Mi Vida Loca

Today is just an update in the life of Caleb BLOG. It’s been an absolutely crazy day. This morning I went to my computer to finish up lots of work and my computer was not working. At 2:10 I FINALLY got it fixed – what a nightmare!

Tomorrow I am continuing a sermon series called “Square ONE: Back to the Beginning.” If you can’t tell by the title they are all lessons out of Genesis. Tomorrow we look at the great gift of freedom God gave man. The beginning reveals the freedom to chose, and yes the freedom to sin. Sin puts its ugly mark on this planet and mankind and God has been in the redemption business ever since. Well that’s the gist of the message.

Immediately following Sunday evening worship we are heading to Visalia, California. First thing Monday morning I’m speaking at the West Visalia Lectureship on “More Like Jesus in Tolerance (Romans 14).” Romans 14 is probably one of the most hotly debated passages in our brotherhood these days and they picked ME to speak on it. What’s the deal? I guess my friend Cliff Sabroe doesn’t like me too much. Yesterday I finished translating the entire passage and now it’s a matter of tweaking and reworking so that my exegesis can become proper exposition. My whole first part of the week will be spent there in Visalia. I’m looking forward to seeing some of my mentors: Denny Petrillo, Hi Jones, and Byron Benitez while I am there as well.

This week I have been grieving the loss of my American Idol Brooke White. Her moral character is something to be applauded. So Brooke, we will miss you. My wife is happy though. Now I can’t talk about her anymore :).

On a final note, last night we went and heard Frank Chesser preach at the East Main church of Christ in Stockton. It was good to see family and friends and Frank’s message on sin was very appropriate. Wayne was looking good and I pray the Lord gives him many more years of service in the Kingdom.

That’s all for now!!!

Sow the Seed,
Caleb O’Hara

Is Jesus the Way or Not?

The modern "Church Growth Movement" naturally leads itself to this end. Must one come through Jesus to get to the Father? It's a simple yes or no question that Jesus Himself answers (John 14:1ff). Apparently even if the Scriptures say it it's not good enough for those in the Church Growth Movement. It might turn people away, and if people are turned away the numbers go down, and if the numbers go down we must be doing something wrong!!!



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Sow the Seed,
Caleb O'Hara

What Your Child Learned in School Today

For those of you who wonder what your children are being taught at school here is a bit of an insight...

The goal of Planned Parenthood [a group that teaches on public school campuses every school day in America] according to one staffer is to help “young people obtain sex satisfaction before marriage. By sanctioning sex before marriage, we will prevent fear and guilt” - Lena Levine (Planned Parenthood News. Summer 1953, pg. 10).

You might also be happy to note that you are paying the salaries of Secular Humanists and Marxist professors with your tax dollars and tuition.

According to David Richardson there were 10,000 Marxist professors on America's campuses as of 1982 ("Marxism in U.S. Classrooms" U.S. News and World Report. January 25, 1982, pp. 42-5).

Georgie Anne Geyer states that "the percentage of Marxist faculty numbers can range from an estimated 90 percent in some midwestern universities" ("Marxism Thrives on Campus" The Denver Post. August 29, 1989, pg. 7).

On a brighter note (not really), Humanists out number the Marxists as a whole and they have goals too: "We aim to have students make explicit their own and others' implicit ideas about the way the world is or should be. Like artisans creating a mold out of the earth's supplies, we learn that our minds put the infinite mass of what is going on into an order; we relate parts to each other and create a whole structure. Thereafter, we use this structure like a template that forever determines what we perceive and how we evaluate, decide, and act upon it. By focusing educational content upon our ordering, relating, and structuring processes, we can expose the template, making them available for restructuring as we evolve into better artisans" (R.M. Lauer and M. Hussay, "A New Way to Become Educated" The Humanist. Jan./Feb/ 1986, pg 5 – emph. added).

Ohhhhhh you thought you sent your children off to school to learn to read, write, and do math and all the while the majority of the teachers "expose the template" of humanism on them so they are "available for restructuring" into the humanist worldview. When are we going to stop being in denial and wake up?