DC Ippolito
@dcippoli
| Chairman/CEO @ Veritas Educational Ministries | Chaplain/Ministry Director @veritasnga | Retired @usairforce | Former Special Agent @RealAFOSI |
Parents, do whatever you must do to get your kids out of public schools. Churches, let’s help parents do this!
BREAKING: The nation's largest teachers union just scrubbed their 2025 handbook from their website. Too bad for them, I saved the 434-page document. 👇🧵
“Natural law theory seems dead amongst so many today.” -@billroach_
Here’s my big deep take on the Christian Nationalism debate. 1) I want to live in a nation with moral laws & customs. 2) I believe that all morality comes from God and the Bible is the only reliable standard for knowing his mind on moral questions. Make of that what you will.
Do Baptists Use a Modernist Hermeneutic? Response to Matthew Barrett @MattMBarrett theparticularbaptist.net/2025/07/25/do-…
What a cynical and misleading article from David French, accusing Christians of engaging in "cancel culture." It's not cancel culture to object when fellow believers publicly promote behavior and familial arrangements that Scripture clearly condemns. Using a prominent platform to…
There's nothing in these theses contrary to orthodoxy, but there's everything in them consistent with defending it... and I'm not a Roman Catholic. I'm verily Baptist.
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Avoiding "Thomism," as defined by its 24 theses, because someone cites it as a reason for their theological shift would require us to avoid the doctrine of the universal church since it is often cited as a reason to swim the Tiber. Sometimes, the Bible itself is cited as a…
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While I disagree with @MattMBarrett, and there are some valid questions about his leaving, I have benefitted from his work and hope to continue to do so. I say this as one who is not even slightly tempted to be anything other than a Baptist.
Good thread. Great book.
Some important conclusions from historian Everett Ferguson’s magisterial 975-page tome, Baptism in the Early Church: History, Theology, and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (Eerdmans, 2009): Is there evidence for infant baptism exist before the second part of the second…
Good thread. Great book.
This is still one of my favorite works on the history of baptism. Many are usually surprised to learn about Everett Ferguson’s conclusions… -->
It is demonstrably false that the founders were all Protestant. Protestantism requires orthodoxy, and, just as an example, a number of the signers of the Declaration were decidedly unorthodox. @ClassicLibera12 is a broader and more accurate characterization.
American moral realists who refuted manmade Ethnos as the moral foundation of government.
There is an objective Common Good, accessible to all through observation and reason. Yet the same human depravity that afflicts individuals also corrupts governments formed by those individuals, perverting the pursuit of that Good. Governments must therefore be established and…
There is no person who can be entrusted with this task. In practice, the best form of government is one that recognizes the need to reduce the ability of some majority (or some demagogue) to arbitrarily make decisions about the "common good." Keep it to the logical minimum.
"their error is fundamentally one of biblical theology, of understanding the progressive unfolding of God’s redemptive purposes in history."
Best article contra paedobaptism by Greg Welty. I haven’t seen this one referenced as much in recent years. Don’t miss it. founders.org/library/a-crit…
Truth. The rest is in the details.
Western Civilization began on Mount Sinai.
Scripture qua Scripture is not enforceable by civil magistrates. Magistrates have authority only as it pertains to the enforcement of natural law. They enforce Scripture indirectly, not as Scripture, but as it articulates natural law.
She's asking the wrong question. The civil magistrate has a legitimate role in regulating marriage as a creational institution grounded in natural law, reflecting God's design for human society and procreation, with significant overlap to biblical moral teachings; however, the…
She's asking the wrong question. The civil magistrate has a legitimate role in regulating marriage as a creational institution grounded in natural law, reflecting God's design for human society and procreation, with significant overlap to biblical moral teachings; however, the…
Question, is this a biblically defensible position for a pastor to take? Because I have my doubts…
In 2015, John MacArthur delivered a sermon titled "We Will Not Bow," following the Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage. This sermon is considered by some to be one of the most significant preached in the 21st century.
The primacy of America is not the blood and soil of Ethnos but in the covenant of a people in a place in sworn humble and moral duty to uphold the universal limiting principles of Life, Liberty, Property, and Purpose, and the unalienable Nature and Human Dignity of all Men.