Posted on 02/16/2024 6:43:31 PM PST by stars & stripes forever
A conservative California preacher invited to deliver the invocation as a guest chaplain in the U.S. House last month has drawn the ire of self-identified atheist Rep. Jared Huffman and 25 other House Democrats.
Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, who spoke of “a coming day of judgment,” in his Jan. 30 invocation, is described in the Democrats’ letter of protest as a “radical Christian Nationalist who helped fuel the January 6th insurrection and [who] has a long record of hateful vitriol toward non-Christians, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.”
In their letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who invited the evangelical leader to offer the prayer, Democrats cite a particular reference to “national sins” that is part of Mr. Hibbs’ 257-word invocation. Lawmakers say the “sins” reference is an allusion “to the militant and fanatical agenda [Mr. Hibbs] preaches about the LGBTQ+ community, Jews, Muslims, and anyone who conflicts with his ‘biblical worldview.’”
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So did JtB!
Matthew 3:7 NKJV
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,
“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
We’re the next target.
It is an incredible warm, loving fellowship, and pastor Jack is such a humble one on one pastor!
Even with MANY who are there each week, you feel like you are an individual person when talking with him .
He annointed my husband with oil and prayed for him during my husband last few days....he wasn't " too busy" or unconcerned!! I LOVE the fellowship there.
I agree!!!!!!!
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Exactly!!!! Pastor often says that it is the CHURCH that needs to wake up , and stand against the evils of this day....The CHURCH is silent and for the most part dead....
God's Word talks about it... concerning the last days!!
soooooooooo true!!
Yup, sounds like my kinda Preacher... :)
In this context. “nationalist” means he doesn’t hate his country.
Amen!
Dontcha love the blinding hypocrisy of the left decrying *hateful vitriol* while being hateful and intolerant in their name calling and accusations against those they are projecting on?
Agreed.
Now Mom, you KNOW that is a deplorable thing to say.
You’ve an EXCELLANT set of quotes of wisdom on your homepage!
Kudos!!
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
Amen.
All the right people say all the right thing to let you know that this guy is over the target.
1 Peter 2:12
Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.
The article indicates Pastor Hibbs is antisemitic. Is that true?
Atheists believe there is no God and they hate him with an all-consuming hatred.
Agree completely. I would also point out that anyone who declares themselves to be an atheist is also declaring themselves to be quite stupid. They mark themselves as lacking in intellectual aptitude by a considerable degree. Here’s why.
Atheism is simply a state of asserting to be in denial of God. Yet, it is not possible to believe in “not God”. It is only possible to believe affimatively in something. One cannot believe in nothing. One may say whatever one wants, but one cannot actually demostrate the act of believing in nothing.
Believing requires an object of belief. Faith requires an affirmation of something. This is why nihilism and atheism are doomed and anyone who claims to believe in such is speaking nonsense.
However, since they are apparently incapable of even moderately deep thought, they are unaware of how sub-par they appear intellectually. No belief or faith can rest in the mere gainsaying of another affirmation of faith. Such an act requires naming what they actually believe. They can emote and snarl and scoff, but that is not belief, that is rejection of Truth. Not the same thing at all. Claiming there is no God is a trick of language that apparently asserts a belief. However when we consider what God means and the Nature of God, then the sentence is reduced to utter nonsense. After all, one must be God in order to deny God, which is not possible logically. It’s like saying “there are no absolutes,” which is, itself, an absolute.
Here’s an example that I hope helps illustrate my point. Many years ago, my son’s private Christian high school played in an independent basketball “league”. One of the other private schools we played was a progressive school called “The School Without Walls.” Seriously. During the game I was exchanging some banter with one of the other school’s fathers. At one point I made the comment that I could not make sense out of their school’s name since when I thought about it, all I could think about was walls. He had no response.
Similarly whenever anyone thinks about atheism all one can really think about is God.
Praise be to God who is both the Alpha and Omega. He is outside logic and also is the Logos.
SWW = Foggy Bottom, DC
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