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“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]
Presbyterians Week Headlines
[1] When Pastors Become Predators
[2] Hungarian Care Home Scandal Implicates Reformed Church Bishop
[3] Employment Opportunities at Geneva College
[4] Pornography Leavening Society with Violence, Destroying Proper Masculinity and Femininity
[5] Canadians Finally Fight Back against the Trans Agenda
Additional Articles of Interest
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[1] When Pastors Become Predators
Shepherds are God’s gift to the church, given because He wants His dear flock to be well looked after. But sometimes the shepherds turn rogue and instead of caring for God’s flock, they put their own interests first. Pastoral ministry becomes all about their own position and prestige and what they can get out of it. The needs of the flock are left unmet and instead they suffer spiritually at the hands of those supposed to nurture them. As the Westminster Assembly member William Greenhill noted, this may be endemic in a church culture, and daring to speak out against it may be penalised. While we are familiar with high-profile scandals in evangelicalism in recent years, this is not a new problem. Nor do things have to reach extremes of financial, emotional or sexual abuse in order for pastors to be guilty of flouting their responsibility to feed the Lord’s flock. Harshness, neglect and a multitude of little ways of lording it over the Lord’s heritage belong to the same category of un-shepherdlike behaviour. Yet as Greenhill points out in his remarks on Ezekiel 34, when the sheep suffer, God notices, and He will ultimately intervene to rescue His maltreated people.
://www.reformationscotland.org/2024/03/21/when-pastors-become-predators/
[2] Hungarian Care Home Scandal Implicates Reformed Church Bishop
Zoltán Balog, Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Church in Hungary, faced mounting criticism this week for mishandling a serious abuse case while serving in the Hungarian government.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/18400/hungarian-care-home-scandal-implicates-reformed-church-bishop
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[3] Employment Opportunities at Geneva College
Current Faculty Positions Available:
* Part-Time Faculty, Department of Biblical Studies
* Part-Time Faculty, Department of Biblical Studies
* Part-Time Faculty, Department of Communication
* Part-Time Summer Faculty, Tannehill Department of Business, Accounting, and Sport Management
* Tenure-Track Faculty – Assistant Professor of Math
* Tenure-Track Faculty – Department of Biology
* Tenure-Track Faculty – Psychology and Social Services
* Tenure-Track Faculty – Tannehill Department of Business, Accounting, and Sport Management
Current Available Staff Positions:
* Administrative Assistant 2 – Professional and Online Graduate Studies
* Assistant Director, Master of Arts in Higher Education Program
* Crossroads Program Coordinator and Early College Enrollment Counselor
* Director of Marketing and Communication
* Enrollment Counselor – On-Campus Coordinator
* International Enrollment Counselor and Advisor
* Registrar
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[4] Pornography Leavening Society with Violence, Destroying Proper Masculinity and Femininity
There is no end to the moral corruption of fallen human nature. It is a bottomless pit of evil. Man’s heart is “desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9). Christ said, “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness” (Mark 7:20-22). Yet it is also true that man can guard the heart so that the inherent evil is kept under control. “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee” (Proverbs 4:23-25). Note the two-fold emphasis on controlling what the eyes see. In all of human history, nothing has amplified man’s corrupt nature more than the ready availability of pornography via the internet. It is polluting society in every way at every level. It tends to quickly degrade from “normal” sexuality to perversions of every sort and particularly to violence. ?e following is excerpted from Jonathon Van Maren, “Is Violent Porn Making Girls Identify as Transgender,” ?e European Conservative, Feb. 7, 2024: “Porn addiction is now ubiquitous among young people, and a generation has grown up with their view of sexuality shaped by the extreme and violent content found on major porn sites such as Pornhub. An increasingly toxic sexual environment in which sexual violence has been normalized has been the result. … Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner of England, recently warned that porn-inspired sexual violence is on the rise even among children. ‘I will never forget the girl who told me about her first kiss with her boyfriend, aged 12, who strangled her,’ de Souza reported. ‘He had seen it in pornography and thought it was normal.’ He wasn’t wrong. A new UK report indicates that ‘nearly half of all girls aged 16 to 21 say they’ve had a partner expect sex to involve physical aggression such as slapping and choking.’ ?e normalization of sexual v i o l e n c e i s t h e c u l tu re – w i d e consequence of men and boys imagining themselves as the aggressor in millions upon millions of porn scenes. … Girls and boys are now coming of age in a dating landscape shaped primarily by pornography. Sexual violence has become normative not just for adults copycatting digital porn and sexual entertainment such as Fifty Shades of Gray, but for minors and children as well. Much of the sexual violence that occurs in our society is now simply a part of the way men and women–and boys and girls–treat each other, and most of this behavior takes place in the ever-growing grey zone between consent, crime, and coercion. … I’ve been speaking on the issue of pornography, primarily to students, for over a decade, and I can attest to the fact that many girls are terrified of what they see in pornography. In the videos they encounter, women are virtually always subjected to grotesque maltreatment and even torture. As this pervasive digital rape culture has bled into their reality, it makes sense that some girls would react to these new sexual expectations by rejecting the female identity. Indeed, it is significant that a growing number of girls are embracing androgyny and identifying as ‘non-binary’–many do not necessarily want to transition into boys, they simply do not want to be girls.” CONCLUSION: It is essential in this wicked day that Christian parents and church leaders wake up and protect their children and youth from the deadly trap that is only a mouse-click or a screen swipe away. We recommend the book and Bible course Keeping the Kids in the Social Media Age, https://www.wayoflife.org/ publications/books/ keeping_the_kids.php.
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[5] Canadians Finally Fight Back against the Trans Agenda
The following is excerpted from “Canadians Finally Fight Back,” thebridgehead.ca, Mar. 4, 2024: “For the better part of a decade, Canada remained one of the only Western countries where gender ideology remained entirely unquestioned, promoted as state dogma by the Trudeau government, and passively accepted by conservative politicians skittish about social issues. … Last June, that began to change. New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs announced that going forward, children under 16 seeking to change their gender at school by switching names and pronouns would first need to get their parents’ permission. Many Canadians had been unaware that over the past several years, it has become standard policy in the public school system to hide such information from parents by default, even though parental permission is required for matters as trivial as dispensing Tylenol. LGBT activists accused Higgs of violating LGBT ‘human rights,’ but Higgs refused to back down. Polling highlighted the popularity of the policy. As it turns out, claiming that Canadian parents pose a danger to their kids is not politically persuasive. Higgs’ move attracted the attention of other premiers, and on August 22, Saskatchewan announced an almost identical policy mandating that parental consent must be acquired before students are ‘socially transitioned’ before the age of 16. Again, the political allies of the LGBT movement–including Saskatchewan’s ‘Advocate for Children and Youth,’ Lisa Broda–claimed that involving Canadian parents in life-changing decisions about their children is dangerous. Premier Scott Moe, following Higgs’ lead, defended the policy, highlighting a poll that proved broad public support: ‘A new poll from [the] Angus Reid Institute shows strong support in Saskatchewan and across Canada for Parental Inclusion and Consent in education with 86% in Saskatchewan supporting some level of notification for parents when children want to change their gender identity in school. Just 10% agree with the NDP position that parents should not be informed.’ … Ontario’s education minister Stephen Lecce hosted a press conference on August 28, announcing that it is the view of the Ford government that ‘parents must be fully involved and fully aware of what’s happening in the life of their children.’ Overnight, ‘parental rights’ went from a political no-go zone to a popular campaign point—and all it took was one premier having the guts to make the move. … on January 31, Danielle Smith, premier of Alberta, announced a raft of new policies going substantially further than any other premier. From the Alberta government’s website: ‘All gender reassignment surgeries for minors aged 17 and under will be prohibited. – The use of puberty blockers and hormone therapies for the purpose of gender reassignment or affirmation will not be permitted for children aged 15 and under, except for those who have already commenced treatment. … – Parents must be notified and opt in to any instance when a teacher provides formal instruction on subject matter involving gender identity, sexual orientation, or human sexuality. – Parents must consent for their child aged 15 and under to alter their name or pronouns used by school teachers, administration, and other educational staff.’ … ?e LGBT movement and their progressive political allies promptly went nuts. … Political scientist Dave Snow analyzed the coverage of Saskatchewan’s policy by the CBC, Canada’s taxpayer-funded state broadcaster, and found that headlines were leading and biased, with 37% of them containing ‘attributed criticism’ and not a single one of 38 articles containing ‘attributed praise of the policy.’ So-called ‘experts’ were handpicked to criticize parental rights. Snow’s conclusion: ‘The CBC prioritizes allyship over objectivity.’ The Toronto Star was even less subtle, publishing an op-ed titled ‘It’s a privilege, not a right, to know your kid’s gender identity.’”
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Additional Articles of Interest
– Experts Discover over 200 Billion DNA Fragments in a Single Dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine
– REPORT: Sixty-Three Percent of All Abortions in 2023 Were Carried Out Using Pills
– Childhood Vaccines: HPV Vaccine (Gardasil) Injuries and Deaths of Young Girls
– Planned Parenthood Caught Selling Livers From Aborted Babies for US$1,500 in New Undercover Videos
– US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine
– The First Amendment Takes a Beating in the Supreme Court
– House Republican Spending Bill Includes $845,000 for Homosexual Garden Parties
– House Republican Spending Bill Provides Money for Transgender Clothing for Teens
– Scotland’s “Hate Crime” Law Takes Effect on 1 April and Police Are Being Trained to Target Actors
– Israeli Government Starves Palestinians in Gaza
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