Is America Laodicea?

In Revelation chapter 3:14-20, Jesus says, “”To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. ‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and {that} the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.”

“The disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And He called a child to Himself and set him before them, and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” (A child is as “humble” a human being as any human ever seems to be. They exhibit a pure and sincere humility, unlike the false type of humility most adults exhibit. Jesus is now talking about a child of God. A “born again” believer of Jesus Christ.)

“Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Now, He’s talking about 2 type of people in this world; those people of the world who receive a child of God, as being a Christian OR, the other; by their words of unbelief and human philosophy, cause that new child of God to stumble, doubt and question the reality, love and faithfulness of God toward them; those will be doomed.)

“Woe to the world because of {its} stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!“

And then in the very next sentence, Jesus speaks to the child of God. “If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.” “If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than to have two eyes and be cast into the fiery hell.”

America has many stumbling blocks…

Consumerism (Chasing after the next great electronic device or product)
Celebrity (Holding a person up as a mythical status in importance)
Humanism (I’m the most important person on the planet is mankind)
Success (I want to achieve all my dreams, no matter what)
Choice (I’ll make my own choice based on what I want)
Comfort (Lazy and just want to be comfortable, even when I see others hurting)
Busyness (No Time For God; I’m trying to support my family)
Individualism (I don’t need others; I’m my own person)
Instant Gratification (What I do in the privacy of my home is my business)
Believe God To Be (Personal Opinion has created your God; I don’t think God would punish me because I’m a good person)
Sexual Freedom (It’s my body and I can do what I want)
Appearance (Image is everything; looks are so important)
Money (How much money is enough? You can never have too much)
Amusement (We spend billions on video games, big screens and electronic devices for our pleasure)

What did He mean? He was saying, that if any of these things are “stumbling blocks” to entering into the kingdom of heaven and walking in child like faith, humility and love; GET IT OUT OF YOUR LIFE as fast as you can! Cut it off… pluck it out… just get it out of your life!

Christians Don’t Hate People…

On Jan. 13, about 200 traditionalist Catholics destroyed 13 homes belonging to evangelical Christians in the Los Llanos community of San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, (Chiapas is the southernmost state of Mexico, located towards the southeast of the country. Chiapas is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the north, Veracruz to the northwest, and Oaxaca to the west. To the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, and to the south the Pacific Ocean.) according to VOM contacts. Led by community officials and the local catechist (layperson who teaches catechism), the traditionalists armed themselves with clubs, hammers and crowbars before tearing down the houses.

I don’t care what “religion” you claim to be with or associated with, you are deceiving yourself if you think you’re a Christian and perpetrate violence against any other human being. This is a huge “black eye” for any Catholic person who does believe on the Lord Jesus.

Yeah… this would really make me want to become a member of the local Catholic community!

In America, we called them the KKK (Ku Klux Klan)! The devil himself has deceived so many “religious” people that they, like the Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and Taliban of the middle east, actually think they’re doing God a favor with their religious hypocrisy! As long as the devil can keep them from reading the Bible and knowing the truth, he’s got them dumb and lost.

How Will You Remember 2009?

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DENVER – A Colorado woman says a Christmas miracle brought her and her newborn son back from the brink of death after her heart stopped beating during childbirth and the baby was delivered showing no signs of life.

“I got a second chance in life,” Tracy Hermanstorfer said.

Hermanstorfer, 33, was being prepped for childbirth at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs Thursday morning. Her 37-year-old husband was by her side when she began to feel sleepy and lay back in her bed.

“She literally stopped breathing and her heart stopped,” her husband, Mike, told The Associated Press. Pandemonium erupted as doctors and nurses tried to revive her with chest compressions and a breathing tube, but nothing worked.

“I was holding her hand when we realized she was gone,” Mike Hermanstorfer said. “My entire life just rolled out.”

Doctors told him, “We’re going to take your son out now. We have been unable to revive her and we’re going to take your son out,” he recalled.

After the Cesarean section, some of the team rushed his wife to the operating room while the others attended to Coltyn. They handed him to Mike Hermanstorfer, who said the baby was “absolutely lifeless.”

“My legs went out from underneath me,” Hermanstorfer said. “I had everything in the world taken from me, and in an hour and a half I had everything given to me.”

The doctors went to work on Coltyn as Hermanstorfer held him, and soon he began to breath.

“His life began in my hands,” Hermanstorfer said. “That’s a feeling like none other. Life actually began in the palm of my hands.”

Stephanie Martin, a maternal fetal medicine specialist at the hospital, said Tracy Hermanstorfer’s pulse returned even before she was wheeled out of the room and into surgery. She estimates Hermanstorfer had no heartbeat for about four minutes.

“She had no signs of life. No heartbeat, no blood pressure, she wasn’t breathing,” said Martin, who had rushed to Hermanstorfer’s room to help. “The baby was, it was basically limp, with a very slow heart rate.”

After their stunning recovery, both mother and the baby, named Coltyn, appear healthy with no signs of problems, Martin said.

She said she cannot explain the mother’s cardiac arrest or the recovery.

“We did a thorough evaluation and can’t find anything that explains why this happened,” she said.

Mike Hermanstorfer credits “the hand of God.”

“We are both believers … but this right here, even a nonbeliever — you explain to me how this happened. There is no other explanation,” he said.

Asked about divine intervention, Martin said, “Wherever I can get the help, I’ll take it.”

He’s Not A Baby Anymore…

I’ve got  a news flash for those that still don’t understand that Jesus is NOT a “trinket, token or toy.”

Millions of people wear a cross or crucifix around their neck, but have rejected the real Christ of the Bible. That won’t work.

Many others have the “Jesus token” in their back pocket, like a bus token, when they need a ride out of the area into something better. That won’t work.

And others have Jesus in their mind as some kind of “super-hero” toy, that they fantasize about, like talking about one of the other “great men of religions.” That won’t work either!

Some facts to realize, before the reality of never knowing Him reaches your door…

• He is the Son of the Living God (God of all creation… NO it didn’t just “big bang” into existence)
• He did miracles that NO man has ever done or claimed to do (recorded historically too)
• The church that He said He would build… He has built and continues to build it
• Jesus alone has fulfilled every prophecy of the Old and New Testament about the Messiah
• He wants to have a very “personal relationship” with you
• You do need His forgiveness of your sins (No, you aren’t perfect, even though you think you are…)
• He warned us of the events that will shortly happen to everyone on the earth
• He is coming back to take His “church” (people who have truly committed their hearts and lives to Him)
• And the ONLY thing standing in the way from you knowing Him, is your pride
• He’s also the ONLY way to eternal life (Not Allah, Shmalla or Buddalla…) He said it, it is true

As you read this, you have one less day than you had before yesterday, tomorrow may or may not come for you.

Why “gamble” with your soul? If you’re lost… it will be forever. You don’t die. Only the body you live now will die and turn back to dust.

Jesus is not a “good luck” charm. He’s a holy God and you will be standing before Him one day. That’s a sobering fact.

Don’t believe me? It won’t change the fact that you will…

The only question remains… will you stand there forgiven, because you said, “Jesus, I’m sorry for my rejection of you and now ask you to forgive me and come live in my heart?”

Or will you hold your foolish pride and believe the lie Satan keeps telling you, that you don’t need a Savior. You’re a good person. You never killed anyone or committed any bad crime?

If you say that, then you simply don’t get it… You and I were “born into sin.” It was the very nature of us as human beings from the beginning.

We need someone to make us “right” with God again, so we don’t continue to stand before Him “condemned.” You may be thinking, “Oh no, I don’t feel condemned before God, he and I are real tight….”

Jesus said, “No man can come to God, except through me.” If you don’t Jesus, you don’t know God.

You’ve only got religion… That’s all the Muslims have. That’s all the cults have. That’s all the “LOST” of the world have!

He’s not a baby anymore and He’s coming back to the earth very soon. You don’t want to be here after the church has been taken away. I won’t be… how about you?

It’s all about Him and what He provided for us. His life.

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The Great High Priest

Have you ever been hurt so badly that you just wanted to leave this planet and go be with Jesus NOW? That’s what a child wants to do when they’ve been terribly hurt or wounded and sometimes it’s what we want to do, even as adults. We have a soul that can be wounded deeply sometimes.

This world can be hard, and those we love and who are the very closest to us, can be the very ones that are the most hurtful to us. Many times, the more we love them, the less they love us.

For people who have no connection, no relationship and no real hope with the living God; I would expect the emotional attack to be almost too great for some to endure.

But for us who know the “great high priest,” we have a refuge, a lover of our soul and a comfort in our depression. Emotions can be controlled, but hurts are a little more difficult to ignore. The wounds of a friend or loved one, cuts deeper than any enemy we face.

Isaiah 53:3-5 says, “He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, [our] faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [He was] bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace [was] upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”

Jesus experienced all this for us as a man, in a human body. And the Bible tells us that He did, so we would understand that we can carry these emotions to Him when we hurt. We don’t have to “carry our sorrows.” He did for us. We don;t have to “bear our griefs.” He did that too.

He said, “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Jesus said this “seven times” in the gospels. Maybe that was to remind us, that for every day of the week, we can go to our “great high priest” and get the comfort we need when the grief, sorrows and heartaches tear at us like a lions teeth. That’s why he sent us the “Comforter.” Because His very Spirit must live in us, to help us overcome the intense hurt, sorrow and heartache, that happen to us many times in this lost and dying world.

What a wonderful help in time of need… Like the Apostle Paul said to the Hebrew people, “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

I’ll keep abiding in Him. I need His grace so much!

Show Me “Mans Wisdom,” And I’ll Show You An “Empty Mind.”

The headlines and top news story yesterday; “The story of humankind is reaching back another million years as scientists learn more about “Ardi,” a hominid who lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.”

“Reaching” is the operative word here! The article continues… “The 110-pound, 4-foot female roamed forests a million years before the famous Lucy, long studied as the earliest skeleton of a human ancestor.” “This older skeleton reverses the common wisdom of human evolution, said anthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University.” “LONG STUDIED???????????” How long could anyone study these bones. How much time can you spend on a pile of bones?

Common “wisdom?” You’ve got to be kidding me, right?

The “reaching” part is true, the “wisdom” part is a joke! How could you ever come up with an astronomical number like 4.4 million years ago?????

Carbon dating is only accurate back a few thousand years. How then, did they date this, with such “pinpoint” accuracy to within 400,000 years. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Scientists dated dinosaur bones using the Carbon dating method. The age they came back with was only a few thousand years old. So basically, when your test instruments don’t go back any further… you GUESS. You “speculate and hypothesize.” (Make it up!)

They must have some of the same people working with them as we have calculating the national debt… they’ve lost count and don’t really care. Their “so-called” facts are so far from facts that it would take me 29 quadrillion years to begin to think like they do, or use the “calculations” of a turtle to plan his run across a busy road and avoid getting hit by a semi-tractor trailer!

They go on… “Rather than humans evolving from an ancient chimp-like creature, the new find provides evidence that chimps and humans evolved from some long-ago common ancestor — but each evolved and changed separately along the way.” Oh really?

WAIT A MINUTE… Do you mean to tell me, after all these years I was taught that I came from an ape, it’s all wrong now? These scientists have got my world all “Topsy Turvy” now!

And for the FINAL BLOW?

“This is not that common ancestor, but it’s the closest we have ever been able to come,” said Tim White, director of the Human Evolution Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley.”

“The lines that evolved into modern humans and living apes probably shared an ancestor 6 million to 7 million years ago, White said in a telephone interview.”

Do you know what the word “probably” really means? It means were making the whole thing up and don’t really have a clue what we’re talking about, but because our student loans are already paid off and we make a whole lot of money as professors, and like our easy job’s, we’re not going to say that we’re full of horse hockey! It would give anthropologists a bad name.

Oh by the way, got any prediction on when we’ll evolve wings, so I can fly to the moon and save from having to spend my money on the space program?

It’s amazing what men will believe when they won’t believe the truth!

P.S. Anthropologists are social scientists who study the origin and physical, cultural, and social development of human beings. Anthropologists study the language, traditions, beliefs, possessions, and values of people in various parts of the world and formulate hypotheses to explain their research and findings. They generally specialize in physical anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, or cultural anthropology.

Loving Muslims Doesn’t Mean Embracing Their Idolatry

The Christian Defense Coalition is welcoming Muslims planning to hold a large prayer gathering Friday on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

More than 50,000 Muslims are expected to take part in the event Friday on Capitol Hill. Pat Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition, says it is sad that some Christians have been hostile to the Muslims planning to gather Friday.

I would add, that it’s sad that people who profess to be Christians, are hostile to anyone and act just like the world! They may think they know God, but didn’t Jesus say in John 16:2, that these very same “religious” people who kill you will think he’s doing God a favor. They will do these things because they never really understood the Father.”

The Muslims who kill Christians all over the world, fit acurately into that compartment, but that is only because, as Jesus said, “There will even come a time when anyone who kills you will think he’s doing God a favor. They will do these things because they never really understood the Father.” The same problem exists for both the “carnal” or unredeemed person as it does for a Muslim. Neither one has “really understood the Father.”

A Christian does not act in a “hostile” way toward anyone. Jesus said in Luke chapter 6, “⁴³“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. ⁴⁴Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. ⁴⁵The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.”

“They are receiving numerous calls from people who profess to be Christians, full of hateful language to them, telling them to go back to their own country, when they are Americans and they love this country,” he notes. Jesus also said, “²⁷“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, ²⁸bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” You see, that’s only possible when a person asks Christ to save them from the nature they can’t control. That’s why he came, died and rose from the dead. To make it possible for us to “have control” to do good by being born over again by His power and NOT By the law. (Which never could save anyone!)

Mahoney says while some Christians may be uncomfortable at the prospect of the prayer event, he believes it shows the greatness of America.

“It is important to send a clear message that the Christian community loves the Muslim community. That we do not hate Muslims, that our heart is not set against Muslims, and that with the heart and compassion of Christ, we are to reach out and build bridges,” he adds.

I would add that you can’t build bridges with a stick or a gun in your hand, but with an open hand, willing to reach out in the love of Christ. It may be one sided, but let it be one sided in love, on our side, if it has to be. I don’t “embrace” the Muslim religion and never will. I embrace the person in the Muslim religion and if I can preach the Gospel to an openhearted Muslim, I will tell him or her of the love and good news, till I am no longer breathing.

Mahoney and Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, hosted a reception for the organizer of the Day of Islamic Unity.

I will not judge Mahoney or Rob Schenck for that gesture. But, how do you know that it won’t be a catalyst, that God will use to set that Muslim free of the slavery of religion forever… we don’t.

I pray it does. That’s my prayer! But even if it doesn’t, they may have shown that they’re a child of their Father.

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Joy Unspeakable!

This has been a VERY goood week!

I know it’s not over yet, but for me, the news I got from the lady in my previous blog post, made it a good YEAR!

Three emails later, I got the reply I prayed for… ALL THREE ACCEPTED JESUS!! Mother and two daughters! Remember the 21 year old with a brain tumor. (Please pray for her complete healing.) Our God is an awesome God… not a “puny god” or a god who cannot hear.

He is the God of ALL creation and He is the same yesterday, today and forever! There will never be another God and there is NO other name under heaven by which any man can be saved. Don’t let the world fill you with their lies and empty philosophies. They can never save you through any of their “wisdom” or plans of deliverance.

The miracle of “salvation” is still too awesome to comprehend for this little human mind.

How the Almighty One would care enough for you and me, that He would send His ONLY Son to be the “ultimate” sacrifice, that I can be counted worthy before Him now and forever because of what He did for me… IN MY PLACE!

I’ll praise Him forever! How about you?

How Can A God Of Love Allow My Daughter To Die?

This past week I received a letter from a lady who is in need of help for her daughter. Because I have a site and have been involved in natural healing and health research, I am asked for possible alternatives to traditional treatments. Her daughter has been given a year (give or take) to live by the doctors treating her. She is 21 years old.

Her letter really disturbed me and I’ll tell you why…

Here’s her letter with the names changed to keep their identities private.

Hi Steve,

When Melissa was younger, she was bleeding internally for no reason, the doctors couldn’t figure it out and it went on for almost a year. I read Cayenne pepper stops internal bleeding in an emergency so I gave her a quarter teaspoon in a cup of warm water every night. It stopped in a couple of weeks never to return. Doctors don’t always know what they are talking about… they guess. So I have no problem having a conversation with any of them if they are feeling superior.

I was raised Christian,  believe in God and miracles. But I am of an alternative faith now. It is a more natural, loving religion, more about herbs and healing energy.

I do love God, but I have learned through the years, he can also be cruel. Floods, fires, and wiping out innocent children.

I guess Melissa just ended up being the fly in the spider web. Life and death is supposed to be natural, but it is the price we; all have to pay for sin so they say.

I can think of people who should die of brain cancer before my beautiful, sweet young daughter. I can’t think of anything she did so terrible. So, I will fight, because I don’t accept it. If God takes my child, I will have a very hard time believing in a merciful forgiving God who would allow children to die so horribly while he watches.

He created beautiful things it’s true, but he also created praying mantises that rip the heads off their prey while they suck out their insides, spiders are living vampires and the strong in nature eat the weak and babies. Who created that? And those are just a few examples. He doesn’t feel what we do. We are much more humane.

I appreciate the prayers, please don’t get me wrong, and maybe I have some learning experiences to go through, but honestly, I’m not happy with him right now. I’ve sinned more in my life time, he should take me first. But I guess life’s not fair….why!?

Sorry if I bombarded you. I am going to follow this natural cure and try to fix her.

Thank you for your time and input, I really appreciate it.

Joan

OK. Now let me give her and you the truth…

• Almost everyone in America claims to have been raised a Christian, believe in God and miracles. But the reality is, most people have been raised as secular “Christians,” not knowing God’s word or ever really understanding the desire God has for us to have a “relationship” with Him. There is NO “alternative faith,” only another choice of “unbelief.” Herbs and healing properties are gifts from God for us to use for our benefit, not intended to be worshiped.
• Without really knowing God, you can’t really love God. The only way to know God is through His Word (the Bible) and asking Him to have a relationship with you through His son, Jesus. (This is a “personal” decision each person must make.) She stated she has “learned through the years, he can also be cruel.” This would be true if God was really behind these “floods, fires, and wiping out innocent children,”  but God is NOT behind the cruel, unfair and the unjust events that happen to us all in this world. Who is behind it then? His name is Satan. Jesus said, “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.” Have you ever read the book of Job in the Bible? It says, “So Satan left the LORD’s presence, and he struck Job with a terrible case of boils from head to foot.” The devil is very real and very evil in all his ways. He is the source of ALL disease and sickness.
• “I guess Melissa just ended up being the fly in the spider web. Life and death is supposed to be natural, but it is the price we all have to pay for sin so they say.” NO… Melissa has been attacked by the devil. “Satan, the mighty prince of the power of the air. He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.” We are in a fallen world to this day, but not without hope now that Jesus has provided a way to exchange the death sentence of being born into sin, to “the sacred and unfailing message of salvation that gives eternal life.” It’s NOT “they who say, “the price (or wages) of sin is death…” it is God that says it! And because “God so loved the world, He gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” “God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him.”
• “If God takes my child, I will have a very hard time believing in a merciful forgiving God who would allow children to die so horribly while he watches.” God has already proven His love for us by sending His ONLY Son to die the most cruel and shameful death any human being could suffer. Telling God that you’ll only trust Him if the circumstances in life turn out the way you believe they should, proves that you don’t trust Him now. We will all physically die in these bodies someday. Babies die. Elderly die. God never intended for us to die. That happened when Adam and Eve listened to the destroyer (Satan) and believed the lie! “”Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?” “You won’t die!” the serpent hissed.” But, it’s the eternal life that will be the most dramatic. We were created with the capacity to feel and love. We will always mourn and grieve the loss of someone we love. But, this life on planet earth is “temporal.”
• “I’ve sinned more in my life time, he should take me first. But I guess life’s not fair….why!?” Life is not fair because most people have decided to believe the lies of Satan rather than the truth of God! It’s not for us to know the things that only God knows, but we do have His Word. Everything we need can be found in the Bible! I’m totally serious about that! Not to mention the “supernatural” power available to those who believe. It’s WAY more than life insurance for eternity… it’s “assurance of life” in the midst of horrible circumstances and trials. This life is “temporal.” The apostle James said, “How do you know what will happen tomorrow? For your life is like the morning fog–it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” In light of eternity, this life is VERY short, but if you place your complete trust and confidence in the “canceled or paid debt” for your sins, by receiving Jesus Christ into your heart, you have passed from death to life already!

This may be a shock to you, but Jesus said, “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness.” Does that include NOW? YES!

His heart breaks over the same hurts you feel. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.” He feels our pain and hurts!

The good news is that God will put an end to Satan and his evil attacks against God’s creation. It’s all spelled out in His Word… especially in Revelation. The time is coming when God Himself and Jesus will take the earth back and rule a world without sin, sickness, pain, tears and without the devil FOREVER! Nothing God has spoken, has not come to pass!

Pastors Count The Cost

Conservative members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are considering options after their “denomination” decided on Friday to allow “non-celibate” homosexuals and lesbians to be pastors. Do you see how religion excuses sin, “dressed as faithfulness?”

During debate on the question, Pastor Marshal Hahn of Iowa said he would stand on the Bible, but did not take arguments for or against homosexual leadership personally.

WHAT? Apparently this “pastor” hasn’t read Math 12:30, “Anyone who isn’t helping me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.” He said, “This is not about me. It’s about the church. It’s not about fear.”. “It’s about faith — to remain faithful to our Lord, faithful to our commitment, faithful to one another.” Wait a minute pastor… How about being faithful to Jesus Christ? Leviticus 18:22 says, “Do not practice homosexuality; it is a detestable sin.” How is it that you say “It’s about faith — to remain faithful to our Lord” and yet you remain silent about homosexuals and lesbians serving as pastors? You really need to read the Bible!

Darin Easler left the ELCA because of its previous ban on homosexual clergy and joined the extremely liberal United Church of Christ. (That’s where he belongs.)  He was present for the vote. ”I’m also aware of those who are really in pain because of the things that have taken place and the decisions that have been made, and feeling their place in the church is shifting and the painfulness that they are feeling, even as we’re feeling a sense of joy,” Easler says.

Get a clue… it’s NOT about you or what you’re feeling. It’s about the truth and you have believed a lie. You may think it’s OK to twist the Word of God, but you will hear the words of Jesus, “Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.”

Karl Moyer is pastor of St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He spoke against the measure, stressing the Bible condemns homosexual practices – and that, he stated, should be the factor in determining the policy. “For us to say one thing and to do another costs our church integrity, credibility, and our ability to evangelize in the future,” he adds. Pastor Moyer, you are speaking the truth in a denomination that seems to be floundering from an abandonment of truth. You are to be highly commended!

Some pastors are confident they will leave the denomination – but the question remains, where will they go? It doesn’t matter where they will go as much as it matters that they stand for truth. If they are true servants of God, they will find their place in His service. Biblically solid representatives plan to meet in Indianapolis in September to determine their options.

I highly recommend you get on your face and seek God’s direction. Then go meet with your fellow pastors. Your call is either from God or you really don’t belong in the church as a pastor anyway. May I remind you pastors of Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.” “Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths.”