Singer. Songwriter. Piano man. New side project đđź @soundaffections
Greenville, SC
Joined May 2008
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This! All of this.
Piety is good. Pietism is bad. The poison is in the -ism.
Let me explain.
We need to recover true piety, an ancient idea thatâs been forgotten in our day. And we need to distinguish it from pietism.
Pietism overemphasizes spiritual realities at the expense of physical ones. The pietist says, âLetâs focus on soul-winning and not get entangled in worldly affairs.â
The truly pious man shares the gospel and engages the civil realm.
The pietistâs mistake is assuming âspiritualâ means ânon-physical.â Biblically, being spiritual means being led by the Holy Spirit and obeying Godâs Word. The spiritual man doesnât confine his Christian duty to quiet times, prayer lists, and Bible reading (all good things!). He applies his convictions to every area of life.
The Latin pietas meant honoring your obligations to God, family, and people. For the ancients, piety was a public virtue: looking upward to God, backward to your fathers, and forward to your children.
Nehemiah had his workers build with a shovel in one hand and a sword in the other: âRemember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homesâ (Neh. 4:14). Chesterton said the true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Modern piety has lost that public dimension. It shrinks Christian duty to the interior life and writes off public concerns as worldliness. Thatâs pietism.
The pietist thinks heâs more godly for staying out of politics, but all heâs done is surrender the public square to unbelievers who have no problem writing their own morality into law.
Again, piety is good. Pietism is bad. The poison is in the -ism.
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The death penalty is one of the most obviously Christian and biblical forms of judicial punishments and is a foundational part of any just & virtuous society.
Iâm pro-death penalty because Iâm pro-life, exactly how God intended for us to be.
20 years ago (2006), I released my first album. The opening track was âSeptember 22nd.â It has been a pleasant surprise to see so many people celebrating this day every year for the past 20 years. It has been one of the highlights of my career.
Happy September 22nd!
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âNo one who had ever seen a real lion would have been taken in for a moment."
- C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle.
đ¨WORLD-EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK đ¨
Greta Gerwig opens the doors to Narnia: The Magicianâs Nephew in the new issue of Empire â detailing her revolutionary rockânâroll adaptation.
Hereâs your first look at Aslan â and heâs voiced by the legendary Meryl Streep.
On sale Thurs September 24.
Read more: empireonline.com/movies/newsâŚ
No, thank you! My family and I will not be watching this subversive âadaptation.â We will treasure the books all the more.
Meryl Streep will officially voice Aslan in Greta Gerwigâs âNARNIA: THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEWâ.
đ empireonline.com/movies/newsâŚ
$4.20 per gallon in South Carolina. It cost me $90 to fill up my tank last night. Insane! Biggest unforced error of this administration.
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There is nothing remotely racist or bigoted about wanting the state universities where you live and which you subsidize to be educating for advancement your children and not foreigners. Itâs the university of your state, not a branch of the planetary university. Nor should American kids be competing with foreigners for spots in those schools. It doesnât matter if the foreign kid is smarter, he can be âsmarterâ where he lives and thatâs great. Maybe he can turn his country into a super power one day. We are not a mere globalist economic zone. We are a country, a culture, and a people. And we should behave as such for the benefits thereof.
Still smiling from Saturday night! Such a fun time playing songs and sharing stories at @HBDProductions. Having family and friends in the house was the cherry on top. Thank you to everyone who came out and made it such an amazing night. đđź @SoundAffections
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Just to be clear: It is in fact deeply âconservativeâ (if that word has any meaning) to *disincentivize* married mothers with children from working outside the home
And to *incentivize* the ability for a family to not just survive, but thrive, on a single income earned by the father
How we do that can be a debate.
But the fact that we as a society should (even must) do that should not be, at least on the Right
My new @SoundAffections album, âRefuge & Strength,â is one month old!
open.spotify.com/album/5Hb8lâŚ
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đ¨Greenville Drâs office posts resources for illegal immigrants to âdefend themselvesâŚwhen ICE agents go to a home.â
âDo not open the doorâ
âDo not answer any questionsâ
What does thwarting ICE have to do with healthcareâď¸
Prisma should remove these signs immediately.
In other news, my new album where I put Scripture to music just crossed 150,000 streams on Spotify. đđź
Letâs keep it rolling! open.spotify.com/album/5Hb8lâŚ
The Upstate of SC (with closest connection to Appalachia and the Bible belt) did its job yesterday to break with the President and vote for an actual conservative to be Senator. The lowlands and coast, not so much.
The upstate/rest of the state divide in the #scsenate runoff is wild.
I've never seen this clear of a geographic split in a primary before--it's not urban/rural, it's region.
Norman is up in 12 counties, he's picked up 2 from Graham since the first primary--both in the upstate
Greenville- My album release show is tomorrow at Reedy Fork Baptist (459 Reedy Fork Rd, in the pavilion)! @SoundAffections
BBQ at 5:30p
Show at 6p
No cover. Suggested donations for show and food.
Bring your family & a lawn chair!