Mitchell Cox
@smc523
Follower of Christ | Confessional Presbyterian (PCA) | Construction Manager | Virginia Tech Hokie
It was a delight to worship yesterday with the saints at First Presbyterian Church - Dillon, SC. I was also thrilled to finally meet @MD_Adams90 and @stephenspin and their lovely families.
"A return to a noninterventionist foreign policy is the only way we will be able to begin to pay down the national debt and restore a government that adheres to the constitutional limits on its powers and respects all the people’s rights all the time." - Ron Paul
A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex ronpaulinstitute.org/a-big-beautifu…
I just finished listening to the fantastic "The Toxic War on Masculinity" by @NancyRPearcey. It explained historical and practical differences between the godly "good man" and the worldly "real man" and the implications for families. It gave me plenty to reflect on.
The dialogical model of worship a 🧵 One of the greatest things about being in a reformed church is the thought that goes into the worship service. The worship is a dialogue with God. He condescends and calls us to worship 1/5
Take your kids to funerals. I attended to funeral today of the mother of one of my closest friends since 2nd grade. Funerals are among the best reality & gratitude checks a person can experience. You don't complain about not having wifi when you're looking at a casket.
We had so many people register for the #PCAGA Millennial Forum that we had to move locations! Please share so people are up to date!
I’m very pleased with the response to the #PCAGA Millennial Forum. 85 registrants so far! Because there has been a bit of confusion over what exactly this is—my fault!—here is a brief 🧵 explaining the vision. /1
There are lots of great places to eat and drink in Richmond during #pcaga. Here’s a guide to some of the best. drive.google.com/file/d/1Yxb2tI…
Memory from Seminary: Prof: And so Acts 2 says they were selling their possessions, holding all things in common, and were breaking bread together. Student: Isn't that communism? Prof: No. Student: But why not? Prof: Because the text explicitly says that they had food.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and he volunteered. — R. C. Sproul Jr.
People who say "traditional" fathers do not nurture children are not being traditional enough. They are thinking back to the 1950s. But they ought to think back to the colonial era: "Because work was conducted in the home, both parents were able to be involved in economically…
“Now you tell me, when a father goes ahead and washes diapers or performs some other mean task for his child, and someone ridicules him as an effeminate fool, though that father is acting in the spirit just described and in Christian faith, my dear fellow you tell me, which of…
"A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope." —Thomas Watson
"My church adheres to the regulative principle of worship" (RT for wider sample size please)
C.S. Lewis: Why it is impossible to hold a genuinely personal view of God without a concept of the Trinity. “Christianity is the only religion that teaches that God is a Trinity, one divine nature in three Persons, bound together in love. C. S. Lewis writes, “All sorts of…
As a reformed Baptist in the SBC, I’d never go this far. 😂 #itwaswine @Welchs
Consider: God is eminently free yet he never changes. Only absolute holiness can explain this.
One thing I enjoy about this year is all the folks who tell me they can't have evening worship because reasons, now having evening worship tomorrow because reasons.