Jim Lincoln wrote:
Black evangelicals who are as every bit as Christian as the White ones, q.v., [URL=https://tinyurl.com/283qfr8]]]https://tinyurl.com/283qfr8[/URL] would agree with article below.

[URL=http://tinyurl.com/yju7mpb]]]http://tinyurl.com/yju7mpb (Universal health care tends to cut the abortion rate)[/URL]

Mike wrote:
Someone has said it's Trumpism, not Trump that the people back.

Can't help but notice Steve Bannon and Mr. Gorka, of the team that got him elected, both back Moore.

Trump may be listening to the swamp rats, which wouldn't be a good sign for him.

Dr. Tim wrote:
If Moore does get elected, he will bring something to Washington that the capital hasn't seen in a long time. Do I mean someone who professes to be a Christian? No--nearly every politician does that. If Judge Moore is elected, he will be the first MAN to go to Washington in decades.

Jim Lincoln

My comment:
The imperfect Judge Roy Moore has IMHO taken a courageous, costly, and much maligned and despised public stand for the Truth & Reality of God's existence, sovereignty, justice and righteousness, those gullible to worldly disinformation fail to appreciate.

As a Judge in Alabama, his stand/conviction was that he had to right to acknowledge God publicly by displaying the 10 Commandments of God our Sovereign Creator - The legal maneuverings brought against him avoided this (that issue) like the plague.

Yes! IMHO we are either guilty of all of it and/or so polluted with Pro-Choice and Gospel-less Ecumenical Pro-Life Posturing we Break the heart of God with the false witness that denies Abortion is Murder, is silent on the proclaiming the Gospel before and after to them and all involved in this evil, and the Parents are horrifically guilty of killing a life He Himself has given.

We desperately need to think and act Biblically! We need to earnestly contend for the FAITH once delivered to the saints and let the chips fall where they may, even if this means getting outside of our comfortable Sunday Morning meetings and going into the dark and difficult places with the Gospel of Christ, it is of course the only thing that will save sinners. Please don't ever forget that.

Let me highly recommend:
Overcoming Pro-Choice Arguments
by Pastor Jeff Durbin
because in this he also touches on where Pro-Life advocates have been lacking in Biblical Reasoning

https://endabortionnow.com/

You can also watch him on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhsI-onY_18
is excellent

Adriel wrote:
Sometimes Satan seems to be winning too much!!

Jesus told us that if SALT has Lost its Savor it is good for nothing anymore than to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men

Question: What is the state of our modern churches? Are we so living for Jesus that His Presence among us puts the Fear of God into those who would seek to harm us?

Or are we so pathetic defiled and cowardly in our 'faith' we beg the scorn and open hostility of people who hate Jesus Christ ... so much so evil people have boldness to attack anyone who dares speak up because such people often aren't welcome in our sophisticated intellectual socially acceptable and spiritually dead churches?

Think I'm crazy? Trying going with someone who preaches the Gospel outside and abortion clinic and see the number of people claiming to be Christians, maybe even in ministry who don't want you to do that because it might offend somebody

Frank wrote:
Yes,he could also simply stand against the system as you noted. My only thought was the system is evil and he knew or should have known that when he enlisted. If his purpose was to reform the system, then good for him.
Did you really think that I could possibly mean he shouldn't seek the Lord's guidance in prayer first?
I listened from the 3 minute mark until the 15 minute mark, but my volume was terrible and I couldn't understand most of it.
To the best of my knowledge, I have never used the word reformed on this forum, so your comment is confusing?

Maybe this will help
When I post to someone by name, in this case you, other people also read the post so please don't take my posts as any kind of attack or accusation but more along the line of speaking to you 'generically'

The issue with this chaplain is an involved one. You'd be right to say if he went into chaplaincy with eyes open ... that is one thing. If the military changed the rules on him that is another

Frank wrote:
This fellow should resign his position and take a discharge.

Or maybe he should seek the Lord, make a list of all the "don't' do/say this" lay it before God in prayer and seek the mind and the will of God in it. And if God so wills deliberately walk into the lion's den and preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH3KfGpqlZE
skip ahead to 3:00 if you are short on time
and for the whole story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuHfJpmcX7Y

Or if this isn't Reformed Enough for you

Dr. Tim wrote:
In California as well as in other liberal-dominated areas, political correctness trumps moral rectitude ten times out of ten. And speaking of political correctness, I have noticed that one-dollar, twenty-dollar and one hundred-dollar bills all portray men who were slave owners. Therefore, I am calling on all right-thinking Americans to send me these disgusting monuments to racism so that I can dispose of them properly.

I am choosing my words carefully so here goes:

The first 4 of the 10 Commandments has to do with an individual's relationship with God.
It is NOT in our jurisdiction to sit in judgment over another's conscience that is between them and God
So, we tolerate the religion of others (by the way not any genuine crimes they might commit like murder, theft, rape - God gives us jurisdiction in those matters to protect and defend the innocent and deal appropriately with wrong doers)
AND PREACH the Truth to them of God and of Christ, praying for them, pleading & reasoning with them to Repent and Believe

And while we are to tolerate their worship meetings, clothing, music etc. (again unless criminal - like child & human sacrifice) We must NOT endorse it as valid and certainly not promote it

1517 wrote:
Homosexuality IS the judgment. Romans 1.

Calvinist Satire wrote:
Threat Alert: Atheist threatens

BUT is it appropriate? Does it contribute to the Obedience of Faith? Intercessory Prayer! Seeking AND FINDING of God for what His will is for us in this and these kinds of things? Does it contribute to being strong in the Lord and the Power of His might, to the putting on of the full complete armor of God and standing in the face of men and devils, earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the saints and being victorious in the battle?

One of the greatest battles we face in the all too real and intensifying spiritual war we are in right now is the one over the Righteousness of God's wrath, the Eternal Righteous Justified Punishment of Sin in Hell/the Lake of Fire.

Men who judge God and so wrongly judge God imagine to their own damnation God is far to harsh in His anger over our sins and blind themselves to the Beauty of His forgiveness in the Cross, in the Blood Jesus willingly shed for us, guilty Hell deserving ones like us.

Dr. Tim wrote:
Well, Walter, you answered my question. You have never led anyone to Christ, and with your belligerent attitude, you probably never will. Stop defending yourself, and start earnestly contending for the faith--and learn to contend for it without being contentious! Your zeal is admirable,but sometimes it gives the appearance of zeal without knowledge.

Awhile back my daughter who was living in Georgia attended a church in Chattanooga that wasn't my cup of tea

BUT I had to appreciate the attitude of its young pastor ... just before Christmas one year he broke down while he as preaching and began to weep for the lost people in Chattanooga and call the church, everyone willing and able to come nightly every evening before Christmas to pray for the lost

Walter Kovacs wrote:
Ephesians 2 places the glory at Christ's feet, not ours. We are HIS workmanship, molded by his holy hands, and were predestined before the foundations of the world. So maybe "Hitlery" as some have called her, may be in the fold, awaiting her own acknowledged redemption. Soft pedaling as to not offend the sensabilities of other Christians while steamrolling the unsaved is my contention here. Judgment starts, not ends, with the church. We should remember this truth.

and Jesus continues .....

back to 'the story' IMHO it is highly likely if believers are brought to task by any accurate Rebukes and Reproves this young preacher would make

Walter Kovacs wrote:
Another,
Show me in scripture where I have strayed from truth in my statements. Why does the scripture use imagery such as "sword" "armor of God" . Should the Psalmist of Psalm 10 tone down " break the arm of the enemy" or Christ simmer down with money changers or with his disciples repeatedly. I think the problem is with my non-effeminate way of discourse.

There is locally a zealous, in a figure of speech: everybody but me is wrong, young in the faith, immature, chip on his shoulder preacher who IMHO had gotten off track blaming everything (sins) on demons.

You know he was sort of right: "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

But missed "Do you look at things according to the outward appearance? If anyone is convinced in himself that he is Christ’s, let him again consider this in himself, that just as he is Christ’s, even so we are Christ’s."

Frank wrote:
Well, I don't know of any scripture that says I can't fellowship with a woman; discussing theological issues and exchanging prayer requests.
As an aside, my wife knows I do this and has no objections. Now if she and I were meeting in person outside of my wife's knowledge, then that would be a different issue altogether.
Now, unless you want to discuss "some point" I made in this post, please don't respond, because I can assure you I won't.

Glad to hear you survived the hurricane; Now will you survive the judgment (aka criticism, faultfinding & persecutions) of others professing to be 'righteous' ?

May God bless you with a joyful sense of humor and all the encouragement you need to stand for the Truth of Jesus Christ and be found faithful and fruitful in serving Him.

Mike wrote:
“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.”
AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God

The Seeker Sensitive Church Growth Movement is infamous in its promotion of 'small groups' to employ the ungodly Hegelian dialectic http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/04/3-purpose.htm

in a cunning deception making the "unity" of the group more important than Holiness, the faithful separation from all false teachings and teachers to be fully faithful and pleasing to Jesus Christ, to be in the world and not of the world.

So by the grace of God may we give ourselves to
Romans 12:1,2
Jude 1:1-4

Carl haydock wrote:
Just look at the leaders, women vicars?? The Bible says they can't be.

Eric Ludy, in his imperfect but very good read "The Bravehearted Gospel" brings the case that the manly stuff of Christianity has been castrated out of modern day churches and we need to repent and recover the faith that 'turns the world upside down' and in my words here, gives Jesus Christ the honor, the glory, love, trust, obedience, the immeasurable worth He is so rightfully deserving of.

Hint: This kind of faith will be a mighty praying faith, asking God for the things worthy of His man ... absolutely impossible for men to accomplish

And this kind of courageous unashamed Truth-loving Bible-loving faith will be a Gospel Preaching Faith that makes one a friend of sinners and refuses to let them go into the eternal hell unloved, unprayed for, and untold of the Only Name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved.