YOUTUBE'S OWN "PROUD TO LOVE" LGBTQ VIDEO PROMO

QUOTE FROM YOUTUBE:

"At YouTube, we believe that everyone has the right to love and be loved. We strive to make YouTube a place where all communities can feel proud to express themselves and connect through video. That's why we're proud to stand with the LGBT community and support equal rights and marriage equality for all."

LILA ROSE OF LIVE ACTION REPORTS ON TEXAS SENATOR WENDY DAVIS 10-12 HOUR FILIBUSTER AGAINST ABORTION BILL WITH AID OF DISRUPTIVE PRO ABORTION MOB

Democrats Defeat Texas Abortion Law 

which would have stopped abortions after 20 weeks:

From Lila Rose: On Tuesday, a pro-abortion mob flooded the Texas Capitol to ensure that Planned Parenthood can continue to literally tear babies to pieces in the womb, or to kill them with a lethal injection in their heads and hearts. Don't doubt for a second that the baby feels all of this – or that Planned Parenthood kills these children for tremendous profit. After a ten-hour (some say 12-13 hour) filibuster by State Senator Wendy Davis, elected officials in Texas tried to vote on a bill to protect pain-capable infants in the womb – but the screaming mob, encouraged by Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, drowned out the vote until midnight, when the legislative session had to close. Remember: State Senator Davis was fighting legislation that would save 20-week-old babies and older from excruciating death by dismemberment and poison. That is what is being praised by pro-abortion leaders and media outlets across the country. Live Action has firsthand knowledge of Planned Parenthood's long and gruesome record in Texas. We have investigative footage from Texas exposing Planned Parenthood's eagerness to facilitate late-term sex-selective abortions – specifically because the baby is a girl! Watch our shocking video from Austin and see how Planned Parenthood will do anything for abortion money – even target late-term baby girls, old enough to survive outside the womb. Sex-Selection in America: Part 1 - Undercover in Texas: This is the same Planned Parenthood that is against any and all regulations on abortion, including protections against babies born from a failed abortion. Planned Parenthood's vision for America means abortion on demand, for whoever wants it, and funded by you.  Texas Governor Rick Perry decided not to allow a mob to threaten the lives of children endangered by late-term abortions. He has called a new special legislative session so that Texas's representatives can do the work their constituents hired them to do. Pro-abortion bullies want abortionists to be allowed to rip apart pain-capable children in the womb, or kill them with poison injections through their heads or hearts. They will do anything to maintain this gruesome status quo. But these are unique human beings, and no amount of yelling and screaming can ever be enough to deny them the right to live. Screaming for the "right" to dismember babies twenty weeks and older in utero. For the "right" to poison them to death. Sen. Davis? Planned Parenthood? You have no shame. You have no compassion. Americans oppose late-term abortion by huge margins. In a state already reeling from the news of abortionist Douglas Karpen's Gosnell-like "House of Horrors" in Houston, it's essential that the people's will be carried out, and that we defend our children. As Live Action has documented, there are horrors going on even in Texas's capital, where the special session on safeguarding Texas's children will take place. I thank Governor Perry for combating human rights abuses in his state. Texas is not a state where the most basic and fundamental human right – the right to life – can be shouted down. America is not that kind of nation. Let's pray that Texas stands strong to protect these children from the violence of abortion! Yours in the fight for life,

Lila Rose President Live Action ______________________________________________________________ Governor Rick Perry of Texas condemns "mob rule" & filibuster: CHAOS on Senate floor during abortion vote in Texas: And here: Perry vows to fight for abortion bill: Gov. Perry calls another special session:

PENTAGON CELEBRATES GAY TROOPS

From the Washington Times: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/25/pentagon-celebrates-gay-troops/, and 
http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/t-2jpg/,
which reports that: 
"The Pentagon on Tuesday toasted gays in the military, with a top adviser to President Obama declaring the country is “safer” now that they may serve openly in the ranks."

Army Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith (right) became the military's first openly gay flag officer when she was promoted to her current rank in an Aug. 10, 2012, ceremony. She received her new decorations from her wife, Tracey Hepner (left). (Servicemembers Defense Legal Network)

PETER LABARBERA OF "AFTAH" SLAMS "CRAVEN" JUSTICE KENNEDY OF THE SUPREME COURT FOR STRIKING DOWN "DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT"

From Peter LaBarbera: 
June 27th, 2013

Contact: Peter LaBarbera: 312-324-3787; americansfortruth@gmail.com

The following statement was issued June 27 by Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality:

Yesterday’s decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and effectively invalidating Californians’ vote to preserve marriage as between a man and a woman — continues America’s godless trajectory toward sexual and gender chaos.  We have become a Profane Nation at war with our own heritage and the Judeo-Christian moral values that helped make us great.

Healthy societies discriminate against sexually immoral behavior: homosexuality, sex outside marriage, pornography, incest, etc. This benefits children and adults by using the law to reinforce stable moral boundaries and steer citizens away from destructive (sinful) behaviors. So it was stunning to read the majority decision by Justice Anthony Kennedy – a Reagan appointee – overturning DOMA’s pro-natural-marriage provision in the name of the children.

Kennedy surely has earned his future laudatory obit in the New York Times for capitulating to “gay” activist ideology — but among clear-thinking Americans who still know right from wrong he will go down in history as one more craven elitist who sold out Almighty God for a place in the Gay Hall of Fame.

Jettisoning the dictates of his own Catholic religion – which has some pretty strong words for putting children in homosexual-led households – Kennedy declares that by not recognizing legalized homosexual “marriages” in New York and other states, DOMA:

…“places same-sex couples in an unstable position of being in a second-tier marriage. The differentiation demeans the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects….And it humiliates tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples.”

What philosophical drivel. Only a decadent society — in which God and common sense have been kicked to the curb – would use its laws to enforce the egalitarian nightmare whereby government treats households that are fatherless or motherless ‘by design’ as if they are morally and practically equivalent to normal mom-and-dad homes. (And if you dare to disagree, you’re a hateful bigot.)

Homosexual practice is a perversion and homosexual role models are NOT healthy for kids. Neither is replacing dad with a “second mom,” or mommy with Daddy Number Two.

The Kennedy majority’s legal insanity is what emerges from an Isaiah 5:20 culture (evil is good and good evil) that puts deviant sexual identities on a pedestal, to be celebrated as protected “civil rights.” The LGBT Pandora’s Box has been flung open, and there will be much more folly and destruction to follow — including the public policy madness of establishing “gender identity” (read: extreme gender confusion) as a parallel “civil right.”

At least the Supreme Court did not create a national “right” to homosexual “marriage.” But we must be vigilant, as future LGBT litigation, coupled with the appalling self-righteousness of Kennedy’s liberal court majority, will combine to make this the next goal of the judicial supremacists.
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And from the National Journal's article:http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/scalia-high-handed-kennedy-has-declared-us-enemies-of-the-human-race-20130626?print=true, titled:

(Supreme Court Justice) Scalia: 'High-Handed' Kennedy Has Declared Us 'Enemies of the Human Race'

PETER LABARBERA OF AMERICANS FOR TRUTH ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY ON THE COLLAPSE OF EXODUS INTERNATIONAL

See Rob Gagnon article referred to by Peter LaBarbera here: http://robgagnon.net/ExodusCollisionCourseWithJesus.htm, with full text below:
Exodus on a Collision Course with Jesus

Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 616 N. Highland Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206

gagnon@pts.edu

May 20, 2013

 Exodus Leadership now contradicts the Lord's Prayer, refuses to take a stand on "gay marriage," and severs ties with Evangelicalism. What's next?

The Exodus leadership of Clark Whitten, Alan Chambers, and Randy Thomas are teaching believers to violate our Lord’s own instructions about how we are to pray. Jesus teaches us that when we pray to God, we should say words to the effect: “Forgive us our debts as [i.e., to the extent that] we ourselves also have forgiven our debtors.”

Yet Rev. Whitten writes, and Mr. Chambers and Mr. Thomas concur, “There is no biblical basis for believers to confess sins to God for forgiveness. To each other for healing, yes; but not to God for forgiveness. How much time will that free up!” (Pure Grace, p. 20). Mr. Thomas, the no. 3 person at Exodus, adds that believers who continue to pray to God “Forgive us our sins” engage in “a self-righteous ritual” and “deny the righteousness of Christ that is already present” (http://exodusinternational.org/2013/05/concerning-sin-confession/).

Who are you going to believe? The Exodus leadership or Jesus?

This statement is just one of what I term “The Seven Pillars of Rev. Whitten’s Wisdom.” Rev. Whitten is the chair of the Exodus Board and Alan Chambers’ and Randy Thomas’s pastor, whom Alan and Randy follow down the doctrinal line. Indeed, Alan Chambers, the President of Exodus, has stated: “To say that I recommend [Clark Whitten’s book Pure Grace] is the understatement of the century.” With Whitten’s book, “God has unveiled something that has been veiled for hundreds and hundreds of years.”

Rev. Whitten doesn’t identify in his book “seven pillars.” The enumeration is mine. Yet what I identify as the seven pillars are all quoted strong positions taken from Rev. Whitten’s book. They should alarm all Christians. What are the other six?

(1) “Listen, Jesus did not die to modify your behavior!”

(2) “My bad works don’t move God any more than my good works move Him. He simply isn’t moved by 'works' of any kind. If you are motivated to do a great work for God, good luck!”

(3) “We are free to [do anything, good or bad] ... all without condemnation from God.... Our liberty isn’t negated by our sin.”

(4) The “anti-gospel” says: “God is pleased when you act right. When you don’t, He will clean your clock! [As a believer it is foolish to think that you can do anything to] tick the Big Guy off.”

(5) The “anti-gospel” says: “Fear God and keep his commandments.”

(6) The “anti-gospel” says: “The Holy Spirit was given to you to empower you to act better and better and convict you of your sin when you stray.”

Every one of these principles contradicts the truth of the gospel (see previous critique, "Cheap Grace Masquerading as Pure Grace: The Unfortunate Gospel of Rev. Clark Whitten" athttp://www.robgagnon.net/Clark%20Whitten%20Critique.htm). They epitomize what the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (martyred near the end of Hitler’s reign) defined as “cheap grace” in his classic book The Cost of Discipleship (1937): “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, communion without confession.” That is exactly what Rev. Whitten, Mr. Chambers, and Mr. Thomas teach: Forgiveness without having to repent of grossly immoral behavior, an end to church discipline since all sin is equal and all believers sin regularly, and a view of confessing our sins to God for forgiveness after conversion as a waste of time. Bonhoeffer adds: “Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.” I’m not suggesting that the Exodus leadership wants believers to experience grace without discipleship, dying to one’s self, and letting Christ live in them. I am saying, though, that they assure self-professed believers (falsely) that the nature of grace is such that believers can have one without the other. Again Bonhoeffer: Cheap grace is the notion that “you can stay as you are and enjoy the consolations of forgiveness.” The Exodus leadership says that one shouldn’t but they also assure Christians that one can.

Alan Chambers now calls “evangelical” a “dirty word” that he no longer applies to Exodus or to himself (“Guests in an Ever Changing Culture—Letter from Alan Chambers March 2013” athttp://exodusinternational.org/2013/03/guests-in-an-ever-changing-culture-letter-from-alan-chambers-for-march-2013/?shared=email&msg=fail). He complains that Evangelicalism is too “black and white” and he assures us that God is not “black and white,” which presumably means that God’s aim is to shade the light into gray. The story of Christ is now the story of Gray breaking into the darkness.

Evangelicalism, Mr. Chambers complains, gives too much attention to “right and wrong” and requires one to “take a stand” on moral issues. Chambers cries: “Gone are the days of evangelizing through scare tactics, moral legislation, and church discipline.” So instead the Exodus leadership prefers to assure self-professed Christians who engage in unrepentant homosexual practice that they are going to heaven irrespective of whether they bring their life into line with a confession of Christ’s lordship. The Exodus leadership refuses to take a stand against “gay marriage” even as it takes public policy stances on issues that homosexual activists support. And the Exodus leadership categorically rejects church discipline despite the fact that it is commanded by Jesus and Paul.

Earlier this month Alan Chambers even went so far as to insert secretly the e-mail address of Jeremy Hooper, an abrasive homosexual activist, into the middle of a private group email thread containing a number of pro-family leaders (including moi). This led to a number of misrepresentations online by homosexual activist sites and even Salon.com. This deceitful alignment with a person who maligns those who believe in a male-female foundation for marriage is not exactly a model for Christian conduct, certainly not for someone leading what is supposed to be a Christian ministry.

At the end of April Randy Thomas gushed over John Paulk's repudiation of his previous books about coming out of a homosexual life and his flirtations with his homosexual past:

“I told him that while I related to him more after his gay bar visit in 2000, I could relate to him even more now that he is genuinely questioning past actions and motivations. While I don’t agree with all of his conclusions he shared on the phone, I can say I agree with about 95% of what he shared including renouncing the term ‘ex-gay.’’ I love that he is pursuing the true meaning of God’s grace…. Listening to John and his apparent newfound depth of honesty made me happy for him…. He is ... now more authentic than I have ever known him to be…. John, … I love that you are wrestling with various issues with humility and honesty. In His grip of grace, you are safe” (http://randythomas.co/2013/04/22/john-paulks-shocking-secret/).

In an Exodus post a couple of weeks ago Leslie Chambers affirmed her husband's severance of the transformed life from genuine saving faith, saying that while obedience to God is preferred it is not "required" (http://exodusinternational.org/2013/05/leslie-chambers/). Neither Leslie nor Alan appears to realize that a necessary byproduct of true faith is a life lived for God.

Who ever thought we would reach the day when it would be necessary for faithful followers of Jesus to exodus out of Exodus?

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Renew America has an extensive article written by Rev. Mark H. Creech:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/creech/130622, with full text below:

June 22, 2013

Exodus International flees the Promised Land

By Rev. Mark H. Creech

It is considered a landmark announcement, proof that the cultural winds are shifting in favor of the acceptance of homosexuality by the evangelical community. Exodus International, a ministry devoted to helping people overcome same-sex attractions is shutting down. Alan Chambers, the ministry's president, is apologizing for much of the hurt he believes the ministry has caused the LGBT community.

Chambers, who now rejects the view that sexual orientation can be changed through the Gospel, wrote that he believes there is a sense in which his apology is for the whole church. "[I]f the church is a body, with many members being connected to the whole, then I believe that when one of us does right we all do right, and when one of us does wrong we all do wrong," he said. "We have done wrong, and I stand with many others who now recognize the need to offer apologies and make things right." [1]

But Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention takes umbrage with Chambers' apology, arguing: "I think there is a tendency to see Exodus folding as a parable of Christian capitulation and ethic. That is not what is happening. Instead what you have is an organization that has some confusion about its mission and purpose...What is not happening here, is an evangelical revision of a biblical sexual ethic." [2]

Peter LaBarbera, who leads Americans for Truth About Homosxuality, would agree with Moore. When OneNewsNow recently asked LaBarbera about Exodus shutting down, he said, "I think Alan Chambers, who basically ruined the organization, had no choice because the affiliates were leaving. All the people who support the truth that homosexuals can change and overcome this perversion through Jesus Christ were leaving Exodus." [3]

LaBarbera, who called Exodus' closing one of the greatest tragedies he had witnessed in the pro-family movement, also shared where he believes the ministry made its fatal mistake. He said, "Homosexuality is about behavior, and behaviors can be changed with the help of God and through Christ...That's what Exodus used to be about. But once they started talking about so called 'gay sexual orientation,' as if this is the inherent state of somebody's being, they got in trouble." [4]

LaBarbera makes a critical point that raises a fundamental question: Is the concept of "sexual orientation" biblical? It is my contention that this expression, which finds its source in modern psychology and is so easily bandied about, doesn't have a biblical leg to stand on.

The Scriptures say, "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them (Genesis. 1:27). When Jesus spoke to the religious leaders of his day about marriage and divorce, a passage certainly related to human sexuality, Jesus referenced the same Genesis passage repeating, "But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'" (Mark. 10:6).

The point is that the language of "sexual orientation" is an imposition today on much of what the Bible says about sexuality. According to the Bible no one was born heterosexual or homosexual, each was born ether a male or a female biologically. Heterosexual or homosexual behaviors are sexual acts, with heterosexual acts blessed and sanctified in some cases and condemned in others, while homosexual acts are condemned one hundred percent of the time.

It's interesting that the concept of "sexual orientation" is based strongly upon one's feelings. How does one know that one is gay? Conventional wisdom says because of the way one feels. Numerous are the individuals who have said, "I've felt that I was gay since I was a child." But if one felt that he or she was a squirrel, would that qualify as proof that one was justified in risking life and limb by climbing trees and eating only nuts? The entire concept is nuts and symptomatic of a postmodernist relativity out of control.

The Bible often speaks about feelings, thoughts, and urges. And what are such but emotions and processes of the intellect that 2 Corinthians 10:5 commands must be brought in subjection to Christ's Lordship.

Jesus said, "From within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean,'" (Mark. 7:20-23). Here Jesus describes a "sinful orientation" that is the inner nature of every person and demonstrates itself in outward behaviors unacceptable with God – acts that estrange a person from God.

The apostle James forewarned about arguments like "sexual orientation" saying they are the same as blaming God for evil. It appears similar arguments were apparent even in his day. He wrote, "When tempted no one should say, 'God is tempting me.' For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed" (James. 1:13-14). To blame homosexuality on heredity is no less than to blame the Creator for one's failure – an argument which is unconscionable.

To those who would contend the Bible is silent about "sexual orientation," let it be said this is because no such notion is based in truth. It is a broad term developed in modern times to provide credence for the growing number of sexual perversions. Even the polygamists and the pedophiles want to get on board.

There is one final point that also ought to be noted. Chambers said something in his apology quite telling. He said regarding the convictions that he and his wife hold: "Our beliefs do not center on 'sin' because 'sin' isn't at the center of our faith." [5] This author begs to disagree with that point of view. Unfortunately, without a clear understanding of sin, there is no need for faith – no need for Christ – no need for a Savior – no meaning to grace.

Central to the message of Christianity is that all have sinned and fallen short of God's glorious ideal for life (Romans. 3:23). Apart from repentance, the remission of sin, and the grace of God in Jesus Christ to transform a life to live according to God's standards, the Gospel becomes no more than a soppy code of self-help. What distinguishes it from any other religion or moral force is its promise that Christ suffered, died and rose again not simply to eliminate sin's shame and condemnation, but also to remove its power.

To water down this message with outside worldly, unbiblical influences, is to risk the loss of Christian identity and collapse, which is exactly what happened to Exodus International.

Indeed this is a landmark event. And every Christian denomination, church, church school or university, organization and ministry, should take note with fear and trembling. Exodus International took flight from its own promised land of deliverance and exists no more.

Resources:

[1] "The Expanded Public Apology from Alan Chambers," KansasCity.com, 20 June 2013 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/20/4303773/the- expanded-public-apology-from.html

[2] Anh Do, Kate Mather, Joe Mozingo, "'Gay Cure' Ministry Exodus International to Close," latimes.com, 20 June 2013http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me- 0621-exodus-international-gays-20130621,0,1731583.story

[3] Charlie Butts, "Supporters Flight from Exodus Cited as Reason for Shutdown," OneNewsNow.com, 20 June 2013,http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2013/06/20/supporters%E2%80%99-flight-from-exodus-cited-as-reason-for- shutdown#.UcS6HZzm1I0

[4] Ibid

[5] "The Expanded Public Apology from Alan Chambers," KansasCity.com, 20 June 2013 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/20/4303773/the- expanded-public-apology-from.html

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NAZARENES ELECT NEW GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT, ADMIRER OF INTERFAITH MYSTIC PHYLLIS TICKLE

Apprising has many posts about Tickle, clearly showing her extreme apostasy:
http://apprising.org/2008/09/30/who-is-phyllis-tickle/.
http://apprising.org/2009/07/06/phyllis-tickle-the-reformation-is-over-and-reformers-have-new-names-today/.
http://apprising.org/2009/06/09/phyllis-tickle-preaches-for-mars-hill-bible-church-and-rob-bell/.
http://apprising.org/2009/05/27/rob-bell-peter-rollins-and-phyllis-tickle-together-advancing-emergence-christianity/.
http://apprising.org/2008/12/09/phyllis-tickle-where-now-is-the-authority/.
http://apprising.org/2008/11/18/phyllis-tickle-tickling-itching-emergent-ears/.
http://apprising.org/2011/02/21/doug-pagitt-and-phyllis-tickle-set-to-infect-st-lukes-methodist-church/.
http://apprising.org/2008/10/01/phyllis-tickle-emerging-church-dominating-influence-over-protestantism/.
http://apprising.org/2009/05/19/christianity-21-and-alleged-innovative-voices-in-the-faith-phyllis-tickle/.
http://apprising.org/2009/07/04/phyllis-tickle-and-the-great-emergence-to-infect-canada/.
http://apprising.org/2009/11/14/andrew-marin-and-phyllis-tickle/.
http://apprising.org/2009/11/15/andrew-marin-and-phyllis-tickle-part-2/.
http://apprising.org/2009/07/08/tony-jones-on-phyllis-tickles-emergence/.
http://apprising.org/2009/03/19/peter-rollins-and-phyllis-tickle-discuss-emergence-christianity/.
http://apprising.org/2009/09/25/phyllis-tickle-mormonism-fourth-great-abrahamic-faith/.


Manny Silva of Stand For Truth Ministries reports:

A New General Superintendent: Cause For Celebration, Or Concern?

After many rounds of voting, the Church of the Nazarene has elected the first of two general Superintendents that are needed to replace two retiring Generals.  His name is David Busic.

Dr. David Busic, at the time of his election, was the president of Nazarene Theological Seminary, and professor of Preaching and Pastoral Theology.  He has an impressive resume, and seems like a nice guy.  But let us consider some issues that may of great concern to many Christians.

Concern #1: Emergent Connection or Lack Of Discernment?

At his inaugural address, Dr. Busic made many references and quotes of Phylis Tickle, a major leader in the emergent church movement, of which she has coined the phrase “the great emergence.”  Tickle promotes contemplative spirituality.  Phylis Tickle likens heretic Brian McLaren to Martin Luther who helped bring about the Reformation.  She is probably correct, but this new current reformation is not a good thing.  Tickle receives high praise from emergent heretic Doug Pagitt, calling her “the best friend the emergent movement could ever have.”  Tickle is currently a Senior Fellow of Cathedral College of the Washington National Cathedral, which has a heavily interfaith message.

Quote: “Washington National Cathedral is a church for national purposes called to embody God’s love and to welcome people of all faiths and perspectives. A unique blend of the spiritual and the civic, this Episcopal Cathedral is a voice for generous-spirited Christianity and a catalyst for reconciliation and interfaith dialogue to promote respect and understanding. We invite all people to share in our commitment to create a more hopeful and just world.”

 The Cathedral College also is known for its heavy promotion of all forms of contemplative prayer: centering prayer, silence, stillness.

Tickle is also on the editorial board of explorefaith.org, and the recommended spiritual experts on the site are a veritable who’s who of “Christian” mystics and non-Christian gurus such as Guru Ram Dass, Buddhist Master Thich Nhat Hahn, the Sufi Muslim Rumi.

Finally, I give you a dubious quote from her book The Great Emergence:

The new Christianity of the Great Emergence must discover some authority base or delivery system and/or governing agency of its own. It must formulate—and soon—something other than Luther’s Sola Scriptura which, although used so well by the Great Reformation originally, is now seen as hopelessly outmoded or insufficient ...(Phyllis Tickle, The Great Emergence, pg. 151)

Imagine that Luther’s Sola Scriptura, so critical within the Reformation movement, of which many left the persecution of the Catholic Church, some under pain of death, is no longer relevant according to Phylis Tickle.  What does this say of her regard for God’s word?  In fact, Phylis Tickle does not believe that the entire Bible is God’s word.

Conclusion: Why would a learned man such as David Busic want anything to do with Phylis Tickle, even if just to quote her and speak highly of her in his messages?  If a well respected man quotes someone favorably and praises them, would not most Bible believing Christians think that this person is a good source for them to go to?  I would like to find out what Dr. David Busic really thinks of Phylis Tickle, in the light of all the heretical things that she stands for.  Is it really wise that a church has just elected a General Superintendent who at the very least, seems to have some really impaired judgment and discernment?

Interfaith Connection?  Or Simply Carelessness?

The following is an excerpt from an email I wrote to Dr. Busic in 2011.  The entire article can be read here: http://reformednazarene.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/does-nazarene-theological-seminary-support-the-interfaith-movement/

11/18/2011

Dear Dr. Busic,

Congratulations on your appointment as President of NTS.  It is my prayer that God will guide you in leading NTS in upholding biblical truth at the school.  I and other Nazarenes have had concerns in the past regarding some things sponsored by, promoted by, or taught at the seminary.

I was concerned about something I ran into the other day, and wondering if you were aware of it. At the CRES website, the Seminary is listed favorably as a recommended institution friendly to the CRES organization.  My concern is that it is an interfaith group that works closely with practically any kind of religion in the world.​

Here is the link to the site where it mentions NTS favorably:  http://www.cres.org/pubs/KCInterfaithOps.htm

On their vision statement page, they say this: “CRES values the contribution of each distinctive faith in healing the crises of our age — and finds it important to honor and preserve their distinctions. “These faiths include: Buddhists, Muslims, Native American religions, Hindu, Sufi, Unitarian Universalists, Taoism, Confucianism, Wiccans, and Zoroastrians!

They also say: “CRES envisions the greater Kansas City area as a model community honoring interfaith relationships where interfaith relationships are honored as a way of deepening one’s own tradition and spirituality, and
where the wisdom of the many religions successfully addresses the environmental,  personal, and social crises of our often fragmented, desacralized world.”

Does NTS have any kind of real connection with CRES?  If so, on what basis?  And if not, would it not be prudent to ask this group to remove any reference to NTS as a good resource?  If this is not the type of group NTS wants to associate with, that would certainly remove any appearance of an endorsement of this organization.  If this is the kind of group that NTS wants to associate with, then I humbly will say that it would be a serious problem that all Nazarenes should be aware of.

I did not receive any response from Dr. Busic.

Does the Church of the Nazarene approve of the idea of working with interfaith groups on a regular basis?  Does not the word of God speak against that?  It is written in 2 Cor. 6:14-17:

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

¹⁵ And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁷ Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.

It is clear to me, a non-seminary educated man whose father always wanted him to be a pastor, that this scripture passage alone answers the question.  We are not be joining ourselves with those who are pagan and do not preach the Gospel of Christ.  And if these pagans are recommending us favorably, as if we also are favorable to them, it would do us good to have no connection at all with them, and no hint of any kind that we are aligned with their ungodly agenda.

There is only one right thing to do, and the president of NTS has not done it yet.  I call on him to do the right thing, remove the connection with this ungodly group, and make it clear that we do not stand with them in any way, no matter what “good” causes they may be involved in.

 Conclusion: Is this a matter of discernment?  Is this a matter of lack of knowledge?  Dr. Busic never answered me.  Perhaps others can bring this egregious connection to his attention, and he will do the right thing.  If not, then we have a serious concern on our hands, with a man who has just been chosen to the highest office of a denomination of over 2 million people.  To be favorably and knowingly linked to such a group, which cannot even be called a Christian organization, is a clear indication of lack of discernment, or an indication of solidarity with their ideas.  Either way, it not good for the Church of the Nazarene.

We have elected David Busic.  The question is, was that the right decision?

 Manny Silva

Stand For Truth Ministries

SUPREME COURT IGNORES MORAL LAW~CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 8 REVERSED~DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

MILLIONS IN FRAUDULENT TAX REFUNDS TO ILLEGALS USING IDENTICAL ADDRESSES

The New American reports in http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/15795-irs-refunded-tens-of-millions-of-dollars-to-unauthorized-illegal-workers, that illegal immigrants have received millions of dollars in fraudulent tax refunds as follows, following an audit:
1) 23,994 tax refunds totalling $46,378,040. all to the same address in Atlanta, Georgia.
2) 11,284 tax refunds totalling $2,164,976. all to another single address in Atlanta, Georgia.
3) 3,608 tax refunds totalling $2,691,448. all to another single address in Atlanta, Georgia.
4) 2,386 tax refunds totalling $1,232,943. all to another single address in Atlanta, Georgia.
5) 2,507 tax refunds totalling $10,395,874. all to another single address in Oxnard, California.
6) 2,408 tax refunds totalling $7,284,212. all to another single address in Raleigh, North Carolina.
7) 2,047 tax refunds totalling $5,558,608. all to another single address in Phoenix, Arizona.
8) 1,972 tax refunds totalling $2,256,302. all to another single address in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
9) 1,942 tax refunds totalling $5.091,027. all to another single address in San Jose, California.
10) 1,846 tax refunds totalling $3,298,877. all to another single address in Arvin, California.

FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION TRAMPLED BY SUPREME COURT

The New American reports in http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/15787-supreme-court-bombshell-no-right-to-remain-silent, that:

"The Supreme Court handed down a decision on June 17 that has been ignored by most media outlets, despite its devastating effect on one of the most fundamental rights protected by the Constitution.

In a 5-4 ruling, the justices ruled that a person no longer has the right to remain silent as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. In relevant part, the Fifth Amendment mandates that no one “shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in Salinas v. Texas, that part of the Bill of Rights has been excised — and has joined the list of so many other fundamental liberties that now lie on the scrap heap of history."

That, despite the Miranda rights:

PETITION TO BAN CREATIONISM FILED ON WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE

From the white house website: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/ban-creationism-and-intelligent-design-science-classroom-federal-law/pNY6mCBg:

See: Christian News Network: http://christiannews.net/2013/06/22/petition-filed-on-white-house-website-to-ban-the-teaching-of-creation-and-intelligent-design-in-u-s-schools/.

"WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Ban Creationism and Intelligent Design 

in the science classroom as federal law.

Since Darwin's groundbreaking theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, scientists all around the world have found monumental amounts of evidence in favor of the theory, now treated as scientific fact by 99.9% of all scientists.

However, even after 150 years after the establishment of evolution, some schools across the US are "teaching the controversy," including Creationism and Intelligent Design. Both of these so-called "theories" have no basis in scientific fact, and have absolutely zero evidence pointing towards these conjectures. These types of loopholes in our education are partially to blame for our dangerously low student performances in math and science.

Therefore, we petition the Obama Adminstration to ban the teachings of these conjectures that contradict Evolution.

Created: Jun 15, 2013"