The following link will take you to my podcast reading of Chapter Five of Dr. Howard Guinness’ book titled Sacrifice. Dr. Guinness lived the message of this book in that he trained as a medical doctor but spent his life as a Christian evangelist to students around the world. If you know the Lord as your personal Saviour I trust this reading will encourage you in your walk with the Lord but if you do not know Him that this reading will prod you to turn from your sins to Him. https://anchor.fm/david-bennett48/episodes/A-Reading-of-Chapter-5-of-Dr–Howard-Guinness-book-Sacrifice-e1442d8
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The Sodomites are out for our children and grandchildren. The longer this war continues the more the young people begin to believe this lifestyle is “normal” The following article outlines how this anti-god lifestyle is being pushed on the young. However, God is not mocked and there is a judgement coming.
‘The LGBT brainwashing and exploitation of children continues to escalate.
Here are 4 disturbing examples showing how kids are being brainwashed that the LGBT lifestyle is a moral good that should be applauded, promoted and experimented with…and 4 ways parents, grandparents and churches are responding.
The media has long been an advocate for LGBT acceptances among adults, but now it’s being promoted as a superior lifestyle choice…even for children. It’s making children unsure of who they are, their sexuality and beliefs.
Netflix, TV, movies and other entertainment have been platforms used to demonize Christians who support Biblical morality, and to promote instead the alternative lifestyle as a positive lifestyle choice to be embraced and not questioned.
But now the attention has shifted to an aggressive, extreme promotion to children.
Here are a few new examples:
1. Biden flies “gay” flag at U.S. embassies worldwide – schools across America are following his example.
The Vatican is outraged.
It’s a “moral” good to help teach kids in elementary school and up.
Other countries, Christians, and people who recognize the danger of taking a political stand by the U.S. Embassy are outraged.
But the “gay” flag flies next to or under the U.S. flag at foreign embassies worldwide based on Biden’s orders for the month of June or beyond.
Other government agencies in the U.S. are doing this also. This includes schools – public, government-run schools – in the classrooms and on the schools’ flagpoles.
Classrooms are displaying the gay flag. Schools are flying the gay flag.
2. Kellogg is marketing LGBT- themed cereal for kids.
For example, Tony the Tiger has a gay theme.
They are just one of many corporations. Chipotle has drag tacos.
3. Children’s TV shows and cartoons are using homosexual, lesbian and transgender characters.
- Rugrats is being relaunched with Betty, the mother of two, as a lesbian, single mom.
- Nickelodeon has “Blues Clues and You!” at a gay pride parade with an animated drag queen. The video includes families with two moms, two dads, trans-identified members and “ace, bi and pan” parents. One character has scars from transgender sex change surgery from female to male.
Disney channel, the Cartoon channel – no cartoon venue except Christian TV or apps is safe for kids.
4. Sports is promoting pro-gay political/cultural messages – kids’ “heroes.”
The San Francisco Giants team is playing in gay pride uniforms and their caps featuring “SF’ logo with colors of the gay flag, and also a patch on their jerseys.
This and more is a sad reflection of our society not only embracing secular humanism…but advocating a lifestyle at odds with a Biblical worldview – and many parents.
What’s your reaction? What’s the reaction of Christians? What’s the reaction of parents and grandparents? What’s the reaction of those who are concerned about this promotion to kids of any faith or persuasion?
There are four groups…four different responses.
1. Group #1: Ignore it.
Some may ignore and pretend it isn’t happening.
Churches and pastors will be silent and pretend nothing is happening.
Parents will be silent and pretend nothing is happening.
Grandparents will pretend nothing is happening.
The result?
The kids believe that the LGBT lifestyle is normal, that it is moral and to be encouraged.
They will believe that they should experiment with the LGBT lifestyle to see if it’s right for them or not.
2. Group #2: Compromise with it.
Some churches, parents and grandparents are compromising their Biblical principles and are open to cultural change. They simply want to get along.
They prefer not to spark controversy.
For churches and pastors – cultural acceptance and not offending anyone about Biblical morality is a safer way to grow a church, generate donations and minister to their fellowship.
But that’s not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible is very clear about marriage.
It’s clear about marriage between a man and woman.
It’s clear about monogamous relationships.
It’s clear about male and female.
It’s clear that a Biblical worldview is at odds with gender dysphoria.
3. Group #3: Celebrate it.
Some churches, parents and grandparents celebrate these moves and claim that they are positive and loving.
But that is not what the Bible says.
The Bible says we are to declare God’s word and the Gospel without compromise.
I’m leading a Bible study now in the book of Philippians.
In the first chapter, in a culture in many ways not unlike what we’re facing today, the Apostle Paul talks about the mercy and grace of God.
He talks about the power of prayer. He talks about being bold and proclaiming the gospel and how the gospel was impacting the culture – even in Caesar’s household.
Paul did not compromise.
He did not contradict the Word of God for “acceptance.”
He stood firm.
It’s critical that we stand firm as we teach the children and grandchildren to stand for Biblical morality.
It’s not going to happen at school. Not even Sunday school.
They need to understand the difference between what is right or wrong, based on Scripture.
They need to discern why the brainwashing is an attack against Biblical principles, and that the kids should know how to defend a Biblical worldview.
It’s important for kids to be able to stand firm, knowing that they will be called a bigot, a hater or worse.
Some Christians want to get along and have no conflict.
But that’s not what we see in the Bible.
And that’s not how we advance the gospel.
4. Group #4: Stand Firm against it.
Some pastors, churches, parents, and grandparents are standing firm.
They are standing against this injustice to children. They are speaking out.
- Pastors and churches must teach their body the truth and equip their fellowship to stand firm…and mobilize to be a voice of truth.
- Parents and grandparents must now teach their kids counter-cultural truth.
- Help stop the Equality Act.
- Know about some of the great materials addressing these issues with love and truth.
- Joe Dallas is my favorite author, but there are many more.
- Also groups – for example, look at changemovement.com for powerful videos of ex-gays, their testimonials and more.
Now is the time for everyone to stand firm.
Here is one other thing you can do now: Protect the kids and religious liberty by defeating the Equality Act.
Yes, elections have consequences:
- Elected officials determine what is taught in schools.
- Elected officials pass laws and issue executive orders about how “equality” is defined and who can be fired, fined or prosecuted if they dissent from the new sexual standards.
- Elected officials nominate and confirm federal judges who rule on disputes over the application of laws such as the Equality Act.’ https://mychristiandaily.com/brainwashing-of-children-disturbing-examples-show-lgbt-advocacy-to-the-young/
Acts 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
The following seems to validate the fact that Princeton and other schools like it have professors that know not the Lord Jesus and His Word. The Communists know their manifesto but pretend make-believe Christian apostates have not a clue what the Bible has to say! The WOKE folk at ‘The Princeton Theological Seminary segregated participants in its mandatory racial bias training by race, according to video materials obtained by Young America’s Foundation.
The training, led by Laurie Carlsson and Dr. Michelle Majors, offered three separate spaces for students and faculty to participate: A “white-only space” to “grapple with our whiteness and how we’ve been socialized, in a way that does not harm our colleagues and co-students of color,” a separate group “only open to students who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color,” and a group for participants “uncomfortable with either of these scenarios.”
The segregated groups are designed to “[create] safety and support while addressing the personal institutional challenges of becoming an anti-racist institution,” Majors said during the presentation.
According to materials obtained by YAF, Director of Student Life Programs Yeda Walker at one point suggests that professors go easier on minorities in class.’ https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-department-conducts-racially-segregated-mandatory-racial-bias-training-report/
Praise the Lord He kept me from attending such schools with these apostates supposedly acting as Christian teachers. Schools like this only produce more apostates who will lead more souls to hell!
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
The other day I ran the article SBC DISFELLOWSHIPS 4 TENNESSEE CHURCHES. One of those churches booted out of the SBC had as its Pastor since 2014 a man who had earlier pled guilty and was convicted of statutory rape. Below is from https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914bba0add7b04934797a7b which details some of the charges. This was a married man of 31 and pastoring a Baptist church! It is disgusting to read NOT only what this man did to a girl of 16 but that he was called to pastor another Southern Baptist Church JUST DOWN THE ROAD after his conviction! This brings up the fact that (1) this man is probably not born again and fits what Paul speaks about in Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.!
Secondly, there is the matter that the church that called him after committing and being convicted of this SIN in a court of law called this man to be their supposed Shepherd is a partaker of his evil deeds. Again, let it be said that the church which this man pastored at the time of his crime was ONLY SIX MILES FROM THE Antioch Baptist CHURCH THAT LATER CALLED HIM TO BE THEIR PASTOR! Didn’t those at Antioch Baptist call the other church for a reference or read the papers or listen to the radio or watch the news on television to be aware of this man’s sin!? Are those at Antioch Baptist unsaved as well! This man was disqualified from being a pastor!! The church at Corinth had sin in its midst and Paul wrote to that church saying the sin they were allowing was not so much as named among the Gentiles or we could say it this way, even the unsaved didn’t allow that sin.
Read what is circled below and I am sure your reaction will be, or should be, one of disgust, anger and questioning whether those in these two churches know the Lord Jesus as their Saviour. Perhaps we need to be reminded of 1Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
THIS JUST HAPPENED WITHOUT A DESIGNER?
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
‘If you want to identify the variety of tree in a garden, one of the most uncomplicated ways is to identify the fruit it grows. Ancient wisdom instructs if you observe the fruit you’ll know the root.
I’ve never bought into the BLM political movement con, because the fruit was immediately obvious to anyone with an inclination to discern things beneath the surface. Rather than noble pursuits of justice, the very name sets up divisions between people: black and everyone else. If it were just a statement of the obvious – of course “black lives matters” (to which most people initially responded “duh”) – it would be just a euphemistic, short-sighted name.
However the observable fruit of the political organisation is not just racial division, but seething hatred and boiling rage, lawless violence, destruction of property and wanton murder. BLM turns cities which nurture its philosophies into war zones where the poorest of people are most hurt by the devastation wreaked by the anarchy.
There’s much more well-documented evidence of the anti-Christian, anti-family, anti-freedom social destructiveness of BLM, citing BLM itself as primary sources. But what’s recently been revealed is just how demonic they admit to being.
The leaders of BLM are calling on the spirits of the dead, claim to receive power from them and talk with these spirits by name. This is now an open secret.’ https://goodsauce.news/blm-calling-on-the-dead-spiritism-is-now-an-open-secret/
In the land of fruit and nuts the schools are now teaching students to chant to the Aztec god of Human Sacrifice! Yes, that’s what you read. Has the true God written Ichabod on America?
‘California is set to vote on a new curriculum for K-12 students, even as it faces criticism for promoting the belief that Europeans destroyed native religions with Christianity, and for one particularly troubling lesson: Teachers will lead students in an Aztec chant meant to please a god of human sacrifice.’https://nationalfile.com/california-teachers-to-lead-students-in-aztec-chants-to-god-of-human-sacrifice-in-new-curriculum/
The Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is what these students need!
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
If this is true something MUST be done. Outwardly it is said ‘Circle of Hope’s goal is to help young ladies who were destroying their lives through poor choices and behaviors, change their future. They have been described as “uncontrollable girls who won’t let their parents help them.” We use the BIBLE to teach them that they are to obey their Parents and the authority over them.’ https://www.yelp.com/biz/circle-of-hope-girls-ranch-humansville
In reality this video tells another story.
‘As Big Tech continues its efforts to censor conservative voices, YouTube has banned the website LifeSiteNews from its popular video-sharing platform and removed all of its pro-life videos.
LifeSiteNews reported the move by YouTube Wednesday on their website, revealing they lost access to more than 300,000 followers of their channel.
“YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews YouTube channel. This isn’t a temporary ban; every single one of our videos is completely gone,” the website’s staff wrote. “Thankfully, we have backups of all our videos, but this means hundreds of thousands of people have lost access to our truth-telling content.”
The short article also directs followers to Rumble, a conservative platform, to watch LifeSite videos there.’https://www.faithwire.com/2021/02/11/youtube-bans-lifesitenews-removes-all-of-the-websites-pro-life-videos/?utm_source=FWNL
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
1Timothy 6:11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
‘When clergy sex crimes come to light, the scars extend far beyond the individuals who are sexually exploited. Church members experience shock and grief, and congregations can be permanently weakened or destroyed. Anguished wives and children are thrust into the spotlight. Communities experience broken trust. Parents strategize ways to discuss horrific topics with their children. Everyone who knows—or thought they knew—the perpetrator asks, Did I miss the signs? Is there something I could’ve done to prevent all of this?
The most recent cases follow a familiar pattern. Pastors and other Christian workers get hooked on child porn they access through the dark web and apps, sometimes staging and filming sex acts themselves, but often keeping these activities completely walled off from their churches and public identities.
In many cases, churches didn’t have or failed to follow protocols for detecting inappropriate computer usage. Churches were caught completely off guard, sometimes along with other local institutions. The abuse might likely be continuing even now if it hadn’t been for outside organizations that detected the illicit activity and reached out to local and/or federal law enforcement.
The latest cases feature pastors from the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination, which has recently faced a number of cases of sexual misconduct and crimes. The Houston Chronicle’s database records the gruesome toll: more than 700 victims, nearly 400 SBC leaders and volunteers facing allegations, with more than 250 charged with sex crimes. As we reported in November, an additional database, Baptist Accountability, features more than 500 people representing “Baptists of all flavors,” not just SBC.
But the alleged perpetrators also include Methodist pastors, a Nazarene pastor who filmed and uploaded child porn, and leaders from independent congregations.
William Milam, 62, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, a Southern Baptist Convention congregation in Milton, Florida, was well known for preaching against the evils of alcohol. He preached his sermon at the church as usual on Sunday, Dec. 13.
The next day, it became clear Milam was hiding a darker side when he was arrested and charged with two counts of promoting sexual performance of a child and 25 counts of possession of child pornography. Employing the user name “willjones6969,” Milam had obtained images of children as young as three engaging in sexual acts that were stored on various devices in his home. He is being held in jail on a $2.7 million bond.
Church members were dumbfounded, according to a statement: “The church was shocked to hear about the arrest of its former pastor. We are in fervent prayer for all involved; including law enforcement as they seek to uncover the truth in this situation.”
Shawn Fitzgerald, 46, fooled not only the people at First Methodist Church of Bartow, Florida, where he served as director of youth services—he was also a Lakeland High School teacher who coached soccer and tennis.
He was arrested Nov. 20 and initially charged with 408 counts of child pornography and jailed on a $2 million bond after law enforcement used technology to crack open a hidden vault of horrific images featuring children as young as ten months old on his cell phone. More charges may be forthcoming as they comb through the computer images, and investigators are trying to determine if the children featured in the images are local.
“His entire life and church life was interacting with children and young adults,” said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. Judd’s office began their investigation after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children alerted them that Fitzgerald has used the KIK Messenger app to upload a 20-second video of a young female performing oral sex on an adult male.
David Pettigrew, 48, pastor of Dennison Church of the Nazarene in Denison, Texas since 2006, was even more audacious.
Starting in 2016, Pettigrew and a local chiropractor worked together to persuade minors into performing sexual acts that they could film and share with others. He was arrested last year by Department of Homeland Security agents and indicted in federal court for conspiring to sexually exploit children, also known as producing child pornography.
Pettigrew, a father of three, worked as a substitute teacher in the Sherman Independent School District, where his wife has worked as a first grade teacher. He was also a board member of a foster parent association. If convicted, he could serve 15-30 years.
As in other cases, it was a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that launched an investigation, which is ongoing. “The investigation has revealed that a number of children were surreptitiously photographed in private locations or outside of the presence of their parents,” said a federal official.
We wish these three cases were the only ones on the pastors-and-porn police blotter, but there’s more.
John Robert Griffin, 73, an associate professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL, was also an elder who ministered to senior adults at Riverbend Community Church, a Southern Baptist Convention congregation in nearby Ormond Beach. He was arrested in January after police found more than 200 sexually explicit photos in his home and charged him with 30 felony counts of possessing child pornography. Further charges are possible. An Embry-Riddle spokesperson said, “We are very dismayed to learn about these charges and allegations.” Initially, the church declined to comment to the media.
John Hackmann Jr., 45, pastor of Marion First United Methodist Church in Marion, Illinois, was arrested in November and faces felony charges for child pornography and intimidation.
But the strangest case may be north of the border with Canada. In Chilliwack, east of Vancouver, John (Johannes) Vermeer, the former executive pastor of the Main Street Church, is accused of accessing and possessing child porn on the church’s computer in 2010 and 2015. His defense attorney has helped draw out the trial for years over technical questions and claims of “reasonable doubt,” but a final evidentiary hearing was held last week.’https://ministrywatch.com/pastors-charged-with-child-sex-crimes-scar-victims-shock-congregations/
