Whirled Views with Dan Burrell

I’m kind of in a “semi-rant” mood today.  Call it the post Thanksgiving Funk or a Holiday Hangover or whatever.  The older (and crankier) I get, the more disillusioned I am by what “Christmas” has become.  Count me as one that assumes Jesus is appalled (Note: Future theological argument to be had, “Can Jesus be appalled?”) at what is done today in the pretense of celebrating His birthday.  So here are a few Holiday Rants about the time of year…

• If I see one more church sign or bumper sticker that says, “Jesus is the Reason for the Season”, I swear, I’m gonna’ do some vandalism.  Could anyone possibly get more cliche?  I once drove one hour through the hills of North Carolina and counted 12…as in TWELVE churches that had that insipid little epigram on their church marquis.  Ugh!

• PLEASE don’t send me your chain emails regarding Keeping CHRIST in Christmas as opposed to using Merry Xmas.  There’s actually an explanation I’ve read that explains the tradition of using the “X” in place of Christ that I’ve since forgotten and I promise you, it doesn’t have anything to do with a Satanic conspiracy.

• For those of you who want to draw comparisons between SANTA and SATAN, (You know, “Red Suit”, lives in the North, same letters, promises to fulfill your fantasies but is really a lie, etc…, etc…).  Might I suggest you give it a rest and relax just a tad.  If Santa bugs you — don’t have one, don’t pretend with your kids, etc…, but PLEASE stop making it your main cause for the month of December.

• I think the American Family Association and Bill O’Reilly have turned the whole “Happy Holidays” thing into a cash cow.  (See THIS article written by my friend, Warren Smith.)  I don’t particularly want some floozy perfume pusher in the aisle at Macy’s who happens to be dressed like a Victoria’s Secret Mrs. Santa wishing me a nice celebration of the Lord’s birthday this year.  I’m fine with her saying, “Happy Holiday” or whatever.  Basically, just leave me alone.  Bah Humbug!

• Back to the AFA and Bill O’Reilly….I think when ever they hear someone say “Happy Holidays”, they also hear a little “ka-ching” sound as it gives them another chance to push their “Keep Christ in Christmas” and “The War Against Christmas” fundraising stickers/books/articles/etc… going for the offended flock for yet another holiday season.

• I’m going to admit for the first time publicly that I once bought several pages of the USPS’s Muslim “Eid” stamps and used them on my Christmas cards because I thought they looked like little Christmas trees and I’d never hear of an “Eid” or it’s holiday.  In fact, I still don’t know what “Eid” is all about.  Awkward!

• I would rather be beaten with a rubber hose than hang up the Christmas lights on the Christmas tree.  I’m so glad I’m one of those Baptists that believe in eternal security, because I’m confident I’d have to get saved and baptized again every year after Christmas Tree Decorating Night if I was.

• I like those little ribbon candies that they sell for next-to-nothing at Walmart.  Well, the ones that taste like fruit at least.

• I’m not a big fan of the Christmas Eve Candlelight Communion service anymore.  It seems like a lot of people who have absolutely no business taking communion end up doing so just because it’s Christmas eve.  I think the ordinance is too important and too serious to throw open the doors to a bunch of partially inebriated celebrants on  Christmas eve who can’t find the local Catholic church and invite them to participate in something so sacred as a Biblical observance of the Lord’s table.

• There’s something highly unnatural about hanging your outside Christmas lights while wearing shorts as we do in South Florida.  And in my case, it’s also highly disturbing to see me hanging Christmas lights while I’m wearing shorts (or any other time for that matter).

• I like a nice Honey-Baked ham for Christmas.  By then, I’m just turkeyed out.

• I would rather spend $500 extra on Christmas than to go out on Black Friday.  No, wait….make that $5,000.

• I think they should offer complementary marriage counseling at the place where you pick out your Christmas tree.  It’s better to deal with the consequences of finding just the “right tree” right then and there than to have to go back later for therapy.

• I’m trying to remember if we ever took the annual family Christmas picture where at least one of the kids did not have red eyes because I made them cry during the process.  Yep….I’m a candidate for coal in my stocking each  year.

• I’m weird, but I like Christmas letters in the Christmas cards from friends.  I mean seriously, I’m not interested in just seeing your signature again.

• On the subject of Christmas cards, if you are going to buy a $5.00 Christmas card for me at Hallmarks, just stick the $5.00 in an old envelope and send me a note on notebook paper and I’ll send the 5 bucks to Cuba so that one of my pastor friends there can have a week’s pay instead.

• OK, I’ll admit it….I’m not a big fan of the Christmas Cantata.

• Never, not one time in my life, has a single bite of a fruit cake crossed my lips.  I plan on keeping that record intact until the day I die.  For those of you who have given me fruit cakes over the years, I’m sorry and I hope I haven’t hurt your feelings.  The good news is that I have no problem regifting fruit cakes.  So you actually did bless someone.  It’s the thought that counts anyway, right?

• I miss my Grandma’s chocolate fudge every year at Christmas.  I don’t even try to make it, cuz’ it just doesn’t taste like hers did.

• In my home town of Moberly, MO, the town drunk often played Santa Claus every year.  I always wondered why his breath smelled funny and then my mom explained it to me once I was old enough to handle the truth.

• There’s something delightfully challenging about licking a candy cane into a treacherous pointed shard of sugar that could be used to start an IV.

• Burl Ives is my favorite Christmas singer.  Do not judge me.

• Amy Grant is my second favorite singer.  You can go ahead and judge me a little about that.

• There’s something about the ringing of Salvation Army bell that really puts me in the Christmas mood.  I can’t explain it, but it is like watching that old Jimmy Stewart movie that NBC shows in Black and White every year (and which I’ve never actually watched).  At the mall in Charlotte where I used to live, they didn’t like the noise of the bell in the mall, so they shook a paper bell that said “ring” on it.  That just made them look stupid.  But I always put my change in the kettle of a “real” bell ringer.

• I still like to watch the cartoon version of “The Grinch that Stole Christmas” and “Charlie Brown’s Christmas.”  I still don’t like to watch the Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer Christmas program because at 48, I’m still a little scared of that whole abominable snowman thing.

• I have to watch Ralphie and the Christmas Story each year.  It’s just not Christmas until I see those guys at the Chinese restaurant sing “Deck the Halls” with their “Far, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar, rar.”  As racist as it might be, it makes me laugh outloud every single time.  And so does the famous long burp-scene from Elf.  I know, I’m immature.  Can’t help it.

OK….That’s my rant for this Xmas!  Happy Holidays everyone!  Share your rants below.

OH…and “Jesus is the Reason for the Season!”

Note: A previous “edition” of this rant took a cheap shot at Free-Will Baptists in an effort to be humorous.  However, humor is not an excuse for being a less-than-gracious brother in Christ and I have nothing but love and respect for my many Free-Will Baptists friends and apologize for the insensitivity.  Anyone who is foolish enough to paint any sub-grouping of Baptists with a broad brush deserves, well….to be beaten with a rubber hose!  Thanks to my friend, Joe, who pointed this out to me.  DLB

Last Sunday was interesting for me as in a cosmically-sovereign way (what in the world does cosmically-sovereign even mean?) when two of my worlds - past and present - intersected with transitions.

First, at New Testament Baptist Church in Miami and Broward County, FL, where I serve as the Executive Pastor and Vice-President of our schools, we said goodbye to our Senior Pastor, Dr. Dino Pedrone.  He is relocating to Binghamton, NY where he will assume the presidency of Davis College full-time after a year and a half of commuting each week.  Dr. Pedrone is only the 4th pastor in the 55-year history of this fellowship and followed the founder, Dr. Al Janney, the late Dr. E.G. Roberson and Kirk Nowery (who is currently the COO of Samaritan’s Purse).

In his final sermon, Dr. Pedrone gave us a charge and recommendation on what the next Pastor of New Testament should bring to this ministry which I thought was sound counsel.

A. Strong understanding, history, support and involvement in the Christian school movement.

Dade Christian Schools has been one of the highest profile Christian schools in the nation for over 40 years.  Our thousands of graduates cover the globe.  Hundreds are in vocational ministry who received their education at DCS and worshipped at NTBC.  DCS was the founding place of movements such as the American Association of Christian Schools and the Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools.  All three Presidents of FACCS (Janney, me and Pedrone) have had affiliation with DCS and our second school, The Master’s Academy.  Ministries which have significant Christian schools need to call pastors who care for and love Christian education or they will be viewed as more trouble than they are worth or will allowed to become a drain on the ministry.  This was good counsel.

B. Leader of Leaders

Any pastor knows that leadership is an essential element to shepherding a flock of God’s people.  Today’s pastor must be part theologian, part attorney, part counselor, part educator, part accountant, part motivator, part scholar, part humanitarian — just to handle the myriad problems that will cross his desk.  No one man can do that.  Thus, he needs to be a leader of leaders, wise enough to surround himself with people smarter than he is and willing to let them exercise their spiritual gifts without being threatened by them.  Churches are filled with strong personalities and the occasional challenge from someone with a personal agenda.  A good pastor must be able to lead leaders.

C. Strong Expositor of the Scriptures

Today, many pulpits are filled with motivational speakers who understand story-telling, comedy, crowd manipulation and charisma — but who do not know orthodox doctrine and how to rightly divide the Word of Truth.  Being committed to keeping the preaching of the Word of God central to the mission of the local church is essential in a pastor.

D. Evangelism Gift with Discipleship Oversight

I once read a sign on a church wall that said, “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”  If we aren’t reaching souls with the Gospel and we aren’t seeing them discipled in the Word of God, then why are we doing what we are doing?  Evangelism is more than seeing someone make a “decision”.  It is about seeing the Holy Spirit convert people to new life in Christ, seeing them following Christ in Biblical baptism and then watching them grow through purposeful and systematic discipleship. Those that neglect discipleship are, in my opinion, guilty of spiritual child abuse.

E. Multi-Cultural Oversight

Our particular congregation has over 70 different ethniticies, nationalities and people groups represented on a typical week-end.  Probably half of our congregation is bilingual — perhaps more.  South Florida is one of the most diverse areas of the nation.  There is no room in ministry anywhere — but particularly in South Florida — for a narrow view of the Body of Christ when it comes to reaching the community.  There is a need to respect, enjoy, celebrate and participate in the cultural melting pot that is our community and to encourage others to break down the walls that divide us unBiblically.

I hope you will pray for the leadership of this church in the coming days as the search for our next Senior Pastor begins in earnest.

My role remains as the Executive Pastor and Vice-President and in the absence of a Senior Pastor, that puts me at the helm.  We are not calling an “Interim Pastor”, but maintaining the current organizational structure.  I will be preaching each Sunday at our Broward Campus at 8:30 a.m. and at our Dade Campus at 10:00 a.m..  I will also be conducting our mid-week Bible studies at the Dade Campus on Wednesday evenings at 7:00.  Pastor Brian Burkholder will remain as the campus pastor at our Broward branch and will be preaching on Saturday evenings to our Spanish congregation and at the 11:30 service at Broward.  He will also teach the mid-week Bible studies at Broward on Wednesday evenings.  Both of us will keep our respective Bible Fellowship Classes on Sunday mornings as well.  Once a month, we will swap service schedules and he will preach at Dade and I will preach at the late service at Broward.

The other facet of last week-end was the welcome news that my former church, Northside Baptist Church, in Charlotte, NC has called their 4th pastor in their 55-year history.  Brian Boyles, who formerly served on the pastoral staff of the great Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, will be assuming the Senior Pastor’s office on December 7th after receiving the call from the congregation this past Sunday.  As the fourth pastor, he follows the founder, the late Dr. Jack Hudson, Dr. Bradley Price and me.  Northside has been without a pastor for 29 months and I know they have to be enthusiastic about finding their new pastor and are anxious to welcome him and his young family into their new home.  I know Pastor Boyles will be blessed by the many wonderful and generous people who make up NBC and I have already begun praying for him as he takes the leadership of this historic church.

Transitions in life are often when God reminds us that He is always in control and that He has a specific plan for us.  I hope you’ll be praying for both of these churches in the coming weeks as these transitions unfold.

Yesterday, while teaching Sunday school, the issue of “Greenhouses” and over-protecting our kids came up.  I mentioned that I had once written an article on the topic and I’d look it up and re-post it here.  I found it this morning and am doing so now.  I wrote this about four and a half years ago, but I believe it is certainly a valid argument for those who talk about over “sheltering” their kids.

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I love to go to old hardware stores. Several times a year, I go to one of my favorites in downtown China Grove, North Carolina. In the spring, they have their baby chicks out. I usually buy some seed for my garden (whether I need it or not). I can never resist it when I go into a hardware store and they have greenhouse plants out. They just call me. The reason I like this China Grove hardware store is because every spring they offer several different kinds of exotic lettuce like I buy from the organic section from Food Lion. I’m sure the rabbits will get more of it than I do, but you can’t blame a man for trying.

Over the years, I’ve learned that greenhouses are important and very sophisticated places. Ive known several folks who ran wholesale farms and the greenhouses were just incredible. Automatic windows and fans. Climate-controlled temperature and humidity. Auto-sprinklers. I even went to one place where you had to walk through some kind of disinfectant so that you didn’t bring some foreign bacteria into the house on your shoes.

From time to time, I have someone make an argument against Christian schools or sending kids to church or protecting them from certain influences which I call the Hot House or Green House argument. It goes something like this. You’re raising your children in an artificial environment like a greenhouse. But they’ve got to go into the real world sometimes, so you’d better not isolate them. Put them in public schools, don’t force them to go to church, let them stay out late with their friends, don’t be so strict with the curfew things, let them rent R-rated movies and the list goes on and on.

I usually just smile at them and continue on my way. Sometimes I’ll engage them in a little banter by responding like this. Yes, you have a point. I think I’ll go rent a porno movie this evening and watch it with the kids that’s out in the real world too. Or maybe Ill take the young’uns down to the hospital this afternoon and let the TB patients cough on them for a while I mean, hey, you can’t protect them forever, can you? They’re going to get exposed to germs eventually at least I’ll be there! (I think by now, you’re getting my point, right?)

I’m afraid we’ve allowed unbiblical philosophy to sway us away from protecting our kids. Sometimes, I believe, we have over-delegated responsibilities to others that are best performed by parents. As a pastor and an educator, I often urge parents with whom I work to build a greenhouse in their own home.

Proverbs 22:6 tells us to Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it. This is a wonderful proverb given to us in wisdom. Keep in mind that proverbs are principles and not promises. They are guidelines and counsel. You and I both know of some people who were reared in a good Christian home, but as they matured and had the opportunity to accept or reject the truth in which they were schooled, they chose to reject it. But as a principle or guide, children who grow up in the loving, nurturing environment of a home that is committed to Biblical values are more likely to continue in the way they should go as adults than those who don’t get such support and training. But when an adult child chooses to reject Truth, it is less of a reflection on the parent than on the adult child who apparently has not submitted his will to the Lord.

The word train here comes from the Hebrew word hanak, meaning to dedicate”. It conveys an idea of hedging in or narrowing and would often be used in the sense of starting something. Horses are hedged in at the beginning of a race so their start will be fair and so they will be headed in the right direction. Garden plants are started in small, confining containers, under the protected environment of a greenhouse so they will get a good beginning. Climbing vines and roses are placed on a trellis to that they can be guided upward in a beautiful fashion. Godly parenting demands that godly parents get their youngsters off to a good start.

You have to admit, greenhouses are interesting places. They are sophisticated in their design and simple in their goal. By shielding their young charges from cold, disease, heat, drought, pests and other dangers, greenhouses prepare immature plants for life outside the greenhouse. When they are ready, they are transplanted to the real world not too soon just when they can handle its pressures, difficulties and irregularities.

Isn’t that what we as parents should be doing as well? The notion that we should expose our children to the worst that the world has to offer as some sort of preparation for the real world is ludicrous. Yet, many parents push their kids into premature dating, expose their kids to the worst kinds of violence and conduct, sexualize their kids by letting them act and talk sexy and in general abdicate their responsibility to be keepers of the environment which allows our kids to mature before exposing them to the harsh realities of a pretty wicked world.

Lets examine some of the responsibilities of a greenhouse and draw comparisons with our responsibilities with the adult world.

First, greenhouses are to provide protection during early states of development.  Most tender plants are given a nice head start in peat cups and potting soil. This allows them to sprout in safety away from the dangers that will destroy them before they even get started. Such is the approach by the wise parent. Keeping them close to mom and dad, snarling at things that would rob them of their innocence, hiding their impressionable psyches from the cruelness of a fallen creation, we allow them to get a head start on life before having to deal with those things for which they are not ready.

Greenhouses provide shelter from harsh exposures. Do our pre-pubescent kids really need to know the horrors of violence, the draw of sexuality, the raw potential for hatred that exists in the world? Certainly, they will be exposed to it soon enough and sometimes sooner than wed like. But why rush our kids into confrontation with that which scars, desensitizes and devastates?

Timely and measured nutrition are a priority in the greenhouse and should be in the home as well. Measured doses of nutrients, sunlight, moisture and fertilizers are given by conscientious farmers. The wise parent makes sure that their child is given the correct doses of intellectual stimulation, physical exercise and nutrition, emotional support and spiritual instruction. Wed be fools to only see that they get enough to eat, but no love or exercise or academic stimulation. Why is it that many parents, then, neglect completely the need each child has to know there is a God and that He matters? Its nothing short of child-neglect.

Every greenhouse is a monument to the controlled environment. Constant readings and evaluation give guidance. We also should be checking the temperature in our home. How are the attitudes? Is there balance? Have negative influences like too much TV, unhealthy media messages, and over-extension of time crept into our life? Sometimes we need to regulate what is going on in our personal greenhouse.

Much care is given to make sure the plants have developed their roots. Roots give stability, help with sustenance, and are essential for reproduction. Making sure our kids know lifes whys and not simply the whats is essential in giving them roots. It is what guides discernment, encourages stability, promotes continued growth. Good rooting is dependent upon a Worldview that is permeated with the absolute values of Scripture.

Finally, the big day arrives and they are ready for transplanting. Not too soon. Not too late. Gradually, they have been exposed to a greater extreme in exposure to sunlight, temperature and watering. They are now ready to transplant into the yard or garden. The day finally comes when our kids are ready to date, get their first job, go off to school, and invade the world one step at a time. Yet, even during that time, we monitor, guide, check and pray. That’s what good parents are all about.

So, if you’ve bought into the whole “Anti-Greenhouse” philosophy of parenting, I’d challenge you to rethink it. Indeed, a family garden and greenhouse may be what’s best for YOUR kids.

The man who adopted my great-great grandfather, Judge Orlando Burrell of Carmi, Illinois had a colorful life.  He was a US congressman, a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War, he was a judge and a mayor.  He made his “fortune” during the California Gold Rush which provided him with the resources to chase other dreams that he had and gave him influence and opportunities as well.  He was an exception to those who ran West during the height of the great Gold Rush.

Thousands of people uprooted their families and moved to California in search of quick riches.  Some fully expected to find chunks of gold sitting on river bottoms ready to be loaded up and turned into an instant fortune.  Others picked up rocks flecked with gold only to discover that what they had was of no value and instead was what would be called “fool’s gold”.  Whether chasing for gold that they never quite found or picking up the illusion of gold to find it worthless, many found nothing but disappointment, emptiness and shattered dreams.

Today, in many ways, we haven’t progressed much past that kind of thinking.  Take a look at the typical advertising campaign.  How many times do we buy one brand of soda over another because of the catchy sales jingle?  Sometimes, the more fantastic the claim, the better we like the “experience”.  Seriously, does drinking your favorite fruit punch make a tropical island surrounded by swaying palms and girls in hula skirts suddenly appear?  If you purchase new glasses, will you look as cool as the guy with the spiked and highlighted hair and the chiseled body who is seen in the magazine ad?  Does any single woman on the planet really believe that the only way to get the man of her dreams is to wear “Maybelline?”  Of course not, but that really isn’t the issue.  We KNOW the commercials and actors and manufacturers are LYING to us and frankly, we don’t care!  We enjoy indulging in our little fantasy that we can buy or paint or clothe ourselves to youth, sexiness, success and ultimately, happiness.  What does it really hurt?

Glen Ward wrote a book a few years ago entitled, “Postmodernism“.  In it he wrote, “The increasing invasion of signs and images (in media, display, advertising and so on) into the fabric of everyday life has created a dream world ideal lifestyles for us to fantasize about and identify with.  For example, many commercials are more concerned with attaching a sense of lifestyle and experience to the product being sold than to giving details about the product itself.  (One only needs to look at ads for Abercrombie and Fitch to realize they are selling sex, not clothing and in doing so are one of the top retailers to the young and hip. — DB) Because of this, we get as much satisfaction from consuming the images attached to goods as we do from whatever practical function the goods might serve.”

An old friend of mine, Pastor Rick Shrader who pastored a church in Colorado for many years once wrote in a little paper he produced called “Aletheia” that we have become so used to this form of communication in our lives that we fully expect to be lied to.  He went on to warn against the movement within churches to jump on the “experience” bandwagon.  He noted that sincerity has become of greater worth than reality.  Experience and emotion are to be coveted above accuracy and fact.

In other words, people are more interested in feelings than facts.  They want to “experience” a spiritual feeling even if that feeling comes at the expense of neglecting orthodox and doctrinal instruction.  We are more desirous of affirmation and inspiration than challenging information.  We want a God that makes us feel better about us more than we want a God Who helps us to see us for who we really are and what we genuinely need.

Thus, our churches spend great energy and resources on creating an experience in “worship” rather than the presentation of the “Word.”  Doctrine is downplayed as divisive, boring and even transitional.  What matters is the pragmatic effect of shared experiences, emotional movement and a sloppy form of self-affirmation that emphasizes style and sincerity and a nebulous form of spirituality.  In this world, Oprah is as much a spiritual leader as Billy Graham; Joel Osteen and Robert Schuller outshine more studious prophets as John MacArthur or Warren Wiersbe.

There is a danger in a cold orthodoxy that never touches the heart.  We can’t be so afraid of emotion and compassion and expression that it make our faith impotent or simply a matter of intellectual assent.  The practical effect of the gospel is a changed life, rearranged priorities and a passion for the things of God demonstrated in daily living.  But one has to wonder if the typical Western church today spends as much time in exegeting the Word as it does in creating an “atmosphere”.  Does the average preacher plan the feel of the service with as great precision as he studies the content and context of the Gospel he preaches?  Have we sacrificed our sound doctrine for a social activism which leaves us with a false sense of accomplishment that lasts only as long as the adrenaline rush of self-congratulatory emotion that follows a pseudo-spiritual exercise?

I don’t believe it necessarily has to be either/or and those who argue such are guilty, in my mind, of a false dichotomy.  At the same time, much of what I disdain about the modern church movement today (which includes the CGM, Emergents, etc…) is that we get far more worked up about feeding the homeless than we do preaching the Gospel.  At the same time, I fully recognize that one of the sins of our past was our willingness to step over the bodies of those who were starving in order to preach a message on compassion.

We must pause and remember that the moral relativist and the post-modernist believes that truth is a product of experience.  Therefore they put great value on image, stories, self-interpreting histories, drama, sensory experiences, narratives and even illusion.  One write notes that, “We are in a logic of simulation which has nothing to do with a logic of facts and an order of reasons.”

I’m afraid that by now I may have lost some of you in this philosophical monologue.  But I want to you consider how our culture gets caught up in experiences and emotions -from the way we exalt athletics, to the ads we will have pummel us as Christmas approaches, to what passes as worship these days in a typical evangelical church.  Even we as believers tend to get swept up in catastrophe or tragedy and almost become paralyzed in an irrational frenzy of grief or morbid curiosity such as when a celebrity dies like Princess Diana, Michael Jackson or Anna Nicole Smith.

I personally question if our electorate would ever again choose a seasoned old statesman over a thin, vibrant, good-looking-but-untested political newcomer.  What was it that compelled so many conservatives, evangelicals and faith/values voters to vote for a President who promised to stand against the values so many of them claimed to hold dear — like smaller government, pro-life, traditional family values, etc… — simply because he was more attractive and eloquent and charismatic?  And why are they so shocked now that he is keeping those very promises as they wake up to the reality that we have a man in the White House who is committed to an extreme liberal agenda more so than any President in American history?  Why is that Kanye West and Taylor Swift are followed more enthusiastically than the nine men and women who interpret our very constitution?

It’s time we ask ourselves if we are chasing fool’s gold.  In our personal lives, our homes, our businesses and yes…. in our churches.  Today’s evangelical believer is more offended by someone who speaks with authoritative passion and a sense of absolute truth than they are about the carnal and sensual messages of today’s entertainment industry.  As a result, our churches are filled with “show”, our sermons are filled with “fluff” and our hearts are filled with “darkness.”

Believers must be careful to search for truth.  Preachers must be careful to preach the Word.  And all of us must take care to keep from chasing “fool’s gold”.

If everyone could see for themselves what goes on in the holocaust mills of America’s abortion INDUSTRY, millions more would suddenly realize that what they are observing is cold-blooded murder of a real human life. This is exactly why America’s abortion mills are under-regulated, shrouded in political protection and evidence of the violence committed in them is censored for the American public. We’ll publicize the beating of baby seals or the slaughter of chickens as barbaric, but no one dares show the dismemberment and atrocities of a human abortion.

Read about it HERE.