Hey Gore!: The Sun Heats the Earth!

"In a sharp rebuke to climate alarmists who believe human-generated carbon dioxide is responsible for causing catastrophic global warming, a Russian scientist has issued what amounts to a news flash announcing, "Sun Heats Earth!"

Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, has published a paper in which he tracks sunspot activity going back to the 19th century to argue that total sun irradiance, or TSI, is the primary factor responsible for causing climate variations on Earth, not carbon dioxide."

Wow -- the sun is responsible for heating the Earth? Who'd have thunk it?

Read the rest here.

An Interesting Irony for Atheists

Just got this from Living Waters via email. I love it.:

"An Interesting Irony

Atheists in New York are beginning a comprehensive billboard campaign "designed to raise awareness about people who don't believe in a god." The billboards will say "A million New Yorkers are good without God? Are you?" I called the organizers and left a message for John Rafferty the President of Secular Humanist Society of New York. I said who I was, told him that I loved these signs, and that they were reminding people about God. I told him to keep up the good work and that I hoped we could meet one day and have lunch. They may as well put up billboards that say, 'Don't think about God!' Atheists have been going into Amazon.com and giving my version of On Origin of Species a one star rating to discourage people from getting it, saying things like 'Don't get this book!' Tell any human being not to do something, and he will do the opposite. It's (unregenerate) human nature to do so."

Obama Supports Live Birth Abortions...

He can do what he wants with my "rights" to share my faith and what the Scriptures say about homosexuality and other related topics. I'll choose to obey God and face imprisonment. But it is stuff like this that makes him a real monster.

Did you read this Obama? Repent! You are a lost man before a Holy God! And one day you will be bound, hand and foot, and cast into Hell unless you repent of your sin and put your trust in Jesus Christ as your only hope of salvation!

A Christian Response to the Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Here is Tony Miano's response. It is my response as well.

Barack Obama's Dream for a Secular, Non-Christian Nation

Jan Markell : RED-LETTER CHRISTIANS: NEO-MARXISM IN THE CHURCH?

Never thought I'd be reading something like this, but it would appear that evangelicalism knows no downward limits.

Look in the next to last paragraph for a statement on the NAE promoting a leftist conference on October 21st.

Read it and weep.

Rick Warren's Forked Tongue

Are You a Closet Calvinist?

From his work, "Closet Calvinists":

"In my Arminian days, I affirmed an awful lot of truth about the sovereignty of God. I would have affirmed with no reservation whatsoever that God is God; that He does all His good pleasure; that no one ...can make Him do otherwise; that He is in control and in charge no matter how much noise evildoers try to make; and not only is He in charge, He is working all things out for my good and His glory. As a matter of fact, my confidence in the promise of Romans 8:28 was what motivated my prayer life. That’s Calvinism. If you believe those things, you have affirmed the heart of Calvinism, even if you call yourself an Arminian. Those are the basic truths of Calvinism, and if you already believe those things, you are functioning with Calvinist presuppositions..." -- Phil Johnson

What is Salvation? (In 2 Minutes) - Paul Washer

Rightly Divided: Lane Chaplin

According to His Choice, Not Our Works... (R.C. Sproul)

From the "How Much Mooshier Can You Get?" Department

When I looked up the following (from a local Church's "conference" site), I wasn't really surprised to find that it teaches Wesleyan-Arminianism. . .but the rest really knocked me over. Seems like it's the "Hey, we're whatever you want us to be" church...

Here's the text which can be found here. The last sentence is particularly chameleonic...:

"Theologically, how do you stand in relationship to other church groups?

Without getting involved in detailed definitions, we like to think of ourselves as conservative, rooted in Wesleyan-Arminian theological heritage, a part of the Anabaptist free-church tradition, a part of the Holiness Movement that came to mid-America in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth centuries, and a participant in the Protestant tradition. We value the insights of those who espouse fundamentalist, liberal, neoorthodox, liberation, and process theologies, but we have some serious questions about some of the methods and conclusions of these schools of thought."

What? No mention of the emergent church? Oh yeah, that's wrapped up in everything else I guess.

No need to comment on the silliness of "valuing insights" from liberals and / or the neoorthodox. But for those who don't know: The "Holiness Movement" teaches that you can reach a point of sinless perfection in this life...which contradicts 1 John in multiple verses. "Process theology" is basically an old liberal teaching which teaches that, to paraphrase, "God is just in a process of 'becoming' just like the rest of us and can't quite handle His job" ("God is either unloving or not able to handle the stuff that is "wrong" in our world"). It's utter heresy and the true Christian has nothing to learn from it, save how to run quickly.

On second thought, maybe there is hope...you think maybe since they'll listen to everyone else they might listen to a Calvinist? Nah.

Yowza! Welcome to "Camp Whatamess"!

I'm glad I'm not going there. It'd definitely be time to change churches!

Dr. Steve J. Lawson Defines the Doctrines of Grace

Always Be Ready [Week 1] (Mark Kielar)