2023 Part 2:
Oct. 2023 Christian families are not immune to the Transformation of a Transgender Teen
Faithful families hear:
“I’ve decided I am an atheist” after one semester in college away from family
-despite all of the prayers for their child he had fallen prey to the “empty deceit: of popular atheism
-“I’ve decided I am a lesbian” after therapist approval dealing with her doubts about her sexual identity that stemmed from social media “influencers” and the progressive culture of her high school.
-“I identity as transgender” whose son takes on the identity of a female
--over time parents give into becoming LGBTQ friendly slogans and rainbow flags as part of the cultural indoctrination for both the son and parents
“ The onslaught of transgender ideology in the last decade is a daily news story, as some parents face scorn for
challenging the indoctrination of kids by ideology.”
Should we care about Hamas?
-Brad Dacus who is the founder of Pacific Justice Institute spoke about his experiences with defending civil liberties, religious liberties, protecting freedoms such as freedom of speech, and how to educate ourselves on the attacks on our humanity and freedoms
What’s Wrong with Social Justice?
--the rise of “cancel culture” where people with dissenting views are ostracized, silenced, or punished
--SJT opposes one of America’s historic constitutional liberties: freedom of speech
--undermines the very foundation of our constitutional republic
-asserts that American society privileges people who are white, skinny, heterosexual, and able-bodied
--consists of combination of movements: Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Disabilities Theory, and Fat Theory
--each movement has a belief that American society is structured by hidden and evil identity-based power systems that oppresses certain “marginalized” social groups while enabling certain other “privileged” social groups
-white people are racist
-men are sexist
-skinny people are fatphobic
-able-bodies people are “ableist”
-the rise of “cancel culture” where people with dissenting views are ostracized, silenced, or punished
-SJT opposes one of America’s historic constitutional
-liberties: freedom of speech
--undermines the very foundation of our constitutional republic
***Check out Jack Hibbs Podcast with Karen England: Porn or just an innocent graphic book?
November 2023 Which master will you serve?
-God has given us the opportunity to be bold, by taking a stand, by praying and fighting with the weapons of faith and putting on the full armor of God to change the direction of this nation
-Biblical worldview comes at a time when cancel culture has unleashed a full-fledged assault on America’s First Amendment rights
-You have to live in the world, but you do not have to conform to it
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[a] is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever” (1 John 2: 15-17).
***Read through Notes
-Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas
-Fault Lines by Voddie T. Baucham
-Biblical Citizenship in Modern America: Week 1
Patriot Academy Notes
-Topic: Law of Nature and Nature of God Great Commission of the Church
Bible:
-calls us to be good stewards
-calls us to maintain Biblical citizenship
-calls us to invest in freedom
-calls us to do your duty = vote
-true Christians can’t separate Jesus’
Topic: Liberty vs. Tyranny:
-moralistic therapeutic deism = identification that God exists, but all he really wants is for us to be happy and nice
-moral relativism = the idea that there is no universal or absolute moral principles
-It removes “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.”
Cultural Infusion = requires intentional actions to address social inequities and to address social justice
Cultural Way = Anti-God groups have won the war in education, entertainment, media, journalism, and pulpits
--Social Justice advocates forces the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society
-(oppressor, oppressed, white supremacy, critical race theory, gender queer theory, intersectionality, redistribution)
Counter the Cultural War = preserve our liberty, never let government take over the church
-Secularism is the absolute separation of church and state
-Secularism is incompatible with the Great Commission
-Liberty must have morality
Topic: Duty is Ours-the Results are His:
-We must be intentional and not assume the next generation understands the meaning of freedom
-We must use the Constitution to save the Constitution
-We should be willing to fight and die for the next generation as it only takes one generation to lose freedom ( Just as our forefathers risked it all for us to maintain our freedoms
Topic: Meet some Founding Fathers
“Remember your history, your long and rich history” (Isaiah 46: 9).
-247 founding fathers and only 10 were not Christian
“Power and authority should always be exercised with humility and respect for the individual rights of the people.”
“A nation cannot thrive when its leaders are corrupt and its citizens are apathetic.”
Topic: Slippery Slope to current school system
-Horace Mann (1848-1853 U.S. Representative) diminished the role of religion in the classroom
-mentor to Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams spoke against slavery so much he was placed on a gag order
***We need weapons for spiritual war ina post-truth world
December 2023 Satan’s Trojen Horse for the Christian Church:
-woke church = idea need to impact the culture, be relevant, teachings of the world mix it with a little Bible
-pastors/leaderships’ is not to be the nice Jesus
-not the pastors/churches job to be PR man for Jesus
-worldly compassion doesn’t prepare congregations to be hated for the cause of Christ
-”we just teach Jesus’ love” if surface preaching
-teach convictional truths and stop watering down the Bible
-stop editing the Bible to reach people-false convictions
***False lie: If they like me then they will like Jesus
**Churches should be impacting law, entertainment, government, family, education, and the church
***Christians can’t just stay in their little bubble-Satan is coming for ALL people
Read up on Paulo Freire: 1970 wrote “Pedagogy of the Oppressed
-Marxist whose influence on education where learners are taught to become aware of socio-political inequities and to take action to mitigate those contradictions
Education today: Maoism, Marxism, Social ism, Communism-United State of Freire
-Implementation of DEI becomes like a virus infiltrating America
-Maoism: doctrine to capture state power through a combination of armed insurgency, mass mobilization and strategic alliance.
-Marxist worldview: victimhood is noble and used as currency
-Communism: oppression is bad so the oppressors move to the middle
-Socialism: 1st stage into becoming a communist country-false belief that the distribution of wealth will build the community as a whole
***Now diversity, equity, and inclusion all mean applying unequal standards to ensure preferential outcomes for individuals and groups based on Race, Sex, and Gender Identity.
Read up on Worldview: Learning to Think and Live Biblically by Greg Laurie, Chapter One
-review the meaning and purpose of the 10 commandments
-we have a crisis of Biblical Illiteracy
***We don’t base our beliefs on your emotions or on what our culture tells us, so we base our beliefs on what the Bible teaches
-we have a spiritual worldview takeover
-Americans want to shape their faith and spirituality than they are in Christianity
-we have technology as the era of the iGod
-people find and keep what is convenient and remove inconvenient
“The iGod you have created for yourself and made in your own image.”
-we have a crisis of moral relativism
-the belief that there are no absolutes in life
-we are all born good, so we are only bad because we are products of the environment
-we are only here by chance
-we have a crisis of liberal Christians
-the stories from scripture are not literal but the Bible is just a book of fables
-Jesus didn’t die to atone for our sins
“When sloppy thinking of moral relativism is promoted from the nation’s pulpits, men, and women who seek truth have no idea what to believe. So they come up with their own ‘religion’ and a god of their own making to fill the gaping emptiness in their souls.”
Dangerous Assault on Truth: “So God Created Male and Female”
-The left is imposing on this country a form of mental insanity. But both God and science teach us that we are either male or female
-choosing to favor dangerous medical treatments for children dealing with gender dysphoria-and using the force of government against those who oppose such harmful treatments
-U.K. has reversed their radical stance on gender dysphoria
-“Transgenderism” is a pure novelty invented by Leftists as a way of undermining traditional morality, which they view as oppressive.
-The response of the church should recognize that it is not loving to allow people to persist in a delusion
-God created us male and female and those categories are not “fluid” or changeable.
-“Gender,” as a category distinct from biological sex, is not a scientific concept.
Progressives vs. Conservatives: Consequences of decay of Law and Order
-Lawlessness rejects truth, weakens the way of life, creates chaos, and builds a Marxist society with no moral compass
-Progressives incentivize crime, promote removal of religious liberties, implement intolerance of religion as it is looked upon as evil
-worship of idol of self, punish Christians who dare to speak God’s word
-human lives have no inherent value
Looking through 2023 music and this was also difficult to pin down just one song.
Gratitude by Brandon Lake (memory: graduated from the leadership classes)
First things First by Consumed by Fire (memory: prioritize health, family, work, volunteering, legislation, etc…)
God Really Loves Us by Crowder (memory: concert in the park with my sisters)
Perfectly Loved by Rachael Lampa (hateful comments and being called names-get over it)
Hold On by Katy Nichole (memory: relationships matter)
Somebody to You by Rachael Lampa (memory: worship matters-God let me see me through your eyes)
But, one of my favorite memories is taking my sister and her kids to one concert a year. For King & Country has been the tradition.
**What Are We Waiting For (youtube video)