The Nihil Rule

a savage  myth: busted. Preferred pronouns have been in the air. You might have noticed my Evangelical Admonition to Faithful Confession ; Dr. Koontz' podcast about  preferable pronouns  dropped shortly thereafter; followed up by a New Years article by yours truly:  But I speak of Christ and the Church , and then yet another Dr. Koontz episode expanding on the pronoun issue . All tied up into one tidy package by the Men who, indeed Understood the Times . A blessed convergence! God works in mysterious ways.  In my first article I was addressing three specific occurrences of WELS persons (all members of the WELS Committee on Identity, Gender, and Sexuality - a committee not listed on the WELS website, ostensibly for " OPSEC reasons" - but as a buddy of mine opined "they are probably more worried about the WELS backlash than the secular one") promoting the utilization of preferred pronouns as either being not-sin, or dismissing the question of pronou...

  Men who Understood the Times: Do we have a Pronoun Hospitality Problem? The men were kind enough to link  to two  of my Substack articles and discuss the quote from August Pieper: “[T]here is no excuse for those who think it unnecessary to tell unbelievers about their sins right to their face and to condemn their ways with the written law, since the gospel alone is God’s power for salvation, and so it is enough to make these tidings known to the world. This opinion is not based on Scripture, but on their own wisdom. It is born of their fear of men and of the curse of the cross... Wanting to be silent about sin and win the impenitent only with the sweetness of the gospel amounts to denying God’s zeal and holiness and suppressing his threats. It amounts to hypocrisy, practicing spiritual quackery. It means leading the poor people to fleshly security instead of to faith and casting pearls before the swine. Under all circumstances the impenitent need the law, and only next,...

  A favorite of certain   pastors , MLC professors , MLK openly denied the divinity of Christ, the virgin birth, and his resurrection. He's a baaaad man .