The world just went to Hell

Christian couple lose High Court battle to foster children because they are against homosexuality

A Christian couple morally opposed to homosexuality today lost a High Court battle over the right to become foster carers.

Eunice and Owen Johns, aged 62 and 65, from Oakwood, Derby, went to court after a social worker expressed concerns when they said they could not tell a child a 'homosexual lifestyle' was acceptable.

The Pentecostal Christian couple had applied to Derby City Council to be respite carers but withdrew their application believing it was 'doomed to failure' because of the social worker's attitude to their religious beliefs.

The couple deny that they are homophobic and said they would love any child they were given. However, what they were 'not willing to do was to tell a small child that the practice of homosexuality was a good thing'.

High Court Judges Lord Justice Munby (left) and Mr Justice Beatson ruled that laws protecting people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation 'should take precedence' over the right not to be discriminated against on religious grounds

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361469/Anti-homosexuality-Christian-couple-opposed-foster-care-High-Court-battle.html#ixzz1FIJ0wsEr

High-ranking United Methodist Church official arrested for child porn

FBI spokesman Stephen Emmett said Albert Turnell Jr., 71, was arrested without incident and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.

Turnell, former pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Smyrna, has also led congregations in Marietta, Calhoun, Dalton and Colbert, and has served as a district superintendent for the United Methodist Church. http://news.google.com/news/search?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Albert+Turnell+Jr&cf=all&scoring=d

Another Southern Baptist Pastor charged with child rape

KOMO news is reporting that Dirk Johnson, a Southern Baptist Convention pastor with First Baptist Church in Port Orchard, WA has confessed to raping a 12 year old girl in 2003. She was a student at Manchester Christian Academy in Manchester, Wash. where Dirk Jackson was her teacher. The girl reports that she told her family when it was happening, but they did nothing.

The rape victim, now 21, recently visited a church where Dirk Jackson is now the assistant pastor, First Baptist Church of Port Orchard, and was alarmed to see her rapist had access to children. She then reported the crime to law enforcement officials. (This church is not affiliated with the school and at the present time, there are no allegations that anything untoward took place at this church. Jackson is currently serving as the pastor of discipleship and evangelism for the First Baptist Church)

In spite of the taped confession, Dirk Jackson still has his supporters.  Jackson's father, Donn Jackson said, ""This is not a pattern," said Donn Jackson. "His life has absolutely been a contribution to our community. He won't go nowhere. We'll see to that." 

The pastor of First Baptist in Port Orchard, Jamie Greening, has this to say. 

""We're just shocked, surprised, confused," said Pastor Jamie Greening, who works alongside Jackson. "This does not match. These allegations do not match the man we've known for eight years."

(Greening has been blogging about this arrest, his blog is here: http://jdgreening.wordpress.com/ On thing I personally felt alarmed over was the fact when Pastor Greening announced the fact that his assistant pastor had been arrested, he asked for prayers for the perpetrator's family but did not ask his readers to pray for the rape victim.)

Pastor Jamie Greening, First Baptist Church, Port Orchard, WA

Greening is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Beeson Divinity School.

(Additional details may be found at http://www.oregonherald.com/oregon/local.cfm?id=371&Business-News=Port-Orchard-Pastor-Charged-With-Raping-12-Year-Old-Girl.htm)

[See also: Why I am not a Southern Baptist]


Update: Dirk Jackson pleads guilty: http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/poi/news/126771258.html

Patti Williams Funeral: (of Hephzibah House) Text of tribute paid by former Hephzibah House student

"As I look back over the many years that I have had the privilege to know Mrs. R [Patti Williams],  I find myself wondering did I remember to thank her enough for all she has done for me. Mrs. R [Patti Williams], I need to thank you for all the times you were willing to listen to my many woes and sorrows. For all the support and the much godly wisdom you so lovingly gave to me in my times of need. The many times you celebrated my joys and successes in my life. You understood my problems and helped me accept my defeats by teaching me by your loving godly example of forgiveness. You taught me the value of hard work to trust completely in God's judgment and will. You taught me courage and integrity.

 I wonder if I thanked you enough for all the sacrifices you have made to let me have the most Godly teachings of love and forgiveness. I am so thankful for all the times we shared laughter, rejoices, and the many words of wisdom ad encouragement you always gave. I appreciate the many times we prayed together. If I have forgotten to show my gratitude enough for all of the things you did for me I am thanking you now and I am praying that you knew all along how much I admired you and that you meant a lot to me.

 Sometimes, I even taught about how you were so faithful, I the Lord and you were truly the example of the Proverbs 31 Virtuous Woman who's children and those who knew you have risen up today to call you blessed.

I believe God Brings people into our lives for a purpose. god brought you Mrs. R [Patti Williams], into my life for a reason. I will be forever grateful for the three years I spent at Hephzibah House learning by watching and listening to the most godly women I ever knew. I will always treasure the sacrificial care you gave to me. I know that just because you have gone t be with our Savior you will continue to impact this world.

 You all see only the earthly vessel is gone- her life, her values , her beliefs will live on for many generations. It will be my privilege and honor to teach them to my children. Thank you Mrs. R I love you so very much. I know I will see you again!

Give my precious babies a hug for me."

More Lying Evolutionary Art: Piltdown Man

Lying art.

PILTDOWN MAN

Piltdown Man was held forth as a missing link in human evolution for 40 years, but it turned out to be a complete hoax.....

More Lying Evolutionary Art: Piltdown Man

Please click on the above link for the rest of the article.

Pastor Chuck Smith Stuns Radio Listeners by Encouraging Woman to kill her children in womb

http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/7064816215.html

Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, shocked listeners on Tuesday on his "Pastor's Perspective" call-in radio program when he encouraged a tearful mother to abort conjoined twins.

Alabama Prisoners are taught and trained in Buddhism using your tax dollars

BESSEMER, Ala. (WIAT) Kaitlin McCulley   --It's not exactly a Buddhist temple, but inmates in this maximum security Alabama prison are practicing the ancient meditation tradition.

Fernandrez Jordan has been an inmate for three years. "It's helped me to understand the repercussions of the actions I've done in the past."

It's all part of a meditation practice called Vipassana. The chants and music guide listeners into a state of awareness of the moment. 

Director of Treatment, Ron Cavanaugh says they're seeing an improvement in inmates' behavior.

http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/story/Prisoners-Learn-to-Meditate/fwB14hP3q0aihBRk4Qn-CA.cspx






Snip - Your tax dollars at work.

Lying Evolutionary Art: Haeckel's Embryo Chart

February 9, 2011 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org)

It has been said that “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and I have no doubt that more people have been influenced to believe in evolution by artwork than by words. From its inception, Darwinian evolution has been popularized by art.

Lying art.

HAECKEL’S EMBRYO CHART

It was Ernest Haeckel, Charles Darwin’s most enthusiastic disciple in Germany, who devised the iconic embryo chart “proving” that at the embryonic stage man looks almost exactly like various types of animals.

He based this on his “law of recapitulation” (also called the biogenetic law) which stated that the human embryo goes through an evolutionary cycle during which it resembles a single-celled marine organism, then a worm, then a fish with gill slits, then a monkey with a tail, and finally a human. According to recapitulation, each creature repeats or recapitulates the entire alleged evolutionary history. Thus, the human embryo progresses from a single cell to a fish to an amphibian to a reptile to a mammal to an ape to a human.


(snip)


The problem is that it is a grand scientific fraud, and it has been known by scientists to be a fraud since the 19th century!

Haeckel mislabeled embryos; he changed the size of embryos; he deleted parts; he added parts; he changed parts.
Haeckel also brazenly ignored every facet of embryology that directly disproved his theory.
(Snip - please see http://www.icontact-archive.com/4JyxHBMFrPM3nRi1stoVz8nDV-wRZlfA?w=2  for the rest of this article.)


[Editors Note: In the late 1990's I checked out a children's science book at the Birmingham Public Library. This book was STILL using the fraudulent Haeckel embryo chart and was published by the National Science Foundation]

Deliver such an one?

1 Corinthians 5:1  ¶It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
2  And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
3  For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
4  In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5  To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
6  Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
7  ¶Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Update on Ray Boltz comes out as Gay (Homosexual)

Update on Mr. Boltz: A homosexual Internet magazine is excitedly reporting that Boltz has lost his mullet hairstyle! Are they for real? The man left his family and engaged himself in a death style that brings only unhappiness and death and these folks are excited because he doesn't wear a mullet any longer???

Strangely enough, Ray Boltz looks less homosexual NOW than he did back in the day.

They also report that Ray is living with his boyfriend. 

Franco Sperduti

Do you need any of the posts or print screens from the Hephzibah House Helped blog?

I don't have a lot of time any more to keep up the Hephzibah House Helped blog, so I am considering what to do with it.

Some of the print screen of the contradicting stories that were told by some former students may be wanted by someone out there. Or the print screens where the former students lied about how much money Hephzibah House received in support each year.

Is anyone interested in those things or the other information listed there?

You can leave me a comment, and I won't publish it if it has your contact information in it.

Vatican warned Irish bishops not to report abuse

DUBLIN (AP) - A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police - a disclosure that victims' groups described as "the smoking gun" needed to show that the church enforced a worldwide culture of covering up crimes by pedophile priests.

The newly revealed letter, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to The Associated Press, documents the Vatican's rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests following Ireland's first wave of publicly disclosed lawsuits.

The letter undermines persistent Vatican claims, particularly when seeking to defend itself in U.S. lawsuits, that Rome never instructed local bishops to withhold evidence or suspicion of crimes from police. http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/world/vatican-warned-irish-bishops-not-to-report-abuse-wcpo1295434791494

Editors note: Pope Benedict was of course in charge of the office that allowed the molestations to continue in many cases.

Mrs. Patti Williams funeral today

As I watched Mrs. Williams funeral today, or home going ceremony, as some of her children said, I was struck by several different things and thought I might jot them down:

One, what a big family the Williams are blessed with! Someone left a comment about that and left the verse Psalms 127:3.  "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward." How true.

Also, how important writing letters of encouragement was to Mrs. Williams. Two different speakers read from letters that Mrs. Williams had written them, two other speakers talked about the letters they had received from Patti over the years and her children and grandchildren also mentioned receiving letters. They spoke of the godly advice and portions of Scripture Patti's letters always contained.

A chuckle spread through the crowd when Mrs. Kagin read from a very old letter she had received from Mrs. Williams years ago. It said in part:


"Dear Dawn, how I love you in Christ. Be patient and wait and grow in the lord. Perhaps the Lord will bless you with a godly man. Rest in the Lord and trust him, enjoy the position you have at the moment."


If there had been one of those swivel cameras it would have focused in on Mr. Kagin and he would have been blushing! If memory serves, Mrs. Kagin remarked that she was married the very next year.

Before Mrs. Kagin began to read the letter from Mrs. Williams that she had kept all those long years, she spoke through tears of the "helpless 16 year old runaway" that she had been when she first met Mrs. Williams, and how Mrs. Williams had taken her under her wing, and loved her and cared for her, and how it meant so much. Mrs. Kagin also spoke of Patti's honest and strong rebukes as part of the care she received.
["...be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine"]

She recalled how Patti was outspoken about many things, but most of all Jesus and remarked that Patti knew her only goodness was her faith in Jesus Christ. (I think she was referring to the passage of Scripture "in my flesh dwelleth no good thing.")

I was also moved and personally challenged when two of her sons spoke about how often their mother prayed, with them and for them. Those images in their mind kept one son from committing suicide after a span of rebellion and drunkenness had made his life shipwreck. He said "I put that gun to my head and tried to pull the trigger, but the memory of my mother praying for me came rushing back, and I could not pull the trigger." This same son went on to speak of the forgiveness and restoration he experienced with his family.

A grandson spoke of how Mrs. Williams was a picture of grace to them. He also talked about how she did not dote, but instead guided, and was deeply concerned with what they learned to think of the Lord, and what the Lord would think of them!

Her oldest daughter (now a missionary to Mexico) talked about her mother saying to her, after Aaron died, "I need you to help me now, because you have been through what I am now going through," and how their "hearts were knit together" after this loss.

Lastly in my list, but by no means anything nearing a complete report, I was touched by the testimony of a young woman who was a former student at Hephzibah House. She spoke about how Mrs. Williams had always been there for her through the years and how many years ago,  "her sacrificial care" had been so important in the young lady's life. (When she was a student at HH.)

It was a very moving testimony and this former student, while  emotional at the loss of this dear lady,  was very poised and extremely well spoken. I wondered who she was and took a print screen for later so I could ask a friend of mine if he knew her. I titled it "Girl Mrs. Williams Helped."

Then tonight I checked my facebook messages. Earlier in the day I had sent a link to the live streaming of the home going ceremony to a former Hephzibah House student with whom I am acquainted via email.She's now a pastor's wife, a mother of four.  I had not corresponded with her in quite some time, but I knew she would want to view it if possible. She was replying with her thanks, and the news that she had worked all day Monday and driven 12 hours through the night to attend the funeral on Tuesday.

She told me it was a beautiful service and that there were many, many people there. I said "Lucinda, did you by any chance SPEAK at Mrs. Williams funeral???

She told me that she did, and how nervous she was, but what a blessing it was to talk of the love and care and many late night phone calls for prayer she had shared with Mrs. Williams, and how Mrs. Williams was always there for her, and would always pray for her.

Mystery solved. The very poised and well spoken young woman was Lucinda. :-)

Many more people spoke, many beautiful songs were sung, but the hour grows late, so I'll close for now.