| instauratio magna | President of Institute of Christian Politics | Author of The Case for Christian Nationalism | email: stephen@christianpolitics.com

Kevin DeYoung has chosen the CN study committee members. They are free to contact me at any time. To aid them in their study, here's a selection of my work:
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At what point in their sanctification do EO converts start wearing track suits?
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What is it about ChristNats and syllogisms?
All moral entities ought to acknowledge and obey God. The nation is a moral entity. Therefore, the nation ought to acknowledge and obey God. "It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will." ~George Washington
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Protestantism is an integral part of America.
America, more than any other nation in world history, was shaped by the Christian tradition of spreading the gospel unto all nations. Join us in celebrating International Religious Freedom Day.
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Just so everyone's on the same page, this is the same as a movie vampire cringing and hissing at a cross.
This is an official United States government account promoting the Christian gospel.
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I was grateful to return to the @KenwoodInst and discuss natural law. Despite the look on my face in the thumbnail, I enjoyed my time with Tom. The Argument for Natural Law | Pillar and Buttress Episode 23 piped.video/l80EY_Wd_eA?si=_QsX… via @YouTube
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In May 2000, @JohnPiper preached "Don't Waste Your Life," and it profoundly impacted a generation. Six years later, @joe_rigney (a man discipled by Piper) preached this message. It deserves at least the same amount of fame. piped.video/21CK-gzZxwE?is=bo_7…
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You can see how the aesthetics of debate give the left wingers the advantage post Charlie. They walk up and say: “We killed you and we will kill you again?” And then what’s the response? A joke? That seems weak. A prayer? That looks like cope. Answer the threat with a threat? You just got TPUSA ejected from campus permanently The assassination of Kirk let the left show its power, and they are reveling in it.
this is not a small group of people on the left anymore, but a large, dominant faction without whom democrats can’t win elections. and there is no debating them, because they aren’t interested in changing your mind. they just earnestly want you to die.
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"The law of creation requires man to perform perfect obedience and says, 'Do.' But the law as a covenant of works requires him to 'do and live'; to do, as the condition of life; to do, in order to acquire by his obedience a title to life eternal. The command to perform perfect obedience merely is not the covenant of works, for man was and is immutably and eternally bound to yield perfect obedience to the law of creation though a covenant of works had never been made with him. But the form of the command in the covenant of works is perfect obedience as the condition of life. The law in this form comprised not only all the commandments peculiar to it as the Law of nature but also a positive precept that depended entirely on the will of God: 'The LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die' (Gen. 2:16-17). This positive precept was, in effect, a summary of all the commands of the natural or moral law; obedience to it included obedience to them all, and disobedience to it was a transgression of them all at once. The covenant of works, accordingly, could not have been broken otherwise than by transgressing that positive precept... For though the law in its covenant form is broken, yet it is far from being repealed or set aside. The obligation of this covenant continues in all its force, in time and through eternity, on every sinner who is not released from it by God, the other party. The awful consequence is that every unregenerate sinner is bound at once to perform perfect obedience and also to endure the full execution of the penal sanction. The preceptive part of that divine contract continues to bind both by its original authority and by mans consent to it, which consent is no more his to recall, except he is freed from his obligation by the other contracting party. And now that the curse of the covenant is, in consequence of transgression, become absolute, it binds as strongly as even the precept. The law, then, as a covenant of works, does, in the most authoritative manner, demand from every descendant of Adam who is under it perfect holiness of nature, perfect righteousness of life, and complete satisfaction for sin. And none of the race of fallen Adam can ever enter heaven unless he either answers these three demands perfectly in his own person or accepts by faith the consummate righteousness of the second Adam, who 'is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth" (Rom. 10:4)."
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Nearly every political question in Reformed Protestantism today boils down to how you distinguish nature/grace, covenant/nature, theology/politics, and the formal objects of church/state; and whether you consistently apply those distinctions. In the end, the disputes are over political prolegomena and method.
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Common view, even among those who wanted the state to prevent the formation of Baptist churches.
Bucer affirmed some anti-paedobaptists were brothers in Christ 🕊️ “there are many who do not approve of the baptism of children, and yet do not at all accede to the heresy of these men… provided they truly adore Christ as Savior, and recognize them as brothers who adore Him”
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Replying to @MikeWingerii
This work is a defense of Christian government. It’s not primarily exegetical but philosophical, theological, historical, & confessional. But still interacts with the Bible and makes important theological points grounding the argument (such as in R2K chapter). berithpress.com/bookstore/p/…
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All moral entities ought to acknowledge and obey God. The nation is a moral entity. Therefore, the nation ought to acknowledge and obey God. "It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will." ~George Washington
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Sorry ARP and RPCNA. You aren't Americans.
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1. I have never argued for establishment in the US, nor have I ever said that the 1A was a mistake. 2. The Americans had establishments until the 1830s. 3. George Washington, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Roger Sherman, George Mason, and most other founders supported church establishments in the states. Are they Americans?
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Modern Protestants (and their pop bible teachers) make it difficult to be a political philosopher, because they can't process any argument besides scriptural exegesis. No one thought like this before the 20th century, largely because they were thoroughly educated.
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You have to understand that the downgrade in Protestant thought largely stems from teachers and authorities orienting everything toward the masses. In the end, everything is packaged for mass consumption. So, you can't follow our forefathers in making distinctions. Everything must be simple and therefore simplistic.
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“The affection for one’s native land binds nearly all men to it.” John Calvin
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'Dulcedo natalis soli omnes sibi fere devinctos teneat.' Or "sweetness of one's native soil" From his commentary on Genesis 12:1
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