Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Monday, July 6, 2020
Abortion and Other Current Societal Ills
Pro-Life Groups:
Human life coalition: https://www.humancoalition.org/
Susan B. Anthony List: https://www.sba-list.org/
NC Values: https://www.ncvalues.org/
Monroe HELP Crisis Pregnancy Center: https://monroehelp.com/en/home/
Some Current Facts on Abortion:
Some black perspectives on the current societal ills (again, I use “black”
because some people need that word to understand the context, but I reject it
as a term that we ought to be using – when using “black” or “white” we are
perpetuating racism – when will we all see that?):
Morgan Freeman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZrgrbUNxzk
Larry Elder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dE6qlOarj8
Anthony B. Logan: Aunt Jemima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PIoikXsrpk&t=191s
“ “ Shining Shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJVE6xqQjSs
Voddie Baucham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCivUBcap8Q
What Black Lives Matter actually believes:
On the Dangers of “Progressive Christianity” by Alisa
Childers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFJ2yurcfNw&t=4598s
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Retiring the Broadus Gavel is Political Dribbling and Less Than Worthless
Raise
your hand if you had heard of the history of the Southern Baptist Convention
gavel mentioned by J.D. Greear BEFORE Greear mentioned it in a piece on the
Baptist Press News on June 11.[1]
A current gavel could certainly affect the systemic racism of abortion in
America, but a retired gavel would not help either way.
So,
here’s the real racism and the real racial reconciliation that needs to occur
in America. The real racism going on is that the human race (that’s us) is
killing off our race by means of the abortion industry. Additionally, blacks in
America are the biggest victims in this tragedy. This is so because more blacks
currently use abortion clinics and women’s health clinics for abortions than
any other “race.”[2]
Racism
is being practiced at the largest level in America in abortion or “women’s
health” clinics. Here, black babies have their lives snuffed out every week –
that amounted to roughly 236, 918 in 2016.[3]
In 10 years, do you realize how many black babies are dead at the hands of
women’s health clinics and the Left continues to support it and turn our
attention more and more to what in comparison to the atrocities of abortion are
superficial issues? These issues cause unrest, create chaos, and lead more of
the same demographic into more crimes, all the while turning their attention
and the media’s attention to less serious issues, and away from the evil of
abortion.
And
here’s where God has manifestly clearly called His people to stand up against
immorality and to stand up and speak out for the unborn – and protect them. Southern
Baptists and other Christian leaders should speak out the loudest and longest
against this “systemic” racism. Unfortunately, as older Christian leaders (and
I, as a Southern Pastor pastor, am referring primarily to Southern Baptist leaders
but also to all Christian leaders in America) have died off or retired, the
younger generation of leaders is lacking the biblical wisdom, social courage,
and spiritual umph to speak God’s truth into this culture and educate and warn
and spiritually and politically fight for the unborn. Again, let me make it
clear: the biggest racism issue in our country is abortion! This and other
moral ills and evils in our society are where the battle for souls made in the
image of God and life itself rages the fiercest. And we’re worried about a
largely unknown small block of wood?
God
is not pleased with thousands of black babies being killed annually. But He is
also not pleased with His people not standing up for the unborn.[4]
God’s people are currently too busy bowing to political expediency, fearing the
wrath of man and what’s popular, pandering to the demands of criminals, being
sure we follow CDC guidelines for a virus (another example of making every effort
to conform to the culture), and turning a blind eye to deep matters. Lives
matter. If they do, why aren’t we defending them? If black lives matter, why
aren’t we defending the most vulnerable of the black lives – the little ones?
Real
racial reconciliation would ask something like “What if we as Southern Baptists
come up with a plan to help families and especially young men and women to see
and understand what’s being done to their race and to the human race and how
that many of us are being used by the Left to eradicate some of us.” The
numbers are there, so let’s help our neighbors understand the evils of abortion
and how that God loves each and every life, small or large, red, yellow, black,
or white. But we can’t be of much help to stem this moral evil and this
eradication if we are busy with surface issues, with symptoms.
Perhaps
if God’s people actually turned to Him and stopped asking the culture how to
think and live, and if God’s people called out to God, and if they actually
obeyed God (especially in defending the unborn), perhaps we would not be
plagued with a pandemic, with chaos, civil unrest, a mental health crisis,
enemies like leftists (and worse) both in this country and without funding
destruction, crime, racism, and chaos. Perhaps God would bless us.
Additionally,
there are other moral issues – homosexual agenda, traditional marriage, and one-parent
homes. The Southern Baptist Convention used to stay on front lines with these
issues. But we’ve gotten lazy. We cower under the guise of “let’s preach on ‘racial
reconciliation’” or, “well, we’re just called to preach the Gospel.” But the
Gospel includes many pieces of good news and we’re commanded in the Bible to do
a lot more than just preach the Gospel. Speaking up for the unborn is one of them.
We’re at ease in Zion and this ease has led to bondage to political correctness
and submission to media and an ungodly culture. Is there no God left in
Israel?!
Conclusion:
We
should get back to the business of caring about issues God deals with in the
Bible instead of pandering to an ungodly culture. The pandering helps nothing.
It’s so much political correctness and it’s for naught. It does nothing to stem
the tide of genocide. It does nothing to help with race relations. Race in
fact, is a social construct as Voddie Baucham has pointed out.[5]
To turn our attention to the onslaught of the media’s uses of red herrings and continual
tossing minor issues into our faces and our thinking, is superficial pandering
of the worst kind.
Real
racism in America is abortion. This beats out an old gavel used in a denominational
convention once a year that up until now no one has known about. What are you
thinking – that if all the black women over the last 47 years had seen this
gavel retired, they would not have aborted their babies – or that by retiring this
gavel, you’ll save several hundred thousand black babies in the next few years.?
The only “symbolic yet tangible
message”[6] that
retiring said gavel sends is that we are taking the cake on “majoring on
the minors.” It’s an all new low in Southern Baptist Life. Is this the best we
have to offer?
So,
here’s the leadership of the SBC – pandering to political correctness, keeping
a blind eye and a taped-shut mouth about the larger evils in our land, not continuing
a fierce battle for lives and the soul of this nation, not coming up with a
plan to help our black families see and understand what’s being done to them
systematically through the evil of abortion, and instead worrying about a gavel
that’s used once a year at a convention, the history of which no one knew about
and the first user who no one today up until now knew his racial views. What
about the racial views of the Leftists who are defending and funding abortion?
Let’s retire them and their ideologies and their gavels, and their statues,
etc. This helps nothing, but since you’re retiring this gavel, maybe just maybe
one or two people will sleep better and safer at night, and the gospel will be
heard like never before.
[1] http://www.bpnews.net/54938/first-person-its-time-to-retire-the-broadus-gavel.
Accessed July 1, 2020.
[2] See [2]
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/ss6811a1.htm.
Accessed July 1, 2020; https://www.grrtl.org/genocide/,
and https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2008/08/abortion-and-women-color-bigger-picture.
Accessed July 1. 2020.
[3] https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm.
Accessed July 1, 2020. This number is a lot higher – at 890,000 at https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/;
accessed July 1, 2020.
[4] There are many verses that support
pro-life movement – just do an internet search. A few that include why God had the
ancient Israelites to wipe out the pagan nations, how the Bible teaches that a
baby in the womb is alive, and the fact that we should stand against this
murder are: “Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel, even
sacrificing his own son in the fire. In this way, he followed the detestable
practices of the pagan nations the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the
Israelites.” (2 Ki. 16:3 NLT); “They even sacrificed their own sons and
daughters in the fire. They consulted fortune-tellers and practiced sorcery and
sold themselves to evil, arousing the LORD's anger.” (2 Ki. 17:17 NLT); “He
also defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man
might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech.” (2 Ki.
23:10 NAU); "You shall not murder.” (Exod. 20:13 NAU); “You made all the
delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb.”
(Ps. 139:13 NLT); “Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the
womb is a reward.” (Ps. 127:3 NAU); “There are six things which the LORD hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood” (Prov. 6:16-17 NAU); “For the choir
director. A Psalm of David. How blessed is he who considers the helpless; The
LORD will deliver him in a day of trouble.” (Ps. 41:1 NAU).
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCivUBcap8Q.
Accessed July 2, 2020.
[6] http://www.bpnews.net/54938/first-person-its-time-to-retire-the-broadus-gavel.
Accessed July 1, 2020.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Real Racism
Real Racism
I’d like to strike a nerve with the
consciences of Americans. This note should be considered a religious one and
not a political one (although these two elements intersect and overlap out of
necessity when it comes to culture and government). Racism is afoot. But the
biggest and most long-lasting element of racism is not individuals being picked
out and picked on by cops. The systemic problem (if there is indeed a systemic
problem – our government is set up so that anyone of any race can have gracious
opportunity – just ask Morgan Freeman[1]) is
the wiping out of a generation of kids before they come out of the womb. Organizations
offer to kill the unborn humans, and people will actually pay these
organizations to do so.
The largest demographic of the population to
visit and utilize abortion clinics needs to wake up and see that these clinics,
funded and defended by the Left are wiping their race out, literally. There is
a movement to stop black genocide, found on the website Abortion73. Grand
Rapids Right to Life states, “Abortion is
the number one killer of black lives in the United
States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, abortion
kills more black people than HIV, homicide, diabetes, accident, cancer, and
heart disease … combined.”[2]
The Guttmacher Institute has this to say, “This much is true: In the United States, the abortion
rate for black women is almost five times that for white women.”[3]
According to the CDC, recent stats show that “Among
the 32 areas that reported cross-classified race/ethnicity data for 2016,
non-Hispanic white women and non-Hispanic black women accounted for the largest
percentages of all abortions (35.0% and 38.0%, respectively) . . . .”[4]
And in the same year (2016), there were 623,471[5]
abortions and therefore 236, 918 black babies were killed by abortion in the
United States in one year. This is racism of the worst kind. And it’s
effective. And it needs to stop. God had only horrendous judgement for those
pagan cultures who practiced infanticide and genocide. God places no premium on
funding this evil, turning a blind eye to it, or using red herring-like tactics
to veer the culture’s gaze away from it. It needed to stop, and it needs to
stop.
The consciences of men and women that God
placed in them seeks value, purpose, and guidance. But neither of these goods
are found in culture and don’t derive from culture. These are goods offered to humankind
by the Creator. We are created in His image and therefore we have value. A poor
man is no less valuable than a rich man. A person who can’t read or can’t think
critically has no less value than an educated man, a non-Caucasian has no less
value than a Caucasian, and an unborn child (who is living and kicking) has no
less value than a 30-year old.
God has commanded that His people stand up
for the helpless, the orphans, and the widows. Our culture is inundated with
fatherless homes, women having to make it on their own and support and rear
children on their own. Kids are thereby orphaned. But this is the case only if
they are lucky enough to make it out of the womb. Widows are made because of
disintegration of the biblical, traditional family. And all of these ills are
supported by the very organizations that get the loudest voice and longest
airplay in mainstream media. All the while more and more minority babies are killed
in the womb and fatherless homes continue to abound. In responding to responses
to the 1979 C. Everett Koop-based film, Francis Schaeffer stated that with this
film “. . . we observed something very instructive. The call for a public stand
against abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and against the general eradication
of the unique dignity and worth of all human beings was not widely accepted at
first. Many of the evangelical leadership either were totally silent about abortion,
or qualified what they did say about abortion to such an extent that they
really said nothing, or less than nothing, as far as the battle for human life
was concerned.”[6]
Racism is huge but it’s being perpetrated in
plain sight and atoned by secular media and leftists. This is truly “systemic
racism” in America if it exists system-wide. These entities and people are very
good at pulling the wool over the eyes of their victims. God-fearing people
must speak up in an effort to protect the helpless, namely, the unborn of all
races.
So yes, racism is afoot, but I think we’re
missing it because we’re allowing the cloud of politics and emotionalism to
shroud the truth. And the fear of man (instead of the fear of God) and
allegiance to political expediency are winning the day.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZrgrbUNxzk.
Accessed July 1, 2020.
[2] https://www.grrtl.org/genocide/.
Accessed July 1, 2020.
[3] https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2008/08/abortion-and-women-color-bigger-picture.
Accessed July 1, 2020.
[4] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/ss6811a1.htm.
Accessed July 1, 2020.
[5] https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm.
Accessed July 1, 2020. This number is a lot higher – at 890,000 at https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/;
accessed July 1, 2020.
[6] Schaeffer, Francis. A Christian
Manifesto. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1982.
Friday, May 29, 2020
Ravi Zacharias Tribute
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Ephesians 5, Redeeming the Time During the Corona Virus Pandemic
This version comes without my political rantings:
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