Posted on 12/15/2025 2:50:53 PM PST by WhiteHatBobby0701
Last week, the National Association of Evangelicals published its monthly newsletter, whereby it heralded the Christmas season not by celebrating “joy to the world” but by repeating its annual Yuletide claim that because Christ was a “refugee,” all Christians are obligated to welcome all immigrants (regardless of status) into our country, our towns and our neighborhoods.
How are we to do this? How exactly are some 60 million American evangelicals purportedly represented by the National Association of Evangelicals to welcome the “sojourner” and “foreigner” in our midst? What practical steps does the association suggest we take?
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He allowed it. With one word he could have stoped it.
“He allowed it. With one word he could have stoped it.”
And your point is in reference to my post reply?
Of course he could have stopped it but he was sent here to die.
Agree
In his monumental book, Life of Christ, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has this to say about this:
A third fact separating Him from all the others is this: every other person who ever came into this world came into it to live. He came into it to die. Death was a stumbling block to Socrates—it interrupted his teaching. But to Christ, death was the goal and fulfillment of His life, the gold that He was seeking. Few of His words or actions are intelligible without reference to His Cross. He presented Himself as a Savior rather than merely as a Teacher. It meant nothing to teach men to be good unless He also gave them the power to be good, after rescuing them from the frustration of guilt. The story of every human life begins with birth and ends with death. In the Person of Christ, however, it was His death that was first and His life that was last. The scripture describes Him as “the Lamb slain as it were, from the beginning of the world.” He was slain in intention by the first sin and rebellion against God. It was not so much that His birth cast a shadow on His life and thus led to His death; it was rather that the Cross was first, and cast its shadow back to His birth. His has been the only life in the world that was ever lived backward. As the flower in the crannied wall tells the poet of nature, and as the atom is the miniature of the solar system, so too, His birth tells the mystery of the gibbet. He went from the known to the known, from the reason of His coming manifested by His name “Jesus” or “Savior” to the fulfillment of His coming, namely, His death on the Cross.
Cool. And there’s plenty about Pilot and Herod if you care to look.
Heck the first Herod tried to kill him as a baby, if you don’t remember.
But keep up with your agenda.
Godless Marxists and their ‘color revolution’ working their useful idiots for maximum impact using destabilization and chaos. They must bring down the free West to implement their Globalist WEF digital ID gulag. They are becoming desperate to stay on their 2030 timeline.
Saul Alinskys Rules for Radicals, Rule # 4
“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” This means holding opponents accountable to their own standards and principles, which can undermine their credibility and effectiveness.
The last Baptist Hymnal was in 2008. The CBF hymnal (Celebrating Grace) was published in 2010. We see in local SBC churches no use of SBC material but most are using CBF material. The triumph of liberalism in the church is coming through this.
The 2008 Baptist Hymnal lost its way when Big Entertainment took control of it. Too many leaders in the Baptist Sunday School Board let the entertainment giants control much of its content. That crossed the line.
There is an ongoing push to cease the hymnal in favour of having the denomination e-mail the latest hits off the radio to churches for ideas. The consequences are costly.
“There is an ongoing push to cease the hymnal in favour of having the denomination e-mail the latest hits off the radio to churches for ideas.”
I don’t have the slightest clue what you are talking about, personsally. Radio hits??? Rap??? Where I attend church, we use the hymnal.
Many local Southern Baptist churches locally have ditched hymnals (both 1990 and 2008 Baptist Hymnals) in favour of singing hits off KLVR. We have Keeping Up with the Joneses where everyone follows the megachurch. Even in the nearby city, First Baptist in the big city has ditched hymnals in favour of emotional singing of hits off the radio.
LifeWay Worship encourages the switch to hits because of “relevance”. They send the band or praise team whatever hit songs they want you to sing, and they insist you listen to KLVR or Solid Gospel to understand the songs off the radio. It’s a return to the kid’s table where they just sing what they hear off the radio. The entire plethora of hymns are not even sung. The church pays royalties to the big name music publishers, and in some cases, the Mercer School of Theology (CBF).
That is all new to me. I noticed some churches have separate worship services for the young; people are dressed down and sing these whiny worship songs, etc.
For a long time, there have been what I call these rock and roll non-denominational churches.
I use to watch Jimmy Swaggert music segments a little; did not object to it all that much since he did know his music and was a good singer.
However, I don’t know if Donnie will be able to carry forward and the music seems diminished. I have checked it out a few times; he appears to have trouble searching for his favorite hair style. He does have a good plastic surgeon. I don’t really have any objections to that, just an observation, since some of these entertainers can’t seem to find good ones.
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