Merry Christmas to you - O Holy Night by David Phelps

Why not give yourself as a Christmas present
to Jesus this year?

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Why is Obama silent?

Dateline: December 10, 2009

GOProud Urges President Obama to Publicly Take a Stand against Proposed Uganda Law

Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director - "If the President wants to start earning the Nobel Peace Prize he is accepting, he can start by speaking out against this outrageous Ugandan law."

(Washington, D.C.) - While the President is in Norway accepting a Nobel Peace Prize, Ugandan political leaders are considering a bill that criminalizes gays and lesbians. "If the President wants to start earning the Nobel Peace Prize he is accepting, he can start by speaking out against this outrageous Ugandan law," said Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director of GOProud - the only national organization for gay conservatives and their allies. "President Obama's lack of leadership on international human rights issues is appalling," continued LaSalvia. "From his refusal to confront the radically anti-gay regime in Iran to his refusal to speak out against this proposed Ugandan law - this President's silence speaks volumes about his priorities."

Ugandan political leaders have been debating legislation that would impose criminal penalties on gays and lesbians living in Uganda. Certain proposed versions of the bill have even called for the death penalty or life imprisonment for being gay.

While President Obama has been silent, leading Republicans have spoken out forcefully against the proposed Ugandan legislation.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said, "I am deeply saddened and troubled that such blatantly ignorant and hate-filled legislation would see the light of day anywhere in today's world. It needs to be stopped in its tracks immediately."

U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), one of the leading conservatives in the Senate, said, "Over the past two decades, political, religious, and community leaders in Uganda have united to promote a rare, winning strategy against HIV that addresses the unique and common risks of every segment of society. Sadly, some who oppose Uganda's common sense ABC strategy are using an absurd proposal to execute gays to undermine this coalition and winning strategy. Officials in Uganda should come to their senses and take whatever steps are necessary to withdraw this proposal that will do nothing but harm a winning strategy that is saving lives."

"It is time for this administration to stand up for human rights across the globe. Not another day should pass without President Obama making it clear that he unconditionally opposes this Ugandan law," concluded LaSalvia.

Gay marriage - its a privilege AND a rite.

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Why does Rick Warren lie?

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"men who have sex with men" is NOT a good translation of 1 Cor 6:9

I recently received an email from Colin Smith of gaysandslaves.com encouraging me to contact the NIV Committee and recommend that they change their translation of 1 Corinthians 6:9 from homosexual offenders to "men who have sex with men."

While I am thankful that Colin is my beloved brother in Christ, I do not agree with him on the issue at hand.

Here is my response.

To suggest THAT as an accurate rendering of malakoi and arsenokoitai is deeply offensive to gay men for many reasons.

First, malakoi and arsenokoitai are rarely, if ever used with that meaning (according to conservative heterosexual scholar, Dr. Gordon Fee).

I list the first 56 uses of the arsenokoit stem on my website (which covers the times the word is found in Greek literature during the first 600 years of church history). arsenokoitai was NEVER used with the meaning, "men who have sex with men" in its first 56 uses during the first 600 years of church history.

The Greek word, arsenokoitai, where there is enough information in the context to guess at its meaning, indicated:

1. Rape
2. Shrine prostitution, according to Philo the Alexandrian Jewish philosopher
3. Humans having sex with angels or the gods, or
4. A man having sex with his wife

Second, switching from "homosexual" to "men who have sex with men" does nothing to improve the translational difficulties of the NIV. To phrase it, "men who have sex with men" is a flat-out negative blast at EVERY gay man in committed partnership. It makes the verse say that gay men in committed partnership will NOT have a heavenly inheritance or will NOT go to heaven.

Third, there is absolutely NO linguistic evidence that Greek speaking people in the first century used the word arsenokoitai to mean "men who have sex with men."

Fourth, "men who have sex with men" is an interpretation of 1 Cor 6:9 based on anti-gay bias and guesswork, not historic usage of arsenokoitai. Dr. Gordon Fee, noted heterosexual Greek scholar (in his commentary on 1 Corinthians), admits that translating 1 Cor 6:9 to mean "homosexual" is "a best guess." He then admits that we do not know what the word arsenokoitai means.

In my opinion, it sends the wrong message to ask gays and lesbians to request that the NIV committee translate 1 Cor 6:9 in a way that attacks gay men in committed partnership, "men who have sex with men," when there is NO historical evidence that anyone in the first century used arsenokoitai with that meaning.

Fifth, if there was strong historical substantiation that arsenokoitai meant "men who have sex with men," then the anti-gay crowd might have a case.

But given the fact that there is no historical evidence which points to arsenokoitai meaning, "men who have sex with men," it is a horrible attack on gay men in committed partnership to suggest THAT as the meaning.

"Men who have sex with men" is NOT more accurate and is NOT less offensive.

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Pope Rick Warren's "Encyclical" To Ugandan Pastors

Under extreme pressure from gay Christians and gay media for almost a year, as to why he didn't oppose Uganda's Kill Gays bill, and with only a few weeks before the bill may become law, Pope Warren, who supported supporters of the Kill Gays bill, finally speaks out against it in this "encyclical.". Its awfully late AND about time.

I wonder if he finally spoke out because he really supports the right of GLBTs everywhere to live free from persecution or if he spoke out in an attempt to salvage his damaged public image...

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Mary Did You Know?

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Rick Warren is a Moral COWARD!

Rick Warren is a moral coward who, after supporting the Ugandan politicians who birthed the "Kill Gays" bill, now refuses to condemn their hate legislation.

If you support Rick Warren's duplicitous "ministry," shame on you.

Read about Rick Warren's moral cowardice
at Box Turtle Bulletin.

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Struggling with loneliness

Thanksgiving to Christmas always feels like running a marathon for me. This is my least favorite time of year.

I struggle against crushing loneliness that threatens to overwhelm my soul. We were not created to live alone, without a significant other, without a deeply intimate, emotional, spiritual, physical relationship and yet, here I am, alone.

Christians from the past like C.S. Lewis testify that I am settling for far less than God intends.

I don't know where "he" is or how to find him so I'm trusting God that He will guide "him" to find me.

"If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."

-from C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way." -Psalm 37:23, American King James Version


I'm trusting God...

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Pray, then kill gays and lesbians?

NEW YORK – Truth Wins Out (TWO) today urged world leaders and members of Congress to skip the National Prayer Breakfast, February 4th, in protest of ‘The Family’s (aka The Fellowship) direct role in promoting a bill that would lead to severe human rights abuses against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Uganda.

“The National Prayer Breakfast is giving legitimacy to those who promote barbarism in the name of the Bible,” said TWO’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. “We hope that world leaders who care about human rights will reconsider attending this year’s breakfast. To say grace with the people pushing this hateful and dehumanizing bill in Uganda would be disgraceful.”

Read the rest of the story here... http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressreleases/2009/11/5048/

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Those kooky Ugandan heterosexuals

Uganda wants to pass legislation mandating life in prison or death for homosexuals.

Seems to me Ugandan legislators are doing some serious over-compensating, especially when kooky Ugandan heterosexuals are pulling stunts like this.

Ugandan heterosexuals told to hold their genitals in church while they pray...

"KAMPALA-A pastor in one of the churches in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, recently caused laughter when he asked worshipers to hold their genitals in prayer. The man of God told people to close their eyes and hold their private parts in order to cast out demons of premarital and extramarital sex.

While some people took it seriously and embarked on serious prayer, others, especially the youth, giggled as they exchanged glances with one another. The pastor was not amused and rebuked them, saying this was a serious matter. He insisted on seeing everyone’s eyes closed with their hands on the groin."

from, The New Vision, Uganda's Leading website, click title of this Post for more information

And the Ugandan legislature intends to criminalize gays and lesbians?

Strange, really strange.

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Just Following Protocol? Really?

Other world leaders don't bow to the Japanese Emperor. Why does President Obama, as America's leader, insist on showing such subservience?

Or did he lose a contact lens?

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Obama should know better

Remember 1994, when the New York Times thought it was wrong for America's President to bow to foreign leaders?

POTUS Obama 2009



POTUS Obama
Nov 13, 2009

Just for the record,
below is how its
supposed to be done.



It is unseemly and deeply offensive for America's first black President to bow to the despotic Saudi King (who finances Wahabi Muslim radicals around the world) and the Japanese Emperor, who has spent his life being treated like a god.

At home POTUS Obama and the Statists in Congress want to jail American citizens (Pelosi's health bill) if we don't buy health insurance. Abroad he bows to foreign despots and useless emperors.

Would God our President had the grace to treat his bosses, the American people, with the deference he shows to dictators and "royals" who've never worked a day in their lives.

I didn't vote for him and he's still a major disappointment in so many ways.

How to be saved - fast and simple.

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Does Jude condemn gays?

Jude 6 - "reserved in everlasting chains
under darkness"

I. Jude 7 links fornication and strange flesh, not human flesh, so in context Jude is referring to angels, not to gay men, not to lesbian women, not to bisexuals, not to transsexuals. And by the way, that is not a "gay" interpretation. Many anti-gay heterosexual Christian scholars teach the same thing GayChristian101 teaches about this passage.

II. Jewish teaching in the first century AD was that the women of Sodom were trying to have sex with fallen angels so they could have supernatural children, like the giants in Genesis 6:2-13, who were the product of sex between earthly women and "the sons of God" (fallen angels).

These fallen angels changed the order of their nature and had sexual relations with the daughters of men, Testament of Naphtali 3:3-5. In the Sodom story, the men of Sodom tried to gang rape the angel visitors. The link is humans attempting to have sex with angels, not homosexuality - two men or two women falling in love and getting married.

III. According to many anti-gay Christians, the men of Sodom were "going after strange flesh" alleged by anti-gay Christians to mean homosexual sex, attempting to have sex with someone of the same gender.

When we consider what the Bible actually says however, that interpretation is nonsense because the Bible never says that in the Old Testament or the New Testament.

When gay Christians disagree with the illogical but traditional interpretation, does that mean gays are trying to alibi their sin?

Or do many heterosexual Christians agree with gay Christians that Jude describes a "sex with angels" problem?

Surprisingly, even a conservative Calvinist Bible teacher like John MacArthur rejects the convoluted traditional interpretation and agrees with gay Christians - that its a "sex with angels" issue.

Conservative heterosexual Calvinist Bible expositor John MacArthur agrees with gay Christians about Jude! Isn't that amazing?


Here's the rest of the story...

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How can you say that Romans 1 has nothing to do with homosexuality?

Ruins of Cybele's temple in Rome
The honest answer to your question is that two men loving each other and partnering for life or two women loving each other and partnering for life is vastly different from people in the Bible, often heterosexual, using sex to worship the fertility goddess.

The Bible has much to say about fornication. We are warned against fornication in 1 Thessalonians 4:1-6 and 1 Corinthians 7:1-9.

But we do not conclude from the warnings against fornication that all heterosexual sex is wrong.
The Bible tells us:

"Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." Hebrews 13:5

God clearly puts a loving, faithful, committed marriage partnership in a class apart from the fornicating lifestyle of whoremongers and adulterers...

Read the rest of the article here.

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The True Gospel is not about our human works

James Montgomery Boice, 1938-2000

1 Corinthians 15:1-8

“ …if the death of Christ on the cross is the true meaning of the Incarnation, then there is no gospel without the cross.

Christmas by itself is no gospel. The life of Christ is no gospel. Even the resurrection, important as it is in the total scheme of things, is no gospel by itself.

For the good news is not just that God became man, nor that God has spoken to reveal a proper way of life for us, or even that death, the great enemy, is conquered.

Rather, the good news is that sin has been dealt with (of which the resurrection is a proof); that Jesus has suffered its penalty for us as our representative, so that we might never have to suffer it; and that therefore all who believe in him can look forward to heaven...

Emulation of Christ’s life and teaching is possible only to those who enter into a new relationship with God through faith in Jesus as their substitute.

The resurrection is not merely a victory over death (though it is that) but a proof that the atonement was a satisfactory atonement in the sight of the Father (Rom 4:25); and that death, the result of sin, is abolished on that basis.

Any gospel that talks merely of the Christ-event, meaning the Incarnation without the atonement, is a false gospel.

Any gospel that talks about the love of God without pointing out that his love led him to pay the ultimate price for sin in the person of his Son on the cross is a false gospel.

The only true gospel is of the ‘one mediator’ (1 Tim. 2:5-6), who gave himself for us.

Dr. Boice pastored Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA

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Stephen Gately dead at 33

Left -Andy Cowles
Right - Stephen Gately

Stephen Gately, 33, of the Irish band, Boyzone, died unexpectedly Saturday afternoon, while on vacation with husband Andrew Cowles, at their home on the Spanish island of Majorca.


Stephen and Andy were married in a March, 2006 civil ceremony in London.

Please pray for Andy in this time of sorrow and for Stephen's mother, father and siblings, in Ireland.



If YOU die unexpectedly, are you SURE you will go to heaven?


If you'd like to know for sure you are saved, click here.

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How To Get Saved

Getting saved is not difficult if you're willing to
repent (change your mind about your sins) and trust Jesus alone.

Today, right now, is the perfect time to receive Jesus as your Savior.

Repent (change your mind about your sins) and trust Jesus Christ to forgive your sins today.

“For whosoever shall call upon the name
of the Lord shall be saved.” Romans 10:13.

Please Pray This Prayer

"Lord Jesus, Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins.

I admit that I am a sinner and I need your forgiveness.

I believe that You shed Your blood on the cross to pay for my sins.

I believe that You rose from the dead to prove that God the Father accepted Your payment for my sins.

I open the door of my heart and receive You as my Savior. Lord Jesus, please help me live for you all the days of my life.

Thank you Jesus, for saving me from my sins.

In Jesus' Name, Amen."

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What about the heathen who've never heard of Jesus?

1. God takes no pleasure when lost people die.

“For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” Ezekiel 18:32, 23

2. God wants everyone to be saved.

“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth." I Tim 2:3-4. Jesus wants the heathen to get saved. Do you?

3. God is good to everyone, including the unsaved.

“The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.” Psalm 145:8-9

“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” Matthew 5:45

“He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.” Deu 32:4

4. God wants everyone to hear the gospel and be saved.

“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” Isaiah 45:22. This includes the heathen everywhere.

“The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” Isaiah 52:10

“Ge ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” Matthew 28:19

“And he said unto them, Ge ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15

Here's an entire lesson on, What About The Heathen, to use in your church or home Bible study.

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The Rapture - Are You Ready?

We don't know the exact day or the exact date. But we know it could be anytime.

Jesus could come back today. Are you Ready?

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Lone Ranger Christians

LRCs (Lone Ranger Christians) are born again believers who got tired of church politics or quit church for a variety of reasons...

That doesn't necessarily mean they quit loving Jesus or quit trying to live an honorable Christian life.

Why are some GLBTs Lone Ranger Christians? Their reasons for becoming LRCs are many and varied.

Some were kicked out of church because they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered.

Some who were kicked out of "straight" churches tried going to a gay church or a gay-affirming church and got discouraged because the Bible was never taught verse by verse or the Bible teaching couldn't honestly even be described as skim milk (since its so weak and watered down...)

Christians are designed to be part of a body, not Lone Rangers

"For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body?But now are they many members, yet but one body.

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular." -1 Corinthians 12:13-27, KJV

We are intentionally designed by God to need each other, to thrive in each other's company.

God created Christians for community, to be part of a family. Christians are like the many parts of the human body. Each part is designed by God to work with the other parts, smoothly, efficiently, almost effortlessly so that the body functions normally.

1. When we got saved, God adopted us into the family of God, Ephesians 1:5. Like it or not, born-again Christians are part of God's family, with all the intricate and sometimes difficult relationships found in any family.

2. God intentionally designed our spiritual selves to thrive as part of God's family, 1 Corinthians 12:13-26.

3. God placed pastors/teachers in local congregations to help us grow to spiritual maturity, Ephesians 4:11-16. This means that not being part of a local congregation is at odds with God's plan. By staying out of church, we may be settling for a lot less than God intends for us.

4. Scripture assumes that Christians will be part of a local church, including giving heed to pastors who watch for our souls before God, Hebrews 10:25; 13:17

5. Spiritual growth stems in part from loving interaction with our brothers and sisters in Christ, Ephesians 5:3, 8, 21, 30. We share laughter, tears, sorrow and joy. We face challenges together and pray about the difficulties we face. Family is important.

Lone Ranger Christians? - You're welcome to use this Bible study for your Sunday School class. Click here to copy and paste.

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