tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18570640310003685722024-03-13T23:19:12.584-07:00Desiderant AngeliOf this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully...<br>
...which <b><i><u>angels desire</u></i></b> to look into.<br>
<i>~ 1 Pet 1:10-12</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger517125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-37804440001918614812023-12-12T17:35:00.000-08:002023-12-12T17:35:37.575-08:00On the Radicals’ Takeover of Higher Education --by Gene Veith<p> </p><p>When the <a class=" decorated-link" href="https://apnews.com/article/harvard-mit-penn-campus-antisemitism-backlash-2c89312cdd0d2652a9b57ce71f1533fd" target="_blank">presidents of three Ivy League universities</a>
were asked whether calls for genocide of the Jews would violate each
university’s code of conduct, they couldn’t bring themselves to say that
it would.</p>
<p>Harvard’s president, <a class=" decorated-link" href="https://www.npr.org/2023/12/08/1218314691/after-a-disastrous-testimony-three-college-presidents-face-calls-to-resign" target="_blank">Claudine Gay, said</a>,
“We embrace a commitment to free expression, even of views that are
objectionable, offensive, hateful.” Which is grimly hilarious, given
that <a class=" decorated-link" href="https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-fires-college-free-speech-rankings" target="_blank">Harvard is ranked last in the College Free Speech Rankings</a>, as determined by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).</p>
<p>In the academic world, if a professor or student or campus speaker
criticizes transgenderism, the LGBTQ agenda, abortion, critical race
theory, or any other facet of woke ideology, he or she must be fired,
cancelled, or otherwise punished because the remark could be
“triggering,” making someone in the group being criticized feel unsafe.</p>
<p>Apparently, it didn’t occur to the presidents that chants of “gas the Jews” might be triggering to Jews.</p>
<p>The open support of Islamic terrorism and the rebirth of old-school
anti-semitism–which goes beyond opposition to “Zionism” to assaults on
Jewish students–is at least waking up the public to how bad things have
gotten on university campuses.</p>
<p>John M. Ellis, a distinguished professor emeritus at the University
of California Santa Cruz, has been a long-time leader in the National
Association of Scholars and other initiatives to oppose the
radicalization of academia. He is the author of <a class=" decorated-link" href="https://amzn.to/48a16zD" target="_blank"><span class="a-size-extra-large celwidget" data-cel-widget="productTitle" data-csa-c-id="rnw61y-k57ht1-g6cp26-8gayu3" id="productTitle">The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done</span></a> (2020).</p>
<p>He has published a compelling op-ed in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> (behind a paywall) entitled <a class=" decorated-link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/higher-ed-has-become-a-threat-to-america-antisemitism-dei-college-f52bb0b5?mod=opinion_lead_pos5" target="_blank">Higher Ed Has Become a Threat to America</a>,
with the deck “Our corrupt, radical universities feed every scourge
from censorship and crime to antisemitism.” Here is how it begins:</p>
<blockquote><p>America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out
of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while
sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional
censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our
institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity
and inclusion”—and more. To these has been added an outbreak of virulent
antisemitism.</p>
<p>Every one of these degradations can be traced wholly or in large part
to a single source: the corruption of higher education by radical
political activists.</p></blockquote>
<p>Universities, Ellis points out, have a monopoly on training and
credentialing for all of the professions. As a result, campus
radicalism is manifesting itself in the fields of education, journalism,
law, medicine, social work, and–I would add–public policy, the arts,
and business. This has consequences in the dysfunctions we are
struggling with today:</p>
<blockquote><p>Children’s test scores have plummeted because college
education departments train teachers to prioritize “social justice” over
education. Censorship started with one-party campuses shutting down
conservative voices. The coddling of criminals originated with
academia’s devotion to Michel Foucault’s idea that criminals are
victims, not victimizers. The drive to separate children from their
parents begins in longstanding campus contempt for the suburban home and
nuclear family. Radicalized college journalism departments promote
far-left advocacy. Open borders reflect pro-globalism and anti-nation
state sentiment among radical professors. DEI started as a campus ruse
to justify racial quotas. Campus antisemitism grew out of ideologies
like “anticolonialism,” “anticapitalism” and “intersectionality.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Let me give you a couple of other examples of what is happening in academia.</p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">What’s happened to the field of sociology</h4>
<p>Wayne State sociologist Jukka Savolainen has written an op-ed for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> entitled <a class=" decorated-link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/floridas-shunning-of-sociology-should-be-a-wake-up-call-curriculum-higher-education-politics-0fdbd542?mod=opinion_lead_pos9" target="_blank">Florida’s Shunning of Sociology Should Be a Wake-Up Call,</a>
with the deck, “The field has morphed from scientific study into
academic advocacy for left-wing causes.” In the course of his discussion
of Florida’s DeSantis-inspired proposal to remove Intro to Sociology as
a course that counts for the state universities’ general education
requirement, he laments what has happened to his profession.</p>
<p>“Through the decades,” he writes, “I have watched my discipline morph
from a scientific study of social reality into academic advocacy for
left-wing causes.” Other colleagues in the field, he says, agree with
him. He cites Notre Dame sociologist of religion Christian Smith, who
has written a book, <a class=" decorated-link" href="https://amzn.to/3uOaNW9" target="_blank">The Sacred Project of American Sociology</a> (2014), on how seemingly secularist social scientists have turned their discipline into a religion:</p>
<blockquote>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="text-align: left;">Mr.
Smith is disappointed that undergraduate sociology textbooks, rather
than disseminate scientific findings, “function as recruiting tools and
re-socialization manuals” to turn students into radical activists. He is
equally disappointed with the discipline’s failure to come clean about
its obvious political commitments. Publicly, the American Sociological
Association describes sociology as a “scientific study of social life”
interested in the “causes and consequences of human behavior.”
Internally, ASA embraces and promotes social-change activism.</p>
<p class="css-k3zb6l-Paragraph e1e4oisd0" data-type="paragraph" style="text-align: left;">Each
year, the association’s president chooses a theme for its annual
meeting. Next year’s theme is brazenly political: “Intersectional
Solidarities: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy.” The ASA
sums it up as follows: “The 2024 theme emphasizes sociology as a form of
liberatory praxis: an effort to not only understand structural
inequities, but to intervene in socio-political struggles.”</p>
</blockquote>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Race-based Hiring</strong></h4>
<p><span class="authors">Anita Kinney and Anthony Pericolo of the <em>City Journal</em> have uncovered how the University of Washington has been evading civil rights laws in its hiring practices. In their article </span><a class=" decorated-link" href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/racial-discrimination-at-the-university-of-washington" target="_blank">No White Faculty Allowed</a>, they cite a hiring manual used by the Psychology Department, which has <em>only</em>
hired “BIPOC” (black, indigenous, people of color) candidates for their
last six positions and which vetoed the hiring committee’s most recent
choice because he was white.</p>
<p>The manual shows how institutions are evading the laws against racial
discrimination, not only against whites but also against other
disfavored racial groups, namely, Asians and Middle Easterners:</p>
<blockquote><p>First, the handbook advises recruiters to “prepare for
success” by developing a strategy for how to hire based on race. To
guarantee nonwhite candidates, recruiters should reach out directly to
underrepresented minority (URM) candidates. The department’s search
committee “sent over 100 personal emails, primarily to URM researchers.”
The handbook carefully ranks favored minority groups, specifically
“Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic, or American
Indian/Indigenous,” above less preferred ones, specifically “Asian
American or Middle Eastern American.”</p>
<p>Next, the handbook recommends drafting job descriptions that match
the resumes of specific minority candidates. That way, the applications
will perfectly suit the job posting. It directs institutions to
“[v]isualize your ideal candidates and work backwards from there to word
your advertisement. . . .</p>
<p>A hiring committee should also refrain from evaluating candidate
competence. Committees should “[d]econstruct how evaluating candidates”
on their productivity, verbal communication skills, or leadership “may
advantage privileged groups over underrepresented groups.”</p>
<p>The handbook offers another clue as to how the department had so much
success in hiring minority candidates: if a URM candidate was rejected,
the department simply reversed the rejection. Any “dropped URM
candidates were automatically given a second look before moving on.”</p>
<p>To guarantee that minority status receives appropriate weight, the
manual also suggests “placing contributions to diversity high on the
list” or even making that “a criterion candidates must pass to make it
to the second round”—for example, by “contributing to diversity” or
“serving as a role model for URM students.” Since white candidates
cannot “contribute to diversity” or “serve as role models” for students
of different races, this guarantees that representatives of the correct
races will get hired.</p>
<p>If, somehow, a committee still managed to hire white people or the
wrong minorities, the manual suggests developing an audit process to
identify criteria where “white candidates, male candidates . . . receive
higher scores,” so that those criteria can be removed. Particularly,
rigorous scientific practices like “publicly posting data, hypotheses
and materials to guard against accusations of selectively reporting
results or falsifying data” tends to “produce biased results”—namely,
the hiring of white men. This was easily solved by “subsequently
dropp[ing]” scientific rigor from “evaluation criterion” of candidate
searches.</p></blockquote>
<h4 style="text-align: center;">My Thoughts</h4>
<p>I myself am an academic, recently retired from a long career in
higher education. I taught mostly, though not exclusively, in Christian
colleges, which gave me something of a haven from all of this (though
Christian colleges are not immune from the professional peer pressure
and require an intentional push back against it). I am dismayed about
what has been happening to my profession and my discipline, the field of
English Literature, which has become a hotbed of leftwing “critical
theory.”</p>
<p>I can say, though, that there are lots of genuine scholars,
legitimate researchers, and good teachers at most colleges and
universities today, who are likewise appalled at the
anti-intellectualism and the politicization of today’s higher
education. Just as there were dissidents in the Soviet universities
which were required to teach according to the tenets of
Marxist-Leninism, there are dissidents in American universities, the
difference being that Stalin’s police state enforced ideological
conformity in Russia, whereas American universities are enforcing
ideological conformity on themselves.</p>
<p>Many of those dissidents today on college faculties, though, are
keeping their heads down and their office doors closed, being careful
not to Tweet anything and to watch what they say, while continuing to do
good work in their specialized fields. There are others, though–like
John Ellis, Jukka Savolainen, Christian Smith, the scholars I quote
here–who are speaking up.</p>
<p>The growing reaction of donors, state governments, parents, students,
and employers to these realizations should add to their number and
might eventually put higher education back together again.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-4067598239579597932023-07-17T17:27:00.002-07:002023-07-19T11:05:36.143-07:00No Room For Timid Pietism<p> Some people seem to have the idea that if we ask God for things, if we petition God, that’s somehow self-centered or unspiritual. Only if we’re worshiping God or telling him how great he is are we truly glorifying him. This is a very mistaken, and possibly even a spiritually fatal, idea. When we ask God for things, we are not somehow less spiritual than when we tell God how great he is. Answered prayer is greatly more Godhonoring than unanswered prayer. --P. Andrew Sandlin<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-5414060390807541442023-07-17T17:26:00.003-07:002023-07-17T17:26:19.189-07:00Will we be in Heaven or on earth? The answer is yes.<p> When we rebelled against Him, there was a great rupture. Heaven was now distant, and we were left down here, under the sun, shepherding wind. Where shall we be after the resurrection? After the last trump has sounded, and after all the dead are raised, and after the sea gives up her dead, where will we all be? Where will we live? Will we be in Heaven or on earth? The answer is yes. Everything will be united again. Christ came in order to heal the rupture, and to heal it completely. --D. Wilson</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-9075439461259869102023-07-17T17:25:00.000-07:002023-07-17T17:25:37.361-07:00FREE SPEECH!<p> Any country that does not allow a free discussion of the process by which its leaders are elected is not a democracy, by definition. --Tucker Carlson<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-33807418067442163142023-02-11T04:29:00.001-08:002023-02-11T04:29:10.965-08:00Following Christ as the Church Militant<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Following
Christ as the Church Militant --</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
<a href="https://www.ezrainstitute.com/resource-library/author-index/joe-boot/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joe Boot</b></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An urgent warning to the clerics and
parishioners</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christian thinking must be concerned with actually
following the Christ of Scripture and having His Word dwell and abide in us by
His Spirit. Submitting oneself to being a humble follower doesn’t come easily
to anyone – especially cultural leaders, thinkers and apparently bishops. This
was evident in the recent diabolical and self-immolating ruling of the bishops
in the Church of England to formally bless same-sex relationships in the
churches, all in the name of the love of Jesus. The human inclination is always
toward autonomy, preferring to live the illusion that we can ‘legislate’ for
ourselves; to be a king without a country in the rootless despair of defiance
is the preference of our rebellious age. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being a professing Christian in the church does
not remove the temptation or inclination to strike out alone, to follow our own
desires or those of our culture, to live by our own priorities and to set aside
the awesome and all-consuming call to be a disciple of Christ; to come and die
in order to truly live. Kneeling as a living sacrifice sounds incredibly
painful and involves a transformation of the heart which implies the pain and
suffering of rejection by a world conformed, in the final analysis, to a very
different spirit. But the divine midwife insists this is the only way. We must
be reborn, transformed, and given a new heart, a new mind.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Christians we may claim to follow Christ, but
the lifelong challenge in developing a truly Christian mindset requires
regularly asking ourselves if we have followed Him far enough? Have we been to
Jordan and seen the dove descending, but hung back from the mountain to avoid
His exposition of the law and radical insistence that only those who teach that
law are great in the Kingdom? Have we fallen asleep in pious satisfaction at
the gates of Gethsemane, or lingered from a safe distance at Golgotha, never
making it to the slopes of Olivet or to the upper room in Jerusalem with the
dancing flames of fire? Is it possible that we are not yet Christian
enough? It is all too easy to follow Christ only as far as is convenient,
till the tarrying is just too tiring. If we only follow Christ part way, then
we are uninvolved in key aspects of the drama and miss the significance of God’s
full act in history.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The entire work of Christ in all His offices must
become contemporaneous with us if we would truly be transformed by the renewing
of our minds. It is not sufficient to appreciate Christ washing Simon Peter’s
feet at the last supper as a model of service if we refuse to see Him, let
alone join Him, where the bloodied Stephen saw Him – exalted in heavenly
places, standing up from his seat of total authority at God’s right hand.
Unambiguously, we must see Him as priest on the road to Calvary, but we must
also recognize Him on the footpath to Emmaus as resurrected Lord – the gardener
of creation among Arimathea’s roses – if we are to truly follow Christ and know
the renewal of our minds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a hostile context, the temptation is to follow
Him just as far as culture permits. When the storm rises, dread grips us and we
hear His call to step out of the boat and walk upon the Word – despite the wind
and waves of the world’s antagonism – we suddenly become hard of hearing. And
if we will not <i>hear</i> that Word over the inimical clamour of idolatry, we
certainly cannot then <i>speak</i> it. If our cultural moment is allowed
to determine how far we follow Christ, then we cannot follow Him at all.
We may perhaps hear Hosanna’s from a distance, but we won’t be found stammering
with the doubter, ‘My Lord and my God!’ We may even be permitted by our
age to stand near the wooden cross of a brave martyr, but not on the mountain
of ascension with the ruler of the kings of the earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The sad end of hearing and heeding only the word
our culture will permit is first an unwillingness, then a tragic inability, to
speak the whole counsel of God as faithful prophets. As priest and prophet
Christ was hated, knew the world’s enmity, and warned that the spirit at work
in the children of disobedience would naturally hate His followers also. But we
cannot follow our Prophet nor share in His sufferings if we refuse to prophesy.
Many contemporary priests would rather predict with Balaam to preserve their
living than stand with Elijah against Baal. It is certain an ass has spoken
with more wisdom in the annals of prophetic utterance than many English bishops
– hirelings who would flog the meekest of God’s prophets if they could for
hindering their progress in vexing the people of God. Like powdered-wigged
courtiers fighting over who will fetch the king’s chamber pot, much of the
church simply courts the culture – ingratiating themselves with the
influential, the powerful, the professors, even senior clergy who have whored
themselves to the spirit of the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The moment that God’s people call a truce and
reach a settlement with the spirit of the world, the mindset of the age, is the
moment they abolish the Christian mind and overturn true Christianity. The
kingdom of God is indeed in this world, but not of it; it is surely <i>present</i>
here, but it is not <i>from</i> here – its power, authority and mandate derive
from a transcendent source. In history, the church is always the church
militant, not the church triumphant. The struggle will continue over our graves
till the King comes who will open all graves. We are called to victory, not to
peaceful collaboration.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the church says ‘peace, peace’ when there is
no peace and signs a treaty with a rebel world, it <i>pretends</i> to be the
church triumphant, and pretends that the struggle against lawlessness and
spiritual darkness is complete – but before the consummation of Christ. It is a
tragic irony that those who preach righteousness and hope for history through
following Christ to the uttermost, bringing them into direct conflict with the
world on the frontlines of battle, are charged with ‘triumphalism,’ whilst
popular collaborators who claim neutrality with the world, making a compact of
surrender or privatization to the applause of culture are thought pious and
realistic. In reality, <i>they </i>are triumphalist – seeking to immanentize a
false eschaton by denaturing the faith, abstracting it from the affairs of
daily life and coating what remains in honey so as to avoid any bitter taste in
society’s mouth – for a church no longer at war is a church triumphant.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.ezrainstitute.com/resource-library/blog-entries/following-christ-as-the-church-militant/">https://www.ezrainstitute.com/resource-library/blog-entries/following-christ-as-the-church-militant/</a></span></p>
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</p><h3 style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>–by P. Andrew Sandlin</span></span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><h3 style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Modern conservatives
know that they're actually old-time liberals and should reclaim the term.</span></i></span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><h3 style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Liberalism, the Roots </span></span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Liberalism is a dirty word to many conservatives —
Leftists, too. The latter now prefer to be called <a href="https://docsandlin.com/2018/07/30/the-progressives-march-toward-gods-judgment/">“progressives.”</a>
This is welcome news for thoughtful modern conservatives, who know that they
themselves are actually old-time liberals, and we should reclaim the term.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Liberalism is the application of the Protestant
Reformation to politics, and wedded to the conservative wing of the
Enlightenment. Luther and Calvin’s recovery of the biblical truth of the
individual’s responsibility before God unencumbered by the interposition of the
medieval church soon found a parallel in the individual citizen’s liberty from
an oppressive state and hereditary monarchies, strangling economic guilds, and
suffocating clannishness. Individuals were rightly obligated to state, family,
church, and business, but they were largely set free to follow the dictates of
their own conscience, and gain the benefits, or suffer the consequences.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><h3 style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span>Spheres of Liberty (Liberalism)</span></strong><span></span></span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Three main spheres of that liberty are the religious,
political, and economic. <em>Religious</em> liberty means the liberty to
worship God (or not worship him at all) according to the dictates of one’s
conscience. It means there is no tax-financed national church into which one is
born coterminous with the state. It means not that the state is religiously
neutral (an impossibility) but that <a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/separation-of-church-and-statism?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F4284197-p-andrew-sandlin&utm_medium=reader2">the
state doesn’t get involved in church disputes</a> or privilege a single
denomination. The state enforces the moral law of God appropriate to its sphere
and leaves the rest of Christian practice (or no practice) to citizens. This
moral law as it relates to civil legislation is narrow — basically protecting
life, liberty, and property, in language popular at the War for Independence.
The state is not designed to make people good Christians. That’s the job of the
church and family.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Next comes <em>political</em> liberty. Liberalism
reversed the traditional priority of politics: the individual exists for the
purpose of the nation or state. For liberalism, by contrast, the state exists
for the purpose of the individual, to protect his liberty. “Governments are
instituted among Men,” the Declaration of independence says, to “secure … Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” If the state doesn’t protect these
God-given rights, there’s no reason for its existence. This was a breathtaking
philosophical shift in the history of politics, but it has given the West the
greatest measure of freedom in world history.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Finally, consider <em>economic</em> liberty.
Liberalism observed how the so-called divine right of kings and
intergenerational aristocratic rights had imperiled private property for much
of human history. The strong owned property and created laws to forbid the
competition of honest workers and investors. Liberals knew that property was an
extension of the person. What we own is part of who we are. Individuals must
therefore be free to work and get and barter their own property. Because it is
theirs, and not another’s, they will treat it more carefully and respectfully.
When liberalism sparked widespread economic liberty, the West over time
developed such wealthy societies that were seen nowhere previously.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Liberalism, inspired by Reformational ideas, gave us a
free, peaceful, prosperous, world. This is the world into which those of my age
and older were born. We are its beneficiaries.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><h3 style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span>Liberty (Liberalism) Under Assault</span></strong><span></span></span></span></h3><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>It is now under withering assault<em>, </em>first by
Leftists and, sadly, also by some misguided conservatives. </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Leftists are at heart utopians.<a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-1" id="footnote-anchor-1">1</a> They (1) believe they know what the perfect society
should be (egalitarian: no sexual, religious or economic differences); they (2)
are confident it can be realized; and they (3) work to make it happen. But this
society isn’t compatible with liberty. When people are free to act as they
want, even — perhaps especially — within the realm of God’s moral law,
they won’t seek utopian egalitarianism. Therefore, they must not be granted the
liberty to act. Political authority should be in the hands of those who have
society’s best interests at heart — Leftists, of course. This is an updated
form of Marxism called <em><a href="https://docsandlin.com/2018/04/23/cultural-marxism-simply-explained/">Cultural</a></em><a href="https://docsandlin.com/2018/04/23/cultural-marxism-simply-explained/">
Marxism</a>. Not just economics but all of life must be equalized by the
enforced power of the state. This is why all modern Leftists must be statists.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p style="margin-bottom: 4.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>But, increasingly, not only Leftists. Some social
conservatives, correctly alarmed at the moral decadence of our society —
abortion, homosexual “marriage,” pornification, transgenderism, transhumanism,
for example — <a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/two-liberalisms-two-anti-liberalisms?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F4284197-p-andrew-sandlin&utm_medium=reader2">incorrectly
blame liberalism</a>, that is, they blame liberty. Their attitude is: “If there
were less liberty, there would be more virtue.” They want a society of
politically enforced virtue; they want to enforce the virtue. In this, they’re
no different from Robespierre, Lenin, and Pol Pot. They only disagree on how to
define the virtue. These conservatives are sometimes called
“integralists” (if Roman Catholic) or “post-liberals.” Liberalism, they assert,
has failed. What they really mean is: <em>liberty has failed</em>. They want
the power of political coercion to correct this problem.<a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-2" id="footnote-anchor-2">2</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>They fail to understand that liberty is itself a
virtue.<a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-3" id="footnote-anchor-3">3</a> A free society can become an unvirtuous society, as
ours has, but this is due to men’s depraved heats, not to liberty. They have
failed in the culture wars — abortion was nationally legalized for nearly 50
years, though thank God, removed last week from judicial to legislative
jurisdiction; homosexual “marriage” has been nationally legalized; and the
rights of children to try to change their “gender” have been solidified. But
these were not first Leftist political victories. They were Leftist <em>cultural</em>
victories later easily codified in politics.</span><b><span> <br /><br />Resurrecting Liberty (Liberalism)</span></b><br /><span>To resurrect liberty, therefore, we must work to
restore a godly culture. That culture will eventually work its way into
politics, not vice versa. There is no more pressing character quality in
reviving liberty than individual responsibility. Anti-liberal thinking stresses
group or identitarian dynamics: your meaning in life is rooted in your sex, or
your race, or your economic status. You are a captive to that identity, and
that identity excuses your privations and failures. If you’re a woman, “the
patriarchy” has held you back. If you’re black, “white supremacy” has oppressed
you. If you’re homosexual, a “heteronormative” society has prevented the exercise
of your full potential.<a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-4">4</a></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>In the Bible, we’re all created in God’s image and
personally responsible for our actions. We may not enlist the coercive state to
redress our grievances of being a woman or a Hispanic or a lower-middle class
citizen. We must recognize that while all of us have confronted hard,
unforeseen circumstances, we should take it as a rule that we are today where
our own decisions have brought us. We are not victims. We should have the
liberty to decide — and live with the consequences of our decisions.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Liberalism is the political philosophy that allows
us to make and live with our decisions. The state will not save us. It will
protect our life, liberty, and property. It will not protect us from our bad
decisions, from ourselves. Liberalism takes seriously man created in God’s
image and therefore free within God’s cosmic order. Man’s primal calling is to
exercise dominion over the creation within that order (Genesis 1:27–30). No
political system has been better than liberalism at providing man the freedom
to fulfill that task.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>To resurrect individual responsibility under God’s
authority is to resurrect liberalism.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-anchor-1">1</a>
Thomas Molnar <i>Utopia, the Perennial Heresy</i> (New York: Sheed and Ward,
1967).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-anchor-2">2</a>
For a definitive refutation of the charges against liberalism, see Stephen
Holmes, <i>The Anatomy of Antiliberalism</i> (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard
University Press, 1993).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-anchor-3">3</a>
Frank S. Meyer, <i>In Defense of Freedom and Related Essays</i> (Indianapolis,
Indiana: Liberty Fund, 1996).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/resurrecting-liberalism#footnote-anchor-4">4</a>
Of course, male and female and black and white are rooted in our created being.
Homosexuality is a perverse invention.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-22867371090702186122022-05-17T12:46:00.003-07:002022-05-17T12:46:33.873-07:00Global Warming = GOOD!<p> https://www.pentecostalpastor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Global-Warming-Article-copy.pdf<br />https://www.pentecostalpastor.com/global-warming/<br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-77624590360087098332021-07-30T07:07:00.016-07:002021-07-30T07:12:42.765-07:00Christendom!!<a href="https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/from-post-christendom-to-christendom">https://pandrewsandlin.substack.com/p/from-post-christendom-to-christendom</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-63424548702933450972021-05-13T12:15:00.002-07:002021-05-13T12:15:42.649-07:00Fundamental Laws of Politics<p><a href="https://spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com/laws-of-politics/" target="_blank"> Fundamental Laws of Politics</a></p><p><em>Below are gathered some useful “fundamental laws of politics”.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://quotations.about.com/od/douglasadams/tp/10_douglas_adam.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Adams’s Law:</a> <em>“</em>A
common mistake people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”</p>
<p><a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWEyMGVjOGU0NGVjYmNmZWY4MzUzMWQ4ODI1ODE1OGU=" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Conquest’s Three Laws</a>:</p>
<ol><li>Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.</li><li>Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.</li><li>The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood
by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.</li></ol>
<p><a href="http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/go-goldstein.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Goldstein’s Law</a>:
“Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic
Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the <em>High</em>, the <em>Middle</em>, and the <em>Low</em>.
They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless
different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude
towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential
structure of society has never altered.”</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hanlon’s Razor</a>:
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by
stupidity. [This is almost certainly a corruption of Robert A.
Heinlein’s phrase: “You have attributed to villainy conditions which
merely result from stupidity” (<em>Logic of Empire</em>, 1941). See also the link for similar aphorisms.] See however <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%27s_Law" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Clark’s Law</a>: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is functionally indistinguishable from malice.”</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Samuel Johnson’s Law</a>:
“[W]hen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates
his mind wonderfully.” NCT’s corollary: the best check on preening
narcissistic moralizing is exposing a man to the consequences of his own
prepositions when implemented.</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Lincoln’s Law</a>
[apocryphal]: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all
of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
all of the time.”</p>
<p>McArdle’s Law [unsourced]: “The party in power is insufferable. The party out of power is insane.”</p>
<p><a href="https://spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/the-iron-law-of-oligarchy-and-pournelles-iron-law/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Michels’ Law</a>:
All forms of organization, regardless of how democratic
or autocratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably
develop into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Oligarchy">oligarchies</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://eddriscoll.com/archives/005510.php" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Muggeridge’s Law</a>: Satire can never compete with real life for its sheer absurdity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail408.html#Iron" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Pournelle’s Iron Law</a>:
“[I]n any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people:
those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and
those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would
be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union
representative[s] who work to protect any teacher, including the most
incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of
person will always gain control of the organization, and will always
write the rules under which the organization functions.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wikiquote.com/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Reagan’s Observation:</a>
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come
to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
(Remarks at a business conference in Los Angeles, March 2, 1977)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sowell’s Law</a>: In human problems, there are no solutions, only trade-offs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Best/SumnerForgotten.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sumner’s Law</a>:
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism
is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be
made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a
sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the
matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the
ultimate effects on society through C’s interests, are entirely
overlooked. […A and B] ignore entirely the source from which they must
draw all the energy which they employ in their remedies, and they ignore
all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in
view. […T]he State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from
some other man, and this latter must be a man [C] who has produced and
saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man. [The title of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Man-History-Great-Depression/dp/0060936428/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Amity Shlaes’ book about the Great Depression and the New Deal</a> pays homage to Sumner.]</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher">Thatcher’s Law</a>: The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.</p>
<p>Three Laws of Sociodynamics [an anonymous cynical physicist’s parody on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_Thermodynamics" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Three Laws of Thermodynamics</a>]:</p>
<ol><li>Law of conservation of misery</li><li>Every spontaneous bureaucratic process strives for the maximum degree of idiocy</li><li>The absolute moral nadir cannot be reached in a finite number of
steps (i.e., no matter how low people have gotten, they can always get
lower).</li></ol>
<p>ADDENDUM:</p>
<p>Antonov’s Observation on Santayana’s Law: “There is a mistaken
proverb which tells us that those who are ignorant of the past are
condemned to repeat it. In fact, they’re lucky if they’re <em>allowed</em> to repeat it. More probably, they’re condemned to something even <em>worse</em>
than the past. This is doubly true of those who believe that their
ignorance somehow makes them morally superior to those who don’t share
it.” (Spoken by the fictional admiral Ivan Antonov in David Weber and
Steve White, “<a href="http://www.webscription.net/p-401-the-stars-at-war.aspx" rel="noopener" target="_blank">In death ground</a>“.)</p>
<p>Heinlein’s Dichotomy: “Political tags — such as royalist, communist,
democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are
never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into<br />
those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.” (From “The notebooks of Lazarus Long”.)</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Niven" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Niven’s Law</a>: No cause is so noble that it won’t attract fuggheads. (From “Fallen Angels”)<a href="https://spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com/laws-of-politics/" target="_blank">https://spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com/laws-of-politics/</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-77105555798030612812021-05-13T05:02:00.020-07:002021-05-13T05:09:18.622-07:00Ascension Day!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">(Psa 110)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of David. A psalm. The
LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a
footstool for your feet."<i> {2} </i>The LORD will extend your mighty
scepter from Zion; you will rule in the midst of your enemies.<i> {3} </i>Your
troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy majesty, from the
womb of the dawn you will receive the dew of your youth.<i> {4} </i>The LORD
has sworn and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever, in the
order of Melchizedek."<i> {5} </i>The Lord is at your right hand; he will
crush kings on the day of his wrath.<i> {6} </i>He will judge the nations,
heaping up the dead and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.<i> {7} </i>He
will drink from a brook beside the way ; therefore he will lift up his head.
(The most often quoted Old Testament verse in the New Testament)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Luke
24:50-53)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he had led them out to
the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. {51} While he
was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. {52} Then they
worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">great joy</b>. {53} And they stayed continually at the temple, praising
God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Acts
1:9-11)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After he said this, he was taken
up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. {10} They were
looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed
in white stood beside them. {11} "Men of Galilee," they said,
"why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been
taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go
into heaven." <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>--></u> </b>(Acts
1:1-2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my former book, Theophilus, I
wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach<i> {2} </i>until the day he
was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to
the apostles he had chosen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Acts
2:32-36)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has raised this Jesus to
life, and we are all witnesses of the fact. {33} Exalted to the right hand of
God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured
out what you now see and hear. {34} For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet
he said, "'The Lord said to my Lord: "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sit at my right hand</b> {35} <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">until</b>
I make your enemies a footstool for your feet."' {36} "Therefore let
all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified,
both Lord and Christ." (Christ = King)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Acts
5:30-31)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The God of our fathers raised
Jesus from the dead--whom you had killed by hanging him on a tree. {31} God <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exalted him</b> to his own right hand as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prince</b> and Savior that he might give
repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Eph
1:19-22)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and his incomparably great power
for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength,<i>
{20} </i>which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated
him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,<i> {21} </i>far above all rule
and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only
in the present age but also in the one to come.<i> {22} </i>And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God placed all things under his feet</b>
and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Eph
2:5-7)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made us alive with Christ even
when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.<i> {6}
</i>And God raised us up with Christ and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seated</b>
us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,<i> {7} </i>in order that in
the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed
in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Eph
4:8-10)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why it says: "When
he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ascended</b> on high, he led captives
in his train and gave gifts to men."<i> {9} </i>(What does "he
ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions
?<i> {10} </i>He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the
heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Phil
2:8-11)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And being found in appearance as
a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross!<i>
{9} </i>Therefore God <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exalted him to the
highest place</b> and gave him the name that is above every name,<i> {10} </i>that
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under
the earth,<i> {11} </i>and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to
the glory of God the Father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Col
3:1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since, then, you have been raised
with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seated</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">at the right hand of God</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(1 Pet
3:22)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who has gone into heaven and is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">at God's right hand</b>--with angels,
authorities and powers in submission to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Heb
1:3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Son is the radiance of God's
glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his
powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he sat down at the right hand</b> of the
Majesty in heaven. (4-5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he became as
much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.<i>
{5} </i>For to which of the angels did God ever say, "You are my Son;
today I have become your Father " ? Or again, "I will be his Father,
and he will be my Son"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Heb
1:13)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To which of the angels did God
ever say, "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sit at my right hand
until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet</b>"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Heb
2:8-9)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and put everything under his
feet." In putting everything under him, God left nothing that is not
subject to him. Yet at present we do not see everything subject to him.<i> {9} </i>But
we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with
glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might
taste death for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Heb
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this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the
throne of the Majesty in heaven,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Heb
9:24)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Christ did not enter a
man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven
itself, now to appear for us in God's presence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Heb
10:12-13)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when this priest had
offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of
God.<i> {13} </i>Since that time <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">he
waits for his enemies to be made his footstool</b>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Rev
1:5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and from Jesus Christ, who is the
faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the ruler of the kings of the earth</b>. To him who loves us and has
freed us from our sins by his blood,</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Mat 28:18)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Jesus came to them and said, "All
authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Psa 2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do the nations conspire and the peoples
plot in vain?<i> {2} </i>The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers
gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One.<i> {3} </i>"Let
us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters."<i>
{4} </i>The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.<i> {5} </i>Then
he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,<i> {6} </i>"I
have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill."<i> {7} </i>I will proclaim
the decree of the LORD: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He said to me,
"You are my Son ; today I have become your Father.*</b><i> {8} </i>Ask of
me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your
possession.<i> {9} </i>You will rule them with an iron scepter ; you will dash
them to pieces like pottery."<i> {10} </i>Therefore, you kings, be wise;
be warned, you rulers of the earth.<i> {11} </i>Serve the LORD with fear and
rejoice with trembling.<i> {12} </i>Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be
destroyed in your way, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all
who take refuge in him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I saw in the
night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of
heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed. (Daniel 7:13-14). (The Ascension, NOT the 2<sup>nd</sup> coming)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Acts
3:21)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything</u></b>,
as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(1 Cor
15:25-26)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet</u></b>.<i>
{26} </i>The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">last</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">enemy</b> to be destroyed is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">death</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Rev
1:5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and from Jesus Christ, who is the
faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the ruler of the kings of the earth</b>. To him who loves us and has
freed us from our sins by his blood,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God has two ways of
destroying His enemies. One might be considered the old school method—with the
fire coming down out of the sky. This is the method that leaves a smoking
crater. But the other is a far more glorious method, and that is His method of
destroying enemies by turning them into friends. That is a far more wonderful
destruction indeed, and it is the kind of destruction that all effective
evangelism yearns for. Evangelism by such destruction is not recruiting; it is
conquest. In order to accomplish the former sort of right-handed power, all God
had to do was exercise His Almighty power. But to accomplish the latter, His
Son had to die. –Doug Wilson</span></b></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ascension Day deals with authority.
KINGSHIP! That Day was His Coronation. He took the Throne and reigns now.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christ “has
gone into Heaven and is at God’s right hand – with angels, authorities and
powers in submission to Him” (1 Peter 3:22) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Isa
9:7)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>increase</u></b> of his government and peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish
it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. <b>The zeal of
the LORD of hosts will perform this</b>. (Not the efforts of man without God)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is not
one square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ,
who is Sovereign, does not cry out, ‘Mine!’ -- Abraham Kuyper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">King-High
Priest-Intercessor\Advocate –The Incarnation continues, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>a Man, THE MAN, sits on the throne of the universe</u></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Ascension proclaims the Kingship
of Jesus in all areas of life. Jesus has all authority. Jesus is King! Jesus is
Lord! </span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-3648880015758959002021-03-30T07:20:00.000-07:002021-03-30T07:20:06.090-07:00The Hypocrisy of the Fundamentalist Twitter Cult --by Keith Mathison<img alt="" 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While
talking to my son about the state of the current culture, he said something
that I found interesting. He said that the thing with the Twitter generation is
that it has a desperate need to feel like it always has the moral high ground.
I think this explains some of what we witness when the Twitter mob gets riled
up about something. It looks exactly like what you might expect to see in some
fundamentalist cult --- self-righteous, holier-than-thou posing, collective
public shunning of those who violate the rules of the cult, and most
importantly, complete hypocrisy. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One
of the religious dogmas of the Twitter cult is that there is no such thing as
absolute truth. There is only "your truth" and "my truth."
This applies especially to ethics. Ethical relativism is one of the
non-negotiable axioms of the Twittereligion. What members of the Twitter cult
seem incapable of grasping is that if ethical relativism is true, if there is
only "your truth" and "my truth," a moral high ground does
not and cannot exist. If you affirm ethical relativism (my truth/your truth) <i>and
</i>you claim the moral high ground on <i>any </i>issue, you are a hypocrite,
and hypocrites cannot claim any moral high ground - real or imaginary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
may be the case that a large number of those who are members of the Twitter
cult and who participate in the never-ending Twitter mobs are unaware of the
self-contradictory and hypocritical nature of their Twittereligion. That might
be explained by something else my son observed in an earlier conversation on the
same subject. He said that the most vocal members of the Twitter mob appear to
be composed primarily of pre-teens and teenagers. If this is the case, we're
not only dealing with a religious cult, we're dealing with the children of the
corn. Also if this is the case, an entire generation of adults is letting
online teenage temper tantrums dictate what they say and do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
world has always believed lies and called good "evil" and evil
"good" and they continue to do today. The docetic world of social
media has made it even easier for people to do this because now we can get an
immediate "like" from others all over the world who share the same
ethically depraved views. When enough of them assure you that your evil views
are actually good, it can reinforce you in those views. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Twitter cult needs to understand that there is no such thing as "my
truth" and "your truth." There is such a thing as my opinion and
your opinion, but opinion is not equal to truth. Truth is what it is regardless
of your feelings or opinions. You can rant all you want online, but no matter
how much you rage you cannot cancel God. You cannot cancel truth. You also
cannot cancel the fact that before you know it, you are going to stand before
God and be judged according to an absolute standard of truth. At that point,
you are going to find out that what you deceived yourself into believing was
the moral high ground was actually a pit. You will have no online anonymity to
hide behind. You will have no mob to help you. You will stand alone before a
holy God as your judge, and you will be judged according to the objective
standard of His law - not "your truth."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
is hope, however. There is good news. "It is the promise of the gospel
that whoever believes in Christ crucified shall not perish but have eternal
life." Repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved
(Acts 16:31).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus
Christ is risen! Jesus Christ is Lord! </span></p>
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<a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/numbers-150-americans-date-no-pre-existing-conditions-died-coronavirus-0-9/">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/numbers-150-americans-date-no-pre-existing-conditions-died-coronavirus-0-9/</a><br />
<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation">https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/494034-the-data-are-in-stop-the-panic-and-end-the-total-isolation</a><br />
<a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/22/there-is-no-empirical-evidence-for-these-lockdowns/">https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/22/there-is-no-empirical-evidence-for-these-lockdowns/</a><br />
<a href="https://coronavirustruths.godaddysites.com/">https://coronavirustruths.godaddysites.com/</a><br />
<a href="https://medium.com/@jbgeach/changing-the-goalposts-four-more-reasons-it-is-safe-to-open-america-560cfc0ab4c3">https://medium.com/@jbgeach/changing-the-goalposts-four-more-reasons-it-is-safe-to-open-america-560cfc0ab4c3</a><br />
<a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/face-masks-should-there-be-a-cover-up-?fbclid=IwAR3dReBBfN3NYfsjQ2WlwLuV5FAo0bs_iRMqomIiZSG8kiUVKZCFILYB-zk">https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/face-masks-should-there-be-a-cover-up-</a><br />
<a href="https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/aytu-bioscience-signs-exclusive-global-license-with-cedars-sinai-for-potential">https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/aytu-bioscience-signs-exclusive-global-license-with-cedars-sinai-for-potential</a><br />
The Healight technology employs proprietary methods of administering intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light via a novel endotracheal medical device. <br />
"Our team has shown that administering a specific spectrum of UV-A light can eradicate viruses in infected human cells (including coronavirus) and bacteria in the area while preserving healthy cells." stated Dr. Pimentel<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLVxx_lBLU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLVxx_lBLU</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6j7o1pLBw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb6j7o1pLBw</a><br />
<a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2020/04/23/antibody-testing-proves-weve-been-had-n2567516">https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2020/04/23/antibody-testing-proves-weve-been-had-n2567516</a><br />
<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/23/instead-of-flattening-the-curve-we-flattened-hospitals-doctors-and-the-u-s-health-care-system/">https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/23/instead-of-flattening-the-curve-we-flattened-hospitals-doctors-and-the-u-s-health-care-system/</a><br />
<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/23/how-cowardice-and-class-privilege-divide-support-for-coronavirus-lockdowns/">https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/23/how-cowardice-and-class-privilege-divide-support-for-coronavirus-lockdowns/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.sermo.com/press-releases/largest-statistically-significant-study-by-6200-multi-country-physicians-on-covid-19-uncovers-treatment-patterns-and-puts-pandemic-in-context/">https://www.sermo.com/press-releases/largest-statistically-significant-study-by-6200-multi-country-physicians-on-covid-19-uncovers-treatment-patterns-and-puts-pandemic-in-context/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/28/debate-ends-over-chloroquine-as-france-officially-sanctions-usage">https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/28/debate-ends-over-chloroquine-as-france-officially-sanctions-usage</a><br />
<a href="https://unherd.com/thepost/coming-up-epidemiologist-prof-johan-giesecke-shares-lessons-from-sweden/">https://unherd.com/thepost/coming-up-epidemiologist-prof-johan-giesecke-shares-lessons-from-sweden/</a><br />
<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/">https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/16/early-peek-at-data-on-gilead-coronavirus-drug-suggests-patients-are-responding-to-treatment/</a><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">43
Profound Quotes About Prayer</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.”Our
prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of
prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers
do make a difference.” – Max Lucado</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. “To be a
Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without
breathing.” – Martin Luther</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. “True
prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far
deeper than that – it is a spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and
Earth.” – Charles Spurgeon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. “If you
believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you
will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but
if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.” – Charles Spurgeon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. “Prayer
makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of
humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really
pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.” – E.M.
Bounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. “Prayer
should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a
privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new
beauty.” – E.M. Bounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7. “God can
handle your doubt, anger, fear, grief, confusion, and questions. You can bring
everything to him in prayer.” – Rick Warren</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8. “Prayers
outlive the lives of those who uttered them; outlive a generation, outlive an
age, outlive a world.” – E.M Bounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9. “Prayer
delights God’s ear; it melts His heart.” – Thomas Watson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10. “It is
possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.” – Hudson Taylor</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11. “To get
nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.” – Billy
Graham</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12. “Prayer
is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part. Listening
to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.” –
Andrew Murray</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13. “To
desire revival… and at the same time to neglect (personal) prayer and devotion
is to wish one way and walk another.” – A.W. Tozer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14. “I saw
more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I
ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.” – George
Mueller</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. “Our
praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never
tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never
fails.” – E. M. Bounds</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16. “God
does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.” – John Wesley</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17. “Prayer
does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” – Oswald
Chambers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18. “Search
for a person who claims to have found Christ apart from someone else’s prayer,
and your search may go on forever.” – E. Bauman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19. “Have
you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere
therein, and mercy will come down.” – John Wesley</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">20. “God
will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate
with Him.” – John Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">21. “A day
without prayer is a day without blessing, and a life without prayer is a life
without power.” – Edwin Harvey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">22. “Quit playing,
start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with
God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start
travail.” – Leonard Ravenhill</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">23. “None
can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those
who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need to
take hold on prayer.” – Martin Luther</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">24. “You
know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect
it.” – Sir Thomas Buxton</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">25. “Prayer
is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister.
Pray, then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.” – Edward Payson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">26. “It is
not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue
for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer
until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer
unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will
answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until
the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.” – George Müller</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">27. “Think
of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed
people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!”
– Andrew Murray</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">28. “The
reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God
usually answers us according to our own hearts.” – Richard Alleine</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">29. “Satan
cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit
of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down.” – William Gurnall</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">30. “The
devil is aware that one hour of close fellowship, hearty converse with God in
prayer, is able to pull down what he hath been contriving and building many a
year.” – Flavel</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">31. “Beware
in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief,
but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above
all that we ask or think.’” – Andrew Murray</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">32. “If we
would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really
get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a
word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we
are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to
grant the thing that we ask of Him.” – Dr. R. A. Torrey</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">33. “What is
love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are
the battles of the soul.” – Samuel Chadwick</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">34. “Mind
how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead
the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the
Lord has promised it.” – Charles Spurgeon</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">35. “Where
there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of
the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer.” – Andrew Murray</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">36. “A godly
man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out.
Prayer is the soul’s traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit,
and we go up to Him by prayer.” – Thomas Watson</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">37. “Every
great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” – D. L. Moody</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">38. “There
is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the
work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.” – Jonathan Edwards</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">39. “As it
is the business of tailors to make clothes, and the business of cobblers to
mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray!” – Martin Luther</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">40. “Prayer
is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.” –
Martin Luther</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">41.
“Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The
Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine
in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt
surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.” – C. H. Spurgeon</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">42. “The one
concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from
prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our
toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.” – Samuel Chadwick</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 4.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">43. “What
the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations
or more and novel methods, but men who the Holy Spirit can use—men of prayer,
men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not come on machinery but on men. He
does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.” – E. M. Bounds</span></div>
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Thoughts to Ponder</h2>
<h3 align="center">
REALLY BIG LIST OF THINGS TO
THINK ABOUT</h3>
<ul>
<li>How come you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?</li>
<li>Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called
builts?</li>
<li>Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?</li>
<li>Why do people without out a watch look at their wrist when you ask them what time it is?
Why do you ask someone without a watch what time it is?</li>
<li>Why does sour cream have an expiration date?</li>
<li>Who is General failure and why is he reading my disk?</li>
<li>The light went out, but where to?</li>
<li>Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already
know you don't have?</li>
<li>Why is it you have a "pair" of pants and only one bra?</li>
<li>Does the reverse side also have a reverse side?</li>
<li>Why is the alphabet in that order?</li>
<li>If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what
is it expanding into?</li>
<li>If you got into a taxi and he started driving backwards, would the taxi driver end up
owing you money?</li>
<li>What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?</li>
<li>If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it do the other trees make fun
of it?</li>
<li>Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?</li>
<li>When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss?? It sounds like a
near hit to me!!</li>
<li>Do fish get cramps after eating?</li>
<li>How come abbreviated is such a long word?</li>
<li>Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosylabic"?</li>
<li>If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how
cold is it going to be?</li>
<li>Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything
outdoors?</li>
<li>Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?</li>
<li>If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?</li>
<li>When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?</li>
<li>Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a-door?</li>
<li>Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has
wet paint and he has to touch it.</li>
<li>How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone
threw a gun at him?</li>
<li>Do infants have as much fun in their infancy as adults do in adultery?</li>
<li>If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of
progress?</li>
<li>Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real
lemons?</li>
<li>How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't grow in it?</li>
<li>Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?</li>
<li>Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?</li>
<li>Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?</li>
<li>Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?</li>
<li>Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?</li>
<li>Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?</li>
<li>Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?</li>
<li>What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?</li>
<li>Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?</li>
<li>If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?</li>
<li>Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?</li>
<li>Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?</li>
<li>Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?</li>
<li>I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help
section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.</li>
<li>If all those psychics know the winning lottery numbers, why are they all still working?</li>
<li>Isn't Disneyland a people trap operated by a mouse?</li>
<li>Sooner or later, doesn't EVERYONE stop smoking?</li>
<li>Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until
you hear them speak?</li>
<li>Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?</li>
<li>War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.</li>
<li>If you throw a cat out the window, is it considered kitty litter?</li>
<li>If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still
wrong?</li>
<li>Why do we drive on parkways, and park on driveways?</li>
<li>If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?</li>
<li>If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a
hostage situation?</li>
<li>If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?</li>
<li>Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow? Only to
be troubled and insecure?</li>
<li>Is there another word for synonym?</li>
<li>Isn't is it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?</li>
<li>When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?</li>
<li>When you open a bag of cotton balls, is the top one meant to be thrown away?</li>
<li>Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?</li>
<li>Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?</li>
<li>Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?</li>
<li>Why do they report power outages on TV?</li>
<li>What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?</li>
<li>Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?</li>
<li>Is it possible to be totally partial?</li>
<li>What's another word for thesaurus?</li>
<li>If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON. how do they make it stick to the pan?</li>
<li>If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?</li>
<li>Would a fly without wings be called a walk?</li>
<li>Why do people who know the least know it the loudest?</li>
<li>If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day. 365 days a year. why are there locks on the doors?</li>
<li>If the funeral procession is at night, do folks drive with their headlights off?</li>
<li>If a stealth bomber crashes in a forest, will it make a sound?</li>
<li>If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?</li>
<li>When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?</li>
<li>If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?</li>
<li>Why is the word abbreviation so long?</li>
<li>When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?</li>
<li>If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?</li>
<li>Can a fat person go skinny dipping?</li>
<li>Why do you need a drivers licence to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?</li>
<li>Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?</li>
<li>Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?</li>
<li>Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?</li>
<li>Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?</li>
<li>Have you ever imagined a world with out hypothetical situations?</li>
<li>How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the morning?</li>
<li>If a cow laughed. would milk come out her nose?</li>
<li>If your in a vehicle going the speed of light. what happens when you turn on the
headlights?</li>
<li>Why do they put braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?</li>
<li>Why is it that when you transport something by car, its called a shipment. but when you
transport something by ship. its cargo?</li>
<li>You know that little indestructable black box that is used on planes. Why dont they make
the whole plane out of the same substance?</li>
<li>Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address. you turn down the volume
on the radio?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?</li>
<li>Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people<br />
appear bright until you hear them speak?</li>
<li>How come abbreviated is such a long word?</li>
<li>If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as<br />
cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?</li>
<li>Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?</li>
<li>Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do orientals throw hamburgers?<br />
Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called
builts?</li>
<li>Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together?</li>
<li>Why do people without a watch look at their wrist when you ask them what time it is? Why
do you ask someone without a watch what time it is?</li>
<li>Why does sour cream have an expiration date?</li>
<li>The light went out, but where to?<br />
Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know
you don't have?</li>
<li>Does the reverse side also have a reverse side?<br />
Why is the alphabet in that order?</li>
<li>If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what
is it expanding into?</li>
<li>If you got into a taxi and the driver started driving backward, would the taxi driver
end up owing you money?</li>
<li>What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?</li>
<li>If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make
fun of it?<br />
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?</li>
<li>When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss??<br />
Do fish get cramps after eating?</li>
<li>Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosyllabic"?</li>
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<a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/muslims-dream-jesus/">https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/muslims-dream-jesus/</a></div>
<h1>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">When Muslims Dream of Jesus </span></h1>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<time class="updated article_meta" datetime="2018-05-31T04:02:25+00:00">May
31, 2018 <span class="timeseppy"> |</span> <span class="articlemetaauthor"></span></time><a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/darren-carlson/">Darren
Carlson </a></div>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br />
<header>In 2007, Dudley Woodberry and others
published a study that recounted interviews with 750 former Muslims who had
converted to evangelical Christianity. Many of the reasons they gave for their
conversion would be expected—the love of God, a changing view of the Bible, and
an attraction to Christians who loved others. But one reason might come as a
surprise: the experience of a dream they believed to be from God.
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">These study results aren’t isolated. <em>Mission
Frontiers</em> magazine has reported that out of 600 Muslim converts, 25
percent experienced a dream that led to their conversion. The great missionary
Lillias Trotter also reported dreams that drove Muslims to Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">But what should we say about the role of
dreams and visions in hearing and believing the gospel? </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Religion and Dreams</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Some Christians are understandably hesitant
to accept their legitimacy. Islam started with a vision. So did Mormonism,
along with a long list of cults. Critics wonder how we could evaluate such
dreams to know if they were true. Others believe that with the presence of
Scripture, signs and wonders like dreams are no longer needed. Of course, many
Christians are open to dreams and visions, considering them to be revelatory.
All of us recognize that the Bible details dreams and visions in both
testaments. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">While Christians have a variety of approaches
to dreams, <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/10-things-every-christian-should-know-about-islam/">Muslims</a>—particularly
Shia Muslims—are open to dreams being revelatory, due to both cultural (general
acceptance) and religious (precedent in the Qur’an) factors. Dreams of Jesus,
then, are taken seriously. In recent field work where I interviewed Christian
migrants who’d converted from Islam, many reported a dream that led to their
conversion. Their experiences of dreams and visions fit into the following
categories: </span><br />
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Jesus
speaking Scripture to them, even Scripture they had never heard before.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">Jesus
telling people to do something.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">A
dream or vision that led to a feeling of being clean or at peace.</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;">A man
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Let me share some examples. </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Jesus Speaking Scripture</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">A friend of mine tells of a Persian migrant
who arrived at a refugee center at 6 a.m., visibly upset. He told his story to
a Persian pastor: During the night he saw someone dressed in white raise his
hand and say, “Stand up and follow me.” The Persian man said, “Who are you?”
The man in white replied, “I am the Alpha and the Omega. I’m the way to heaven.
No one can go to the Father, except through me.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">He began to ask the Persian pastor: “Who is
he? What am I going to do? Why did he ask me to follow him? How shall I go?
Tell me.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">In response, the pastor held out his Bible
and asked, “Have you seen this before?” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“No,” he replied. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“Do you know what it is?” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“No.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The pastor then opened to the Book of Revelation:
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.” The man started crying and
said, “How can I accept him? How can I follow him?” So the pastor led him in
prayer and peace came over him. The pastor then gave the man a Bible and told
him to hide it, since the Muslims in the camps could cause him trouble. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">But the man replied, “The Jesus that I met
today, he’s more powerful than the Muslims in the camp.” He left and an hour
later returned with 10 more Persians and told the pastor, “These people want a
Bible.” No one had to teach him an evangelistic strategy. </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Man in White</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Another friend of mine had heard the gospel
in Athens, but she struggled to believe. One day she went home despondent, and
hid behind the couch in her family’s apartment. She began to pray: </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">You know what, God? Since I have absolutely
no excuse, absolutely none, I have run out of excuses. I don’t know what to do,
but following you means I have to deny everything I have believed and
everything all of my family, generation after generation, believed. I can’t be
in the middle. I have to either follow you or not. I can’t do it myself. It’s
just hard to make that step. I need you to help me. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">After she prayed, she did not know whether
she was awake or asleep, but a man in white walked into the room. Her reaction
was to blurt out, “Don’t come close to me. You are holy, and I am a sinner. Do
not get close to me.” The man replied, “[Name], I told you, and I tell you
again, I am the way and the truth. No one comes to the Father except through
me.” That day she believed the gospel and was saved. </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Jesus Is the Door</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Similarly, there was an elderly Afghan woman
that ended up in Athens alone. Her children were still in her home country.
Each week she would walk into a ministry center, clearly overwhelmed with the
troubles in her world. One Persian pastor had prayed with her many times and
explained that the answer to all of her troubles is King Jesus. Like many other
Afghans, she was not interested in the gospel. One day the Persian pastor
asked, “If God reveals himself to you and shows you the truth, will you follow
him?” She just laughed. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">A few weeks later she met Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">During the day she walked by the ministry,
but no one was there. So she sat down to rest just outside of the door.
Suddenly, she saw a bright light coming from behind her, so bright that she
covered her eyes. The light was shining brighter than the sun. In front of her
she saw a big shadow. Then she heard a voice, speaking in her language, “My
daughter, my daughter, the door is open for you. Come!” She replied, “The door
is closed!” Again the voice called to her, “I am the Son of God, Jesus. The
door is open for you, my daughter. I am the door!” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">As she told the story she began trembling,
and her heart was pounding as she proclaimed the peace and joy that she
experienced since hearing Jesus speak to her. She said, “Many times you
[pastor] have encouraged me to pray that God would speak to me. I thought it
was blasphemy! But now I know Jesus is <em>alive</em>.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">After talking to the pastor, she took some
Bibles and began giving them to other people, insisting they must read the
book. </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Jesus Giving Instructions</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">There was a family in Kurdistan where each
member of the household had a separate dream that they should cross the river
the next day to find living water. The next day, without hesitation, they all
went, and someone gave them a Bible. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">They still had that Bible when they came to
Europe. </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Feeling of Peace or Cleansing</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The husband of a woman I know became a
Christian. He had gone to Greece, but she was still in Iran. He would call her
from the refugee camp nearly every day to share the gospel with her. She
decided she would need to get a divorce, since she couldn’t be married to a
Christian and remain a good Muslim. So she decided to look up all the verses in
the Qur’an about Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">She was shocked to find him there, which then
led her to find a Bible. One day, reading the Bible she recounted, “I was in my
room alone, and the whole room became white and I felt completely clean. At
that moment, through trusting in Jesus, I became a Christian.” </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Walked on Water</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">There was family on a boat with other
migrants traveling from Turkey to Athens. On the way they lost their 7-year-old
daughter into the water. Everyone in the crowded boat was looking for her but
couldn’t find her. Suddenly, she appeared on the other side of the boat, saying
over and over, “A man who walked on the water took me and brought me to the
other side of the boat.” The parents dismissed her words as silly. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Upon arriving on the island of Lesbos, they
met a Christian who made a fire and offered to talk to them. That day, without
knowing what happened, he asked if they would like to know about a God who
walked on water. They started crying. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The man had never used that illustration in
evangelism, but that morning he felt like he had to. They asked him, “Who are
you?” to which he replied, “I’m a Christian.” They said, “What do you mean
‘walk on the water’?” He opened the Bible and read the story of Jesus walking
on the water. They continued crying. “Our daughter fell off the boat,” they
explained. “We thought she was crazy because she was dry on the other side. We
didn’t understand it. But she kept saying, ‘It was a man who walked on the
water that took me to the other side.’” </span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">What Shall We Say?</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Those who recounted their dreams truly
believed they were from God, enough that it was part of their story of converting
from Islam to evangelical Christianity. The social cost for many was quite
high. Some leaders who told dream stories were genuinely encouraged by the
dreams, and often prayed for unbelieving Muslims to experience a dream or
vision of Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">It’s not always that simple, though. In some
cases the trustworthiness of the person telling the story was called into
question. One Afghan friend told me, “Sometimes people say they have a dream,
and it’s just some crazy story. Sometimes I believe they read something, and
they have a dream. We need to be careful of that. Many are lazy in waiting for
dreams.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">A U.S. short-term team came to Athens and
held up Greek signs in a park: “We will interpret your dreams.” Later that day
they came to a pastor and said they’d led 14 people to Christ that afternoon
and wanted to pass them off to the pastor. The team left with a great story. No
one ever saw those people in a church. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Instead of dreams, one Persian pastor
encouraged people to read the Bible. “I get tired of people who will not read
the Bible and are just waiting for a dream. They have it backward. They just
need the Bible.” He exhibited a healthy skepticism. Some were converting
because of dreams, but others were making up stories to fit in. Others were
telling a dream story they had heard somewhere else to prove they were
Christians in order to get asylum. Sadly, some ranked testimonies based on
whether or not the person had a dream. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Where the Spirit moves, Satan distorts and
distracts. But we can rejoice in the powerful work of God in the world and
trust the sufficiency of the preached gospel to save sinners. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">As I have pondered the legitimacy of these
dreams, I have been drawn to passages like <a data-purpose="bible-reference" data-reference="Matt 12.22–36" data-version="esv" href="https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt%2012.22%E2%80%9336" target="_blank">Matthew
12:22–36</a>, where the validity of Jesus’s own ministry was questioned. Would
Satan cast out Satan? Would he give dreams filled with Scripture, pointing to
Jesus, that ultimately lead to conversion and purity? I doubt it. The Spirit is
still on the move, saving his people from among the nations. Of course Satan
tries to attack and muddle what is real, but this should cause us to be
discerning, not dismissive. </span><br />
</header>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-77012069640977120892018-06-02T18:45:00.002-07:002018-06-02T18:45:24.708-07:00a few thoughts...Every cell in your body, every neuron in your brain, is either male in its genetic makeup (XY) or female (XX). Neither words, hormones, nor scalpels can change these and many other objective and sex-linked facts about you that you did not choose, that were handed to you at the first instant that you became you—at the instant of conception. No existential desire, personal preference, cosmetic camouflage, hormonal infusion, or tissue-destroying surgery alters – or can alter — that reality – these techniques can only distort it. On the surface, sex can be superficially obfuscated; it cannot be obliterated. <br />AND<br />The gender confused person seeks to impose upon and overbear the conscience of all others. The confused person is insisting that others pretend he or she is a different sex and that they thereby participate in or become complicit in this person’s confusion. The people refusing to employ the wrong pronoun in constrast however are not similarly insisting that the confused person use the proper reality-based pronoun. Rather, those people are simply standing on reality and conscience and aligning their vocabulary with those choices, a position perfectly consistent with human flourishing and liberty—and a Christian ethic. --Jeffery J. Ventrella<br /><br /><br />Transformation occurs as the contents of the heart are changed. Transformation across a series of decisions occurs when we do things that the Holy Spirit uses to alter the contents of our hearts. He alters it radically in conversion, and then steadily over the course of our sanctification through the various means of grace that He has appointed. --Doug WilsonUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-48352236820952552622018-03-23T18:29:00.002-07:002018-03-23T18:29:11.477-07:00Worth repeating...<a href="http://desiderantangeli.blogspot.com/2016/03/easter-did-not-come-from-pagan-holiday.html">Easter DID NOT Come from pagan holidays </a><br /><br /><a href="http://desiderantangeli.blogspot.com/2016/03/easter-did-not-come-from-pagan-holiday.html">http://desiderantangeli.blogspot.com/2016/03/easter-did-not-come-from-pagan-holiday.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1857064031000368572.post-19364815336223724272018-01-25T16:53:00.003-08:002018-01-25T16:53:33.261-08:00Hodge Podge for Jan 2018If God should have no more mercy on us than we have charity to one another, what would become of us? —Thomas Fuller<br /><br />The Bible is authoritative in regard to everything it addresses, and it addresses everything. --Van Til<br /><br />I have put my soul, as a blank, into the hands of Jesus Christ my Redeemer, and desired Him to write upon it what he pleases. I know it will be His own image. — George Whitefield<br /><br />A culture that is “spiritual but not religious”–made up of people who have mystical impulses but reject the existing organized religions–is a fertile ground for the introduction of new religions. --gv<br />http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2018/01/new-religions-rushing-into-the-void-old-religions-rushing-off-the-cliff/<br /><br />A commitment to holiness means having a life that is always ready for company and open for inspection. —Nancy Leigh DeMoss<br /><br />If we, including our very Lord, are called to live "not by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from God's mouth," and if we must know that word in order to live by it, and if we cannot know it without reading it, we must read the word intensively and extensively to live as we should before God. --Andrew Sandlin<br />To say that some matter is too little to pray about is to say it's too little for God to care about. This is borderline blasphemy. The God who counts every human hair and sees every falling sparrow cares about every single detail of our lives. --Andrew Sandlin<br /><br />those who claim the Lord's Supper is a simple memorial (a mental exercise recalling what Jesus did) would never say that a marriage is a simple memorial. A real transformation takes place in partaking. <br /><br />“Gathered worship is our weekly celebration of victory that the war is won, that our enemy's head is crushed, and that our future is secure in our returning and conquering king.” —Burk Parsons<br /><br />If we do not have the power of God in our lives, it may be because we are denying it; it may well be that we do not want God to interfere too much with our lifestyle.<br /><br />You can have true Christian churches that don’t baptize the right way. You can have real Christian churches that sing the wrong kind of songs. You can have genuine Christian churches that have adopted unedifying forms of church government. But you can’t have Christian churches that have the wrong God. And biblical marriage is one of the creationally-established and central confessions of faith concerning the nature of God.--D Wilson<br />Male and female, man and woman—this is one of the central places we must look if we are to remember—as we must remember—that the triune God created the world. Not surprisingly, for those who would not have the triune God rule over them, this is the emblem that they must eradicate. The devil is playing the long game, and he is seeking to undo the great accomplishments of the early ecumenical councils, principally Nicea. He is attacking the symbol of our God as embodied in the Creed by attacking the image of our God as embodied in the marriage covenant.<br /><br />To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. —J. C. Ryle<br /><br />Biblical change is not the absence of struggles but the freedom to choose holiness in the midst of our struggles. —Christopher Yuan<br /><br />It is impossible to secure rights on the basis of an atheistic conception of man as a mere fact; yet human beings sense that they are something more. Science rejects those feelings of transcendence, even while politics places its whole trust in them. Atheistic anthropology is stuck in this dilemma, which it cannot solve. --Vladimir Solovyev<br /><br />https://www.christiantoday.com/article/how-to-recognise-spiritual-abuse-8-warning-signs-for-churchesexecute1/123171.htm<br /><br />https://zondervanacademic.com/blog/15-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-eternal-generation-of-the-son/<br /><br />We cannot too much cultivate that spirit of love which disposes us to believe and hope the best we can of others. — John Newton<br /><br />Remember, this is an inescapable concept. It is not whether but which. It is not whether a society will be theocratic, but rather which Theos (God, god) the theocratic society will have. It is not whether we will impose a morality, but rather which morality we will impose. It is not whether we will have blasphemy laws, but rather which blasphemy laws we will have. --dw<br /><br />We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth. —Jerry Bridges<br /><br />Those who have been justified are now being sanctified; those who have no experience of present sanctification have no reason to suppose they have been justified. —F.F. Bruce<br /><br />If whatever is not of faith is sin, if it is not possible to please God without faith, and if faith is nourished in expectation, not to live in expectation in all of life is sin. Simply put: The normal Christian life is one of unremitting expectation of God's working in our lives and in the world. --Andrew Sandlin<br /><br />https://www.challies.com/vlog/why-i-pray-with-an-app-three-minute-thursdays-11/<br /><br />T. S. Eliot poem that says we travel, in part, to return home and “know the place for the first time.”<br /><br />It grieves me to say this, but the primary reason people are in bondage to sin is because people are bored with God. One of Satan’s most effective tactics is to convince us that God is a drag. —Sam Storms<br /><br />When you combine African-American and Hispanic women you have only about ¼ of the female population in our country. Yet these two groups account for 57% of the abortions performed. Every day in America 1,300 black babies and 700 Hispanic babies are killed in America. 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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Christians,
it turns out, are given a choice. One option is to approve of people satisfying
same-sex desires through sexual contact. If Christians do that, they are
believed to love LGBT people. The other option is to affirm Jesus’ teaching
that sexual activity is reserved for a married man and woman (Matt. 19:1–4). If
they do that, then Christians are allegedly hateful towards LGBT people. It’s a
tiresome, false dichotomy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>I read an article where the author suggests that kids will
either grow up believing that LGBT people are “absolutely as worthwhile and
worthy of love and respect as anyone” or believing their parent’s religious
tenets that LGBT people are “awful.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Really?
Are those the only two options? I know that article is just one example, but I
see this thinking <i>a lot </i>(both in person and in print). We either approve
of what someone does (somehow signaling we love them) or we hate them and
they’re awful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>But
here’s what the Christian faith has taught for two millennia. All human
beings—including those who identify as LGBT—are made in the image of God, and
are the pinnacle of God’s creation (Gen. 1:27). Like every person on the
planet, they are to be treated with love, dignity, and respect. Period.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Let
me briefly unpack that. If LGBT people are made in God’s image, then they bear
the hallmark trait that justifies their equality with every other human being.
That’s incredibly amazing and good. If LGBT people are made in God’s image,
then they are to be respected as such in and of themselves. There’s nothing
they can say or do to eliminate that. That’s also amazing and good. If they are
the pinnacle of God’s creation, then they are the highest form of creation.
Again, good stuff!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>That’s
what my “religious tenets” (to use the author’s words) teach me to believe
about LGBT people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Notice,
there’s no “LGBT people are awful” doctrine, teaching, or implication. If they
are awful, they are awful <i>in the same way</i> <i>that any person is awful</i>.
That is, they are people who have committed crimes against God and deserve to
be punished. But the Bible teaches <i>every person on the planet</i> deserves
to be punished (Rom. 3:9–10). They are guilty just like every other person.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Though
that certainly sounds like bad news (for everyone), the good news is that God
loves His creation and declares people (including LGBT) are redeemable. Because
of His grace, He is willing to offer a pardon. That applies <i>equally</i> and <i>in
the same way</i> to LGBT people and to every other person on the planet who
receives that grace. There’s no distinction between people. It’s the same grace
and the same amount of grace offered to all.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Do
you see a pattern? LGBT people are equally His image, equally guilty, and are candidates
for God’s grace as any other person on the planet who receives that grace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>When
the author of the article says he wishes that children of religious parents
would grow up believing that LGBT people are to be treated with love, dignity, and
respect, that’s no problem. That’s what our religious convictions affirm (at
least for Christians).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Where
the author and many others seem to get confused is when they learn of an
additional teaching conveyed by Christ: Sexual contact can only occur between a
married man and woman. That, somehow, translates to “Christians believe LGBT
people are awful.”</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Yes,
it’s true that people who have sex with others of the same sex are violating
Jesus’ teaching. That does <i>not </i>mean we think people who do so are awful.
It means their <i>behavior</i> is sin and they are guilty of sin, but it is not
a statement about how LGBT people deserve to be hated by Christians. They are
still to be treated with love, dignity, and respect as anyone else is. We’re
still commanded to love them.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span>The
same is true of boyfriends and girlfriends who have sex (fornication). They are
also violating Jesus’ sexual ethic. They are also guilty of sin. They are also to
be treated with love, dignity, and respect as anyone else is. We’re commanded
to love them too. The same is true of any person who violates Jesus’ teaching
on sex or any other moral principle found in Scripture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Now,
are there some people who believe LGBT people are awful, and not to be loved
and respected? Yes. In fact, I’ve met a few. After speaking at a church on this
subject, one man confided in me and told me about his genuine homophobia. That
is wrong, and I told him. Most Christians I speak to, though, aren’t like him.
They express their frustration to me that though they love their LGBT friend or
family member and treat them with respect, they’re told they’re being hateful
because of their adherence to Jesus’ teaching on sexuality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>That’s
why the dichotomy presented so often in this discussion is a false dichotomy.
There’s another option. We can recognize that people who violate Jesus’ sexual
ethic in scripture are committing sin <i>and</i> are not awful. We can
acknowledge that people sin <i>and</i> are still to be treated with love, dignity,
and respect. What a concept! Most Christians I know
personally do this every day.</span></span></div>
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<b><a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevin-deyoung/greatness-giving-thanks/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> --by Kevin DeYoung </span></a></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
are 13 letters from Paul in the New Testament, and in 9 of them he explicitly
gives thanks for the recipients of the letter (Rom. 1:8; 1 Cor. 1:4-8; Eph.
1:15-16; Phil. 1:3-5; Col. 1:3-5; 1 Thess. 1:2-3; 2 Thess. 1:3-4; 2 Tim. 1:3-5;
Phm. 4-5). The only exceptions are 2 Corinthians (where he jumps in with a word
of comfort), 1 Timothy and Titus (for whom he implicitly gives thanks), and
Galatians (who were in danger of apostasy). The mighty apostle Paul was a man
marked by gratitude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul
did not have an easy life. He was beaten, slandered, misunderstood, imprisoned,
shipwrecked, stoned, and opposed by someone almost everywhere he went.
Nevertheless, he was profoundly grateful. Being grateful has little to do with
your circumstances. Sure, it’s easier to be happy when everything is coming up
roses, but we’ve all known people who seem to have everything, and yet are
terrifically unhappy. Conversely, we all know people who seem to find hidden
blessings in every trial. Grumbler or thanks-giver: we really do have a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Think
of the godliest people you know, the saints you most respect, the ones you want
to be like when you grow up, the believers you want to emulate and imitate.
Almost certainly, the people you are thinking of are thankful people. Cynics
and critics may be celebrated on social media and on late-night television, but
they do not make great heroes of the faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Despite
his many earthly reasons to complain, Paul was constantly giving thanks to
God—and not mainly for food or health or safety (though all are worth
remembering), but for triumphs of the gospel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Look
at the beginning of Paul’s letter and notice what he gives thanks for in the
churches.</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have
gave thanks for their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans, Ephesians,
Colossians, 1, 2 Thessalonians, Philemon).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He gave
thanks for their love for all the saints (Ephesians, Colossians, 1, 2
Thessalonians, Philemon).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He gave
thanks for their steadfastness, especially in trials (1, 2 Thessalonians).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He gave
thanks for their spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He gave
thanks for their partnership in the gospel (Philippians).</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He gave
thanks for their history and mutual affection (2 Timothy).</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s
quite a list, especially when I consider the things that I’m most naturally
thankful for (my family, a house, a job, good health, safe travel, nice
holidays). These are all gifts from God too. There is no shame in thanking God
for a million different things. After all, every good and perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights (James 1:17). But Paul’s list
reminds us of the greatest gifts: gospel faith, gospel partnerships, and gospel
victories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
most Americans gather around the table this Thursday, take a moment to put on
your apostle Paul hat and share what gospel graces you are thankful for. And
while you’re at it, think about the friends and family you’d love to be like.
Chances are they are overflowing with gratitude, even more than they are
overflowing with turkey and stuffing.</span></div>
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