Matthew E. Cochran

Given all the slander thrown at Christian Nationalism lately, I think it's well worth a 🧵to clarify the matter (as I see it.) 1) Christian Nationalism is a political ideology informed by the Christian faith, not a religion informed by political ideology.

The Bible is way more interesting than they make it seem in Sunday School.

Turns out the most important church work women can do is to have babies--just like Scripture already told us. The pastors and teachers who diverted women from that work will have much to answer for at the stricter judgment.

A professional level job given to a young man allows him to attract a suitable woman and begin a family. A professional level job given to a young woman allows her to spend her fertile years focusing on her career. Lutheran girl-power has justly doomed the denomination.

They put an attractive white woman in ONE advertisement and all the left can do is scream Nazi The presence of white people is the problem and Nazi is the word that gives them a blank check for their race hate

I was just playing Super Mario World with my kids this week, and they both got a very different impression than this when Peach kisses Mario under a giant heart-shaped firework.

In casually perusing the LCMS youth gathering photos it stuck out to me how often a youth group was supermajority boys with one or two girls or vice versa. If you have a lot of churches in a small area it averages out, but many of these are islands.

There are a lot of factors making it hard for young Lutheran singles to get together, but demographics are a big one. Our tiny percentage of youth means that few congregations will have very many. It's not too surprising that our men & women each don't think the other exists.

If you make the worldly assumption that men & women are equal, every limitation Scripture puts on women will seem arbitrary & unfair. You'll therefore labor to minimize those parts of the Word. If you don't impose worldly assumptions on Scripture, you won't have that problem.

Yes, good liturgy and traditional hymns can get you through a bad sermon or even a poor pastor. They are not sufficient to get your family through an entire generation of antinomianism.

The National Youth Gathering is making the contemporary/traditional worship split in the LCMS more apparent again... ...but the split between soft antinomians and authentic Lutherans is more important.

They don't hate the Father because they hate men. They hate men because they hate the Father.

82% of all new tech jobs this year have gone to foreigners. American kids are being replaced by their cheaper counterparts from other nations. This is not sustainable and must stop immediately.

It's all so tiresome. The Lutheran Difference, page 54 (Concordia Publishing House)

Guest post: Nate Rinne addresses the claim that the Apostles were shown in the Syrophoenician woman how to overcome their "devilish prejudices." 👇👇👇

Your daughters are being hunted. If you haven’t radicalized your daughter for Christ by 13—feminism will get her. If she doesn’t firmly understand her identity as a helper and nurturer—feminism will get her. If she doesn’t love children and long to be a mother—feminism will…