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MISCELLANEOUS SPECIAL REPORTS

A MASONIC HISTORY OF AMERICA - Is This Really a Christian Nation?

Get Al Dager's pdf of this report Published in 1990

Included in this report is the following article:

"Nature's God" ?

G. K. Chesterton

6/22/09

It is wrong for Evangelical believers to quote G. K. Chesterton as if he was an Evangelical Christian because he was not. He was a Roman Catholic. One of the most serious deceptions today is the merging of Evangelicalism with Roman Catholicism as the Roman Catholic gospel is a false gospel of works.

I’m reading Chesterton’s autobiography published in 1936, loaned to me by a beloved friend, given to him by another beloved friend. G.K. Chesterton is very interesting to me. But then so is Malcolm X and Che Guevara. Chesterton had some rich discussions with agnostic intellectuals such as George Bernard Shaw and yet, believers in Jesus should resist taking sides in debates when both sides are in rebellion against the God of the Bible.

Please consider the below quote from page 75 of The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton published by New York: Sheed & Ward in 1936.

"I have grieved my well-wishers, and many of the wise and prudent, by my reckless course in becoming a Christian, an orthodox Christian, and finally a Catholic in the sense of a Roman Catholic... Now in most of the matters of which they chiefly disapprove, I am not in the least ashamed of myself… I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas… I am very proud of what people call priestcraft; since even that accidental term of abuse preserves the mediaeval truth that a priest, like every other man, ought to be a craftsman. I am very proud of what people call Mariolatry; because it introduced into religion in the darkest ages that element of chivalry which is now being belatedly and badly understood in the form of feminism. I am very proud of being orthodox about the mysteries of the Trinity or the Mass; I am proud of believing in the Confessional; I am proud of of believing in the Papacy." [Of course the Trinity is Biblical but the other sources of his pride are unbiblical. - Editor of Procinwarn.com]

Do You Still Want to Shoot the Messenger?

Leighton Ford Promoting Contemplative Spirituality

See the following Publishers Weekly summary on Barnes & Noble:

6/19/09

"Ford would seem an unlikely candidate to write a gentle, moving introduction to traditional monastic spirituality. As Billy Graham's brother-in-law and frequent stand-in, Ford's evangelical bona fides are unquestionable. Yet he describes the details of life at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina, with the eye of the avid amateur painter he also is. Reading this book you'll find yourself scribbling down prayers from obscure medieval figures like a certain St. Fursey. Ford is also appealing as he describes odd gestures he's willing to make in search of the God who's present in the everyday: hugging a tree, hugging himself in an airport with passersby all around..."

Leighton Ford promoting Contemplative Spirituality

See the Lighthouse Trails Blog 6/5/09

Gurus Beyond Critique

Biblical Basis for Moral Government?

Some thoughts about Paul Shirk's Book, Come Out of Her My People

As quoted in the Summer 2009 issue of Media Spotlight (which I usually agree with) Posted here 6/15/09

Paul Shirk states:

“If God has ordained government and rulers over the affairs of this life then it cannot be said that He is indifferent to earthly government, but rather that He has a specific will concerning it.”

Of course God is not indifferent to earthly government. That does not mean that He has expressed in the Bible what civil governments should do.

All authority exists by God’s will and for His purposes, though none of the individuals who are in power in those governments are necessarily endorsed by Him. God raises up kings and He takes down kings. How God deals with these rulers is His business.

Those who have not been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ are enemies of God. There is nothing they can do to please God. God’s calling for individuals, whether in power as rulers or not, is to repent and trust in Jesus.

For Christians, the important question is what has the New Testament called us to be concerned with?

Yes, we are to exemplify and proclaim Biblical morality, but only in the context of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Yes, we are to obey civil government.

But there is not a single command in the New Testament that tells us to concern ourselves with how worldly governments constitute themselves.

There is great pressure for professing Christians to become politically active to one degree or another.

I recommend we derive our priorities and zeal from specifically what the New Testament commands and not try to contrive extra biblical agendas for the assembly of Christ.

It is a cult-like mentality that says that all criticism or all dissent is division; or that anyone who criticizes a leader or an institution is necessarily a divisive person.

We are called to simply speak the truth. We are called to be motivated by love.

Without the truth we are no different from pagans. Without love we are just Pharisees.

The world and many professing Christians would like to silence the truth in the name of "love".

Our own flesh is used to discredit our message.

Jesus will help us.

New World Order Niceness

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Christian Organizations being influenced by Emergent - Contemplative Spirituality

Calvary Chapel, Nazarene Church, Christian Missionary Alliance, Mennonite denominations, Southern Baptist, Many Reformed/Calvinist churches, Foursquare, and Assemblies of God

According to a Lighthouse Trails article

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