This is a picture of ushers at the European Parliament trying to stop the Irish voice. One thing is for sure, we Irish don't like to be told that we can't be heard. OK enough of that.
So I'm way behind on my blog. Life is CRAZY! I will spare the details and just say that we are leaving for Yosemite Bible Camp next weekend and we have to be moved out of our rental before we leave for camp. And, the closing on our house has been delayed until possibly August 4th. What that means is we have to be moved out next week at which time we will be homeless until possibly August 4th.
On Tuesday nights I have begun a "Digging Deeper" course. It's been going well and I'm really excited about it. We lost a few students after they saw the workload :), but all in all not bad.
The last couple days I have been thinking a lot about all of the homosexual marriage in California issue. As of yesterday California began issuing marriage licenses to people who by the very definition of the word marriage cannot marry. The cultural decay is going downhill rapidly. I really don't know how much more God will tolerate. It saddens me greatly that our society is accepting this. I heard a DJ talking about how “cute” this story was of a homosexual couple in their eighties getting married after 50+ years.
It ought to be no surprise as a biblical view of marriage has been under attack for a long time. God's institution of marriage has been neglected for a long time and the church has even accepted it to a large degree. God's institution that binds a man and a woman together for life, to which Jesus went back to in Matthew 19, is the same one that makes a marriage between two men or two women ungodly. The church has set herself up for this fall by accepting men and women who have been divorced and remarried for a reason other than adultery (God's standard). If we take the position that it's ok because they weren't Christians when they did it what moral standing does the church have to stand against homosexual marriages of nonchristians? They aren't Christians right? So God doesn't hold them accountable. Not only that, all they have to do is be baptized and they can remain in a homosexual relationship because their sin was washed away. I'm reminded of the words of a preacher who means a lot to me, Dan Owen, who once said something like, "The church is in open rebellion against God's laws of marriage." Sad, but true.
OK that's all for now. When I get settled I will blog more regularly.
Caleb
On Tuesday nights I have begun a "Digging Deeper" course. It's been going well and I'm really excited about it. We lost a few students after they saw the workload :), but all in all not bad.
The last couple days I have been thinking a lot about all of the homosexual marriage in California issue. As of yesterday California began issuing marriage licenses to people who by the very definition of the word marriage cannot marry. The cultural decay is going downhill rapidly. I really don't know how much more God will tolerate. It saddens me greatly that our society is accepting this. I heard a DJ talking about how “cute” this story was of a homosexual couple in their eighties getting married after 50+ years.
It ought to be no surprise as a biblical view of marriage has been under attack for a long time. God's institution of marriage has been neglected for a long time and the church has even accepted it to a large degree. God's institution that binds a man and a woman together for life, to which Jesus went back to in Matthew 19, is the same one that makes a marriage between two men or two women ungodly. The church has set herself up for this fall by accepting men and women who have been divorced and remarried for a reason other than adultery (God's standard). If we take the position that it's ok because they weren't Christians when they did it what moral standing does the church have to stand against homosexual marriages of nonchristians? They aren't Christians right? So God doesn't hold them accountable. Not only that, all they have to do is be baptized and they can remain in a homosexual relationship because their sin was washed away. I'm reminded of the words of a preacher who means a lot to me, Dan Owen, who once said something like, "The church is in open rebellion against God's laws of marriage." Sad, but true.
OK that's all for now. When I get settled I will blog more regularly.
Caleb
