Gay Fascism

Chris Ortiz at Chalcedon had this video from Canada posted.

This is ultimately where “Hate Crime” laws lead, the silencing of Christians and Preachers even in their pulpits:

Muslim Europe? (Less Than A Generation Away)

Who will have control Europe’s nuclear weapons?

Tapping Your Cell Phone

George Washington’s Faith and Religious Beliefs

Athanasius on the Incarnation

The Logos, Athanasius teaches, is the image of the living, only true God. Man is the image of the Logos. In communion with him consist the original holiness and blessedness of paradise. Man fell by his own will, and thus came to need redemption. Evil is not a substance of itself, not matter, as the Greeks suppose, nor does it come from the Creator of all things. It is an abuse of freedom on the part of man, and consists in selfishness or self-love, and in the dominion of the sensuous principle over the reason. Sin, as apostasy from God, begets idolatry. Once alienated from God and plunged into finiteness and sensuousness, men deified the powers of nature, or mortal men, or even carnal lusts, as in Aphrodite. The inevitable consequence of sin is death and corruption. The Logos, however, did not forsake men. He gave them the law and the prophets to prepare them for salvation. At last he himself became man, neutralized in human nature the power of sin and death, restored the divine image, uniting us with God and imparting to us his imperishable life. The possibility and legitimacy of the incarnation lie in the original relation of the Logos to the world, which was created and is upheld by him. The incarnation, however, does not suspend the universal reign of the Logos. While he was in man, he was at the same time everywhere active and reposing in the bosom of the Father. The necessity of the incarnation to salvation follows from the fact, that the corruption had entered into human nature itself, and thus must be overcome within that nature. An external redemption, as by preaching God, could profit nothing. “For this reason the Saviour assumed humanity, that man, united with life, might not remain mortal and in death, but imbibing immortality might by the resurrection be immortal. The outward preaching of redemption would have to be continually repeated, and yet death would abide in man.”. The object of the incarnation is, negatively, the annihilation of sin and death; positively, the communication of righteousness and life and the deification of man. The miracles of Christ are the proof of his original dominion over nature, and lead men from nature-worship to the worship of God. The death of Jesus was necessary to the blotting out of sin and to the demonstration of his life-power in the resurrection, whereby also the death of believers is now no longer punishment, but a transition to resurrection and glory.—This speculative analysis of the incarnation Athanasius supports by referring to the continuous moral effects of Christianity, which is doing great things every day, calling man from idolatry, magic, and sorceries to the worship of the true God, obliterating sinful and irrational lusts, taming the wild manners of barbarians, inciting to a holy walk, turning the natural fear of death into rejoicing, and lifting the eye of man from earth to heaven, from mortality to resurrection and eternal glory. The benefits of the incarnation are incalculable, like the waves of the sea pursuing one another in constant succession.

Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 311-590

“Saving” Christianity… from Christianity itself?

Ravi Zacharias, Al Mohler, and R.C. Sproul on post modernism and the Emergent Church.

Along with the issues that Ravi, Al, and R.C. make,  at the very heart of the Church’s embrace of post-modernism is the fact that Christians in this generation do not want to carry “their cross”.  The Gospel (which first calls men to repentance) and biblical Christianity is simply too offensive – it brings the promised persecution and tribulation (Matt 13:23) today in the form of ridicule, scorn, and mockery.

With the introduction of post-modernism into Christian theology, a convenient way to eliminate the offensiveness of the gospel message and biblical Christianity has been found.  If you eliminate “truth” itself or make it unknowable (as Emergent folks do) than the need to stand for anything conveniently disappears. The offensiveness of biblical Christianity can be taken away and thus save Christianity and make it less offensive to today’s culture. The Emergent Church and I dare say an ever increasing element within evangelicalism today, is hell bound on “saving” Christianity – from Christianity itself.

The world is becoming increasingly hostile to traditional biblical Christianity, to those who claim they know truth, and those who use offensive biblical words like, sin, repent, wrath, wickedness, abomination and hell. The Emergent Church and this ever increasing element within evangelicalism that I speak of, is seeking to move away and to distance itself from traditional Christianity and from those who hold to it, because they are embarrassed.  They are more and more embarrassed by traditional Christians who continue to call men to repent and believe the gospel. They are embarrassed by a biblical Christianity which divides the the world between the righteous and the wicked (Matt 10:34). They are embarrassed of those who who would speak authoritatively about objective truth in a world given to radical post-modern skepticism.

I recently heard one of these evangelical leaders say that they are trying to “restore the reputation of Christ” in the community. Maybe I’m wrong, but when he said it, I couldn’t help but think he was trying to “restore the reputation of Christ” among unbelievers by telling them Christianity is not what people like me (a traditional christian) say it is. He’s embarrassed of Christians like me who make (in his opinion) Christianity offensive. If I am right, than he and others like him too are trying to save Christianity – from Christianity itself.

As comfortable north American Christians we need to be reminded that Christ himself calls us to partake in his suffering. We, just as Christians of old are called to carry “our cross” – we too are called to suffer “for righteousness sake” (Matt 5:10-11). Suffering usually comes when we preach and stand for the “truth” of God and of His Christ in this wicked and perverse generation.

Let us let us not shrink from our cross but embrace it, let us remember the words of Christ: “he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me” (Matt 10:38). Does the one who bore the cross on our behalf deserve any less from us?

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“Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man. Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets.” Luke 6:22-23

Founding Father Elias Boudinot on the Demise of a People

“Good government generally begins in the family,
and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.”

Elias Boudinot (1740 – 1821)

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Elias Boudinot is one of many of America’s forgotten “founding fathers”. He served as President of the Continental Congress (1782 -1783), the Director of the United States Mint (1795 – 1805), was the first lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court bar, was a trustee of Princeton University, founded the American Bible Society (which is still with us), and supported missions and missionary work.

Boudinot of New Jersey of Huguenot descent,was a devout Presbyterian, who wrote the tract “The Age of Revelation” in response to Thomas Paine’s “The Age of Reason”.

His tract “The Age of Revelation” can be found here

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As we look at the American landscape today we can see beyond a shadow of a doubt that Boudino’s words have proved true.

Yet, his words also tell us that if the demise of a people originates in “the government of the family” and it’s “moral character”, then certainly the converse is true as well. We must remember that the key to rebuilding the “moral character” of a people, begins in the same place, in the home and with “the government of the family”.

The Dangerous Rise of Sexual Politics

Martin Luther wrote:

“If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the Word of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Him. Where the battle rages there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle front besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.”

Today the battle that rages and is being waged today, is at the very heart of the institution which is foundational to all the other institutions, to the church, the state, and the social order .

The battle in this generation is over the family itself.

I believe this very issue is the mother of all battles for the Church today. Godly Christians in this generation must understand exactly how that battle is being waged, in order to defeat it. The Christian Church today MUST must understand how we are being attacked and than lead the way in rebuilding a godly Christian family culture in each and every local Church. She must teach and disciple one family at a time.

This article by Stephen Baskerville at the Howard Center is long, but it is a must read.  Baskerville has zeroed-in on the real nature, size, and scope of the battle that this generation faces. And it is inevitable that if we lose this battle, we will inevitably loose every other battle we are fighting, and western civilization itself will be lost forever.

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“All politics is on one level sexual politics.” — George Gilder, 1986

Four decades into the boldest social experiment ever undertaken in the Western democracies, the full impact of what was once quaintly known as “women’s liberation” is at last becoming clear.  The political class of both the Left and Right have colluded to limit the debate to a series of innocuous controversies: job discrimination, equal pay, affirmative action.  Only abortion has any depth, and that debate has been mired in stalemate.

Meanwhile, beneath the political radar screen, the real consequences are finally emerging: a massive restructuring of the social order, demographic trends that threaten the very survival of Western civilization, and perhaps least noticed, an exponential growth in the size and power of the state — the state at its most bureaucratic and tyrannical.

Feminism has now positioned itself as the vanguard of the Left, shifting the political discourse from the economic and racial to the social and increasingly the sexual.  What was once a socialistic assault on property and enterprise has become a social and sexual attack on the family, marriage, and masculinity.  This marks a truly new kind of politics, the most personal and thus potentially the most total politics ever devised: the politics of private life and sexual relations.  Read on

The Anti-Family Anti-Parent Ajenda of the UN (The United Nations)

These two articles point out how hostile the UN is to the traditional family:

United Nations Population Fund Leader Says Family Breakdown is a Triumph for Human Rights…

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

MEXICO CITY, February 3, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.

Speaking at a colloquium held last month at Colegio Mexico in Mexico City, UNFPA representative Arie Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births represent a social crisis, claiming that they represent instead the triumph of “human rights” against “patriarchy.”

“In the eyes of conservative forces, these changes mean that the family is in crisis,” he said. “In crisis?  More than a crisis, we are in the presence of a weakening of the patriarchal structure, as a result of the disappearance of the economic base that sustains it and because of the rise of new values centered in the recognition of fundamental human rights.”  Read on

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United Nations’ threat: No more parental rights Expert: Pact would ban spankings, homeschooling if children object…

A United Nations human rights treaty that could prohibit children from being spanked or homeschooled, ban youngsters from facing the death penalty and forbid parents from deciding their families’ religion is on America’s doorstep, a legal expert warns.

Michael Farris of Purcellville, Va., is president of ParentalRights.org, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association and chancellor of Patrick Henry College. He told WND that under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, or CRC, every decision a parent makes can be reviewed by the government to determine whether it is in the child’s best interest.

“It’s definitely on our doorstep,” he said. “The left wants to make the Obama-Clinton era permanent. Treaties are a way to make it as permanent as stuff gets. It is very difficult to extract yourself from a treaty once you begin it. If they can put all of their left-wing socialist policies into treaty form, we’re stuck with it even if they lose the next election.” Read on

WSJ: A Dutch court imports Saudi blasphemy norms to Europe

The latest twist in the clash between Western values and the Muslim world took place yesterday in the Netherlands, where a court ordered the prosecution of lawmaker and provocateur Geert Wilders for inciting violence. The Dutch MP and leader of the Freedom Party, which opposes Muslim immigration into Holland, will stand trial soon for his harsh criticism of Islam.  Read on

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All those who hate me love death.” Proverbs 8:36 NKJV

Messianic Leaders…

Hitler holds a fascination for us because his dictatorship enjoyed such wide support of the people.  Perhaps never in history was a dictator so well liked.  He had the rare gift of motivating a nation to want to follow him.  Communist leaders such as Lenin or Mao Tse-tung arose to power through revolutions that cost millions of lives; consequently they were hated by the masses.  Hitler attracted not only the support of the middle class but also of the university students and professors.  For example, psychologist Carl Jung grew intoxicated with “the mighty phenomenon of national Socialism at which the whole world gazes in astonishment.”

Hitler arose in Germany at a time when the nation was a democracy.  He obtained his power legitimately, if unfairly.  The nation was waiting for him, eager to accept a demagogue who appeared to have the talent needed to lead her out of the abyss.  The people yearned for a leader who would do for them what democracy could not.

Erwin W. Lutzer in Hitler’s Cross

Atheist: I truly believe Africa needs God

This is an amazing article by an atheist (it’s amazing because it comes from an atheist) who admits that Christian evangelism  and conversion, and the Christian worldview it brings to an entire culture is exactly what Africa needs…

You’ll find the article here

This atheist only admits what I have said in the past:

Christianity raised so much of this world out of her ethical debauchery and paganism.  First hand missionary account’s through-out history tell us the same thing. Un-regenerate humanity prizes its Pyramids and Temples – Aztec, Mayan, and Egyptian just to name a few, yet so many of them are monuments to human debauchery, human slavery, and or human sacrifice.

It has been Jesus Christ who has taught men how to live!

Christianity has a long and wonderful history of charity, mercy, compassion, taking care and feeding the poor and destitute, taking in orphans, visiting prisoners and teaching cannibals, not to eat their neighbor!

Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace the only hope for this poor fallen world

And of the increase of His government and His kingdom there shall be no end!

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And for all you smart mouth atheists who will undoubtedly make rude and foolish comments, next time you feel like being an evangelist for your atheism instead of picking on simple minded Christians, why don’t you  start your missionary adventure face-to-face with a tribe of cannibals like so many Christians missionaries have in the past…           Also by the way, next time you get sick, try going to St. Atheist Memorial Hospital…

Meditation on Psalm 110:1-8

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity, they walk in his ways.

You have commanded us keep Your precepts diligently. Oh that my ways where directed to keep Your statutes! Then I would not be ashamed, when I look into all Your commandments.

I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I learn Your righteous judgments. I will keep Your statutes: Oh, do not for sake meet utterly! NKJV

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Prayer:

Holy Father, how I love the wisdom that is found in your holy law, I pray that you would help me to walk according to your law. It is my desire to obey you with my whole heart.

Your law teaches me what holiness is, it is beautiful and I desired it, to live holy. I desire this so that I might not sin against you, that I might not be a hypocrite and blaspheme your beautiful holy name.

Oh Lord Jesus, precious Savior, you have said: if we love thee, obey your commandments. I pray that would grant me the grace necessary to keep your commandments as an expression of my love to you, all the days of my life.

Amen

The Pink KKK: Coming to A Neighborhood Church Near You

World Net Daily: Lesbians, condoms go wild in attack on Christian church

Homosexual activist groups (This group is called “Bash Back”) are multiplying and are moving out into the heartland, Lansing Michigan is a town with a population of 300,000.

James White On The Election

The Federal Government has taken the place of God

….the Federal Government has taken the place of God. It has arrogated to itself the privilege of defining what is right and wrong, good and evil. When God is not acknowledged, man becomes the sovereign. When man becomes the definer of liberty, liberty is lost.

Thus we find that we have lost what our forefathers called liberty. We have grown up in a world where no one truly “owns” property (you may think you own it, but try not paying your property taxes one year and you will see who really owns your land).

Further, we do not have liberty to use our property in lawful ways. “Environmental” laws limit the freedom of use as well. We can kill our unborn children, but are forbidden to cut down a tree on our own property without a permit. The Federal Government as if it was God, asserts a pre-eminent claim on the earth and the fullness thereof. One peculiarly blatant expression of this is “eminent domain.” Whatever and whenever the Government desires the use of your land, it claims the prerogative to it. God destroyed Ahab for doing what the modern Government does every year.

We are no longer free to exercise our gifts and talents. More and more the Federal Government limits how and when and where we may labor. Licensing laws, labor regulations, minimum wage legislation, unemployment taxes, social security taxes, union standards, federal health and safety regulations, racial quotas, anti-discrimination legislation, environmental regulations, and a well-nigh endless host of others laws, fees, prohibitions, limitations, regulations, and specifications, severely restrict the exercise of God-given gifts and abilities.

(A zillion little bureaucracy’s bind us hand and foot)

Need I mention that by means of the income tax, the Federal Government has claimed the right to the fruit of our labors. By it, the Federal government exalts itself over God (by claiming more than God does in the tithe).

In recent years we have seen how this is in fact a claim on all the livelihood of an individual. Tax exemptions are now viewed as “subsidies.” The argument is, to be granted a tax exemption is the same as being given a subsidy. The implication is that all your income belongs to the National Government and the Government could take it all should it so desire, but by means of tax exemptions, it graciously allows you to keep some of your earnings.

In education: certification, accreditation, and educational standards set by Federal bureaucrats continue to limit educational freedom. The Government continues to view the children as belonging to itself by asserting a “compelling interest” in this or that aspect of our children’s upbringing.

Freedom of religion has come to mean “freedom to believe whatever you want, so long as you do not act in a way contrary to public policy.” Practically this means, our freedom of religion has been confined to the space between our ears.

We have now lived to see what our Founding Fathers thought impossible in this land. The Congress regularly legislates immorality, lines its own pockets, makes decisions based upon self- interest rather than upon what is right and best and then brags about its public-spirited generosity and compassion. We live in a country where the Constitution has no more real authority than the Royal Family in England. We like to be able to refer to it and trot it out on patriotic occasions, but we have no desire to take it seriously and find those who would suggest that we should, fearfully flatheaded.

We live in a land in which the people expect the government to protect them and provide for them and secure their futures. We have not freed the slaves, we have simply extended the plantation. Now, we are all slaves, captives to our liberators. We think we are free only because we have never known true freedom.

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From Steve Wilkins in The Great Civil War Debate available on DVD

God and Man at Table Are Sat Down

O, welcome, all ye noble saints of old
As now before your very eyes unfold
The wonders all so long ago foretold.
God and man at table are sat down.

Worship in the presence of the Lord
With joyful songs and hearts in one accord.
And let our Host at table be adored.
God and man at table are sat down.

Elders, martyrs, all are falling down;
Prophets, patriarchs are gath’ring round.
What angels longed to see now man has found:
God and man at table are sat down.

Beggars, lame, and harlots also here;
Repentant publicans are drawing near.
Wayward sons come home without a fear.
God and man at table are sat down.

Who is this who spreads the vic’try feast?
Who is this who makes our warring cease?
Jesus, Risen Savior, Prince of Peace.
God and man at table are sat down.

When at last this earth shall pass away,
When Jesus and his Bride are one to stay,
The feast of love is just begun that day.
God and man at table are sat down.

A Liberal “Supermajority”

A filibuster proof liberal supermajority is a scary prospect as mentioned in this article in the Wall Street Journal Titled “A Liberal Supermajority: Get ready for ‘change’ we haven’t seen since 1965 or 1933″

One thing they do not mention is the threat this “supermajority” would also pose to the homeschooling movement.

Few remember that In 1994 with a Democrat in the oval office and a majority in the senate and the house, Democrats were very close (save a Republican filibuster) to taking away the vast majority of parents’ rights to legally teach their own children and thus destroy the home school movement, which was and still is thier intention (liberals want compleate totalitarian control of the cultural, ideological, and ethical education of the next generation).

Another issue they failed to address is the threat posed to religious liberty that hate crime legislation and laws that protect homosexuals at the expense of religious freedom of conscience (like the “bathroom bill” just recently passed in Colorado) which will be implemented and used (as they have been in other western nations) to persecute Bible believing Christians.

It is my feeling that if Mr Obama is elected and gets this “supermajority”, the Church of Jesus Christ in America is in for a bit of shaking and purifying as God sifts the wheat from the chaff in the Church in this generation. the “free” America that you and I grew up in with its religious freedom may never be the same again…

Pray for the Peace of the “Israel of God”… (Gal 6:15-16)

The Keynesian Problem

In response to an email…

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Most Americans have economic myopia – they can’t see the big picture, instead they tend to aim at the present target (Bush) only (which is just one of the many targets we need to see).

Set aside partisan politics for a little bit – Democons and Republicrats are two sides of the same coin (they have proved this to me over the last 15 years). Both sides have perpetuated, sustained, and maintained our current problems. Here is a video from late 2004 as one example:

Also read this article.

I am just trying to warn you ahead of time – WE must see the root problem…

Our problem is a worldview problem per say. The dominant economic “paradigm” is that “debt and credit” are the “economic oil” that fuels our economy (we believe in a “credit” driven economy).  I generally am optimistic (especially about success of the Kingdom of God over the long haul) but our current economic problem is simply bigger than a “housing bubble” similar to the “Internet bubble” and its bigger than the last few years under this or past presidents – Its been a long time coming – The problem is a “system bubble”.

Austrian economists (like Ron Paul and Peter Schiff) have been warning of the downfall of the “central banking” and “Keynesian” economic house of cards for a long time and have been right all along .

The system itself “is the problem” and we are coming to an end of an era (where Keynesian ideological hegemony has reigned supreme). Inflation is built into this system and inevitably hyper inflation is at the end of the road that we are and have been traveling.  The government is in debt (and is addicted to spending) but even more importantly the American people them self are in debt “up to their eyeballs” because this is what “fuels the economy”.

The problem is essentially this: how can a monetary system that is dependent on debt and credit sustain itself? – How much “credit” can the debtors of this nation handle in order to fuel the economy???

Well basically we have seen the answer from our leaders – our government solution is basically print more money AKA the bailouts.

Listen to Ron Paul on the floor of the house recently:

l have a secret for you: inflation “is” the only way out of this debt/credit system – but this “solution” inevitably destroys and debases the currency, the savings, and the wages of the nation who gets into a debt spiral,

Our biggest problem in the near future is that we have absolutely no leadership – Obama and McCain (BTW my vote is for Baldwin who is an Austrian) will both perpetuate this current “print more money solution” as a way to try to plug the cracks in an ever increasing dam of debt burden (which is built in).  They are going to perpetuate the Keynesian system because it is all they know how to do (if a fish is in water does he know he is wet?) – until it eventually collapses under its own weight – and the longer these guys prop this Keynesian house of cards system the bigger will be its inevitable fall.

Just make sure you have a decent stash of Gold and Silver for the long run to protect yourself and your family from the inevitable coming hyper inflation (I don’t know exactly when it will be, but it is inevitable given our system) which we are just starting to feel.

There are certainly many more complexities to our current problems, and I could say more, but this matter is at the heart of the issues we face today…

Lar

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PS  You can buy “junk silver” from coin shops in your area (try not to pay more than 10% over current melt values) this “junk silver” is in Pre-1965 (1964 and before) US coins dimes, quarters, half-dollars, & dollars, I recommend having plenty of small coinage (dimes and quarters) so you won’t need to make change (that’s if you do have to trade these if paper currency gets so debased)

Stay away from numismatics buy bullion…

http://www.coinflation.com/coin_calculators.html

Martin Luther’s “Two Kingdom” Philosophy Not Biblical, Gives Us Godless Government, Greased The Skids For Hitler’s Rise To Power

By Jon Lofton of The American View:

“IN ADDITION TO BURNING the so called Papal Bull in which the Pope denounced him, Martin Luther’s wrong-headed, un-Biblical ‘Two Kingdom’ theology, in effect, burned God’s Law regarding politics and the civil government.” Read On