Michael Foster
@thisisfoster • 75,559 subscribers
I'm a pastor, writer, and businessman. My wife and I have eight children and live on a small farm in Batavia, OH. God is good.
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I want to put a worthy project before you and explain why I’m backing it, and why I may eventually have some personal involvement in it. “Deceived: The Ruin of the Modern Woman: A Christian Exploration and Confrontation of Feminism.” Here’s the Kickstarter: There is a longer trailer on the Kickstarter, but I've also attached the shorter conceptual trailer. First, the project itself: it’s a documentary by a Christian director examining the history and consequences of feminism and offering a biblical alternative. Second, here’s why I’m backing it. I’ve known Les Lanphere, the director, for a while, and I know him to be both a talented filmmaker and a principled Christian man. I trust him to tackle this subject biblically and with intensity, but without unnecessary harshness or shock-jockery. I also believe this is one of the defining issues of our day, and it’s one I’ve worked hard to address for most of my adult life. Feminism has obviously affected men and society as a whole, but now that I’m the father of three daughters and have a daughter-in-law, I’ve become even more concerned about what it has robbed women of: the beauty of their unique, God-given design and purpose in His world. So, for me, this is a trustworthy creator tackling a crucial subject in which I’m personally invested. I’m not yet sure to what extent I’ll eventually be involved in the documentary itself, but I backed the project for $300 today, and I’ll probably increase that once I’ve had a little more time to consider it. In the meantime, I want to challenge 50 of you to back the project for at least $5 each. That may not sound like much, but it helps. And the more people who get behind the project and follow its progress, the more attention it can gain. Even if you can only give a few dollars, you can play a real part by backing it, following it, and helping get the word out.
Michael Foster157,665 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад
We need to accumulate a lot of wealth and pass it down to our children and grandchildren...
Michael Foster36,104 просмотров • 22 дней назад
Alright, here are a few quick clips of a #PCA in #NAPARC where a Teaching Elder (Pastor Joel Littlepage) says this: "...I want everyone to hear it from me as your pastor, because you're gonna hear it either way. We had discerned, Melissa and I, in our journey seeking the Lord's face, is that our calling was to come into full communion and unity with the Catholic Church." And then serves communion to the congregation, including Teaching Elder and the current Mission to North America coordinator Irwyn Ince. At the end of the service, TE Irwyn Ince sends them out with prayers and blessings, saying: "I'm gonna ask, uh, most particularly GMO's elder shepherdesses, leaders, come surround them, and anyone else who wants to come on down to the front. Put your hands on our dear Littlepages, as we get to go before the Lord on their behalf, understanding that as said before the service, this is just see you soon, not full goodbye." Church:
Michael Foster326,881 просмотров • 1 год назад
This is a sweet video... I like to tell people that your family is not your fate. You’re not doomed to become your parents or to live exactly as you lived in your own childhood. If you came from a broken home, full of anger, constant arguing, and disorder, you don’t have to repeat that. You can escape it. But, almost paradoxically, you don’t escape it by obsessing over how you were wronged in your childhood. That usually pulls you right back into it. That’s why so many men who swear they’ll never become their fathers end up doing exactly that. You escape it by being future-focused for the good of others. You escape it by building something that blesses people beyond yourself, in your community, in your church, and especially in your family. You can be the link in a new chain. God brings beauty from ashes, and he has a habit of extinguishing a hellish heritage and, through a bold-hearted, repentant man, replacing it with the beginnings of a heritage shaped by heaven. But “your family is not your fate” cuts both ways. Maybe you’re not the first link, but the second or third in a godly heritage. You were blessed with advantages, growing up in church, reading the Bible, living in a home with present parents. If you take that for granted, your life will look very different from theirs, and not in a good way. The good life, as the Bible defines it, grows out of a Christian who wakes up and asks the LORD, “How can I obey you today, for your glory and for the good of others into the future?”
Michael Foster108,841 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
The audio (and video from the PCA's GA from a few years ago) below has not been altered. This proud RTS Orlando graduate is Andrew Augenstein, a ruling elder at Lake Nona Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Central Florida Presbytery. He says he is a good friend with Timothy Keller (1950-2023) protege and Revoice advocate Scott Sauls. He is a defender of Greg Johnson. He is "same sex attracted" or whatever is code for "having gay desires is just part of who I am" these days. He is against the #savethepca campaign, and told me that "Shepherdess = manufactured crisis." He was also on the subcommittee that investigated the original allegations against Burk Parsons of St. Andrews Chapel. Side note: Pastor Parsons isn't a defender of Greg Johnson or same sex attracted. This is Elder Augenstein's good friend Jerry Klemm, pastor of Covenant Church (PCA). He is the prosecutor in the current case against Burk Parsons. Elder Augenstein and Pastor Klemm are signers of an open letter of encouragement called A Faithful PCA. It was to assure the PCA that all the talk about them ordaining homosexuals was overblown. The letter was also signed by former PCA Pastor Jeremy Fair who was recently arrested on prostitution charges. And a bunch of elders promoting functional female officers or gay celibate Christianity stuff like Irwin Ince, Zachary C Bradley, Ted Spaid (no longer in the PCA), Scott Saul (resigned for harsh leadership), etc., signed this monstrosity. Everyone on this list is worth looking into. Here's all the signees...
Michael Foster62,727 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад
This video was posted by a "conservative bible-believing" Evangelical Free Church in our region. It was once a great church my wife and I attended for a short season of our lives. I still have some friends at it. And how I respond to it on Facebook: "This is a mealy-mouth syncretistic compromise, Dave Wernz. It’s a massive failure of spiritual leadership. Once upon a time, Grace Fellowship Church was a church where I could send anybody with the confidence they would be taught the big rocks of Scripture. And you've fallen to this? Ramadan is a pagan practice handed down from a crazed, sexually perverted heretic who either made up an encounter with an “angel” or got his teaching directly from a demon. God clearly rejects fasting directed to false gods or done with wrong motives (e.g., Zec 7:5, Pr 15:29). These people need to be told plainly to reject these false practices and bow to the knee to Jesus. Muslims make up about 1.3% of Americans, and I’d venture it’s under 1% in the Tristate. You guys are speaking of Ramadan in neutral, almost favorable terms, thinking you can undo that by tagging on the gospel at the end of this video. I'm addressing this publicly because it was posted publicly and done so by people who once knew better. I downloaded the video because my gut is you will delete it and try to walk it back without calling it what it is. The original video can be found here: "
Michael Foster79,584 просмотров • 1 год назад
Wildwood Church PCA (Wildwood Church) presents its "shepherdess" ministry as a ministry to women. However, just this past Sunday, they had one of their shepherdess lead to elements of the worship service usually reserved for elders or, perhaps, male ministerial candidates: the call to worship and the pastoral prayer. The call to worship includes a call-and-response, and the shepherdess leads the “leader” component. In other words, we have a woman leading not just women but men in the formal elements of a worship service. This isn't happening in the DC metro but in the typically conservative Gulf Coast Presbytery. I hope the men there will right the ship before this sort of compromise spreads further. Full Service:
Michael Foster48,509 просмотров • 1 год назад
" Your family is your resume. I don't care what anybody says about you. What your wife and kids say about you, that's who you are." - Pastor Mark Driscoll The This is Foster Podcast returns with an interview with Mark Driscoll. We mostly discuss men's ministry and raising up pastors. The podcast is on most directories, including... iTunes: Spotify:
Michael Foster25,058 просмотров • 1 год назад
Some big news for East River Church (Batavia, OH)...
Michael Foster12,903 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад