March 2012

The brave members of the Escondido Theology R2K Sanhedrin out at Westminster Seminary (Escondido) wage war against pastors and elders who warn their flocks and neighbors about the growing bloodshed and totalitarianism of these United States. Old people are regularly murdered, little babies are subject to the wholesale slaughter protected by SCOTUS and all its law enforcement apparatus, these evils will only grow under Obamacare's nationalized healthcare...

Meanwhile the R2K Sanhedrin is desperate to silence all those Reformed voices speaking out against the Third Reichification of nursing homes and hospitals and Ethical Review Committees.

You have, of course, noticed all those Reformed pastors and elders speaking out against the Third Reichification of our hospitals and nursing homes, haven't you? Likely you yourself have a Reformed pastor or session in your own community that regularly pickets your county nursing home. Your hospital. A graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary who writes letters to your state's board of medical ethics...

If you've not read Citizens' Arrest! Citizens' Arrest!, please read it first. Then this. (TB)

Here's a true story showing how important it is for pastors and elders to challenge one another's motives. Our session (elders board) had been working with a schismatic family of our church for years when MTW TE David Wegener came home on home assigment one year.

We have a policy that David is a pastor of our church when he's here. He'd served our congregation before leaving for Zambia and we have never wanted to lose his wisdom and counsel, as well as that of his wife, Terri, when they're in town. So David favors us with his presence when we have session meetings each month and he often gets into the yoke with us on some of our thornier pastoral matters. Terri teaches our women's groups and David preaches in worship and teaches in Clearnote Pastors College as often as he and Terri are not out deputizing at their supporting churches.

So this particular evening we were again discussing the latest schismatic behavior of this family and David had just gotten back in town and was present. He knew the family well, including that they were quite wealthy...

Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh. (Galatians 6:12, 13)

Sin is not what Reformed men do. Everyone knows that. It seems stupid to say it. Reformed men have enough money and class to keep their hands clean. We're scrupulous and the worst we can be accused of is not yet having attained the vocabluary necessary to be proficient at teaching doctors, lawyers, engineers, pharmacists, professors, architects and their husbands in our churches' adult discipleship programs. Maybe occasionally bad doctrine seeps in, but never bad practice and never ever bad motives which led to that bad practice. And don't you ever forget it!

It's not simply David-and-Bathsheba-pregnancy-and-murder public sins which have left the earth on UFOs. We don't even sin privately and we can't remember the last time we had to examine our hearts. All our motives are pure--that one you had better get. Don't ever make the mistake of questioning a Reformed man's motives or you'll pay for it; especially if he's an elder or pastor. "How dare you question my motives! What gives you the right? Who are you to talk? Judge not lest you be judged!"

Then his fellow presbyters chime in...

We shed innocent blood when we withdraw food and water from patients, mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters whose deaths otherwise are neither imminent nor inevitable. And this is true whether or not the patient or loved one is in what's sometimes called a "persistent vegetative state."

The teaching of the Westminster Standards is clear on this as they open up Scripture to us. The Sixth Commandment requires of all men the provision of the basic care necessary for the sustaining of life, and not to give it is to murder a man made in the Image of God.

This matter comes up again and again in pastoral ministry. Most recently it's been in the front of the minds of believers in Houston watching physicians murder the much-loved father and husband, Willie, whose family was helpless as they sought to defend his life against all the medical ghouls determined to murder him.

And they did.

Here then is...

After hammering the Saints coaches and front office with well-deserved penalties for paying bounties to players who injured opponents, then lied about it, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is now set to meet with the Players Association to discuss penalties against players.

Word's out there was an earlier brainstorming session in the Saints MPA (Mothers Players Association) where a new proposal came forward that mothers and players agreed would make the NFL a safe place. Odds are it won't be adopted, but mothers everywhere should rejoice it's even on the table. And it says much about the remorse of the Saints defensive line that they're standing with their mothers in taking the proposal to Commissioner Goodell.

Anyhow, here's a video of the Saints MPA proposal...