We Need Some Isaiah

God has had enough

Celebrate Your Persecution

Many see the recent SCOTUS ruling as government permission to persecute the Christian church. They may be right, but is that a bad thing?

... persecution in the Christian church acts like a winnowing fan to the heaps gathered on the threshing-floor. In these soft and silken days any man may be a Christian professor. Oftentimes it pays well to make a profession of godliness. Men think the better of you: it brings customers to the shop. No one knows how many conveniences may attach to the profession of religion: albeit, if it be pretense without pretext, everlasting destruction awaits such violation of truth, for God will surely avenge hypocrisy. 

But in days of persecution, to profess Christ is very inconvenient. Then to be baptised in water may involve a baptism of blood. Then for the soul to burn with zeal for Christ would probably be followed with the body being burnt at the stake. Then a word for Jesus would bring a word of conviction from the judge's mouth, and, close at the heels of that word, death. Then they who loved not Christ betook themselves to the other side; the cowards and the spies shrunk away. Demas went, and Judas went, and all of that brood, to their own company, and then only the true and the brave, the regenerate, the elect of God were left.

They stood fast and firm—all the stronger for losing such ill company. Then in those days the church was like a heap of golden wheat, all winnowed and clean grain, fit for a burnt offering to the Most High, to be offered up as a meat offering upon his altar. Her martyrs were amongst her noblest sons, the very glory of the church and of the Lord Jesus Christ. - CH Spurgeon

Our 500th Post

"Our" meaning the Holy Spirit of our Lord and myself, and I'm just here to actuate the keyboard. He's here to teach me the way home to Him. Sometimes I'm best taught by sight, sometimes by doing, most often by reading but sometimes through song. I Praise the Lord that He led me to a church home that still believes that praising God Almighty comes best by the songs that have passed the test of time

Hey SCOTUS!

Marriage is not a legal Frisbee to be tossed around carelessly, you know, like Obamacare. A special note to the Dread Justice Roberts - even with your arrogance you can't rewrite law (it's not your job) and you can't rewrite the Bible. That last one is above your pay grade.

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pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

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Gay Marriage Rally - this one you'll like.

Religion of Peace Update #1 - Don't blame Islam, it's our own fault for ignoring the "chronic distemper” that afflicts the middle east.

Religion of Peace Update #2 - Former Muslim, now Christian, gay, faces extradition to certain death. Only thing for certain is that Canada won't deport criminals to the US if they face a death penalty but they'll send a Christian to certain death at the hands of Hamas. Canada is a lost, hypocritical nation.

Religion of Peace Update #3 - Memorize some Koran verses, win a captured teenage Yazidi sex slave for your very own! Christian: with your silence you are supporting THIS and THIS and THIS. If you thought ISIS was Satan's own agents on earth, you were right.