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Critical Social Justice (4): Tackling Wokeness

Pastor Steve Jeffery concludes our series on Critical Social Justice with a talk about addressing woke tactics. Wokeness: activist movement! Corrections to be made to James Lindsay: “If you see something, say something” not always necessary Effective apologetic tactic: don’t speak up “Trojan horse” words The Woke lexicon How to respond to CSJ arguments Sowing

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Critical Social Justice (3): Wokeness is not an ideology

Pastor Jeffery continues our Critical Social Justice series talking about how “wokeness” is more a set of strategies than a worldview. Further reading for this series: Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Cynical Theories: how activist scholarship made everything about race, gender, and identity – and why this harms everybody Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cynical-Theories-Scholarship-Everything-Everybody/dp/B08LDSWJ9V/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Cynical+Theories&qid=1638766402&sr=8-1 Fort Worth Public Library:

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Critical Social Justice (0): The 2020 Series (Rebroadcast; originally released in 2020)

NOTE: This is a rebroadcast. These talks originally aired as series of YouTube videos in November and December of 2020. Pastor Steve’s 14-video series on critical social justice from 2020, here presented for your backgroundey edification. Introduction Surveying the landscape One fundamental criticism From slavery through Marx to Frankfurt Three more historical stepping stones Cracks

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Critical Social Justice (1): Introducing Counter Wokecraft

Pastor Steve Jeffery begins our new series on dealing with Critical Social Justice (CSJ) and how we, as Christians, are to respond to “woke” ideas and people. The necessity of understanding Critical Social Justice Outline of Critical Social Justice ideology Counter Wokecraft James Lindsay Book outline: Description of Woke ideology Description of Woke tactics Strategies

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Getting Serious About Godliness (6): Facing Persecution

Do it well.This week, Pastor Steve Jeffery talks about Calvin’s Institutes III.8.7-10, especially what it says about suffering well in persecution. Being conformed to the life of Jesus Suffering is the badge of being a soldier of Jesus Christ Going with the current (which is bad) What attitude should we have toward suffering? No hardship

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Getting Serious About Godliness (5): Why am I Suffering?

(Short answer: because God wants to show his glory through you.) This week, pastor Steve Jeffery talks about suffering in the Christian Life in Calvin’s Institutes III.8. The structure of Mark’s gospel Fear of persecution Following Jesus, self-denial, and carrying one’s cross Godliness central to the Christian life Christian life lived in time: perpetual cross

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