Children and the Dominion Mandate

Vision Forum has just recently released several new CD’s and grouped some of them together in a package entitled The Fruit of the Gospel Audio Collection.

For anyone who is interested, one of these messages, entitled Children and the Dominion Mandate by William Einwechter, is available for free at Sermon Audio. I doubt whether it is the exact same recording, but it is probably the same basic message.

Click here to go to Children and the Dominion Mandate by William Einwechter at Sermon Audio.

An Imminent (Any Moment) Return?

Dispensationalism
Articles, Sermons and Other Writings

• An Imminent (Any Moment) Return?
  Jonathan Bunnett
  

"...the apostles never taught that Christ could come back at any moment with no prophesied events occurring first! They could not have done so....

It was a well known fact among the early church that Peter would grow old and be crucified! Therefore, they also knew that Jesus could not come back “at any moment” before this took place.

Consider the implications of this fact. It seems to be commonly agreed that Peter died sometime around 64 AD under the persecution of Nero, after most of the New Testament was already written! (67 AD according to Charles Ryrie, a leading Dispensationalist, in his Introduction to 2nd Peter in the Ryrie Study Bible).

Paul’s last letter (2nd Timothy) was written about the same time Peter was put to death. (Ryrie dates the writing of 2 Timothy a year before Peter’s martyrdom). Think about that for a moment; Paul knew that Peter would grow old and be crucified and Paul most likely wrote all of his books before peter died, Paul, therefore, could not have taught anyone that Christ’s return could occur at any moment in any of his writings!

Neither could Peter have taught such a view of the “any moment” return of Christ for he knew that he would be dead before Christ would return. In fact, it is commonly agreed that all of the New Testament, except for maybe John’s letters, were written before 65 AD and yet these are the very letters that are used to support the teaching of an any moment return!..."

Take 'Homophobic' Countries to Court

European Parliament Passes Resolution Vowing to Take 'Homophobic' Countries to Court

"In a disgraceful debate in the European Parliament (EP) yesterday, Members of the European Parliament from France, the Netherlands and Italy, among others, vilified Poland as "hateful" and "repulsive" for refusing to allow promotion of homosexuality in schools."


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The Legitimacy And Use Of Confessions

Creeds and Confessions
Audio Links

1. The Legitimacy And Use Of Confessions
   Robert P. Martin

Total Depravity: The Plight of Man and the Power of God

Doctrines of Grace (Calvinism)
Audio Links

1. Total Depravity: The Plight of Man and the Power of God
   Geoffrey Thomas

Virginia Tech Tragedy is a Wake-Up Call to Parents

An interesting article by George Barna. In The Barna Group

• "Education, both in the home and outside of it, provides diminishing emphasis upon the development of character, and increasing emphasis upon meeting academic performance standards, especially through standardized testing."

• "Most young people admit that they feel as if they do not receive sufficient attention from their parents; do not have enough good friends whom they can count on; are unsettled about their own future; have personal spiritual perspectives but not much of a sense of spiritual community; lack role models; and do not feel that they have intrinsic value."

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Adultery and the founda­tions of society

A word on marriage, pledges, vows, law and adultery from T.R. Ingram as quoted in
The Institutes of Biblical Law By: Rousas J. Rushdoony

"Public witness to mutual consent and pledges of troth: these are the things that make a marriage.

The integrity of the whole moral argument of the Ten Command­ments begins to stand out even more clearly in this. The mystery of making and keeping a pledge of loyalty, a promise, to God, to a spouse; the taking of the name of God in a solemn oath: these are the things upon which the moral law is built. These are the founda­tions of society. These are the things that are kept alive and in force by the inflicting of penalties for breaking them. Promises, vows, pledges, loyalties all vanish if they are broken with impunity. Society turns on keeping pledges and punishing violations. Credit is an extension of the principle into the business world. The con­tract is established by a spoken word, and is no better than that word. The bond of loyalty or the effect of a pledge lies in what we might call the spirit world: it has no shape or weight or size; it cannot be touched, seen, or heard. But it controls human life.

What an adulterer really does is to break a particular solemn vow. By his act he tramples upon marriage itself, mocks God and so­ciety, and figuratively tosses that particular promise into the trash can, making it of no value."

I don’t nose the answer

It was getting late and the kids were getting ready to go to bed. I had read about Noah’s Ark and was explaining the anger of God toward sin and sinners as seen in the violent destruction of the world by water. I had also discussed the kindness and grace of God in providing a way of salvation from His wrath and had related the whole story to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ in order to save sinners like us.

My youngest daughter, looking very seriously at me said:

“Papa”

“Yes dear” I replied

“Did Noah have a nose?”

“Yes he did” I replied confidently. “Right on his face.”

“Papa” she said again very seriously

“Yes dear”

“Did him pick it?”

“uhhhh…………..” I replied

“I think him did” she said at last with a great deal of confidence.

How do you answer a question like that?
(Yes, this is the same daughter with the Skittle problem)

Up the nose it goes...

One in 30 aborted babies is born alive

One in 30 babies aborted because of severe handicaps survives, according to a new study in Great Britain.

The aborted babies who were born alive died after an average of 80 minutes, but some lived for more than six hours, reported the Evening Standard, a British newspaper.

Click here to read more, if you can stomach it.

Cattus Petasatus

I love Latin! And Dr. Seuss is pretty good too. Some great mind has now brought these two things together and here it is-

Cattus Petasatus: The Cat in the Hat in Latin
By Dr. Seuss / Bolchazy-carducci Publishers

And if that is not enough, they have also done Virent Ova! Viret Perna! (Green Eggs and Ham or literally Green Eggs! Green Ham!)

Virent Ova! Viret Perna! Green Eggs and Ham in Latin
By Dr. Seuss / Bolchazy-carducci Publishers

What library would be complete without these!

Some awesome advice from an old dead guy

Now these are some words to live by!

"Oh, take heed of standing out and wrangling against what is required because you do not have expressed words. The Lord has laid things so, and especially in the New Testament, for the ordering of the church in the New Testament. You do not have expressed commands for an abundance of things, but sometimes you have an example in some things, and not always a clear example, either. But compare one thing with another, and that which seems to be nearest the mind of God should be enough of a bond to tie us to go according to what the mind of God seems most probably to be in the Scripture. A humble heart will soon be convinced when another man is not."

From -Gospel Worship By Jeremiah Burroughs

Civil War

This afternoon we went to a Civil War reenactment at the Mahaffie Stagecoach House in Olathe Kansas. This was the first time I had ever seen such a thing in person and it was very impressive! What a horrible and awe filled thing it would have been to have fought in such a war.

Several times we were almost entirely engulfed in smoke from the cannon fire.

More on the Civil War at Pol'-e-store

Why don't any of our Tulips have any leaves?

Post Tenebras Lux

The Church at large seems to have no vision to communicate to its members because it has no vision. "Converts" get excited for a moment over something new but as a little time passes by they cool off, stagnate and often drift away.

But while the Church at large languishes in its present tense conformity to the culture around it, God is raising up a multitude of little Churches with big vision that are planting the seeds of a bright and godly future.

How Churches Destroy Families and What Some Parents Are Doing About It
Generations Radio
Kevin Swanson

Supreme Court Upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act

Personally I cannot fathom that there is any debate whatsoever about such a gruesome act of violence. But on the other hand we are dealing with unregenerate man and “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9) I think that we often underestimate the sickness of the human heart.

Just think about it; each little life that is aborted is an image of God that is despised and literally thrown away in the trash. That is what the sinful world thinks about its Creator.

But brethren, why are we surprised? We the Church are the salt (a preservative) and light (a guide) to the unbelieving world. Maybe if they saw us actually want and desire children instead of trying to prevent them it would cause them to think twice about the life that they are throwing away.

Maybe if they saw us tangibly loving and desiring the image of God as it is found in the new life of little children, maybe then they would take our claim to love God more seriously.

If we Christians are busy trying to prevent more images of God, why would we expect the world to value them? What kind of light are we?

• Pro-life: A Misnomer?
  Jonathan Bunnett

On the Horror at Virginia Tech, Doug's Blog

"....The modern trend towards school killings must be considered in terms of the hopelessness and evil which is being communicated to the children of this generation through the music culture, the entertainment culture, the sexual culture, and the intellectual culture of evolution and meaninglessness — all of which converge in the modern schools. Our children are being taught the Gospel of evolution and man. It is a religious faith that ultimately teaches that transcendent truth does not exist; life is meaningless, being the product of chance. Why are we surprised when the present generation acts upon the logical implications of this false gospel? If we do not see the connection between this false faith and the culture of death, we are blind bats, or willingly ignorant. The answer for us as a people is repentance and restitution, which begins by turning from our sins and reclaiming the ancient paths of the Lord wherein there is hope...."

From Doug's Blog Click here to read more

BURDEN BEARING

"Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee" (Psa 55:22).

"What a remarkable statement is that! Probably our very familiarity with it has prevented any sense of wonderment over it. Try and conceive what would be its first effect upon a converted heathen! He has been brought to a saving knowl­edge of the living God and granted a measure of light on His august Being and Majesty. He has learned that by His mere fiat, the universe was called into exis­tence: That so infinitely is He exalted above all creatures, the nations of the earth are regarded by Him as but a drop in the bucket; that He sits enthroned on High, where myriads of creatures bow before Him in worship crying, "Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts" (Isa 6:3). And now he learns that this King of kings and Lord of lords invites him to "Cast thy burden upon the LORD" (Psa 55:22)! Must not such a discovery be overwhelming to his mind and heart! And ought it not to have the same effect on us?—that He who "humbleth himself to [even] behold the things that are in heaven" (Psa 113:6) deigns to bid us lay upon HIM what we find too heavy to carry."

From A.W. Pinks Studies in the Scriptures

New 4/16/07 Christian Manhood

Fatherhood/Manhood/Patriarchy
Audio Links

• Christian Manhood
  Pastor Jeff Pollard

Jehovah's Witnesses
Audio Links

• Witnessing To Jehovah's Witnesses
  Rev. Ian Goligher
  

Breaking the monopoly influence of mothers

"Kindergarten was created to be, and was quietly celebrated as, a gentle way to break the monopoly influence of mothers on their own children."


John Taylor Gatto in the Foreword to
Government Nannies: The Cradle-to-Grave Agenda of Goals 2000 & Outcome Based Education
By Cathy Duffy / Noble Publishing

The continuing saga of Jose the anti-Christ.

Central American nations ban Antichrist

"Three Central American governments have banned a man claiming to be the Antichrist from entering their countries, outraged by his inflammatory preaching against the Catholic church and organised religion."

I guess he should have stayed Jesus.

It’s Jesus! No, it’s the Anti-Christ! No, it’s…Jose?

A nursery rhyme

Can you name this nursery rhyme?

"A Lilliputian female who was an unmarried Homo sapiens seedling decided to moor herself on a bit of volcanic detritus in order to gor­mandize on casein and other forms of coagulation. The next cognitive realization she had was when an arachnid arbitrarily decided to settle on the same volcanic detritus, resulting in her terrorized withdrawal."

From one of my kids books entitled Tricky Mindtrap Puzzles

Global Warming

I wonder what Al Gore is thinking right now?

Violence against Parents...

Violence against Parents an 'alarming trend'

Many times the victims are bruised in a fight or shoved down stairs. Others are stabbed with scissors. Last November, one was beaten to death with a hammer.

And the suspects, in more than 1,800 cases documented in Harris County over a recent 2½-year period, were their children.

The rest of the article at chron.com

Running for President.

"When I was a boy I was told that any­body could become President; I'm begin­ning to believe it."

Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)

New 4/13/07 Witnessing to Mormons

Mormonism

Audio Links

• Witnessing to Mormons Plus a Testimony by Converted Mormons
  Rev. Ian Goligher

Mormonism

Mormonism
Articles, Sermons and Other Writings

• Min is Not God!
  This online tract exposes the true origins of images found in "The Book of Abraham" (part of the LDS scriptures). Joseph Smith Jr. claimed that he was able to translate the Egyptian from the artifacts discovered among 4 mummies that he bought in 1835 from a traveling showman. This tract exposes how Smith's claims are now conclusively proven false.
  James White

• Temples Made With Hands
  Answering the LDS View of Temple Building.
  (An Electronic Tract)
  James White

• The Empty Hand of Faith
  An Electronic Tract Dealing with the Nature of Saving Faith
  James White

• I Testify To You....
  Online Tract Introducing the Differences Between Christianity and Mormonism.
  James White

• Does Mormonism Teach that God theFather Physically Begat the Son?
  James White

• Why Do You Do This?
  An Online Tract Answering the Question, "Why Do You Evangelize Mormons?"
  James White

• A Brief Description of the Trinity
  Mormons often misunderstand this vital Christian doctrine.
  James White

• The Evolution of Mormon Theology
  James White

• The Infinite Savior
  Jonathan Bunnett
  

A Jehovahs Witnesses Testimony

Jehovah's Witnesses
Audio Links

• A Jehovahs Witnesses Testimony - From Methodist to Jehovahs Witnesses to Christ as My God
  Matt Haney

Hard Luck Ronald

Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses

Articles, Sermons and Other Writings

• The Infinite Savior
  Jonathan Bunnett
• Discussion with a Jehovah's Witness on John 15
  James White
• A Response to Jehovah's Witness Apologists on John 17:5.
  Colin Smith
• A Brief Description of the Trinity
  James White
  
• Purpose and Meaning of "Ego Eimi" in the Gospel of John
  James White
  
• Germans, JWs, and John 1:1
  James White
  
• Granville Sharp's Rule: Titus 2:13, 2 Peter 1:1
  James White
  
• John 1:1 - Meaning and Translation.
  James White
  
• Historical Dishonesty and the Watchtower Society:
  Ignatius and the Deity of Christ.
  James White
  
• The Deity of Christ Teaching Outline
  James White
  
• Various False Prophecies of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
  James White
• John 15, the Vine and the Branches
  an Example of Cultic Misinterpretation
  James White
  
• Not By Works at All!
  James White
  
• The 1914 Chronology
  James White

Jujucheesi?

The kids and I playing an experimental new versi0n of Parcheesi with Jujubees.
The object of the game: Eat your opponents.

A Case Against Sunday School Part 6

• A Case Against Sunday School As It Is Commonly Practiced -Part 6 Jurisdiction
  Jonathan Bunnett

William O. Einwechter gave a very good message concerning this same subject entitled:
A Covenantal Perspective on the Jurisdictions of the Family & Local Church which can be found at Sermon Audio
Download MP3

Like Father Like Son

After watching dad mess around with the blog for awhile, Michael, my 8 year old son, thought he would like to give it a try. So here it is Michaels Amusing Musings

New 4/8/07 Antidote to Sexual Impurity

Sexual Sin
Audio Links

1. The Divine Antidote to Sexual Impurity #1
   Albert N. Martin
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2. The Divine Antidote to Sexual Impurity #2
   Albert N. Martin
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3. The Divine Antidote to Sexual Impurity #3
   Albert N. Martin
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4. The Divine Antidote to Sexual Impurity #4
   Albert N. Martin
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5. The Divine Antidote to Sexual Impurity #5
   Albert N. Martin
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6. The Divine Antidote to Sexual Impurity #6
   Albert N. Martin
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More by A.W. Pink

• Pol'-e-store

• Pink, A.W.

April Book of the Month

April Book of the Month

Sovereignty of God
By A.W. Pink / Banner Of Truth

This is an excellent little book dealing with a very important and weighty subject. This quote from the book says it all:

"How different is the God of the Bible from the God of modern Christendom! The conception of Deity which pre­vails most widely today, even among those who profess to give heed to the Scriptures, is a miserable caricature, a pathetic travesty of the Truth. The God of the twentieth century is a helpless, effeminate being who commands the respect of no really thoughtful man. The God of the popular mind is the creation of a maudlin sentimentality. The God of many a present-day pulpit is an object of pity rather than an awe-inspiring reverence."

From The Back of the Book

"Present day conditions," writes the author, "call loudly for a new examination and new presentation of God's omnipotence, God's sufficiency, God's sovereignty. From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, that God still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed and sufficient resting-place for the heart and mind but in the throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God."


Some Quotes From The Book

"Almost all doctrinal error is, really, Truth perverted, Truth wrongly divided, Truth disproportionately held and taught. The fairest face on earth, with the most comely fea­tures, would soon become ugly and unsightly, if one member continued growing while the others remained undeveloped. Beauty is, primarily, a matter of proportion. Thus it is with the Word of God: its beauty and blessedness are best per­ceived when its manifold wisdom is exhibited in its true proportions"


"Here then is the refutation of the wicked charge that this doctrine is a horrible calumny upon God and dangerous to expound to His people. Can a doctrine be "horrible" and "dangerous" that gives God His true place, that maintains His rights, that magnifies His grace, that ascribes all glory to Him and removes every ground of boasting from the creature? Can a doctrine be "horrible" and "dangerous" which affords the saints a sense of security in danger, that supplies them comfort in sorrow, that begets patience within them in adversity, that evokes from them praise at all times? Can a doctrine be "horrible" and "dangerous" which assures us of the certain triumph of good over evil, and which provides a sure resting-place for our hearts, and that place, the perfections of the Sovereign Himself? No; a thousand times, no. Instead of being "horrible and dangerous" this doctrine of the Sovereignty of God is glorious and edifying, and a due apprehension of it will but serve to make us exclaim with Moses, "Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" (Ex. 15:11)."


"Instead of hindering the development of Christian character, a proper apprehension and appreciation of God’s sovereignty will forward it. Just as the sinner’s despair of any help from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer’s growth in grace; and just as the sinner despairing of help from himself will cast him into the arms of sovereign mercy, so the Christian, conscious of his own frailty, will turn unto the Lord for power. It is when we are weak, we are strong (2 Cor. 12:10): that is to say, there must be consciousness of our weakness before we shall turn to the Lord for help."


The Sovereignty of God - Audio book on CD

The Sovereignty of God - Audio book on MP3 CD-ROM

The Sovereignty of God - Audiobook on Cassette

Miss Alyss

While helping my youngest son set up a blog and put some pictures on it the other day, I ran across this picture of our three year old daughter playing a dress up game at a church gathering. Isn’t she cute?

What a mercy it is!

Some Good Quotes
Prayer

"What a mercy it is that we are not banished out of God's presence, that the Lord has not spurned us out of His sight as filth and cast us out as an everlasting abhorring. While others have been praying, we might have been yelling under the wrath of the eternal God.Come with this apprehension of yourself, and adore God's goodness that you are alive to pray and alive to hear God's Word, and that it is not only a duty, but a rich privilege and mercy that God will admit you into His presence."

-Gospel Worship By Jeremiah Burroughs

A Case Against Sunday School Part 5

A Case Against Sunday School Part 5
Discipline, Youth Culture and Generational Isolation
Jonathan Bunnett

Pearls from Pink

Pearls from Pink

A good quote from A.W. pink concerning the family posted on Doug Phillips blog.
Pink ends with these words:

"Therefore the present decay of home life and family discipline threaten the stability of our nation today far more severely than does any foreign hostility."

There's some food for thought!

New 4/3/07 A Case Against Sunday School As It Is Commonly Practiced -Part 4

Sunday School/ Youth Groups
Articles, Sermons and Other Writings

• A Case Against Sunday School As It Is Commonly Practiced -Part 4 Time, Time, Time and Family Dismemberment
  Jonathan Bunnett