You can’t love Jesus without “do-ing” and “don’t-ing.” It is a demonstration of love when we do the do’s and don’t the don’ts.
– Pastor Sandy EdgarIf ye love me, keep my commandments.
– Jesus, John 14:15
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Murdering Our Own Children
Romans 1:31
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Yesterday, two women, Liam’s mother and her “partner,” were charged with murdering two-year-old Liam Fee in Thornton in March.
A week ago, Madison Horne’s mother’s male “partner” (not Madison’s father) appeared in the dock for two-year-old Madison’s murder in Kelty in April.
One month ago, Mikaeel Kular’s mother, Rosdeep Adekoya, admitted to killing her three-year-old son in Edinburgh and hiding his body in Kirkcaldy. Mrs Adekoya fell pregnant with Mikaeel while having an affair with a man from Leven who had a long-term partner. Neither her husband nor Mikaeel’s father were living with her when she killed her son.
These are our neighbours, our communities. Fife Council presides over a culture that produces child murderers and looks afar to pass moral judgments on foreign lands. We debate whether we’ll have more money in our pockets if a referendum passes next month, as if that is what really matters. Separate or not, if there is not national repentance, Scotland will suffer judgment. We’ve destroyed any real concept of the family, and we’ve killed our own children in the womb for years. Now we’re killing them after birth, too.
May God have mercy.
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Tagged child murder, independence, Liam Fee, Madison Horne, Mikaeel Kular, Scotland
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Richard Dawkins’ Monstrous Ideas
Richard Dawkins, on aborting a Down’s Syndrome baby — “it would be immoral to bring it into the world.” (I’ll not give him a link.) Then, he played the victim — “Apparently I’m a horrid monster for recommending WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS to the great majority of Down Syndrome fetuses. They are aborted.”
Oh, he is right that his words reflect the depravity of our society. But nothing will change the fact that he’s come right out and said it would be immoral not to abort a Down’s Syndrome baby.
How repulsive do a person’s statements have to become before people stop giving him a forum to spread his perverse rantings? We talk about protecting vulnerable people, emphasise the Special Olympics, etc, but we treat the source of such monstrous statements as a celebrity, instead of a pariah. Dawkins will, no doubt, appear on television sets soon and be treated as if his ideas deserve serious consideration — but his ideas are abominable.
Hopefully this ends the folly of Christians debating this man. No Christian should take part in giving him a public forum. He does not need a hearing. His arguments need no answer other than to point people to where his philosophy leads. If anyone can’t see that his views are morally bankrupt, no argument you make is likely to help them.
The Next Person….
Remember, the next person you speak to could be dead tomorrow.
– My friend, Alex Rollo, in his diary after the death of his brotherThree from Paul the apostle as directed by the Holy Spirit:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
– Ephesians 6:18-19I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
– Romans 1:14-15Col 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
Col 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
– Colossians 4:5-6
Shebna’s Tomb — “The Lord Will Carry Thee Away”
The Bible in the British Museum
In an earlier article, I looked at the Tomb of the Royal Steward in Silwan, just across the Kidron Valley from the ancient city of David in Jerusalem. (If you missed that article, this one builds on it significantly so you may want to read it first.) In this article, I’d like to focus less on the artefact itself, and more on the Biblical context of Isaiah 22, which almost certainly refers to this exact tomb.
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Tagged Ahab, Isaiah 22, Lachish, Royal Steward, Shebna, Tomb
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A Flag Over Glenrothes
Last Friday, a Gaza ceasefire ended. Israel offered to extend it, but Hamas said they would accept no ceasefire until some of their war aims were met. Even before the agreed end of the ceasefire, the BBC reported that Hamas missiles were already flying. The negotiations stopped, the violence started.
While politicians around the world declared that the solution was talks, not killing, Hamas took actions against Israeli civilians that anyone knew would expose Palestinian civilians to hostile fire again. And later, here in Glenrothes, Scotland, in the very centre of town, a flag was raised over Fife Council Headquarters — the Palestinian flag.
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Tagged Anti-Semitism, Fife Council, Israel, Palestine, persecution
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The Entertainment Industry Claims Another Victim
Proverbs 14:9
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
Tragically, the entertainment culture’s folly, corruption, and emptiness reaps a grim harvest, of those who follow it and of those who “profit” by it. Yet another life is lost to substance abuse, depression, and suicide. Robin Williams, like almost everyone else in the industry, sometimes “made a mock at sin,” including in one movie where he made the now-poignant statement:
Death is not the enemy, gentlemen.
But death is an enemy, and everyone knows it, or none would grieve. As the Scripture says, “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
The world mourns, over and over again, in private grief for relatively unknown loved ones, in public grief for the victims of wars and conflicts, in anguished confusion at the addictions and eventually fatal unhappiness of people like Whitney Houston and Peaches Geldof and Robin Williams who seemed to have it all. Christians weep with those who weep, but we do not despair, for we know another day is coming for those who are Christ’s:
Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
See also: Weeping for Whitney
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Tagged addiction, depression, entertainment industry, Robin Williams
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