Evil Pope

“I would like to remind those people that ‘backwardism’ is useless, and we need to understand that there is an appropriate evolution in the understanding of matters of faith and morals,” the pope said.

“Our understanding of the human person changes with time, and our consciousness also deepens,” he stated. “The other sciences and their evolution also help the Church in this growth in understanding.”-Breitbart

He’s pure evil.

BF

“Sell not…liberty to purchase power.”

Judas-kiss

The man who with pretences, enters the fold, being nought but a wolf in sheep’s clothing, worries the flock more than the lion outside. There is no weapon half so deadly as a Judas-kiss. Inconsistent professors injure the gospel more than the sneering critic or the infidel.-CHS

Hate and Celebrate

If there’s anything this culture hates, it’s someone insisting we live according to God’s biblical design.

If there’s anything this culture celebrates, it’s someone living in rebellion to God’s biblical design.-TB

The Call, The Cost

You are not Billy Graham.
You are not John Piper.
You are not Al Mohler.

You will struggle to find a church.
The church will have 75 people.
It will be away from your family.

Legacy families will control the church.
You can listen in on the committees.
Their traditions cannot be broken.

You will spend half your week on sermon prep.
People will forget everything by next week.
They will remember the joke you told.

Your children will be taught heresy.
They will be the only kids there.
They will be strictly judged.

You cannot complain about your finances.
Nobody cares about your degrees.
You cannot afford a place to live.

Your wife will envy your time with church members.
You will feel guilty about neglecting your family.
You will think you’re neglecting your flock.

You will fall in love with some people.
Your closest friends will die.
The others will leave.

Count the cost before you answer the call to ministry.
If you think I’m overstating my case, I’m not.
If you think you’re the exception, you’re not.
All the above is just the bare minimum.

If you can, find something else to do.
If you can’t, you’re still not called.
But if you are, count the cost.

May 1st

April showers bring May flowers.

“I am the rose of Sharon.”Song of Solomon 2:1

Whatever there may be of beauty in the material world, Jesus Christ possesses all that in the spiritual world in a tenfold degree. Amongst flowers the rose is deemed the sweetest, but Jesus is infinitely more beautiful in the garden of the soul than the rose can be in the gardens of earth. He takes the first place as the fairest among ten thousand. -CHS

Woe is me

Before my conversion, I could sin and feel no compunction, hear of my guilt and yet remain unhumbled, and even confess my iniquity and manifest no inward humiliation on account of it. For a sinner to go to God’s house and pretend to pray to him and praise him argues a brazen-facedness of the worst kind! Alas! since the day of my new birth I have doubted my Lord to his face, murmured unblushingly in his presence, worshipped before him in a slovenly manner, and sinned without bewailing myself concerning it.-CHS

Without Prayer

Backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without. -J.C. Ryle

AW P

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

Thomas Cranmer

 “What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.”