Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

Matthew Vines, a homosexual "Christian" activist, is spreading his war on God's word by attacking InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA and trying to make it inclusive to sexual sin.

Probably the definitive response to Matthew Vines claim that homosexuality is not a sin; God And the Gay Christian? A Response to Matthew Vines by R. Albert Mohler (thanks and a hat tip to Eternity Matters)

Someone please notify the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR): If you have only been born once you will die twice, but if you are born twice you will only die once. And if all this do-it-yourself zombie making brings Todd Bentley to mind, you are wise - there is a connection between Todd Bentley and Bethel Church

Darling of the Christian right, Kirk Cameron, embraced a false gospel of Dominionism  and is actively spreading it with the likes of Francis Chan, Eric Metaxas, James MacDonald, and the Seventh Day Adventist cult member, Ben Carson

The Episcopal Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is exhibiting a crucifix where Jesus is depicted as a naked woman. Worse, Andrew M. L. Dietsche, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York is calling this travesty an Object Of Devotion and insists this piece of metal and plastic is appropriate work to hang “over our altar.”

Two nuns meet on a missionary trip and end up getting married. They were encouraged by Mr. Pope's cowardly statement "who am I to judge?"

Spurgeon Thursday - On Mormonism

LDS Defined

What shall we say of Mormonism, the haggard superstition of the West? (Nov 5, 1854)

LDS and Polygamy

Then what will ye choose? Shall it be Mahometanism? Will ye choose that, with all its fables, its wickedness and libiditiousness? I will not tell you of it. Nor will I mention the accursed imposture of the West that has lately arisen. We will not allow Polygamy, while there are men to be found who love the social circle, and cannot see it invaded. We would not wish, when God hath given to man one wife, that he should drag in twenty, as the companions of that one. We cannot prefer Mormonism; we will not, and we shall not. (May 27, 1855)

The 1855 Plague of Locusts

 A little while ago some of us were fretting about this Mormonism, and we said, “It will never be broken up.” Some stupid fellows in America began to kill the poor Mormonites, and so carve them into saints, which was the very way to establish them. Christians trembled, and said, “What can this be? We shall have Sodom over again.” 

WWUTT Wednesday - The Hand That Wields The Sword

Martin Luther wrote that "the hand that wields the sword and strangles is … no longer man's hand but God's." Executioners, he believed, are "very useful and even merciful," since they stop villains and deter crime. 

Dr. Albert Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said "I believe that Christians should hope, pray and strive for a society in which the death penalty, rightly and rarely applied, would make moral sense. This would be a society in which there is every protection for the rights of the accused, and every assurance that the social status of the murderer will not determine the sentence for the crime,"

On the other hand Jay Sekulow, who heads the conservative Christian advocacy group the American Center for Law and Justice said "the taking of life is not the way to handle even the most significant of crimes." and "Who amongst anyone is not above redemption? I think we have to be careful in executing final judgment. The one thing my faith teaches me — I don't get to play God. I think you are short-cutting the whole process of redemption…I don't want to be the person that stops that process from taking place."

So who is right? God is:

The Biblical View of Government

but God has chosen the foolish things of  the world  to shame
 the wise, and God  has chosen the weak things of the world
to shame the things which are strong, (1 Corinthians 1:27)

I'm not crazy about our choices in the 2016 election. One candidate has allowed a terrorist attack on sovereign US soil where a US ambassador was tortured, raped, and murdered, she refused to allow the military to rescue the victims, then she lied about the cause of the attack to the victims family and the American people. She sold access to her office for personal gain, she endangered the safety of this country by leaving highly classified documents unsecured, she then destroyed the subpoenaed evidence to hide her guilt. She enables rapists, abuses her subordinates, insults rape victims, military members and Secret Service agents assigned to protect her, and her chief aide has familial connections with the Muslim Brotherhood. 

The other candidate says mean things.

So what do we do? What do we as Christians do when faced with a political dilemma such as this? I know there's going to be a lot of people upset come November especially when you look at all the people who actually ran for president and realize that the best people in the race are actually in the running for VP. But now we are down to Trump and Hillary. Looking at both candidates we can see the truth in Calvin's commentary on Romans: "a wicked prince is the Lord’s scourge to punish the sins of the people" It's quite obvious that we are about to be scourged, so what do we do?

We do what God tells us to do:

Random Bits

"I walk through this sinful world as a 

pilgrim in a foreign country" - CH Spurgeon

A prayer of thanks and praise to my Lord, Creator, Master, and Savior for sparing my mother, two sisters, and niece from the ravages of Hurricane Mathew, please watch over my friends and co-workers in northern Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas

As of this writing Hurricane Matthew is still wreaking havoc along the east coast, but Hurricane Heresy is expected to hit Orlando full force December 7th - you may get the chance to see the Gospel get bombed on Pearl Harbor day

Denver area youth pastor was found guilty of sexual assault on a child by a person of in a position of trust and one count of sexual assault on a child. The prosecution asked for life sentence, the judge gave him 90 days, 66 of which have already been served. Christopher Hutchinson will be free to molest little girls in 3 weeks.

The sad story of the Hijacking of Calvary Chapel by emergent ecumenical forces

Trying to use pagan Gaia worship to fill church pews

It appears that YouTube believes that Christian Movies are controversial and the public must be protected