NEW SHERIFF WHO DEFEATED ARPAIO (WITH HELP OF SOROS) CALLS ILLEGAL ALIENS "GUESTS"

 

 

NEW SHERIFF WHO DEFEATED ARPAIO 

(WITH HELP OF SOROS) 

CALLS ILLEGAL ALIENS "GUESTS" 

BY WARREN MASS

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/25069-new-sheriff-who-defeated-arpaio-with-help-of-soros-calls-illegal-aliens-guests;

 

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Newly sworn-in Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Paul Penzone, in a January 4 interview with Phoenix TV station ABC 15, referred to illegal aliens as “guests.”
Penzone (shown), who assumed office on January 1 after defeating six-term Sheriff Joe Arpaio in November, said during the interview:

We will need to work with the guests who are here in our nation and are pursuing citizenship and separate that from those who are committing crimes and make sure that we a caring community that is serious about public safety.

While it may not be immediately apparent from this quote that Penzone was referring to illegal aliens when he spoke about “guests,” the ABC 15 reporter who interviewed the new sheriff noted that for “24 years, sheriff Joe Arpaio made no bones about it: illegal is illegal. The new sheriff uses different terms for undocumented immigrants. He calls them ‘guests.’ ”
“Undocumented immigrants” is the popular euphemism for illegal aliens among those who wish to ignore the fact that illegal immigration is a crime.

In a statement quoted by both the AP and the Arizona Republic, Penzone described what he regards as his first order of business: “The top priority is addressing the issue of the federal monitors and meeting those objectives and those outcomes,” he said. “We have to do that. We can’t move forward until we’ve gotten on the same page, so I look forward to working with the ACLU. I look forward to working with the DOJ on the monitors and getting everybody on the same page so this community can be in a better place.”
The monitors to which Penzone referred were assigned after a federal judge ruled that the sheriff’s department had racially profiled Latinos during traffic operations.
A news release posted by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Public Affairs on August 13, 2015 stated that the U.S. District Court of the District of Arizona had granted a motion by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to intervene in a private lawsuit, Melendres v. Arpaio, brought against Sheriff Arpaio.
In Melendres, the federal court found in May 2013 the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) had engaged in “unlawful discrimination” against Hispanic persons in its traffic enforcement operations in violation of the Fourth and 14th Amendments to the Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“As a party in the Melendres case, the Department of Justice can now work together with the court, the plaintiffs and the independent monitor to ensure that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office meaningfully implements the court-ordered reforms so that the constitutional rights of all people of Maricopa County are protected,” the release quoted Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark Kappelhoff of the Civil Rights Division as saying.
The appointment of federally ordered monitors represented what has become a common practice in recent years, as federal authorities intervene more and more into matters that were never designated as areas of federal responsibility in the Constitution and which should, therefore, be left to the states.
Penzone’s second priority, he said in an interview with the Arizona Republic, will be improving morale among employees. Penzone said he’s been getting acquainted with the staff ever since his decisive win in November.
“We’ll be working on getting them to feel good about where they are, what they’re doing,” he said. “There hasn’t been a change in 24 years, so it’s a big change for everyone.”
Penzone’s predecessor, Arpaio, had developed a well-deserved reputation during his 23 years in office for his no-nonsense conservative practices. As a result, he became controversial much of the time, often because of his tough stance on illegal immigration. He began focusing on many law enforcement-related issues associated with illegal immigrants in 2005. After that, his office ran a large number of operations investigating and raiding businesses in Maricopa County that employed illegal aliens, and arrested many of them. He had an excellent success rate in nearly 60 raids, with 100 percent of the people arrested for using stolen identity cards being proven to be illegal immigrants.
Penzone, who had served on the Phoenix Police Department for 21 years, made his first bid for elected office in his unsuccessful campaign for Maricopa County sheriff in 2012 against Arpaio.
In 2016, Penzone ran again against Arpaio, who by then had been in office for 24 years. This time Penzone defeated Arpaio by 665,478 votes (55.6 percent) to Arpaio’s 531,674 votes (44.4 percent).
Though several factors might be named as contributing to Penzone’s defeat of Arpaio, including fallout among Hispanic voters due to the charges that the sheriff’s department had racially profiled Latinos during traffic stops (always a subjective accusation) made in the Melendres case, perhaps the biggest factor of all was millions of dollars spent by a PAC to attack the sheriff and support Penzone. A report in The New American last November noted that the PAC — Maricopa Stong — had already spent $2.9 million on negative mailers and television ads, claiming that “Arpaio talks tough, but he doesn’t keep us safe,” because he ignores crime while he “focuses on his personal agenda.”
As the article pointed out, that “agenda” was to take illegals off the streets of Maricopa County before they contribute disproportionately to crime in that county.
The article reported that leftist billionaire George Soros had spent $2 million of his own money to create Maricopa Strong and pointed to another report in Politico that produced evidence that a Soros spokesman had admitted that Soros is funding the attacks on Arpaio. Politico quoted Michael Vachon, the Soros spokesman, who stated:

We made a major investment in the effort to defeat Joe Arpaio for two reasons…. First, Joe Arpaio has been a stain on the justice system in Arizona for more than two decades, violating civil rights and abusing his office. Second, his influence on the national conversation about immigration has been poisonous. This election is an opportunity to send a message: When matched on an even playing field, the values of justice and inclusion will defeat the politics of fear-mongering and intolerance.

Politico also quoted Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, who in 2012 co-founded Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement, a PAC to take on Arpaio and assist Penzone in the last sheriff’s race. “The persuasion campaign that Maricopa Strong is running is critical to the effort to defeat Joe Arpaio,” said Gallego.
While Penzone does boast of a lengthy record in law enforcement, which might otherwise make him a well-qualified sheriff, the very large interest that Georges Soros (whom Human Events readers once voted as “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country”) has taken in knocking out Arpaio and replacing him with Penzone does not bode well for the people of Maricopa County.

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NEW YORK TIMES AIDS COMMUNIST-SOCIALIST-FEMINIST-LGBT-ANARCHIST PLANS FOR INAUGURATION DAY MAYHEM

NEW YORK TIMES AIDS COMMUNIST-SOCIALIST-FEMINIST-LGBT-ANARCHIST PLANS FOR INAUGURATION DAY MAYHEM 

BY WILLIAM F. JASPER

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25074-ny-times-aids-communist-socialist-feminist-lgbt-anarchist-plans-for-inauguration-day-mayhem; 

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“Washington D.C. — Make It Ungovernable! Protest the Presidential Inauguration.”
“Washington D.C. — Protest at the Inauguration: Stand Against Trump, War, Racism and Inequality”
Those are two of the messages of strident WeResistTrump (www.weresisttrump.com), one of the plethora of “resistance” groups that are calling for mass protests, demonstrations, marches, civil disobedience, “direct action,” and other disruptive activities before, on, and after Inauguration Day, January 20.
Who is behind WeResistTrump? The group’s website lists a single “organizer”: the Workers World Party (WWP). And who is the WWP? Not exactly a household name, the WWP is a small, hardcore communist party that has gained enormous influence over the past two decades by creating front group coalitions that exploit hot-button issues guaranteed to rile up the most combustible Clinton-Obama Democrats: open borders, LGBTQ issues, anti-war, “racial injustice,” anti-police, “social justice,” global warming, etc. The biggest coalition launched by the WWP comrades is ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), which has been a key leader of many aggressive (and often violent) demonstrations from the Iraq War protests to Occupy Wall Street occupations to pro-immigration (i.e., pro-illegal alien, pro-amnesty, anti-deportation) rallies to climate-change sit-ins.

Even when various events downplay (or omit altogether) the organizing leadership of WWP/ANSWER, their handprint is evident by the mere fact that a sea of black and yellow (the WWP color scheme) placards dominate the event. Here’s another “clue” for the clueless reporters of the establishment media: Those black and yellow signs invariably have “ANSWER” and “www.answercoalition.org” printed on them somewhere that is plainly visible. It’s really not that difficult; even a Journalism 101 student should be able to follow the trail.
However, as we have reported in the past (see here and here), the pro-Left major media have intentionally, studiously covered up the radical far-left nature of these organizations, in an effort to make them appear more mainstream and boost the leftist causes. Thus, for instance, the New York Times, on November 12, ran a story entitled “Protesters Take Anti-Trump Message to His Doorstep, and Plan Next Steps,” in which Times reporters in New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Kansas City reported favorably on the riotous anti-Trump “protests” across the country. They refer to WWP’s veteran communist organizer Ben Becker as “an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition, an anti-war and anti-racism activist group based in New York.” C’mon, is that it? Now everyone knows that the same alleged reporters, had they been attending a pro-Trump (or other “right-wing”) rally, would have dug and probed until they found some unfortunate lad or unsuspecting lass whose brother-in-law’s uncle’s bowling buddy in 1965 was pictured in a local paper carrying the Confederate flag in an Independence Day Parade in Mobile, Alabama. And THAT, of course, would suffice to declare that the entire event was a racist, fascist, KKK, neo-Nazi gathering, and everyone in attendance, as well as the cause for which it was called, should be subject to the deepest opprobrium. But the central role of WWP/ANSWER communists? Nothing to see here; move along. It was the same with the violent BlackLives Matter riots, where WWP/ANSWER played a leading role.
The Workers World Party is not the only totalitarian-oriented organization promoting anti-Trump mayhem for Inauguration Day — not by a long stretch. Another veteran communist group, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), is a violent Marxist-Leninist organization that idolizes Chinese mass-murdering dictator Mao Tse-tung. Operating through a front organization, www.refusefascism.org, the RCP took out a full-page advertisement in the New York Times on January 4 that is noteworthy on several points. First of all is the fact that the Times ran the ad at all, inasmuch as the Times’ declared policy is, "We do not accept opinion advertisements that are attacks of a personal nature."
Really? No “attacks of a personal nature?" That’s very PC and all, but why then does the RCP ad not qualify as an attack of a personal nature? After all, it does charge Trump and Pence and the incoming “regime” they are leading with being fascists, xenophobic nationalists, racists, and misogynists — among other execrable things.
The Times ad opens with the declaration: “NO! IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!”
"Our anguish is right and just. Our anger must now become massive resistance — before Donald Trump is inaugurated and has the full reins of power in his hands," the would-be saviors of America proclaim.
“We therefore call for a month of resistance that reaches a crescendo by the January 20th 2017 Inauguration,” the communist manifesto continues. “Because we refuse to accept a fascist America, millions must rise up in a resistance with a deep determination such that we create a political crisis that prevents the Trump/Pence fascist regime from consolidating its hold on the governance of society.”
“By any definition, Donald Trump is a fascist," the ad insists. "He has put together a regime who will carry out this program, and worse.”
Here is another excerpt from the advertisement, as it appeared in the Times (emphasis in the original):

The Trump Regime Must and Can Be Stopped Before It Starts!

This is not wishful thinking but could be made a reality if all who hate what is represented by this fascist regime translate our outrage into massive mobilization to create the political conditions which make this possible. We are millions.

Our only recourse now is to act together outside normal channels. Every faction within the established power structure must be forced to respond to what we do — creating a situation where the Trump/Pence regime is prevented from ruling. 

“Creating a situation where the Trump/Pence regime is prevented from ruling?” That coincides with numerous other seditious appeals from leftist groups vowing to make the United States “ungovernable” in the new Trump administration. Yes, these are the same folks who feigned “horror," mimicking Hillary Clinton’s remark during the final debate that Trump’s refusal to say that he would concede defeat immediately after the Election Day count was announced was absolutely “horrifying.”
The Revolutionary Communist Party/RefuseFascism.org advertisement goes on to say (emphasis in original):

We call on each and every one who opposes what this regime stands for, and what it will do, to take part in and actively build, this resistance and refusal.

Organize. Plan. Act.

The Month of Resistance must grow to millions — becoming protests that don’t stop — where people refuse to leave, occupying public space, and more and more people stand up with conviction and courage demanding:

NO! We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!

Who are the prominent, upstanding patriots that are leading this call to action? The ad lists a number of them, notably: Bill Ayers, unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist; Marc Lamont Hill, CNN commentator; Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party activist/lecturer; Professor Cornel West, regular campus speaker companion of Carl Dix; Imam Aiyub Abdul-Baki, Justice Committee, Islamic Leadership Council of New York (the NYC Gound Zero Mosque agitator); Ed Asner, pro-communist actor; and Professor Henry Giroux, Marxist exponent of “critical pedagogy.” A sterling lineup representative of a cross-section of America, no?
Here is the select list of signatories included in the ad:

Imam Aiyub Abdul-Baki, Ed Asner, Bill Ayers, Fr. Bob Bossie SCJ, Herb Boyd, Charles Burnett, Isabel Cardenas, Margaret Cho, Kia Corthron, Joe Dante, Chuck D, Carl Dix, Alex Ebert, Niles Eldredge, Kurt Elling, Eve Ensler, Charles Gaines, Merrill Garbus, Pastor Gregg L. Greer, David Gunn Jr., Lalah Hathaway, Marc Lamont Hill, Chase Iron Eyes, Everett Iron Eyes Sr., Henry Giroux, Evelyn Fox Keller, Robin D.G. Kelley, Wayne Kramer, John Landis, Julie Mehretu, Vic Mensa, Debra Messing, Jessica Care Moore, Thurston Moore, PZ Myers, Arturo O’Farrill, Michelle Phillips, Milton Saier, Yusef Salaam, Dread Scott, Michael Shannon, Danny Simmons, David Strathairn, Alice Walker, Naomi Wallace, Cornel West, Saul Williams, and thousands more.

A larger list of signatories can be found on the refusefascism.org website here.
These are the hardcore anti-Americans who just can’t accept that they have been totally rejected and repudiated in the recent elections, despite the fact that their candidate, Hillary Clinton, vastly outspent Donald Trump and had the support of all the Big Banks, Big Business, Big Labor, and Big Media. They are doubling down with even more radical rhetoric and what amounts to calls for, and endorsements of, the same riotous protesting that followed election day.
The New York Times, which did everything within its power to help Clinton and destroy Trump, is doubling down with them, escalating its attacks and providing sympathetic coverage and propaganda for the anti-Trump protesters. Again, as with its coverup of the WWP red hand behind the anti-Trump ANSWER agitators, the Times likewise covers up the RCP red hand behind the anti-Trump refusefascism.org petition and advertisement. Perhaps the esteemed “Grey Lady” is so far into her dotage that she needs a little assistance. So here’s another Journalism 101 clue for the NYT’s clueless reporters: Go to the Revolutionary Communist Party’s Web page (here), which gives a history of their launch of the refusefascism.org and a detailed explanation their strategy/program.
Here are a few more free-of-charge “clues” that seem to evade the Times reporters: The appearance of a mass of identical posters, placards, and banners, along with identical chants, in cities all across the country, bespeaks organization, not spontaneity. And when those posters/placards/banners all have the same RCP Red/Black or Red/Yellow color schemes and bear RCP and www.revcom.us labels, it’s a fairly good “clue” that the RCP is playing a prominent role. Add to this the conspicuous communist symbols — clenched fist, hammer and sickle, red star — and, well, how many clues does one need? If that does not suffice, it is a fairly simple matter to interview the RCP militants leading the chants; they’re usually more than ecstatic to proclaim the RCP’s unique role as the vanguard of the people.
A few years ago the Times was exposed for giving the Soros-funded, ultra-left MoveOn.org a special cut-rate deal (reduced by more than half) on a full-page advertisement, something they would never think of doing, of course, for, say, a pro-life, pro-gun, or Tea Party group. They should have a right in the free market, naturally, to discriminate in favor of their soulmates. But realizing it would expose the phoniness of their claimed “objectivity” and political “neutrality,” they backtracked, claimed the discount had been a clerical error (a $77,000 one!) and asked MoveOn.org to cough up the rest of the funds to cover the normal ad price. We do not know whether the Times has again given preferential pricing for the ads of its anti-Trump comrades in arms, but that probably is not necessary, since the professional AstroTurf protesters seem to be swimming in cash.
Similarly, the Times had no problem with publishing a virulently anti-Catholic ad by atheists of the Freedom From Religion Foundation that included offensive cartoon caricatures of the pope. When Jewish activist Pamela Geller and the American Freedom Defense Initiative attempted to purchase an ad using text almost verbatim to the anti-Catholic ad but substituting Islam for Catholicism, and cartoons of an imam and the Koran, the Times refused the ad.
However, the Times’ notorious bias and proclivity for partisanship, censorship, and disinformation seems to be only getting worse, although that may have seemed at one time to be impossible. Here’s one example out of the many daily candidates that could be cited to illustrate the Times’ far-left lunacy, in this case with regard to the paper’s overt support for the globalist-funded communist-socialist-Marxist-anarchist effort to make America “ungovernable”: “The Anti-Inauguration,” by Charles M. Blow, which appeared on January 5.
Blow, like many of the Times’ columnists, reporters, and editors, has been obsessed with attacking, first, Trump the candidate, and now, Trump the president-elect. He has devoted most (if not all) of his recent vintage diatribes to slamming the GOP standard-bearer and all he represents. In his January 5 column, Blow calls Trump “a demi-fascist” and refers to his coming inauguration as “the impending Day of Darkness.” He urges Americans to “Protest” by joining in the demonstrations planned by organizations such as Not My President and Women’s March on Washington, both of which are endorsed and promoted by not only the Revolutionary Communist Party and Workers World Party, but also by the Communist Party USA  and the International Socialist Organization, a militant Trotskyite communist group. Of course, none of these affiliations will be mentioned by the Times, CNN, or the rest of the establishment media echo chamber.
However, these media enablers must be held to account when (not if) the seasoned communist riot-makers they are promoting initiate bloody insurrection and fiery chaos in the streets of our cities.

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WHY WE SHOULD AVOID DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

WHY WE SHOULD AVOID DIETRICH BONHOEFFER 

BY BRANDON HINES

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/01/05/why-not-to-promote-dietrich-bonhoeffer/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a very well liked teacher among modern Christians. While no one can deny his bravery in not bowing down to Hitler, there are problems with his theology that simply cannot be ignored.
Liberalism
Liberalism is the belief that the Bible contains errors. It denies the infallibility of Scripture, which it very troubling. While being a heresy itself, it also opens up the door for other heresies. Bonhoeffer wrote on page 73 of Christ the Center,

‎”The Bible remains a book like other books. One must be ready to accept the concealment within history and therefore let historical criticism run its course. But it is through the Bible, with all its flaws, that the risen one encounters us. We must get into the troubled waters of historical criticism. Its importance is not absolute, but neither is it unimportant. Certainly it will not lead to a weakening, but rather to a strengthening of faith because the concealment within the historical belongs to the humiliation of Jesus Christ.”

When speaking of the creation account, Bonhoeffer claimed it was in error. He said,

“Here we have before us the ancient world picture in all its scientific naïveté. While it would not be advisable to be too mocking and self-assured, in view of the rapid changes in our own knowledge of nature, undoubtedly in this passage the biblical author stands exposed with all the limitations caused by the age in which he lived. The heavens and the seas were not formed in the way he says: we would not escape a very bad conscience if we committed ourselves to any such statement.” (Creation and Temptation, page 27)

Moral Relativism
The moral law of God is a reflection of God’s nature. It is absolute and unchanging. However, some, including Bonhoeffer, would claim that all morality is subjective. He claimed,

“The Christian himself creates his standards of good and evil for himself.” (No Rusty Sword, page 143)

To claim this is to claim that God’s law is subjective. It could be considered a form of Antinomianism.
Pluralism
Morality is not the only thing Bonhoeffer thinks is Relative. He has also promoted the idea of their being many paths to God, which is the Pluralist heresy. In Testament to Freedom on page 53, Bonhoeffer claimed,

“What are we to think of other religions? Are they as nothing compared to Christianity? We answer that the Christian religion as religion is not of God. It is rather another example of a human way to God, like the Buddhist and others, too, though of course these are of a different nature.”

Not only does he falsely claim that Christianity is not of God, but he states that Buddhism and other religions are the same as Christianity, all being examples of human ways to God. He said something similar in his sermon entitled “Jesus Christ and the Essence of Christianity”.

“Christ is not the bringer of a new religion, but rather the one who brings good. Therefore, as an impossible way from the human to God, the Christian religion stands with other religions.”

Neinauferstehungism

The resurrection is essential to Christianity. A denial of the resurrection is a serious heresy. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:14 (ESV),

“And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.”

This is a large contrast to what Bonhoeffer has to say in Letters and Papers from Prison, page 329,

My view is that the full content, including the ‘mythological’ concepts, must be kept—the New Testament is not a mythological clothing of a universal truth; this mythology (resurrection etc.) is the thing itself.

His prime example of a myth is the resurrection? That is troubling. Since his faith is in a Jesus who has not risen from the dead, I would say that that faith is in vain and his preaching is in vain.

Peccatheism
The sinlessness of Jesus is essential for the atonement. Without being sinless, His sacrifice would be insufficient and He would no longer be a perfect sacrifice. In fact, He would also cease to be God! To claim otherwise is a heresy I call Peccatheism. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Peccatheist. This can be read in Christ the Center page 109, where he claims,

“The sinlessness of Jesus fails if it is based upon the observable acts of Jesus. His acts take place in the homoioma sarkos. They are not sinless, but ambiguous. One can and should see both good and failure in them.”

Bonhoeffer was not a sound teacher. He may have done good things, but his teachings should be avoided and warned about.

REVIEW: LOUIE GIGLIO'S SIMPLE PURSUIT: A HEART AFTER JESUS (A DAILY PASSION DEVOTIONAL)

REVIEW: LOUIE GIGLIO'S SIMPLE PURSUIT: A HEART AFTER JESUS (A DAILY PASSION DEVOTIONAL) 

BY BUD AHLHEIM

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/01/05/review-louie-giglios-simple-pursuit-a-heart-after-jesus-a-daily-passion-devotional/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Simple Pursuit: A Heart After Jesus

A Daily Passion Devotional

Copyright 2016

Published by Thomas Nelson, a registered trademark of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780718087623

Simple Pursuit is a daily devotional book that comes out of Louis Giglio’s Passion Movement.  Merely containing an introduction by Giglio, with brief commentaries by “Christian celebrities” Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, and Matt Redman, the daily devotionals are written by 68 “Contributing Writers” drawn from the book’s target millennial audience of 18-25 year olds.
Following Giglio’s brief introduction, the book issues its “268 Declaration,” a five-pointed mission statement for the Passion Movement that is sourced in Isaiah 26:8.  The crux of the statement is drawn from John Piper’s Christian Hedonism theme, “The heart of Passion is God’s glory, and God is most glorified in us when we live lives that are fully satisfied in Him.”  The outlined five points of Passion are:

1. A Passion To Know God Above All Things
2. Love For The Local Expression of His Church
3. Unity Among Believers That Amplifies His Name
4. A Desire To See Christ Celebrated Where I Live
5. Willingness to Shine The Gospel To All People

It is from this outlined premise that the writers of the daily devotionals have penned pithy summaries primarily of “you can do it with God” sorts of encouragement that read with a tone that implies “knowing God” is more an experiential function for the believer than it is one of apprehending and understanding Scriptural truth. (Colossians 1:9-10, Philippians 1:9)
This Christian hedonism approach to faith is inherently dangerous.  It encourages the experience of pursuing the joy of God for ourselves above that of the apprehending and understanding of God’s written revelation of Himself.  Christian hedonism, as popularized by Piper, and echoed throughout this devotional guide, elevates the pursuit of one fruit of the Spirit – joy- above the others and, by emphasizing the pursuit of that experience, relegates all other aspects of ongoing sanctification in the believer to a lesser-than status.
Dr. Peter Masters’ analysis of Piper’s hedonism would be appropriate in response to the similar theological premise of Simple Pursuit’.  (Masters is, btw, pastor of Metropolitan Tabernacle whose pulpit was previously occupied by the prince of preachers, Charles Spurgeon.)

“God’s Word does not provide a single organising principle to govern and drive all the component duties of the spiritual life. ‘Christian Hedonism’ is not drawn from the teaching of the Lord, nor of Paul. However, the Bible does provide a clear prescription for the Christian life, listing a number of spiritual and moral duties, all of which must be given direct and individual attention. We are given famous lists (such as the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount, and the lists of 1 Timothy 6.11-12 and Galatians 5.22-23 – see footnote 3) and we must set our minds to accepting a multiple-track righteousness. We will pay a high price for any kind of clever system that reduces biblical duties to an artificial formula, however sound and inspiring many of its elements may seem to be.”   Dr. Peter Masters  (Source)

Simple Pursuit faces the same challenges of any devotional book: brevity, Biblical integrity, and believer edification.  Most devotional books do not pull this trifold challenge off with any success; Simple Pursuit hasn’t either. (A perpetually reliable, and recommendable, devotional guide would be Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening.)
The format of Simple Pursuit is a page-per-day devotional in which each is headlined by a singly plucked verse of Scripture accompanied by a one, two, or maybe very brief, three-paragraph commentary of encouragement or explanation, concluding, on most days of the books’ entries, with a one or two sentence, suggested summarizing prayer.
Obvious exegetical risks accompany any such endeavor with so limited a scope of intent. The contextual fullness of singly-plucked verses is difficult to responsibly divulge to the reader. The poor exegetical performance of Simple Passion is evident by its clear lack of pastoral oversight or theological insight that exhibits concern for, and consistency of, sound doctrine.  Verses are plucked, often out of context, presumably because of their particular importance to the unidentified author and exposited in a Scripturally-illicit “what’s this verse mean to me” sort of manner.
The theme of “unity,” as highlighted in point three of the five points of Passion, runs through a number of the daily entries.  Commenting on this in the book, contributor Chris Tomlin writes, “Jesus said that the world would know we are His by our love (John 15:35).  Interestingly, He did not say ‘by our doctrine’ or ‘by our denomination,’ but by our love.”  This “doctrine is divisive” narrative echoed by Tomlin is not unknown, and, ironically, it is most often offered by those who “don’t know” what Scripture teaches in its fullness.
The popular suggestion that doctrine divides is a vehemently anti-Scriptural claim.  The Apostle Paul, through whom the Holy Spirit inspired and wrote much of the Jesus-approved New Testament defined division in the church.

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.  Romans 16:17-18

Another example of doctrine-avoiding unity is from the devotional on Day 182:  “What is one thing that every denomination has in common?  Despite stylistic differences, we reach out to God in prayer.  If we are going to see Jesus at work through our generation, then we need to be united around a clear purpose.”  That mechanism of unity, for the Simple Pursuit writer, is not the Jesus of Scripture, but the Jesus of prayer.
While the “stylistic differences” may exist between those, for example, praying at Hillsong, or Bethel, or the nearest Catholic parish, or the Baptist church down the street, one thing is certain among all of those congregations – each is praying to a very different “Jesus.”  The actual Jesus of Scripture, however, gave us His focal point for Christian unity in His high priestly prayer to the Father: “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.”  (John 17:17)
Scripture – and the sound doctrine it contains – is the point of unity for believers.  According to the writer of this day’s devotion, with no agreement on the correct Jesus or God of Scripture, Christians could theoretically be found in spiritual unity with any religion that prays.  But it’s a certainty the Muslims are praying to a decidedly different “God” than Christians do.  Appeals for unity outside the boundaries of Scripture are dangerous to the believer, toxic to sound doctrine, and may rapidly become blasphemous to God.  Indeed, for those not adhering to sound doctrine and proclaiming illicit variants of it, the apostle is quite clear: “Avoid them.”  (Romans16:18)
The prevalent “Gospel” contained in Simple Pursuit is the ever-popular, but always unbiblical social gospel.  From one entry we read, “Not only does our pursuit of justice bring healing to this world, but it also brings us closer to God.”  Or there’s this line, “Fighting injustice, speaking against lies, loving others, and seeking to end poverty all require much effort often personal discomfort – but they give so much gain.”   Or, from another entry, this explanation: “Just as materialism is heart bondage, so poverty and injustice are physical bondage.  When we generously give to the needy for the good of God’s kingdom, we take part in God’s purpose for the world: to free creation from the bondage of evil through the love of Christ.”
The social justice refrains reflect an aberrant Gospel message exhibited in Simple Pursuit.  They smack of a form of dominionism in which believers must eradicate the ills of the world – poverty, homelessness, legal injustices, for example – as critical to the “good of God’s kingdom.”  While these noble acts of Christian charity are done as a consequential outflow of a truly redeemed soul, the acts themselves do not constitute the Gospel.   Apart from doing such charity with a clear, corresponding proclamation of the Gospel, the results won’t be establishing “God’s kingdom,” but simply making the world a better place from which to go to hell.
Rather, God’s plans for this divinely cursed world (Genesis 3:17) are certain – see 2 Peter 3:10-12 – and, until that “day of Lord” arrives, believers are to seek to reconcile with God the spiritually lost (and, according to Scripture,  spiritually “dead” – Ephesians 2:1) by purposefully, audibly sharing – not merely “shining,” as Passion point #5 puts it – the authentic Gospel of Christ.  God’s temporal purpose is not to “free creation from the bondage of evil” through a social gospel agenda, but to take for the Son from it a bride – the church – comprised of those divinely regenerated as a result of His powerful, authentic Gospel. (Romans 1:16)  Believers in the true Gospel of Scripture are awaiting the new creation, “a new heaven and a new earth.”  (Revelation 21:1)
Commensurate with a doctrine-less, social gospel platform for which Passion is known, their devotional book perpetuates the unbiblical notion that all men are the beloved children of God who merely need to “love Jesus.”  Regrettably, the Jesus glimpsed on the pages of Simple Pursuit is a Jesus that cannot be properly gleaned from a responsible reading of Scripture.
Under the entry for Day 27, entitled “Hear The Knock,” the false, but evangelically-hallowed, door-knocking Jesus is seen.  “Jesus knocks at the door of our hearts and is waiting to enter fellowship with us.”  The cited verse for this illicit statement?  Revelation 3:20 … a verse in which Jesus is not knocking on anyone’s heart, but is issuing a dire warning against apostasy and disobedience to the believer-void church of Laodicea.  The day’s devotional ends with a dangerous tone of contemplative spirituality, “What can we do to be still so we can hear God’s voice today?  Let us pause to hear His voice, and answer the knock at the door of our hearts.”
The “Jesus loves everyone” notion shows up in a number of the daily readings.  In one, the closing is in the form of a question, “How can you learn to see everyone as Jesus does – a dearly loved child in need of an eternal savior?”  While every believer should proclaim the gospel to everyone, not everyone is “a dearly loved child” of God.  What this errant proclamation fails to recognize is that even Jesus, while on earth, did not exhibit limitless, gushing divine love for everyone He encountered.  In fact, the Jesus of Simple Pursuit seems unlike the judgmental Jesus of Matthew 13:10-16 who began teaching in parables precisely so that not all His hearers would grasp His divinely taught truth.  As MacArthur writes, parables “were designed to hide the truth.”  “Do you know why Jesus taught in parables?” writes MacArthur.  “It was a judgment.  It was a judgment on willful, hard-hearted unbelief.”  So much for “Jesus loves you and has a wonderfully hedonistic plan for your life.”

John Piper & Louis Giglio

Giglio, in his introduction to Simple Pursuit, says this:

“From the start [of the Passion Movement], we have wanted to see a generation stand in awe of Jesus; to fall in love with the wonder and majesty of who He is.  And we have sought to inspire them to reflect that glory to their world.”

Those words ring with a noble resolve, to be sure, but the ambition is based on an errant theology. The fundamental premise of Christian hedonism that is rampant throughout the volume, as it is the Passion Movement, elevates the pursuit of joy in Jesus above the very thing which Christ Himself said would identify those who truly love Him: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”  (John 14:15)  God commands our obedience.
Simple Pursuit encourages social justice as a way to “shine” the Gospel for the intent of maximizing individual joy.  This form of hedonism seems foreign to the authors of the New Testament who defined themselves, often in the opening words their epistles, as “doulos” – or slaves – of Christ.  (Romans 1:1, James 1:1, 2 Peter 1:1, Jude 1:1, Revelation 1:1) A slave exhibits obedience to his master, first and foremost, not the relentless pursuit of self-gratifying joy to be gained in the name of his master.

“So my call to you now, in the name of God Almighty, is that you might make it your eternal vocation to pursue your pleasure with all the might that God mightily inspires within you.”  John Piper, Passion Conference 1997 (Source)

Simple Pursuit is an avoidable devotional guide for the millennial.  In a post-modern world where relativistic, subjective pursuits run counter to Scriptural veracities, the continued proclamation of the tenets of Christian hedonism will drive many to ultimately seek escape from Christianity, for the Christian faith puts a priority on obedience to Christ, with sanctification resulting in many fruits in addition to joy. (Galatians 5:22-23)
Scripture does not promise unbridled temporal joy nor prescribe the pursuit of indulgent self-gratification though Christian hedonism slathers these ambitions with a veneer of Christian-ese. But Piper and Giglio and his Passion colleagues are required to read into Scripture a formula for faith not naturally, normally, or – from the record of orthodoxy – historically found within it.  Such a “simple pursuit” cannot be sustained by those who have no true foundation in the fundamental doctrines of faith, the “sound teaching” from the Word. (1 Timothy 4:6, 2 Timothy 4:3, Titus 1:9)
As Dr. Masters pointed out, “We will pay a high price for any kind of clever system that reduces biblical duties to an artificial formula, however sound and inspiring many of its elements may seem to be.” Simple Pursuit is effectively a “rah-rah” approach to faith, proffered in a daily sound-byte format, and most certainly exemplifies this dangerous, menacing, “clever system.”
Simple Pursuit is not a sound, endorsable resource for authentic believers of any age.
(I received a complimentary copy of this book through BooklookBlogger in return for my honest review.  I was not required to give a favorable review to the book.)

"PASSION 2017": A PASSION FOR EXPERIENCE; A DISREGARD FOR THE WORD

 

"PASSION 2017": A PASSION FOR EXPERIENCE; 

A DISREGARD FOR THE WORD 

BY BUD AHLHEIM

SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/01/06/passion-2017-a-passion-for-experience-a-disregard-for-the-word/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The Passion Conference just wrapped up its 20^th anniversary with a massive crowd of millennials in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. The event, running from January 2 –4, saw over 50,000 eighteen to twenty-five-year-olds * packing the venue in order to, according to the Passion 2017 website, “see a generation leverage their lives for what matters most.”
To accomplish this noble task, the event’s front man, Pastor Louis Giglio, gathered a wide array of notable “celebrity Christian” personalities to prance, dance, proclaim and croon across the platform.   False teachers aside, the stellar celebrity Christian line-up must’ve been a deal even at the $209 at-the-door ticket price.

(* The conference website is explicit in discouraging those under 18 in attending and, other than what it calls “Door Holders,” discourages anyone over 25  -except leaders of groups of millennials – from attending.  Children are not welcome.)
Among this year’s featured participants were the false teaching pastrix Christine Caine, the SBC’s resident recipient of revelation Beth Moore, and Hillsong New York’s “I’ve been on Oprah downplaying Christ” Carl Lentz.

Charles Stanley, Louis Giglio at Passion 2017

“No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary.  [Genesis 1:4] Light and darkness have no communion; God has divided them, let us not confound them.  Sons of light must not have fellowship with deeds, doctrines, or deceits of darkness. … In judgment, in action, in hearing, in teaching, in association, we must discern between the precious and the vile, and maintain the great distinction which the Lord made upon the world’s first day.”  Charles Spurgeon, Morning & Evening

The pastoral presence of those who might have once been considered reliable, but who are now clearly off the rails of Biblical, doctrinal obedience – how exactly does one stand on a stage in a spiritual endeavor next to known false teachers when Scripture clearly says “avoid them”? (Romans 16:17, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18) – included heavyweight of “Christian” hedonism, John Piper, and former-pastor-turned-conference-celebrity Francis Chan. Even 84-year-old Charles Stanley – father of the “Scripture isn’t important” Andy Stanley – made an appearance to pray with Giglio for the gathering, his appearance giving the explicit nod to the event and an implicit thumbs-up to its headliners.  These days, it seems, that enemy who appears as an angel of light is most often showing up cloaked in an evangelically-approved tunic of ecumenism.
Among the musical talent obtained for the conference were Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, David Crowder, Christy Nockels, and – because no gathering of millennials can possibly worship Jesus without them – the Hillsong United band.
The gathering of these known false teachers and hurlers of “another Gospel” (Galatians 1:8-9) would represent, for the Biblically-informed believer, an obvious event to avoid, much less one to encourage or send your millennial charges to. But undiscerning parents and seeker-sensitive churches exhibiting zero biblical discretion supported this ecumenical endeavor with gusto. According to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “the faithful come from 90 countries and more than 1,600 colleges.”
What did they come for?   Well, it wasn’t for sound doctrine and reliable Biblical teaching. That much we can ascertain from the headliners. In fact, as noted in our review of the Passion Movement’s recent devotional book, Simple Pursuit, the superficially appealing, but persistently Passion-prevalent refrains for “unity” are couched neatly in the increasingly popular, but biblically-toxic, notion that “doctrine divides.”
Devotional contributor Chris Tomlin noted as much in the text itself, writing “Jesus said that the world would know we are His by our love (John 15:35).  Interestingly, He did not say ‘by our doctrine’ or ‘by our denomination,’ but by our love.”   As we noted in our review, the Apostle Paul clearly identified those who divide the true church as those engaged in teaching and behavior “contrary to the doctrine you have been taught.” (Romans 16:17-18) Instead of obeying Paul’s command to “avoid them,” Passion paraded them across the stage, blasted them across social media, and posts them to YouTube. Doctrine doesn’t matter to Passion.
One of the most glaring examples of a disregard for what the New Testament places high regard for – doctrine (1 Timothy 4:6, 2 Timothy 4:3, Titus 1:9) – came in the crowd-stunning, surprise performance by country superstar Carrie Underwood. According to Wide Open Country, “Underwood joined Christian rocker David Crowder on stage at Atlanta’s Passion 2017, an evangelical conference that focuses on reaching college students.” Reaching them is, of course, one thing; but reaching them with solid Truth from Scripture is quite another. Passion might easily accomplish the first, while the latter seems casually disregarded.
But on Monday evening, January 2, Underwood performed her #1 hit, the “Christian” song “Something in the Water.” This wildly popular song seems to be promoting a wildly erroneous doctrine … baptismal regeneration. She sings of amazing grace because, as the song’s repetitive focus emphasizes, “there must be something in the water, Oh there must be something in the water.”
(Underwood also affirms gay marriage, another clear doctrinal divide from the Truth of Scripture.   SOURCE, SOURCE)
Well, umm, no. There is nothing in the water. Baptism does not save. If baptism had any divine, salvific value, one must wonder why the Savior Himself didn’t make the procedure a staple of his River Jordan ministry, but Jesus didn’t baptize  (John 4:2).  Of course, if baptism saves, wouldn’t that find our Lord issuing a cross-bound lie to the thief on the adjacent cross, “Today you will be with me in paradise?”  (Luke 23:43)
A good dunking – even if motivated or accompanied by the emotions-manipulating theatrics of a well-orchestrated musical performance, coupled with Hollywood-like mood lighting and a professionally managed environmental aura designed to evoke a feel-good “experience ” – does not save. It is not the experience of emotionally intensified liquid immersion that saves. It is the supernaturally aided comprehension of divine Truth – the Gospel (Romans 1:16) – that saves.   It is when God sovereignly opens the eyes to see and the ears to hear that He regenerates through the power of His Gospel. It is the apprehension of divine Truth that is the believer’s validation and their assurance. Baptism is the symbolic external act of obedience that He has, indeed, brought life to a previously dead soul.  (Ephesians 2:4-5)
As Josh Buice commented in his blog, “The truth is, Carrie Underwood sang heresy to thousands of college students and the students let everyone know that it was acceptable.”
There is nothing in the water … rather, everything is in the Word.
The concern with Passion 2017, though, isn’t the Word.  Though the conference is appealingly besmeared with a millennial-friendly, church-approved slathering of Christian-ese, the actual “Jesus” of Scripture, of orthodox Christianity, is absent. “Jesus” may be lauded, but authentic believers must be cautious against just any “Jesus” being proclaimed.   There are many “false messiahs.”  (Matthew 24:24) Only one Jesus truly saves, and He is known in His Word, through its diligent consumption by the individual, by its responsibly taught proclamation by preachers and teachers, and apprehended solely by the illuminating, regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.

“The Scriptures are not a sanctified pep pill.  The Scriptures are there to give you knowledge.”  John MacArthur, Why Believe The Bible?

The “Jesus” of Passion is the “Jesus” of experiential faith, most often exemplified in one’s life by acts compliant with a social gospel agenda. Ending poverty, sheltering the homeless, seeking to correct the woes of injustice – all are noble efforts, to be sure, but those acts alone are not the Gospel. Only when accompanied by the actual, proclaimed Gospel of Jesus from His Word are such acts potentially, eternally worthwhile.  No one is saved by good works, neither yours done for them, nor those done for themselves.  Sola Fide.  Apart from the Gospel proclaimed, one is merely comforting the already condemned (John 3:18) as they are being propelled towards God’s final wrath. Only through His proclaimed and powerful Gospel might He save those whom He wills. (Romans 1:16)
But the Jesus of Passion isn’t driving adherents to the Word, but to an experience that unifies all who laud any “Jesus.” It’s this pursuit that is the danger of Passion, for the Jesus who unites is the One who, as He prayed to the Father, sanctifies and unites through His Word. (John 17:17)
As one person, engaged in dialogue with a Passion 2017 attendee, noted on Facebook,  Jesus is, according to the attendee,  “all about making us do stuff for others in His name.” The evident assessment from this encounter? “The Jesus they know … is NOT the Jesus of the Bible!!”
Given the parade of false teachers and doctrine-avoiding – and, in some cases, doctrine-denying – celebrity Christians across the Passion platform, it’s little surprise that attendees are clueless about the authentic Jesus who, with His Word, is exalted above all things, particularly in His Word. (Psalm 138:2)
But, as one 21-year-old attendee to the conference said, “We all want the same thing – the experience.”   (Source)
But experience doesn’t save.   Gospel Truth saves. It’s clear in Scripture … from the lips of our Lord, no less … “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”  (John 14:6)  You’ll note He didn’t say, “I am the experience.”  A few chapters earlier in John’s Gospel, the Lord identified His disciples, not as those who had an “experience of the Truth to be set free,” but that they would “know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  (John 8:31-32)  That Truth is found by abiding in the Word.
The Biblically astute ought to be most Berean about Passion because, as Pastor Buice noted, “Passion without knowledge is deadly.”
Indeed, for Passion attendees, it appears a toxic dose may just have been served … all in the name of “Jesus.”

MAYBELLINE BECOMES NEXT COSMETIC COMPANY TO UTILIZE MALE MAKEUP-WEARING MODEL

 

MAYBELLINE BECOMES NEXT COSMETIC COMPANY TO UTILIZE MALE MAKEUP-WEARING MODEL 

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2017/01/09/maybelline-becomes-next-cosmetic-company-to-utilize-male-makeup-wearing-model/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

 The cosmetic giant Maybelline has become the next company to utilize a male makeup-wearing model to help sell its products.

25-year-old Manny Gutierrez, also known as Manny Mua, has three million followers on Instagram, as well as over two million subscribers on YouTube, where he conducts tutorials on “boy beauty.”
“I believe makeup is GenderLESS and has no rules!” he writes in the description section of his YouTube page. “Honestly I believe that men can wear makeup, teach makeup, and vlog about it just as much as girls can and I am fighting for that equality with my channel.”
On Jan. 3, Maybelline rolled out two advertisements for its “Boss Life” campaign featuring Gutierrez and beauty blogger Shayla Mitchell. Together, they promote Maybelline’s Big Shot mascara, in the first video applying it to their lashes to get “bossed up.” At the end of the advertisement, the two find a male in the room who wants a tube of mascara for himself.

The second video shows Gutierrez and Mitchell helping a girl they meet in a cab get “bossed up” with Big Shot.
The first video currently has over 80,000 views, and second has over 27,000.
“Start the new year off like a boss. Secret project revealed! Watch @mannymua733 + @makeupshayla star in the new #bigshotmascara campaign,” Maybelline wrote on social media in promotion of the video.
 Also said of Gutierrez in a post on Saturday, “@mannymua733 was never as confident in his natural lashes as he was on set of the #bigshotmasacara campaign. … He was SHOOK once he tried the mascara, amazed by his lashes and as a result—so confident on set. He really did boss up.” The post has generated over 34,000 likes as of press time.
As previously reported, in October, CoverGirl made a similar move as it introduced male makeup artist James Charles of Bethlehem, N.Y.
“Meet @JCharlesBeauty: makeup artist, boundary breaker, and the newest COVERGIRL!” the company wrote. “Spread the word by regramming using #COVERGIRLJames.”
Reaction to Maybelline’s promotion featuring Gutierrez has been mixed. Some have opined that the development is simply part of the “species progression.”
“This man has over a million followers not to mention his numbers on Instagram, Twitter, etc. He was chosen for his popularity and his talent with makeup,” one commenter wrote. “Also, by the way, men have been wearing makeup as far back as the Egyptians, so really this is nothing new, and you all should get over your Puritan views.”
“That’s right, haters. You’ll never be able to force humanity to act and think the way you personally want them all to act and think. The world does not revolve around you, and our species progression will never stop,” another stated.
But others have stated that promoting men wearing makeup contributes to the erosion of masculinity in society.
“My grandfather’s generation was fighting Hitler; the Millennial men are experimenting with makeup,” one commenter remarked.
“Women are supposed to be women, and men are supposed to be men! Equality doesn’t mean what they think it means,” another exclaimed. “Why on earth do men want to look like women now? Women do not find that attractive! I’m so sickened by all of this.”

"HERETIC" PROSPERITY PREACHER PAULA WHITE ISSUES DEFENSE AFTER HER SELECTION FOR TRUMP INAUGURATION IS CRITICIZED

 

ABOVE: PAULA WHITE AS "LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD", 

AND HER THIRD HUSBAND AS "BIG BAD WOLF"

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2015/11/07/preacher-paula-white-rocker-husbands-halloween-wolf-riding-hood-photo-stirs-controversy/

 

SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST (ONE OF SEVERAL) ABOUT PAULA WHITE WHICH SUBSTANTIATE HER HERESIES, AFFAIRS, DIVORCES, AND FALSE TEACHINGS:

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2016/12/trump-inauguration-to-feature-prayer-of.html 

"HERETIC" PROSPERITY PREACHER PAULA WHITE ISSUES DEFENSE AFTER HER SELECTION FOR TRUMP INAUGURATION IS CRITICIZED 

BY HEATHER CLARK

SEE: http://christiannews.net/2017/01/07/heretic-prosperity-preacher-paula-white-issues-defense-after-selection-for-trump-inauguration-criticized/;

 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

 Prosperity preacher Paula White, who was invited by 
President-elect Donald Trump to deliver the invocation at his 
inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, has released a statement in defense of
 herself as some Christians have expressed concern over Trump’s 
selection of the female preacher for the event.

“I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan, and an addict,” she wrote this week. “It has been falsely reported that I once filed for bankruptcy and—my personal favorite—that I deny the Trinity!”
White said that she had been hesitating “to even address such patently false accusations about my personal life and my beliefs so as to not dignify them with a response.” However, since she believed the objections to her appearance pose “a potential distraction to an otherwise celebratory and historic time in our country,” she wanted to present her side of the story.
White, who leads New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, then outlined that she has “always believed in the Holy Trinity,” and in regard to being a prosperity preacher, she contended that the characterization is inaccurate as she has preached on both the good times and hard times in life.

“I also reject any theology that doesn’t affirm or acknowledge the entirety of Scriptural teaching about God’s presence and blessing in suffering as much as in times of prosperity,” she wrote. “In fact, I have preached and written as much on the lessons we must learn in times of trial in our lives as I have in times of abundance.”
As previously reported, White considers herself a life coach, authoring books such as “The Ten Commandments of Health and Wellness,” “Simple Suggestions for a Sensational Life,” “I Don’t Get Wholeness, That’s the Problem—Making Relationships Work” and “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not.”
On Thursday, White told CNN’s Erin Burnett that her life isn’t “perfect,” and contended that there is none without issue. She acknowledged that she indeed did obtain a divorce, but said that she had tried to save it through counseling.

“God knew everything I would go through before I ever went through it,” she stated. “Not everything is perfect in my life, but I don’t think everything is perfect in anybody’s life.”
White has been married three times. Her first marriage was to Dean Knight, who she married as a teenager. The two have a son together, named Bradley. In 2007, White divorced her second husband, Randy White, and in 2015, she married Journey rocker Jonathan Cain, who has likewise been married three times.
During the CNN interview, which included discussion on her invitation to the inauguration, White called Trump a “man of God” and praised him for the diversity of spiritual leaders that he had selected for the event.
As previously reported, the ceremony is set to feature Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Franklin Graham, Jewish rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and Wayne Jackson of Great Faith Ministries International, as well as White.
As previously reported, in September 2015, White was among a number of spiritual leaders, including televangelists Kenneth Copeland and Jan Crouch, who laid hands on and prayed for Trump at Trump Tower in New York. She specifically made a “faith declaration” that she was securing Trump’s “calling and his mantle.”
“Father, we just secure him right now by the blood of Jesus. We thank you that no weapon formed against him will be able to prosper and any tongue that rises against him will be condemned according to the word of God,” White, who leads New Destiny Christian Center in Florida, prayed as she touched his arm.
“All the days of his life, let him live well,” she continued. “I secure him. I secure his children. I secure his calling and his mantle.”
Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family released a statement last June that included notation that he had heard White led Trump to Christ a number of years ago. Trump had been a guest on her television program “Paula White Today” in 2008, where she discussed finding one’s passion in life.
She is expected to serve as the chair of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board during his presidential term.
But some have expressed concern over White, including her leadership of a church despite the biblical instruction in 1 Timothy 2:12, “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man…” and Christ’s warning in Matthew 19:9, “Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”
White also raised controversy in 2015 when she posted a photograph of herself and her new husband dressed in Halloween costumes.
“Little Red Riding Hood with the Big Bad Wolf,” she wrote, hashtagging “#love #marriage #life #fun #makingmemories.”
“By dressing up for Satan’s holiday, you are praising him,” one commenter wrote under her post, which generated hundreds of polarized comments. “This is righteous judgment, not pointing a finger. The enemy needs to be exposed openly.”
“I am very disappointed in you Mrs. White. You are a pastor and you are celebrating the devil’s day, why?” another asked. “Please take this photo down and repent. Why celebrate the day of God’s enemy and go to church on Sunday to preach, what wow.”
In a message the two delivered about marriage in August of last year, White’s husband advised, “Ladies, if you don’t know what he likes, figure it out. Get a book. … If he likes to watch porn, watch porn with him.” The clip, which has raised eyebrows, has been posted online as a warning to others.

SICK DEGENERATE FOX SHOW SEXUALIZES CHILDREN

SICK DEGENERATE FOX SHOW SEXUALIZES CHILDREN

SEE: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=56069

SEE: http://rollingout.com/2017/01/06/tv-gone-far-show-trans-boy-bondage/ 

FOX Comedy Features 6yo ‘Trans’ Boy Wearing Bondage Gag

Other scenes show the boy dressing like a girl and commenting how the dress he's wearing "kind of breezes on my vagina."

 

BY CHRIS MENAHAN

SEE: http://www.infowars.com/fox-comedy-features-6yo-trans-boy-wearing-bondage-gag/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

A sickening new “comedy” show on FOX features a 6-year-old boy wearing a bondage gag.
The boy, who is apparently transgendered, is seen wearing the gag after burning his tongue licking a hot grill at a Benihana style restaurant in exchange for $1,000 from his older teenage brother.
The FOX show is named “The Mick” and it aired on January 1st, 2017. It was created by Dave Chernin and John Chernin, both sons of top Hollywood executive Peter Chernin.
Other scenes show the boy dressing like a girl and commenting how the dress he’s wearing “kind of breezes on my vagina.”

Another scene shows the boy celebrate after a man’s eye is impaled in front of him by a woman’s high-heeled shoe.
As blood is shooting on the boy’s face and clothes, he exclaims, “cool!”

 Another forced scene highlighted by Newsbusters shows one of the characters awkwardly praising Planned Parenthood, plugging how they provide “health care to over three million women in this country.”

While Sam Hyde’s show was canceled from Adult Swim for jokes vaguely referencing the alt-right, utter filth like this is aired during prime time on FOX.

guess theres a lotta good new comedy shows coming out pic.twitter.com/hR3UwVK5KA

— Sam Hyde (@Night_0f_Fire) January 4, 2017

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DISGUSTING: Media Normalizing Pedophilia