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“The couple at the centre of the ‘gay cake’ case have told how their legal battle with equality watchdogs has strengthened their marriage, as well as their faith in God.” http://www.christian.org.uk/news/ashers-case-has-bolstered-our-marriage-and-faith-in-god/
It seems only Christians are to leave their faith at home. 
Believe it or not “The Swedish flag has now been banned at a primary school in Sweden. The reason is that the flag may be offensive to certain groups and breaking the law “offensive against ethnic groups.”
The sensational ban is introduced at Söndrum school in Halmstad. Use of the flag is now only allowed on the national day or when foreign students are invited.
In an internal letter to school students and their parents who were sent out just before Christmas, the school principal writes that “no other use of the Swedish flag is allowed”, according to Nyheter idag.
It is also believed “that by using the Swedish flag one may be guilty of violating the racism law.” http://www.speisa.com/modules/articles/index.php/item.574/swedish-school-bans-the-swedish-flag.html
So the Swedish flag is offensive to a Muslim. What else might be offensive to a Muslim?
IS THIS PIG OFFENSIVE TO A MUSLIM because it is a pig or is it becaue it is named Mohammad or is it both?
DOES THIS Bacon sandwich offend a Muslim? Yes it does for “Local Winooski, Vermont restaurant Sneakers Bistro has removed a sign that read, “Yield Sneakers Bacon” citing opposition from a Muslim community member and safety concerns.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/08/23/vermont-restaurant-removes-bacon-sign-due-to-muslim-opposition-and-safety-concerns/
IS THIS FLAG OFFENSIVE TO A MUSLIM with its sword of death?
Are the be-headings in Saudi Arabia offensive to a Muslim? Warning, this video is very graphic! http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=b5c8c4a0bf28
It seems like only Muslims and their beliefs and culture are worthy of saving and not to be offended! However, I digress, the banning of the Swedish flag is bad enough but also Swedish Muslims will burn their flag and ask for the flag to be changed as that cross on the flag is offensive to them.
“Muslims in Switzerland are demanding that the white cross be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol, it ‘no longer corresponds to today’s Muslim multicultural Switzerland.’” http://www.barenakedislam.com/page/5/
The above article was taken from an article written in September 2011. “An immigrant group based in Bern has called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it ‘no longer corresponds to today’s multicultural Switzerland.’
Ivica Petrusic, the vice president of Second@s Plus, a lobbying group that represents mostly Muslim second-generation foreigners in Switzerland (who colloquially are known as secondos) says the group will launch a nationwide campaign in October to ask Swiss citizens to consider adopting a flag that is less offensive to Muslim immigrants.” http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2449/immigrants-swiss-flag-cross
Here is a closing commentary on this whole mess we find ourselves in today. This is the second generation Swedish Muslim that is offended by their national flag! They aren’t the newly arrived Muslim immigrant but SECOND GENERATION! They were born and reared in Sweden. How can this be? Is there something being taught in the mosque and the home that makes the young Muslim anti-Swedish?
Secondly, are these offended people born and reared in Sweden true Muslims? It is all too often told the non-Muslim that ISIS is not Islamic. So is there a difference between Islam and Muslim? Therefore is it reasonable to ask, are these offended people in Sweden truly Islamic Muslims? Are those in Saudi Arabia who behead and cut off limbs of people for various crimes, true Islamic Muslims? Are those in Iran that cry death to Israel and the USA true Islamic Muslims? This is not being racist but being truthful and practical.
If Islam is so great WHY aren’t these Muslims rushing to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, and the United Arab Emirates to name a few?! For that matter why aren’t these Islamic nations opening their borders and arms to welcome these Muslim refugees? NO, rather they pour into non-Muslim nations where they CAN BE OFFENDED?
How long will this idiocy continue? Waiter, bring me a Bacon sandwich!
http://www.towleroad.com/2016/01/methodist-pastor-came-gay-sermon-faces-possible-discipline-video/
Doesn’t a person have the right or the freedom to be what they believe themselves to be sexually? Well….to some extent. Allow me to try to explain. In the everyday affairs of life it is none of my business how someone votes, spends their income, what takes place in their bedroom, etc., etc. However, we are not talking about just anyone but someone who claims to be a spokesperson for God and a minister of a United Methodist congregation in Kansas.
Cynthia Meyer is “…pastor of Edgerton United Methodist Church” and “told her small-town congregation that her coming out was ‘an act of civil disobedience’ against the denomination’s ban on gay clergy.” http://www.towleroad.com/2016/01/methodist-pastor-came-gay-sermon-faces-possible-discipline-video/
Meyer also told the United Methodist News Service (UMNS) that she has “been an ordained United Methodist pastor for 25 years. At last, I am choosing to serve in that role with full authenticity, as my genuine self, a woman who loves and shares my life with another woman”. http://www.umc.org/news-and-media/kansas-pastor-comes-out-during-sermon
Now if Cynthia Meyer was just a person on the street and not a supposed Reverend and (I am assuming) a member of a United Methodist church her coming out would not have prompted me to write this article. So why am I writing this? Well, here we need to turn to the Bible.
Again I am assuming that the United Methodist denomination and its ministers believe the Bible. In 1 Corinthians Paul is writing to a local church. This church was composed of all sorts of people who had lived numerous types of lifestyles. In the sixth chapter and verses 9 -11 Paul writes “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (these are sodomites, homosexuals, lesbians), 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
Since the discussion is homosexuality (sodomy) we will limit ourselves to that sin which does not according to this passage allow the person to “inherit the kingdom of God”! In other words they will not enter Heaven. However, Paul says four things have occurred to these people which makes them worthy to enter Heaven when they die.
Firstly, take note that Paul uses the past tense saying “such WERE some of you”. Some of these Christians HAD BEEN sodomites but because of their new relationship with Jesus Christ their old life was passed away and all things had become new, 2 Corinthians 5:17.
Secondly, they had been “washed..from our (their) sins in his own blood”. This blood of the Lord Jesus is called “precious blood” by Peter in 1 Peter 1:19. As John said He “loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood”. Then Paul wrote to another local church saying “But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ”Eph 2:13.
Thirdly this person is said to be “sanctified”. Strong’s Greek concordance says this word “agiazw hagiazo, hag-ee-ad’-zo” means “to make holy, i.e. (ceremonially) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate:–hallow, be holy, sanctify.” One of the characteristics of a sanctified person is holiness. The Lord calls Christians to holiness, purity in 1 Peter 1:15 & 16 “But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.” Now, daily or what is often called progressive sanctification comes via the reading and study of God’s Word; John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth”. Surely sodomy does not fit with sanctification?
The fourth work of God in this person mentioned in 1 Corinthians 6: 11 is he or she has been “justified”. Now, because of Christ we have been made as though we had never committed those sins for “such WERE some of you”. Now when God the Father sees the Christian He sees them in His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you have taken the time to read this far and still hold the view that homosexuals and lesbians can continue in that lifestyle and still be considered a true Christian Paul had you in mind when he wrote in the ninth verse “Be not deceived”! People who say they love you and water down the Word to fit your lifestyle are simply deceiving you and when the enemy, death comes (as it does to all of us) you will enter eternity without the Saviour, without hope and never to “inherit the kingdom of God”. You have been deceived!
Be assured one cannot continue to live a life as “abusers of themselves with mankind” and when death comes enter Heaven as one of God’s children! It is self-deception to reinterpret God’s Word to fulfill the lust of the flesh! When a man/woman reinterprets the Bible to fit their sin they are only cheating themselves of eternal life. This is not a minor matter for the eternal soul of a person is at stake. We cannot sow to the flesh and yet reap everlasting life!
Worse yet some of these deceivers are deceiving others by claiming to be a follower of Christ, even ministers, when in reality they are nothing but “full of all subtilty and all mischief” and are a “child of the devil” and an “enemy of all righteousness” and not ceasing “to pervert the right ways of the Lord” Acts 13:10.
Coming out will not spiritually change anything for the homosexual. Coming out will only entrench a person in their sin. BUT, there is HOPE. No matter what sins a man or woman commit there is no barrier to keep them from being born again and reconciled to God. The precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ will purge away all guilt and defilement for “…when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”.
However, holding on to the sins mentioned in 1 Corinthians 6 is to make a mockery of sin and the grace of God. There MUST be “repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” Yes, it is as simple as what the preachers said to the jailer in Philippi “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
In closing please remember that all those who are made righteous in the sight of God are made holy by the grace of God.
If you are left handed you DO NOT need to fear that you will take after these two lefties. I am left handed and I certainly do not have any of the tendencies these two display politically, religiously, socially or morally!
A left handed person can love and hold to the US Constitution, own a gun, love his or her spouse for life, believe in capitalism, despise Marxism, believe a country should NOT allow any form of Sharia law, believe in the freedom of speech, believe in a limited Federal Government, etc. etc.
Yes, being left handed does have its problems but it doesn’t have to lead to believing and doing what these two have and are doing!
As Iran and Saudi Arabia squabble over the death of a Shite cleric a question arises as to “which represents true Islam”? Both operate under sharia and both are non-tolerant toward Christianity and all other religions. So again the question is asked, which represents true Islam, Iran, Saudi Arabia, ISIS or do all three?
“The first look at Israel’s new Commando Brigade — created to take on future threats like ISIS, Hezbollah, and other enemies of the Jewish state.
4 elite units: Maglan operates deep behind enemy lines.
Duvdevan is trained for undercover urban warfare.
Egoz focuses on reconnaissance and counter-guerrilla warfare.…
Rimon is a special desert warfare unit.
“The ceremony for the new brigade took place near Ein Harod in northern Israel. According to Jewish tradition, this was the location where the biblical judge Gideon chose the men who would serve in his army.” https://www.facebook.com/theisraelproject/videos/10154680632487316/
I want to thank those who are following my blog and wish you the very best for Christmas. It is Boxing day here and I am waiting to watch the start of the Sydney to Hobart race beginning at 1pm. May 2016 be a good year for each of you. However, do not forget the Person around which this holiday is celebrated; “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” John 1:14.
At the outset let me say this is NOT a depiction of Mohammed!!!!! Therefore there is no need for beheadings, riots, killings etc. by those who claim to be Muslims but are supposedly not! This is a forensic expert’s recreation of “…the face of Jesus resulting in a look that’s a far cry from the tall, Caucasian man that we know.
Using a new scientific field known as forensic anthropology, British scientists teamed up with Israeli archaeologists to create a computer-generated picture to show what the Son of God may have looked like.
The Mirror reports the striking image was created by Richard Neave, a retired medical artist from the University of Manchester, who used forensic anthropology usually used to solve crimes.” http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/experts-use-forensics-tests-to-discover-what-jesus-christ-may-have-looked-like/news-story/9c9a08c91bbf4c5fa7c0094022beb1dd
No, the forensic expert is safe since it is a depiction of the Lord Jesus and not Mohammed. The God of Scripture is different than Allah in that it tells us in 1 John 4: 8 “God is love.” If once isn’t enough we are told again in 1 John 4: 16 that “God is love.” Because He is love we are told that He would “…have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” 1 Timothy 2:4. Yes, the God of Scripture desires for ALL to be saved. The Christian message is to repent and believe to receive eternal life (John 3:16) but if you refuse it is not the messenger that will deal with you but God.
Yes, the world need not fear the Bible Christian so therefore why does it fear and hate Christians so much? The Lord Jesus said it this way “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you” John 15:18. Therefore they hate Christians because they hate Him!
Oh by the way, I don’t need to know what Jesus looked like when on earth for He said to the man we know as doubting Thomas “blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”
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