I love this hymn! I’ve always loved it: This Is My Father’s World, an old Sunday school favorite, performed here by the students at Fountainview Academy.
We shouldn’t take the beauties of this world for granted. They are God’s conscious work, and He shares it with us.
Our friend “thewhiterabbit” has warned us to keep an eye on this year’s Southern Baptist Convention meeting, and urged us to pray for the delegates, that they will speak truth and do right.
The annual meeting starts on June 15 in Nashville, and among the major issues to be dealt with is “Critical Race Theory”–an academic euphemism for the “teaching” that all white people are born guilty of racism, etc. Believe it or not, there are those among the SBC who want the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to embrace this evil claptrap (https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-religion-baptist-8913f904e9ed98c05279e0f0623c933e).
[Note the flagrant dishonesty of the Associated Press. Their description of CRT as “an academic approach to understanding systemic racism” slides “systemic racism” under the door, unexamined, unquestioned–while at the same time soft-peddaling CRT as something other than the hatful of hatred that it is.]
There can only be three possible outcomes–four, if you want to count lapsing into irresolute confusion. One, the SBC rejects this racist ideology. Two, the delegates all go mad and they sign on to CRT. Three, the SBC ruptures along largely racial lines.
Now… why would anybody countenance “teaching” children or adults to hate themselves, hate and fear each other, hate their families, hate their country, and hate their God? Why are we even discussing such an abomination as Critical Race Theory?
Because leftids want to gain power by manipulating Americans against each other–and the more chaos, fear, crime, and violence it brews, the better it serves their purpose.
We must not let them do this to us!
By all means, do whatever is just and feasible to mollify and appease the SBC’s black congregations. The church is, after all, a brotherhood–or at least is meant to be. But those measures must stop short of giving any kind of approval whatsoever to CRT.
All have sinned: the Christian faith admits this. But all sins are washed away by Jesus Christ. CRT is in stark contradiction to the whole New Testament. And why that should take the SBC more than ten seconds to realize, I don’t understand.
Our country’s founders tried to make sure there would be no martyrdoms here. So far, so good.
But the state is viscious.
Once upon a time Rome demanded that the whole world worship her emperor as a god. This was very inclusive. In fact, if you weren’t included, they would kill you.
North Korea, Iran, China–lethal persecution occurs today, and the blood of martyrs cries to God.
Be assured He hears (Revelation 6: 9-11).
This may sound strange coming from some guy who reads The Dumbest Generation and thinks the colleges should be defunded, but I mean it–
We need more teenagers on this blog! Yes, I said more teenagers. No, I haven’t lost my mind.
We need your energy, your enthusiasm, your high spirits. We have a lot to teach–but what good’s that, if there’s no one around to teach it to? We need the way you come up with crazy ideas that turn out not to be so crazy, after all.
We need your fellowship, your humor, and your sense of fun.
Most of all, we need you to enter into our labors with us and carry on the work of proclaiming God’s word and trying to keep our country from going off the deep end. We aren’t going to be here forever. We’ll need you to take over for us.
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a pastor? Our friend SlimJim shares his weekend schedule:
Busy Ministry 1st Weekend of June 2021 and thoughts on 2 Timothy 3:16
“Busy Ministry” is right! This pastor’s schedule makes me think of my mother’s old pastor, who came to her house to console us on the death of my father… and fell asleep in the chair. Really, he couldn’t help it! He’d been a pastor for a very long time.
Anyway, it’s not all standing at the pulpit, preaching. I wonder how many of us even suspect how hard our pastors work.
We really ought to show our appreciation.