The folks who brought you salt water fishing licenses have now decided they can redefine marriage. Really?
Dean Skelos and his alleged Republican (I refer to alleged Republicans not alleged majority) majority in the New York State Senate have placed the foot of the Empire State firmly on the slippery slope by passing the so-called marriage equality law. Can you say detestable? Maybe abomination is a better word.
As a New Yorker I am saddened, yet not surprised. Our state is quickly heading south (like many of our citizens) led by a governor (Andrew Cuomo) who lives out of wedlock with his girlfriend in "The People's House". Quite the moral compass he.
I am not a hater. I am a Christian who isn't ashamed of the Bible. The Bible is the book I use to guide my life. It's a book inspired by the God who establishes marriage as between one man and one woman in Genesis (please see Adam and Eve) and calls homosexuality, not the homosexual, an abomination. Got a problem with that? Take it up with God.
Is homosexuality the worst sin? No. It is just one sin of many sins that Jesus Christ died to forgive if only the sinner will believe and be baptized.
The Good News is that no matter what goes on around us, God is still God and the Gospel is still the Gospel. Let's not get that sinking feeling like Peter by losing our focus.
Some in the Christian community might argue that this came about because we stood quietly on the sidelines and they might be right. However, this in no way will stop us from bringing the truth to the lost world around us. Shall we speak louder? Yes. Shall we speak more boldly? We should. Let us not be discouraged by the world. After all we cannot expect the world to have the same views as we Christians do.
The world's view can change only when the hearts and minds of those who are lost are transformed by the power of the Gospel which comes from God. God will change those hearts if they truly seek and accept His son Jesus Christ. No other power can do that.
Also, this law in no way legitimizes gay marriage nor does it make it right. It just makes it a law.
So no hate speech here. No name calling. Sadness? Yes. Sadness that those who think they are doing the right thing are really leading people farther away from God.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Psalm 119:It's All About the Word of God!
Wow! Have you ever read something that was life transforming? That impacted you so deeply you had to tell people about it? That happened to me this morning. I read Psalm 119.
I was having just a horrendous start to my day. I had to get out of the house and clear my head and think. So, I took my Bible, got a venti Americano with hazelnut and cream at Starbucks and headed to the marina on Foster Avenue in Sayville. God's word, coffee and water. That's the combination I needed to get me back on track. I was soon to realize, though, that it is God's word that would clear my mind and focus me back where it belonged.
The author of Psalm 119 is not known for certain. And, really, it's not important. What is important as you read this Psalm is that the author fully understood that their comfort, guidance and delight came from the word of God. Whether they used the term precepts, commands, word, law or promise, it all points to the word of God.
We don't get guidance from Oprah or Dr. Phil. We don't get comfort from Joel Osteen or Joyce Meyers. We aren't put back on track by a book by this author or that televangelist. The Bible, the word of God is where we get all of this.
Here's an extra, for no extra cost. If a person says they know better than the word of God, DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM! Case in point. All this hoopla about this Saturday being the rapture is UNBIBLICAL and therefore SINFUL! Mr. Harold Camping /Family Radio is a FALSE TEACHER! He has already been wrong about the end of the world in 1994. The word of God says in Matthew 24:34-36:
34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
That means that no one knows when the end will come except God the Father. Not Harold Camping. Not anyone who follows him. No one! You can't figure it out with numbers or calendars or being clever with twisting what God says.
So, friends, read the Bible. Do what is says and you'll be sure to be doing God's will. Psalm 119 makes it clear that the word is the beginning and the end of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Anything else is just a waste of your time and your life.
I was having just a horrendous start to my day. I had to get out of the house and clear my head and think. So, I took my Bible, got a venti Americano with hazelnut and cream at Starbucks and headed to the marina on Foster Avenue in Sayville. God's word, coffee and water. That's the combination I needed to get me back on track. I was soon to realize, though, that it is God's word that would clear my mind and focus me back where it belonged.
The author of Psalm 119 is not known for certain. And, really, it's not important. What is important as you read this Psalm is that the author fully understood that their comfort, guidance and delight came from the word of God. Whether they used the term precepts, commands, word, law or promise, it all points to the word of God.
We don't get guidance from Oprah or Dr. Phil. We don't get comfort from Joel Osteen or Joyce Meyers. We aren't put back on track by a book by this author or that televangelist. The Bible, the word of God is where we get all of this.
Here's an extra, for no extra cost. If a person says they know better than the word of God, DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM! Case in point. All this hoopla about this Saturday being the rapture is UNBIBLICAL and therefore SINFUL! Mr. Harold Camping /Family Radio is a FALSE TEACHER! He has already been wrong about the end of the world in 1994. The word of God says in Matthew 24:34-36:
34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
That means that no one knows when the end will come except God the Father. Not Harold Camping. Not anyone who follows him. No one! You can't figure it out with numbers or calendars or being clever with twisting what God says.
So, friends, read the Bible. Do what is says and you'll be sure to be doing God's will. Psalm 119 makes it clear that the word is the beginning and the end of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Anything else is just a waste of your time and your life.
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