June 2012

The 2012 Clearnote Fellowship Summer Conference is just around the corner! We're very excited about it, and we're looking forward to seeing old friends and making some new ones.

If you haven't registered yet, here is what you need to know: The conference is on July 6th and 7th, and you can still register online. Regular registration ends July 1st, so if you plan on joining us, you can still save money by registering today. 

There are two exciting changes from previous years that I'd like to highlight:

You know, wherever the apostle Paul went, there was a revival or riot. Everywhere I go, they serve tea. - an Anglican cleric

What happens when you attack an idol?

On Friday, April 13th, the college ministry of Clearnote Church sponsored a lecture series on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University called Sexual by Design. Indiana University is a notorious party school in one of the most gay-friendly towns in America. It's also the home of Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

So we invited Pastor Doug Wilson to Bloomington to address God's design for sexuality on campus. We wanted him to join us in our attack on the idols of our community and to aid us in the work of seeing souls saved from eternal destruction. As you can see from the sneak peeks above, chaos ensued.

Doug spoke to a hostile crowd of 350-400 people...

And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. (Romans 11:23)

Yes yes, I know speaking in generalities about Jews today leads to the "anti-Semitic" smear. But hey, life is short and there are all kinds of truths just waiting to be let out of the closet...

USA Today ran a profile of James Levine and Roman Polanski's fellow traveller, Woody Allen, last week, and I noted this:

Does he worry that his films won't be remembered? "I don't care about my work lasting. I would like to last. They can turn my movies into guitar picks. Nothing lasts. Nothing at all. Not even the sun."

Given such disturbing insights, it is hard to know whether all those years Allen spent in therapy paid off--or just made his existential despair into fodder for future features. (USA Today; June 19, 2012)

Make no mistake: the existential despair of Christless Jews is the fodder of our entertainment...

Those who spend their lives studying the brain are having to admit what nurses and pastors and loved ones have known for some time about the comatose and those said to be in a persistent vegetative state: be careful what you say because they hear and understand you!

Brain scans are showing that a number of those starved and dehydrated to death in hospitals across our nation today were thinking and responding to external stimuli in their minds as normal people do, but without the ability to move their bodies or communicate those responses. These souls hear and understand what you say to them, but they're powerless to demonstrate responsiveness. Thus foolish and cruel men claim these souls' lives are worthless and they murder them. This is why and how Terry Schiavo was murdered: the courts starved her to death.

But now neuroscientists and brain scans are showing us that a number of these men and women are perfectly responsive--as long as you know how to listen to them...

In an earlier post I noted that "gay men rape little boys." To which a reader responded:

I have no doubt that there is truth to this. But don't straight men also rape little boys, and not all gay men rape little boys? Of course, any child rape whether done by a gay or straight man to a little boy or girl is an abomination from the pit of hell and grievous sin.

But I'm wondering what evidence exists that gay men rape boys at a higher rate than straight men do?

To which I respond:

First, there are no straight men raping little boys. "Straight" means naturally ordered sexuality where the object of desire is the opposite sex. To rape young minors of one's own sex is the opposite of "straight." Romans 1 declares sodomy to be against nature which is the opposite of straight. It's true some gay men are married and have had children by their wives, but this doesn't make them straight.

Second, if what we're looking for is evidence from so-called "social science" for gay men having a propensity toward the rape of young boys (pederasty), I could provide some, but it wouldn't matter. Social science is not science, really. Or I should say science is not objective, really--particularly the "social sciences." Social scientists are like preachers: churches hire pastors who tell us what our itching ears want to hear and society hires experts who tell it what it wants to hear. Society wants to hear that sodomy is normal...