January 2016

Over more than two decades, when I've read or preached Psalm 73 I've not been able to get Donald Trump out of my head. It's as if the Psalmist knew and envied The Donald:

For I was envious of the arrogant As I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no pains in their death, And their body is fat. They are not in trouble as other men, Nor are they plagued like mankind. Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them. Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart run riot. They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high. They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue parades through the earth. (Psalms 73:3-9)

Mr. Tump is as public as he can be with his wickedness. Pride is his necklace and his tongue parades through the earth. His words to and about Megyn Kelly are maybe the most repulsive example of the betrayal of manhood I've ever read...

This year we hope women will attend our February 17-19, 2016 conference, The Enemy Within: Sexual Abuse in the Church. Previous years we called this conference a "Pastors Conference" or "Church Officers Conference," and only men attended—men who are officers and men who aspire to holding office in the Church.

This year, though, our subject demands the most intense work and wisdom on the part of pastors, elders, and deacons, and that work cannot be done and that wisdom cannot be gained without the help of wise women of the church, including officers' wives. So we've opened up registration, not just to the wives of pastors, elders, and deacons, but also to women, single or married, who obey the command of God given in Titus 2:3-5, to serve the church by "teaching what is good."

My wife Mary Lee and I will be talking about the necessity and helpfulness of church officers working with Titus 2 women in the protection of children of the church. If elders and pastors don't have...

Forty-three years ago, on January 22, 1973, the laws of forty-six states prohibiting the murder of unborn children were declared unconstitutional by the wicked and cruel justices then sitting on the Supreme Court of these United States. Their decision, Roe v. Wade, was conniving and deceitful, rendering them the laughingstock of the legal profession. We would have to go back to the Court's Dred Scott decision to find an opinion as naked in its ambition to promote injustice and oppression.

Once again this year in its Obergefell v. Rhodes decision, the Supreme Court has shown itself vigilant in its promotion of wickedness, this time not so much the wickedness of bloodshed (although there is that, also, in Obergefell). Rather, our Supreme Court is now vigilant in its promotion of the wickedness of the sexual perversions of homosexuality and effeminacy which God explicitly warned all men against when he burned up Sodom and Gomorrah so notoriously. The justices of the Supreme Court know very well that, because of the slaughter of the unborn and the effeminacy and androgyny they have promoted across our culture, they will be judged by God. They will not escape the bar of God.

Mourning the loss through surgical abortion of at least 60,000,000 helpless babies across our nation since 1973, here is a memorial for them in the form of a sermon preached publicly to the civil magistrates working in Indiana's State House...

Thought some would get a kick out of this e-mail I got today. And yes, Mary Lee and I have roses and love them. My mother taught us.

On December 10, 2015, one month ago, the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews released a statement on the relationship of Roman Catholicism and Judaism titled, The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable (Romans 11:29): A Reflection on Theological Questions Pertaining to Catholic-Jewish Relations on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of "Nostra Aetate" (No. 4).

What is this document whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated?

Nostra Aetate is a statement on interreligious relations which came out of Roman Catholicism's most recent ecumenical council, Vatican II. Nostra Aetate is most notable for laying a groundwork for the Vatican's recent and growing repudiation of evangelism of the Jews. Nostra Aetate exhibits the typical post-Holocaust pandering to the Jews in its declarations that "what happened in [Christ's] passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today."

Tell that to the Apostles preaching in the book of Acts.

Nostra Aetate also declares: "the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God." Also, "the Church believes that by His cross Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jews and Gentiles. making both one in Himself."

Since Nostra Aetate, the Vatican has been undercutting the Church's historic call to Jews to repent of their part in the persecution and murder of their Messiah, and to turn and believe in His Name. Historically, the Christian Church has patterned our witness to the Jews after the Apostolic sermons preached to the Jews which are recorded for us in Acts. Take, for instance, this record of the sermon preached by the Apostle Peter...