Warhorn Blog Posts

Excerpt:To be blunt, Evangelical scribes and their publishers have left the plenary inspiration of Scripture behind. Yes, they all continue to sign their names, subscribing to Scripture's “inerrancy,” but it's a lie. They believe they can better communicate God's meaning by deleting God's Words. He meant well, but the primitive patriarchy of the men He was forced to use to write (for instance) Psalms couldn't stop breaking through His good intentions, corrupting His text.As these scribes and their publishers see it, the original words of Scripture's Hebrew and Greek are not inspired. What's inspired is the meaning behind the words.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:The most precious things in life are worth defending. Compassion is God's gift to our fallen world, so it must be guarded. We must keep our eye on the ball. Counterfeits always devalue the genuine, and this isn't just true of currency and paintings. It's also true of moral virtues. False compassion is always an attack upon true compassion.It's the same with zeal. By nature, prophets specialize in the clamor of high dudgeon. Claiming they've received their words directly from God's mouth and Word, zeal is their tool of trade, and now the world is as full of false zeal as it is of false prophets.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:One of my heroes would regularly make the observation that there are certain lies only the educated man can believe.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Anyone who has listened to a single campaign speech of President Trump, has ears to hear, and fears God, trembles at this man's pride. Yes, resolve. Yes, patriotism. But do not stop there. Donald J. Trump has shown us an almost supernatural self-esteem and confidence for many years now, and even with a healthy allowance for his many abilities and gifts, we all must acknowledge how much of a braggart he is. Admitting this simple fact is not to be disloyal to the man, but to give him the benefit of our sober evaluation and the proper direction of our counsel and prayers.Stay with me. It is entirely possible to do his sort of reform work while acknowledging very publicly that it will fail without the power of God. Say, for instance, "God willing, we will make America great again!"Is that so complicated?* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Sexual crimes committed against God's Moral Law are never safe. Never.God created sex for the bonds of love and commitment, and the blessing of sons and daughters born of that love and commitment. Sever the golden bonds of God's Seventh Commandment and all Hell breaks loose.When shooters shoot, this is the truth government agents deny and hide.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Wheaton is again notorious, although those who have done the dirty deed keep announcing their deceptions are godly and have won the day. Methinks Wheaton's rich white ladies and men do protest too much.In the end, the question is whether Wheaton's President loves his students, or not?It's easy to tell which it is.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Milton, then, was not merely a hired pen of the Republic but its principled supporter. He began his service believing in the possibility that, in the Commonwealth, he was helping to build God's kingdom on earth. Yet, over the course of his many years' unflinching service to the Republic and subsequently to Oliver Cromwell as its Lord Protector, Milton's optimism drained out of him slowly but surely like sap from an injured tree. In 1641, as Christopher Hill points out, Milton was full of millenarian hope and wrote of Christ's return in terms of a ‘shortly expected king'. * * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Repeatedly, I have warned that the Church seeking political power will compromise the Church's witness. Naming their political aspirations "Christian" is to align the Church with their political aspirations, and the compromise is already visible, and will only grow.Christians should take public moral and ethical stands which uphold God's law, and it's inevitable that those stands will be viewed as political by God's enemies. So be it.But this is a far cry from identifying oneself publicly as a "Christian Nationalist," then truncating one's witness to God's law for the sake of electability. * * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Nature worship bears hideous fruit, physically and morally. God has ordained it so.We and our children have not chosen LGBTQism, but God has smeared it all over us. It is His decision, not ours. His choice, not ours. And the fact that we glory in it is also his judgment on us.He has given us over to shamelessness.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Academic freedom is as academic freedom does, and Wheaton's profs proved themselves ignorant of how such a privilege is to be used for the promotion of truth and the common good. The evidence was all there, free for the asking, but not one of them availed themselves of it and took any stand of conscience.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Yesterday, news from Switzerland announced the Swiss government's kidnapping of a child from his father and mother to enforce government employees' judgment the child's body should be mutilated. It all started with the government's puberty blockers. The father and mother were opposed to the government mutilating their child, and they lost.Their child was thirteen when the government began their mutilation of his body with chemicals called "puberty-blockers."The rubric by which government authorities justify stealing children from parents and mutilating their bodies is a condition they refer to as "gender dysphoria."* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Apple sent me an email asking me to rate my experience yesterday with their Indy Apple Store, so I guess I should honor their request.Three days ago, the trackpad on my '23 Macbook Pro 14" cracked. It had been sitting next to me and when I picked it up, there was this crack from left to right across the trackpad. Nothing dropped on it...* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Yet we've been whupped and, with regard to man and nature, we live in submission syndrome, looking for places and ways to confess our sins and parade our repentance. We have a rescued dog. We refuse to touch single-use plastic bags (which, by the way, have never been single-use). We take our dog to the dog park. We carry our own non-disposable straws...* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Do we want to strengthen our mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives? Do we want to restore Eve to the center of life and love as God made her? To the work God created for her and her for?There is no path to that love and beauty other than loving, living, and preaching God's archetypal Fatherhood over all His Creation* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:At Wheaton College under his tenure as President and at the Third General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America under his term as Moderator, the Dyrness brothers opposed J. Oliver Buswell Jr.From this point on, Wheaton's trustees take an increasingly hostile posture towards President Buswell, with a particular focus on his work as a Presbyterian churchman.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:The Protestant church in America today is inundated by women who preach, teach, and exercise authority over men, and the men who enable this sexual rebellion. The rebellion is so broadly practiced and accepted that the church's motto has become, "She is there, and she is not silent."* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:If we're talking about what "plays in Peoria," women do better at prophesying against the false shepherds than men. We're happy to let them.Have you noticed who are the souls who are exposing the false shepherds, today?Women.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:If Sen. Vance were a comedian, everyone would be laughing. What he said is true and everyone knows it—especially the women who are now livid. He used the expression "childless cat ladies" because it's a trope. We all know and love one or another childless cat lady, but the reasonable among us are not foolish enough to want them leading our civil union into the future.During this interview, Sen. Vance mentioned a number of names typifying his concern....* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Secy. Mayorkas has announced he is in charge of the investigation and he is now appointing and announcing the women and men he's chosen for his Investigation Committee.The guy doesn't get it. His administrative leadership at the top of a heap which includes the Secret Service is precisely what needs to be investigated. For him to choose the women and men who will investigate himself is a conflict of interest that should shock the nation.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Real men have always been loathe to fight women; and in the workplace, even to disagree with them. So no, there has never been a rising up of soldiers against women admirals, generals, or all their human resource apparatus enforcing feminist mainstreaming of the female sex across the Armed Forces and law enforcement.  But get the common soldier and cop talking privately, and...* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Because as soon as President Trump hit the deck behind the podium last night, he was surrounded and escorted off the platform by six or so Secret Service agents. When there is a shooter, it is their duty to cover President Trump's body with their own.Four of the Secret Service agents could and did do that. The men.Two of the Secret Service agents could not do that, and didn't. The women.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Contrary to Sen. Hawley, Augustine was not founding Christian nationalism when he wrote City of God, and it was not a book recommending some heartwarming but undefined “mutual love.” As with the ashes of the Roman Empire which Augustine was addressing, so today the real question we face as a nation is* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Here are five planks to be published broadly by Christian Nationalist Party members. As the Christian Nationalist Party seeks to establish the reign of God and codification of His law at the center of our nation and states' governmental authority, let it state the fundamentals of that rule and law established by God at Creation:First, we call for* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:"But I don't want to trust God," I said. And having blurted it out, I realized it was true. I didn't want to be dependent on God. I wanted to demand what was rightfully mine, and get it.Subdued, but still full of self-justification, I walked back to my office, and then I began to come to terms with my sinful self. Whom was I really angry at?It came clear to me. My anger was with God. I was angry at the thought of having to depend on Him for our needs.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:From the pulpit, I've often pointed out that the preacher is the man we pay to lie while the comedian is the man we pay to tell the truth. The preacher who tells the truth and the comedian who doesn't tell the truth will both be fired.Try to imagine a politically correct comedian on a comedy club stage and the point is made.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Some declarations of self-righteousness and scholarly objectivity should be met with catcalls, and this one qualifies. There is not one man today arguing over the meaning of the Biblical word and office of deacon who is not governed by his commitment either to submit to, or rebel against, the New Testament command that women not teach or exercise authority over men.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Pastors whose church growth came through flattering and gathering rebels will now be forced to submit to those rebels. In every job, there is a way for cheats to make a quick buck. The pastorate is no different.If a pastor makes a quick church out of flattering rebels, he'll pay the price.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:If one were to separate the positives and negatives in Scripture, what proportion would we say are positive and what negative? Some might quibble over the definitions of "positive" and "negative" so another way to approach the issue is asking how much of Scripture is given over to recording God's promises as opposed to His warnings; His blessings as opposed to His curses?* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:In 1940, Wheaton's Trustees were scandalized by President Buswell's battle against heresy. They wanted a peaceful campus and non-controversial president, so they fired President Buswell and promoted history prof, V. Raymond Edman, into the presidency.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Ryken, his Trustees and faculty grudgingly admit this in their Report. But note their final sentence. They couldn't help themselves:During (Buswell's) tenure as president (1926-1940), the College's endowment expanded substantially, both the faculty and the student body roughly tripled in size (from a few hundred to more than a thousand), and the school's academic rigor and national (and international) reputation grew as never before. Wheaton had become what some have referred to as "the Harvard of Fundamentalism." But these dramatic changes were not accompanied by a more expansive vision for racial equality.[fn]Report, 13.[/fn]The reader of such effete criticism must, of course, understand every last member of the Task Force, administration, and Board of Trustees is certain he himself is in possession of the most expansive vision for racial equality possible. But it should strike fear into the hearts of these faultless men judging Buswell to spend a moment asking themselves what other expansive visions of impeccable moral equality their successors ninety years from now will discover as future generations turn to examining the detritus of their own lives, then denouncing them and purging their names from Wheaton's campus.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:So from the beginning, the Reformed Protestant church condemned paedocommunion as well as administering the Lord's supper with both serious and extensive warnings and threats and serious and extensive encouragements and promises.Today, postmillennial paedocommunionists only give serious and extensive encouragements and promises.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:[W]hy should we offer poison instead of life-giving food to our tender children?- John Calvin condemning paedocommunionEach of us has spent significant time the past couple of years warning brothers and sisters in Christ against Moscow's promotion of their paedocommunion schism. We've decided it's time to revisit our warnings here at Warhorn. The schism should not be simply the subject of private warnings, but also public warnings and condemnations. This is for the restoration of the unity of the Church, but also for the protection of the souls of the sheep God has entrusted to us for feeding and protection.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:As I write, Ryken and his fellow administrators have been announcing several campus celebrations of their Report's spiritual accomplishments, congratulating themselves publicly and issuing invitations to join them in their joy. Recently they publicized their latest one, announcing they had issued an invitation to the Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates to come and bless them for their surrogate repentance:Dear Wheaton College Community,On behalf of the Historical Review Implementation Task Force, you are invited to attend the Historical Review Symposium on Tuesday, March 12: "Repentance, Responsibility, and Renewal"* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:But let us keep in mind the point of this article. President J. Oliver Buswell Jr. had founded the Department of Anthropology at Wheaton way back in 1937 when Anthropology was the "principal science concerned with race," and this Wheaton College Statement on Race Relations produced by Wheaton's Department of Sociology and Anthropology was the fruit of President Buswell's opposition to racism.Who has the temerity to deny this?President Buswell was no fundamentalist, hick, or country bumpkin. He knew precisely what he was doing when he hired Alexander Grigolia, the Sorbonist, to profess Anthropology part time. He knew precisely what he was doing when he brought Grigolia on full time. He knew precisely what he was doing when he tasked Grigolia with founding Wheaton's Department of Anthropology way back in 1937 when, as Wheaton College today brags, "Wheaton's Anthropology program was one of the first of its kind among national liberal arts colleges."* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:President Phil Ryken along with his Trustees and employees have judged President Buswell uncharitably, and this is sin.If any of us were to put ourselves in President Buswell's shoes, we would easily see ourselves doing as he did. If President Ryken and his Trustees were to put themselves in President Buswell's shoes, they would easily see themselves doing as he did. With them, we would do well to ask ourselves what we would have done differently?* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:The final two decades of Joe Sobran's life, Fran Griffin did us kindly by serving as Joe's publisher. Before then, for many years Joe had been published by National Review, but Buckley began pressuring Joe to shut up about Israel.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:This picture is dispositive evidence that President Phil Ryken and his Trustees' denunciation of President Buswell is a lie.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:If in vitro embryos are now protected under the rule of law, in utero embryos are also protected.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Now is the time to be wise as serpents. Many of the men who, in your hour of need, will present themselves to you as so-called "conservatives" in the PCA, yet they have managed to continue within the post-Revoice PCA without making any fuss noticeable enough to get the powers-that-be angry at them. How does that work? Hasn't your congregation had enough of so-called "conservatives" who hide from danger?Don't go with the old and established again. It's done you wrong.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Mom, you especially have been an example to me. I know I kid you frequently about your frugality; but even more frequently, I see how you are able to help us all when we have needs, because of your own selflessness. Plus, there is no mistaking who Mary Lee's mother is. When I interview candidates for our church and talk with other pastors...* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Finally (and maybe the very worst thing about the Report as a report), is that G.R.A.C.E. in their Report neither recommends not brings any accountability to Tenth's pastors and elders who sinned so flagrantly against their flock.Really, it would have been better if the Report had not been written than to write it using nostrums like the need for better communication and "transparency." When such evil is recounted and the Report follows up by saying this and that evil need better "transparency," what the reader learns is that evil has no consequences. He learns to sin that the work of G.R.A.C.E. may abound.No teeth at all. Not a single consequence required by the Report for those who betrayed their calling to protect Tenth's sheep.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:It's been seven weeks since G.R.A.C.E. released their Report documenting the betrayal of the souls of Tenth Presbyterian Church by their pastors and elders. This betrayal is most visible in the G.R.A.C.E. Report, starting with the facts they record concerning Sr. Minister Phil Ryken leading his elders to cover up the homoerotic assaults against young men committed by Tenth's choir director, Paul Jones.Ryken and his elders were informed of Jones's crimes back in 2001.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Below is the transcript of the statement the Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church wrote and posted on Vimeo, explaining why they cancelled the congregational meeting they'd called for this past Sunday, January 7, 2024. In this article, I make some comments hoping they will be helpful to those involved in the mess, helping them to see why the session must resign and presbytery must send in a commission to take over the sessional responsibilities for a time.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:The Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in America) has betrayed their trust to guard their sheep. For them to present themselves now as "lovers" of their sheep and the adults in the room who can be trusted—making this claim in the wake of (only) their most recent scandal of Goligher's abandonment of his call—is ludicrous and should immediately be shut down by both the congregation and Philadelphia Presbytery (BCO 11-4)...* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Christian organizations and church officers often take down statements they have, at first, made publicly. Thus during conflict, they control information.For the permanent record then, this is the transcript of the statement the Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church just posted on Vimeo. Here their spokesman explains why he and his fellow elders cancelled the congregational meeting they had called for yesterday, Sunday, January 7, 2024.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Since my shepherd keeps watch over my soul as a man who will give account to the Chief Shepherd, I recommit myself to submit to him, seeking his growth and wellbeing, and thereby our flock's growth and wellbeing. To that end, I make the following resolutions:* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:Since I am called by God to feed and protect His sheep, knowing well my weaknesses, fears, and temptations, I recommit myself to zeal in my pastoral duties. To that end, I make the following resolutions:* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Merry Christmas!

(A modern Christmas story by Joe Bayly, printed in The Gospel Blimp (and other parables.)

Excerpt:What started it all was a group of students who called themselves "the collective of BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] students and alumni of Wheaton College" demanding the "immediate removal of President James Oliver Buswell's name from the college's library." As it turned out, full submission to their demand of "immediate removal" took Wheaton's trustees and administration two years and eleven months.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Excerpt:GRACE is a crisis management company frequently hired by Christian churches who have attained public notoriety for various forms of abuse of women and men, girls and boys. GRACE is brought in to manage the crisis by investigating the bad actors, then make recommendations for cleaning up the church's public image.GRACE sells itself as an impartial business that can be trusted to root out abusers of authority. At the center of  their marketing is their claim of objectivity in their research and the reports they write up for their clients.* * *Support Warhorn here.Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.