James Baird
@james_d_baird
Christian Education Pastor @covenantnaples (PCA) | formerly @synthesischool (from SpaceX) @westminsterts @ligonier | book: "King of Kings"
More from Makemie on the Civil Magistrate: “Some offenses are cognizable by Officers and Magistrates in the State, as all are censureable by the Ministry, and what they cannot do by the Word, the Magistrate is to do by the Sword…And that the Magistrate may do his duty, Penal…
you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God
This is actually part of my argument about the nature of divine jealousy in relation to God’s holiness. There’s a way of thinking of jealousy as the pursuit of God’s justice to his own rights within the covenant.
practical atheism
Every time a Christian says about a sin, “but it doesn’t hurt anyone” they are trying to create a moral system without God. It hurts God.
"Whether or not it is biblical and the divinely intended model, as many Evangelicals have claimed, is another matter. It may be; it may not be. If it is, then it has taken nearly twenty centuries of Christian experience to realize." - James Davison Hunter
Why Complementarian Gender Theology Is New - In which I go into more depth on my observation that complementarian gender theology is new, not historic. aaronrenn.com/p/complementar…
"reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." –George Washington (1796)
do you think the state has no authority to care for the souls of the people? surprise! that’s Roman Catholicism and explicitly denied by the Westminster Standards
Protestants advanced “two kingdoms” theology against the Pope’s claim of jurisdiction over civil matters not as an excuse to flip burgers behind a picket fence while the country falls to paganism if you’re 2K, then you must fight, because Christ rules both, & you’re his soldier
upon reflection I’ve decided to Protestant even harder
X is making me even more Protestant.
daily reminder that religious liberty at the foundering meant freedom to practice your preferred form of Protestantism with toleration for peaceful Quakers, Jews, Catholics, and other heretics
What Bart Ehrman sees in his nightmares:
I’ve been reading Hebrew all day. Let me show you what I do to clear my head a little bit after trying to get to the bottom of a hapax legomenon.
10/10 would buy
Hear me out: A Puritan Political Theology Same format as Beeke/Jones, but arranged topically according to the loci of political theology (2K, in sacris/circa sacra, resistance theory, etc.). heritagebooks.org/products/a-pur…
by father and mother, in the fifth commandment, are meant, not only natural parents, but all superiors in age and gifts; and especially such as, by God’s ordinance, are over us in place of authority, whether in family, church, or commonwealth
“Another effectual mean and method for advancing and promoting regularity and order in lives and conversations, is the civil magistrates concurrence with the ministers, and executing duly, and impartially, penal laws against scandalous offenders, and visible immorality.”…
Phenomenal essay today @AmReformer from @PerfInjust in defense of the traditional Christian understanding of the image of God, dignity, & political inequality in response to @martianwyrdlord americanreformer.org/2025/07/the-ch…