So what does a Godly society look like? What do fathers and mothers do on a daily basis? What does the local church do? How about the government?

In this episode, I interviewed to explain the puritan framework for family, church and state, and how we as the American church can learn a lot from their model of a righteous society. If you haven’t subscribed to him already, do it now! On his substack, he explores reformed baptist theology, practical Christian living, Christian culture, and family life from a layman’s perspective.

What We Cover

1. Introduction to Family, Church, and State

2. The Family Sphere: Issues and Solutions

3. The Church Sphere: Doctrinal Apathy and Its Implications

4. The Role of Sacraments in Grace

5. Puritan Worship and Preaching

6. The Importance of Doctrinal Teaching

7. The Church's Role in Government

8. Christian Influence in Politics

9. Puritan Views on Government and Morality

10. Moral Relativism and Legal Systems

11. The Family and Societal Integrity

12. Lessons from the Puritans

Key Takeaways

1. The Puritans had a strong understanding of family, church, and state roles.

2. Modern America often blurs the roles of husband and wife.

3. Egalitarianism has replaced biblical patriarchy in many families.

4. Parents are often not the primary educators of their children.

5. The emphasis on work can detract from family time.

6. Family worship is essential for spiritual growth.

7. Doctrinal apathy is prevalent in many American churches.

8. Corporate worship is often neglected for personal spirituality.

9. The husband should lead and love his family biblically.

10. Returning to biblical roles can help address modern family issues. Sacraments are means of grace given by God.

11. Preaching is central to Puritan worship.

12. Doctrinal teaching and church discipline are essential.

13. The church should hold members accountable to scripture.

14. Government should reflect biblical morality.

15. The Puritans believed in a biblically informed government.

16. Laws should be based on natural law and biblical principles.

17. Family integrity is crucial for societal health.

18. The Puritans aimed to glorify God in all spheres of life.

19. Reading Puritan literature provides deep insights into faith.

I had an interesting discussion on substack last week regarding the old “poor widow who steals food to feed her children” situation. What do we do? Let her off the hook, or prosecute her?

In this episode I’ll cover:

1. The Dilemma of the Poor Widow

2. The Relationship of Mercy and Justice

3. Understanding Civil vs. Personal Law

4. The Role of Compassion in Law

5. Concluding Thoughts on Mercy and Law

The Original Thread

Here is the original thread you can read for yourself

“She Isn’t Right But Who is?”

• Let’s apply this to pedophiles. Poor Steve the pedophile, about to be sentenced, he isn’t right, but who is? Why not show him some grace?

• How about the person that she stole from? What about their family?

• We are not innocent, so we need civil protections as given to us by God

  Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.

  Ecclesiastes 8:11

Mercy Without Payment

God’s mercy is available because Jesus actually paid the penalty on our behalf. A more parallel situation would be this women not having any money at the store, and someone came up and offered to pay for it with their own money on behalf of the women.

Forcing someone to have mercy via theft, and then forcing the state to have mercy on you in response would be throwing away God’s standards and inverting what God has put in place.

Personal vs Civil Mercy

Personal mercy is what we can offer other image bearers as a type to the ultimate mercy given to us by Christ. We have been saved as a gift, not because of our deeds that it is owed but because of he who saves and his endless love.

Civil mercy, on the other hand, doesn’t exist in God’s world.

Matt 18

Matthew 18 is at least tangentially relevant here. Maybe she isn't a fellow servant yet, but maybe she could be.

The Passage:

• This passage is about personal forgiveness, this is not about God commanding us to disobey his own law in order to show mercy. God doesn’t command 1 thing and then go back on it somewhere else.

Lack of Compassion

• I have a lack of compassion because you don’t agree with me? Nothing specific was countered here, it’s all personal attack.

• What if a pedophile didn’t have any money to feed his child, so he filmed his child and sold it on a pornographic site. He made enough to buy food and feed his child. Where’s your compassion Jonathan?

• The problem is, the principle is not good that we should be able to disobey God’s holy law in order to fulfill some other “good thing” via our own actions. This slippery slope is steep.

Finishing up my series “Aborted”, I wanted to address one of the most common misunderstandings amongst Christians; the 2nd victim narrative. Are women a 2nd victim of abortion? I had seen a post from and he has some amazing content about not being a politically obsessed Christian, go subscribe to him.

Lee is pro-life and genuinely wants to save babies in our culture of death, however, in his recent post, I think he unintentionally spread the 2nd victim narrative that is so prevalent amongst Christians. Today I wanted to address the problem with this framing and explore how we should really view Moms who are sacrificing their children.

Today I wanted to address a common theme I’m seeing when you search online for “abolition” or “abolishing abortion.” The big media outlets like to frame abolitionists like we’re these wack job fringe groups who want to control women.

Standing up for the rights of our pre-born neighbors is now seen as Christian Extremism.

Here’s a few things I’ll cover

• “Mens movement” stopping abortion

• “Christian Extremists”

• Not engaging with the actual criticism

• Calling good evil and evil good

Last week, one of my notes “did the rounds” and I had a few people get really hung up on 2 items; criminalizing abortion, and the role of the government.

One of the commenters wrote out a longer response, and I thought it brought up a lot of what I hear in the larger Christian culture about these issues. I wanted to respond to it so that you could judge for yourselves. I’ve broken up the comment piece by piece to make it digestible.

• Jesus wasn’t a civil magistrate. He came to obey the law perfectly. The law that he made. The same law that indeed upholds justice to the fatherless, the widows, the victims (of adultery).

• Here’s a helpful article about the casting the first stone

• Nobody is a “victim” of sin. If God punished people for something they didn’t deserve he would be unjust. If we were “victims” of sin, then why doesn’t get let us off the hook?

• This is a straw man. Christian nationalists don’t believe the government should be forcing people to Christ through the sword, they should be upholding God’s justice, in the jurisdiction of the civil magistrate, given the law of God itself.

• Forgiveness has nothing to do with societal order. Over and over again Israel is condemned for not protecting the fatherless, not pleading the widows cause, they literally have blood guilt.

God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

Psalm 82:1–3

• I preach the gospel at the abortion clinic, I don’t condemn women. But one day when it’s illegal to murder babies, women won’t do it in the first place, shedding less innocent blood. That’s loving our neighbor.

• I’m glad that they have the opportunity to persuade women with the word of God to not murder their baby. That’s what I do too. However, many women wouldn’t even go murder their baby is it was illegal.

• Unlike a pregnancy resource center, which can sometimes have women who are “making the decision still”, when I go to abortion clinics, these women are set on killing their child. Most women hear us, they still go in, and they murder their child. Look up the doctrine of blood guilt, it’s a biblical theme.

• The blood of those children cries out to God. Women who commit abortion are not victims, they are murderers who need Christ just as much as we ourselves do. But First, you have to call it murder, and you have to realize you’re a murderer.

• Someones standing before God and someones standing before society are 2 totally different things. The reason murder and rape are illegal in our country is because it’s wrong. But where does that come from? Secular humanism sure doesn’t care about the sanctity of life. It comes from God’s law. Our country was built on Christian foundations. If you’d like to keep God out of government, you should be totally okay with murder, rape, and theft being legalized, and more crime being committed.

• We don’t call unbelievers to repentance? The first part of the gospel is that man is on his way to an eternal fire and that we need to repent. What gospel are you preaching?

• Vote what exactly? for LGBTQ+ baby murder representatives? Or Godly ones? and Why?

• We are not trying to become God, we are trying to uphold justice for the fatherless

• The civil magistrate is an avenger of Gods wrath on earth

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.

Romans 13:3–4

• It doesn’t say “he’s God’s minister to do evil” or “he’s God’s minster to force people to believe in Jesus.” It’s very, very specific, an avenger of God’s wrath.

• The church itself has the jurisdiction of church discipline, which is what Paul is referring to here. This has nothing to do with the completely separate role of the civil magistrate, who’s jurisdiction is not church discipline, but the sword against public evil.

Like my content? If you want to support my work, feel free to just buy me a coffee here

Buy Me a Coffee

In today’s video, I’m going to be reacting to the Project 2025 abortion commercial that’s been going viral online.

Full transparency, I know nothing about Project 2025, nor do I support Trump. However, this video heavily pushes the propaganda that abortion is simply “evading motherhood” rather than cold blooded 1st degree murder.

I’ll also be dropping a full project entitled “Aborted” this fall, which will act as a 1-stop resource for everything about abolishing abortion.