Our generation is precious with language. There are few places we’ve changed our language more than the way we speak of sexual sin. We kill God’s truth by avoiding God’s words, then we justify our shame at God’s words by appealing to the pain of “sexual minorities.”
We think gays and bisexuals are victims and shouldn’t have the suffering of minority status compounded by judgmental, self-righteous Christians who use insensitive language. Which is to say, biblical language. Amazon.com
Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in America) has utterly betrayed their trust to guard their sheep. For them to present themselves now as “lovers” of their sheep and the adults in the room who can be trusted—making this claim in the wake of (only) their most recent scandal of Goligher’s abandonment of his call—is ludicrous and should immediately be shut down by both the congregation and Philadelphia Presbytery. For the protection of Tenth’s sheep. For the protection of the Name of Christ.
Whatever the elders thought they were calling a congregational meeting to act on, members of Tenth’s congregation must not let them continue to lead.
The congregation of Tenth needs to call its own special congregational meeting (BCO 25-2) for the purpose of requesting the resignations of the entire board of elders, and also to petition presbytery to come in and assume original jurisdiction.
The session is focussed on control and their own reputations. They tell you they love you, but you love them and would prove your love for them by requesting their resignations. Their decade-long incompetence and lies are a national scandal needing immediate correction. The G.R.A.C.E. Report documents a good bit of it. Yes, it’s painful, but get it done.
These BCO provisions cited above have a purpose, and if Tenth’s present scandalous condition doesn’t rise to the level of qualifying for the use of these provisions calling in a higher authority to handle scandal, no church scandal ever will.
Session should have been replaced long ago. That they still haven’t is the real scandal at Tenth, now—not Ryken/Jones or Goligher/GRACE Report.
On the edge of the Promised Land, the Sons of Israel refused to go in, but instead accused God: “He hates us” (Deut. 1:27).
This is our bad conscience speaking. “We all have cause to be frightened if we refuse God’s assurance that he wants to have pity on us.” -Calvin’s sermon on Gen. 3:19-22
When IU hired Sampson, didn’t matter to me whether he won or lost. Same with Harbaugh. Last night, turned game off. Team did great. Same with Moore. Wish them all the best and congrats. But Harbaugh? Nah.
Gay’s post-resignation NYT oped whining: My toppling as Harvard president was “merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society.”
“War to unravel public faith?!” Harvard is “pillar of American society?!”
No.
Harvard/HigherEd today are mines being dug by Gay and her fellow PhD sappers for the purpose of blowing up all God’s truth that Western Christendom was built upon.
We Christians love truth and education, so what we are determined to do is not any unravelling, but total obliteration of trust for higher ed sappers in our society. We aim to bring back true education, The Idea of a University, and theology the queen of sciences. We will bring back God’s truth and justice and morality—everything Gay and her fellow sappers have been trying to obliterate.
Interview w/PresObama campaign manager David Axelrod. Wise comments on Pres. Trump campaign. Axelrod blowing alarms abt Biden campaign. Pres. Biden & his guys calling Axelrod “bedwetter” & worse. Last sentence is Axelrod’s response. Pastors, read it. Joe Biden Called David Axelrod a ‘Prick.’ It Won’t Shut Him Up. - POLITICO
The scandals committed by Tenth’s Senior Ministers and Session since the year 2001 are shameful. Will the members of Philadelphia Presbytery and the congregation of Tenth Presbyterian Church continue to hide the sins of the Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church and their senior ministers? Will Philadelphia Presbytery continue to show bias and partiality? Is there no one in the congregation of Tenth Presbyterian Church, no member of the pastoral staff of Tenth Presbyterian Church, no member of Philadelphia Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America who fears God and is determined to defend the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ?