Faith – Page 8 – Shanktified!

John Wesley Spins in his Grave!

Transsexual United Methodist Minister Reappointed to Lead Baltimore Church

“Rev. Phoenix merits compassion for a lifelong struggle over gender identity issues, as related at the conference. But the church helps no one when it fails to faithfully transmit the Gospel of hope and transformation,” said UMAction Director Mark Tooley.

This is so sad. The Judicial council of the UMC is likely to address the issue in Oct. How can this even happen, you may wonder? Well, The United Methodist Church has no explicitly stated, official policy regarding sex change operations.

We have failed as a church. We (and I’m not just talking about Methodists here) have failed to reach out in love and offer healing to those in our community confused and burdened with homosexuality. Let me be clear. No matter you sin Jesus Christ offers help and healing. Not through surgery or even acceptance of one’s pet sin, but through the Biblical model of repentance and faith in Christ.

And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Mark 8:34-35

Muslim Episcopal Priests (not a joke)

NRO reports Episcopal Church has gone off the deep end. SHOCKING!!!

Scrappleface may just be the first prophet of sarcasm. Stop doing that Scott.

On a more serious note: This is what happens when you start picking and choosing the scriptures you want to obey or not.

Is Mitt Romney Good Enough to Get Into Heaven?

OneNewsNow.com reports Lou Sheldon is backing Gov. Mitt Romney for President.

What bothers me the most are Sheldon’s responses. First where he says he won’t back others on the ticket because…

“…it would be impractical to endorse one of them because winning the White House requires a lot of money and a large, experienced staff like Romney has.”

In other words, “I am betting on the horse with the best odds”, or “I am not concerned about principle, as much as I am winning.” More disturbing than that however is his defense of Romney’s Mormonism.

“He reads the Bible regularly. He has said — and I asked him — that he has received Jesus Christ as his personal Savior,” the pastor declares. “He believes that Jesus Christ is the divine Son of God, only Son of God divine, and was crucified, buried and raised from the dead for our behalf. So, I think as he addresses those issues, that’s certainly going to ignite good feeling [among Christians].”

First, Mormonism is a cult. Lou Sheldon certainly knows that. They frequently use similar terms as Christianity, but have a completely different understanding of things such as God, Jesus Christ, Salvation, Heaven, Hell, etc.

Secondly, IF Romney were truly born-again, he would repent and leave the Mormon Church or at the very least be extremely uncomfortable within it and in the process of leaving. Before some of you explode on me, no, I can not judge whether a person is truly saved, but we can look for visible signs of repentance and faith in Christ. If he just lacks knowledge, I’ll pray that he finds the truth and leaves the church he so adamantly defends.

Which brings up the question – Is Mitt Romney Good Enough to Get Into Heaven? Are YOU?

Some great comments

If you are not checking for comments often on my blog, here are a couple good ones of late:

Psychologist, Dr. X, chimes in on “Why Evolution Matters”

and Pumkinhead brings up an excellent point on Ron Paul and whether his views of evolution matter as president.

U.S. flag blasted by United Methodist official

And the UMC (of which I am a member) continues to wonder why the denomination is loosing membership.

Minister Clayton Childers of the Capitol Hill-based United Methodist Board of Church and Society said the presence of a national flag can imply endorsement of national policies, which often are counter to the teachings of Christ. Childers even noted that the Swastika flag was displayed prominently in German churches during the Nazi era.

Mark Tooley is with the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD). “Obviously,” he notes, “there are a number of serious problems with that Nazi-American analogy; but one of the problems, of course, is that American churches display the American flag completely voluntarily. No one is compelling them to do it — whereas, of course, in Nazi Germany the totalitarian state compelled its churches not only to display the flag but to support the government’s policies.”

Read the full story at OneNewsNow.com