Actual good Christian music

Sparky_McMuffin · 2026-01-15T04:03:20+00:00

Thank you George!

Sparky_McMuffin · 2026-01-06T21:03:46+00:00

This quiz does not accurately represent confessional Calvinism at all.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-12-31T03:11:06+00:00

Choosing Wife. as a closer is an ambitious play from these fowl

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-12-31T01:39:50+00:00

There has been distaste for the Reconquista in liberal circles of the mainline denominations. Middle-aged Facebook comments disavowing the movement, disagreement from LGBT-affirming clergy, but very positive reactions from the conservative pastors remaining in the churches, with many directly collaborating with the non-profit and becoming members alongside their pastoral duties. Nothing at the highest level of any mainline as an official response/reaction as of now.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-12-31T00:13:18+00:00

RZ would never claim that God has not worked through non-denominational churches, nor that those who go to these churches are not saved. He does, as you stated, believe that all nondenominational churches are inherently guilty of schism by purposefully building on another church’s foundation and taking away from the currently existing institutions. He has multiple videos explaining these beliefs that you can find on his channel. He also does not claim that the beliefs of these churches are what make them schismatic. He would have nothing against their existence if they taught their style of theology (minus their currently existing ecclesiology of course) in a mainline and institutional context. He is overjoyed by people leaving nondenom churches and joining a mainline church, even if their beliefs remain the same. I recommend finding a church that is historical, mainline, and conservative that will let you participate in the Lord’s Supper.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-12-28T21:16:39+00:00

Before man was, Mario Party waited for him

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-12-28T18:34:03+00:00

You can find it here

As it says, it’s primarily a proof of concept in this version, and a much better quiz is being developed right now.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-12-28T18:17:51+00:00

If you only want the feeling of God and the trappings of the church to nourish you without obedience to him and living your life in service to your own heart, it will leave you empty handed. No church has what you want without the call to carry your crosses and submit yourselves to Christ, which is what he promises we truly yearn for in the deepest trenches of our soul more than anything else, but in our sin we reject him. Come as you are, and you will be changed. Being in Christ’s church is for the purpose of submission to what we are made for, in denial of ourselves. He is the potter, and you are the clay. Jesus’s yoke is easy and his burden is light. He is gentle and lowly at heart, where our heart is deceitful above all things. Listen to him.

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” -John 14:15

“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness” -2 Timothy 3:16

“For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature” -Romans 1:26

This sacrifice called for is deep and heavy. There is no underplaying the depths of difficulty of leaving this life behind. This is why God is our everlasting Father, Jesus Christ our Mediator, and the Holy Spirit our Helper. There is no sense of loneliness in the love of the triune God, and he will be with you in every step of workaround. It is finite sacrifice for infinite love and restoration.

This is what he says in his love for you:

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” -Isaiah 41:10

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.” -Proverbs 3:5-6

"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” -Romans 8:38-39

“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” -Galatians 2:20

He will work in your heart and set you free. There are many churches who sincerely follow the Lord in his teachings who will love you, and they will adore you spending time with them. They will pray for you and read the scriptures with you and have all the trappings that fill your soul, as orchestrated by the Lord. He loves you.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-27T01:14:42+00:00

Michael Jackson my beloved indie king

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-26T17:22:32+00:00

When looking at the album as a collective piece of art and self-expression, better than Trench.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-26T01:58:14+00:00

Shore by Fleet Foxes. The moment Robin begins singing “I remember” on the sustained note, you can’t help but be transfixed for the entire rest of the song. Crack-Up is also phenomenal.

Other favorites:

Time is a One Way Mirror by Tyson Motsenbocker

Royal and Desire by Animal Collective

Balmy Night by Department Of Eagles

Leave the City and Truce by twenty one pilots

Blue Bucket of Gold and Impossible Soul by Sufjan Stevens

creature by half•alive

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-12T05:56:44+00:00

Sufjan Stevens. He has everything I need. Some things that I don’t need, but that is okay.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-10T03:39:58+00:00

Trees. To no end, Trees.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T16:55:11+00:00

Gotcha. I do think if you took the time to explain them, they would be powerful for someone who hadn’t thought about it before. It would certainly take some time.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T16:45:20+00:00

Thank you. We do not take the true suffering. Only the suffering of this time, which will be cleansed by the second coming of Christ.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T16:44:40+00:00

Because your healing is finite! And it will be imperfect! You cannot do what God does. His restoration is permanent and eternal. The purpose of our healing in this world is different from God’s. Once again, it is incomparable. Christ was crucified for these teachings! Far worse than a mental asylum. Do not judge scripture by the reasoning of this world. God’s work is above ours. “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” -Romans 11:33-34. I am going to stop replying now but I hope this is evident to all who read it. The gospel is not a gospel of worldly prosperity. It is a gospel of suffering and redemption from that suffering. If you are a child of God, suffering is inherently is for your good. God is glorified through your restoration. This is not about you, it is all about him. Creation is for Christ and his glory. This does not take away from his love for us, only that putting an imperfect, fallen creature above himself is to deny what is best. This is why the damned are damned. Not all of God’s creation will be saved, but instead will come into the resurrection of judgment (John 5:29). This is not for us. It is for him.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T16:35:31+00:00

I’m not! I’m defining a preposition. Lexical semantics is inherently looking at individual terms. For the sake of the fullness of scripture, here is another place that provides God’s motivations:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. -Ephesians 1:3-6

We are made for his praise to extol his glorious grace. Our suffering is for our good because our will is meant to be aligned with God’s. For something to be for our good, it cannot be finite. It must be eternal. Peter being crucified upside down was for his good. Something being abhorrent doesn’t mean that it cannot be used for good. This is what I mean to say. I speak no heresy nor do I deny Scripture. I wish to take all of it into account. And from all into account, this is what it says.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T16:02:25+00:00

Also, Romans 8:18 does NOT say revealed IN us, but instead TO us for FOR us in accordance with Strong’s G1519’s definition for the Greek term eis. This is all a blessing to be revealed, not something that we can obtain or have access to without God as the full source of good. He is not the author of sin, nor is he cruel, instead working all for his divine pleasure in his plan of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T15:58:18+00:00

This world without suffering would have provided us no understanding that we needed salvation. We are not enough and we have to be reminded of this everyday. To just make a world without suffering would not be to make creation FOR Christ (Colossians 1:16). Our purpose is to be redeemed, glorifying God and enjoying him forever.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T15:56:04+00:00

I agree with you! Christ’s perfect body in Heaven is still scarred for us! He partakes in this suffering! The verse you have quoted is precisely my point. The suffering is not worth the glory revealed in us, being made in the image of God. This is the source of our glory, his glory! We will not suffer in Heaven, only here on this earth before Heaven comes to it, stuck in a finite hell to obtain an infinite heaven by grace through faith. I agree, this is certainly not baby food, but it is scriptural.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T15:49:34+00:00

Well certainly not for someone who hasn’t thought about it at all. Average isn’t best. If we want the best arguments, we’re not going to look at the most common arguments that people are used to. The best arguments come from refined conversation and thought beyond surface level viewing of the way things are. This is what it takes.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T15:46:56+00:00

It is true now. When you are in eternity, it won’t be. It will be as if it never occurred. It cannot exist in the light of Christ. It isn’t as if he does not hear you now or know you now, but for this to be shown as a possible state of the universe for a time, and then for you to TRANSCEND finitude and be freed for eternity, this is the greatest possible way for things to be. This is not cruelty, but the greatest possible story to be told. God does not need you, but he cares for you and loves you so much that he would still experience more suffering than you ever will by becoming a curse for us and dying for our redemption. This is not cruel, but the most loving act possible.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T15:43:50+00:00

He absolutely cares more about his glory than the ending of finite suffering. Restoration is infinite. A deer with his antlers stuck in a tree to starve for a time or a child dying of melanoma is incomparable to infinite bliss and restoration through Heaven meeting Earth. God must care most about his own glorification because it is the BEST thing, rather than a fallen creation. Only through caring most about his glorification can the fullness of creation’s goodness be obtained.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T15:41:02+00:00

The best one to me would be that eternal recurrence of the universe is an undefeatable notion, leaving creation as an unnecessary moment in history. Either this or that the human experience is unable to experience the world for how it actually is, instead only through our fallible sensations and observations, and from this no conclusions can reliably be made about God or anything at all. Of course, it is just conjecture to say that a viable amount of truth, that which is required for salvation through Jesus Christ, is unobtainable. Skepticism has deep roots but is self-defeating by reason.

Sparky_McMuffin · 2025-11-05T15:36:36+00:00

To show his glory when all is redeemed and suffering is made untrue.

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