Random Bits

    For this world is not our home;
we are looking forward to our city
in heaven, which is yet to come. (Hebrews 13:14)

As we race closer to the glorious day our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, returns to take us home, the battle lines are being drawn, sides are being chosen, teams are being selected. It's becoming shockingly apparent on whose side the once respectable Democrat party has aligned themselves with. Unfortunately the stone that the Democrats are rejecting was once the cornerstone of the nation they are busy destroying.

Speaking of hating the bible, a Florida teacher attempted to embarrass a student in front of his class for reading the bible and now has involved her school district in a (well deserved) firestorm of indignation. It appears that in Mrs. Thomas class reading the Bible during "Free Reading Time" requires public humiliation.

Boko Haram, proud representatives of the Religion of Peace, attacked another Nigerian village, this time instead of kidnapping Christian school girls like they did three weeks ago, they slaughtered 300 Christian villagers.

As if that wasn't enough, eleven more girls have been kidnapped in Nigeria, instead of a school invasion this time they were taken from their homes by representatives of the Religion of Peace. These Muslim gentlemen, whose primary concern is to love God and live in peace, fully intend to sell these girls into sexual slavery.

In more Religion of Peace news - the new in-thing with the overeager jihaddi is crucifixions.

And what is the Obama administration doing to help the thousands upon thousands of Christians that are facing persecution around the world? Nothing.

Allowing babies to be born healthy and whole is torture according to the United Nations. Seriously. Any anyone that sinks as low as to advocate a pro-life stance is Promoting Torture according to them. They go so far as to say that just being pro-life and taking a stand against the murder of unborn babies "amounts to psychological torture of women". Right now the UN is aiming their Molech worship inspired vitriol against the Catholic church, but they will more than likely expand their reach to bible believing Christians in the near future.

The UN must be overjoyed with China with their atheist society and their one child forced abortion policy. Unfortunately Chinese women are not all that happy, in 2009 500 women a day killed themselves in China. How may lives could have been saved if Jesus were allowed in China?

Hawaii is the most recent state to fall to the fallacy of faux-marriage. Good news for lawyers however, if you're in a pretend-marriage, it still takes a real divorce to get you out of it, even if you are supposedly a "Man of God" (Remember when church shopping was easy, when you could count on a Christian community to have leadership that followed biblical standards?)

Speaking of faux-marriages... this. I weep for the unsaved.

WARNING: Fox and Lifetime are jumping on the Jesus Bandwagon and coming up with shows that depict Jesus' life between the age of 13 and 30. Other than heretical ancient fan fiction such as The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, nothing is written about Jesus life during that time. We do know however that He is without sin (2 Corinthians 5:21) and that he is both Man and God so a show that deviates from or denies these two items must be avoided.

Get the feeling that protecting your family from explicit pornography is hard in today's society? It's even harder than you think especially if you live in Gifford NH where William Baer was dragged out of a school board meeting in handcuffs and arrested for trying to protect his fourteen year old daughter from a pornographic reading assignment that the Gifford school board thought was age appropriate even though they were too embarrassed to read the material aloud in public. (BTW - to knowingly transfer obscene material to an individual under the age of 16 is a felony punishable by not more than 10 years of imprisonment and a fine, or both)

Cross-dressing, handing out condoms to passersby, gay marriage, gay divorce, transgender people dressing like clergy, cheating scandals (and gay cheating scandals too) Friday night in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district? No, This is today's Episcopal Church! How can we as Christians tolerate the behavior of this "church"? The minute presiding bishoptrix Katharine Jefferts Schori used the term "Our Mother Jesus" in a sermon they should have closed the doors and thrown away the keys. This twisted androgyny is the satanic core of Gnosticism which is the heart of feminism. All we can do is reach out to the few remaining Christians in the remnants of what was once George Washington's church and gather them to us.

Sunrise In A Troubled Land

Sometimes a reminder helps

Why do Unbelievers Hate The Bible?

Many Christians have heard it, and I'm pretty sure almost all Christian bloggers have heard it; an unbeliever prefacing his/her claim to why they don't believe the bible with "I've read the bible and..." I used to challenge those remarks with "What part of the bible in particular do you have problems with understanding?" but the response was generally the same: "The whole thing!" followed by a long confused screed that generally contains the words "... and that whole bacon thing, what's up with that?"

I just had a comment on my review of H2's "The Bible Rules" by a fiercely liberal Canadian woman who suggests that the ungodly, heretical "The Bible Rules" is a pretty good show and the reasons why Christians don't like it is because 

"The truth is, most of them have very little understanding of their own "holy book"; they certainly don't have much actual education in the matter... Whether ignorance is by accident or deliberate, it's equally appalling, in this day and age."

I did invite the lass to join me in bible study and maybe with the help of the Holy Spirit some light will be shed on the Gospel for her, I truly hope. But in researching the atheists all encompassing hate for the Gospel I found words that do not give me a lot of hope for her enlightenment:

15 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed. (Titus 1:15-16)

That pretty much sums up why atheists hate the bible, and why blasphemous shows like H2's "The Bible Rules" and movies like the Russel Crowe "Noah" are filmed. 

Timeless Quotes from C.H. Spurgeon

“Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.”

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it 

(Answering a student’s question, “Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?”) thus, it is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.

 Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself

The doctrine of justification itself, as preached by an Arminian, is nothing but the doctrine of salvation by works

Strange that there should be men so vile as to use the pen-knife of Jehoiakim, to cut passages of the Word, because they are unpalatable. Oh ye who dislike certain portions of the Holy Writ, rest assured that your taste is corrupt, and that God will not stay for your little opinion. Your dislike is the very reason God wrote it, because you ought not to be suited; you have no right to be pleased. God wrote what you do not like; he wrote the truth.

Men will allow God to be everywhere except on His throne. They will allow Him to be in His workshop to fashion worlds and make stars. They will allow Him to be in His almonry to dispense His alms and bestow His bounties. They will allow Him to sustain the earth and bear up the pillars thereof, or light the lamps or Heaven, or rule the waves of the evermoving ocean; but when He ascends His throne, His creatures then gnash their teeth, and we proclaim an enthroned God, and His right to do as He wills with His own, to dispose of His creatures as he thinks well, without consulting them in the matter; then it is that we are hissed and execrated, and then it is that men turn a deaf ear to us, for God on His throne is not the God they love.

This shall be an infallible test to you concerning anyone’s ministry. If it is man-praising, and man-honouring, it is not of God. 

Sing Along With Joel Osteen

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt - Erma Bombeck

When you see the goats lined up around the block, check books in hand, to be fed tares by blatantly false teachers and wolves of the first order it's hard whether to know to laugh, cry, or shout for joy, because the punchline/cause/truth is all the same: God was RIGHT!

1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; 3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. (2 Peter 2:1-3)

That being said, let's enjoy one of the finest bits of sarcasm/humor/honesty I've seen in a very, very long time: