A quick reminder: Join us today (11/10) at (1 PM) or this evening (6:30 PM) for the showing of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, Police State. To learn more, check out our earlier email invitations here and here.
They say, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Having different tastes, that may be true. But when it comes to truth, truth is truth regardless of who is doing the beholding. We may align ourselves with truth or against truth and truth may leave a bitter or sweet taste in our mouth, but our personal opinions or hopes do not change truth’s existence or stance. The Psalmist rightly declared: “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever;” and Jesus plainly stated, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
Puritan Thomas Watson exhorts us to live by the Scriptures, to live by truth: “The Scripture contains in it the credenda, the things which we are to believe, and the agenda, the things which we are to practice; …The Scripture is the standard of truth, the judge of controversy; it is the pole star to direct us to heaven. The Scripture is the compass by which the rudder of our will is to be steered; it is the field in which Christi, the pearl of price, is hid.” Dear Reader, let us bow our mind and will to the One who does not change, knowing that He IS Truth.
As you read our Decency Minute scripts this week or listen to Bill Johnson, founder and president of American Decency, narrate them, please take the time to reflect on God’s stance – Heaven’s ordained truth – be sure you’re aligned with His Word, and share truth with others – whether it’s popular or not.
Pornography destroys. It rips apart marriages, victimizes children, and is an attack upon God’s gift of intimacy between a husband and a wife. We live in a porn saturated culture, where the most vile pornography is just a click away and the majority of children have been exposed to pornography by the age of 13.
Scripture admonishes us to set no wicked thing before our eyes. However, when it was discovered that professing Christian, House Speaker Mike Johnson, actually walks the Christian walk by protecting himself and his family from porn, the rabid secular media attacked Johson, mocking him for using the accountability app, Covenant Eyes.
In our post-Christian culture, believers who pursue holiness and purity, who live distinctive from the world, stand out like a sore thumb to unbelievers. Pray for Mike Johnson that he will continue to stand as a light in the darkness.
Americans have known since Elon Musk bought Twitter that social media sites work with government agencies to police American’s speech.
That’s not news, but it is nice to hear it from the federal government themselves. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, tweeted this: “The federal government, disinformation ‘experts’ at universities, Big Tech, and others worked together through the Election Integrity Partnership to monitor & censor Americans’ speech.”
Jordan continued: “The American people deserve to know if they were targeted by their own government and so-called ‘disinformation’ experts.”
It has become more and more evident with each election that we are in an information civil war. Especially as we look ahead to next year’s election, we must be vigilant not to swallow lies being told and diligent in sharing truth.
“Gay Christianity” is not Christianity – the term flies in the face of Biblical Christianity both in what God commands and in His transforming promise to make us holy. “Gay Christianity” is counter to holiness. It’s from the pit of hell.
M.D. Perkins (producer of the powerful movie “In His Image”) writes: “Holiness, in other words, is about saying there is no one like God. It is purity and power, righteousness and truth. Unstained. Undefiled. God’s holiness should highlight our unholiness – our unrighteousness, our sinfulness, our inability, our smallness, our limitation. This queering of God seeks to make His holiness a point of camaraderie with sinful humanity. When the Bible speaks about God’s holiness, it is what shows us our need.” – Not a degraded non-standard.
Because God calls us to holiness, witness to needy ones and confront those who spread lies about being a “gay Christian” with love and truth.
I close with puritan Richard Baxter’s exhortation, exhorting our readers to live a life of grace and truth and holiness (thanks be to God): “We are translated from death to life, but not from earth to heaven. We have the life of grace, but we are short of the life of glory. And why have we the life of grace but to use it and live by it? Why came we into the vineyard but to work? And why came we into the army of Christ but to fight? Why came we into the race but to run for the prize? Or why turned we into the right way but to travel in it?”
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