues and nations. God did not bring them back into speaking one tongue. This shows us that distinct nations and tongues are part of God's creational plan, and we see here that the grace of Pentecost restored, not destroyed, nature.

FL just did this at the state level for all driver's licenses.

Not sure why this isn't getting more coverage and attention. Third known attempt on Trump's life.

A good reminder to keep praying for the administration.

Marijuana use is skyrocketing in the U.S. It is more important than ever now for the church to reiterate the sinfulness and harm of marijuana, especially given the now very well proven links to psychotic episodes.

The recent Tucker interviews with Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, and Doug Wilson show that the pro-Israel side is completely incapable of winning a debate.

Even though his arguments are frankly lackluster, it is obvious to any observer that the pro-Isael side is bankrupt.

Where do we go from here? First, press the advantage. Second, use the victory to refocus on replacement, which is the primary issue. And third, pray for our own souls that we will never be so blinded, blackmailed, or bribed as these men are.

Woke pastors like Matt Chandler will talk about "microaggressions" by Whites whereas blacks murdering robbing and raping Whites never gets mentioned. And sure it may be only a small subset which actually commits the crime, but nearly all "ordinary" blacks will make sure they get away with it.

Actual footage of the task before us.

If someone is lamenting falling fertility rates and they are unwilling to address this very obvious and well documented fact, they are not serious about solving the fertility crisis.

Interracial or interethnic marriage falls into the same biblical category as divorce and polygamy. As in:

They are contrary to God's natural design, nearly always result in disaster, and are things that God hates. But because of the hardness of our hearts, they are permitted under tightly limited circumstances.

The consistent desire of anti-sacramental Presbyterians to separate the sign and the thing signified is actually the very "superstition" they claim to hate.

By attempting to connect regenration to either conversion, preaching, altar calls, or anything else, they want to gain control over regeneration in the means they prefer rather than regular sacraments (baptism at birth and weekly communion).

It's also a desire to excuse parenting failure. If the baptized child really is regenerate and ends up a profligate, that's a parenting failure. But if blame can be shifted to God ("Is this not the viper in a diaper you gave to me?") then they are excused.

This also explains why Puritans so quickly and colossally lost their culture. What was the heart of English Puritanism in Massachusetts became Libtard Central in about 150 years.

🇺🇸 Two armed American border guards deter a group of illegal immigrants from attempting to cross a river from Mexico into the United States, 1948.

Education is positively correlated with church attendance for every cohort born after the 1940s. The gap is largest between the 2/4 yr college midwits and those with more college.

This is a critical element of the text I rarely see mentioned. That Jesus prohibits divorce except for adultery rules out all other possible justifications.

Divorce is not permissible for abuse, addiction, "financial infidelity," or dissatisfaction.

That doesn't mean these things can't be solved. On the contrary, pastors and family members should absolutely step in to help solve. But they do not dissolve the sacred bond of marriage.

"One does not need to know the exact hour of one's conversion... To demand from everyone a 'penitential struggle' and 'breakthrough,' a period of dread and despair and a sudden subsequent surge of peace and joy, is to call into question God's covenant promise and weaken the meaning of baptism... It robs the school and education in general of their significance and, by forcing on a sudden crisis, an intense emotion or conscious turnaround, gives an unnatural character to Christian nurture, making children anxious, fearful, and nervously introspective. The children of believers are to be regarded and treated as heirs of the promise until the contrary is clearly demonstrated by their 'talk' and 'walk.'"

- Herman Bavinck, A:545