The Epidemic of a Seared Conscience – Dr. Mike Spaulding
Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn’t exist in any declaration I have ever read.[1]
Many Americans have been propagandized to the extent that they now form an entire subclass – the perpetually offended. What are the signs? One of the most glaring signs of this new genre of the walking infantile is the belief, often expressed by aggressive and even violent behavior, that anyone or thing that offends them ought not to be allowed to exist.
People that think this way apparently believe that the universe operates according to their ideology. They have no real justification for believing this way. They can’t point to any standard of moral reasoning, logical analysis, or time-tested system of thought that supports their viewpoint. They further demonstrate their ignorance by believing everyone would be better off believing like they do. Remarkable, they think they are the modern equivalent of the knights of old, riding in to rescue the damsels in distress, in this case culture, civility, and the American way. The truth that these individuals cannot grasp is something much different.
Here is a case in point: Two University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students were recently arrested and charged with assault. What led to their arrests? They were arrested after they physically and violently attacked a pro-life activist who was on the campus with Created Equal, a group that uses dialogue to attempt to persuade people that abortion is the murder of unborn human beings. One of the strategies that Created Equal uses is the prominent display of actual pictures of the dismembered bodies of babies, the result of “choice” as abortion is euphemistically called by those attempting to disguise the barbaric truth of what abortion is and does to the preborn human.
Pictures of babies who have suffered the cruelest fate imaginable are a powerful reminder of the truth of what abortion really is. Pictures leave no room for debate about abortion being “women’s reproductive healthcare” as the brainwashed like to call it. Abortion ends the life of the baby and therefore trying to obfuscate this truth by calling it “reproductive healthcare” is idiocy.
The university students mentioned above were shocked when law enforcement officers arrested them. They could not believe that their noble cause of violently opposing and assaulting pro-life individuals resulted in arrest. One of the students said, “I cannot believe this is happening,” referring to her arrest.
Another example of the same mindset demonstrated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill child murder supporters is the now infamous behavior of Pennsylvania State Representative Brian Sims. Sims, the self-proclaimed champion of a woman’s right to murder her unborn child, thought he was valiant and courageous for demeaning, belittling, and verbally intimidating an elderly woman outside a baby murder facility.
What was the crime that set Sims over the edge? This grandmother was walking in front of the murder mill while praying silently. For this gross offense Sims took it upon himself to video the woman, demanding her name and address, offering a money reward to anyone who would identify her and where she lived so that he and others that think like he does could go harass her at her home.
In the least Sims demonstrated that he has no business making decisions that affect citizens of the state of Pennsylvania in his capacity as a State Representative. More troubling than that however, is the fact that Sims thought it perfectly normal to call for a mass turnout of like-minded baby murderers to intimidate an individual for having the temerity to be at a place where women murder their children and pray that they would change their minds.
Then there is the recent case of the morally bankrupt young women celebrating the act of murdering babies by dancing through a graveyard of crosses representing aborted babies. This publicity stunt was noteworthy for the callousness with which these young women were exulting child murder. Here is one report of this incident:
Planned Parenthood supporters at the University of Texas at San Antonio protested at a Students for Life symbolic cemetery for the unborn.
The incident occurred on April 9 as Students for Life commemorated aborted babies through a cemetery display, the pro-life nonprofit group revealed in a press release Wednesday. Students for Life set up pink crosses and talked to students about pro-life options as part of a spring Planned Parenthood Truth Tour throughout college campuses.
Young women from the university’s Students United for Planned Parenthood group interrupted the memorial activity. The protesters strode through the assembled crosses, shouted and waved signs, according to video footage.
“Look, there’s mine right there,” one Planned Parenthood supporter shouted in the video, pointing at a cross and pretending an aborted baby lay beneath it. A student shouted across the cemetery that she loves having sex and aborting babies. “My number one kink,” she can be heard saying in the video, as noted by Students For Life.
“I love advocating for abortion! My uterus loves advocating for abortion,” another girl shouted, waving her sign. “When I say Planned, you say Parenthood. When I say aborted, you say fetuses!”
“It’s a fetus graveyard!” another protester said.[2]
What has happened to a great number of men and women in America is that their conscience has become seared. Their mind is in a state of depreciating ability to grasp morality personally and interpersonally. They have become incapable of moral reasoning and logical analysis that lead to guilt or shame related to their thinking and behavior. They are being turned over to the darkness they crave and prostitute themselves to and on behalf of.
Depending on the severity of the behavior, psychologists call this psychopathic or sociopathic behavior. The difference between the two is that a psychopath has no conscience remaining. The psychopath’s conscience is completely seared and devoid of any emotion of shame or guilt associated with their behavior. Ironically, Hollywood glamorizes this behavior, giving tacit approval to the violent and murderous results of psychopathic people.
The sociopath has a small amount of conscience remaining. This person might still feel a twinge of guilt but not enough to stop their evil behavior. Both the psychopath and sociopath are dangerous to others with which they interact and especially those with whom they disagree. Courtrooms across this nation are filled with cases involving the egregious behavior of people with little to no functioning conscience.
All of the examples above demonstrate varying states of the inability to reason morally. America is well down the path of being wrested from its moral foundations by psychopaths and sociopaths whose faculties have been impaired by evil. What can be done to correct this development? We must first understand what we are dealing with.
J.I. Packer* said concerning conscience that:
An educated, sensitive conscience is God’s monitor. It alerts us to the moral quality of what we do or plan to do, forbids lawlessness and irresponsibility, and makes us feel guilt, shame, and fear of the future retribution that it tells us we deserve, when we have allowed ourselves to deny its restraints…Satan’s strategy is to corrupt, desensitize, and if possible kill our consciences. The relativism, materialism, narcissism, secularism, and hedonism of today’s Western world help him mightily toward his goal. His task is made yet simpler by the way in which the world’s moral weaknesses have been taken into the contemporary church.[3]
Packer identified the real crux of the issue. Conscience is a God-given warning system that has been deliberately turned off today in a large number of Americans. An alarm cannot warn of danger if it is not connected to a power source.
Slowly and over time the innate ability of Americans to determine right from wrong has been strategically and with malice corrupted. The constant drive to remove and even erase Christianity from the public mind and memory has borne the rottenest of fruit culturally speaking.
How can a culture sustain moral uprightness from generation to generation when even the Church, that instrument of God meant to inform and when necessary, correct culture, begins to emulate the culture? When a society becomes seared in conscience, when a critical mass of people begin to think and advocate for evil under the guise of good, and exchange light for darkness, their minds become seared as with a branding iron and the resultant scar tissue renders them incapable of returning to correct thinking and behavior absent a radical surgery.
The Church is meant to be God’s scalpel, guided by His hand to make perfect incisions to remove the cancer of evil, the scar tissue of a seared conscience, and in so doing, restore right thinking and behavior to all individuals. When the Church refuses to do that mass deception is allowed to congeal and that environment creates hostility toward the truth of man’s precarious condition and toward the only solution to his dilemma.
The answer to this predicament is not for the Church to go with the flow, to seek the path of least resistance, to affirm inclusiveness as that term is meant today and throw open the doors to culture. The only answer that will turn America around is a full-on biblical revival that must start in the pulpits of America and sweep through the local bodies of Christ spread out over this nation. That kind of revival cannot be contained and it will spill over into local school boards, city councils, college campuses, businesses, state representatives, and finally our national leadership. When God’s people once again bow their knee to Him alone, then revival will come, minds will be freed from the bondage of the demonic slavery imposed upon them from God-hating miscreants who have secretly snuck into our churches, communities, and governments at every level.
True biblical revival will transform hearts, heal minds, and lead to tangible action by those delivered from their bondage. True biblical revival will come on the heels of true repentance, a faith that demonstrates a changed heart, mind, and life trajectory.
The Scriptures[4] tell us that: There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. John 1:9
This means that only through faith in Christ will people become free from a seared conscience and the inevitable consequence of that state. Christian, rise up and take your place in the army of God, and march forward in victory, for our God has given us this land. Occupy until He returns!
[1] Quote attributed to author Salman Rushdie found here – https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/offense
[2] See https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/02/planned-parenthood-texas-unborn-cemetery/
[3] J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness.
[4] All Scripture quotations are from the New American Standard Bible, The Lockman Foundation, 1995.
*My original post listed Mr. Packer as “The late.” Mr. Packer is very much alive. My apologies to him and readers.
Barbwire Removes Article Critical of Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council?
I discovered something curious. This is a snapshot of a webpage on Julio Severo’s blog, Last Days Watchman. The red arrows are pointing to hyperlinks. The text links to http://archive.is/Ku5jS.
When you click on either link a snapshot from “archive.today” opens. The entire archived page is published on this webpage below this text. The snapshot of the Barbwire page was taken on March 1, 2019. The page is not published on Barbwire. It is, however, published on Julio’s blog, along with a follow up article he wrote. Here are those webpage links.
http://lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com/2019/02/family-research-council-serving.html
http://lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com/2019/03/who-is-bothered-that-i-asked-more.html
What is this all about?
The Unforgivable Sin: Opposing Liberalism
The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made in the image and likeness of God, and reduced him… to a component part of the universe… This distortion of the true nature of man was due principally to the philosophy of historical liberalism, which saw man as endowed with no higher destiny than the economic. There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is a new unforgivable sin. — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
I discovered the quote above at a Roman Catholic website called The Vulnerable People Project.
I was drawn to the website because of the following idea stated on page one of the site, “The Great Campaign for a civilization that venerates the dignity, beauty and worth of the human person from the first movement of life to natural death and spiritedly defends life at every level of governance, from that of the smallest village to alliances and agreements among sovereign nations”
The gold nugget in this ideological dig is “venerating the dignity, beauty and worth of the human person.”
God drew me to this early in my adult life. On February 3, 1980 I decided to follow Jesus. I invited Him to rule over me. I became a partisan for Jesus Christ. After marriage and four years of college studying theology and philosophy God gifted me with four years of living with troubled souls at a place called Bethany Acres. I am honored to have been given the opportunity during those years to not only cooperate with God and my wife in the creation of three boys, but to lead Bethany Acres.
God challenged me to think and act bigger than Bethany Acres. He put me at the Christian Civic League of Maine where He told me to venerate the dignity, beauty and worth of the human person in state government. God further refined that calling. He helped me to take a stand for over two decades in that position for Christian morality.
Paul the Apostle wrote:
“I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith — that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.”
Philippians 3:8-10
The source of Christian power is suffering.
From a page at the Vulnerable People Project website:
As the price of calling ourselves Christians, we must make our case for natural law, religious and economic liberty, the sanctity of life, and the truth about sex year in and year out, regardless of the vagaries of particular candidates and party platforms. Pragmatically, we have no other option. All those truths are inevitable implications of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which He ordered us to preach even in the face of persecution, offering us this promise:“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Matthew 5: 10-12) Millions of Christians have seen the need to keep fighting as clearly as many Catholics have. In fact, evangelical leaders and theologians have come a long way toward accepting the necessity of classically Catholic natural law reasoning, instead of relying on Biblical proof-texts, cultural inertia, and natural repugnance in fighting back against the latest outrages proposed by sexual revolutionaries. This is enormous progress. As the ecumenical effort to fight back against the Obama administration’s HHS mandate showed, Christians can prevail when we act together—when the Protestant owners of Hobby Lobby cooperate with the Little Sisters of the Poor. There are many organizations that serve the cause of protecting religious liberty and unborn life across denominational lines, and we should energetically support them. We should also work with other organizations fighting to preserve the basic liberties of Americans, even if they are not religiously motivated, to protect our own rights to economic initiative, self-defense, private property, and free speech. We must look back to the dignified, free, responsible vision of man upon which our great Republic was founded, a profoundly Christian vision, which is Catholic because it is true. Defending the Bride of Christ from the modernist agenda, this will be our reason to have been here. There is nothing lovelier, nothing more profound, than the correct and true teachings of the Catholic Church positively impacting the individual, a society, a nation and the world.
Make no mistake this fight is both Christian and global. God is pulling back the veil and letting us see in bold colors the profound evil, hatred and ugliness that is Satan. We fight Him. While it is true that the Left has obviously decided to make Him their god, we see every single person in this satanic movement as a person who has intrinsic dignity, beauty and worth.
God help us to win.
Cook, Jones, Kavanaugh and the Collapse of the Left
The Supreme Court nomination process isn’t that big a deal. Most people don’t care about politics or news. FoxNews is the most watched cable news channel. There are over three hundred million people in America. FoxNews gets just over a million viewers a day.
More people watched them during the recent full day hearing on the Kavanaugh nomination. But only twenty million watched that debacle. Rush Limbaugh gets ten million listeners a day.
The numbers are as high as they are with the Kavanaugh hearing because of sex. We are drawn to sex because it is a powerful influence in everybody’s life.
Stephen Baskerville thinks deeply about this. And he writes about it. His most recent book is “The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power.” The description of the book begins, “What Newsweek calls ‘the politics of sex’ is a force far greater than campaigns to recognize same-sex marriage, liberalize abortion, or admit women and homosexuals to military combat. These debates represent only the tip of a much larger trend, the full dimensions and implications of which we are only now beginning to comprehend.”
The activities of politicians and supreme court judges mean nothing to most people. The process has become so corrupt and arcane that the average person just tries to avoid all of it … unless it’s about sex. Like iron filings to a magnet our attention is drawn by this powerful force of nature — sex. The Left has turned sex into a tool of control. They use it to increase their power over masses of people all over the world.
That is why they used Christine Blasey Ford and accusations of sexual misconduct from two other women at the last minute of the Kavanaugh nomination hearing. The Left knew they couldn’t derail Trump’s second pick for the court without manufacturing outrage. They timed the “revelations” to focus the pussy hat brigade’s outrage at just the right moment.
The feminist moment, however, is passing. More and more people wake up every day to how they are being manipulated by all of the institutions of the West. The relatively small cabal of satanically rich people in the world are facing a challenge that may defeat their selfish agenda. It is still early in what many are calling an information war. For the first time in my life I’m sensing that the balance of power is shifting away from these profoundly wicked individuals and families.
The cornerstone of the wall that protects the power of these oligarchs has been removed. Ironically, they are the ones who have initiated the collapse. Their censorship gambit isn’t going to work. Their wall of protection is collapsing.
As we ride through the breach we discover the delicious irony of the sexual deviant Tim Cook proclaiming that Alex Jones “sucks.”
Right.
Walmart Promotes Evil in Austin: Alex Jones Calls Them Out
I watched this video.
Alex Jones is a lion. If you don’t believe me then watch his actions in this video. He roars and parades like a male lion. I love it. The masculine virtues on display. Testosterone included.
What is Walmart doing allowing it’s brand to be associated with this nonsense? Did you notice the reaction of the panelists to the roars of the Lion? Sniveling isn’t too harsh a description.
The tone and style of the Left used to seduce me.
No longer. I hate it.
The “men” on the stage disgusted me.
Praise for a Gutsy Priest
I became hopeful in the late 1980s. The evangelical institution I led was ten years into a very public fight in Maine over homosexuality, law, religion and politics. As I reached the high point in my career news broke internationally about homosexual priests in the Archdiocese of Boston. I was certain that the backlash against this evil would benefit our campaigning in Maine.
I was wrong.
I spent the 1990s working closely with a Catholic layman, Paul Madore, from Lewiston.
Paul Madore talking with my son, Sean
While I associated with the lobbyist of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Maine I never trusted him. Much of his work in the Maine State House on behalf of Catholics was supportive of the Left. His work was partisan. It often favored Democrats. Nothing was accomplished on “social issues” in the State House.
During those years my ministry focused all of her resources on taking the “gay” debate public. We decided to force the debate out of the State House using the referendum. This strategy slowed them down. It didn’t stop them.
The Roman Catholic hierarchy sided with the Left the whole time. The homosexual crisis in Boston didn’t affect their political posture on “gay” rights. While they feigned resistance they were doing everything they could to support the homosexual political agenda.
The reason for this is now clear.
Many Priests are actively homosexual. The current Pope supports homosexuality in the hierarchy of his church. Evidence?
How about Father Paul Kalchik, pastor of Resurrection Parish in Chicago. I should also mention Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano. I’ll save that for another post. Google his name.
Kalchik is no longer pastor of Resurrection Parish. He was removed by his Bishop, a Cardinal Cupich.
His “sin?”
He burned a rainbow flag.
It wasn’t just any rainbow flag.
“This was no regular rainbow flag, but a banner merging the Cross with the rainbow,” a parishioner explained. “It was not innocent. It was a signal that this parish would be the new ‘gay’ parish, as Fr. Daniel Montalbano’s previous church, St. Sebastian, home to gay Masses, had burned down.” Montalbano was close friends with Cdl. Joseph Bernardin, who presided over Resurrection parish’s 1991 inaugural Mass, the rainbow flag draped over the crucifix in the sanctuary. Montalbano was a known homosexual, holding gay parties in the parish basement. He died an untimely death at age 50, his body found in his rectory bedroom hooked up to a sex machine. A parish staff member who was eyewitness to the event spoke with Church Militant and confirmed the account. After Montalbano failed to respond to knocking on his bedroom door, staff broke down the door to find Montalbano naked and still attached to the contraption. The archdiocese covered up the incident, reporting that Montalbano had died from a “heart attack,” offering him a priest’s funeral shortly afterward. And Kalchik didn’t just burn the flag. He held an exorcism. The Chicago Sun-Times reported, “Kalchik led seven parishioners in a prayer of exorcism Friday, and the flag was burned inside a portable fire pit placed in the schoolyard next to the church. The ashes of the flag now rest in a church compost heap.”
Kalchik was twice molested, once by a Priest. The Chicago Sun-Times said that Kalchik equates the flag with predatory behavior.
This man is a hero to Jesus Christ. I don’t care what the Pope or Archbishop Cupich thinks. Jesus Christ loves this man and he will be rewarded on judgment day. He is telling the truth. He is fighting for the dignity of his church.
The Left IS predatory. They hate people, especially babies. They loathe innocence.
They hate. We don’t. Kalchik doesn’t. He loves enough to tell the truth. God is blessing him. And God is finally exposing the rot in Western institutions. It is fundamentally sexual.
It is perverse. We are sick.
Repent.
Let’s Put the Hate Thing on the Table in Post Number One … My Introduction
A couple weeks ago I listened to George Gilder’s book, “Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy.” The book deepened my interest in all things “Crypto.” Steve Martin, a friend in Maine, introduced me to a blockchain-based blogging project called Steemit earlier this year. I created an account and then set the whole thing aside over the summer. This past weekend I finally published my introductory post to the platform. Following is what I published there.
Let’s get this out of the way in my introduction to the Steemit community. I am a Christian. I hate sin. I hate it most in myself. I also hate it generally.
This means that I hate homosexuality. I hate it because it is one expression of sin. It is an especially vile version of sex outside the covenant of marriage.
Why do I bring this up in my introduction?
If you take time to visit my website I think it will become obvious.
In summary, I was ejected from the cockpit of the Christian Civic League of Maine in 2009 for hating homosexuality. Given the emerging embrace of all things sodomy in the West I suspect more people than ever might argue that I hit my head on the canopy on the way out. Nothing else, they would kindly (I’m sure) suggest, can explain my intransigence on this issue.
I served that ministry for over two decades.
I hope to write here notwithstanding my obvious violation of the “hate” policy that I’m sure exists in the Steemit guidelines. I’d rather get downvoted right from the start than find out down the road that Steemit is no more resistant to censorship than Google or Facebook.
And … I’m only going to write this once. I can’t think of one “gay” person that I hate. Jesus tells me that I must love my enemies. I do that … by writing and thinking truthfully. Homosexuals pervert this by making all arguments against their ideology into personal animus.
Grow up.
The article features an educator named Robert Oscar Lopez. He abandoned the “gay” lifestyle years ago. He thoughtfully blogs about the issue.
MassResistance is now featuring him in a series of videos. This article is the fourth in that series. The article highlights and introduces the video.
No thoughtful person is going to outright reject the ideas presented by Professor Lopez. A person exposes their political prejudice by not engaging the content of this material. Resorting to hatecalling isn’t helpful.
I am saddened that even the Southern Baptist Church is now being drawn into the perverse intellectualizing related to the dishonest political campaigning of the noxious Left. Figures like Tim Keller and Albert Mohler are theologizing the confusion.
They need to stop it.
Christianity is clear about marriage and sexuality. Our leadership must be equally clear. How about they invest their significant intellectual powers in stigmatizing this vile sin instead of rationalizing it.
Gaining more worldly power isn’t worth it.
Not for Christians.
Settled Law
By Fritz Spencer
When our teacher first placed us in long rows so that we no longer hopped, hooted, or capered to the right or left like so many lambs or baby goats, she gave us the first laws which applied outside the home. Similarly, when our small but growing legs were steady enough, and when our unsure minds were equal to the task, our teacher showed us how to cross a busy street, by looking first to the left and then to the right. Her instructions were exactly what the occasion required, and therefore could not be otherwise. They were based on reason, and could not be altered without exposing the children to harm; and her rules applied not only to one child, but to all. Thus her rules met the criteria of a valid, settled law.
Under our form of government, the people or their representatives may change any law, up to and including the laws which comprise the fundamental law of the land, the Constitution. In that sense, no law in America is completely settled. Nor is it proper in the context of the current controversy over abortion to use the phrase “settled law” because the phrase implies the controversy, with regards to the law, is over; when on the contrary, abortion remains the most intensely debated issue of the day. The phrase “settled law” is therefore not merely deceptive. It is the direct opposite of the truth.
The oldest and most venerable of all settled laws is the prohibition against the shedding of innocent blood. It is a law older than the Code of Hammurabi, which was written on columns of granite, and older than the Ten Commandments, written on tablets of stone. So old is the law that it is written on the heart of man in the form of instinct. Man by nature abhors homicide. Thus a law which permits the shedding of innocent blood, as does any law permitting abortion, is not really a law at all, but a form of violence, violence being defined as the morally unjustified use of force. In the case of abortion, the victims are the most defenseless among us; and the violence is done by precisely those who are entrusted with their care and devotion. Moreover, the shedding of innocent blood is the only act which may not be made good or bad according to circumstances. Thus a man is morally justified in stealing a loaf of bread if he or his family is starving, but the shedding of innocent blood is prohibited even in the cruelest of wars.
The act of aborting a child remains evil in itself, in all times, in all places, under all circumstances; and is prohibited by the most settled law of all mankind. For any legislator or jurist to deny this obvious truth is deception, whether he or she is a United States Senator, as is Susan Collins, who is in favor of abortion, or a nominee to be a justice of the Supreme Court, as is Judge Kavanaugh, who is against abortion. In the case of Judge Kavanaugh, the disavowal of this easily understood concept causes inestimable damage to the pro-life movement and to the law and our existing social order, which at all times must be based on reason and truth. And it may well be that Judge Kavanaugh is telling a lie to secure a personal advantage. This is a good time to heed the admonition of the late Senator John McCain, who said, “We must never trade principle for personal advantage.” By doing so, Kavanaugh is automatically disqualified from holding a seat on the Supreme Court.
Our journey through life begins at birth. The journey is a long and arduous one, filled with joy and suffering, laughter and tears, and many unseen and unexpected hazards. We will stumble less if we are guided by legislators who enact laws that are just and merciful, and by judges who tell the truth. And above all, we must uphold the oldest and most settled of all laws, the prohibition against the shedding of innocent blood.
Men for Christ
My insurance man invited me to help him yesterday. When I found out he was doing physical labor I decided to help. I drove one hour to join five other old men. They gathered together to build a fence. The fence was erected to keep toddlers from wandering across the dirt road to the waterfront that is nearby.
The Holy Spirit told me to go when I was invited. When I decided to heed the Holy Spirit’s nudge I didn’t know why I was going.
The obvious benefit was hard work. I enjoyed using the iron bar and post hole digger more than I would have enjoyed speeding along behind the high powered boat tied to the wharf nearby. There’s something about dirt and rocks. There were lots of rocks embedded in the dirt. This made me grateful for the boy toy excavator that showed up to help us with the task.
The only way to open the holes without the excavator was to get down on your hands and knees with a crowbar and screwdriver. It was good. Very good.
The Bible records this about Noah, “And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.”
Work is from God. Welfare is from Satan. Work is not easy. Work is divine. There is no substitute for manly work. Work is hard. Work is a curse. Thank you Jesus.
Being with those men in the dirt was spiritual. It wasn’t spiritual because we were putting up a fence at a Christian camp. We were doing that. It was spiritual because it was hard, involved dirt and it took a group of men cooperating to get it done.
While this work is good fighting for righteousness in a manly way is better. It takes men to establish justice in the earth.
Paul the Apostle writes in his letter to the Philippians, “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” I love that phrase “Be careful for nothing.” Don’t be overly cautious. Be bold. Dare … in prayer. But prayer isn’t any good without actions.
James wrote, “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.“
Men in Christ build fences to protect innocence, life and purity. It is called law and politics.
Child murder and the rape of innocence by the “gay” cause will stop when the Men of Christ decide to stop it. Not before.
Shame on the pastors for forcing Christianity behind the walls of the stained glass fortresses we call churches. Shame on us for not standing up for Jesus in our workplaces. Shame on our politicians for not simply ending the nonsense.
God will not be mocked.
Let’s get busy building fences for Jesus.
You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Maine people don’t care about the children of Maine. Christians are to blame. We don’t care. If we did we would do something to make this stop.
This is what Jesus said about innocent and impressionable children, “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”
I can’t think of anything more offensive and dangerous to impressionable young minds than what this headline in last week’s Lewiston Sun Journal says, “Drag Queen Story Hour coming to Lewiston.”
This is what I wrote originally, “Christians have no excuse before God if they don’t demand that this ‘event’ be cancelled. Now.” I’m tempering that a bit. I read the whole story a second time. I discovered the “story hour” isn’t taking place in a public library. It’s being held in what looks like a private bookstore.
The article by Lindsay Tice is a good example of propaganda and cultural marxism. She sandwiches a couple benign Facebook comments critical of the event in between glowing praise for this evil.
The article makes it appear that everyone is just fine with this going on in their community.
Or how about Paul Madore. He’s a 69 year old grandfather of 35 and father to 9 LEWISTON children with a very public history of objecting to this sort of nonsense. Why isn’t he quoted in the story. I wonder if Lindsay Tice called any local Christian priests or pastors? I wonder what they would say about this. I’m afraid to ask, frankly. The Southern Baptist Church is playing footsie with this nonsense for goodness sakes. They think that if they make peace with the LGBTQ-P (pedophile) movement their children and grandchildren that have abandoned their doctrine will return to help them pay for their megachurch parking lot loans.
God is not going to continue ignoring this. And the Bible is packed with accounts of what happens when He runs out of patience.
If this weren’t in some hole-in-the-wall bookstore that I’ve never heard of I’d be tempted to dig out my “America’s Future” sign and go stand on the sidewalk outside praying while the demons enter into the little children.