Rev Ikaika @TheRevAnthony

@crwiley1962 It greatly blessed me. It is one of the few books I always keep a small stack of in my office to give away.

@DBryanRhodes

@matt_everhard There was so much concern for time, it feels like we rushed through a lot of stuff and ended up ending early.

In case you were wondering what my speech was going to be for the #pcaga AI study committee: Mr. Moderator, Jim McAndrew, Ruling Elder, Northern California Presbytery. I rise to speak in favor of the overture. Fathers and brothers, I hold a master's in computer science and artificial intelligence. I'm an entrepreneur, a business owner, and an investor, and I've been creating software for over 25 years — personally writing millions of lines of code in my career. Please hear me, brothers: I cannot overstate the significance of what is happening in my industry right now, and I believe the disruption coming to the broader economy is going to be truly staggering. Why do I believe this? Because I am personally working on seven different projects at once — each of which, until recently, would have taken a team of five to ten people and millions of dollars in funding. All of this came about in just the last six months, and things are only accelerating. As an entrepreneur, the implications are both terrifying and exhilarating. Terrifying, because competition is fierce and the coming wave of unemployment will likely be staggering. Exhilarating, because there has never been a time when a single person could have such an outsized impact. As a body, we cannot afford to ignore this trend. It is here to stay. Our people need guidance, as Christians, on what is acceptable use of this technology, and on how to counsel those who have been disrupted by it. And if all that were not reason enough, there is an even deeper issue we must address. The people building AI are, by and large, secular transhumanists — all too eager to supply their own narrative about how it should be viewed and used. Many believe they are building a digital god, worthy of praise and worship and destined to be our successor as a species. Some even believe they will upload their consciousness and become digitally immortal. As Reformed Christians, we must recognize the allure of this false gospel to a post-Christian world, and confront it directly — seizing this opportunity to preach the biblical gospel to a world starving for the truth. In twenty years, brothers, I believe we will look back on this as the issue of our age. I urge you to vote in favor of this overture. Thank you. @magnaliafdn

"Im sorry, Mr. Moderator. I panicked." #pcaga

Bambulu @Bqmbulu

5 months ago

Your favorite military commander once said:

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@RobSteele3 @magnaliafdn @pastormbowman Yes! Can also set a geofence to keep voting in one location. We are hoping for testing at the presbytery level. We can get PCA courts set up with a free enterprise account - reach out if we can help.

This is not a joke, every commissioner at #pcaga needs to go talk to @magnaliafdn and get signed up for MeshVote and use it at your Presbytery. Get on this now. Clickergate 2026 is already a nightmare. We need a better voting solution and it already exists.

Amidst #clickergate at #pcaga young ruling elders buying $280 bourbon bottles are getting blown up!

good times at #pcaga

Preachers catching strays, "Length and clarity are not always correlative" #PCAGA

The Sith Lord and his apprentice. “Good. Good. Move the question. Feel the hate flow.” #pcaga

TECHNICAL: Commissioner clarifies the proper term for an insufficient articulation of a stated difference is: “Lame.” Jot that down. #pcaga

some games are just not worth staying up for...

Rev Ikaika @TheRevAnthony

4 months ago

Day one of business done. Now to catch what is left of Colombia - Congo in the WC

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Day one of business done. Now to catch what is left of Colombia - Congo in the WC

@crwiley1962 Is a similar quality print available in english? That looks stunning.

Psalm 73:25-26

@FLGatorTrader what did you do?!

For the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) - I’m the teaching elder who requested debate on Overture 11 (study bitcoin) at General Assembly yesterday. Debate on that overture quickly met its demise through a parliamentary bunker buster, but here’s what I would have said if the moderator had called on me to speak to my request #pcaga #pcaga25 : With Overture 11, I humbly encourage the three courts of our church to study the important savings technology called Bitcoin. The heavenly mission of the church ordinarily runs on earthly resources, not least money. According to BCO 9, diaconal ministry includes financial stewardship and is overseen by the elders, sometimes even carried out by them. Financial stewardship is critical to the mission of the church, and we’ve already spent a significant amount of our time at GA debating it.  One of the major stressors of ministry and of the Christian life and apparently of this G.A. is money. It is increasingly difficult to pay ministers, support missions, or buy buildings. Many of our people and our churches are deep in debt. Many of us are worried about saving enough for retirement.  The US dollar is perhaps the greatest paper money in the world, and yet, since the PCA’s first GA in 1973, the dollar has lost nearly 90% of its value. As with every country in the world, America’s debt is inescapable. The only realistic path forward is much more money-printing, and with it higher prices for our churches and ministers and missionaries.  I’m not speaking to the motives or character of government officials….Our money itself is deeply broken. Our struggles around agency budgets and costs of living increases are not entirely or necessarily our faults.  The pain and destruction that come with monetary debasement is why multiple US states (including my presbytery’s great state of Texas), over 100 public companies, and eight nations (including the US) are saving wealth through Bitcoin strategic reserves.  Bitcoin was invented as a digital solution to the ancient problem of debasement. Because it is decentralized, widespread, and secure, it has a reliable fixed supply, and it can be sent easily and cheaply by or to Christians all over the world, even if they are unbanked or financially persecuted.  It is the only digital asset that the @SECGov has recognized as a commodity. @BankofAmerica recently noted that Bitcoin is as important an invention as the printing press, the light bulb, and the internet.  As Jesus said in Luke 16, when it comes to handling wealth for the sake of a greater mission, the sons of this world are often more shrewd than the sons of light…but this need not be. I suggest that Bitcoin could very well be one aspect of the church’s faithful and wise stewardship in a digital world marked by monetary debasement and financial persecution.  So I commend overture 11 and encourage our churches and denomination to look into this revolutionary global savings technology for the sake of more fruitfully fulfilling the great commission.

Preach these 5 truths—or stop pretending you're a shepherd: - A soft gospel breeds hard-hearted rebels. - Niceness isn’t a fruit of the Spirit. - Christ didn’t die to make the world like you. - Fear of man is a ministry killer. - Judgment begins at the house of God.

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