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Quotations
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool — shun him!
He who knows not and knows that he knows not is ignorant — teach him!
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep — wake him!
He who knows and knows that he knows is a leader — follow him!
"The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay
it on so thick and exactly in the right places" (Samuel Butler).
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Announcements
West Virginia School of Preaching, Moundsville, WV, concluded its
first year of operation June 30, 1995. Six full-time students participated
in the inaugural year of WVSOP. Emanuel Daugherty is the director of the
school located 9 miles south of Wheeling, WV, on St. Rt.2. For more information
phone (304) 845-8001.
Doyle Kee of Switzerland advises that the churches in Northern Cameroon
and Chad are doing well with hundreds of students taking Bible correspondence
courses. One convert, David Nassa, after attending the Bible school in
Jos, Nigeria, helped to establish 10 congregations in Chad. A new Bible-training
center for French-speaking Africa has been established in Cotonou, Benin.
Manlif Barnes is the director of the Central Alabama School of Biblical
Studies, sponsored by the Shades Mountain church in Birmingham, Ala.
For more information about this new school contact brother Barnes at 959
Alford Ave., Birmingham, AL 35226, or phone (205) 822-4006.
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More on Calvin and His Tiger
Calvin: "I'm a great believer in the value of novelty. I say anything new
is good by definition! It can shock, insult, or offend me, so long
as it doesn't bore me! If you can't give me something new, then repackage
the old so it looks new! Novelty is all that matters! I won't pay attention
if its not fresh and different!"
Hobbes (the tiger): "I see why timeless truth doesn't sell."
Calvin: "Give me a good flash in the pan any day."
End of comic strip.
>Editor's comment: Now, I see where the change agents are getting
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Johannesburg
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was heckled by 200 gay and lesbian activists
at the Jan Smuts airport in Johannesburg, South Africa. Some of the protesters
were dressed in drag. Mugabe barred homosexual organizations from participating
in Zimbabwe's International Book Fair saying, "Associations of sodomists
and sexual perverts deserve no rights."
Seventy U.S. Congressional representatives, led by Rep. Barney Frank
of Mass., wrote a protest letter to Mugabe. "Let the Americans keep their
sodomy, bestiality, stupid and foolish ways to themselves," Mugabe responded.
"In Zimbabwe gays shall remain a very sad people."
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San Jose
A friend sent us a few pages from the San Jose Mercury News (Aug.
6, 1995) detailing marriages between same sex couples. For the most part
it was two women "marrying" each other. The paper reported that one of
the women "marched down the aisle with her parents." The ceremony was conducted
by Stanford University chaplain Robert Greeg. The woman said, "It's wonderful
for any bride to have your parents there." Hmmm! Who is the bride, pray,
and who the groom? Are they both brides? The article declared that two
men, Steve (what is that old joke about Adam and Steve?) Lund and Chris
Campbell, were "married" last year.
"Be fruitful and multiply.... " Fruitful ... yeah, pretty fruity. Multiply
... no way!
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Do Genes Cause Homosexuality?
Human Events (July 7, 1995) reports that Dean Hamer's study favoring
the idea that genetics determine homosexual behavior is under attack. Nearly
two years after the study, John Crewdson, after a lengthy investigation,
says that no other laboratory has confirmed Hamer's findings.
According to Crewdson, Hamer and his lawyers are "defending" his study
before the [government's] Office of Research and Integrity, which is investigating
allegations by one of Hamer's collaborators that he selectively reported
his data in ways that enhanced the study's conclusions. Hamer refused to
respond to written requests for comment delivered to his laboratory and
home.
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Marriage
William Smith says a wedding should begin long before the invitations go
out. Here are seven suggestions for preparing for your child's wedding
while the child is still small: (1) Pray for your child and his or her
future mate. (2) Instill the value of sexual chastity. (3) Guide your child
as he or she begins to show interest in the opposite sex.... Casual dating
is an opportunity for the young to experience each other as the opposite
sex and learn how to relate to each other.... Serious dating is for seeking
a marriage partner and preparing for marriage. (4) Establish the principle
that Christians may marry "only in the Lord," which means, of course, to
marry according to God's instructions about marriage ... no same sex marriages
... lifetime partners.... Do not marry someone who is not free to marry.
(5) Give your child the example of a good Ephesians 5 marriage ... a relationship
that is happy, thoughtful, and stable. (6) Get across that God hates divorce.
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Think About It
Cal Thomas, noted newspaper columnist, made the observation, "Those who
once were keepers of the gateways of learning have little left to offer.
Their fields have been impoverished; ... college professors ... denounce
falsehood and injustice while teaching that truth and justice are illusions."
J. Allen Smith, the father of modern education reforms, confessed: "The
trouble with us reformers is that we have made reform a crusade against
all standards. Well, we have smashed them all, and now neither we nor anyone
else has anything left."
Change crusaders in the church should please take notice.
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NEA Resolutions
More than 8,000 delegates to the National Education Association's annual
convention gathered in Minneapolis over the Fourth of July weekend. Among
many resolutions adopted were the following:
B-8. Sexual Orientation Education. The National Education Association
recognizes the importance of raising the awareness and increasing the sensitivity
of staff, students, parents, and the community to sexual orientation in
our society. The Association, therefore, supports the development of positive
plans that lead to effective ongoing training programs for educating employees
for the purpose of identifying and eliminating sexual orientation stereotyping
in the educational setting. Such programs should attend to but not be limited
to —
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Accurate portrayal of the roles and contributions of gay, lesbian, and
bisexual people throughout history, with acknowledgment of their sexual
orientation.
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The acceptance of diverse sexual orientation and the awareness of sexual
stereotyping whenever sexuality and/or tolerance of diversity is taught.
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Elimination of sexual orientation name-calling and jokes in the classroom.
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Support for the celebration of a Lesbian and Gay History Month as a means
of acknowledging the contributions of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals throughout
history.
B-35. Sex Education. The association recognizes that the public
school must assume an increasingly important role in providing the instruction.
Teachers and health professionals must be qualified to teach in this area
and must be legally protected from censorship and lawsuits. The Association
urges its affiliates and members to support appropriately established sex
education programs, including information on sexual abstinence, birth control
and family planning, diversity of culture, diversity of sexual orientation,
parenting skills, prenatal care, sexually transmitted diseases, incest,
sexual abuse, sexual harassment. To facilitate the realization of human
potential, it is the right of every individual to live in an environment
of freely available information, knowledge, and wisdom about sexuality.
The Firm Foundation is shocked that more than 4,000 delegates
to the convention would vote "aye" on these resolutions. Maybe each of
us should check with our local school board and parent-teacher association
to see if any of them think it is wise to teach our young ones that being
queer is not queer.
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How's That?
Louis Farrakhan and his group, The Nation of Islam, are heirs of a black
triumphalist sect founded in Detroit in 1930 by W.D. Fard. From the beginning,
its disciples have believed that all non-black races are the products of
a prehistoric breeding experiment conducted on the island of Patmos by
Dr. Yacub, a malcontent exiled from an original black Eden centered in
Mecca. The role of whites, the most degenerate of the half-breeds, has
been to persecute blacks until the appearance of a Messenger (Fard) who
would reveal the truth and set black minds free. This was what Elijah Muhammad
believed, what Malcolm X believed, until he converted to orthodox Islam,
what Louis Farrakhan has believed for 40 years.
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Embryos
The United States Congress opened the door to federal funding for research
conducted on live human embryos. The National Institute for Health impaneled
a tribunal of 19 men and women to "recommend ethical guidelines" for splicing,
dicing, cloning, and flushing down the drain newly conceived humans. The
tribunal consists of "scientists, ethicists, lawyers, patient advocates,
a religion professor, a sociologist and a philosopher." Panel chairman,
Steven Muller, president emeritus of Johns Hopkins University, and a former
embryo himself, had indicated in words paraphrased by the Washington Post,
that "the panel would probably steer a course that allowed some research
to proceed while denying funds for other projects that are ethically objectionable
or scientifically worthless."
Human embryos, reports the Washington Post, could also be used in experiments
to "test suspect chemicals." Here the human embryo would be raised up in
a laboratory dish past the point at which it can be artificially implanted
in a mom/surrogate/ customer. Once big enough to provide useful data, the
embryo would be bombarded with a "suspect chemical" to see what happens
to it. For the little humans drafted into this program—nobody gets out
alive.
Animal rights activists would not allow this to happen to pigs or spotted
owls, but nobody seems to care about human embryos. We have been desensitized
by abortion and the wholesale destruction of human life. May God have mercy
on those of us who sit silent while such slaughter and confusion is prevailing.
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Drugs
Reason Magazine (April 1994) reports that most serious drug abusers
either die or get their problems under control, with or without treatment.
Treatment is not a prerequisite to controlling drug consumption, or even
to abstinence. Most drug users who quit, whether heroin addicts or tobacco
addicts, do so without treatment.
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Good Idea
Jeffrey Hart made an astounding discovery. "I have come up with a cure
for AIDS, and I await my Nobel Prize. The cure will not cost taxpayers
a dime. AIDS will disappear in 15 years if homosexual men find some other
mode of satisfaction besides sodomy and people stop exchanging dirty needles.
These reforms should not be impossible to achieve.
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Contemporary Songs
Steven V. Taylor has arranged 50 contemporary songs. To help us better
appreciate the great worth and value of some of these songs, we here reproduce
the words.
My Turn Now
Well, it's my turn now.
Well, it's my turn now,
My turn to give my life away.
Well, it's my turn now.
Well, it's my turn now.
Well, it's my turn now,
My turn to give my life away.
My turn to say I love Him,
My turn to let Him know
My life is His, so where He leads me —
That's where I will go.
Sing, Shout, Clap
Sing, shout, clap your hands;
Give praise unto your Maker,
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.
Sing, shout, clap your hands;
Give praise unto your Maker,
For the Lord, He is Almighty God.
This is the day of celebration;
This is the day to rejoice!
The Lord, our God, is our Deliverer.
So let's just praise His name.
I Love You, O My Lord! I love you,
O my Lord; I love you, O my Lord,
My Rock, my Savior, my Deliverer —
I love you, O my Lord;
I love you, O my Lord.
There's more, but you get the point. These "new" songs are just dandy.
They are a responsible challenge to our traditions. They represent renewal,
restoration, life change, vibrant churches, and effective evangelism; they
refine our theology and our practice of worship. As you can see, the words
are superficial. The important thing is the beat. If performed to a beat
like that of African tribal music resulting in jumping and jerking, they
really give a new worship experience. They are so much better than those
old, tired, worn-out, lifeless songs like "A Mighty Fortress is Our God,"
"Tell Me the Story of Jesus," and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord."
It is grand to be liberated.
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