You Complete The Sentence

Last week, we posted a video that documents the efforts of the United Nations to get CSE [Comprehensive Sexual Education] into elementary and secondary schools around the globe. If you missed it, click here:  https://youtu.be/hIv-KOQ5F4A

We also said that in Washington State, 58% of the more than 10,000 respondents to a survey done by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction said CSE should not be required in grades K-12.

But just 58%.

This means 42% did not object to mandating CSE in K-12 schools. That should give us all cause to pause.   

The day after the Washington State legislature passed the CSE bill, a citizen posted the above-referenced video on her neighborhood social network, and provided a link to petition the governor to not sign the bill into law.

The majority of the comments this person received from neighbors were negative. Here are some:

Oh my goodness 😂 I thought I was reading something in favor of the bill until I realized some special folks might actually think this is a bad thing.

I don’t think a non-traditional family is a threat to yours. If you’re out there suggesting that non-traditional families are somehow inferior to yours and in some way threatening, you are absolutely 100% preaching hate.

Gave that video 10 minutes of time. Honestly laughing pretty hard. Gonna show my wife so she can get a hoot out of it too.

You have the right to teach your kids whatever you want, but I have the right to think that’s a really bad choice on your part and to look forward to when your kids learn better.

Any society that does not thoroughly explain human sexuality to every youngster is working to destroy its youth.

The program allows an "opt out".  Nobody is trying to force mainstream views on your children, and while you're at it, the things you refer to as "radical views" are mainstream. So, please, show some equity here.

If we think CSE and the ideology behind it are part of a top-down push by the “powers that be” upon a hapless population that has no idea which way is up, think again. That’s not the full picture. It’s coming from “the bottom up,” too.

Pause.

If our neighbors believe CSE is good thing for elementary and secondary students, and it should be mandated learning, then...

You complete the sentence. Your way.

For one pastor's search to find out what is going on in California, see: https://www.nordskogpublishing.com/no-opt-out-allowed-the-california-sex-ed-indoctrination/

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An Infection More Life-altering Than COVID-19

By now, you have heard about the Coronavirus, or COVID-19. Who hasn't?  

   

But have you heard about the other infection that's circling the globe right now, called CSE?     

The latest US state to pass a Comprehensive Sexuality Education [CSE] bill is the State of Washington. Prior to its passage, the Washington Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction did a survey and found that 58% of the more than 10,000 respondents said CSE should not be required in grades K-12. Nevertheless, the bill passed last weekend. 

Mandatory CSE for all Washington State public schools will go into effect starting the coming school year. Previous CSE bills passed in California and Oregon. Washington was just the third domino to fall on the West Coast.   

   

You may not know what CSE is about. You may have never heard of it. But it's as important to be informed about CSE as to be informed about COVID-19.   

A worldwide effort has been underway for several years to get CSE into elementary and secondary schools in Africa, South America, North America, Europe, Australia…and many other parts of the planet…through the work of the United Nations. This is no secret. This is no conspiracy. The UN is quite open about their efforts.

We urge you to carve out 35 minutes of your precious time to watch an informative video that explains what CSE is about. It presents numerous examples of CSE curriculum, and shares compelling warnings from experts around the world. If you are not familiar with CSE, you need to be.  

   

Spending 35 minutes to view the video below may be the most important 35 minutes you have spent since you began looking into COVID-19, or listening to what others are saying about it.

CSE is different than the Coronavirus. It's an infection more life-altering than COVID-19, in that it does the most damage to children, rather than the elderly. They must live with it for a lifetime.

There is a generation at stake here, not only in the USA, but in many other nations as well.

We urge you to take a good look at this video, and pass on this post to others:

If this video does not play, click: https://youtu.be/hIv-KOQ5F4A

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A Daniel-Sized Challenge

Here's an important lesson from an ex-Marine in Canby, Oregon.

Last March, we wrote about a school teacher in the Pacific Northwest who was asked to check a box indicating he had “reviewed and accepted” the following policy:

“All students will be allowed to use a restroom and locker room consistent with their gender identity and/or gender expression or one which makes them feel comfortable.”

This Christian teacher would not check the box. Instead, he met personally with his direct supervisor to explain why. This led to a meeting with the district superintendent and the president of the school board. In this case, a decision was made to not fire the teacher. [For details, click here.]

How many Christian educators in state schools are not “checking the box?” It’s impossible to say. Yet, one thing is certain: Christian educators in public schools are facing a Daniel-sized challenge they never dreamed possible when they signed up. They need our prayers and encouragement.

State school teachers need the kind of courage that rejects self-preserving silence, and speaks directly and respectfully to those for whom they work, letting the reasons for their non-compliance known, regardless of the outcomes.  

An instructive example of courage comes out of the Northwest. Brian Hodson, Mayor of Canby, Oregon, denied a request for “International Transgender Day of Visibility.”

He explained his decision as follows:

“As a Christian, I am called to love my neighbor as myself. I am not called to judge others. I believe we will all stand before the Lord one day and account for how we spent our time on this earth. I recognize not everyone in our community shares my beliefs, and I respect their right to believe what they feel is right. As a veteran of the Marine Corps, that is one of the many reasons I served this great country. But I also expect the same respect to be reciprocated to people of faith. Instead, what I see is a visceral attack on individuals for having a biblical worldview, and standing firm that the word of God is above any cultural norms we’ve adopted as a society.”

How many mayors across the country are doing likewise? If there were many, we would have heard about it. Christian leaders everywhere are facing Daniel-sized challenges they never dreamed possible when they signed up. Let’s be praying for them—and encouraging them.

For the full Canby story, click here. Message Mayor Hodson via Facebook here.


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The Gall Is Appalling

Is this natural? 
What is nature, anyway?

Last week, we said the Devil acts like he owns the place, but he does not. He never created anything. He only distorts and destroys what God has made. In Luke 4:5-6, when Satan offered Jesus “all the kingdoms of the world” in exchange for worshipping him, was this a legitimate offer? Has the Devil ever made a legitimate offer? The gall is appalling.

Hebrews 1:3 says: Christ is “...upholding all things by the word of His power.” The seen and the unseen, the temporal and the eternal, the material and the spiritual are held together by His voice. Creation [a much better word than “nature”] originally came into being through God's voice, and its continuance is as much of a wonder as its first appearance. He's still speaking. 

Psalm 19 says: “Day after day they [the heavens] pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech; they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” 

It is not as though God spoke things into being in the past, and now things function quite well all on their own, according to so-called “natural” laws. What are “natural” laws, anyway? 

Were it not for the sustaining power of God's voice holding it all together, “nature” would be no more. In terms of how most people think of the “natural” and the “supernatural,” the “natural” has come to mean “the normal operation of a self-governing system,” while the “supernatural” means “the interference of God in that system.” How arrogant. Who got that idea going? The gall is appalling.  

Colossians 1:16-17 tells us: “For by Him [Christ] all things were created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist [or, ‘hold together’].” 

My friend Dr. Erik Strandness, author of The Director’s Cut, made the astute observation that the universe was not created “ex nihilo” [out of nothing], but “ex cōgitātiō” [out of thought]. He maintains creation is knowable only because it came from God’s thoughts.

God is sharing His thoughts with everyone, daily, through the "talking book" of HIs works: Creation. 

Let's drop the word "nature." 

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The Most Fundamental Of All Fundamentals

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

The starting point for knowledge is the recognition that God created the entire realm of space and matter. Without Him, nothing would exist. 

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). This is the simple-yet-profound foundation for all learning. It is the most fundamental of all fundamentals.

Not only did God create all things, but He owns all things, even after the entrance of sin into the world. The significance of this cannot be overstated. That's because if we get the issue of ownership wrong, it makes a huge difference in the way we interact with all things in God's world.   

Dr. Albert E. Greene, Jr., touched upon this problem when he wrote: “There is a subtle derailment which often occurs in Christian thought at the point of the Fall. We tend to think that when man sinned, God simply relinquished the whole creation as a botched job and left Satan to do what he wanted with it. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

The world and all that it contains is as much God’s stuff after the Fall as it was before the Fall. The Fall did not change God’s ownership status. God not only made it in the beginning, and holds it together today, but He owns it all.

This has enormous ramifications. When we mow the lawn, we’re cutting His grass. When we pound a nail, it’s His metal we’re pounding. When we examine a drop of water under a microscope, it’s His creation we're observing. He is speaking to us through what He has made in the beginning, sustains through time, and owns all along.   

Planet Earth, and all it contains, does not belong to Satan. The scriptures tell us: “The earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1). As Abraham Kuyper, founder of the Free University of Amsterdam and former Prime Minister of Holland, put it: “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”

The Devil never created anything...but chaos. He only seeks to distort and destroy that which God made, sustains and owns. He acts like he owns the place, but he does not.

We need to remember this. And teach our children the truth of the matter.

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No Truth Is More Evident

How people view the history of the United States will strongly influence whether they see America as a light on a hill or a force for oppression. Noah Webster, the "Schoolmaster of the Nation," had one view of this country's character, while Howard Zinn, one-time professor of political science at Boston University (who described himself as "something of an anarchist,") created a much different view. 

Allan Bloom, who taught at Yale and the University of Chicago, wrote The Closing of the American Mind in 1987. He was not a Christian. Yet, he wrote:

“In the United States, practically speaking, the Bible was the only common culture, one that united the simple and the sophisticated, rich and poor, young and old, and—as the very model for a vision of the order of the whole of things, as well as the key to the rest of Western art, the greatest works of which were in one way or another responsive to the Bible—provided access to the seriousness of books. With its gradual and inevitable disappearance, the very idea of such a total book is disappearing. And fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise—as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise...Contrary to what is commonly thought, without the book even the idea of the whole is lost.” 

While we lost our biblical "vision of the order of the whole of things,” Howard Zinn's book, A People’s History of the United States came along and filled the gap, for many. 

Gilbert Sewall, of the American Textbook Council, has said Zinn's impact on social studies teachers "is prodigious and possibly unparalleled."  Peter Wood, of the National Association of Scholars, has said: "There really is no other history textbook that enjoys the level of enthusiasm among students as Zinn's book enjoys." [Source here.] 

If you want to know why we're a house divided, you might want to take a look at Zinn’s book, which has sold over 2 million copies. But before you buy a copy, bear in mind that over 600 historians voted Zinn's work "the second 'least credible history book in print.'" [https://muse.jhu.edu/article/547686/pdf]

While Noah Webster declared “education is useless without the Bible," and, “No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people…”, Zinn viewed U.S. history through the Social Marxist lens of Critical Theory. He was what the Frankfurt School dreamed of.    

While Zinn's book may be bad history, it's influence is deep. That's because today, truth doesn't carry as much weight as it did in Webster's day. What matters now is ideology, whether it's fueled by fact or fiction. 

For Howard Zinn, America's history is a story of exploitation. It's the story of oppressors and the oppressed, starting with Christopher Columbus and moving on to the oppression of native Americans, African-Americans, and the poor of any color. It has been called, "the Zinn Narriative." If you want to understand why more people are speaking poorly of the United States today than in the past, Zinn's best seller, "the second least credible history book in print," provides some answers.   

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But What If The Channel Can't Be Changed?

Super Bowl is prime-time viewing. It's family viewing. Or, it used to be.

What happened during last Sunday’s half-time show wasn’t fit for viewing at all. It was a full-frontal attack on Judeo-Christian sensibilities. This "show" has been playing non-stop since Herbert Marcuse wrote Eros and Civilization in 1955.  

The frog has been in the pot for 60 years, and the water has reached full boil. We’re all in this pot.   

Last Sunday, families had the option of turning off the TV. But this doesn’t address the fact that the show went on in the first place. A commercial about survivors of abortion was banned, but there were no qualms about a strip show.

Folks who love strip shows have said for years: “You don’t have to watch! Just change the channel!”

But what if the channel can’t be changed? What if the show is in the 3^rd grade, the teacher is in control, and the “opt out” button is nowhere to be found? What if the strip show starts in Kindergarten and continues through grade 12? What if your State mandates the show?

This is what is happening now, and the situation is far worse than what was displayed last Sunday. Far worse.

To understand where our schools are headed, please watch an enlightening report from a small, family-friendly town in Southern California, here.

Do you know what is going on in your state, with respect to mandating “sex education” in the classroom? 

Washington State is the latest to mandate so-called "Comprehensive Sexuality Education" [CSE] in public schools, over the objections of many parents. If you are unfamiliar with CSE, which a worldwide drive by the United Nations, please become informed through this video: click here. 

Students can't change the channel in the classroom. If they're not your kids, they're somebody’s kids, and they'll be running the country one day. We’re all in this together. 

Some may ask, "Why not reform public education?" 

Because it is built on a crumbling foundation, and it’s impossible to replace the foundation as long as the State has control of the building.

The only recourse is to cut off the electricity. This means parents cutting the funding by pulling students out en masse. Jews, Christians, Muslims and Nones alike.

The classroom sex-ed show is just one of many reasons.

It's time for Prexit: Parents Pulling Pupils from Regressive Education.

Let's change the channel.


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