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Derek Rishmawy

@dzrishmawy.bsky.social
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Theology student @ TEDS. Campus Minister w/ RUF. Presbyterianism enjoyer. Dad-poster. Podcast: Mere Fidelity

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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Haven’t posted here in a bit but here is a long review of Andrew Rillera’s Lamb of the Free. t.co/00cSfEB6bA
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“Honoring Christ as holy gives us the willingness to suffer because it cuts the taproot of that which undermines so much of our apologetic practice—simple fear of man. @dzrishmawy.bsky.social www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/hono...
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How to Honor Christ as Holy in Apologetics
Let Christ’s holiness embolden you, freeing you from the fear of man and empowering you to testify with both courage and humility.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
It’s very good. Clearly written, lucid analysis.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Tremendous book so far
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Recent reads
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Very good by @musaalgharbi.bsky.social musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/smart-peop... Being “smart” as an intellectual liability.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
God does not rest on the seventh day simply to recover from the work he has done. Rather, rest is his nature. It completes the creation. It is the essence of creation. Thus, when we subordinate rest to work, we ignore the divine. Byung-Chul Han, Disappearance of Ritual, 36
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Cate, my 2 year old: why is a panda? Me: yes, that is the metaphysical question. *Why* is the panda?
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Great book
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
(First day on the internet): hey guys, what do you think about “Mary did you know?” I kinda like it but maybe she did?
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
James Jordan has a lot on time span and patience. Just listening to him on that.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Eventually Christians are gonna be spotted as the people with more than one kid, kids with disabilities that can be detected in utero, and their sickly and elderly still with them.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
In light of this sad news, Dr. Ewan Golligher’s 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘦? 𝘈 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯-𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 is an excellent resource. You can hear my conversation with him about it here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... premierchristian.news/en/news/arti...
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BREAKING: MPs vote in support of Assisted Dying Bill - Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & Analysis
The bill, officially called the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was proposed by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater and has passed the first stage of the legislative process by a vote of 330-275.
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Kevin the Pikachu @kap3692.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you’re in the pastoral office, it’s probably wise to go through first and second Timothy and Titus at least a couple of times a year, just as a vocational check in.
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Niall Gooch @niallgooch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My latest at The Spectator: Against the new genre of divorce and adultery confessionals. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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The rise of the reckless divorce columnist
Newspapers like the Times and the Daily Mail are constantly pushing pieces by women celebrating their divorces. It’s not good for us.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Argue with other Christians, like brothers and sisters. State your case clearly, and yet at the same time in the hope that the Spirit you share will either make their error plain to them or make it plain to you.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
You actually just can’t know your Bible too well. You can read it for decade upon decade, and do specialized studies in every book and you’re always gonna come back with something new.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
When you go through an identity/ideology shift, there are a few people who will annoy you as much as the person who believes what you did like five minutes ago.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I never knew what accounted for adults threatening to “take your nose” as a child. But now, as a father, I find myself unaccountably unable to stop taking my little girl’s nose. It is perfect and eminently stealable.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Yes, it makes you aware that even your own side can be subject to the same sort of institutional culture
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Or at least that some of the flesh and blood that were supposed to be warring against is our own in so far is the old Adam is at work in our members as well.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
There is always a battle of the gods and a strife of cultures that come downstream from the gospel and that which does not. The problem is recognizing that our struggle is not against flesh and blood.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The intrinsic challenge is that the New Testament and even the Old Testament is rife with the language of spiritual warfare. And the assumption that spirits and gods give rise to cultures and cultural paradigms.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Absolutely!
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Part of the holiness of God means he is this particular God, the Holy One of Israel, who has acted in particular ways in history like the exodus and the exile. And he’s spoken in particular ways as in the 10 Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. much harder to put words into his mouth.
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Keith Plummer @xianmind.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
People have no qualms with a “Higher Power” that is functionally powerless and/or over which they can exert power (i.e., manipulate).
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I mean it’s nice and comforting. God made things, but he’s not gonna mess around with you too much.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I know people have a metaphysical problem with the idea of a “interventionist” God, and I get the logic. I think it’s wrong, but I get it. Fundamentally, tho I wonder if we don’t like the idea of an interventionist God because that one can interfere with our plans.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The neuroticism and anxious fixation that goes with ever diminishing returns. Idolatry never delivers and demands more even while it distorts and deforms. I think what Sam is describing is just what that looks like.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is a very good post, but my only thought here is that I think it’s a false dichotomy. Sam is not describing something other than political idolatry, but what political idolatry cashes out in: it looks like inevitable, boredom with the world outside of it and addiction.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
3. Do not freak out if you see someone reading to book and getting excited about the Bible. This piece by Jake Meador on 'non-anxious authority.' Getting mad and triggered will just shut folks down. mereorthodoxy.com/jake/decaden...
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
2. Someone on the "Other Site" noted that in many ways, Peterson is like a red-pill, liberal mainliner in terms of how he handles scripture. This is important in how you talk to folks--some of the old fundamentalist/modernist playbook still applies, just trending right!
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This tracks with my prior reading of Peterson. A few points: 1. This is not new. There is a deep allergy to history at the core of some streams of Western culture. On which, see Michael Horton's recent "Shaman and Sage." Peterson just is the most recent iteration of a very old trend.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We sang a mighty fortress is our God in RUF two weeks ago
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sometimes it really is a simple as looking a student in the face and telling them to read Psalm 46 and remember he is God.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The beauty of God’s Word is that it comes outside of myself. Even when it doesn’t speak to the heirs of this or that decision, It is a sure and certain Word that grounds me in the God who made the world and is Lord of history.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I don’t know how many college kids I talk to who are a mess inside, unsure of who they are, where they’re going, and what they should do. Telling them to go deeper into the chaos to find an answer is a recipe for more anxiety and paralysis.
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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is the tip of a larger iceberg. I get into a few related patterns here. theopolisinstitute.com/twin-nativit...
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Twin Nativities - Theopolis Institute
In the accounts of our Lord’s nativity and early childhood, so familiar to us from many years of Advent and Christmas services, we often fail to recognize in them the gentle intimations of a greater n...
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭91‬:‭14‬-‭16‬ ‭
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lmsacasas.bsky.social @lmsacasas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds ... The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.” — Ivan Illich, "The Eloquence of Silence"
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Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Definitely a liability if we are overly online. Everything can be interpreted through the lens of virtual political squabbles. Having lots of offline non-politicized things that we care about is a very important part of healthy practice and 'conservative' in the best sense of the term.
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Thanks, man, that means a lot. And that IS a great conference. Was honored to be there
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Derek Rishmawy @dzrishmawy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Same
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
playing Battleship with a child without saying "Your turn"
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