SECOND AMENDED LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST SOVEREIGN GRACE MINISTRIES, NAMING 11 PLAINTIFFS

Brent Detwiler has announced:

"The Second Amended Lawsuit was filed today (May 14, 2013) in the Montgomery County Circuit Court, Maryland.  It is available on this website by clicking on “SGM Lawsuit / Class Action Lawsuit.”  A link is provided at www.brentdetwiler.com, (in PDF format here: http://abrentdetwiler.squarespace.com/storage/documents/second%20amended%20sgm%20lawsuit.pdf.

"The original Class Action Lawsuit was filed on Oct 17, 2012.  It named three plaintiffs and nine defendants.  The First Amended Lawsuit was filed on Jan 11, 2013.  It named eight plaintiffs and 14 defendants.  The Second Amended Lawsuit names 11 plaintiffs and the defendants remain at 14.  Some of the pseudonymous plaintiffs are now using their proper names."

CHRISTIANS SHOULD AVOID BUDDHIST MINDFULNESS & MINDFUL EATING SINCE IT DIVERTS FOCUS AWAY FROM GOD AND JESUS CHRIST TO PAGAN DEITIES

Hebrews 13:9- "Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them."

From Rappler.com of the Phillipines, which has 45 articles on mindfulness http://www.rappler.com/?option=com_rappler&task=search&q=mindfulness, "mindful eating" is clearly described as Buddhist and focusing on the creation instead of the Creator in this one article among the lot. Apparently, in the heavily "Catholic" Phillipines which has had the benefits and influence of American culture since World War II, a mixture of paganism, Buddhism and Catholicism is still the norm. Here is the article:
http://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/29068-mindful-eating, with excerpts below. Bold emphasis ours:
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MANILA, Philippines - How do you eat? Do you shove food into your mouth in huge spoonfuls, chew a bit, then swallow? Do you nibble at small portions, picking your way through the food on your plate? Or do you eat mindlessly, talking, texting, watching TV, or reading while “eating”?

Venerable Miao Jing, head abbess at Mabuhay Temple (Fo Guang Shan Philippines), talked about eating meditation in "Food for Thought, Thought for Food: Eating as a Meditative Experience." The event was part of FGS Philippines’ Buddhist Lecture Series 2013 and also featured a simple tea ceremony to demonstrate the sacred ritual of preparing and sipping tea.

The head abbess emphasized the importance of using all of our senses to experience, appreciate, and contemplate the food that we eat. Due to our attachment to habit, she says, we fail to do these things and we continue to survive to eat, and not eat to survive.

“We need a new perspective to eating,” says Venerable Miao Jing.

The 5 contemplations

Written by Thich Nhat Hanh, this is a version of the grace said before meals. “The practice of reciting these contemplations before eating is a way to foster mindful eating, and helps promote inner peace through food.”

(Comment: Inner peace is NOT promoted through food, but through salvation in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and Savior).

1. "This food is a gift from the earth, the sky, the universe, numerous living beings, and much hard work." 

(Comment: non-Christian worship of the creation instead of the Creator).

2. "May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it." (Comment: Gratitude to whom?)

3. "May we transform our unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation." 

(Comment: As Christians, we believe we can NOT transform our sin nature and/or redeem our minds, hearts and souls by our own efforts).

4. "May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of all beings, preserve our planet, and reverse the process of global warming." 

(Comment: This is a globalist, liberal, ecumenical, Christ-denying one world religion)

5. "We accept this food so we can nurture our brotherhood and sisterhood, strengthen our community, and nourish our ideal of serving all beings." 

(Comment: Eating mindfully does nothing to save people from their sins like Jesus Christ would, but has a collectivist goal).

Eating as meditation: Venerable Miao Jing in her talk mentioned that “eating is meditative training.” When there is silence during meals, eating can become a more meaningful experience. 

(Comment: This is contemplative mysticism whether practiced in the East or the West, and has no place in the life of a true Christian believer).

1. Go beyond the taste. If you are mindful, the head abbess says, everything will taste the same. 

(Comment: If everything tastes the same, then why eat mindfully? All the God-given enjoyment of savoring foods is lost!).

2. Don’t take too much of the food that we like. And don’t ignore the food that we don’t like.

(Comment: Romans 12:2- "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

3. When preparing food, do so with sincere thoughts. Fill the food with positive vibrations and love. These will be served to others as you share the dishes you made. 

(Comment: This is totally devoid of prayerful thanksgiving to the one true God of the Christian faith through Jesus Christ, our one high priest and mediator with the Father God).

4. When you are 70% full, stop eating. If you fill your tummy a hundred percent when you eat, your metabolism will slow down and all your energy will be used in digestion. This is why we feel sleepy after a heavy meal.

(Comment: How does one measure when one is 70% full?).

5. When you are full, don’t meditate. The stomach should be only 30 percent full when meditating.

(Comment: Again, how does one know when one is 30% full?).

6. Eat only the right amount of food at the scheduled time of meals.

(Comment: How much is right?).

7. Don’t be angry if you get too much or too little food.

(Comment: If one is being silent and mindful, then how does anger enter into the mix? Must be a failure associated with mindfulness or the person then).

8. Always be grateful for the food given to you, even if you are not happy with the taste.

(Comment: If everything tastes the same as a result of mindfulness, then you might have reason not to be happy with the taste! Yes, thank the host and/or the preparer, but also be grateful to God in all things, even if the taste is all the same or not to your liking).

9. Whatever it is you’re doing — not only while eating — contemplate and appreciate. Be mindful.

(Comment: Christians contemplate on, and are mindful of, the Word of God in the Bible and appreciate what He has done to save us from our sins by sending Jesus Christ to atone for us. Acts 14:17- "Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.")

10. Do not waste food. Finish whatever you have on your plate. It has been said that one grain of rice is equal to one bead of a farmer’s sweat. So clean up your plate!

(Comment: Luke 12:23- "Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing." As a Christian, you take only as much as you can finish, being guided in all things by the Holy Spirit and eating in moderation. Buddhism is worried about offending a farmer's efforts, but Christianity is concerned with the salvation of sinful people. John 6:27- "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him." 1 Corinthians 8:8- "But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse."

Related topics you can follow (on Rappler.com):

Buddha•Buddhist•Buddhist Lecture Series 2013•Fo Guang Shan Philippines•Food for Thought•Mabuhay Temple•Spirituality•Thich Nhat Hanh•Thought for Food: Eating as a Meditative Experience•Venerable Miao Jing•Wellbeing•Wellness•Meditation

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INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE HARASSES & AUDITS CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS

    Culture News reports that IRS gave homosexualists private information of Christians:
http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2013/05/irs-gave-homosexualists-private-info-of.html.
    Quote from National Organization for Marriage: 

“There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law.”
-- Brian Brown, President, National Organization for Marriage

Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association fires off complaint letter to Obama about the IRS retaliatory audits they were subjected to for supporting biblically oriented political candidates. 

See: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/franklin-graham-irs-targeting-91362.html?hp=l6.

The Abuse of Power by singling out Conservative and Christian organizations:

"AARP" NOW USES MEMBERSHIP DUES TO ADVANCE LGBTQ AGENDA

 
AARP's gay sympathetic propaganda video, 
"70 Years of the Gay Rights Movement", is described as:
    "Through four personal stories and archival footage, Voices of an Era chronicles more than 70 years of defining moments in the gay rights movement. A 90-year-old WWII veteran describes receiving a dishonorable discharge. An activist remembers the Stonewall Riots, while another recounts the horror of being diagnosed with HIV in the early 1980s. And a soldier, who is openly serving today, fights for her same-sex spouse to receive military benefits.":

The AARP "Pride" page can be found under "Home and Family"/ "Family and Friends"/ "AARP Pride" at:
http://www.aarp.org/relationships/friends-family/aarp-pride.html.
The AARP position on LGBTQ issues is at: http://www.aarp.org/relationships/family/info-04-2011/where-aarp-stands-lgbt.html.

American Family Association reports on this and requests you oppose AARP's LGBTQ advocacy here:
http://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/TakeAction.asp?id=401.

SCHOOLCHILDREN BEING TAUGHT BUDDHIST NEW AGE MINDFULNESS MEDITATION

Lighthouse Trails Research has excerpted part of a new report from Berit Kjos titled 

"How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception"

which they are offering for sale. Excerpt as LT reported:

"Unbeknownst to most parents, America’s public schools are teaching their children to use mindfulness meditation (Eastern-style meditation or TM). In a New York Times article titled “In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind,” elementary children in an Oakland, California school are promised peace and loving-kindness if they will learn to meditate. An eleven-year-old explains, “I was losing at baseball, and I was about to throw a bat . . . The mindfulness really helped.”1 While that may sound like a great thing to a lot of teachers, the article acknowledges where this comes from:

As summer looms, students at dozens of schools across the country are trying hard to be in the present moment. This is what is known as mindfulness training, in which stress-reducing techniques drawn from Buddhist meditation are wedged between reading and spelling tests.2 (Emphasis added.)

A whole new generation of children is being drawn into New Age/New Spirituality, and it is happening right under their parents’ noses. While some of us grieve the real-world consequences of this cultural revolution, a rising chorus of voices are now demanding acceptance of today’s paradigm shift. Their positive spin inspires visions of an evolved humanity that is bursting out of the old shackles of Christian morality, traditional guidelines, and parental restraints. This new civilization reminds me of Isaiah’s ancient warning: “And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly [insolently] against the ancient [the elder], and the base against the honourable” (Isaiah 3:5).
The promise from the New Age is world peace, but it’s not God’s kind of peace; thus, it is not a true and lasting peace! As enticing counterfeits develop, they will surely widen divisions among those who call themselves by the name of Christ. While the world calls for unity at any cost (a whatever it takes approach), His people can’t conform to its ways, visions, hopes, or dreams. “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34).
On the other hand, our Lord has promised peace, strength, and eternal hope to all who know, trust, and follow Him:

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27)

But those who heed counterfeit promises and seek spiritual favors from occult sources become blind to His grace. Deceptions will multiply, and sadly, children are deception’s biggest targets. In this precarious situation in which we find ourselves, we should remember the Bible’s warnings:

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8)

(This has been an excerpt from Berit Kjos' upcoming release (May 25th, 2013), How To Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception.)
Notes:
1. Patricia Leigh Brown, “In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind” (The New York Times, June 16, 2007).
2. Ibid.
(From Berit's new book, How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception - May 25, 2013)

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This is a summary of this book:

"TEMPTING VOICES BECKON to children everywhere. Schools, movies, music, and books all sound the call: "Come, dream, trust Self, you are divine, create your own reality, build a new world. Anything goes, for sin and guilt exist only in the minds of the antiquated 'religious.'"

"Unlearning the old ways" is key to this global transformation. Today's assault on biblical Christianity is fast undermining God's moral and spiritual boundaries. It invites chaos rather than unity - coercion instead of freedom - war and violence instead of peace - and ultimately overtakes today's children with the plan to turn them into "progressive" transformation leaders of tomorrow.

How can we equip our children so they do not become spiritually deceived and fall into this world-wide agenda? And how can we teach them to have the courage to say no to seductive enticements? There is an answer! We can teach our children to know Truth, so they will discern the counterfeit. And we can teach them how to spot the New Age/New Spirituality and to understand the serious implications that occur when it is embraced."

LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH MAKES PDF AVAILABLE TO GIVE TO PASTORS, ELDERS & DEACONS

In connection with the recent research and refutation of Jodi Detrick, representing the position of the Assemblies of God on contemplative proponent Ruth Haley Barton, who has been invited to an upcoming conference, Lighthouse Trails Research has made a printable PDF of that same refutation. This is their statement:


"Yesterday, we sent you a special report regarding the issue of Ruth Haley Barton being a featured speaker at the General Council conference of the Assemblies of God this summer. We are greatful that we heard from several of our readers who expressed their own concerns about what is taking place within the church today.
We realize that we send out a tremendous amount of information week after week, month after month, and year after year. We know it must often feel overwhelming and insurmountable. But we have a deep concern that our report yesterday will slip into the background and soon be forgotten. We want to do our part to help this not happen because we believe that report is one of the most important we have ever written.
As we stated yesterday, this issue is not just about one denomination (Assemblies of God). On the contrary, as we have documented for eleven years now, just about every evangelical/Protestant denomination has been affected by contemplative/emerging spirituality: Nazarene, Mennonite, Southern Baptist, Wesleyan, Calvary Chapel, Reformed, Calvinist, Free Evangelical, and so forth.
If you know a pastor, church leader, or teacher, (or some one in ministry) who is attracted to Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative spirituality), please print a copy of our report and give it to him or her. In order to make that a little easier, we have created a printable PDF document of the report.
What's so important about this report is that it irrefutably shows that contemplative prayer is, in fact, the equivalent to Eastern mysticism and is of an occult nature.
PDF of Report (printable)
Sincerely,
The Editors at Lighthouse Trails
P.S. We are soon going to make a booklet out of the report, which will be revised for the evangelical/Protestant church at large."
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MINNESOTA GOVERNOR SIGNS MARRIAGE "EQUALITY" BILL APPROVED BY LEGISLATURE

Minnesota is now the 12th state to approve "marriage equality" in defiance of God's law.

NAZARENES DRIFTING TOWARDS AFFIRMING HOMOSEXUALITY

The following report from Manny Silva in its entirety:

Compromise With the Radical Homosexual Agenda By Pastors

Pastors who cannot preach the simple message of the transforming power of the Gospel to free homosexuals from their sin, ought to resign from the pulpit before causing further damage.

Here is the truth:

“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Cor. 6:9-11

“There is NO love in being kind, and gentle, and welcoming, and “affirming”, or “standing with them”, (whatever that might mean), if you DO NOT preach the Gospel plain and simple. It is the opposite of love; it is cruel and wrong and unbiblical.”

Those were my words in response to “rumfordrev”, a pastor who left comments on my blog post Eastern Nazarene College Rejects The Bible, Moves Towards Affirmation of Homosexuality.  He responded in defense of chaplain Corey McPherson, who in April 2012 preached a message to the Eastern Nazarene College students titled “Homosexuality: What Does God Think?”  Listen to the entire message if you will and judge for yourself, especially those of you who have an investment in either your children, or youth from your church who are attending, or thinking of attending a Nazarene college.  I had characterized Dr. McPherson as one who “speaks more like a confused college student, rather than a spiritual leader who is supposed to give biblical guidance to the students.”  His unapologetic boasting of having shared communion and worship service with a homosexual pastor and his congregation is one of the many disturbing things I found in his message.

In his defense of Corey McPherson, (see comments at my blog) you will not find a clear defense of biblical teaching on this subject from rumfordrev, and that illustrates one of the problems in the Church of the Nazarene today.  Certainly, there are still pastors and chaplains who, without wavering and making excuses or condemning the church for its faults, will articulate what God clearly teaches about sin, whether it is homosexuality, or any other sin.  Yet today I find more and more examples of a kind of compromise, sometimes very subtle, that is trying to make some kind of distinction in defining homosexuality, and raising this sin to a special position that it does not warrant.

Many of us are seeing a trend in the Church of the Nazarene of a movement towards “affirmation” and acceptance of homosexuality as “okay” and normal.  I think it is just a matter of time, and perhaps some might be in for a shock after General Assembly.  Some of the previous examples of this trend were Point Loma Nazarene University and the gay student chaplain situation, in which he was allowed to continue in that position for a while; and the off campus gay support group hosted by the local Nazarene church in San Diego.  Then we have had compromise by Trevecca Nazarene University, allowing a radical homosexual group to come onto its campus for “dialogue.”  At Southern Nazarene University, the leadership’s bad judgment allowed a student newspaper to promote the “new view” of homosexuality; one quote said that “Christian circles are too quick to call homosexuality a sin, without ever having talked to someone who identifies as gay.”  Eastern Nazarene College leadership recently approved a new support group for GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, and questioning student), as reported at my blog post of April 9.

Rumfordrev pointed out a quote from Dr. McPherson as indicative of a Christ-like approach, but he failed to address the serious problems with much of what was said, including the issue of having communion with a homosexual pastor, or worshipping with a gay affirming congregation, and he did not affirm agreement with my biblical answer to his question. What does this mean?  I’m not sure, but for someone to suggest to me that I made personal attacks without being specific about it, and yet not agree clearly with me about the sinfulness of having communion with a homosexual “Christian”,  and who himself stated “I am not responding to whether one can or can not be homosexual and Christian at the same time”, that leaves me asking: why would you not respond?

Affirming The Gay Lifestyle: What Does That Mean?

As examples of what Dr. McPherson said in his message, which I am working on transcribing, here are some disturbing quotes:

“You can’t help but put on a whole new perspective when someone you love is gay.  I was gradually coming to the point where I was affirming the gay and lesbian lifestyle. By affirming I mean encouraging him and I mean believing that an active gay lifestyle in a committed monogamous relationship is acceptable by God.”

“Many of you already know the passages of Scripture that address or seem to address the issue of homosexuality.  They are used as weapons to attack and abuse others even if the passage is quoted in the right text, it is done so in a manner that is demeaning and abusive.  So I would not look to these texts, in fact I will not quote them at all.”

I would say to Dr. McPherson that first of all, if one of my children declared someday that they were gay, that the only perspective I would have is that of a grieving dad who was just told by their child that they were rejecting God and were living a life of what they wish to do, and not what God wants them to do.  That’s all.  Our perspective in any other way should never change.  God’s word is applicable to all, whether they are related to you or not.  What your responsibility would be is to lovingly tell that loved one that they are in sin, and are headed towards eternity in hell without God for rebelling against him.

Secondly, his failure to properly give the biblical teaching on homosexuality, without any ambiguity to those who were listening, was unfair to them, and wrong.  Too many pastors now are talking about sexual orientation as a separate issue from homosexual acts.  I was astounded when I heard this sermon by Rev. Rick Power of College Church in Olathe, KS, when he said the following (my emphasis in bold):

“as a community that is called to reflect the grace and forgiveness and hospitality of our Savior, we must thoughtfully and carefully respond to the questions of homosexuality, and sexual purity, and divorce.  To say that marriage is a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman …. doesn’t mean that we are slamming our doors or closing our hearts to gay and lesbian people. Not at all.   We have learned that for the vast majority of individuals sexual orientation is not a choice, and it cannot be changed.  If this is true then homosexual orientation in itself is not sinful.  It may be a sign of the brokenness and fallenness of our world, but if it does not involve personal choice, it is not in itself sinful, and we have to make this distinction between homosexual orientation and homosexual acts.”

Is this thinking coming out of the seminaries now?  Are these ideas being driven by the emergent church crowd, of which many like Rob Bell, Brian McLaren and others openly approve gay marriage, and believe now that you can be homosexual and remain Christian?  What is the fascination with a kind of coddling of those who identify with this particular sin, but not with those who are involved in other types of sin?  Where is the direct and clear, bold preaching that homosexuals can be freed from the bondage of their sin?  Instead, we see pastors stating that they “affirm” them, and “stand with them”, but to what end?  Is it to get more bodies into the church, and show everyone how “caring” you are?

I shudder to think that perhaps next month, the General Assembly might elect one, maybe even two, new General Superintendents who also believe in this unbiblical approach to dealing with homosexual sin.  If so, the spiraling downwards of the Church of the Nazarene will continue at an even faster pace than I thought would happen.  And the words of Rev. Power from his sermon makes me wonder: how many of his congregation that day were nodding their heads in approval, instead of standing up and objecting to his unbiblical view on homosexual sin?  That should be of concern as well.

Not All Are Compromising

I remind you of the pastors in Rhode Island who stood up against gay “marriage” and publicly signed a petition expressing the biblical view that condemns such things.  Not all evangelical pastors were on this list, and I wonder was it because they never saw the petition, or because they did not want to be identified as one who is against the radical political correctness of the day?  Sadly, gay “marriage” has been foisted upon Rhode Islanders, with much thanks to some legislators who caved in at the last minute.

And there is Pastor John Lindell of James River Assembly in Missouri, another example of those ministers of Christ who refuse to water down the Gospel, and who do it in a loving way, in spite of accusations by the radicals and the compromising “pastors” who objected to his biblical views.  Can you believe pastors objecting to a biblical assessment of homosexuality?  That’s exactly how he was treated, and I will report on this further.  In the meantime, his story can be read here, and the full context of his speech can be read here.

(On Wednesday, I will also post a response to the “sexual orientation” question, written by John Henderson, which addresses this fallacy being propagated by what seems to be a growing number of pastors).

 Manny Silva

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OPEN MICROPHONE: THE POLICE STATE OF NEW JERSEY WANTS TO CONFISCATE WEAPONS FROM CITIZENS

NJ Senator Weinberg:

NJ woman arrested for quoting constitution, permitted guns confiscated. Police in Clayton, New Jersey, confiscated two guns from a woman after she complained about county government moving to raise her property taxes and inspect her property without a search warrant. Eileen Hart of Franklin Township was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassing officials from the Gloucester County Office of Assessment and Appraisal Systems, Inc.

NJ introduces 18 restrictive gun control bills:

ROB BELL'S HERETICAL NEW POSITION ON HOMOSEXUALITY & THE CHURCH, CHALLENGED AND EXPOSED

Rob Bell appeared on Justin Brierley's Unbelievable Radio Broadcast recently, with Andrew Wilson in the UK. The discussion turned to his new position on homosexuality, and Mr. Bell demonstrated that his position is one of cultural compromise, not biblical reflection. 
Bell: "Cultural consciousness has shifted"; and on doctrinal differences: "This is the bullshit that pushes people away"; and "This is why so many people don't want to be part of the church".
Wilson: Approving the gay lifestyle is "lowering the asking price" of Christianity:

James White, Reformed Baptist apologist and theologian analyzes the interview in which Bell plays the victim: