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From the Thorn Bush

SEPT 7,2010
Today I would like to respond to what I perceive as a most dangerous game.IE/WEBSTER DICTIONARY: : a procedure or strategy for gaining an end :that is a trend of evangelization that is divorced from centuries of sound moral and natural laws.
I am acquainting myself with Andrew Marin and was reading his Blog to try to catch a cleaner picture on where he is coming from on his approach to presenting the Gospel of Christ. Marin is by no means the only one with this approach,but it is an approach that in my opinion is fatally flawed. First in Andrew's blog LOVE IS AN ORIENTATION HE SEEMS TO BE GOING AFTER  Robert Gagnon for well im not sure but maybe tooting his horn on his life experience pedigree. If he is well It kinda came at me that way to,however his pedigree is to impressive for me to dismiss out of hand,plus maybe he was not tooting his horn.  Andrew says:

Andrew Marin, author of Love is an Orientation and president of The Marin Foundation:

We can continue to politically fight a drawn-out battle with a government that is not governed through an evangelical worldview, producing more casualties for Christ. Or we can learn right now what it means to live in relation to, and relationship with LGBT people as gay marriage is legalized—continuing to actively show Christ's compelling nature regardless of state or national policy. The choice is ours. Andrew talks about living with tension in this ministry of reconciliation that he is involved in,but where Andrew is the Balance?.For you see Andrew seems to have to many generalities,assumptions,and presumptions in this short spot. For we need to keep fighting politically or at least until we are vanquished and have this option unavailable to the Church. However we will continue to be balanced by loving society with the same love for and with Christ as we do in the political spectrum. Andrew if you say we are not doing this you overstate your argument. If you say we do so imperfectly well come on in the water is warm.Dear Andrew you say and I quote:  

It’s not about me, no matter how much they claim it is. Never has been about me. Never will be about me. They think they’re out to destroy me, but there’s a whole lot out there they can’t see that they would have to destroy first – which at the end of the day they won’t be able to.: Sir who is out to destroy you?The one thing I am leading up to is life itself is (EUCHARISTIC) and so your right to say relational and covenantal. that means at some point the unclean must through repentance be brought to the Eucharistic Sacrifice of our Lord. and here is where those in the outer courts will not gain access into the inner court of his Kingdom. Do i believe that the grace of God by his Holy Spirit is there trying to woo the man or women into this Kingdom?yes but the sanctifying Grace to complete this Eucharistic transition Are held by the Chief stewards (BISHOPS/Holy See) and they are not at liberty to alter the Kings edict,and neither are you Andrew.

Sex abuse and the Catholic Church.

That these sex abuse tragedies are a horror for the catholic church is evident. But these horrors must be absorbed by us and taken in prayer to the wounds of Christ. that Satan has unleashed his hounds of hell through the Ignorant and or hateful is also a given. That the Church has begun a defense so as to put perspective is both right and just. That the Church has had to install programs to protect the children from this present darkness is Good. But the one element that is lacking is the ax of apostolic authority laying the ax to the root of the problem.
If any one makes one of these little ones to stumble it would be better if they would tie a millstone around there neck and drown themselves. now lets pray that this apostolic authority separates the wheat from the chaff. IT IS VERY OBVIOUS WITH POPE BENEDICT THIS PROCESS HAS BEGUN.

One other Word remains to be said however. The office of divine mercy has been given to the Church and as another brother has pointed out, these priestly offenders are not beyond the pale of repentance,healing and restoration. not to there former office, but as sinners in need of redemption. For us not to embrace this truth is to leave us open to reap the whirlwind of his judgment for us to. the our father says, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

Shallom Brothers and Sisters. It has been awhile since I have written and thought I would do a bit of reflection.
After the Holy Spirit granted me a actual Grace in 1974 at a Nicky Cruz crusade in Cleveland Ohio and I was full of zeal and lacking in knowledge,I and many thousands like me who came out of mainstream quote"religion"
thought that Religion was bad or evil or at the least lacking the personal relationship.. that relationship of Jesus.
After the Holy Spirit integrated me back to the full deposit of the faith, ie:the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I slowly realized that religion is not a bad thing. that the word religion has sensible meaning. It is The personal and corporate presence of God that we find in religion, at least a healthy religion.
The word religion is not a dirty word. There is no substitute for the personal presence of God, but it is the Word of God that created all that there is,including the word religion, its dynamics, and his essence that he is at liberty to ingest to this word. Slowly I have had to go looking for the baby I threw out with the Bath water.And that Baby was Christ. but Christ has not remained a baby and he wont let us reduce him to a baby locked in time. What he does do is lead and prod and punish us into a mature man or women of God so as to handle all things well. including Religion.
   http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2007/0707btb.asp 
http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/03_ecumenism.htm

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY.

http://www.reformcchdnow.com./

 

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/feb/10020101.html

jUST THOUGHT I WOULD PASS THIS ON.

From The Thorn Bush

Shalom all. I just want to give a shout out to a blog I like called Crown of Thorns Crown of Glory.
Read and enjoy. http://twocrowns.blogspot.com/

From The Thorn Bush.

Shalom all. I have not written in a while so here goes. About Fort Hood. there is plenty of blame to go around. From the top down we have droped the ball. First those brave men and women during the revolution that put there sacred honor on the line there fortunes&families have been dishonored by our actions. Lord God forgive us all for our sins of commission and omission. there was plenty of evidence that this officer responsible for the Ft. hood massacre was a traitor. those who knew this and kept a low profile to protect there careers share in a way some responsibility. this silence helped throw the dirt that would eventually be thrown on there casket's. Our Government which was more concerned with trolling for more information then the lives of our troops is  inexcusable. Our Government's involvement in social and global Engineering of society& its sister, political correctness was and is Guilty of promoting this Ideology that has led more Lambs to the Slaughter. what does the nwo and Islam have in common?. Answer: the tyranny of silence. Islam demands that people have no right to express faith tempered with reason. and the global elite that are promoting this, also do so with political correctness in our and other countries. Maj. Nidal Malick Hasan It has been said loved Death more then life. And his actions back this up. We know that many in our government also love death more then life.the promotion of Abortion is just one act of jihad against this country by those in our country. Both Islam and the nwo want to divorce reason from faith. Like Abraham let us offer our lives and children on His sacred altar of faith,hope&love for G-D Through Jesus Christ offers us a reasonable faith filled with Resurection Power. The culture of Death only offers a faith without hope or reason.

From the Thorn Bush

Shalom Brothers&Sisters. I am just writing to say that i will be trying to add a blog this weekend. My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will empower your lives God Bless.

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this latest trend toward the young insofar as arresting our kids IE those under 18 is very predictable. they the elitist in power want to have authority over mankind period. they say peace and freedom, then enact laws of slavery. massive taxation to keep the ant farm running. they murder the unborn, they usurp the parental God given right to raise our children, they enact wars so we can send our good christian young men&women to die for a bastardized form of democratic socialism. and we continue to elect them. It is time for Christians to stop listening to the pied piper of left verses right and to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches. God has not given the Church to spread democracy. the mandate is to spread the Kingdom of God. western democracy is no longer doing this. arise o sleeper and awake unto righteousness. P.P.Z.

A Prayer

Holy Yahweh Tesbaoth Father of Light and Mercy, You are worthy to receive Glory Honor and Power. for you did create all things, and by thy will they exist and are created.Holy Jesus Lamb of G-D                Blessed are they who are called to your supper. Lord we are not worthy to receive you, but only speak the word and we shall be Healed.

spirit of Vatican II

Iowa bishop blasts ‘spirit of Vatican II,’ calls it ‘a ghost or demon that must be exorcised’ October 16, 2009

In a new pastoral letter on Church renewal, Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City denounces false interpretations of the Second Vatican Council and calls upon Catholics to “reclaim and strengthen our understanding of the deposit of faith.” Bishop Nickless, originally a priest of the Archdiocese of Denver who served as Archbishop Charles Chaput’s vicar general, writes:

The question arises: Why has the implementation of the Council, in large parts of the Church, thus far been so difficult? Well, it all depends on the correct interpretation of the Council or - as we would say today - on its proper hermeneutics, the correct key to its interpretation and application. The problems in its implementation arose from the fact that two contrary hermeneutics came face to face and quarreled with each other. One caused confusion, the other, silently but more and more visibly, bore and is bearing fruit.

On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call “a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture,” it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology. On the other, there is the “hermeneutic of reform,” of renewal in the continuity of the one subject – Church – which the Lord has given to us. She is a subject which increases in time and develops, yet always remaining the same, the one subject of the journeying People of God.

The hermeneutic of discontinuity risks ending in a split between the pre-conciliar Church and the post-conciliar Church. It asserts that the texts of the Council as such do not yet express the true spirit of the Council …

It is crucial that we all grasp that the hermeneutic or interpretation of discontinuity or rupture, which many think is the settled and even official position, is not the true meaning of the Council. This interpretation sees the pre-conciliar and post-conciliar Church almost as two different churches. It sees the Second Vatican Council as a radical break with the past. There can be no split, however, between the Church and her faith before and after the Council. We must stop speaking of the “Pre-Vatican II” and “Post-Vatican II” Church, and stop seeing various characteristics of the Church as “pre” and “post” Vatican II. Instead, we must evaluate them according to their intrinsic value and pastoral effectiveness in this day and age …

The so-called “spirit” of the Council has no authoritative interpretation. It is a ghost or demon that must be exorcised if we are to proceed with the Lord’s work.

Outlining pastoral priorities for his diocese, Bishop Nickless urges priests to offer Mass with greater reverence, hear Confessions for more than one hour per week, and promote Eucharistic adoration, the Liturgy of the Hours, and Marian devotion. “The use of the vernacular has certainly opened up the treasures of the liturgy to all who take part, but this does not mean that the Latin language, and especially the chants which are so superbly adapted to the genius of the Roman Rite, should be wholly abandoned,” he adds.

Source(s): these links will take you to other sites, in a new window.

• Bishop R. Walker Nickless: Ecclesia Semper Reformanda (Diocese of Sioux City)
• This Bishop gets two crowns!. P.P.Z.