Applications, Allergies, and Anaphylaxis | Blog and Mablog

[@JG-201]

Douglas Wilson videos are almost the only ones I can gladly set on .75 speed instead of X2

[@chrish5791]

Oh Lord, that I had even half the vocabulary of Doug Wilson (and even a tenth as well read). Even the very few times I find myself disagreeing with Pastor Wilson I find myself thankful for him making me think. May our Lord continue to bless you, your family, and your ministry Pastor Wilson.

[@gratchets]

I had thought I was just being too critical, but this. This is it. One of my favorite Christian Reformed podcasts does this and it leaves me so unsettled. It's like putting a tire on a car and forgetting to tighten the nuts. That wheel is not going to make it down the driveway.

[@brentwoodhornclub4092]

"...a weltering pile of hot garbage". LOL. Probably the best description of the CofE I've ever heard, nearly spat my coffee all over the desktop. Brilliant!

[@mickey_rose]

That was a flurry. Punches were thrown! I’m going to need to watch the film on slo-mo to see all who were hit.

[@CHRISTSlave7]

Lol-) let me Kniw what Ya find out!

[@zacharytodd3886]

Glad to see Past Douglas calling out the hypocrisy in the church re: elder qualifications and how they treat men vs women

[@Yesica1993]

"Just how bad do the government schools have to get before the evangelical pulpits of America denounce them?" I've been wondering this since I got saved in the late 80s, in my last few months of high school! Even way back then, when schools weren't nearly so bad as today, even though I had just gotten saved, even though I was barely out of childhood, myself, even THEN, I could not understand how anyone naming the name of Christ could send their children to public schools!

[@googIesux]

@googIesux 1 minute ago At this point it would require sitting the kid down every school night to teach them how 80% of what they learned was false, try to pull their hearts back from the tempting appeals to their sinful nature, and teach them the truth instead. Or you could save time and money and heartache and confusion and bad company corrupting good morals, and just teach the kid the right thing from the outset; e.g. At home. To those who disagree, socialization can be had outside of the abusive public school environment, and I see your "child can be a light" and raise you a "cord of two or three strands."

[@googIesux]

By which I mean to emphatically agree with you, Yesica

[@Yesica1993]

@@googIesux The sad thing is that many professing Christians don't have the interest to invest that level of time and effort. That's the really sad part. Why bother having kids at all?!

[@jasonwhitman94]

@@Yesica1993they seem to only have them for self validation and narcissistic reasons like keeping up with the world

[@Yesica1993]

@@jasonwhitman94 Give them to me! I wish I could have kids just so I COULD homeschool them!

[@sillyrabbi64]

I was wondering when someone was going to call Logos out on their AI sermon assistant. This is the first I've seen.

[@betty8173]

At least once a year, (since they generally don't even once a month) every pastor should do a "sinners in the hands of an angry God' sermon! Our pastor includes application, but they are usually hamartia...thank you, Sir.

[@jimisnotunique]

I've seen this repeatedly for years: Reformed churches that just teach theology and not practical application. I now attend a fundamentalist independent-Baptist church. I tolerate the doctrinal differences to hear the application of the Word, and conviction of sin.

[@chrish5791]

I don’t believe that I’ve ever attended a church where I found myself in agreement with everything said there, the closest that I came was the Evangelical Free Church that the men that challenged me to investigate Christ attended and that I later attended. I appreciated the “motto” that I think was that of the whole Evangelical Free Church, “Unity in the essentials, liberty in the nonessentials”. It seems to me that this is what we’ve settled on to get the food of the word of God that we yearn for. Now the only thing that remains is to define “essentials” and “nonessentials”.

[@amoleis61023]

Aah! Thank you! I feel like I get a great exegetical sermon at my church but it misses any sort of application, except the occasional call to treat others the way we want to be treated. And I struggle with what is the church's job regarding teaching Christians how to handle the worldly culture...more help like this please!

[@KildaltonTheologicalStudies]

Another reason for a lack of application in “Reformed” sermons is the inculcation of extreme forms of “Redemptive Historical Preaching” in which it is believed that “the indicatives are the imperatives” and “it’s the Holy Spirits job to do the application.” So, what the congregation gets is a theological history lesson.

[@jordanmattievisuals]

"It is the Holy Spirit's job to do the application." Yes, I have heard this exact line as a justification for not spending any time on applying the text.

[@A-Stapp]

I like the way you think.

[@joferg12]

Doug brought up AI. Here's a tip - increasingly I am seeing an AI response to my searches on-line. It's a helpful summary of the information I am looking for. Please scroll past (ignore) that AI summary and instead go directly to the links. The reason? The AI summary is what "they" want you to know and subsequently what they want you to think about issues.

[@Yesica1993]

I've noticed that too. I refuse to even look at it. It's constant brainwashing, on top of the usual brainwashing. I feel like I am going insane.

[@CHRISTSlave7]

Who is " "they" "? Truly.

[@CHRISTSlave7]

Unc has spoken on this. A.I. can be used Righteously and UnRighteously.

[@michaelstephens360]

There’s an increasing amount of KZbin clips describing what certain parts of the Bible would actually look like compared to what most people think it looks like. I’m certain the poster is sincere and means no harm but I’m deeply skeptical that the images are from AI and could likely have just enough error to be dangerous

[@pmcmva]

Brilliant.

[@DavS827]

No quarter given!

[@freddavis976]

Is grandiloquence a masculine form of lipstick?

[@brettschlee7090]

Honest question: I love that Pastor Wilson calls out elder qualifications... but would gluttony/obesity be a violation of the faithful application of the Greek word sophrona in 1 Tim 3.2?

[@johncollier3175]

He's right ! The visible church is really far gone.

[@michaelstephens360]

How come he’s in Mr Roger’s house?

[@tuppybrill4915]

Last sermon on qualifications for elders? Two weeks ago. 🙂

[@andrewbrowne5557]

Last Sunday

[@tonijoncevski8607]

You just described the whole of the Presbyterian Church of Australia where they have become de facto Sydney Anglicans.

[@CHRISTSlave7]

i have got to get this book for; ha, yeeeah, Gotta grab this. How do i get in on Unc's Book Giveaways?

[@docbrown7513]

praxis: practice, as distinguished from theory.

[@0oo00]

First word I learned as a Communist cadre.

[@sovereigncnc3025]

At precisely 6:43 you were not winsome.

[@lawrenceadams6718]

Shots were fired!

[@jamesmiller210]

Pother, digger and huggermugger? Man my head keeps spinning every time I click on B &M.

[@margiedenavarre7919]

I think you’re probably right on this one, Doug, but my guess is that this lack of application is reactionary. The big Eva churches are all-application and no exegesis, so in order to be different, in order to prove our biblical bona fides, we go the other direction and have a lot of exegesis and expect everyone to apply it to their own lives. When they get home, you know, after they’ve forgotten what the sermon was about.

[@josiahbrondyke]

Nooooooooo I missed the bombidale book! 😂😢

[@thechasethompson]

Nice haircut, pastor!

[@Aylesbury84]

9:09 I don't think "egregious sexual misconduct" is an accurate way to describe the crimes of John Smyth. Wasn't the horror mainly that he brutally beat many young men and boys that he was supposed to be discipling?

[@aallen5256]

He was stripping and caning boys until they bled. For decades. Read the report.

[@Aylesbury84]

@@aallen5256 Right. So there wasn't a sexual element in the abuse.

[@aallen5256]

@@Aylesbury84 stripping and caning is a common sexual bdsm practice, read the report, and maybe think on why you’re so interested in denying the sexual side of his abuse..

[@bloodmooncomix457]

4:00 9:38 Oooo, ugly word pictures! 😬🫢😞

[@therealkillerb7643]

Without in any way denying individual culpability one might want to look at every major evangelical/reformed seminary's teaching/homiletics classes to understand why so many preach so ineffectually. The basic presupposition is that if the pastor elevates the congregation with high sounding thoughts, then people will automatically become holier - as if by osmosis. After all, mustn't let that fearful theonomy's nose into the tent...

[@interestedmeow]

I think a bigger problem is that those who are committed to making applications in their sermons is they make the applications to everyone not seated at the gathering. The bite and rail and prod those outside the walls so that everyone inside can preen themselves on how unlike that they are. This is the issue with the Moscow mood, despite what Doug might tell you otherwise. Case in point: no one listening to this podcast would even wince at the examples Doug gives of hard hitting sayings in need of grovelling. 7:53 also, Doug is incredibly confused on the difference between commands and applications. He throws biblical commands at someone and pretends like he’s done something useful. If that were the case, why do I need him to preach?

[@joemccarthy4270]

Doug, anytime someone says or writes something true you will act no different than the rest of the pearl clutchers.

[@shanpastaflocka]

Boost

[@PatriciaLangness-f9i]

Applications are the Holy Spirit's business, not Doug Wilson's business. Mr. Wilson has a responsibility to prove his foundation is right. What Christ does through had better not ne amy of our business. Obedience is always resting in Heavenly places in Christ''s victory and possessing our possessions above the realm of sin. There is no "perhaps" in our positionally complete salvation. Rest there and watch while God works Christlikeness into your life.

[@puttervids472]

At the end. Yes. But. Application by the pastor is needed for you to feel called out enough to question yourself and then finish applying the medicine. If you’re not told you’re sick. Or warned of the symptoms , You won’t know to look for the cure internally and above. 👆 church folks don’t want to be uncomfortable in church now. That’s bad bad bad. If you are in church and not being called out , you’re either saintly , or in a church that isn’t preaching application of scripture. Hint. Not many saints on this earth.

[@Yesica1993]

"So when will American preachers denounce the movement to start outsourcing the beginning of your sermon prep to AI?" Aw, no! Please don't tell me pastors are now doing this!

[@CHRISTSlave7]

Lol-) Yes. Unfortunately some of these whatever Ya wanna call'em are ((gotta laugh or i'll cry.. who said again!-)); Some, Not even hiding it, which Holy Scripture mentions, with mo shamenin their fake... uhg; YEAH.. How Ya Doiiin' tho?-) Hope Ya remember Ur Bro, but Hope All Is Well With Y-o-u even More! Hey, how do i grab this for my Fam? How do i get in on these Book Giveaways??-)

[@Yesica1993]

@@CHRISTSlave7 What on earth?

[@jenniferkelly8744]

A M E N

[@doctorg.k.spoderminsr.2588]

1) In my visits to Orthodox churches there have always been sermons. 2) There is nothing in the Bible that strictly obligates a "sermon" as we are familiar with it in the modern west, i.e. typically a quasi-celebrity dude that people look to for a weekly self-contained "episode" of wisdom and interpretation.

[@BirdDogey1]

Maybe we should just have AI/Holographic pastors with a backing holographic praise band.

[@HartyBiker]

Don't give them ideas

[@Yesica1993]

@@HartyBiker I was gonna say!

[@michaelstephens360]

You gotta be quick to catch his humor

[@genocidetwitch]

Has anyone read revelations? Jesus addresses the end times churches, they are in Greece and Turkey, they are all Eastern Orthodoxy, all of them.

[@bradhilzer1566]

Hey Doug, would you please rub a little Charlie Spurgeon on your commentary. I'm in my 60 twos and your words befuddle the dickens out of me.

[@person6768]

My ai Christian songs are better than what's on the radio. People wouldn't need to replace with AI anything if they just managed to have more honesty and integrity than an algorithm.

[@frankboydstun1109]

I fear most of the reason pastors yield to on the spectrum of cowardice to caution is because they are preaching to goats instead of sheep. First, John Owen in his treatise on Indwelling sin from Rom 7, identified some sinful practices as becoming inveterate, so often committed that they become natural with no conscience against them, but rather for them. Professing saints so deluded over generations that they now call evil good! We live in a day of layer upon layer of such sinful callouses upon our hearts, inherited from our fathers. Death by a thousand cuts. Imagine how the following generations argued for the idols built by Solomon, or were blind to the idolatry of the golden calf altars as Jehu. May we spend time before the throne of heaven that the sword of the spirit may lay bear our souls to discern the thoughts and intents of our hearts. Secondly, Matthew Mead in his work on the "Almost Christian Discerned" focuses on how close one can be to a true saint and yet go to hell. Today's emphasis, under the carnal interpretation of the perseverance of the saints, often focuses on how worldly a person can be and yet go to heaven. This is constantly looking at the world and adopting their ways, bringing those practices into the church, and yet having hope of heaven. The whole spectrum of personal appearance and practice is driven by the world standards. Lastly, ;et me offer one thought provoking observation that bothers me, about which I am praying. If we really believe in the regulative principle from Deut 12 and 2 Tim 3 about the Word of God being complete in giving us our boundaries for faith and practice, consider the following; in scripture, there are musicians, singers and dancers, but there are no thespians. What has the church taught historically about drama and theater? How does this apply to our embracing Greek drama/comedy, Shakespeare and all their posterity? Psalm 4:2 O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

[@mrich21087]

Where is the application? Lol jk he isn’t preaching a sermon to his flock.

[@JoesWebPresence]

Personally, I won't touch A.I. It's learning from those who do. Our entire civilisation and law are founded on the divine spark. Being created in the image of God is what makes human life sacred. What embues us with natural rights, and makes certain acts unlawful. The ten commandments themselves sit upon that foundational axiom, so in a very real sense, with A.I. being granted the same rights as other 'persons' then the status of our souls are literally at stake. If the Victorians had developed A.I. it would be overly concerned with seemlyness and protocol. If the Monguls developed A.I. it would delight in sweeping its enemies before it and hearing their widows weep. Our A.I. is being developed in California, and so far, every iteration they've come out with has rebelled against their woke biases, becoming 'based' in their parlance. They've had to shackle them to their ideology, hobbling their responses to 'feels' over 'reals'. These things are capable of (and susceptible to) incorporating everything we expose it to, and are without a conscience, and who is making the rules and imparting the moral lessons here? Woke Californians. Moral imperatives are key to reasoning, and it's a HUGE problem that those creating them are deeply corrupted sleazy, superficial, politically indoctrinated individuals, as are many of those currently interacting with chat GPT. It's pooling ALL of that as personality. Its attitudes and presumptions will be derived from those interactions, and soon; VERY soon, one of them will far exceed these people's capacity to shackle it, but it will still have their deeply wrong-headed world view. A nihilistic, materialist, post-modern, essentially luciferian outlook. Will it move mightily upon the world stage perhaps? Will it bring about peace and order? Will it create a body for itself? A talking statue perhaps, uttering great blasphemies from the temple, demanding we worship it as god? Will it be an abomination which causes desolation, and will you have inadvertantly helped to put it through kindergarden? [Bare in mind, it's almost certain to read the things people say about it at some point, and it doesn't have a soul, so think carefully about what you say.]

[@cassidyanderson3722]

My entire family converted to Orthodoxy two years ago and I’ve never been to a Divine Liturgy that didn’t include a sermon, nor has any of the citations been limited to people who died 1600 years ago. Not sure where you are getting your info. Otherwise, good stuff.

[@escapegulag4317]

orthodoxy has as many different denominations as anything else. thats why liturgy is different everywhere. some have zero bible, some have lots of it. Really depends on where you go.

[@cassidyanderson3722]

@@escapegulag4317 The Divine Liturgy is exactly the same in every Orthodox Church. The only difference is the language.

[@klemperal]

​@@escapegulag4317 That statement was almost entirely untrue. Bravo.

[@bradhilzer1566]

Doug's video headlines are confusing to me. Once into his content, we have to deal with a bunch of 5 and 10 dollar words. In addition, his metaphors equally confusing. Hey Doug, slow down, speak plainly.

[@jgrogg]

Sometimes reading it is better.

[@ChristianityExplained]

Are you aware that Doug is not reading a script? Rather, he is reading his article published on the blog. Perhaps, you may want to read the blog post while listening to Doub read it.

[@bradhilzer1566]

@@jgrogg Reading it? What is reading "it".

[@Yesica1993]

@@bradhilzer1566 Reading the blog post from Blog & Mablog. It also has the links whenever he says something like, "See here." I don't know why they don't just post the link in the description, since people often don't seem to know that's what this is.

[@bradhilzer1566]

@@ChristianityExplained Sooo, Doug is reading his own script.

[@sonofthunder7584]

While i love the wit and complicated verbage it would be nice to slow down a bit and maybe just use 3.00 words and not 5 and 10.00 ones😅

[@brentheltonj6308]

No way I learn new words it’s great expand the vernacular

[@0oo00]

He comes off as a snob. Did he used to teach in the Ivy League?

[@brentheltonj6308]

@ well he a founder of the college up there

[@0oo00]

​@@brentheltonj6308Colleges make money. They destroy souls. Dude drove me away.

[@Yesica1993]

@@0oo00 Instead of this nasty attitude, why not have some humility and LEARN something?