The glorious Son - the Fountain of life For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters,
and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.(Jer.2.13)
Scenes of the snare of syncretistic decadence from Soul Survivor 2019 and the Big Church Day Out 2019.
Christians should never worship in the dark! (Acts 20.8) The Lord seeks worship in Spirit and Truth (Jn.4.23) not a performance of fleshliness and worldly sleaze - 'Christian' Baal worship 2019 'God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the holy, and to be held in deep awe by all them that are about Him.' Ps.89.7
'If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God defile; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.' 1 Cor.3.17 Depravity in the Name of Christ
John Piper's promotion of nightclub churches (archive) - sadly this carnality is now wickedly promulgated in London by Co-Mission. Revive 2019
'Wherefore come out from among them, and be separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.' (2 Cor.6.17) For churches struggling with involvement with this pernicious influence, words of reproof and comfort here: Rev.2.12-29.
The Trinitarian Bible Society has good reasons to be more cautious, given the inglorious history of its former Polish NT translation, flaws that required academic publication by Brother Peter Nicholson to resolve, despite a lengthy, prior interchange of emails. Paper 1 on the historiography of the 1881 Warsaw translations of the NT. Paper 2.
Should be required reading for biology, medical and physiotherapy students. I never understood anatomy and physiology like this before.
That the Church of England has given assent to the Kairos II screed of allies of the savage butchers and rapists of Hamas and the corrupt tyrants of the PA is an eternal disgrace. Not one bishop had the moral backbone to resist it. There are faithful Christians in Gaza and parts of Israel, but they are not represented by these slanders.
If you consider that the scattering of a beloved's ashes may not be a helpful, sober and precious witness please consider this video, though the first few seconds underscore the dangers. Please pray for my family, many of whom as yet do not love the Lord.
The readings were Psalm 90*, and with the scatterings, Gen.3.19b, Dan.12.2 (the ashes being scattered at the saying of 'everlasting life' since I hold hope for these two loved ones), and Tit.1.2.
At a second ceremony we read Ps.113 (the word for 'dunghill' can be also read as ashes, per Strong's).
*In Ps.90, destruction in v.3 can be read as dust, and the inconsistent capitalisation of the Sacred Name in the AV obscures the fact that it is only used once at v.13, where I loosely translated the Name as 'the Giver of Life'.
The intensity and extent of hatred of Jews, expressed as a peculiar and selective animus to Israel, is growing rapidly.
Its home of expression is the United Nations, but even traditional allies are swayed by selective and incomplete reporting, and perhaps swept away by Anti-Americanism. Ironically Gulf States are increasingly sharing Israel's concerns and aiding in her defence. Even former ambassadors have been inveigled into deceit and into a prejudicial and unlawful position.
The arch-liberal J.A.T. Robinson's 1976 thought experiment 'Redating the New Testament' and bringing all the NT before AD 70 was always an act of provocative speculation, and is probably wrong with John's writings, but the residual proposition is well worth establishing. Critical academics love postdating prophetic writings after their predictions, this is the only real reason for sawing Isaiah into 2 (or 4).
'Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.'
Deut. 32.27-8
It is exceedingly dangerous to trust in one' s own strength.
God will not be trifled with, nor allow His glory to be stolen.
Ps. 20.7 (what better chariot than an F35?)
Jer.17.5-9. Dear Mssrs Trump and Hegseth, 1 Peter 5.6.
It is difficult to imagine the agony of the families involved, but there is a dreadful warning here.
The first acronym of the Divine Name in Torah is concealed right at the climax of creation on the sixth day, and is a deep embarrassment to proponents of the absurd and nihilistic Documentary Hypothesis(DH), coming in the 'Elohist' portion. A summary linked to the image, and full text of Cassuto's terse and readable demolition of the DH on other grounds.
Dr Hilary Cass wrote a helpful account of the medical harm and untested nature of attempted "conversion therapy" from one biological sex to 'another' (local copy), her recommendations are weak, not pressing for a ban on hormone blockers, nor specifically calling for caution on conversion therapy bans, not touching on underage contraception, nor a ban on 'transitioning', but she has been heavily vilified for what she did properly write, and she deserves commendation for her courage and persistence, in the face of a flood of disinformation and resistance by lobbyists for medical poisoning, mutilation and the destroying of many young lives, pretending to be 'specialists'.
Diversity and Conformity at PwC
A Phineas of Poland skewers PricewaterhouseCooper's Workplace Policy: (Not for the easily offended). Archived here
Concerns raised before with the Trinitarian Bible Sociey, concerning the history of its former Polish NT translation that required academic publication by Brother Peter Nicholson to resolve.
The extraordinary island of Surtsey
'On Surtsey, only a few months sufficed for a landscape to be created which was so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief.'
Christian Antisemitism - the spirit level of our time 'Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion
let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up'
(The text is properly fulfilled in Heb.12.22)
'Which is the glory of all lands' Ezek. 20. 6,15 An obscure question to our eminent forebears, as their confusion testifies, now an inescapable issue of white hot relevance.
Famous 'Christian Zionists' writings - though they would not recognise the term for one who believes Biblical prophecy predicts a real Jewish return to Israel at the end of the Age. C.H.Spurgeon, J.C.Ryle, Robert M. M'Cheyne and Horatius Bonar. (Courtesy CWi) Many many others held an identical position.
'We look forward, then, for these two things. I am not going to theorize upon which of them will come first whether they shall be restored first, and converted afterwards or converted first and then restored. They are to be restored and they are to be converted, too.'
Charles Haddon Spurgeon The Restoration And Conversion Of The Jews. Ezekiel 37.1-10, June 16th, 1864
Lord Shaftesbury, Edward Bickersteth, J.C. Ryle, Murray M'Cheyne, John Rippon, Benjamin Keach, Thomas Sibbes, John Gill and Andrew Bonar and an army of other reformed teachers' positions were very similar, some pre-mill, many post-mill, other unpersuaded of literal millennium (like this author) - see Iain Murray's the Puritan Hope for more names and quotes.