New World Order Reformed Church Announces Gala Opening

The New World Order Reformed Church is hosting its inaugural gala in Grand Rapids Michigan. Reformed denominations from around the world were slated to send representatives to appear at the formal dinner hosted in the DeVos Performance Hall on 22 June 2010. The booked Keynote speaker was Koshi Sanchez Washington a renown Reformed Conference speaker from Japan whose Father was the President of the Brazilian Reformed association of itinerant Pentecostal ministers and whose Mother was an activist among Black Reformed Churches in America and whose Brother was the founder of Conservative Homosexuals For Jesus. The New World Order Reformed Church conference was to be the first time Koshi had addressed an American audience and she was looking forward to the opportunity to press on the new organization on the necessity to embrace the Belhar confession.

Already tongues were wagging about the planned spectacular fete but almost as much buzz was created by the conclave that would be held on the day before at Ah-Nab-Awen Park in downtown Grand Rapids. At the Ah-Nab-Awen Park on 21 June, The New World Order Reformed Church planned to host a spiritual extravaganza where people could sample different ethnic Spiritualities that would be folded into and be a part of the new association of Reformed Churches. The planners had set aside space in the vast park so that visitors could mingle while at the same time participating in a potpourri of interactive spiritual traditions.

The plan was to have one venue were people could participate in the spirituality of an American Indian sacred Ghost dance. At another venue a mock Shinto shrine would be set up where the spirituality of lighting incense in honor of the ancestors could be experienced. Down the river trail there was an interactive hut where those struggling with pedestrian aches and pains could enter and consult either a Shaman or his new age healer wife. The highlight of the festival was a Seance where people could come and go, participating as they please. The selling point of each of these Reformed Spiritualities is the assurance offered by Christian sages that each of them had been sanitized of their former pagan associations and were now explicitly Christian and Reformed.

http://www.crcna.org/news.cfm?newsid=1329

One Paragraph That Finishes Government Schooling For Christians

“Christianity must be a present element of all the training at all times, or else it is not a true and valuable education. The human spirit is a monad, a single unit, spiritual substance, having facilities and susceptibilities for different modifications, but no parts. Hence, when it is educated, it is educated as a unit. The moral judgments and acts of the soul all involve an exercise of reason; so that it is impossible to separate the ethical and intellectual functions. The nature of responsibility is such that there can be no neutrality… between duty and sin. It follows that any training which attempts to be non-Christian is therefore anti-Christian. God is the rightful, supreme master and owner of all reasonable creatures, and their nearest and highest duties are to him. Hence to train a soul away from him is robbery of God. He has not, indeed, committed to the State the duty of leading souls to him as its appropriate task. This is committed to the family and to His church. To educate the mind without purifying the heart is but `to place a sharp sword in the hand of a madman.’ Practically few do recognize and obey conscience except those who recognize the authority of the Bible. There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity.”

Robert L.Dabney
Discussions Vol. IV (1870)

Change your Music … Imperil The State

“The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.”

Plato
Republic — Book IV

I wonder what this means for the Church. I wonder if we imperil the Church when we introduce the strangest of melodies. Sure, there can be little doubt that introducing cutting edge music will grow the church but is the numerical growth of the church achieved at the price of the malformed Christians?

Parents, pay attention to what music your children listen to. Music is not neutral and as such the music they listen to will shape them in the direction of the musicians tastes and thinking. I suspect that in our current climate this will be in a direction not desired by the parents.

True Civility

“‘Man is a political animal,’ says Aristotle. He thrives in a community of families and clans who govern themselves freely and well, providing for more than basic subsistence. What they mainly provide is freedom: free time, leisure for conversation, an arena for debate, for struggles that have consequences, for reading and arguing, for sport, for contemplation, for honing all practical and intellectual virtues. True civility has more to do with a well-ordered fight than with the bonds of niceness.”

Anthony Esolen
Politically Incorrect Guide To Western Civilization — pg. 36

This gives us instruction about the kind of Government men should build in order to pursue the end of true civility. If Government is centralized it is to intrusive for the end of true civility. If Government is anarchistic lawlessness gets in the way of true civility. In our time we have allowed the government to create a soft tyranny that squeezes out civility. The Government has done this by its reduction of the citizenry through its “educational” arm, to a point where the citizenry is incapable of the intellectual virtues required to engage in a well ordered fight — the key sign that true civility exists.

Obama’s Notre Dame Speech — Deconstructing Obama — Part III

“Nowhere do these questions come up more powerfully than on the issue of abortion.

As I considered the controversy surrounding my visit here, I was reminded of an encounter I had during my Senate campaign, one that I describe in a book I wrote called “The Audacity of Hope.” A few days after I won the Democratic nomination, I received an e-mail from a doctor who told me that while he voted for me in the primary, he had a serious concern that might prevent him from voting for me in the general election. He described himself as a Christian who was strongly pro-life, but that’s not what was preventing him from voting for me.

What bothered the doctor was an entry that my campaign staff had posted on my Web site — an entry that said I would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.” The doctor said that he had assumed I was a reasonable person, but that if I truly believed that every pro-life individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on women, then I was not very reasonable. He wrote, “I do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words.”

Fair-minded words.

After I read the doctor’s letter, I wrote back to him and thanked him. I didn’t change my position, but I did tell my staff to change the words on my Web site. And I said a prayer that night that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me. Because when we do that — when we open our hearts and our minds to those who may not think like we do or believe what we do — that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.

That’s when we begin to say, “Maybe we won’t agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this is a heart-wrenching decision for any woman to make, with both moral and spiritual dimensions. So let’s work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term. Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded in clear ethics and sound science, as well as respect for the equality of women.”

Understand — I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away. No matter how much we may want to fudge it — indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory — the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable. Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.

Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words.”

1.) The Doctor is an idiot and isn’t pro-life as his vote for Obama reveals. A person can say they are pro-life all they want but by their deeds you shall know them. A vote for Obama tells us the Doctor Obama is citing was pro-murder. (Neither is he a Christian for the same reason.)

2.) The Doctor was more upset about Obama using the phrase “right wing ideologues” then he was about torturing, maiming, and murdering babies.

3.) Why should this be a “heart wrenching decision” for women if it is not the removal and destruction of life? Why should we try to reduce unwanted pregnancies or increase adoption options if abortion is akin to pulling a tooth out? Why all this angst about abortion if it doesn’t end life? The fact that the left keeps speaking this way indicates that they know that abortion is murder and that they have to do something to communicate that they are not in reality supporting mass murder.

4.) There is no possibility of common ground when it comes to the in-uterine murder of babies.

5.) Let’s remember that the man saying this is the man who has repeatedly voted to deny life support to babies that are born alive as a result of a botched abortion. This man is heinous and wicked to an immeasurable degree and yet Americans are going to listen to this man lecture us on ethics? What are people thinking?

6.) It is impossible to come up with a caricature that isn’t befitting for those who have turned this country into a land where we must wear waders in order to slog through the rivers of blood that abortionists like Obama have created.