For those of you old enough to remember, "Blood In the Streets" was a song by The Doors.
For those of you in Rio Linda, "malediction" is Latin for a bad word -- the opposite of benediction, a good word.
Malediction
The judges sat outside the Law And in their pride no evil saw In setting teeth to Satan’s jaw And feeding him our children. When viewed in terms of cost and ease An unborn child is a disease A holocaust seen fit to please Our own convenience. A curse A curse the Law it cries. A curse a curse on mankind’s pride. A curse on him who would deny God’s image in mankind. Torn from out their mother’s womb Denied the sky - denied a tomb Conceived in lust to their own ruin A sacrifice to pleasure. The doctors with their blood red hands Who love their money more than man, With greed their god they lay their plans The butchers of mankind. A curse a curse the blood cries out A curse a curse the heavens shout A curse a curse on he who flouts God’s image in mankind. O rid us of this evil, Lord And turn our hearts by cross or Sword. Our nation cannot long afford To live beneath your judgements. A curse a curse upon their heads O save them Lord or slay them dead And fill our country with your Dread And turn away Your anger.
Lyrics: Kemper Crabb Music: Kemper Crabb & Frank Hart
In this must-see video, James White speaks with great eloquence and power on the election of Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency of the United States, and finds America in the year 2008 to be right smack dab in the middle of...Romans chapter one:
Here is my rendition by memory of the letter sent today via email to Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party candidate for President:
Dear Chuck,
As a Constitution Party supporter, I am appalled by the blatant hypocrisy on display in all its ugliness by so-called "evangelical leaders" such as James Dobson in the matter of the teenage pregnancy of Sarah Palin's unwed daughter. The incessant spin-spin-spin machine is in overdrive, and it makes me sick to my stomach.
What ever happened to SIN? What ever happened to genuine repentance? What about Our Lord's warning, in response to far greater perils, "Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish?" These get nary a mention. All we get from Dr. Dobson is that this teenager was "imperfect." This is bald-faced hypocrisy. It will surely be pointed out by our opponents, and they will be right.
This teenager's "imperfection" (the term clearly implies that all she needs to do is get a little counseling to get patched up), is not the issue for any genuine believer. The issue is that the righteous and just wrath of a holy God is even now being revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men and women -- including against Bristol Palin and her boyfriend in these very events as well as the hardships they will undoubtedly face in the future.
Of course all Christians will support them and love them throughout the raising of this child -- that is not the point.
The point is, without the conviction of sin, there is no Gospel and we perish. But how can there be conviction of sin, if sin is never even addressed? These people call themselves Christian?
Here, from the pages of Modern Reformation magazine, written with great care and insight by Peter R. Jones, is an article that everyone naming the name of Christ needs to read -- now!
That means you, dear reader. Put down that mouse, or rather, pick up that mouse and direct your pointer here -- a brief excerpt to get you started appears below:
"We often use the term post-Christian to describe our present world, but perhaps fail to see its implications; namely, a serious repeat of the pre-Christian world that the early Christians faced-no general government support, but rather government intimidation, oppression and even persecution; no social encouragement, but rather deep suspicion and antagonism; no knowledge of the Bible and the Bible's worldview, but rather a deep commitment and acceptance of the pagan worldview; no "Big Man on Campus" Christianity, but rather the intimidation and ostracizing of Christian students by Big Brother Administration. From this perspective, the future looks ominous."
The children of the Sixties, and their biblical contemporaries, have sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind. The "new spirituality" is here, and it is not a pretty sight. Nevertheless, we must be as wise as serpents, and innocent as doves. ( Matthew 10:16 ESV)
(From "The New Spirituality: Dismantling and Reconstructing Reality," by Peter R. Jones, Modern Reformation, vol. 17, issue 3 (May/June 2008)
Pastor Spurgeon reminds us that no Christian school teacher or Sunday School teacher can relieve the God-given responsibility laid upon us as parents to catechize our God-given children"
I trust you will never give up that excellent puritanical habit of catechising your children at home. Any father or mother who entirely gives up a child to the teaching of another has made a mistake. There is no teacher who wishes to absolve a parent from what he ought to do himself! He is an assistant, but he was never intended to be a substitute. Teach your children; bring up your old catechisms again, for they are after all blessed means of instruction, and the next generation shall outstrip those that have gone before it, for the reason why many of you are weak in the faith is this, you did not receive instruction in your youth in the great things of the gospel of Christ. If you had, you would have been so grounded, and settled, and firm in the faith, that nothing could by any means have moved you.
You are a Reformed Evangelical. You take the Bible very seriously because it is God's Word. You most likely hold to TULIP and are sceptical about the possibilities of universal atonement or resistible grace. The most important thing the Church can do is make sure people hear how they can go to heaven when they die.
