Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
2Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
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I remember as a kid hearing about the KGB infiltrating churches so they could later arrest the pastors and other leaders. Communism hates Christianity and those who worship God so the CCP China virus has exposed this same hatred for God and Christianity in the West today. Now, in Canada ‘The Chilliwack RCMP says it is investigating whether in-person church services held Sunday contravened provincial health orders meant to slow the spread of COVID-19.
“Although the vast majority of places of worship in Chilliwack and throughout our region are complying with the directions of the provincial health order, a small number of congregations continue to conduct in-person services contrary to” the order, the RCMP said in a Sunday media release.
It comes after several churches in the Fraser Valley held in-person services last Sunday, defying the regulation they say violates their constitutional rights.
Langley’s Riverside Calvary Chapel was issued a $2,300 fine for violating the order.
Police said they would not comment further, in order to protect the integrity of the investigation and the privacy of “all individuals.”
Both Free Grace Baptist Church and Free Reformed Church in Chilliwack also held services last weekend.
The province banned in-person worship on Nov. 19, citing surging COVID-19 case numbers.
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said there had been transmission in such settings.’https://globalnews.ca/news/7505494/bc-churches-defy-coronavirus-order/
Psalm 119:11 “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”
‘A recent New Scientist article has suggested that morality is something which evolved rather than being a gift of God. It is hard to see how this might be so. For example, an animal that remains faithful to its mate might seem to be at an evolutionary disadvantage, as there is no robust variety in the genetic makeup of the pair’s offspring, whereas a male that freely mates with every female in sight has a wide genetic variety in its offspring. The seemingly moral behavior would, therefore, be anti-evolutionary.
The New Scientist article argues that many animals exhibit altruistic behavior. They cite the following examples:
Chimpanzees reconcile after a squabble and console each other after a defeat, rats share food with another rat pal, and wolves, fully aware of the danger, defend each other against a grizzly bear.
Since such behavior exists, the author argues, it must have been an evolutionary favorable adaptation that caused it. However, this is a very subtle example of the logical fallacy known as circular reasoning. In order to suggest that morality is a product of evolution, the author has had to assume that evolution is true. It is not. When freed from the need to believe the unscientific concept of evolution, we can see that seemingly altruistic behaviors by animals are exactly the sort of things we should observe in a world created by our great and good Creator.’https://creationmoments.com/sermons/the-evolution-of-morals/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-evolution-of-morals&mc_cid=f67e27cad6&mc_eid=00c1dcff3c
I heard Jack Hyles once speak on leadership at a pastor’s conference in a Des Moines, Iowa church and he said something like, “If I told my deacons we were going to become an Episcopal Church, they would agree”. That may not bother some but as an independent Baptist that’s all I needed and I never went to hear Jack Hyles again. Therefore, when I began to hear rumors not only of Jack Hyles but then of his son, David, I wasn’t totally surprised. Now, ‘A former parishioner has filed a class action lawsuit in federal court alleging she was repeatedly raped as a child by the former youth director of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, and that officials at First Baptist and the affiliated Hyles-Anderson College covered up the abuse.
Nanette Miles alleges she was sexually assaulted over a period of several years by David Hyles, the son of Hyles-Anderson College founder and longtime First Baptist pastor Jack Hyles, starting when she was 13 years old in 1976.
The civil complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeks undisclosed damages on behalf of Miles and other individuals who allegedly were harmed by Hyles, other First Baptist leaders and officials of the college.
“Nanette is seeking justice against David Hyles for his reprehensible behavior for herself and many others,” said attorney Ashley Pileika in a statement. “She is friends with at least two other women who were raped by David Hyles and struggle with severe health complications today. Nanette is courageously stepping forward to be their voices as well.”
The lawsuit says that in addition to Miles, at least 10 others “have credibly accused D. Hyles of using his position of power to sexually prey on them” when they were minors, and that “First Baptist and the College staff members were aware of his reprehensible conduct for years and remained silent.”
The suit also said there are “likely hundreds of other survivors that were sexually abused at First Baptist and/or Hyles-Anderson College.”https://julieroys.com/class-action-lawsuit-filed-youth-director-first-baptist-hammond/?mc_cid=1fbb829451&mc_eid=b13d34ad49
Genesis 7:11,12 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. 12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
‘Scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Observatory discovered an enormous ancient lakebed beneath the ice on Greenland.1 Although scientists have found other lakes beneath the ice in Greenland and Antarctica, this was the first dry lakebed found below the ice.2 The new discovery came as a surprise to secular scientists, but it fits perfectly into the Flood narrative.
Using airborne radar, gravity, and magnetic data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge, the team identified a pre-glacial lakebed that is 2,740 square miles in area, about the same size as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Though it’s dry now, at one time it contained water as deep as 820 feet.2
Radar data allowed the team to map the detailed topography of the lakebed below the 1.1 miles of ice, and the gravity and magnetic data permitted an estimate of the thickness of lakebed sediments. Sediments are assumed to be lower density (less gravity) and less magnetic than the crystalline bedrock.
Publishing their results in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Guy Paxman and his co-authors concluded that the pre-ice lake sediments are about 0.75 miles thick.2 They also found well-defined erosional lake terraces on the edge of the lake that indicated its past water level.1
Of course, the three-quarter mile of sediment is assumed to have taken hundreds of thousands or even millions of years to accumulate.2 But these ages are based on uniformitarian assumptions. Under the right conditions, these sediments could have easily built up in just a few hundred years or less.
Looking at the evidence from both a scientific and biblical perspective rather than a uniformitarian one, it seems likely that this lake formed at the end of the global Flood, after the water had fully drained off the continents and before the onset of the Ice Age. This places the lake sediments on top of the Tejas Megasequence, which is interpreted as the layer formed during the receding phase of the Flood.3
After the Flood ended, there may have been about a hundred years that passed prior to the onset of ice sheet development across Greenland.3 This would provide ample time for lake water to carve terraces and for the thick sediment to accumulate in the lakebed, especially with the heavy rains expected at the end of the Flood due to the warmer oceans and higher evaporation. Other glacial lakes have carved a series of terraces as they rose and fell, including Lake Bonneville, the precursor to the Great Salt Lake.3
The team from Lamont-Doherty also found that at least 18 former streams drained into the lake, which could have provided the sediments needed to fill the lakebed quickly.
High post-Flood rainfall from warmer oceans would foster the conditions necessary to form the lake rapidly after the Flood. The heavy rainfall provided water for the surrounding streams to erode the landscape and fill the lakebed with thousands of feet of sediment. Eventually, the increase in volcanic activity toward the end of the Flood and in the early post-Flood period cooled the climate until this rain turned to snow.3 Thick snow built up across Greenland and over time became ice, creating the massive ice sheet that covers this ancient lakebed today.
All of these events happened just thousands of years ago, not over millions of years. A lot of time is not required, just the right conditions. And the global Flood provided the perfect conditions. The Ice Age came and went after the Flood, providing temporary land bridges for post-Flood migration of animals and humans alike.3 God accomplished His plan and purpose for the Ice Age,3 and He left a few reminders in the ice sheets across Greenland and Antarctica.
References
1. Paxman, G. J. G. et al. 2020. A fault-bounded palaeo-lake basin preserved beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 116647: ISSN 0012-821X.
2. Dvorsky, G. 2020. Scientists have discovered an ancient lakebed beneath Greenland’s ice. Gizmodo. Posted at gizmodo.com November 10, 2020, accessed November 17, 2020.
3. Clarey, T. 2020. Carved in Stone: Geological Evidence of the Worldwide Flood. Dallas, TX: Institute for Creation Research, 354-377.’https://www.icr.org/article/greenland-lakebed-fits-flood-narrative/?utm_source=phplist9207&utm_medium=email&utm_content=HTML&utm_campaign=ICR+YouTube%2C+WORLD+Magazine%2C+Sherlock+Holmes+%26+Dinosaurs%2C+and+More%21
‘In 2009, a conman bilked members at Bethel Church in Redding, California, out of more than $650,000. Now, two shysters peddling a Ponzi scheme have reportedly struck the controversial megachurch again—this time defrauding investors of $35 million from 2015 to 2020.
Accused in a recently unsealed 31-count indictment by the Department of Justice (DOJ) is 44-year-old Matthew Piercey and his alleged accomplice, 67-year-old Kenneth Winton. Piercey is a congregant of Bethel Church. And Winton describes himself as a “God Lover” on his Facebook page where he often posts Scripture and inspirational thoughts.
“Piercey used (his two companies) Family Wealth Legacy and Zolla to solicit funds from investors using a variety of false and misleading statements, including about trading algorithms, the success of the companies’ investment strategies, and the liquidity of investments,” the DOJ said in a press release announcing the charges.
When Piercey’s outlandish claims about investment returns failed to materialize, investigators say he and Winton funneled some $8.8 million back to earlier investors, constituting a Ponzi scheme.
“Piercey entered a pattern of paying old investors lulling payments with new investor funds, while making various false and misleading statements, half-truths, and omissions to raise new money and to hide the constant downward financial spiral,” government attorneys wrote in a court filing on Nov. 17.
According to The Sacramento Bee, Piercey specifically recruited Bethel Church members as investors.
Additionally, court documents say that when Piercey learned of the FBI’s investigation into his activities, he urged investors not to cooperate with the probe. In an email to one investor, Piercey suggested that the probe was a response to a letter Piercey had sent President Trump about saving the banking system.
“In light of our emboldened focus to rescue the banking system,” Piercey wrote, “be advised I anticipate potential new levels of regulatory scrutiny.”
If Piercey truly targeted Bethel members, it would be at least the second time the church has found itself embroiled in such a scandal. In 2009, a jury sentenced Bethel congregant David Souza to 18 years in prison after he conned fellow parishioners out of between $650,000 and $947,000 using a fake investment pitch and the tagline, “Where business is moral and the miraculous is routine.”
Churches tend to be susceptible to what experts call “affinity fraud,” a scam that spreads in a tight-knit community.
“Once the fraud breaks into a group, trust is there, and the guard is dropped,” said Kevin Baker, a private investigator who previously led the FBI’s white collar crime unit in northern California. “Churches are ripe for it.”
In this case, Bethel’s theological beliefs may have also contributed: The church promotes the prosperity gospel and teaches faith healing at its School of Supernatural Ministry.
“It’s fair to say if people are already thinking outside the box, they’d be more receptive to things that are not in the mainstream,” Baker told The Roys Report.
The church seems to be aware of its potential vulnerability. On its website is a highly unusual “investing policy and disclaimer,” which reads in part: “Although we pray for miracles in economies and investments, Bethel Church board members, leaders, and management are neither financial advisors nor investment consultants and in no way represent ourselves as such.”
The statement goes on to say it is against church policy to promote or solicit investment opportunities on Bethel property and says leadership “strongly recommends that you seek expert investment advice from qualified professionals before considering any form of investment.”
Bethel communications director Aaaron Tesauro reiterated that policy in an emailed statement to The Roys Report. He confirmed Piercey and his family do attend services at Bethel but said they are not official members. He said the church was “unaware of his personal financial decisions.”
Piercey’s recent arrest drew national attention when he used an underwater “sea scooter” to attempt to avoid arrest.
Bethel also made headlines recently when a surge of more than 100 COVID-19 cases were linked to Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry.
According to court documents, Piercey could face, on “the low end,” life in prison for his cumulative offenses. Investigator Kevin Baker said life sentences for financial crimes are rare, but Piercey will face significant consequences if convicted.’https://ministrywatch.com/ponzi-scheme-strikes-bethel-church/
Is there just a smidgen of hypocrisy by the Leftist Victorian government in the following article? ‘Cognitive dissonance, thy name is Victoria.
How else to explain a state in which the miscarriage of a wanted baby is commemorated with a certificate, while the killing of an unwanted baby is protected by law?
Premier Daniel Andrews last night announced the creation of a certificate for parents who lose a child through miscarriage.
“Parents who have experienced early pregnancy loss can now apply for a commemorative certificate from Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria,” he announced via Twitter.
“Hopefully it’ll help bereaved parents mourn the child they never got to meet.
A message on the government’s website says: “To be able to provide these certificates to parents is such an important way to acknowledge their baby, and to acknowledge their loss.”
The initiative is to be applauded. But it does make one marvel at the mental gymnastics required to accept that an unborn child is a “baby” when miscarried, and something else when aborted.
It’s a classic case of doublethink.
Or is it? Perhaps the clump of cells growing in a womb magically becomes a baby when it is wanted.
Daniel Andrews last night lamented that “around one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage before 20 weeks” leaving “bereaved parents.”
But on the other hand, Mr Andrews is responsible for laws permitting abortion on demand up until week 24 of a pregnancy and, where two medical practitioners agree, right up until birth.
The definition of human, like gender, is now seemingly fluid – blowing this way or that according to an individual’s sensibilities or, in this case, the audience Daniel Andrews is addressing.
What becomes of a society that decides the value of one human being on the basis of whether another human being wants them to exist?
If an unborn baby is a mere lump of cells, then we are lying to the bereaved parents by presenting a commemorative certificate lamenting the child they never got to meet.
But if an unborn baby is human, then we are lying when we assure the woman seeking an abortion that it’s all about her ‘choice’ concerning her body and her ‘reproductive health’.
Both positions cannot be true.
So is the commemorative certificate from Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria confirmation that the unborn are indeed human, just as two and two are four?
“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”’https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/12/daniel-andrews-abortion-doublethink/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OZWH%20%2020201205%20%20AL&utm_content=OZWH%20%2020201205%20%20AL+CID_4cec53f1b5ef01b6c399f04ed34dd711&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=Daniel%20Andrews%20abortion%20doublethink
Are all those institutions that call themselves a ‘church’ really a church? Are some ‘church’ leaders Biblically qualified to lead? It’s interesting that ‘In a leaked audio call obtained by The Daily Mail, the founder and senior pastor of Hillsong Global, Brian Houston, described the events that led up to the firing of the lead pastor of the church’s New York City congregation, Carl Lentz.
Houston said difficulties with Lentz’s leadership emerged long before the recent revelations about the Hillsong East Coast pastor’s affair with Ranin Karim, a 34-year-old designer he met in Brooklyn, New York.
“I was already at the point, at the end of the summer, that I felt like Carl and Laura’s time in New York was coming to an end,” Houston said of Lentz and his wife, who also worked for the church.
Brian and Bobbie Houston founded the original Hillsong Church in 1983 in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. It now has locations in 28 countries and, pre-pandemic, saw an average 150,000 attenders each week, according to its website.
Houston accused Lentz in the Daily Mail recording of “general narcissistic behavior. Manipulating, mistreating people. Breaches of trust. Constantly lying.” Houston went on to describe the global megachurch network as “one house with many rooms,” but he said Lentz always seemed to be doing his own thing with Hillsong East Coast.
“If it was just about a moral failure, perhaps it would have been possible to work with Carl and Laura and work their way through it and have a period of restoration,” Houston said on the call that took place the week before Thanksgiving with global church leadership and top donors.
“But the nature of where my relationship with Carl already was, then add the significant nature and the serious nature of the moral issues, just meant that I believed, and the board believed, the only way to go was to terminate Carl and to start with a fresh start in New York,” Houston said.
The Daily Mail’s report quoted anonymous sources alleging that Lentz had multiple affairs during his tenure at Hillsong, and that Houston implied the same in the recording the newspaper obtained. But while Houston talks about “affairs” in the plural, the recording is not entirely clear.’https://julieroys.com/leaked-call-houston-details-narcissistic-lentzs-firing/?mc_cid=fdfa821960&mc_eid=b13d34ad49
Enjoy your liberty while you can as these UN Communist/Marxist’s march to the beat of tyranny over the masses. Why would I say such? There are many reasons of which one is ‘The author of a book outlining the “Great Reset” received a Chinese state foreign honor in 2018.
Klaus Schwab, the author of “COVID-19: The Great Reset” and the executive director of the globalist World Economic Forum, received the China Reform Friendship Medal for his role in integrating Communist China into the world economy.
Schwab is cited as a “promoter of China’s international economic exchanges and cooperation” in a Chinese state media report on his state honor, which was provided to ten leading western globalists for their role in outsourcing jobs to the Communist-mercantilist nation. Chinese communist leader Xi Jinping personally bestowed the China Reform Friendship Medal to Schwab in a 2018 Beijing ceremony.
Schwab has advocated that “nothing return to normal” in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, predicting that human history itself will be differentiated between the era before the virus and after in a manner akin to the birth of Jesus Christ. He outlined his vision for digitized reorganization of the western world in the aftermath of coronavirus in a WEF in July, delegating power formerly held by citizens to “stakeholders” affiliated with the world’s large corporations and governments.
Another Chinese state media profile of Schwab reveals he assisted in organizing an equivalent of the globalist Davos Conference in China, having supported the integration of China in operations of the World Economic Forum.
The “great reset” vision supported by Schwab is broadly akin to China’s social credit system, in which powerful institutions are handed broad powers to punish and regulate the everyday behavior of private citizens. The World Economic Forum has previously suggested freedoms such as private automobile ownership, consumption of dark meat(to be replaced with insects), mass immigration and refugee resettlement, and private property are incompatible with their vision of a globalist future.
Global elites and oligarchs have keenly promoted Schwab’s idea of the Great Reset in recent months, eager to redistribute property and freedoms from ‘average’ and middle-class people to massive corporations and themselves.’https://bigleaguepolitics.com/globalist-great-reset-author-klaus-schwab-received-chinese-foreign-honor-in-2018/
Paul plainly wrote in Romans 1:26,27 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
In spite of this clear teaching in God’s Word ‘A group of progressive United Methodists announced….they are forming a new Methodist denomination, the Liberation Methodist Connexion, or LMX.
For half a century, the United Methodist Church has debated the full inclusion of its LGBTQ members. It pushed any discussion of sexuality from its quadrennial General Conference meeting in 2016 to a special session in 2019, where delegates voted against allowing the church to ordain LGBTQ clergy or perform same-sex marriages.’
One of the BIGGEST MISTAKES a group of churches can do is to DEBATE the Word of God! Debating the Word of God is a clear indication that these Methodists do not see the Bible as their sole rule of faith and practice! Anyway, ‘A new plan has been proposed since then to split the denomination according to beliefs on LGBTQ ordination and same-sex marriage. The split was to be decided upon at the 2020 General Conference, but due to COVID-19 shutdowns, the conference was cancelled and the decision postponed until next fall at the earliest. United Methodists would’ve met this week to consider a split. What are they doing instead?
Some United Methodists eager for change have simply grown tired of waiting.
“The timeline of the Holy Spirit is driving our decision to launch LMX at this moment, and we are responding to that call,” the Rev. Althea Spencer-Miller said during a presentation Sunday evening following the denomination’s first online worship service.
The LMX seeks to embrace the “full participation of all who are living out their God-given identities and expressions,” according to the site. That includes people of all gender expressions and sexual identities, races and ethnicities, mental and physical abilities, sizes and ages.
Its theology “is not written in stone,” the website said, but it builds on Methodist theology with various expressions of Liberation theologies, which were first developed by Latin American Roman Catholics in the 1950s and 1960s.
Correct doctrine is less important to the new denomination than correct action, collaborators said during Sunday’s presentation. That action includes reparations, caring for the earth, and finding new ways to live together outside of systems like colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, clericalism and heteronormativity, they said.
“We seek not answers that lead us to correct doctrines as to why we suffer. We seek correct actions, correct praxis, where God sustains us during the unanswerable questions,” Spencer-Miller said.
More conservative Methodists, however, believe the new denomination veers from both orthodoxy (correct doctrine) and orthopraxy (correct actions).
Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion & Democracy—a conservative Christian thinktank, which promotes its views among mainline Protestant churches—predicts the United Methodist Church will divide over these issues.
“As the United Methodist Church effectively dissolves, there are likely to be various shatterings,” Tooley told The Roys Report in a statement Wednesday. “At the very least, there will be a traditional global church, a liberal USA church, and a radical USA church, with perhaps several others. This Liberation Methodist Connexion will be the radical branch, or perhaps one of several radical branches. It will be hard long to cohere a denomination around Identity Politics and without core theology. . . . The United Methodist Church was created in 1968 mostly based on theological pluralism, which was an experiment that failed.”
However, leaders of the new denomination said those who join them aren’t expected to leave their denominations. In fact, collaborators said Sunday that United Methodist members are encouraged to continue to partner with the United Methodist Church’s ethnic caucuses.
“There are no doctrinal litmus tests in the movement. We are moving beyond the supremacy of a single belief system,” said the Rev. Janet G. McKeithen, a member of the Connexion working group.
It’s about following Jesus to the margins, added the Rev. Alex da Silva Souto, one of the leaders of UM-Forward and a General Conference delegate from the New York Conference.
Da Silva Souto said in May that a coalition of groups already describing themselves as Liberationists had been discussing the possibility of forming a new denomination. That discussion grew out of events — the UM-Forward summit in May 2019 in Minneapolis, an Advent gathering outside of Denver, a Lenten gathering this spring in Dallas — following a special session of the United Methodist General Conference in 2019.
The Traditional Plan favored by theologically conservative United Methodists, approved at that special session, was set to take effect earlier this year, strengthening language in the denomination’s Book of Discipline barring LGBTQ clergy from being ordained and same-sex couples from marrying in the United Methodist Church.
But United Methodist bishops and advocacy group leaders from across theological divides agreed to a moratorium on its enforcement in January after negotiating a proposal to split the denomination, called, “A Protocol of Reconciliation and Grace Through Separation.” The proposal, negotiated by 16 United Methodists, would commit $25 million to create a new conservative “traditionalist” Methodist denomination. The “post-separation United Methodist Church” would then have the opportunity to rescind the Traditional Plan and pass affirming language.
Delegates would have voted on that proposal at the United Methodist General Conference scheduled in May. At the time, Da Silva Souto called its postponement, due to the pandemic, a “curveball.”
But, said Da Silva Souto, “we’re not waiting for the protocol to answer the call that we feel, which is love and liberation right now.”
The LMX is planning to host its next worship service on New Year’s Eve and encouraged those interested in joining to sign up for its email newsletter on its website.’https://julieroys.com/progressive-methodists-new-denomination/?mc_cid=e8a2ae265a&mc_eid=b13d34ad49
The LMX is a pawn in Satan’s family of apostate churches.
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