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It feels like yesterday the baseball regular season started. You wrote "I heart baseball" in permanent marker on your arm, then you met a girl who wrote "I heart guys who heart baseball" on her arm, then, during sex in September, you screamed out "I love you, Marco Scutaro!" and now you don't have baseball or a girlfriend. C'mon, calendar, make like a soldier and turn to March. The only cure for the post-baseball season blues — recapping the preseason top twenty lists and being hand-fed Doritos. First up, Cool Ranch and our preseason Top 20 Catchers for 2011. It's important to look back before we look ahead to 2012.
Please, blog, may I have some more?2011 Fantasy Baseball Rankings
So it's not really the 2nd half mark in the fantasy baseball season, but it's the All-Star Break so what else are we going to talk about? The newest The Challenge: Rivals? If this show were on E!, CT would not only have his own spinoff, but he'd be getting married to a Kardashian by now. Also, love how they seamlessly drop Real World/Road Rules from the show name, throw in people who you're not even sure what show they were originally on and make the show better. The Real World is now just the minor leagues for The Challenge. Finally, on the last episode Mike in the water sounded like a dolphin getting f**ked by a shark. Okay, as with all of the other 2011 fantasy baseball rankings, take this list with a grain of salt. If you need a 2nd baseman, but an outfielder is above him that doesn't mean you can't trade the outfielder for the 2nd baseman. Also, things change in fantasy baseball.
Please, blog, may I have some more?I'm a pretty harsh critic of Razzball, but occasionally we'll post things that even I feel are extremely helpful. Usually these are done by other people for our site. One of those things was the Fantasy Baseball War Room. Another helpful thingie-ma-whosie is the 2011 fantasy baseball tiers, brought to you by regular commenter and all-around solid F.O.R., VinWins. This fantasy baseball tier sheet is like the Cliff Notes version of the 2011 fantasy baseball rankings. The tiers give you where I ranked players and the tier names, which should give you a rough idea of what I'm thinking when you don't have much time.
Please, blog, may I have some more?Finally, we come to the end of the 2011 fantasy baseball rankings. (Can we start games already?) Okay, you know that I like Travis Snider more than Delmon Young in the top 60 outfielders for 2011 fantasy baseball. You know I like Ian Desmond better than Starlin Castro as seen at the top 20 shortstops for 2011 fantasy baseball. But you don't know how I feel about where these guys fall in the bigger picture. Is Ian Desmond above Travis Snider? Yup. So to show you where I think players fall in relation to each other in 2011 fantasy baseball drafts, I'm putting together a top 300 for 2011 fantasy baseball. This still needs to be taken with a grain of salt. If you have a shortstop already and Ian Desmond is still on the board in the 17th round, you don't draft him if you see Travis Snider and you need an outfielder, even though Travis Snider is below Ian Desmond on this list. So I might take someone at 200 over someone at 180? Yes, every draft is different. With the top 10, there's almost no latitude. With the top 100, there's a decent amount of latitude. With a top 300, there's lots of latitude. You taking someone at 185 is more or less the same as someone else taking someone at 235. So if you see someone who's ranked at 250th, but want them at 200, then do what you do. Because of the length of the top 300, there's no pithy comments with each name, but you kinda do need to know what I'm thinking for each name, so I advise you go over each position in the 2011 fantasy baseball rankings. The top 100 and top 300 is what I would have at my drafts, along with the Point Shares and the top 20 rankings posts. I already went over a top 100 for 2011 fantasy baseball, so I'm not going to cover them again. This top 300 will go from 101 to 300. Finally, see our list of all players with multiple position eligibility. Anyway, here's the top 300 for 2011 fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?With the 2011 fantasy baseball rankings for every position done, we turn our lazy eye towards the top 100 for 2011 fantasy baseball. These rankings may as well been co-written by George W. Bush because, if those 2011 fantasy baseball rankings were the bomb, this shizz is nu-cu-lar. None of this top 100 for 2011 fantasy baseball is meant to surprise. It's just taking my positional rankings and putting guys in The Big Picture. You really should read each ranking post because the blurbs in this top 100 are on the skimpy side because there's so many of them. Obviously at a hundred players, some guys just didn't make it. About 200 or so, to be inexact. It's okay, there will be a top 300 too. Shortly, Sloth, you'll have your Baby Ruth. Not to get all biblical on you, but this is the gospel. Print it out and take it to Mt.
Please, blog, may I have some more?The 2011 fantasy baseball rankings are just about in the bag, but first we look at the top 20 middle relievers for 2011 fantasy baseball. No, next we're not going to do the Top 20 Guys Who Will Have The Most Balks. Chillax. The only people that seem to pay attention to middle relievers are those that play in a Holds league. That's wrong, I tell ya. A great way to balance out your ratios is by carrying a few middle relievers on your staff. (BTW, Ron Jeremy can carry three middle relievers on his staff.) Say you had Scott Baker last year and he mistook your team's ERA for his toilet, but you also had Daniel Bard. With just Baker, you had the 4.49 ERA dump to clean up. With Bard and his brand new toilet brush, you had a 3.71 ERA. If you also carried Matt Thornton, you had a combined 3.51 ERA. Not to mention, you had 11 vulture saves. Oh, and your WHIP went from Baker's 1.34 to 1.20 and had an additional 157 Ks.
Please, blog, may I have some more?The 2011 fantasy baseball rankings have reached the next to next to next to last stop with the top 20 closers for 2011 fantasy baseball. These top 20 closers are different than all of the other rankings. The closers on the top of this list you should not draft and there are closers that aren't on this list that you should be targeting. Shortly, there will be a list of every team's closer and setup man. The projections are also a bit wonky since you can't predict saves. It's a fool's errand. If fool's errand means what I think it does. Some well-known projectionists (not the pimply kid unspooling The King's Speech) don't even attempt to predict saves. Saves come down to opportunity. This is yet another reason why you shouldn't draft the top guys. Nevertheless, my projections are listed along with where I see tiers starting and stopping. Anyway, here's the top 20 closers for 2011 fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?We fill out the 2011 fantasy baseball rankings with the last few hitters, the top 10 utility players for 2011 fantasy baseball. These players are only eligible at DH aka Utility. Frankly, I don't think you should draft any of these designated hitters. They don't allow enough flexibility. For example, what if you had Travis Hafner clogging up your Utility spot last year and you really wanted to pick up Jose Bautista? You would've been wretched, retching on all fours to borrow from The Decemberists. These guys have no position eligibility for fantasy baseball. As with past rankings posts, this top 10 for 2011 will be broken up into tiers, and their 2011 projections will be included. Anyway, here's the top 10 utility players for 2011 fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?This is almost the end of the 2011 fantasy baseball rankings. With these top 80 starters for 2011 fantasy baseball, there's a few names that I'm really gunning for on my teams… My deeper teams. On last year's top 80, there was one guy who truly emerged (Mat Latos) and a few who kinda did (Filthy Sanchez, Trevor Cahill and Brandon Morrow), so I imagine a lot of you won't need most of the names on this list. But humor me. There's tiers and projections mentioned for everyone. Anyway, here's the top 80 starters for 2011 fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?In our 2011 fantasy baseball rankings, we've gone over so many flippin' players I've lost track. This is, I believe, the top 60 starters for 2011 fantasy baseball, but you're best to check the title to be sure. If it is indeed the top 60 starters, then you're in luck. Only a few more top 20 rankings posts. What is it, February? March? Why don't I have an app for this? Or do I want a hashtag? App 'n Hashtag would be a good name for a 50s style diner with wifi. As with the other rankings posts, tiers and my projections are mentioned. Anyway, here's the top 60 starters for 2011 fantasy baseball:
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When you buy a new phone, you have a reasonable expectation that it will have nothing on it.
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This is the allegation being laid in a lawsuit against Sprint and Nextel by the father of a young son in Pasadena, Calif.
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And (Jesus) was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. For what is a man profited if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits himself? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels." (Luke 9:23-26)
Inconvenient, damned inconvenient...
Five weeks before Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed for the last time, I was thinking about the inconvenience of being a disciple of Jesus Christ. God seemed to be directing my thoughts to see my love of that which makes me comfortable. I was beginning to see that my schedule and my distractions were interfering with my 'spiritual service of worship' (Rom 12). I began to look for opportunities to become inconvenienced.
Tim Bayly, a pastor with whom I work, started talking about going to Florida to oppose the killing of Terri. The leadership of the church was supportive, myself included. I thought briefly about going along but quickly dismissed the idea, thinking that having more than one staff gone at one time would cause hardship for the church, that my duties would not get done, that it would cost too much, and that I wasn't sure protesting there would be my "thing." I kept all thoughts of civil disobedience way in the back of my mind...
In the aftermath of the most Supreme Court's recent abysmal decisions in the Kelo and Ten Commandments cases, I repeat a post from earlier this year...
The long-term health of America's federal government depends upon a finely-tuned constitutional system of checks and balances.
Speaking of Power Line, these are the concluding paragraphs of Power Line author John Hinderaker's against-the-grain-of-conservative-thought analysis of last week's Supreme Court decision in the Kelo case:
Today most significant development projects involve multiple uses and cooperation between public and private entities. While such projects can no doubt be subject to various abuses, they can also be enormously successful and of great public benefit--to take just one example, consider the spectacular renovation of Baltimore's inner harbor. Moreover, two factors minimize the danger that economic development projects pose to individual rights. First, they are carried out in the glare of publicity. Nothing in local government attracts more scrutiny or more criticism than such projects. Second, the Fifth Amendment requires that anyone whose property is taken for a public use be fairly compensated, and in practice, most takings are compensated generously. Thus, while condemnation can undoubtedly impose hardship on individuals, it is unlikely to result in gross injustice. The principal threats to property rights lie elsewhere. In particular, regulatory actions often severely limit what an owner can do with his property. Unlike urban development projects, such regulations are often adopted in forums that are remote from, and unresponsive to, the political process. And what an owner generally hopes for in such situations is to be covered by the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of compensation for the loss of use of his property, which is automatic in the case of a condemnation. So it is a good thing that the Kelo decision has focused attention on the erosion of property rights; but, despite the critical consensus that has formed among conservatives, it is far from clear that the case was wrongly decided.
The principal threats to property rights lie elsewhere. In particular, regulatory actions often severely limit what an owner can do with his property. Unlike urban development projects, such regulations are often adopted in forums that are remote from, and unresponsive to, the political process. And what an owner generally hopes for in such situations is to be covered by the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of compensation for the loss of use of his property, which is automatic in the case of a condemnation.
So it is a good thing that the Kelo decision has focused attention on the erosion of property rights; but, despite the critical consensus that has formed among conservatives, it is far from clear that the case was wrongly decided.
I don't know if Hinderaker is right in his assessment of the positive value of such redevelopment efforts, but he is dead on in his description of the greater problem in his next-to-final paragraph.
Regulations and zoning are increasingly vehicles for governmental theft. Perhaps some time Tim will detail here the amazing story of Church of the Good Shepherd's years-long travail in seeking to put a church on a thirty-acre plot of land they purchased in central Bloomington. By the time governmental demands for rights-of-way, permanent easements, and donations to a local park were added to zoning and environmental demands, Church of the Good Shepherd was left with less than twenty percent of their purchase to build on.
They did the only sensible thing--sold, and purchased new land outside the city limits.
I think Hinderaker is right. We're straining at a gnat in the Kelo case, having swallowed a camel in our acceptance of so much regulation and restriction in the past.
Citizens who grieve the slaughter of the unborn breathed a sigh of relief when President Bush turned away from Alberto Gonzales, instead nominating John Roberts for the Supreme Court. Although Roberts has flown under the radar most of his career, and although a central plank in Bush's initial campaign for the presidency was that abortion would not be a litmus test for his judicial nominees (huh?), we may hope.
Really, though, the problem with our judiciary is larger than individuals; it is the whole practice of judicial review that has allowed the Supreme Court to arrogate to itself powers inconceivable to our Founding Fathers. Check out Joe Sobran's essay, How Tyranny Came to America. A teaser:
Question: When did the Supreme Court first declare an act of Congress unconstitutional?
Answer: In 1857 when the Taney Court issued the infamous Dred Scott decision which, by the same majority as Roe v. Wade (7-2), declared negroes not full persons under the law:
We think they [people of African ancestry] are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. -Dred Scott v. Sandford
At Christ the Word we've recently been encountering opposition from residents and township leaders in an area where we're seeking to purchase twenty acres for a future building. Our opponents have forthrightly declared themselves opposed to our purchase of the land--and the issuance of a special use permit by township authorities--simply because we're a church.
Increasingly churches are fair game for governmental interference and opposition. For this reason, the chronic trials of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, as they've sought simply to act as a normal Evangelical church with typical church programming and affiliated church-related educational institutions are battles by proxy against the entire American Church.
Christ Church has faced:
1) Preposterous and ongoing zoning charges 2) Alcoholic beverage denial (they wanted to serve communion in a service at a rented university building and were denied permission because they would be "serving alcohol to minors" forcing a change in worship location) 3) Overt, orchestrated opposition from governmental officials 4) Calumnies and libels in local papers--culminating recently in a newspaper article headlined "Neo-Nazi Christians make presence felt again in Northern Idaho"
2) Alcoholic beverage denial (they wanted to serve communion in a service at a rented university building and were denied permission because they would be "serving alcohol to minors" forcing a change in worship location)
3) Overt, orchestrated opposition from governmental officials
4) Calumnies and libels in local papers--culminating recently in a newspaper article headlined "Neo-Nazi Christians make presence felt again in Northern Idaho"
Doug Wilson mentions on his blog the existence of a New Saint Andrews College legal defense fund in the course of a recent entry on the progress of Christ Church's "Trinity Fest."
NSA began distributing little stress balls, with the NSA logo, along with an inscription that read something like Moscow Zoning Complaint stress ball. A small donation to NSA's legal defense fund will get you one, and they come in lots of happy colors.
No address for the fund is given but it would be a worthy cause.
While we've not failed to argue the reformed distinction between general and special revelation--that general revelation is sufficient to condemn while special revelation alone leads to saving faith in Jesus Christ--there is a current within reformed churches today that uses this distinction to provide comfort for what appears to us to be heartlessness toward our neighbors. The illogic goes something like this:
If pagans choose to kill their unborn (or newly born) children, they do so because God has given them over. Who are we to intervene? If pagans choose to copulate like alley cats, they do so because God has given them over. Why should we oppose what God has decreed? If pagans choose to sterilize their marital love, more power to God's covenant people who will have lots of children, teach them how to think and lead, and take over our nation. If pagans choose to sodomize one another, what business is that of ours? We can't expect them to acknowledge, let alone follow, God's Law. Let the civil authority handle such matters in the way best calculated to preserve peace among us; if sodomites come to Christ, they will see the error of their ways and repent.
If pagans choose to copulate like alley cats, they do so because God has given them over. Why should we oppose what God has decreed?
If pagans choose to sterilize their marital love, more power to God's covenant people who will have lots of children, teach them how to think and lead, and take over our nation.
If pagans choose to sodomize one another, what business is that of ours? We can't expect them to acknowledge, let alone follow, God's Law. Let the civil authority handle such matters in the way best calculated to preserve peace among us; if sodomites come to Christ, they will see the error of their ways and repent.
It is such reasoning that allows reformed and evangelical leaders to argue in favor of the repeal of all laws opposing sodomy across our nation. What are we to say to them...
The following was written over a year ago as my own personal mental discipline in response to a certain teaching elder within my own denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America, coming out in a prominent national forum in favor of the repeal of all sodomy laws across our country. I have not published these thoughts on the blog or in any other forum. Now, though, I am putting them on this blog to assist others in fighting against this betrayal of God's Truth and the souls and lives of those vulnerable to sodomy. I would welcome E-mails from any who have additional sources or arguments to add strengthening this case.
Genesis 2:20-25 The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. 22 The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. 23 The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man." 24 For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. 25 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
God ordained the nature and meaning of sexuality prior to the Fall, and no human authority may separate what God has joined together: sex is to be within species and heterosexual (between man and woman). This is a universal truth rooted in the Creation Order and therefore binding on all men across all time. This is the teaching of Genesis 2 and other texts having to do with sexuality, and marriage only builds upon what Genesis 2 declares.
Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
As the Westminster Standards teach, sodomy is prohibited by the Seventh Commandment. If, despite the teaching of this Commandment, the man of God is justified in opposing and seeking the repeal of the civil authority's laws proscribing sodomy, are there any sins against this Commandment the civil authority may proscribe?
Several years ago I was speaking to Ken Sande and he told me of the growing movement in Canada to prosecute Christian pastors, churches, bookstores, etc. who proclaimed Scripture's doctrine of sexuality, particularly its condemnation of sodomy. Sande's organization, Peacemakers was at that time involved in providing legal counsel for Canadian Christians under such attack.
Since then, my own congregation has had occasion to use the services of another Christian legal organization, the Alliance Defense Fund, and I commend them to our readers for their godly work defending the free exercise of religion.
A good example of that work is their involvement in the notorious case of the Swedish pastor, Ake Green, whose prosecution for preaching Scripture's truths concerning sexuality is before Sweden's supreme court. (Here's the text of Pastor Green's sermon.)
Here are the details concerning Pastor Green's case as well as a call to prayer published by the Alliance Defense Fund. And here is where you may be kept abreast of other religious freedom cases the ADF considers noteworthy. I warmly commend the ADF to our good readers, both for their financial and prayer support, and also their training--those who are in the legal profession, that is.
A recent commenter on this blog left notice of an internet petition drive requesting the State of Mississippi to reexamine the death sentence of Cory Maye.
We've written about Cory Maye before. Tim and I, as cousins to a dearly beloved (former) staff attorney for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court who suffered through petition after petition and uproar after uproar on behalf of manifestly guilty Pennsylvania cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, don't lightly suggest petitioning on behalf of a convicted murderer.
But the case of Cory Maye is an exception....
AT 11:00PM ON DECEMBER 26, 2001... Members of the Prentiss, Mississippi police force and the Pearl River Basin Narcotics Task Force conducted a drug raid on the duplex apartment of Jamie Smith. Cory Maye lived in the other apartment that made up the duplex. Maye was not named in the police warrant for the duplex. Smith was arrested for marijuana possession. As the raid on Smith commenced, some officers went around to the other side of the duplex, in search of more contraband. They either thought the other side of the duplex was part of Smith's apartment, or they may have thought it was abandoned. The door was actually a door to Maye's home. Maye was asleep and awoke when he heard the rear door being smashed in. The rear door opened into the rear bedroom where Maye's 18 month old daughter was asleep. Fearing for himself and his daughter, Maye picked up his gun and fired at the intruders as they came into his daughter's bedroom. A bullet hit and killed the first officer to enter, Ronald Jones. When other officers shouted "Police," Maye ceased firing and surrendered to arrest. Maye is now on death row for the killing of a police officer.
Read further details of the case here.
And then, consider signing the petition here.
One area Christians can, and should, speak prophetically to our political leaders is to warn them against the use of nuclear arms in military conflict, and this includes nuclear arms that are strategically deployed--in other words, something less than the full scale bombing of cities. Not being old enough to remember if there was such a prophetic voice against the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I can't say whether we fulfilled our calling then. But if Seymour Hersh's piece in the latest (April 17, 2006) New Yorker, exposing the Bush administration's plans to wage war against Iran, is reliable (and Hersh is about as reliable as any journalist at work today), our duty is clear and the time to speak is now.
Hersh begins his piece:
The Bush administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a major air attack. ..."The planning is enormous," (a) former senior intelligence official said. The plans include "significant air attacks on (the Iranians) countermeasures and anti-aircraft missiles--a huge takedown." He depicted the planning as hectic, and far beyond the contingency work that is routinely done. "These are operational plans," the former official said... One of the military's initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapons...
One of the military's initial option plans, as presented to the White House by the Pentagon this winter, calls for the use of bunker-buster tactical nuclear weapons...
By any Christian and biblical, as opposed to nationalistic, evaluation of the righteousness of the United States in her conflict with middle eastern nations, we must not stoop to using the hypocritical criteria of a patriot who says, "My nation, right or wrong." As Christians we are different, called by God to "judge rightly." And a righteous judgment of our nation must start, not with others' sins against us, but ours against a holy God.
It's always easier to point a finger outside our home, community, or nation and to cry out against others' sins, but judgment must begin locally, and move out from there. This is the meaning of Jesus' statement about splinters and beams--we are to correct ourselves before we correct others.
As Christian citizens, then, we must look long and hard at our own nation when we consider the justice of our claims against Iran, Iraq, or Al Qaeda. As the Apostle Paul says:
Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. But do you suppose this, O man, when you pass judgment on those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2:1-4)
So when Christians cry down the wickedness of other nations and rulers without any mention of our own wickedness, I read it as nationalism uninformed by Scripture. And that's bad. Christians are not to judge their own and other nations as if the relations between nations are only a matter of who did what to whom on the international level.
When we want to condemn some combination of mid-east forces for bombing the World Trade Center and the Pentagon...
In the past couple of weeks, our congregation has been involved in bearing witness to our public servants in two areas: one, a local city ordinance that was passed this last week by our Bloomington City Council raising "gender identity" into a protected status equal to race, age, religion, and so forth. They'd already raised "sexual orientation" into protected status, but deemed that insufficient protection for various souls, particularly the "transgendered." Despite our witness at all three meetings where the ordinance was read and debated, it passed unanimously. Pastor Dave Curell engaged the city fathers in an E-mail correspondence that I'm hopeful can be put up here on the blog soon, but will first need some formatting.
Then the other shoe dropped. This same week the Indianapolis Star had a very large headline across the front page announcing that the Indiana Court of Appeals had ruled in favor of what the Indy Star called "gay adoption." The ruling was two to one, with an excellent dissent written by Judge Ted Najam. I've read the majority opinion and it's pure legal casuistry--all kinds of closely reasoned arguments making it appear that their ruling is only an absolutely necessary deduction from the plain meaning of adoption legislation passed by the Indiana legislature. But anyone who knows the Indiana legislative climate will recognize that as a joke.
Before reading anything about the decision and knowing who the judges were, I submitted the following letter to the editor of the Indy Star. Here's the letter, which today was responded to by three letters to the editor you can find here, here, and here.
Are you serving faithfully as salt and light in your community, steadfastly proclaiming both God's 'yes' and His 'no'? Or have you lost your savor, having convinced yourself that doctrine and truth don't really matter--only friendship evangelism and random acts of human kindness.
To the Editor: The big news today? The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled in favor of "gay adoption," two judges in the majority and one dissenting. And although I don't yet know the names of any of the three judges, one thing is clear: two judges have defied nature and nature's God, while the third fears God and loves the citizens of the state of Indiana--particularly her children...
The big news today? The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled in favor of "gay adoption," two judges in the majority and one dissenting. And although I don't yet know the names of any of the three judges, one thing is clear: two judges have defied nature and nature's God, while the third fears God and loves the citizens of the state of Indiana--particularly her children...
I'm not much for conspiracies as they're normally conceptualized--plots carried out by evil men who act in concert with one another while hiding their identities and intentions.
Why? Because a good conspiracy requires discipline and a lot of hard work, and the liberals I've known are too lazy for that kind of stuff.
But I do believe, intensely, in conspiracies planned and implemented by Satan using men as pawns in his insurrection against the Only True God. At times, I think we'd almost have to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to see the direction he's heading. One of those directions I've often written about in the past is the steady loss of religious freedom that is making it more and more costly for followers of Jesus Christ to live according to Scripture's principles.
Take the matter of churches' hiring practices, for instance: the state continues to fiddle around the edge of our religious freedoms by declaring that certain matters are simply a question of equality and justice--not moral or religious principles. The state claims to have an interest in assuring that churches and other religious institutions conduct their business in such a way as not to violate our current civil compact, particularly in matters where that compact is going through radical change.
Sexual matters are the center of this oppressive use of civil authority today--particularly the normalization of sodomy. Does the free exercise of religion allow bigoted churches to call sodomy "sexual perversion" and refuse to hire a sodomite as their church organist or high school youth leader? Generally, the answer here in the U.S. is still "yes," but not for long--I guarantee it. The direction of Satan's conspiracy is clear to those who have trained themselves to distinguish good and evil. As the Holy Spirit says, "...solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil" (Hebrews 5:14).
A week ago, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision in Petruska v. Gannon University that does not bode well for the peaceful life of the People of God. Good commentary on the significance of this bad decision may be found here and here.
Dissenting from the majority, Judge D. Brooks Smith wrote: "I disagree with the majority's fundamental premise that a church's choice regarding who performs particular spiritual functions is not necessarily a religious decision. Rather, in my view, such a decision is, by its very nature, a religious one.... (T)he process of selecting a minister is per se a religious exercise. A minister is not merely an employee of the church; she [sic] is an embodiment of its message."
Finally, here is a helpful database of decisions related to church autonomy under federal law.
(Thank you, Mark.)
(Jesus said) I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep. (John 10:11-13)
(Tim) Tonight I'm leading a discussion of Herbert Workman's Persecution in the Early Church (Oxford Paperbacks) with our first year Pastors College men. If you haven't read this book, you simply must. Nothing has helped me understand our present pressures and how best to prepare our children for the coming persecution as well as this little treasure.
Anyhow, I was reminded of Workman's book while reading this excerpt from an account published in the Times of the recent persecution of Buddhist monks in Burma:
A teacher talked about the pain of seeing Buddhism desecrated and the fear of the military that spread among the monks.I know dozens of monks. One monk is very old. He is 78. It never occurred to him that in his lifetime he would have to hide. The day after the shootings started, I went to this monastery and the faces that I saw on those monks was something I had never seen. It is not fear. It was a sadness so unbelievable.Now the young monks that I talked to--who weren't rounded up--they want to disrobe...
A teacher talked about the pain of seeing Buddhism desecrated and the fear of the military that spread among the monks.
I know dozens of monks. One monk is very old. He is 78. It never occurred to him that in his lifetime he would have to hide. The day after the shootings started, I went to this monastery and the faces that I saw on those monks was something I had never seen. It is not fear. It was a sadness so unbelievable.
Now the young monks that I talked to--who weren't rounded up--they want to disrobe...
(Tim) From John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, this excerpt explaining why reformed pastors have nothing at all to say about the election of a woman to the presidency of these United States...
(Tim; thanks David C.) Here in Bloomington over the past decade or so, we've watched the human rights commission become an aggressive advocate for sexual perversions from sodomy to transexual bathrooms and locker rooms. Hiding behind a name carefully calculated to cause everyone to lower their guard, most everything these commissions promote and seek to enforce by law would be more accurately described as the denial of human rights--the free exercise of religion and free speech, most particularly.
For a good description of the systemic evil these commissions are at the heart of, read this statement made to the Alberta Human Rights Commission in Clagary by Ezra Levant on January 11, 2008.
(Tim) When I read Jacques Ellul's False Presence of the Kingdom a number of years ago, I found it very helpful in giving me a Christian understanding of Church-state relations, and particularly the danger of the Church being compromised in her work and message by the influence and power of the state.
Any Christian pastor watching the ruckus over the sermons of Senator Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, this past few weeks should have quickly concluded that this controversy is significant, principally, in yielding one more step in the inexorable movement of the removal of truth and courage and boldness from the proclamation of God's Word in churches around our country. It's been a terrible moment when someone watching closely could literally watch the feminization of discourse taking huge steps forward, particularly in the public discourse of the Church and Her Word known as preaching. (And no, I'm not defending the particulars of Pastor Wright's sermons.)
If you haven't read this work by Ellul, buy it now and read it carefully. Ellul has the sort of mind and pen that probe and expose our hearts such that we are invigorated and feel as if we might be partaking of the air and wind of another more truthful and honest age.
Remembering Ellul's wonderful bracingness, I just found and read a short essay by him, from 1947, titled, "On Nuremberg." I post it here as an historical meditation on the depravity of man, and thus the necessity of the substitutionary atonement--Good Friday's priceless treasure of the cross and blood and death of Jesus Christ. Oh how we need that precious blood!
Think beyond ourselves, to the terrible bloodsheds Western civilization has been (and presently is) built upon...
(Tim, w/thanks to Lucas) From my perspective, there's little difference between the claims of unity of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Both amount to little more than, "We're real, real old."
No duh.
Read Calvin's Institutes and you'll see that evangelical reformed doctrine and practice are much older, going back to the Apostles themselves with much support in the early and medieval church. I like to tell my congregation that the Roman Catholic church didn't exist until the Council of Trent when it went off in schism. Yes, it's slightly hyperbolic, but a good bit true, too.
Here's an article from the New York Times documenting something those of us with brothers and sisters in Christ working in former Soviet bloc countries knew already. Just as Orthodoxy's scribes were tight with the KGB before Communism's fall, they're tight now with the blinkered nationalistic thugs governing these countries today. And Orthodoxy's patriarchs are in The Man's hip pockets...
(Tim w/thanks to Dan) Speaking of the loss of liberty, here's one of an almost-limitless number of articles that demonstrate where we're headed in these United States. Western European nations, Australia, and Canada are already far down the trail, but it's still a bit of a shocker here at home. "As to be hated needs but to be seen." In time, though, I'm afraid we'll all settle in and decide no Christian witness is at stake here, there, or anywhere.
I wonder whether Christians right now believe spanking their children is a basic act of biblical obedience? How many evangelicals would, as an act of conscience, oppose national or state laws banning it?
You think you know something about the churches David and I serve, right? Well, we just lost a woman who'd been at Church of the Good Shepherd for twelve years because...
(Tim) In an op-ed piece today, the New York Times is concerned about the results of the recent Rand Corporation study, Invisible Wounds of War, which found that "women suffer from higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression than men" after military deployment. Really.
We are a nation of idiots--callous, degraded, wicked idiots. We send our wives and daughters off to war and, when they come home emotional wrecks, we act surprised and blame it on the fact that one third of them were sexually assaulted or raped while they were deployed. Really.
I have compassion for these daughters, wives, and mothers, but my compassion makes me remember and ask that you all remember, also...
(Tim) Now that our busy-bee legislators have made a law banning toddlers from riding in cars without a special car seat, we can guess what's next. Those terrible bunk beds out wreaking havoc each and every night. Watch out, our Nanny State is on the move and there's no stopping her. Sodomites kill one another and mother's murder their unborn babies with no fear of the civil authority, but bruises and bumps from bunk beds? Something's gonna be done.
(Tim: A week or so ago, thirty plus members of Church of the Good Shepherd went to Bloomington's City Council meeting to oppose our tax dollars being appropriated by the Council members to fund an organization that makes Hitler's Third Reich and it's Holocaust factories look like child's play. I'm speaking of course of Planned Parenthood which makes its living off of the slaughter of unborn children tenderly nestled in their mother's womb. By itself, Planned Parenthood is responsible for a quarter of a million of those murders each year, and they're moving their abattoirs into more affluent areas in order to grow their bloody profit.Each year here in Bloomington, Planned Parenthood goes through the charade of requesting tax dollars to help provide its clients with some service close to, but not exactly coterminous with it's slaughter machine. And each year, our city fathers cuddle up to this progressive nonprofit and ante up our dough over our vociferous protest. One of those speaking against this Holocaust funding this year was Mary Lee's and my dear friend and fellow CGS member, Joshua Congrove. Although we were out of town at the time, we heard Josh's testimony was good, so I asked him if he could send me a copy. Here are a few prefaratory comments he wrote to set the scene, followed by what he said that night.)
This year, as usual, Planned Parenthood received a donation from the Bloomington City Council (and from public funds) to support a particular medical procedure. While the procedure itself is unobjectionable, the giving of public money to an organization that performs hundreds of abortions per year is an egregious act that demands objection...
(Tim) Two friends copied me on the following correspondence. I have chosen not to identify the person asking the question. The answer is given by Brian Bailey, an Indianapolis attorney who, with his wife Nicole and their children, are a part of Church of the Good Shepherd here in Bloomington.
A friend asks Brian this question: A commenter here at BaylyBlog linked to another blog about a woman in the Presbyterian Church in America (Missy Irons) who says she is in favor of homosexual marriage because it is their civil right. She claims that since we Christians are afforded protection through civil rights, then we shouldn't be hypocritical and deny them the same. (That's basically me paraphrasing a few of her blogs into one sentence, I'll admit). How would I respond? Is there any "secular" reason to oppose homosexual marriage?
Brian Bailey responds: I'm happy to take a stab at answering your e-mail... I've numbered the paragraphs to streamline the response and give it more organization.
1. The proponent of sodomite marriage as a civil right seeks to change the status quo across all previous cultures, eras, and places. Any earthling would admit sodomite marriage is a radical innovation peculiar to our post-20th century Western culture. The promoter has the burden to prove the existence of that right.
2. To assert a right is necessarily to appeal to some source of authority beyond merely saying, This is the way I want things to be. The proponent must appeal to some source, beyond his predilections and preferences, for the alleged right to sodomite marriage. And to say that homosexual marriage is a civil right proves nothing. He must locate the source of the right.
3. There are two, and only two, possible sources of a right: God or man.
4. Historically, Americans have believed and declared that God is the ultimate source of their rights. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." This is not a theoretical construct or a way to lend solemnity to foundational legal documents. A people steeped in the knowledge that they live, move, and exist in God (Acts 17:28), that the truth shall set them free (John 8:32), and that Thou shalt not steal (Exodus 20:15), will confess that God is the source of their rights. See, e.g., Indiana Constitution, preamble ("TO THE END, that justice be established, public order maintained, and liberty perpetuated; WE, the People of the State of Indiana, grateful to ALMIGHTY GOD for the free exercise of the right to choose our own form of government, do ordain this Constitution.")...
Woman was not made for this, O man, to be prostituted as common. O ye subverters of all decency, who use men, as if they were women, and lead out women to war, as if they were men! This is the work of the devil, to subvert and confound all things, to overleap the boundaries that have been appointed from the beginning, and remove those which God has set to nature. For God assigned to woman the care of the house only, to man the conduct of public affairs. But you reduce the head to the feet, and raise the feet to the head. You suffer women to bear arms, and are not ashamed. (Chrysostom, Homily on Titus 2:14).
(Tim) In other discussions on this blog of Governor Sarah Palin's candidacy for Vice President, someone left a link to a piece by Dr. Al Mohler commending the leadership of women outside the church and home--as long as the dishes are done and the diapers changed first, that is. Front end, I want to say that I have great appreciation for Dr. Mohler's leadership, particularly as it pertains to God's order of sexuality.
And yet, here is the heart of his argument:
The New Testament clearly speaks to the complementary roles of men and women in the home and in the church, but not in roles of public responsibility. I believe that women as CEOs in the business world and as officials in government are no affront to Scripture. Then again, that presupposes that women -- and men -- have first fulfilled their responsibilities within the little commonwealth of the family.
The New Testament does not clearly speak to the complementary roles of men and women (in) roles of public responsibility and women as CEOs and government officials "are no affront to Scripture." Yet here's what the Apostle Paul writes in that same New Testament to which Dr. Mohler refers:
But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint. (1 Timothy 2:12-15)
Writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul declares he does "not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man." Why this prohibition?
Two reasons: First, because God established a Creation Order when He created Adam first and then Eve; and second, because Adam was not the one deceived, but Eve was deceived and fell into transgression.
According to the Holy Spirit speaking in the Word of God, we are not to "allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man" because of the Creation Order and the Fall. So says the New Testament.
When I served as the Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, I tired of those halfway covenant men who showed great zeal to defend the creation order where it maintained the male prerogative in the church and home, while dismissing it Monday through Saturday, everywhere else. Are the Fall and Creation Order really meaningless outside the church and home? Are they really immaterial everywhere else? Does it really not matter a whit that Sarah Palin is a woman?
(Tim, w/thanks to Brian) If you, good reader, have never read G. K. Chesterton's essays on womanhood; if you've never allowed yourself to think thoughts contrary to our culture concerning woman's unique calling; if you've never noticed the patronizing attitude of evangelical feminists toward godly women of the church who cook, wash the feet of the saints, show hospitality, teach other women and children, and pray; if you've never taken particular notice of the transfer of charity from Christian women confessing their faith to well-paid female executives running nonprofits or working for government bureaucracies; if you've never had a wealthy female church member who serves as a county supervisor tell you not to worry about the poor in your community because "that's what we pay taxes for;" if you haven't noticed how the loss of constitutional government in these United States has produced bondage and bloodshed for her citizens; if you have never found yourself sickened over the naked pandering at the heart of every state of the union address and every campaign speech of our time; if you didn't hang out in the church parking lot yesterday, basking in the warm sunshine of an early Fall afternoon as you listened to a missionary couple's son explain...
(Tim) For all those inclined to think larger, more aggressive government is the answer to any crisis, here's a good article demonstrating how the present crisis was compounded by regulations passed after Enron.
Years ago, I lost a parishioner in an airplane crash. A few years later, I read an article detailing how passing new regulations intended to avert the circumstances leading up to that crash would likely cause even more disasters. Laws often have unintended consequences worse than the danger those laws are intended to protect us from. Here's a book filled with such cases.
Government will never be our Savior. "Some boast in chariots and others in horses, but we will boast in the Name of the Lord, our God" (Psalm 20:7).
(Tim, w/thanks to David) Years ago, a missionary friend who worked in Sweden admitted to me that he couldn't spank his children without fear of government action, so he hid whatever spankings he gave them. This news item ran in Portage, Wisconsin, just a few miles from where I served prior to being called to Bloomington, Indiana.
Brothers in Christ, we live in a wicked day. Already, aided by the civil authority, our minor daughter can contract with Planned Parenthood to hire a murderer to kill her unborn son or daughter. And the government helps her to hide it from her father and mother.
As I've always said, this is the most wicked aspect of our current baby-killing regime. A godly father or mother cannot protect their minor daughter from those seducing her to become a murderer. They may well never know.
Meanwhile, spanking renders Christian parents vulnerable to losing custody of their children. The normal Christian parent who uses the corporal punishment commanded by God (Prov. 13:24; 22:15; 23:13; 29:15; etc.) is always in danger of prosecution and loss of parental rights.
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not in cleverness of speech, that the cross of Christ should not be made void. For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside." (1 Corinthians 1:17-19)
(Tim) Here are some thoughts about the state of our civil compact as we approach Election Day. And, following the political stuff, I make a stab at some applications to those who identify themselves as the prophetic voices of the Emergent Church. If your patience wears thin with the political part, buck up and finish it because it forms the perfect backdrop to grow in our understanding of the goals and strategy of church leaders today who have woman deacons, talk a lot about the city and contextualization, and have a staff member titled "Associate Pastor for Art, Weird Glasses, and Chai." First, then, let's look at the political scene...
(Tim) Those inclined to think the posts critical of Barack Obama here on this blog are due to partisanship on the owners' part should know that neither David nor I have ever placed the slightest hope in a Republican presidential candidate. About nine years ago, I told Marvin Olasky I was concerned about his support of George W. Bush's presidential candidacy. In the end, I voted for him twice, but never with anything other than grim resolve.
Whether grim resolve is enough to do the trick with me tomorrow has yet to be seen. This cycle I'm leaning toward flaming out in a better direction--maybe, say, giving myself to the audacity of hope and pushing the button for Chuck Baldwin...
(Thanks to James) On this Election Day, here's an artifact of history from the editors of Touchstone, a Christian magazine I subscribe to and recommend. Originally run in 2003, this editorial is more pertinent today than it was five years ago. If you read nothing else, be sure to read the last two paragraphs...
Practical atheism revisited
Last week I came upon an editorial I wrote during the 2003 political season which seems to me even more applicable now. Today I would add that whatever one thinks about Senator Obama's plans for using government power to take money from those who have more of it and give it to those who have less, the social control which must be gained to make such things come to pass has never boded well for Christians in the countries where it has happened. The Gentiles, even--or perhaps especially--the religious ones, have not changed their opinions about people who regard them as morally unclean, nor will they fail to punish them for it when they gain sufficient power. What concerns them, I believe, is not so much that the poor be enriched, but that the middle classes be brought as low as possible by confiscation of their ethically significant wealth...
(Tim) Writing as a pastor concerning his own nation's election of a new president several weeks ago, Brother Conrad Mbewe of Lusaka, Zambia, says precisely what ought to be said today to Christians in these United States as we look at God's choice of Barack Obama to lead us. I hope you'll read it.
(Tim) Natalie is a longtime friend of the Bayly family--particularly our eldest daughter, Heather. This afternoon, Heather forwarded this e-mail she received from Natalie earlier today, and I asked Heather if Natalie would permit my posting it? Natalie was fine with it. I appreciated very much what she had to say and thought it would strengthen our readers, also. So here are the post-election thoughts and feelings of a young Christian wife and mother named (Mrs.) Natalie Calhoun.
* * *I'm feeling pensive and sad this morning. It has less to do with who won the election, though I am disappointed in that result. It has much more to do with who voted for him. Perhaps I was naive to believe that people I respected in college, who, I thought, shared my world view, would think the same as me. But I don't understand this wave of young Christian people who supported and voted for Obama. I really want to understand.
I have heard a lot about social justice with regard to this election. I'm for justice. I'm for taking care of "the least of these". I believe that "true religion is taking care of widows and orphans." What I can't get over is the complete disregard for the value of life that is represented by Obama and how a Christian can support that...
(Tim, w/thanks to Brian) The Christian Law Association reports: "For years Crestwood Baptist Church has unashamedly declared the Gospel of Christ and the Word of God through the display of Scripture on the marquee in front of their church. Tragically, this common practice for churches has now come under attack. In the days leading up to the Presidential election, Crestwood Baptist Church displayed Proverbs 29:2, '...when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn,' on their marquee...
"Nearly a week after the election, while jogging past the marquee, a nationally syndicated news reporter took notice of the verse, erroneously assumed it was the church's attempt to slander a particular candidate, and reported his biased opinion on CNN news. This unmerited report sparked animosity towards Crestwood and its pastor, Phil Edge, who have received numerous emails and phone calls demanding an explanation for his alleged attack on the results of this recent Presidential election."
A couple comments: First, confessing Christians must play hardball to protect our nation's First Amendment rights. We'll lose, but we must go down fighting. We don't live in the Roman Empire; it's our Constitution and we are its stewards.
So, for instance, the actions of the IRS in the past decade have been egregious governmental intrusions into the work of the church. Our government has been rattling its saber
(Tim) Filmaker Ken Burns endorsed Senator Obama for president, commending Obama's "moral courage" and comparing him to President Abraham Lincoln. Since Obama's election, many have made this same comparison pointing out the felicitous conjunction of Obama's Inauguration and the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birthday. Senator Diane Feinstein announced the theme of Senator Obama's Inauguration will be "A New Birth of Freedom" with words courtesy of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
Such comparisons are great theater, but sheer hypocrisy. Barack Obama is the leader of the bloodshed consuming our land and we all pat ourselves on our backs congratulating one another over our nation's great strides against racism? What is the injustice of racism compared to the slaughter of tens of millions of little babies?
Self-congratulatory about the end of racism in America, we point to a black champion of freedom we say bears the stature and moral authority of Abe himself. We look forward to sitting down with our families, having a good cry while we watch his Inauguration. Happily, no bloodshed has been required to reach our vision. Pull the lever for Obama and we all become heroes of truth and justice.
Obama's another Lincoln? Is he willing to do battle to end the slaughter of fifty million of our children by wicked oppressors? Is he preparing an Emancipation Proclamation for those little ones? Will he speak of them in his first Inaugural Address, warning his nation of God's holy wrath unleashed against those who offend even one of His "little ones?"
What a wonder it would be if, to celebrate Lincoln's 200th birthday, Senator Obama were to model his first after Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address:
(Tim, w/thanks to James) Of the stuff I've come across, this is about the best summary of the significance of our recent coronation of President-elect Barack Hussein Obama. Giving grace for it coming from a Brit who's not got perfect pitch about our country, it's something pretty close. For instance, here's what he says about Jessie Jackson's tears in Grant Park: "No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with this sort of stuff."
A teaser...
(Tim) On Facebook, a friend and former CGSer has been discussing sodomy, marriage, divorce and the civil law with several friends who have said things like: "semantics is a cheap reason to deny a minority their civil rights. None of the many gay folk I know agree with the "semantics justification" for denial of marriage. Also, such a social mandate (YOU live by OUR rules) has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus Christ--and everything to do with the teachings of the Pharisees."
Wanting to say a couple things, I pointed the conversationalists to this page and here's my own contribution to their dialog. Sorry I haven't linked things, but I wanted to get this up before all our guests arrive for Thanksgiving Dinner. If any of you want to add links, just post them in the comments.
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Sam, Scripture isn't just dogma; it's narrative. Descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive. It can be, but with divorce, incest, polygamy, concubinage, etc. Scripture reveals both where it was that every culture got marriage and also the laws to which God bound all sexual intimacy.
So, for instance, when Jesus was asked a question similar to yours (but this one concerning divorce), He responded saying it wasn't that way from the beginning (Creation) and that God made male and female for each other for life with the two becoming one--not three, four, or a thousand (Matthew 19:3 ff.). So there's no inconsistency between the Old and New Testaments on this matter. The two, male and female, shall become one until, by God's decree, death parts us. (My dear wife and I are on our thirty-third year, now, and still chugging away in harmony and love, praise God!)
All Christians through all time have always spoken this truth...
(Tim) If pornography is the drug our government uses to keep men passive, gun control leaves us compliant. Imagine the Revolutionary War with only Redcoats allowed to own muskets and you get the idea. And this from a man whose parents forbid him to play with guns, who registered for the draft as a conscientious objector, and who's never owned a gun. Actually, no gun except a potato gun I made out of PVC a few years ago.
So yes, I'm in favor of defending the Second Amendment against the relentless attacks it suffers. In defense of that amendment, here's an anouncement just received from Fran Griffin, the wonderful woman who administers Joe Sobran's e-publications. Let's all buy the book:
Here's an exciting way to help derail the anti-Second Amendment forces in Washington: A Second Amendment Book Bomb on December 15, Bill of Rights Day.
The idea is to have as many people as possible buy Stephen Halbrook's excellent new book, The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, on the same day (or over the next few days). Click on the link above--Amazon's offering it for just $19.
If a huge number of people buy the book on the same day, this could catapult it to best seller status, which would stun the Obama camp. Obama claimed to support the Second Amendment during his campaign so he wouldn't lose blue collar Democrats, but he is really very much opposed to it.
Happy Bill of Rights Day!
Fran Griffin
(Tim) So everyone's talking about Rick Warren's payoff. He gets to pray in front of millions during Senator Obama's inauguration, calling down God's presence and blessing on a ceremony centered around the national politician most committed to the slaughter of his nation's children taking God's Name in vain as he falsely promises to uphold the Constitution of these United States.
When our nation was founded, our Declaration of Independence declared our commitments this way:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
Thus, in the "Preamble" to our Constitution, we state the Constitution's purpose to be to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
Precisely how does a man swear by God's Holy Name to secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity who himself is our nation's political leader most committed to the slaughter of that posterity? The wickedness of Governor Blagojevich pales by comparison.
Selling an appointment to the U.S. Senate is child's play compared to the child slaughter which was a central plank of Senator Obama's campaign. Talk about wickedness in high places!
But no one's watching. We're all transfixed by our nation's little morality play over there on Chicago's South Side.
Also, by the vision of Evangelicalism's own Balaam, the Warrenmeister, thinking gentle thoughts about how his invocation of the Triune God can help heal our nation as we all unify behind our new President. So Rick Warren, prophet of Israel, hoists himself on his donkey...
(Tim) Justice of the peace in tow, Suleman's father was chasing the hospital with a shotgun until "the hospital made it clear it had nothing to do with getting Suleman pregnant."
Honest. That's exactly what the newspaper reported.
And by the way, did you notice that the state is "investigating" to see if laws were broken by this mother carrying her children to term? Sitting in the fridge, they were, prior to nestling into their mother's womb.
The headline is "Octuplets' birth spawns outrage from public."
Listen, if people are angry at the cost of the octuplets and ready to tar and feather the mother...
(Tim, w/thanks to Brian) Although it makes me uncomfortable seeing national sovereignty lose to the New One World Order, praise God for this victory for religious freedom in Bulgaria won in the European Court of Human Rights by an attorney allied with the Alliance Defense Fund. If you have never supported the Alliance Defense Fund and you're able, please do so...
(Tim) From my incomparable tutor in all things political for over thirty years, Joe Sobran, I learned of the existence of the Tenth Amendment, but also of its impotence in the hands of the crooks who have served on the U.S. Supreme Court in recent decades. Also from Sobran, I picked up the habit of never, ever, ever referring to "the United States," but always and only "these United States."
The past few years, Church of the Good Shepherd has had an influx of Texans who move here for a few years to complete their doctorates at IU. Most of them plan to return to the motherland so, half-seriously, I've told them of my wish that Texas would secede so I could move there...
(Tim--Partly in an effort to take into account some of the comments, I've changed this post substantially this Saturday evening. If you'd read it before, you might want to read it again.)
For years it's been clear the egalitarian feminist attack upon reformed ecclesiastical communions has not been content to limit itself to the Christian Reformed and Evangelical Presbyterian Churches, but is increasingly focused on our own Presbyterian Church in America. This became obvious to me while serving on our General Assembly's Ad Interim Study Committee on Women in the Military. The arguments I heard then concerning the meaning and purpose of sexuality were absolutely abysmal--particularly those emanating from sophisticated teaching elders who saw themselves as God's gift to the PCA provided to aid their country bumpkin colleagues at rural, small town, and southern churches in learning how to contextualize the Gospel within this postmodern world.
As I listened to them carefully, it was evident the sound bites they employed in denying the truth or application of God's order of sexuality everywhere but inside the elders meeting and pulpit Sunday morning perfectly reflected arguments I'd heard in prior years at presbytery and general assembly levels in the mainline Presbyterian Church (USA). You know: slavery, cultural context, wife abuse, barefoot and pregnant, you can't turn back the clock, people will laugh at us--that sort of thing.
Then, of course the conservatives had their own reasons for not standing in the gap, opposing the feminist heresy. There was that old battle axe of Southern Presbyterianism, the spirituality of the Church, that conveniently kept many from feeling any responsibility to oppose our civil magistrate sending off our mothers and sisters and daughters to die for us on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. And there was also the federal vision to deal with--that issue alone took so much time and energy there was little zeal left for contending for God's order of sexuality.
(David--with thanks to Douglas Wilson for his suggestion that other pastors preach to President Obama as he recently did.)
Sunday, June 7, 20092 Timothy 2:8, 9
Last Sunday morning while we were gathered in worship a gunman entered a Lutheran (ELCA) church in Wichita, Kansas and shot to death the nation's most famous abortionist, a man whose specialty had long been the dismemberment of late-second and third trimester infants, while he was serving as an usher.
A notorious murderer met what is certain to become a notorious end. By the goodness of God the witness of the Church was not entirely silenced in Dr. Tiller's life. He had been excommunicated by his previous congregation, a church of the Missouri Synod Lutheran denomination. And so the judgment of God had been declared; not every watchman was silent, not every shepherd proved a hireling.
(Tim) Two weeks ago, our high school men and women went over to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to serve those trying to recover from the terrible flood the community suffered last year. Led by their youth workers, David Abu-Sara, Veronica Allen, Abram Hess, Emily Hess, and Ryan Schnitzer, they returned reporting that the governmental authorities were not particularly helpful to the residents, being better at red tape than getting things done.
The work done by the group was coordinated by church planters, Jeremy Knapp and Michael Langer, of One Ancient Hope (PCA). Our men and women were given a place to sleep in the basement of Hope Evangelical Church (PCA).
The Iowa Independent ran an article on the post-flood political problems and our group made the blurb under one of the pictures...
(Tim) Below is an excerpt from Philip Gourevitch's history of the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families. This book should be read by every believer committed to opposing the slaughter of the feeble, elderly, newborn, and unborn upon which our civil compact has been built for decades, now.
A few years ago, a godly Rwandan was preaching to us here at Church of the Good Shepherd and he took the occasion to rebuke us, saying we Americans had no authority to condemn Rwanda's genocide when we were slaughtering 1.3 million children in our own nation, year after year, with no sign of the bloodshed ending.
Truth is, many, many denominations, churches, elders, and pastors have endorsed the slaughter of the unborn here in these United States. And even among those pastors who claim to be pro-life, precious few are anti-abortion. Like the Rwandan priests and pastors, many of us...
(Tim) My good brother, Bob Patterson, recently did a piece for National Review Online (NRO) that I commend to our readers. In an e-mail to friends, Bob summed up the argument he makes this way:
(Tim, w/thanks to my Mary Lee) The July 18, 2009 issue of World ran an article about South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's confession of adultery. The article is worth reading, especially if you're a frequent traveler, rich, or influential. Wealth is deceitful and pride goes before the fall.
Three statements stuck out to me.
First, why am I not surprised that YWAM's Virginia rep knew nothing about YWAM's ownership of the Fellowship's $1.8 million C Street home, and that when World asked them for clarification, the Fellowship declined to respond?
Second, the article admits it's common for politicians to have no church home or to skip church. This is increasingly true of missionaries, also, so here at Church of the Good Shepherd we've begun to implement standards with the missionaries our church supports. They must be a part of a local church, where they work, as well as hold permanent membership in an evangelical Bible-believing church that they and the church recognize as their home church.
Third, to the degree that Gov. Mark Sanford had a church, he claimed it was an evangelical congregation called Seacoast Church in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. He sometimes attended an Episcopal congregation when he was working in the capital, but Seacoast is his home church.
So, when Gov. Sanford publicly confessed to adultery, how did his Seacoast pastor respond?
(Tim) For several weeks, now, the news has been filled with articles reassuring Americans that government medicine is inevitable and poses no danger to us. They tell us government medicine will not fund abortions except in the most extraordinary cases where any reasonable man would agree the baby must die. It will not require the wholesale slaughter of the old and feeble--what we are taught to refer to as "euthanasia." After all, termination counseling isn't mandatory; it's simply an option offered those who may find it helpful.
A front page article in the Indy Star yesterday (picked up from the LA Times, by the way) blamed Rush Limbaugh for all the fear. "Nothing bad will happen," the civil authority tells us. "Just trust us."
Trust you?
You have got to be kidding! Trust you? You can't be serious!
Look at your track record. Your government education is so bad you'd sooner die than enroll your own children in the public schools serving your neighborhood there at the White House. And this is equally true of Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama.
For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest upon the land of the righteous, So that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong. - Psalm 125:3
(Tim) Government funding always means more government control. Always. And today, that cannot possibly be good news.
More government control will lead to less compassion (for single mothers, for instance), responsibility (for single fathers, for instance), justice (for unborn children, for instance), mercy (for the homeless, for instance), truth (for children educated in government schools, for instance) and freedom for citizens forced to foot the bill for government's aborting those very virtues her subjects hold dear.
This is the reason compassionate, responsible, just, merciful, and truthful Americans are joining Libertarian ranks in droves. They've read Paul Johnson's Intellectuals and learned that the sort of leaders profiled by the New Yorker and the NYTimes Magazine will talk about love for the people and national compassion while demonstrating an astounding selfishness in their own personal lives.
Need I list examples?
Hillary Clinton of It Takes a Village fame? Her husband, Bill? The latest entrant into the race for that moral squalor called the Office of Governor of the State of New York, Rudy Giuliani? Our resident global-warming prophet safely ensconced in his carbon-spewing mansion (except when he's flying in his carbon-spewing coporate jets), Al Gore?
Democrats won this last election by hoodwinking young and middle-aged "Christians" who had been softened up to the deception by years of being inoculated against all discernment by ear-scratchers like Rob Bell and Brian McLaren. Their pastors had turned them into easy marks for Barack Obama's lies.
But among those who saw through President Obama's lies...
(Tim, w/thanks to Mark C.) If the truth that God hates divorce is not enough for you, here's something that may stiffen your resolve. A ten-year-old home schooled girl whose parents are divorced has been ordered to go to government school and the order has been approved by Judge Lucinda V. Sadler for this reason: "(the child's) vigorous defense of her religious beliefs to [her] counselor suggests strongly that she has not had the opportunity to seriously consider any other point of view." Of course, her "religious beliefs" considered by the court to be a threat to her well-being are Christian.
Why are the courts making this decision about a ten-year-old girl?


text: 10 Cars Past Their Expiration Dates The auto companies generally redesign a given model of car every five years. So every half decade, you'll see a thoroughly refreshed version of the most popular mainstream cars like the Toyota Camry, Honda Civic, or Ford Fusion. Of course, there are always exceptions to that five-year rule. Here are 10 tired cars and trucks that are currently living well beyond that half-decade mark. In fact, one vehicle here has remained in production and virtually unchanged since 1979. By Ben Stewart Email Comments 0 Share Back 5 of 10 Next Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Back Next View Thumbnails Land Rover LR2 (2006) The LR2 replaced the Freelander in the U.S. as Land Rover's smallest vehicle. Its design reflects the Rovers of the time, with big rectangular headlamps and a relatively upright grille. But these days, the LR2 looks out of place in the company's lineup. That's largely due to the stylish new Evoque. The Evoque is now the "entry-level" Land Rover, and its sleek design was so well-received that many cues have appeared on the all-new $100,000 Range Rover. That leaves the LR2 as an oddity in the lineup. It's not the sleek, carlike Evoque. It's not like the off-road capable LR3. And it doesn't pack the on-road sportiness of the Range Rover Sport. So why does Land Rover continue with this vehicle? For 2013, it's been upgraded somewhat with the same four-cylinder turbocharged powertrain as the Evoque. But that makes this model's existence just that much more puzzling. It's probably time to rethink the LR2. Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Back 5 of 10 Next Return to Gallery Back Next Return to Slideshow Related Links


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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:26 AM, ITS PIMPIN ,PIMPIN said:
Yeah Cube work with MC Ren, thats the kind of shit im talkin bout. I like those MCs wit that super gangsta style like Ren, WC , and of corse u Cube...Thats true west
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:56 AM, icecool said:
ooh shit fo real it will be awesome .. make somethin wit del too afterall it will be funky :)
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Billooh said:
naww i didn't watch the grammy's neither.... ohh yeah an MC.Ren & Cube track, that would just be a classic like "Hello"... Cube, we know you gon' kick the new album down real tight. Peace
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Niecey said:
Hey Cube, I'm loving this web site. Its cool that you got this interaction going on with your fans. Always keeping it real, thats whats up!
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:36 PM, philjon said:
My favorite rappers as a "super group" or just a song? I hope that something comes of these. I will support it for sure! Btw thanks Cube for keeping it real with your fans and taking the time to blog and read our comments. I'm a Ice Cube fan for life!
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:50 PM, ChrisRod805 said:
Fuck the Grammys... and Rens A Beast!
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:59 PM, The Predator said:
It would be nice to hear you and Ren trading bars again. I feel you on the Oscars and the Grammy's. Shit is way too predictable. The Grammy's don't recognize real music, just that soft bubble gum bullshit. We keep it Gangsta over here, fuck that girly shit.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:47 AM, kcsongi said:
I respect what you say and totally agree with it.The grammys today are meaningles cause you already know who will win.
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:46 AM, SKRoyalty said:
MAN! Ren is off the hook!! looking forward to hearing his voice again! WEST COAST 4 LIFE!
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Stan takes action to stop the Japanese from killing the world's whales and dolphins.
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The boys finally reveal the truth to the Japanese.
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Change uses of _"foo" to (intl:gettext "foo"). This is because slime may get confused with source locations if the reader macros are installed.
Merge intl-branch 2010-03-18 to HEAD. To build, you need to use boot-2010-02-1 as the bootstrap file. You should probably also use the new -P option for build.sh to generate and update the po files while building.
Restart internalization work. This new branch starts with code from the intl-branch on date 2010-02-12 18:00:00+0500. This version works and LANG=en@piglatin bin/lisp works (once the piglatin translation is added).
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(compile nil '(lambda (c) (declare (optimize (speed 3) (debug 1))) (flet ((%f18 () -36)) (flet ((%f13 () (let () (block b8 (return-from b8 c))))) (%f18))))) => error nil is not an integer, in dump-1-variable Found by Paul Dietz. This is caused by a lambda-var being passed to dump-1-variable which hasn't been packed, and so has a null tn-offset. A ref to this lambda-var remains at this point because it is referenced from a different component. The ref is deleted when that component is compiled. The problem is that there shouldn't have been two components to begin with, which we prevent by recording additional DFO dependencies for closed-over variables and entries. Port from SBCL, basically. Does not require a bootstrap file, but a full build is necessary due to the renamed clambda structure slot. * src/compiler/dfo.lisp (dfo-walk-call-graph): Process new dfo dependencies. * src/compiler/node.lisp (clambda): Rename slot `calls' to `dfo-dependencies'. * src/compiler/locall.lisp (convert-call, convert-mv-call): Call note-dfo-dependency. (merge-lets): Change for new clambda slot name. (unconvert-tail-calls): Handle the case of non-clambdas in the dfo dependencies. * src/compiler/ir1util.lisp (continuation-home-lambda) (note-dfo-dependency): New functions. * src/compiler/ir1tran.lisp (ir1-convert-variable) (return-from, go, setq): Call note-dfo-dependency. * src/compiler/xref.lisp (lambda-called-p): New function. (prettiest-caller-name): Use lambda-called-p instead of lambda-calls.
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Flush unnecessary function proclaim's some of which had incorrect return values, and replace them with function argument declarations which the compiler move carefully checks.
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Changed not to use :NOTINLINE as a way to mark calls we are counting on never getting local call converted. Instead, local call conversion has to be somewhat careful. Added setting of :COMPLEX-TOP-LEVEL COMPONENT-KIND.
Weakened component kind type assertion in JOIN-COMPONENTS.
Added an assertion that we don't join components with random kinds.
Fixed a bug that caused an internal error when a never-referenced function (e.g. from FLET) had non-local exit code in it.
Restored code in MERGE-1-TL-LAMBDA which was inadvertently lost in the last edit.
Fixed MERGE-TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDAS to deal with missing return nodes. It turns out that return nodes can be deleted (by FIND-INITIAL-DFO).
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Changed MERGE-TOP-LEVEL-LAMBDAS to work now that there are additional links to the component tail. We move those links to the new component tail.
Moved clearing of COMPONENT-REANALYZE in FIND-DFO from the end to the start so that we can iterate when new dead code is discovered (due to deletion of function references.)
Move any extra links from the initial component tail to the new component tail in FIND-INITIAL-DFO.
Fixed bug in FIND-REFERENCE-FUNCTIONS introduced by the last change. Ignoring of top-level references was effectively disabled, causing top-level code to normally be incorporated in real function components.
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When deleting blocks in FIND-DFO, set DELETE-P first. Made JOIN-COMPONENTS and interface so that let conversion can call it. In DFO-WALK-CALL-GRAPH, remove the function from the old component lambdas. Moved DELETE-COMPONENT-BLOCKS into ir1util, renamed it, and made it delete any redisual lambdas. Wheh finding top-level components, only consider a component top-level if the top-level lambdas is the only lambda in it. In FIND-INITIAL-DFO, only delete initial components. One of the TLL's could have been moved into a non-top-level component.
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Deleted some noise that must have been left over from an incomplete edit.
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Mandarin Orange Chicken Recipe
In Washington Court House, Ohio, Clara Coulston jazzes up meals with this mouthwatering recipe. She simply treats juicy chicken breasts to a tangy sauce, featuring plenty of citrus flavor.Ms. Clara M. Coulston, Washington Court House, Ohio
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/4 cup orange marmalade
- 2 tablespoons honey mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- Hot cooked rice, optional
- Flatten chicken to 1/4-in. thickness. In a large resealable bag, combine the flour, salt and pepper; add chicken. Seal bag and turn to coat; In a large skillet, brown chicken in oil on both sides.
- Combine the orange juice, marmalade, mustard and rosemary; pour over chicken. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cook for 5-8 minutes or until chicken juices run clear and sauce is thickened. Stir in oranges and orange peel. Serve with rice if desired. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Mandarin Orange Chicken in Quick Cooking
November/December 2004, p33
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VERY GOOD! Followed recipe to the "T" and it came out good. Served chicken over rice.


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