(John Lanagan – The Word Like Fire) The Message is not a translation of the Bible. It is not a para-translation, as its publishers have so cleverly called it. Nor is it simply a paraphrase, because its earthly author, Eugene Peterson, has added, subtracted, and altered.
We should not use The Message because it is unholy.
UNHOLY!
The Word of God is clear we are never to profane the Lord’s name. (Deut 5:11, Exodus 20:7) Continue reading
26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me, 27 and you will bear witness also, because you have been with Me from the beginning (John 15:26–27 Legacy Standard Bible)
We live in a time of biblical ignorance. Much of the ignorance is intentional. I have been involved in some discussions over the last several days that pertained to a movement that seeks to separate Jesus from Holy Scripture…. Continue reading
“Rosenberg appeared to suggest the New York Times editorial stance on the matter is shifting towards downplaying those events as if it’s no big deal [suggesting that] slanted January 6 coverage is only part of a greater narrative aimed at attacking and discrediting Donald Trump.”
(OAN) The latest report by Project Veritas is raising questions about possible collusion between the mainstream media and government agencies to discredit Donald Trump and Republican voters…. Continue reading
Roys’ article creates the worst possible characterization of the events and people involved, as she employs a caricature of John MacArthur the chauvinist, enabler of abuse, and church authoritarian who purposefully attacks abused women and children. This is the narrative the reader is expected to accept against decades of evidence to the contrary.
(David Morrill – Protestia) Here we go again. Much like the last time I responded to a Julie Roys hit on John MacArthur, I hesitate to lend legitimacy to her attacks by offering a response. Yet given the volume of questions we’ve been asked about her article, the number of Christians blessed by John MacArthur’s ministry who are now apparently questioning the man’s lifetime of good and faithful service to the Lord, and the pile on from many online Christian personalities (Ruslan KD, Saiko Woods for example), I am compelled to respond. Continue reading
Nowhere does it say “don’t say ‘gay.’” In fact, the word “gay” doesn’t appear anywhere in the entire bill. The line simply ascertains something that we shouldn’t have to ascertain: don’t bombard kids aged four to seven years old with your sick, lefty “nothing matters but skin color and chosen gender” narrative that keeps blue-haired Antifa milksops up at night.
(Kevin Downey JR – PJ Media) The left wants to sexualize kids as young as four years old and if you disagree with that wicked plan you’re apparently “anti-gay.” Are these clowns sure that’s the approach they want to take? Continue reading
“At the end the girl stands up to her mom and says she likes boys, music and gyrating. Says she’s 13 so deal with it! The little girl then starts twerking at her mom and smacking her butt saying “take this mom! take this”
(Reformation Charlotte) Disney has released a new movie that targets young children, but the content of the movie is definitely not for Christians. The movie, Turning Red, is about “a 13-year-old girl who is torn between being her mother’s obedient daughter and the chaos of her youth…. Continue reading
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we boast in hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:1–2 Legacy Standard Bible)
The growing apostasy in the Church in our time is actually the culmination of decades of poor, man-centered doctrine within our churches and ministries coupled with relentless assaults of liberalism by unbelieving believers bent on remaking Christianity into a politically correct social institution. Those people behind this see Christianity as just another religion. Continue reading
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 1:3–7 LSB)
I was born in 1951. I guess to some people that makes be old and not worth listening to. Since I retired at the end of 2021 it is as if my wife and I have been thrown on the ash heap when it comes to things like medical care and insurance, etc. However, that is not even close to what I see as the what it so wrong right now…. Continue reading
(Danile Payne – Not the Bee) Folks, March 2022 will forever be remembered as the month when the Dorito’s Index—long a reliable indicator of broad economic solvency—crashed and burned:
Food company Frito-Lay has cut down the number of chips in each bag of Doritos as record inflation has raised production expenses.
A bag of Doritos has five fewer chips than it used to, the company told Quartz. “Inflation is hitting everyone. … Continue reading
“It is no coincidence that the least religious parts of America are the most invested in this war, much as they’re the most invested in wokeness, in the COVID culture wars, and all the culture wars that have come before and that will come after to fill the void in their souls.”
(Daniel Greenfield – Frontpage Magazine) Ukrainian flags are flying on buildings across the country and Russian vodka is being poured into drains. Concerts are being canceled and books are flying off shelves over a cause that the vast majority of Americans would not have cared about and did not even know existed last year. Continue reading
(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) Good news, Comrades, you no longer have to think critically or worry about what is true or not, accurate or not. YouTube will not only decide for you but will connect you to what you are allowed to see.
They will write the history for us. No more debate or analysis, YouTube will do it for us.
Why pay attention to anything? We can just listen to what they say.
They want you to go to war for Ukraine.
Neato! Continue reading
“The question I get most often these days is, ‘Do you regret endorsing Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood?’ In order to avoid any confusion, I will respond directly without any nuance – Yes, I regret it.”
(Reformation Charlotte) Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church has publicly retracted his endorsement of controversial speaker and podcaster, Aimee Byrd, after she preached a sermon this past Sunday at Covenant Church in Shepherdstown, WV. Pruitt is a popular podcaster and author at the Reformation21 blog which is associated with the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Continue reading
“Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, OR WHO BECAME HIS COUNSELOR? Or WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM THAT IT MIGHT BE REPAID TO HIM? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.” (Romans 11:33–36 LSB)
I remember back in 2000 or 2001 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, my wife and I were sitting in our auditorium at our church, waiting for worship service to start. In the seats behind us were several ladies who were of my parents generation. We could hear them talking very clearly…. Continue reading
“Idaho’s statehouse has made it clear that they’re going to protect children from the transgender [mob] who’d love to do them harm.”
(Harris Rigby – Not the Bee) This is the most awesome thing to come out of Idaho since the greatest movie of all time, Napoleon Dynamite.
Allow me to de-wokify this headline: If you allow kids to mutilate their bodies through sex-change surgery you could be thrown in the slammer forever. Continue reading
“You have companies like Disney, that are going to say and criticize parents’ rights, they’re going to criticize the fact that we don’t want transgenderism in kindergarten and first-grade classrooms.”
(Mary Dowling – Independent Sentinel) The new Florida Parental Rights Bill was dubbed by the WOKEs as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The bill does not ban the word ‘gay,’ but it does ban the indoctrination of very young children into Marxist transgenderism.
There will be no indoctrination of K-3 children with transgenderism in Florida. Continue reading
“Biden came up with the most lunatic idea in recent diplomatic history of begging autocratic and hostile regimes the world over to pump more oil to lower America’s gas prices.”
(Victor Davis Hanson – American Greatness) Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine.
In response, the Biden Administration’s climate-change envoy, multimillionaire and private-jet owning John Kerry, laments that Russian president Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming. Continue reading
(Thomas Littleton – Thirty Pieces of Silver) In years past few have been willing to report on some shadowy businesses in the Christian financial industry as part of the so called “Generosity Movement”. Tim Keller, Lausanne Movement, National Christian Foundation Kingdom Advisors and a host of others have become key players in capturing Christian philanthropy on a global scale through “donor advised funds” and “planned giving” strategies. Continue reading
(Robert Spencer – PJ Media) You have heard the Left’s talking points: despite the complete discrediting of their Russian collusion propaganda, they continue to insist, without a shred of supporting evidence, that Donald Trump was in Vladimir Putin’s hip pocket and that if Trump had still been president when Putin invaded Ukraine, Trump would have been applauding. Several polls, however, show that the majority of Americans aren’t buying this nonsense and are placing the blame for the invasion squarely on one man who is busy pointing fingers at Trump and a host of others to try to cover for his failures: Old Joe Biden. Continue reading
6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. 7 You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion did not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough. 10 I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. 11 But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished. 12 I wish that those who are troubling you would even mutilate themselves. Galatians 5:6-12 (NASB)
In Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians he delivers a scathing indictment against all who teach works salvation or any version of the Gospel that has been edited from the original. If these false gospels be true then, as Paul says, the offense of the cross has been removed…. Continue reading
(Reformation Charlotte) Evangelical elitists have been up-in-arms the last few days over a report by Daily Wire author, Meg Basham, who reported on leaked audio that NIH director, Francis Collins laughed and smirked at the prospect that people will be forced to take the COVID-19 vaccine at the threat of losing their job over it. For Collins, a man who claims to be a Christian and has been lauded by Big Eva types like Russell Moore and Ed Stetzer as a Christian scientist hero, he certainly appeared to be giddy at the notion that people may be placed in a position where they are forced to violate their conscience. Continue reading
“According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), suicide is the third leading cause of death among Americans aged 15 to 24, with the highest overall rate of suicide being in adults aged 40 to 59.”
(Gwendolyn Sims – PJ Media) As the Stanford community, the women’s soccer world, and friends and family of Stanford soccer star Katie Meyer grapple with the inexplicable news of her self-inflicted death, the incident has coincidentally dragged into the light America’s next urgent public health crisis. Suicide — especially among young people — is poised to approach epidemic levels in post-pandemic America. Continue reading
“There is even a US government form now so you can turn in any doctor who challenges the official narrative. Basically, the government is asking us to be spies to help them eliminate people who disagree with the narrative.”
(Steve Kirsch) On March 5, “A Midwestern Doctor” (who I will abbreviate as “AMD”) published a long Substack article that meticulously chronicled his/her observations of adverse events (AEs) associated with the COVID vaccine. This is very rare as most doctors are too busy to do such an analysis…. Continue reading
(Glenn Greenwald) Self-anointed “fact-checkers” in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. They never presented any evidence for their ruling — how could they possibly know? and how could they prove the negative? — but nonetheless they invoked their characteristically authoritative, above-it-all tone of self-assurance and self-arrogated right to decree the truth, definitively labelling such claims false. Continue reading
1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 2 Timothy 3:1-7 (NASB) Read verses 6-7 on the site.
The title to this post is strictly a rhetorical question. I do not expect anyone to be able to answer it succinctly except the Lord and He isn’t going to do that. However, as we, those of us who are not blind to the truth that is, survey the church visible, we must honestly say that what is going on is exactly what the Apostle Paul was talking about in 2 Timothy 3:1-7.,,, Continue reading
“Teachers are then instructed to turn these children into LGBTQ activists by making rainbow flags and other propaganda pieces designed to show support for sexual perversion.”
(Reformation Charlotte) If you haven’t noticed, the left wants your children. And they are hell-bent on getting them however they can. If it isn’t through drag queen story hour at your local public library, elementary school, or even something that calls itself a “church,” then they’re going to get to your infant through 4-year-olds through your preschool program. Continue reading