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PB sermon turns silk purse into sow’s ear
I think that last Sunday’s lesson from Acts is one of the Bible’s best for preaching the liberating power of Christ. It is a passage that even progressives should find inspiring on several levels. Unless you are the Presiding Bishop, who sees the complete opposite. Instead of liberation, there is confinement. Instead of Christ’s glory, there’s just squalor.
Don’t Sign the Letter
Living in a condition of regular unrepentant sexual engagement with a person of the same sex is, according to 1 Cor 6:9-10, damnable. The best thing, the only thing, to be done is to repent, break off the relationship, and turn to Jesus Christ. For the sake of those engaged in this sin (and those who are tempted by it) there can be no pastoral or practical accommodation.
A Facebook Exchange with a COE Bishop
It’s sometimes unpleasant to have one’s rhetorical inconsistencies mocked and it’s sometimes unpleasant to have someone else in one’s organization point out that there’s no commonality on one’s faith.
How to Never Say Anything True About Jesus to Anyone Ever
The apostles did not wait, nor do they ever suggest waiting, until hearers might “receive the gospel as good news” before proclaiming it. The cross offends. It always will because it amplifies the sinfulness of human sin and the helplessness of humanity apart from the work of Christ.
Beware the Next Reichstag Fire
The American left probes for a Reichstag fire moment. There is a quest for an incident that will allow more centralization of emergency power in the federal government, the elimination of constitutional rights and, it would appear, the advent of a single party state.
Eichmann to Gosnell, Ragsdale on the Assist
I don’t think I’m violating any confidences to say that most of us at Stand Firm are finding it very hard to cover the Gosnell trial, as relevant and pointed as it is for the kinds of faith and culture issues we engage here. Monstrous as he is, he is but a microcosm of evil pervading the church and the world.
Once More into the Breach: The Silly Shellfish Argument Rises Again
If you’re a revisionist activist devoted to normalizing homosexual behavior in the church, Acts 10 isn’t a moving account of the gracious and merciful hand of God extending salvation to the Gentiles – it’s a threat that must be neutralized.
Burning Incense to Rosie O’Donnell
“Marriage equality” lets people stand on a cost-free moral high ground. You’re a good person just for holding the opinion, saying the slogan, burning the pinch of incense. You are an accepted member of the in group and can look down your nose at those on the outs.
Sexual Immorality is a Rejection of Jesus
What I want to do here is look at the specific way in which the New Testament equates false teaching about sexual ethics with false teaching about Jesus and outright denial of his Lordship.
The Duke, the Dauphin, and the Episcopal Bishop of Virginia
It’s such a crude and farcical fraud by now—like the Duke and the Dauphin capering across the stage in Huckleberry Finn—and yet our bishops still put on the play with nary a trace of embarrassment or self-awareness.
Learning the Right Lessons: No One Should be Surprised by Shannon Johnston
To promote the notion that two people of the same sex can be married and/or engage in sexual acts within the context of a union God has blessed is not simply to reject God’s revealed purposes for human sexuality, it is also to construct a false image of god, a distorted portrait of Christ.
Truro - the Crisis for the Communion
Simply put, Baucum/Truro have crystallised and provided validation to what is becoming increasingly clear is Justin Welby’s approach of non-discipline of heretics in the Communion
Truro - the Crisis for the ACNA
Truro’s position effectively demands that all former Virginia parishes revert to TEC.
The Devil, You Say
Was Adam Lanza, the Newtown gunman, the Devil’s agent? To put it another way, can the possibility be foreclosed? Because if it can be, the Prince of Darkness is off the hook, and we turn, necessarily, to the examination of purely human causes and motives
Mindy McCready and the New American Priesthood
One hopes that a real priest, pastor or somebody will come alongside McCready’s abandoned children, with a word more enduring than film scripts or pop lyrics.
Promises, Promises: What Now for the Loyal Opposition in Mississippi?
The Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi is on an irreversible path toward full-on celebration and normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism, and any other deviant sexual cause that becomes fashionable among the theological leftists who run the diocese.
What’s our message to those who aren’t having sex?
Just like there’s all kinds of sex going on, there’s all kinds of celibacy going on. Some celibacy is temporary, some is permanent. Some is planned, some is an intrusion. Some is honored, some is reviled.
The Week
And the Hits (to the First Amendment) Just Keep On Coming
1 You’ve heard of Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Under her watch, IRS agents took to asking questions about religious matters completely irrelevant to any legitimate inquiry into tax exempt status…
Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste
5 This is how uncivilized, how mindless, how swinish discourse has become in Washington: the death toll in Moore, Oklahoma was still climbing, and the rescue efforts still on-going, when Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) decided to…
Sermon: James 2:14-26 - Faith Without Works is Dead
Preached 19 May 2013 Glenquarie Anglican Church. James 2:14-26
Pre-teen Pedophile Victim Forced by Rapist to Get Abortion at Planned Parenthood
12 Remember - your tax dollars go to support this. An Everson man who impregnated a preteen girl and forced her to have an abortion must…
Sam Allberry - Is God Anti-Gay? [video]
1 A great interview with Sam, whom I wrote about a few months ago.
Britain De-Christianizing, Heading for Islamization
5 Britain, fork, no assembly required: A new analysis of the 2011 census shows that a decade of mass immigration helped mask the scale of decline in Christian affiliation among the British-born…
IRS Asks For “Content of Prayers”
7 As Jim Geraghty of National Review puts it, “Today’s hearing on IRS abuses had a lot of ‘are you kidding me?’ moments, but this one stands out:”
California Accommodates Raging Hormones
12 Do you live in California? Do you have children? Are they attending the public schools? Are you out of your freaking mind? That’s the question inevitably raised by this action by the state assembly, reported…
They lived not only in ages past (South Sudan news)
4 Ohio Anglican stands faithfully at prayer each day, and reminds us that May 16 commemorates The Martyrs of Sudan. Sudanese Christians live out a journey every bit as dramatic as that…
PB sermon turns silk purse into sow’s ear
51 I love our brother in Christ, the Underground Pewster, and can’t for the life of me understand why he’s intruded the brutal Lenten discipline of
Methodists Weigh In On Gosnell
5 A mainline denominational agency has gone where all of its pro-choice allies fear to tread. The United Methodist General Board of Church and Society has broken the total…
TEC Minnesota gives local option for same sex marriage
15 With the state legalizing same sex marriage, TEC’s Bishop of Minnesota does same. For a number of our faith communities, this will now provide them the opportunity…
Gosnell Waives Right to Appeal; Gets Life in Prison
10 Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of the babies who were delivered alive and killed…
DioDallas: Bishop Stanton Announces Retirement
14 Good men moving on always has, always will, happen. The problem in TEC is that good men aren’t moving in to take their place. I have come to the place…
More from the IX Commandment beat
1 She participated in a lie that threatented to ignite major mob violence. She made false charges against specific people. When her lies were exposed, she was sued by those she’d maligned. She’s never paid…
Recent Comments
Fr. Chip, SF - And the Hits (to the First Amendment) Just Keep On Coming
Orwell and Huxley had it pegged, as did Walt Kelly, “We has met the enemy, and they is us!”—gospel according to Pogo, 1955. We’ve done it to ourselves, folks, now what can we do…PRAY!
Fr. Chip, SF - Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste
David+, Let’s also include theologians in your analogy, they, of all people, should keep to their on areas of expertise…oh, yeah, most of them have no area of expertise, they mirror their ‘first vocation’, albeit…
Undergroundpewster - Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste
I he were serious, he wouldn’t be contributing to the verbal pollution coming out of Washington, nor would he felling trees by adding pages to the Congressional Record.
David_Fine - Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste
Politics is politics. Science is science. It would be nice if politicians would believe the truth rather that bending the truth to fit their politics.
Timothy Fountain - Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste
The character and quality of the people we keep sending to DC gets lower by the second. Moral and intellectual demerits pile up faster than the national debt with this bunch.
Capt. Father Warren - Never Let a Tragedy Go to Waste
How special. As we daily watch the fruits of 5 years of Obama tyrannical rule, we also get a glimpse of other political shills so unhinged from any touchpoint of reality that all a sane…
B. Hunter - Britain De-Christianizing, Heading for Islamization
That is why immigration matters. That is why we should secure our border and be selective as to who gets into our country. But, unfortunately, the current administration seems to think it’s a “free for…
Fr. Dale - PB sermon turns silk purse into sow's ear
There are other aspects to this sermon that stand out in my mind also. http://sanjoaquinsoundings.blogspot.com/2013/05/human-flourishing-inclusion-and-unborn.html
helpmelord - Pre-teen Pedophile Victim Forced by Rapist to Get Abortion at Planned Parenthood
Even school custodians must report. I did that myself once.
cennydd13 - Pre-teen Pedophile Victim Forced by Rapist to Get Abortion at Planned Parenthood
And I wouldn’t be surprised if clergy are required to do so as well.
cennydd13 - Pre-teen Pedophile Victim Forced by Rapist to Get Abortion at Planned Parenthood
Here in California, teachers, principals, school administrators, doctors, nurses, healthcare technicians, dentists, and police officers are required to report suspected statutory rape cases to the district attorney’s office immediately. and there is no statute of…
Jim the Puritan - Pre-teen Pedophile Victim Forced by Rapist to Get Abortion at Planned Parenthood
Here, just as an example, is the law in Texas regarding PP’s obligation to have reported or face criminal prosecution: https://www.oag.state.tx.us/victims/childabuse.shtml Your legal obligation When You Suspect Child Abuse or Neglect: A General Guide We…
cennydd13 - Pre-teen Pedophile Victim Forced by Rapist to Get Abortion at Planned Parenthood
Well, I’m sure he also faces a charge of statutory rape in any case, and if it were committed in California, he’d be facing six years in prison, which in my opinion is nowhere near…
B. Hunter - California Accommodates Raging Hormones
Sigh. Unbelieveable how stupid some folks are. Not enough common sense to come in out of the rain…
B. Hunter - IRS Asks For "Content of Prayers"
Connect the dots…it ALL starts (and ends) at the top - but Obama’s minions are willing to “fall on their sword” vs. implicating him.
Northwest Bob - Pre-teen Pedophile Victim Forced by Rapist to Get Abortion at Planned Parenthood
Age of concent in WA is 16. Perpetrator was 31. He should be in a heap of trouble.