In this news article with accompanying video, a school teacher is in a Sudanese jail facing 40 lashes for allowing children in her class to name a teddy bear Mohammed.
As I shake my head at the barbaric behavior in which Islam constantly finds itself, I have to wonder if we harnessed just 10% of their fanaticism and applied it to our faith how much Christianity would be different than it is today in the West. I’m not talking about violence, cruelty, and terrorism. I’m talking a reverence for God, not watching movies where His name is blasphemed, not allowing an Elvis impersonator to lead worship, not depicting our Lord as a duck, not preaching sermons on the topic of God Loves Sex, not glorifying Las Vegas and poker in church, not inviting someone who’s opposed to everything our faith holds dear to speak at your church, not mocking the very Word of God with heretical versions of the Bible, not having scantly clad girls dancing on stage at a “Christian” Christmas concert, and the list goes on and on.
Maranatha!
This church has encountered a problem. Check out the article by clicking here. Perhaps it’s time for this church to begin the lost practice of church discipline. May I suggest with reading the fifth chapter of 1 Corinthians?
In a world where McDonalds and Victoria’s Secrets promotes immodesty, lust, and promiscuity targeted toward kids; when a Christian music performer uses girls dancing in Santa lingerie during a Christmas concert; when so-called “pastors” teach sermons from the pulpit in a series called God Loves Sex with sermons entitled: 1). Seven Minutes in Heaven [**Sex Party**], 2).Stripped Bare, 3). Leather, Whips, and Whipped Cream, 4). What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas; and where a steady dose of sex is pumped into music, television, and movies geared toward children, is it any wonder what’s going on when you read the news of 8 and 9 year old boys charged with the rape of an eleven year old girl?
Readers of this blog know that I rarely ever comment on the acts performed and the sins committed by those of the world. Many believers rail against such concerns as gay pride parades, the absence of prayer in public schools, violent video games, etc. However, I choose to steer away from that for one simple reason: It’s the same reason that I don’t blog about fleas and mosquitoes biting people . . . because it’s their nature! In the same way, what’s the point of blogging about and lamenting over what sin the world has committed today? To commit sin is what the worldly do, it’s in their nature. They are the unregenerate so why blog about fish that swim, birds that fly, or the world that sins?
In contrast, I do blog about issues when the Church acts like the world. I do blog about false doctrine being taught from pulpits, lukewarm lifestyles, heretical doctrines of demons being spread by the cults and professing Christians, and so on. We are to be watchman to warn others of the dangers of the wolves that are surrounding the flock. Sadly too many pastors today who are supposed to be the protecting shepherds are preoccupied with filling seats and being popular than they are with keeping the wolves out and preaching sound doctrine. So now, many believers have taken this role upon themselves and are sounding the alarm to warn others
The Church is supposed to be separate from the world, not conformed to this world, and certainly not to be friends with it. Those who violate this do not have the love of the Father in them and they are enemies of God. Not my words, but Thy words!
As the world continues its downward spiral, it’s only fitting that Victoria’s Secrets now offers The Pink Line of scantly clad dolls for your young child. As if that’s not enough: Recently a trip to McDonald’s proved shocking when along with my daughter’s Happy Meal, she received this prize:
Does marketing this smut to young girls help or hurt society as a whole? Does saying to a young girl that lust, sex, perversion, and complete lack of modesty is a model behavior to attain to, make this world a better place or not? I know from a Christian perspective that marketing dolls that are dressed like prostitutes to children is not acceptable, but what do you, the non-Christian say? Where do you draw the line?
What about you Christians out there who think I’m just an old fuddy duddy? Would you allow your daughter to play with dolls that are dressed this provocatively and seductively?
It wasn’t that long ago that if a woman dressed in public in the same way that these dolls are, she would have been jailed.
And our parents thought Barbie was bad.
Sorry Mr. Robertson, but after all the years of building your CBN empire on Christian morals and fighting against the social ills that Rudy Giuliani stands for, you in one fell swoop unraveled all those years of work.
You have also shown that not not only was all your railing against homosexuality and abortion conditional (and political), but that actions truly do speak louder than words.
Thank you Mr. Robertson for your compromise. You’ve set an incredible example. When our evangelical “leaders” are so quick to compromise do we still have to wonder why the current state of the church is in shambles?
Well, it didn’t take long, but the world’s most expensive desert at $14,500 has just been overshadowed and become the second most expensive desert.
Introducing the new world’s most expensive desert, the $25,000 chocolate sundae.
And for those who can’t afford this, there’s always the much more economical $1,000 bagel.
Do you still wonder why it is so hard for the rich to get into Heaven?
By no means does this blog have any intentions of getting involved in politics with the exception of when politics and religion become so intertwined in some cases, that I feel a certain event needs to be addressed. This is such a case.
Pat Robertson of 700 Club fame has officially endorsed Rudy Giuliani for president. Click here to read Robertson’s endorsement and click here to read the news article.
I have two questions: First, why in the world are Christians getting involved with this kind of stuff? Second, why is Robertson endorsing Giuliani?
Let’s take a quick look at the man Pat Robertson is endorsing as president of the United States of America:
A British school is forcing its teachers to dress as Muslims to honor the last day of Ramadan. Check out the article here.
“It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.”
I found this very interesting video over at Independent Conservative. This is all going on while many in the Church sleep.
A Pennsylvania man was arrested trying to pass one of those Ray Comfort Million dollar bill tracts. Apparently he missed the point. Click here to view the news article.
As you can see, I am trying out a new design for the blog. Please let me know what you think.
The good news: In just two months this blog has had over 11,000 visits. Thank you guys very much for your support!
The bad news: I will be out of town for just over a week, and thus, will not be blogging. So you will have to go without your daily dose of Reformation Nation for a little while. For others, this will provide you the time necessary to go back and view all the posts on this blog starting back in August of this year.
Lord willing, I will see you in just over a week.
Sincerely,
– The Pilgrim
A school in Illinois can continue to celebrate Christmas, but it will also be adding Ramadan. Here’s the article and video.
Here’s the video of Kathy Griffin accepting her award. I honestly don’t see why the Christian community is so up in arms over this whole thing. Ms. Griffin is of the world and so she is behaving accordingly. The Christian community should be more up in arms by those who claim Jesus is their Lord but act as anything but. The Christian community should be more outraged by the state of the lukewarm Church. The Christian community should be more concerned with the false doctrines being taught by so many of today’s popular pastors. There will be more people finding themselves in Hell because of the lukewarm church, the false doctrines of popular pastors, and the poor example of Professing Christians than by anything Ms. Griffin can ever say or do.
Jesus said that it was hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, (Matthew 19:23-24). So much so that it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Well this story is a prime example of why.
This desert costs $14,500. To those who waste money on this, I hope you enjoy your life on earth, because you are receiving your goods now and as the rich man in Jesus’ story in Luke 16:19-31, you will one day have only one desire: To have those who you ignored who were in need around you on earth, to dip their finger in water to cool off your tongue.
State Senator Ernie Chambers from Nebraska is suing God. Click here for details.
For fans of the blog Slice of Laodicea, I regret to inform you that Ingrid has decided to end her blog after a mistake at the hosting site caused irreparable damage. The entire site has been lost and Ingrid has decided not to start over again. Read her final Slice of Laodicea blog here.
Slice will be sorely missed, but she can still be heard on her talk show at Cross Talk and she’s still blogging at her other site Hope In Laodicea. Drop in and give her a word of encouragement.
Christ Alone Wyoming 