Josh

Husband, father, pastor. Living life in the Midwest.

Public Key

npub14fy4tvakq7dw8naudqcyzcja78pfmje72pqxj4frwkmle6wljn0q3duys9

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs25j24kwmq0xhre77xsvzpvfwlrs5aevl9qsrf253htdlua80efhspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43qz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9ws7t5mdu

Publishing to

relay.ditto.pub

relay.primal.net

relay.damus.io

nostr.bitcoiner.social

nostr.21crypto.ch

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub14fy4tvakq7dw8naudqcyzcja78pfmje72pqxj4frwkmle6wljn0q3duys9

Show more details

Last Notes

2026-09-26 19:31:26 UTC

Caught a couple walleye trolling the shad rap this morning. And a big cat on a slip bobber and crawler.
https://blossom.primal.net/758b8ae268211ef1359f6996fa7f9455e33ef0fc61600ec44ec74407fc480ac1.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/baf4a84f049d213a1616677e14b96a2cc11d00592a1687a875ed1a525fda2a19.jpg

2026-09-10 17:12:23 UTC

- reply

Nothing like bribing people to vote for you with their own money. Hope Americans begin to understand the government can give you nothing it doesn't first take away from you.
#nevent1q…hzpl

2026-08-29 21:05:46 UTC

- reply

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGraceShed?etsrc=sdt

2026-08-29 14:27:04 UTC

It's been a pretty good summer. Couldn't have been a more beautiful day in the northwoods yesterday.
https://blossom.primal.net/1d0f0a17ce0f6c0a77b1329bc91f26493b1281d191d5ed627a9c15e7b9ad3e51.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/062a5c2280dfadb74e5e6d4420fcaadfef307fe6d81b35de86dc00333f0a00e4.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/1d4ead02e3c3c9b30cf2074722db3c1aa1e3d1e24b37b0ab72b8ca08ddcfb17c.jpg

2026-07-01 22:47:52 UTC

- reply

Thanks! Hadn't seen my rod bend like that in a while.

2026-06-10 20:46:49 UTC

- reply

By public, doesn't he mean the state? Isn't there a word for a system of government where the state owns the means of production? The public can buy as many shares as they want on their own with their own money, should they choose to do so. A little bit of communism is too much, and will lead to more.
#nevent1q…6jkm

2026-06-06 00:22:19 UTC

MidBest.
https://blossom.primal.net/7fef156167ad93aecac2c645aafd74bc94d7c69f37ee855adf058ba8bdd47195.jpg

2026-05-28 12:57:03 UTC

- reply

Huh. Is this part of the pension plan?
#nevent1q…grvk

2026-05-27 17:52:25 UTC

We might see less of a groundswell in favor of female pastors if the men in that office didn't act quite so much like women.
https://blossom.primal.net/01fec94b9d2927dc9eb966869bafe602e257f93499db1ebf6df89b31fd43cc8f.png
#semperreformanda

2026-05-23 23:34:07 UTC

Good day on the river yesterday.
#nature #universeovermetaverse
https://blossom.primal.net/8815a7ba95205bc8e4515fde2d56e6011837f8068fddde9a85d473293ea55c2a.mp4
https://blossom.primal.net/805105884ac7a5af5e18d1635664c045923876780be7c7aaa1a48e347e8521ec.jpg

2026-05-12 16:05:57 UTC

If you are really preaching the gospel, you should at some point be misunderstood as teaching antinomianism:
"If a man’s preaching is, ‘If you want to be Christians, and if you want to go to heaven, you must stop committing sins, you must take up good works, and if you do so regularly and constantly, and do not fail to keep on at it, you will make yourselves Christians, you will reconcile yourselves to God and you will go to heaven’. Obviously a man who preaches in that strain would never be liable to this misunderstanding. Nobody would say to such a man, ‘Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?’, because the man’s whole emphasis is just this, that if you go on sinning you are certain to be damned, and only if you stop sinning can you save yourselves. So that misunderstanding could never arise . . .
Nobody has ever brought this charge [antinomianism] against the Church of Rome, but it was brought frequently against Martin Luther..." -D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

2026-05-12 00:33:13 UTC

- reply

Nobody is claiming Augustine held to Reformed theology. I have zero problem with Warfield's quote. It agrees with what I have been taught and read. The claim was a historical precedent for Reformed theology *regarding perseverance*. Is it a completely developed doctrine in Augustine, formulated precisely without any contradiction in any of his writings? I doubt it. But as they say, "Not even Augustine has read all of Augustine." Still, you can't read what I just quoted and not see at least the seeds of the doctrine in his teaching, not to mention the Scripture he cites. Doctrine develops over time. Contradictions are identified and resolved in the midst of controversy.

2026-05-10 23:59:29 UTC

- reply

I said that with reference to your view that a justified person can lose their justification.
I'm saying a person is justified by faith alone and not by works. If this is true, then nothing can separate a person once justified from the love of God in Christ (Rom.8:38-39). Not even disobedience. And that should move a person to far greater obedience than Rome's carnal theology ever could. That is the biblical gospel, and there is no other.
Faith is a grace, the work of God, not of man. The grace of faith *rests* on Christ for perfect righteousness and full payment of sin as the only ground of justification.
So yes, anything a person does for justification is not faith but rather a dead work (Gal.2:16).
According to your theology, that would include your whole life as a Roman. I hope it isn't true, but it seems very likely. You should repent.

2026-05-09 20:17:28 UTC

- reply

Any work done for justification is backbreaking labor. At any rate, your first justification which you think you have isn't worth much unless you reach the second. Perfection is a long way off for a mortal man. It would be easier to lay your burden down and come in by the gate.

2026-05-09 20:08:14 UTC

33. Formalist and Hypocrisy
And as he was troubled thereabout, he espied two men come tumbling over the wall on the left hand of the narrow way; and they made up apace to him. The name of the one was Formalist, and the name of the other Hypocrisy. So, as I said, they drew up unto him, who thus entered with them into discourse.
Christian: Gentlemen, whence came you, and whither go you?
Formalist and Hypocrisy: We were born in the land of Vain-glory, and are going for praise to Mount Zion.
Christian: Why came you not in at the gate which stands at the beginning of the way? Know you not that it is written, that he that comes not in by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber?
Formalist and Hypocrisy: They said, That to go to the gate for entrance was, by all their countrymen, counted too far about; and that, therefore, their usual way was to make a short cut of it, and to climb over the wall, as they had done.
Christian: But will it not be counted a trespass against the Lord of the city whither we are bound, thus to violate his revealed will?
Formalist and Hypocrisy: They told him, that, as for that, he needed not to trouble his head thereabout; for what they did they had custom for; and could produce, if need were, testimony that would witness it for more than a thousand years.
Christian: But, said Christian, will your practice stand a trial at law?
Formalist and Hypocrisy: They told him, That custom, it being of so long a standing as above a thousand years, would, doubtless, now be admitted as a thing legal by any impartial judge; and besides, said they, if we get into the way, what matter is it which way we get in? If we are in, we are in. You are but in the way, who, as we perceive, came in at the gate; and we are also in the way, that came tumbling over the wall; wherein, now, is your condition better than ours?
Christian: I walk by the rule of my Master; you walk by the rude working of your fancies. You are counted thieves already, by the Lord of the way; therefore, I doubt you will not be found true men at the end of the way. You come in by yourselves, without his direction; and shall go out by yourselves, without his mercy.
To this they made him but little answer; only they bid him look to himself.

2026-05-08 02:26:13 UTC

- reply

I believe Calvin is talking about the doctrine of implicit faith wherein a Romish church member is said to believe everything the church believes without knowing what the church believes.
You believe Christ's sacrifice enables you to work to attain righteousness. Protestants believe Christ's righteousness is received as a gift. One of those is good news, and the other is not.
It is no hostility to tell people the truth (Gal. 4:16).
Are Muslims sincerely seeking God, and do you seek unity with them as brothers in Christ?Where do you draw the line in your ecumenism? I draw mine at the gospel of God's free grace.

2026-05-07 15:53:22 UTC

Rome is not your home. Repent and put your full confidence in Christ's goodness.
"We do not obtain salvation either because we are prepared to embrace every dictate of the Church as true, or leave to the Church the province of inquiring and determining; but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life. By this knowledge, I say, not by the submission of our understanding, we obtain an entrance into the kingdom of heaven. For when the Apostle says, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation,” (Rom. 10:10); he intimates, that it is not enough to believe implicitly without understanding, or even inquiring. The thing requisite is an explicit recognition of the divine goodness, in which our righteousness consists." -John Calvin's Institutes 3.2

2026-04-28 19:32:05 UTC

Where is God in suffering?
https://blossom.primal.net/8c4ec7be48df39b84e9ae16d46929f24bdadd268b634160fb344f7fb6a3d48e7.mp4
#semperreformanda #preachtheword

2026-04-07 17:34:33 UTC

If God declares you righteous, your own good works will form no part of the basis on which He does so.
#semperreformanda #thelawandthegospel
https://blossom.primal.net/de7197151ca29991f97c53549fda113ca57442b37425dc9ff73a5e98c25aa06b.jpg

2026-04-02 14:29:23 UTC

Scripture does not teach that good works are necessary for a spiritually dead person to reach life.
It does teach that it is necessary for a person who has reached spiritual life to do good works.
https://blossom.primal.net/c9a0509d803a2ce56c6e1225d07dcbe0688e6feed5f3804f67d5c221ae1ebbcd.jpg

2026-03-31 20:48:03 UTC

Are you ready?
https://blossom.primal.net/fe4072c86e6e70558d367a3b9b61bd12305175ba307f5fd4f57511ebfcd07e1b.mp4

2026-03-28 17:54:32 UTC

- reply

It's pretty to look at and better to taste.

2026-03-28 00:04:41 UTC

Filtration process needs some fine-tuning but we got 'er in jars. Best syrup I've tasted.
#maplesyrup #sapstr
https://blossom.primal.net/b94d5d7e047057ac19ceec3fc37980ad4c9ce764e9934e06c7b53fc86ea858bd.jpg

2026-03-26 02:51:30 UTC

Time to get some more sap rolling. Barrel cooker was today's DIY project with the kids.
#maplesyrup #sapstr
https://blossom.primal.net/6169085b7ced7b728cd4ddf69b9c689ade746e84a428b604e042489cc6c5fe60.jpg

2026-03-19 22:43:17 UTC

Starlink now has a residential plan for $50 a month up to 100mbps. In case nobody told you like nobody told me.