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Why Your Pastor May Not Be Your Friend

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April 23, 2014 – Dave Hodges

The Common Sense Show

April 23, 2014

The times we live in are perilous. Our way of life is under direct attack and Armageddon could be thrust upon us at any time. There, I do not have the time mince words and I will be clear, there is an overwhelming chance that your pastor is not your friend.

Pastor Greg Tucker

I recently condemned pastors who support and lead churches who “enjoy” the 501-C-3 tax exempt status offered by the IRS. This prompted Pastor Greg Tucker to publicly criticize my stance on this issue and he demanded to know what pastors I was attacking. This article will make it clear who I am attacking and why the vast majority of you who are reading this words need to leave your church if you truly value the salvation of your soul.

Pastor Tucker has seen fit to take me to task for my comments regarding my advice for all Christian believers should leave their church if that church is a tax-exempt 501-C-3.  Pastor Tucker said “…Not sure which pastors you are implicating, but I would suggest not including ALL pastors in your expression as you have in this article”.  Pastor Tucker, let’s be clear. I am implicating all pastors of 501-C-3 churches. Are you such a pastor who is endangering the salvation of your flock? 

From Pastor Tucker:

“Point of emphasis…Not sure which pastors you are implicating, but I would suggest not including ALL pastors in your expression as you have in this article. This is a wrongheaded assumption. This pastor for one has spent the last two years bringing my leaders  congregation along in developing a watchful eye of what I see coming; occupying (words of Jesus) our space; time in the way He leads us to do so. So to lump me as a pastor in wrong headed assumptions like you have here is a big mistake. For me it invalidates your message. Makes me raise the question, “What other wrong headed assumptions are you building your argument on?” And I’ve been an avid reader of your posts for some time now–but will reconsider this, maybe I was the one making a wrong-headed assumption myself about you; your message. Disheartening to say the least–not all pastors; churches fit the picture you paint of us; you should acknowledge such. Tactics like these are nothing but fear peddling for the sake of instilling fear as opposed to standing your ground in the strength, power; might in Christ Jesus.”

Pastor Greg Tucker

Is your church a friend or foe? Is your church is a 501-C-3 tax exempt church? Is your church an agent of the government? If your church leadership does not condemn anything controversial, no matter how antithetical to the word of God, you are not worshiping in a Christian church. If your church is a 501-C-3 tax exempt church, your church leadership has already been taught to educate the flock to follow the will of the government, no matter how heinous the actions of these people may be. Does the following sound like your 501-3-C pastor?

Romans 13 Does Not Equate to the Divine Right of Kings

Does your pastor command you to follow the will of the government because it is your Christian duty to do so under Romans 13?

The modern interpretation of Romans 13 is pure blasphemy.

To read the rest of this article, go to http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/04/23/why-your-pastor-is-not-your-friend/

 

Franklin Graham Sticks to His Guns and Calls Sin a Sin

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Franklin Graham Defends Comments on Gay Activists and Islam, Compares Himself to Father Speaking Out for MLK

BY MORGAN LEE , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER
March 27, 2014|12:05 pm

“You talk about controversy – my father (Billy Graham) stood with Martin Luther King in the early 1960s,” Graham told The Charlotte Observer. “My father never worried about polls. I don’t care about them, either. And with the issues we are facing today – if my father were a younger man, he would be addressing and speaking out in the exact same way I’m speaking out on them.”

Late last month, Graham suggested that Putin was “right” on how the Russian government had dealt with its LGBT activists.

“Obviously, he may be wrong about many things, but he has taken a stand to protect his nation’s children from the damaging effects of any gay and lesbian agenda,” he wrote for Decision magazine.

In 2011, the head of the humanitarian organization Samaritan’s Purse suggested that American Muslims do not genuinely practice their faith, because those who do are violent.

To read the rest of the article, go to http://www.christianpost.com/news/franklin-graham-defends-comments-on-gay-activists-and-islam-compares-himself-to-father-speaking-out-for-mlk-116910/

 

Proof of America’s Slide into Neo-Barbarism

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The Bible tells us that a person has a soul, and that the soul has three main subdivision: the mind, the will and the emotions. This is who a man is and what makes him a unique individual. The Bible also teaches us that each man has a conscience, and that within that conscience indigenously is a basic sense of right and wrong. On the day of Elohim’s judgment, those who follow their moral conscience and do what is right will be judged more favorably than those who don’t (Rom 2:13–16).

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As a man has a conscience, so does nation, which is comprised of many men. Several words reflect the conscience of a nation. For example, the word mores is “the essential or characteristic customs or fixed morally binding customs or conventions of a community.” Another word would be ethos, which means “the characteristic spirit of a culture, era or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations.” Based on the mores or ethos of a people-group, that group, community or nation will form laws by which it will govern itself. In America, from its founding 240 years ago until recently, the Bible and Christianity influenced the conscience of individuals and the collective conscience of the nation. America’s founding documents — the Constitution and state constitutions — reflected a definite biblical, if not Christian, world-view. This was the ethos of the society.

America, presently, has been described by many as a “post-Christian” nation. It would seem that those who assert that it is still a Christian nation are focusing on America’s past state rather than her present state. That is not to say that there are not still many Bible believers who walk out their faith in America. They are just no longer the majority; a Christian or biblical world-view is no longer the dominant ethos reflecting the core mores of the majority of Americans. The proof of this is to simply look at the spiritual and moral values those individuals our society votes into office to rule over them from the president on down.

Now let’s define another term that is becoming more and more apropos to the times in which we are living. That word is barbarism. Barbarism (derived from the word barbarian), is defined as “the condition to which a society or civilization may be reduced after a societal collapse relative to an earlier period of cultural or technological advancement. This term may also be used pejoratively to describe another society or civilization which is deemed inferior in some way.”

Is America descending into a culture of neo-barbarism or heathenism? Let’s look at some indication that show this is likely the case. Continue reading →

 

The Destruction of Society Through Drugs …Prophesied!

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The book of Revelation says of the end-times Babylon the Great worldwide antichrist system,

…for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. (Rev 18:23)

The Greek word for sorceries is pharmakeia from which we get the English word pharmacy and pharmaceuticals. This verse in Revelation is foretelling the emergence of pharmaceutical drug companies and drug cartels that would control the behaviors and mental status of many people on the earth in the last day.

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Below is an article I just read today on this subject that I want to share. My prayer is that YHVH’s people will find physical, emotional, mental and spiritual healing through the power of the Word, Spirit and Blood of Yeshua to be set free from manmade drugs of all kind. It is my firm belief that if one has a vibrant faith in and relationship with Yeshua the Messiah as elucidated by the gospel message, and that if one loves him by observing his Torah-commands, this will keep one in YHVH’s spiritual river of life, so that we won’t need drugs of any kind (except for those rare emergencies) to keep us healthy.

Now here’s the eye-opening article:

19 Statistics About The Drugging Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

 By Michael Snyder, on February 10th, 2014

The American people are the most drugged people in the history of the planet.  Illegal drugs get most of the headlines, but the truth is that the number of Americans that are addicted to legal drugs is far greater than the number of Americans that are addicted to illegal drugs.  As you will see below, close to 70 percent of all Americans are currently on at least one prescription drug.  In addition, there are 60 million Americans that “abuse alcohol” and 22 million Americans that use illegal drugs.  What that means is that almost everyone that you meet is going to be on something.  That sounds absolutely crazy but it is true.  We are literally being drugged out of our minds.  In fact, as you will read about below, there are 70 million Americans that are taking “mind-altering drugs” right now.  If it seems like most people cannot think clearly these days, it is because they can’t.  We love Continue reading →

 

The hand of God in Super Bowl 48? Hmm…

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SUPER CLAIM: GOD INTERVENED IN SUPER BOWL

Divine hand seen spanking Denver while honoring Tim Tebow

With more than 112.2 million viewers, Super Bowl XLVIII was the most watched television event in history, and perhaps God wanted it that way for a spectacular demonstration.

A new theory is being proffered by a South Carolina football fan suggesting the Almighty directly injected Himself in Sunday’s event to even the score, so to speak, after the Denver Broncos booted quarterback Tim Tebow, an outspoken Christian who is no longer playing in the NFL.

“God’s hand was all over this Super Bowl,” says David Campbell, a WND reader from Myrtle Beach, S.C., who explained his view of the divine intervention in a letter to the editor.

(To read the rest of the article, go to http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/super-claim-god-intervened-in-super-bowl/).


 

How low can we go before we wake up (spiritually)?

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Decadence: Seahawks Fans Run Riot After Super Bowl Victory

Americans only get excited over sports and Black Friday sales

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 3, 2014

In another shameful reminder of how Americans care more about sports than the future of their own country, Seattle Seahawks fans reacted to their team’s Super Bowl victory by behaving like animals – lighting fires, damaging historic buildings and ripping down street signs during raucous scenes last night.…

While their entire country is being bankrupted, hollowed out, and flooded with illegal immigrants as Obama announces that he will ignore Congress and pursue his agenda via dictatorial executive fiat, Americans remain unmoved.

The only things that get them in the least bit animated are Black Friday sales and NFL football games. When a civilization reaches this point of decadence, a Roman Empire-style collapse is soon to follow.

To read the rest of the story and to see the video, go to http://www.infowars.com/decadence-seahawks-fans-run-riot-after-super-bowl-victory/

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Reverse discrimination & homosexual tyranny — who’s next?

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Please pray for those Christians business owners who, for biblical reasons, politely refuse to serve homosexual couples. This includes such businesses as bakeries, photographers, print shops and the like.
We have all read about such incidents in the news. At present, I am specifically thinking of the bakery in Gresham, OR that refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. The state of Oregon has now found them guilty of violating state anti-discrimination laws and will likely level fines against the Sweet Cakes bakery and Melissa and Aaron Klein, the owners.

15707138What we are seeing is the rise of reverse discrimination under the veil of “human rights.” It is all out war against the Bible and its adherents by rebellious god-haters and secular humanists who are scared spitless of the thought of accountability for their perverse and immoral practices. If they can can get the state to agree with them, somehow  this justifies and legitimizes their position as if this moves, much less impresses, the Creator and Just Judge of the Universe. This is pure wickedness on the part of the homo-fascists (by definition, fascism is a governmental system that promotes and enforces authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices) who are trying to cram their abominable (to quote the Bible, Lev 18:22) practices down the throats of peace-loving, but objecting Bible believers, and think nothing of destroying a business or the finances of a family in the process.  What about the rights of the Bible believers? Can’t the homosexuals rise to the level of liberality and civility by agreeing to disagree, walking away and finding a pro-homosexual business who will bake their cake?

Sadly, in our society, classic liberalism (where there is freedom to have different opinions without fear of retribution) is giving way to fascism where you have to believe the party line or be punished. The homosexual fascists with their government cronies, in a sense, have launched an inquisition against Bible-believing Christians and are attempting to purge society of all who disagree with them even as the Catholics attempted to do in the Middle Ages against the Jews and non-Catholics.

So please pray for the Kleins. Who knows who will be next. It could be you or me.

State says ‘Sweet Cakes’ discriminated against same-sex couple

http://www.katu.com/news/local/State-labor-dept-says-Sweet-Cakes-discriminated-against-same-sex-couple-240931461.html