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US, LEARN FROM JAKARTA HOW TO SPIKE MUSLIM OBAMA

2010-03-05T09:26:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

America should learn from Jakarta’s protesters how to clog the streets with cries of imploding the Oval Office imposter.

Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama is beheading America by throwing our money into the downdrains.

He’s a liar. He breaks his promises. He plays dictator. His crook and liar cronies stand to right and left of his every move. His wife is team member with him.

There is no doubt that Obama is using every means possible to wipe out this Republic. That is the prime purpose of any Muslim—eliminate the infidels. Beheading is the favorite modus operandi. But if one can behead without shedding blood, so much the cleaner.

Read OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs022610_printer.shtml

Obama is working night and day with cohorts Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to shred this nation from coast to coast. This is most evident with the Obamangst “care” bill ram-jammed down our throats.

Reasonable newsfeeds don’t know how to word their coverage of this insanity. Fox Newscasters in particular are stymied when trying to figure out logical ways to communicate this crazy scene from the White House.

Every day they grope for new verbiage by which to state that the present administration is killing our democracy and no one seems to know how to stop it.

Well, in Jakarta, protesters fill the air with cries that Obama is not to arrive there because he is not Muslim enough. There you have it. In America, Muslim Obama is Muslim Number One. In Jakarta Obama is not Muslim enough.

And that Islamic devotee on Pennsylvania
Avenue thought that once in office the Islamic world would fall at his feet, worshiping the anointed one. Not so.

Now this brings us to the spiritual analysis. God is at work through this whole mess. Why? Because of the righteous remnant at the time of America’s start and at the present moment. Those prayers match up before heaven’s throne. God answers those sincere petitions.

Satan is also at work, evidently. Satan wants to destroy America because it is the only country begun with a Christian stand. America is the Christian-heritage nation of the planet.

God wants that to continue. The sincere believers pray that that will continue.

At times the spiritual battle will become increasingly severe. However, in the end, God and His grace children will prevail. We must keep faith strong.

We must not try to play God. We must let God guide us socially, spiritually and politically—which He will do.

Watch how God moves in the future to rescue America from the Marxist Muslim schemes to rid the world of the Christian-heritage United States of America.

Jakarta is an example of how to protest Obama at the moment. Other protestations will show up on life’s screen. In each of these, God will work His move.

Read “Indonesian students protest Barack Obama's visit” at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_obama

NAZNET CHAPLAIN BARBARA MOULTON = QUIET LIBERAL SUPPORTER

2010-03-05T04:43:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

While NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff took owner/founder Dave McClung’s web site from holiness/evangelical/conservative to emergent church liberal, former moderator chaplain Barbara Moulton played cheerleader.

Whatever Deventer and Cundiff posted that was in keeping with the swing from conservative to liberal Moulton cheered on with comments or posting her name in agreement with their heretical positions.

McClung stood by permitting his site to be turned from “friend” to Church of the Nazarene to Judas the betrayer. If there is ever an enemy on the Internet to that denomination, it is NazNet.

The Church of the Nazarene Board of General Superintendents, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Nazarene Bible College, countless district superintendents, Nazarene headquarters’ department heads, Holiness Today editors and other personnel have been informed of the NazNet betrayal.

Moulton is known for her refusing to take a public witness on God’s abhorrence for homosexual activity. She, a chaplain, stated she would not marry two persons of the same gender. But she emphatically stated that she would not make a public testimony concerning the biblical position on the matter.

The latter would be in keeping with Deventer and Cundiff’s posted suspicions that the Bible is in fact without error.

Moulton’s refusal to speak in public on behalf of God was posted on the Internet. With that, McClung stated that she was “pained” by the exposure. However, McClung did not appear pained that his chaplain moderator refused to stand alongside God in His revelation in Scripture.

Moulton then became known as the gay-mum. She was mum on the gay nuptial issue. That spiked a number of responses from biblical believers asking how a Christian chaplain could be so cowardly.

Shortly, Moulton’s name disappeared from the NazNet masthead. Obviously, the “pained” Moulton led to her absenting herself from being moderator. However, she continues to post on NazNet.

Deventer and Cundiff still hold their moderator positions though their postings have been exposed far and wide. Deventer calls the exposure all “lies.” However, whatever has been revealed concerning his theological liberalism has been supported by his quotes from his postings. The same with Cundiff.

Cundiff, pastor of a small church in Alvin, Texas, knows that clergy and district leaders on the South Texas District Church of the Nazarene know of his double-tongue. They know that he preaches the typical Nazarene message from his hometown pulpit while playing the cavalier theological liberal emergent church enthusiast on NazNet.

Cundiff has even stated that the more he studies the Bible the less he knows God. Evidently to get his pastor’s salary check plus benefits, he does know God when preparing his Sunday msesages.

Deventer, from the Netherlands, knows his district superintendent has been informed of his liberal postings. Yet there is no sign that he still cannot believe in the Bible, that unsaved souls are annihilated at death, that there is an "intermediate state" for souls upon death, that he hopes God takes all souls to heaven, that there is no eternal hell, and that the emergent craze has a lot going for it as the new church.

Moulton, in the meantime, remains on NazNet as a contributor. Her postings are usually quite trivial, not broaching in-depth theological matters. However, NazNet readers cannot but remember that she was the chief cheerleader for Deventer’s and Cundiff’s liberal positions throughout.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

WILL BABIES BLOCK OBAMANGST-CARE?

2010-03-04T18:36:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“A little child shall lead them.”

It could be that the unborn child could slice and dice the Dems’ so-called “health” care bill.

“’Yes. We're prepared to take responsibility,’ Representative Bart Stupak said on ABC's Good Morning America when asked if he and his 11 Democratic allies were willing to accept the consequences for bringing down healthcare reform over abortion.

“’Let's face it. I want to see healthcare. But we're not going to bypass the principles of belief that we feel strongly about,’ he said” per Reuters.

Those who are pro-choice are for murdering unborn boys and girls. It is murder. One cannot find middle ground. One either murders the unborn child or does not murder the unborn child.

Those who are convinced that God does not want mortals to slay their children are convinced that going against that ethic will bring dire circumstances at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Obviously there are those who are merely church people, like Nancy Pelosi who is a renegade Roman Catholic. Being a church person is not being a Christian. One must know the Savior and live by His ethic to be known as a child of Christ.

Those Dems who say that they will not give in on the abortion part of Obama’s bill are those who repeatedly inform the media that no amount of political persuasion will change their minds.

Of course, the public has been told that before and found these moralists not moralists. Time will tell who is truthful and who is playing word games.

But it just could be that in the end the children could block the Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama’s so-called “health” care issue. That would be particularly interesting considering Christ’s high regard for children.

Read “UPDATE 2-US Democrats would kill healthcare over abortion” at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0421749120100304

FOOTNOTE: THE BIBLE AND ABORTION

It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: "Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime."

There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.

But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person's body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body's life to continue.

The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.

“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).

"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).

"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).

"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).

In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).

"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).

Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:

"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."

All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:

"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).

Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):

"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).

Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.

Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."

If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.

John Adams said the following:

"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

Andrew Jackson said the following:

"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."

Daniel Webster:

"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."

"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).

NAZNET LAID BARE TO NAZARENE SEMINARY & BIBLE COLLEGE

2010-03-04T14:13:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The heresies posted on NazNet have been communicated to the Nazarene Theological Seminary administration and faculty, Kansas City, MO, as well as the Nazarene Bible College administration and faculty, Colorado Springs, CO.

It is imperative that these educational institutions for clergy know the anti-Bible teachings on NazNet, the site owned and founded by Dave McClung.

NazNet claims to be a companion to the holiness denomination but is not.

NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff, for instance, both disclaim the Bible as the infallible Word of God.

They teach emergent church tenets such as the Scriptures not being reliable; therefore, one is left to pick and choose what one believes.

They follow the lessons of emergent church guru Brian McLaren who states there are no “objective truths.” That means there are no eternal absolutes. Therefore, write your own religion. McLaren brings all religions under one tent.

This kind of heresy is applauded on NazNet among other anti-Bible teachings such as the annihilation of the unsaved at death, there being an “intermediate state” upon death, and a good God not permitting an eternal hell.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS for other disclosures at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

NAZNET MAKES A SANCTIFIED GOD CRY

2010-03-04T12:43:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

It is so very, very sad; nevertheless, it is fact.

NazNet, set up as a site friendly to the holiness Church of the Nazarene has gone for anti-Bible teachings such as are popular now in the emergent church.

Brian McLaren, stroked emergent church guru, has become the New Age messiah for NazNet and like sites spreading across cyberspace.

NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff are two of the prime leaders with founder/owner Dave McClung giving permission for these heresies.

A web site that should be teaching the world via the Internet the marvelous life of sanctification has given itself over to being avant-garde theologically liberally.

The world is in miserable shape. It needs the biblical call of saving grace and sanctifying grace. In the meantime, we have the likes of Deventer, Cundiff and McClung endorsing the
Bible as riddled with mistakes.

Deventer states outright that he does not believe the Bible except for his hug with Jesus. Cundiff states outright that the more he studies Scripture the less he knows God. McClung goes on his merry way allowing this blasphemy.

There sits a web site telling readers that it is a companion to the Church of the Nazarene when in fact it is the enemy to the Church of the Nazarene.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

Those of us who love the biblical doctrine of sanctification suffer. We would pray for the site to give all energies to explaining God’s Word offering the holy life possibility. Instead, readers go to the site to read trivia, nonsense and heresy—all provided on one NazNet.

There is so much that NazNet could do as an instructor concerning the biblical doctrine of holiness. That teaching is rare within Christendom. Therefore, NazNet could pick up on that void to give forth with some of the most amazing scriptural data.

Instead one gets the impression when perusing NazNet that it tries everything but holiness as a viable theme. Why? The reason is obvious. If moderators are theologically liberal so that they question the authenticity of Scripture’s divine revelation, they personally have no living relationship with the Holy Spirit.

With that, they have nothing to teach that is biblically sound. Their minds have been given over to the reprobate mind. They are captured by the latest fads sweeping across too much of the evangelical church.

Would that NazNet would break before God, confess its waywardness and begin the mission of teaching biblical holiness. For instance, the site could begin with the lesson of sanctification being sweet surrender. What a magnificent place to begin.

Sanctification, simply stated, is sweet surrender.
When one becomes saved, he takes Christ's blood upon his soul. In that, he receives divine mercy. Sins are cleansed. This is a divine act beyond our fondest imaginations.

When the saved one then becomes sanctified, he yields his all to Christ. In salvation, one takes grace. In sanctification, one gives all to God.

Picture yourself now standing before God. In your hands are all that you have and are: wardrobe, vehicles, properties, family, friends, wallet, health or sickness, desires, reputation, abilities, dreams, future ambitions, finally death and eternal destiny.

Lift all of this to God. Give it all to Him without reservation. That is the surrender of sanctification. You received at salvation; you now yield at sanctification.

In that moment of submitting completely, the Holy Spirit accepted your all. He then cleansed it in order to return it as holy to you. Now what you submitted is ready for the kingdom's good.

Previously, it was used chiefly for your own self-focused "good."

At the time of sanctification, you are made pure by the Holy Spirit. He takes away your selfishness, stubbornness and stupidity which clung to things for your own welfare. In place of all that, He gives you grace to abandon to God. Now you no longer live for self but for the Savior alone.

When you were first saved, your sins were cleansed. Now that you are sanctified, your sin nature is cleansed. This is the "double cure" of which we sing in the hymn, "Amazing Grace."

How does the Christian remain sanctified? Simply put: remain surrendered to the Holy Spirit in everything. Do not take back anything that you yielded to God. Leave all with Him--everything old, everything new—past, present, future.

As long as your soul submits completely to the Lord, you are continually cleansed. This is all accomplished by His grace, not of works, lest anyone should boast of his own human achievements.

Grace saves us from our sins. Grace sanctifies us from our sin nature. Therefore, God receives all the glory.

Can one remain sanctified completely until death? Certainly. By an act of free will, one becomes saved and sanctified. One chooses these opportunities of divine grace. Likewise, the believer may exercise free will for holiness till death. The decision is always left with us.

Less than surrender is misery. It is a double-minded life--living for God, yet living secretly (and sometimes obviously) for one's self. This is evidently difficult and trying to the soul.

Total surrender is sweet in that it returns one's soul completely to God. Instead of straining to plot one's own benefits, one yields all such maneuvering to God. Therefore, there is a freedom from striving in everything.

The on-going life of sanctification then is perfecting the surrender. It is learning from the Holy Spirit how to consecrate the most practical items to God--life's minors and majors. It is being taught how to think with God ("the mind of Christ").

It is discovering that material less is spiritual more.

Sanctification in this life has no conclusion but "more." There is always more to come upon in God, more to precision, more to uncover of one's own self and of God's self. That is why it is such an exhilarating adventure.

How then does "the law" enter into this sanctifying grace? Is one at liberty to do as one pleases once one comes into this release? No. Instead, one finds that God's commandments are the key to freedom within. Therefore, the sanctified yearn for more of God's statutes.

The Bible speaks of the "law of liberty." This is one more aspect of the sweet surrender. It is experiencing being a slave to God in order to be free from sin and self-centeredness. These paradoxes are lived out dynamically in the sanctified walk.

When the sanctified read of God's expectations (laws) in the Word, they become as delicacies to be enjoyed. Before sanctification, the double-minded believer shunned God's laws for they appeared restrictive. After sanctification, the believer binds God's laws to his heart for they are indeed liberating.

Abiding by God's law releases one from being legalistic. Legalism is adhering to man-made laws.

Living by God's laws is not cold, sharp and unkind legalism; instead, it is gentle, understanding and patient.

Satan thrives on a legalistic religion. The Holy Spirit tutors the sanctified in the eternally true laws of God.

First century Judaism was founded upon legalism. Jesus offered the truth which would set one free from such humanly manufactured bondage. For that reason, Jesus was murdered by the religious system.

Live out the law of holy love and you yourself will be set free. Strap the commandments of God to your soul joyfully; in that you will be released from your chief enemy--stubborn self.

Sweet surrender not only includes yielding tangibles and inner drives. It also includes pain, confusion, tormented thinking, betrayals of the past, disappointments, ponderings of suicide, doubts and dreads.

The true sweetness of this surrender is realizing that the Father is willing to accept these hurts--for healing. Many have been made whole when they submitted those wounds of the heart which they thought they had to contend with till death. No. "Cast all your cares. . ." means all.

Frequently, Bible preachers and teachers request their hearers to yield tangibles and inner drives.

But it is not that frequently that such speakers get around to the awful burdens that many sincere grace-children carry all the time. Therapeutically, it is needful that we preach the "full gospel"--submit to Him the bleeding souls, too. He can soothe. And He does.

Sanctification is one of the most enticing dimensions of the gospel. It is sad that it is not set forth more often. Our souls are made for this opportunity of grace. To lack this experience is to remain partially bound in spirit.

When Jesus said that He came to set us free, He meant it. Sanctification is that wide, open door.

Have you come to God with your all? Have you stood before Him with everything? Then have you yielded all of this--pain and pleasure--to the One who formed you?

Let Him take this package for its cleansing. Satan will lie to you that God will rob you blind, leave you bankrupt. Do not believe the father of deceit.

The Holy Spirit will instead make your offering holy, returning it to you for heaven's sake.

From that moment onward, keep that package in God's plan. In that, you will experience in the depth of your soul the sweetness of your on-going surrender.

Such will continue, if you will it, till you see Him face to face when walking through the door of death.

Eternal life will be continuing the sanctification without threat of Satan's intrusion. It will in fact be "holiness forevermore."

Read DISCOVER HOLINESS at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs030110.shtml

NAZNET LACKS THE VOICE OF CONVICTION

2010-03-03T18:27:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet’s froth is overwhelming. That web site is laden with the superficial. Yet if it were true to being “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene, as it states it is, it would fire up the holy convictions.

That church was begun in the blaze of conviction—“holiness unto the Lord is our watchword and song.” That was the preaching point. That was the lifestyle. That was the mission. And there was never a doubt about it.

Yet the voice of conviction is fading from today's pulpit.

Why?

Partly because a premium has been put on appeasement, cordiality, management methods, arbitration, dialog, suave and debonair, political maneuvering, relativism, and "don't make waves."

There has been a loss of holiness ethics, biblical understanding, spiritual knowledge and, in general, a washout of black-and-white morality.

Therefore, when one does speak today with the voice of conviction, he may be regarded as hyper in personality. He may be labeled as brash or uncouth, out of step.

It is rather risky today then to speak without compromise regarding biblical truths: tithing, hell as well as heaven, Jesus as the sole hope of salvation, God's Day kept holy, separation from sin, biblical loyalties, sanctified lifestyles, spiritual discipline, daily devotions, fidelity in marriage, honesty in finances and the like.

If and when one does preach on the Bible's fundamental themes, there is the real danger of running into crossfire with certain power plays in the camp.

That is why numerous pulpits have acquiesced to the harmless and hilarious, limp and languid.

Sad.

Yet when one researches the Bible, he discovers a God with the voice of conviction.

No wonder there is this staccato throughout Scriptures: "Thus saith the Lord." In other words, God’s declaration is a given; it has been revealed from eternity and therefore is not open to question. With that, such revealed truth is conveyed with conviction, no compromise permitted. Simplicity and forthrightness are absolutely necessary in the communication—clear and clean.

When this God pronounces His eternal imperatives, He speaks with gusto through dedicated preachers. Take, for example, the prophets warning Israelis of their backsliding, not tithing, desecrating the Lord's holy day, sexual license, materialistic cravings in neglecting their poor. Not nice topics delivered in soft tones; but all necessary if the prophets were going to be true to God.

Further, when this God implanted Himself in Jesus, that voice of conviction took flesh and dwelt among us—with raised voice on occasion. With stern countenance on occasion. With authority always.

When a preacher speaks with the Jesus-voice of conviction, those who are behaving under God applaud, encouraging such messages to continue.

I can hardly picture Jesus toppling Temple tables in a meek and mild manner. Nor telling hypocrites that they were of their father the devil while wearing a sweet smile.

Can one imagine John the Baptist with a Gentleman's Quarterly profile while castigating Herod for sleeping with a woman not his wife?

And what about Paul's demeanor when preaching to one congregation after
another, warning listeners of zealots plotting to undo his gospel planting?

The Bible is electric with power, riddled with zeal, moving and disturbing with a God who means business, refusing to play religious games to placate.

Why then does today's church find itself so easily comfortable?

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

HERETICAL NAZNET HANS DEVENTER’S BOSS TALKS

2010-03-02T04:01:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet moderator Hans Deventer divulged on Dave McClung’s site that Deventer’s Nazarene District Superintendent had contacted him.

I had communicated with the Netherlands District Superintendent regarding Deventer’s heresies blatantly posted on the supposed “friend”-to-Nazarene web site.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

These heresies included Deventer not believing in the Bible, holding that unsaved souls are annihilated at death, that souls go to an “intermediate state” upon death, and that there is no immediate entrance into heaven upon death for saved souls.

Further, Deventer was quite enthusiastic about the emergent church’s fuzzy teachings, mainly that one does not need “objective truths”—that is, moral absolutes—as long as one has sweet Jesus. Moral absolutes get in the way. Hugging Jesus is the all-in-all. Deventer stated: “I don’t believe the Bible. . .”

Deventer also aggressively pushed for a worldwide infant baptism acceptance throughout the Church of the Nazarene, though no infants are ever mentioned being baptized per the New Testament. Deventer expressed that he just could not understand why Nazarenes did not get the message that infant baptism was far more superior than infant dedication. Infant dedication is the traditional mode in that denomination.

Deventer definitely leaned in the ritualistic-liturgical “high church” direction of Anglican/Episcopalian when it came to worship style. He delighted in referring to “communion” as the “Eucharist,” the latter term not traditionally used in the denomination. “Communion” is the preferred term.

His theology was old-time liberalism cloaked in his own confused entanglement phrases. Deventer’s communication style was the more unclear the more posh, typical of emergent church proponents.

Deventer stated on NazNet that his boss had received ten emails in two days concerning Deventer’s various anti-Bible posts, none in keeping with the historic Church of the Nazarene.

The District Superintendent told me that he would speak to Deventer about matters. Apparently the boss followed through.

The Church of the Nazarene Board of General Superintendents, Nazarene Theological
Seminary and Nazarene Bible College administrations and faculties have also been informed of NazNet’s theological liberal positions, Deventer’s in particular.

The question then comes down to this: How does Dave McClung, founder/owner of the site, permit these gross theological distortions propagated especially by his two prime moderators—Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff?

McClung is a wealthy businessman who has held prestigious positions on various denominational boards as well as being one-time President of Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA.

Read “Naznet's Dave Mcclung's Cronyism Ups Emergent Devilment” at http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/naznet039s-dave-mcclung039s-cronyism-ups-emergent-devilment-1903633.html

Why then does he advertise his site as a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene when he allows constant anti-Bible moderator positions expressed? Some individuals have reached the conclusion that McClung was in fact creating his own Internet church in competition with the Church of the Nazarene.

Read ” Naznet Hans Deventer's Boss 'Will Discuss Questions'” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/Naznet_Hans_Deventer_s_Boss_Will_Discuss_Questions13076.shtml

AMERICA: INTERCESSORY PRAYER A MUST

2010-03-01T17:23:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Intercessory prayer is one of the most powerful petitions to God that there is available to the sincere biblical believer.

It is powerful in that it focuses on that which is beyond the pray-er. Much of our petitions to God are centered on ourselves. They have to do with our needs and wants.

Intercessory prayer is the go-between offering to heaven’s throne. We put self aside for the good of another.

America’s need right now is for those who truly believe in the power of prayer to be go-betweens for the nation and God’s mercy seat.

This means earnest, heart-felt prayer. It is sacrificial prayer. It may call for prayer and fasting. It is more than ritual. It is more than liturgy. It is the agonizing of the soul on behalf of this country.

There are many evil forces at work to destroy the Republic. They are working night and day. So it is that genuine Christians need to bring their pleas constantly to the Lord for divine intervention in America.

“Pray without ceasing.”

“The effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails much.”

When believers gather in homes for fellowship, it would be so helpful for these Christians to lift their hearts heaven-ward, beseeching God’s plan for the nation.

Pray for those in power who do not know God to come to know Him through Christ. Pray for those who once knew God but are now backslidden to return to total allegiance to the Savior.

When waking, pray for America. When going to sleep, pray for America. When going through the day’s round, pray for America. Ejaculatory prayers—dart-prayers that are brief but meaningful—need to be shot upward constantly.

Pray for individual states. Pray for legislative bodies. Pray for government office workers. Pray for households and schools and town offices.

Picture your eye roving from coast to coast, then offer that land to God for His consecration. Believe that God will honor your intercession for it is from the depth of your soul that you expect heaven to act.

“More is wrought by prayer than this world dreams of” said Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Then let us put this priority at the top of our list this anxious season. See God answer. And then give Him the honor and all the praise.

DAVE MC CLUNG: FACEBOOK NIXES NAZNET?

2010-03-01T15:55:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Could Facebook have become more popular than NazNet? Maybe.

NazNet founder/owner Dave McClung states on his site that Facebook might have magnetized communicators over NazNet.

That very well could be the fact. There are so many integrity questions looming about NazNet that persons with an honest heart for biblical truth may just be making a reasonable detour to Facebook.

After all, NazNet describes itself as “friend” to the holiness, evangelical Church of the Nazarene while posting anti-Bible reads.

Moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff, both listed on NazNet masthead, are chief integrity offenders when it comes to boasting anti-Bible beliefs.

Deventer does not believe in the Bible, just sweet Jesus counts. In other words, a hug from Jesus is okay, no matter biblical researching of details concerning this or that.

Deventer also holds that unsaved souls are snuffed out at the last breath. In other words, there is no hell, only annihilation of the unsaved.

Deventer holds to an “intermediate state” upon death—whatever that means. In other words, “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” does not hold for Deventer as he constantly types out his doctrinal oddities.

Cundiff states on NazNet that the more one
studies the Bible, the less one knows about God. Reach your own conclusion on that zinger.

Cundiff espouses the emergent church as a springboard for revitalizing Christianity—the emergent church holding to no “objective truths” per prime leader Brian McLaren. Cundiff concludes McLaren’s situation ethics to be posh.

Cundiff even goes so far as to say that kind of agnosticism clarifies his “Wesleyan” understanding. If you make sense of that one, let the rest of us biblical enthusiasts know, please.

McClung baptizes these heresies by permitting them to reign on his site. If McClung were theologically astute he would have never mastheaded these two left-wingers for theological liberalism—totally contrary to the Wesleyan, holiness base of the Church of the
Nazarene.

More could be noted. For additional information on NazNet distortions, click onto NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

With the above taken seriously, it could be that biblical loyalists are now sidelining NazNet for other forum opportunities on the Internet. It surely would be a breath of fresh honest air to those genuinely interested in sharing spiritual insights.

After all, it takes quite an intense search on NazNet to discover anything of theological or practical Christian living substance. There is froth all over the place. But substance is lacking—obviously so. Irritatingly so to the thinking believer.

On alternative forums intelligent Bible-wise disciples can get deeply into doctrine and Christian-applied living without having to sidestep NazNet heresies floating throughout that site.

EMERGENT CHURCH NAZNET: GOD CAN GET ANGRY

2010-02-28T05:52:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Sweety-pie emergent church hugs a smiley Jesus. That’s it. NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff along with former moderator chaplain Barbara Moulton agree. So obviously does NazNet founder/owner Dave McClung.

But there is no only-smiley-Jesus in the Bible. That is a figment of the adolescent imagination of theological liberalism.

However, one cannot actually have a Jesus unless He is the historical Jesus as recorded in holy writ. That is the Jesus one must deal with if one is going to say his life is committed to actual Jesus. A huggy, smiley, make-believe Jesus is legendary, to start with.

Therefore, to surrender one’s existence to the historical Jesus is to surrender to the God of the Bible—the whole Bible, Old Testament included. And that God is the perfect eternal balance of mercy and justice.

The emergent church NazNet only wants the mercy. They don’t want the justice part. This is particularly so in the posts typed by Deventer and Cundiff. They are sappy posts, yes. But they are sappy because they won’t own up to the just God of Scripture.

The just God of Scripture must be just if He is going to be merciful. A lopsided God is a deity one does not want to commit to.

In Scripture, God can be merciful. God can also be angry. The angry parts include Noah’s day flood. Scores of mortals drowned because an angry God doomed them to their punishment. They had rejected His call to holiness, living in sin purposefully; therefore God wiped them off the planet.

Read YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021010.shtml

So that is the God of the Bible. That same God appeared in Jesus, dying murderously on the cross in our place as our substitute sacrifice. Jesus took our sins upon Himself, washing them away via His blood when we repent of our wrongdoing.

There are countless other examples of divine mercy and anger throughout the Bible, of course. But the point is that if one is going to believe in the God of mercy, one must also hold to the God of justice.

What is interesting today is that these emergent church NazNet disciples of the huggy Jesus don’t seem to get that God is angry right now. It is part fulfillment of biblical prophecy. For instance, the Jesus of Scripture predicted that in End Times there would be an increase of earthquakes and pestilence.

Sin would increase. People would turn against one another, even within families. True believers would be martyred. And so forth.

All of this happens present-tense. The earthquake part in particular is evidence of God’s anger at the tolerated disobedience throughout the world. One does not have to tally those sins for the moralists already are quite sensitive to the list.

But the point is this: God is angry now. But right now is the time frame that emergent church willy-nillys are declaring a deity who only hugs and kisses, snuggles and cuddles. Their deity does not get angry, will not tolerate Noah’s day
flood, and surely will not permit an eternal hell.

These are surely intriguing times to live in. While biblical prophecy is unfolding before our newsfeeds’ eyes, a lame brain segment of religionists proclaim that their god is lovey-
dovey sweetcakes.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

NAZNET FORBIDS ME TO READ ITS CODE OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS

2010-02-27T19:16:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The Internet provides the Code of Ethics subscribed to by Christian web sites, NazNet being one of them.

But when I try to get into that site to read the NazNet Christian Code of Ethics, I am forbidden.

“Forbidden” in large bold letters is in the left hand corner of my screen. All I want to do is read NazNet’s agreement to live by the Christian ethics code; however, I cannot get to that segment.

What does NazNet have to hide? Why are the owners and moderators keeping me from reading their commitment?

As far as I can reason, NazNet knows it is not living up to that Christian code of ethics for it describes itself as a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene while cutting right through the Nazarene doctrinal fundamentals.

The Church of the Nazarene preaches biblical truth from Genesis to Revelation. NazNet posts moderators’ statements that they do not believe in the Bible or doubt parts of the Bible as being divinely inspired.

Further, NazNet touts heresies as reported in NAZNET DISTORTS where these heresies can be researched in exceptional detail: http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

With that, what comes through loud and clear to me is that since I have exposed NazNet to world readers via the Internet, I am not privy to their unethical standing as related to the Christian ethics code on cyberspace.

These readers include headquarters’ personnel at the denominational offices in Kansas City as well as spiritual leadership on the South Texas District where moderator Scott Cundiff, Pastor, Alvin Texas Church, preaches one thing while posting heresies on NazNet.

In addition, faculty and administration at the Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO, and Nazarene Bible College, Colorado Springs, CO have been informed of these heresies on NazNet. Moreover, countless district superintendents throughout the world church have received this data.

With this particular post, it is my hope that these persons will read the Christian Code of Ethics as related to NazNet and posted on the Internet. In that, they will see the huge ethical gap between NazNet and the code.

Read NazNet.com's Christian Internet Code of Ethics” at http://freechristiancontent.org/NazNet.coms_Christian_Internet_Code_of_Ethics.htm

Also, For more information visit the Christian Internet Code of Ethics home page. I am forbidden to reach this site because NazNet has cut me off from reaching it.

I receive this message:

“Forbidden

“You don't have permission to access /ethics/ on this server.”

ATHEIST MEETING AT WHITE HOUSE

2010-02-27T05:55:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama lifted atheists on the same level as Christians in his inaugural address. No other President of the United States has done that or would have thought of doing that.

However, Obama works hard at eliminating America’s Christian heritage; therefore, to put atheists on the same par with Christians is right in line with his agenda.

Now Obama has invited atheists to the White House for a conference. That puts them right there where they want to be. Can an American patriot truly imagine such a move?

India has its religions, particularly Hindu and Muslim. Egypt has its religion, chiefly Muslim. And America has its Christian heritage. Let’s keep it that way. To eliminate that heritage is anathema. It is illogical. Further, it is against the God of the Bible.

However, since the God of the Bible knows truly where Obama’s birth certificate is and to whom Obama gives allegiance as deity, perhaps God will have mercy with the rest of the American public. At least the righteous remnant petitions that God to do something to rescue the nation from Obama’s beheading the country.

Read OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs022610.shtml

“The effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails much.” So states the Bible.

Biblical believers are counting on that in a very significant way. And their faith will go rewarded. God is not impressed with the large and many. God is taken up with the small and few, per biblical data repeated over and over.

Christ Himself stated in the Sermon on the Mount that few are on the road to heaven. Many are on the way to hell. Those who don’t like blunt language can deal with that one in the biblical section often thought of by theological liberals as sweet and poetic.

Therefore, when Obama calls for an atheist conclave in his own house on Pennsylvania Avenue, God will take note.

Christians will continue to intercede on behalf of the nation’s Christian heritage. And in due course, atheists will go the way of the forgotten.

Read “Obama aides to meet with atheists on White House grounds” at http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/25/88475/obama-aides-to-meet-with-atheists.html

AMERICANS FOR HEALTH BILL, JUST NOT CRAZY ROUTE TO GET THERE

2010-02-26T20:04:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

It’s not that Americans are not for an update on health care. It’s just that they are adamantly against a paper stack that no one gets and is jammed down their throats.

Barack Hussein Obama has taken the country on such a crazy, egocentric ride that we are all so dizzy we can’t stand up straight.

There is such fear in the American heart regarding the future of health care. Add to that utter confusion.

The citizenry deserves far better than a Marxist Muslim swinging left-of-left surrounded by a czar shadow government of crooks and liars.

Read OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs022610.shtml

Why then should grassroots America trust this Oval Office deceiver with their health? They should never trust him. And so they don’t.

Nor do they trust his Dem henchmen in Congress who vote themselves his clones. The mob hysteria continues from election day to the Congressional Dems kissing Obama’s feet.

Intelligent Americans have had it. They wonder what has happened to their nation. When pledging the flag it is with such sad hearts. This White House dictator is robbing us of our heritage plus putting us into such financial ruin that tomorrows are darkened beyond belief.

Those who claim faith in the God of the Bible hold out that this Savior will respond graciously to the righteous remnant’s pleas. I am among those believers.

I know that the only hope left is in the God of our first settlers who kept their faith strong midst some of the most trying difficulties.

So it is that the moralists still read their Bibles, clinging to the divine promises and looking forward to divine judgment to come upon those seeking to destroy America.

Read AMERICA: GOD-THANKFUL SOULS STARTED IT ALL at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021910.shtml

CAN NAZNET FIND THE HOLINESS HERITAGE?

2010-02-26T13:39:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Can the advertised Nazarene-friendly NazNet website discover once again its holiness heritage that sparked its start at Pilot Point, Texas in 1908?

Some would have it today that the biblical call to the holy life is too difficult to understand. That is unfortunate in that for decades preachers, teachers and evangelists have given forth on the holiness lifestyle over and over again.

There are still those faithful to the holiness truth set forth in Scripture. May NazNet and all those into biblical research uncover this marvelous divine provision, proclaiming it without apology or compromise.

The nearly l20 gathered in the Upper Room were “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:4)!

When the Holy Spirit comes upon a disciple, there are various occurrences which are primary and wonderful.

First, the infilling is a GIFT, not an achievement. All that God does in a believer’s life, from alpha to omega, is provided by divine grace. There is nothing which is trophied as an accomplishment by the human vessel.

When one receives salvation, it is by divine grace. Even the prevenient grace which precedes saving grace is emptied out upon the human heart by God Himself. So it is with the infilling. It is an act of grace executed by heaven’s powers so that the homo sapien may enter into the holy of holies provided here on earth.

Second, the infilling is bestowed by a PERSON, not an institution nor ritual nor ecclesiastical title. The origins of the sanctifying presence are from Him—the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. Therefore, one may be filled by the Holy Spirit anywhere and at any time the Spirit deems it appropriate.

Consequently, no attention is focused upon churchly leaders nor rites nor liturgies nor assemblies. All of these are extraneous to the marvel of the infilling presence. God is a jealous God; therefore, He deserves all focus—totally so—for He is the fount of the sanctifying experience.

Third, the infilling is an introduction to the HOLINESS of God. It is a holy come-upon by the divine. Why? Because the Indweller is nothing but holiness. There is no sin nor carnality within the divine nature; consequently, when He sets up residence within the human life, that housing is evidenced in the holy life. “Be holy, even as I am holy.”

Therefore, the competing spirits of this existence are left to their unholiness. These spirits are the spirits of self, worldliness, Satan, carnality, bigotry, hypocrisy, and so on. No other spirit in planetary sphere can compare with the HOLY Spirit, for all others spirits are less than holy; in other words, they are of this fallen scope.

Fourth, the infilling is MULTI-DIMENSIONAL in splendor just as the Holy Spirit is infinitely creative in power, peace and purity. These many facets of the Holy Spirit’s personality have no allowance for evil; however, within the eternal awareness of His being, the Spirit is everlastingly imaginative—far beyond human speculations.

Consequently, when the Holy Spirit explores the human personality for kingdom fulfillment, there are endless doings which the Spirit will come upon. That is why it is faulty to circumscribe the Spirit’s work within the consecrated life. That is why it is unbiblical to narrowly define what and how the Spirit is to achievement His plans for and through the dedicated soul.

One must permit the Spirit His perfect freedom to do what He wants to do, how He wants to do it, and when He wants to perform it. Openness is the anticipatory key which opens up the infinite possibilities to the loving Spirit’s chartings for good.

Fifth, the infilling is DURABLE for the Holy Spirit is God! There is no start nor finish to God. There are no boundaries to God except those which would contradict His holy nature, such as wickedness. There are no “wearings thin” with God.

Therefore, when the holy work is begun in the consecrated heart, durability can see
through the experience to heaven’s gates. There is the possibility that one can remain true to the indwelling Spirit if one wills such tenacity to be lasting. It is true that the human still deals with foibles, shortcomings, eccentricities, mistakes in judgment and performance—but one does not have to backslide into sin if one determines holiness to be set. It is a matter of persevering with one will in control—that is, the DIVINE will only.

Sixth, the infilling is ADEQUATE for the Holy Spirit is all-sufficient. His chief historical proof of such is His raising Jesus from the dead. If there is a power who can raise the dead, then there is nothing which is impossible to that mighty presence. Yes, the Spirit of God is a match and more for any trial in this existence. There is nothing too difficult for Him to conquer—again, in His time and manner.

Consequently, in the indwelt soul, “all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose”. What is His purpose? It is holiness. That is the chief desire of a holy God for His children of grace. Therefore, there is no testing which God cannot overcome. It is then a matter of faith on the part of the indwelt. One simply believes in the adequacy of the divine, no matter what may arise to threaten, even martyrdom.

Seventh, the infilling is ATTRACTIVE in that the Holy Spirit is handsome in His nature and evidence. All the beauty of creation is from the workings of the Spirit who first brooded upon those creation waters. All that is good, clean, delightful and happy finds its source in the Holy Spirit.

It is the unholy spirits which are violent, ugly and repulsive. They promise fulfillment, peace, prosperity and all the other human desires for this world. But they cannot produce lastingly any of these offers. That is why Satan is a deceiver, the Father of Lies. Therefore, when one is indwelt with the spirits of worldliness, self, lust, avarice and so forth, one is overcome with the grip of emptiness, finally controlled by these spirits.

Eighth, the infilling is HUMBLE in that all focus is upon the Provider. That is why the sermons and testimonies following the Day of Pentecost all point to Jesus, the One whose death upon the cross made Pentecost presence possible.

“Wait…until you are overcome from on high,” Jesus commissioned His own when ascending into heaven. It was Jesus who purchased our salvation and sanctification upon Calvary. It was Jesus who breathed His last by taking our sins upon His sacrificial head, becoming scapegoat for rebellious humanity. It was Jesus who rose from the grave. It was Jesus who returned as our Intercessor to the right hand of the Father in glory. It was Jesus who predicted that the disciples would be indwelt by holiness. It was Jesus who then was lifted up by the Early Church as the Supplier of the Pentecost Spirit.

Consequently, all self-glory in the work of the holy kingdom is anathema to the truth of Christianity. It must be abhorred. It must be exposed and put away immediately. There is no room for pomp and circumstance when it comes to the fleshly leadership of any Christian institution. All of that will pass as dust. Therefore, only the adorable beholding of the Sanctifying Savior is tolerable in any labor for God.

Humility is the most rare gift to be found in any generation. Yet it is absolutely imperative that believers come upon that gift in order for all ego attention to be driven from our midst. It must be a conscious effort. It must be prayed over. It must be set forth more publicly from every pulpit. It must be written across our hearts daily. We are nothing; He is everything. “For without Me, you can do nothing.” And without Him, we indeed are nothing.

EMERGENT CHURCH NAZNET PREACHER Xs OUT THE BIBLE

2010-02-26T06:39:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Scott Cundiff fits right in with the emergent church foolishness.

God is a “violent and genocidal child killer.”

God is deranged when he calls for “Noah’s flood, the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the slaughter of the Canaanites and Amalekites.”

The Old Testament deity is anathema to this Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene pastor who serves as moderator on “friend”-to-Nazarenes web site NazNet.

I wonder if Scott Cundiff preaches the above disconcerting suspicions regarding the Bible to his Sunday morning congregation. Of course, it is a small church so maybe those few don’t care what they get for a message.

And when it comes to Cundiff’s Sunday evening evangelistic messages, how can he present the biblical God when there are questions buzzing all around his head concerning the scriptural authority? Perhaps God messed up throughout the entire writ.

Cundiff writes on NazNet that perhaps there is an “’otherness’” to God. What that means is anyone’s guess. Surely God has declared His persona throughout Scripture for us to get the basic point that He is the perfect eternal balance between justice and mercy. However, Cundiff does not seem to get hold of that.

But I would wager that when it comes to preaching biblical sermons in Alvin he sticks to the Word. After all, there is a pastor’s salary check plus parsonage and benefits at stake here. So keep the old holiness preaching going full force. There’s money in it.

But on NazNet, Cundiff changes to a kiss up for liberals on site—some young, others older. And of course he can always depend on Netherlands’ favorite Hans Deventer to back up his agnosticism. And then there is NazNet founder/owner Dave McClung who permits the
two heretics to post anything they please on NazNet.

So there is an “’otherness’” to God that Cundiff can’t understand. Perhaps Cundidff should realize that mortal brains cannot grasp the wholeness of God. Perhaps Cundiff should also conclude that the Word is a divine revelation that will only be totally grasped in eternity when our understanding apparatus is perfect.

In the meantime, believers read the Word by faith. They live the Word by faith. They evangelize concerning the Word by faith.

And those who have not given up on the Word get to see more clearly the God of Scripture as the Holy Spirit gives understanding to the humble. For instance, read the footnote to understand how God can do what He did in the Old Testament time frame. There is reason to it all; but Cundiff gives up too quickly—as does Deventer and McClung plus their clique on NazNet.

Cundiff writes on NazNet: “Writing from a devotional point of view my take away is that there’s that about God, an ‘otherness’ that is beyond us and that passages like that (Old Testament verses) are reminders of that fact.”

However, Cundiff’s suspicions are okay for they keep him in line with his Wesleyan theology. He states that outright. As soon as someone can tell me how agnosticism with such disbelief in the God of Scripture lines up with holiness Wesleyan doctrine, let me know. But Cundfif has come upon the twosome wedding one another quite nicely.

“I find a solid Wesleyan perspective that helps me deal with the issue.” Again, what is the issue? It is that Cundiff cannot believe in the God of the Bible. Yet that baseline brings him closer to his Wesleyan understanding.

Truthfully, there is no tie between John Wesley’s teaching concerning the Bible’s God and Cunciff’s “’otherness.’” None.

Cundiff continues: “And van de Beek is right. No matter how hard one tries, it is impossible to reconcile the many commands to kill enemies in the Old Testament with the commands to love our enemies in the New.

“Even more difficult is the portrait painted of God as a violent and genocidal child killer in the Old Testament (Noah’s flood, the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the slaughter of the Canaanites and Amalekites), and in Christ the lover of children in the New.

“Van de Beek admits as much. He confesses that ‘The more one wants to let all of Scripture speak for itself . . . the more unclear the Bible becomes. The more we believe that the whole Word is revelation, the less we know who God is.’”

Cundiff states his belief in this Bible-throw-away. Sad, but true. And he’s right there in the Texas Bible belt (South Texas District/Church of the Nazarene) supposedly ministering the gospel to the unsaved.

So there you have the bottom line: Don’t read the Bible. Don’t study it. If you do, God dies on you.

FOOTNOTE: YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD

In the Old Testament, God commanded the death penalty in twenty-some cases. This was not because God was barbaric, but because God was civil. The Israeli twelve tribes had no law enforcement agencies. Further, they were surrounded by barbarisms of strange magnitudes exhibited by neighboring pagan nations.

Consequently, for God to establish an Israeli civil community, He set forth stringent punishments--some being the death penalty. He Himself became, in other words, the Law Enforcement Agency for the new nation of Israel. That chosen community thereby was to model morality / civility to the surrounding nations.

Extremely severe penalties then were commanded by God in order to bring in line an Israeli community which tended to be unruly like its neighbors. If God had been lax in penalties, human nature, being what it is, would have tested gladly the boundaries. But when penalties were severe, human nature thought twice before testing the boundaries, hence the death penalty prescribed by God in some instances.

However, once Israel lost its nationhood by "going a-whoring after other loves", Israel's civil structure disappeared. Israel as a nation lost its temple, its government--that is, its two primary components of culture--religion and politics. Pagan nations then ruled over the heretofore nation of God. In this loss was the disappearance of death penalties previously prescribed by God. The death penalty period as dictated by divine revelation, in other words, ended near the close of the Old Testament era.

That is why when Jesus appeared as flesh-and-bones divine revelation, He pronounced, "You used to say, 'An eye for an eye', but now I say to you: Love your enemies." Jesus pronounced a civility of love toward one's enemies. "Love your foes, pray for your foes." This was the New Testament for it was now a new way of dealing with others--all others.

Government was now established primarily within the believer rather than under Israeli kings. "The Kingdom of God is within you." Law was now primarily of the heart. "My law will be written on your hearts." That was the new politic. Further, the tabernacle was now primarily the human frame: "Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit." That was the new religion.

Therefore, for the New Testament Church Age, it is the law of love toward all--friends and foes. Jesus provided a simply stated ethic. He refused to garble it with amendments. But, one may ask: "What about these atrocious crimes and the death penalty?"

The biblical answer is still the same: love your friends and foes in Jesus. What kind of Christian love then can be shown to a multiple-murderer / rapist / arsonist / child molester? What kind of Christian love can be meted out to a Hitler?

It is a Christian tough love. Tough love keeps
the exceptional criminal alive but consigns that one to supervised environs without parole. Hopefully, even that exceptional criminal then may come upon redemption through Christ, yet never be placed in tempting circumstances whereby he again may do others and Himself harm.

Keeping the individual alive also allows the possibility that, realizing human justice systems to be flawed, that person in truth may be found innocent though originally pronounced guilty. Indeed, the future may prove this to be fact if new evidence is forthcoming. History has case files on those in the aforementioned category.

Reason this moral / ethical situation from God's perspective: Adam and Eve slew God's love when they played loose with Eden's snake. However, God did not slay them. Instead, God banished them to their own solitary isles of remorse, hoping at least for their eternal redemption.

You once slew God's love by going your own stubborn way. In reality, you pronounced yourself Lord of your life. It is a hurtful truth to you now that you are a believer; nevertheless, living once in sin and for sin, you were once that callused toward your own loving Creator. However, did God obliterate you? No, instead God searched you out, loved you even while you were enemy, in hopes of redeeming what was left of your destiny.

He now invites each Christian to live out that same kind of persevering, at-times-tough love toward all others--especially those who are Enemy. God has already walked for us the path of love-for-foes. We, of all creatures, should know this for sure. Praise be to a loving, merciful God!

He then invites us to join Him on that love path. He has walked it for us. He asks us now to walk it for others.

SYRIA THUMBS ITS NOSE AT HILLARY

2010-02-26T05:26:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“Ahmedinejad accused the U.S. of attempting to sever Iran-Syria ties in order to ‘dominate the region,’ and said American diplomats should ‘pack their things and leave.’”

Why would America trust Syrian President Bashar Assad?

Hillary Clinton asked him to distance himself from terrorist regimes, hoping Syria would become more peace-focused toward all nations.

Just after that request from the U.S. Secretary of State, Assad had Hisbullah head Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian thug head Mahmoud Ahmadinajad for dinner.

“The trio of terror-supporting leaders denounced Israel and America and discussed ways to aid ‘resistance groups’” per Arutz Sheva’s Maayana Miskin.

On Wednesday Clinton made her peace offer. The next day the murdering-threesome sat around the evening table eating their victuals.

So it is that Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama, U.S. President states he will appoint an American ambassador to Syria.

“President Obama has decided to send a U.S. ambassador back to Syria, a dramatic sign of reconciliation between the two countries, senior administration officials tell CNN” per CNN’s Elise Labott.

“’It's in our interests to have an ambassador in Syria,’ a senior administration official told CNN Tuesday night. ‘We have been having more and more discussions, and we need to have someone there to engage.’”

Read “U.S. to send ambassador back to Syria” at http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/23/US.syria.ambassador/

Read “'Terror Trio' Meets to Talk Shop” at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136220

And so the beat goes on.

EMERGENT CHURCH: JESUS BELIEVED SCRIPTURE AS ERROR FREE

2010-02-25T14:59:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

What did Jesus believe about Scripture?

He believed it to be inerrant--that is, without error. Therefore, Jesus would not agree with today's emergent church fad that holds to no "objective truths." That is the two-some used by emergent church false prophet Brian McLaren when he says that loving Jesus alone is okay to being a religious person.

Forget the biblical absolutes, he proclaims They don’t really count for anything. One can even bring under the Jesus tent every other world religionist for anything goes when you’re in McLaren’s blowing-in-the-winds mindset.

In other words, McLaren discards the exclusivity of Scripture as God's infallible Word in favor of McLaren’s situation ethics and subsequent universalism, the latter concluding all souls are bound for eternal bliss no matter what.

McLaren cavalierly questions the Bible. It’s a willy-nilly kind of feeling for him. Because of that he discards God’s Word blithely. So do his happy-time adherents who enjoy the loose fitting emergent church song and dance.

Not like unto the emergent church heresies, Jesus never questioned the divine inspiration or accuracy of Scripture.

On the Road to Emmaus, Jesus informed two travelers about Himself according to the Old Testament record. He took those scrolls’ details historically seriously. He related them to His own persona.

Further, Jesus warned in Scripture more about hell than providing detail about heaven. Hell is not really considered a matter that matters to emergent church larks.

In addition, Jesus never spoke of an “intermediate state.” Jesus referred only to heaven and hell as the options for souls upon death. Some emergent folk say there is the mysterious in-between-state after the last breath.

Jesus accepted the historicity of Old Testament detail. For instance, Jesus accepted the actual reality of Abel’s existence. Further, He accepted without suspicion Noah and the flood as having existed. He never questioned the existence of Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Lot, Jonah, Daniel, and Sodom and Gomorrah. Emergent know-it-alls have trouble with some of the aforementioned.

Jesus accepted the fact that Moses wrote the books of law. Most emergents don’t really care one way or another about Moses or the law.

Jesus stated that Scripture was penned by mortals inspired by God. In other words, the Bible is not a man-made document in which humans scratched a few myths, mistakes and mayhems. The Bible is God’s perfect communication. God being God can communicate perfectly. Note Matthew 19:4, 5; 22:31, 32, 43; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37.

Jesus castigated those who remained ignorant of the Divine Word. Some emergent enthusiasts state that the more one researches the Bible, the more God fades away and away and away. Note Matthew 22:29; Mark 12:24.

Jesus warned against slicing and dicing Scripture. Emergents have large scissors by which to cut out huge passages that are distasteful or nasty to their definitions. Jesus however taught that one accepted by faith the entire Word of God as is, not adding to or subtracting from. Note Matthew 5:17; 15:1–9; 22:29; (cf. 5:43, 44); Mark. 7:1–12.

Jesus lived out Old Testament prophecies regarding Himself. In other words, Jesus personified the accuracy of Scripture. One cannot go further than that—living out via one’s own bodily existence the eternal truth of holy writ.

First and last, Jesus Himself IS the Word. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”

Is Jesus the Word errant? Is Jesus the Word prone to mistake? Is Jesus the Word riddled with suspicion? No. Jesus is the perfect image of God. He is the incarnation of deity.

Yet emergent gurus as Brian McLaren want to toss out Scripture in favor of a love hug with Jesus alone. That cannot be done without inviting divine wrath. One cannot have Jesus without Scripture for Jesus is the Word in flesh and bones.

How clever of Satan to fool some in tagging McLaren as the new religious Pied Piper. The fact is that the emergent heresy is nothing other than the old-line theological liberalism that has been around for centuries.

Read YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021010.shtml

ADDENDUM: JESUS THE WORD AS GOD

Jesus calls Himself God

Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.

Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Mark 2:5-12
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, "Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee'; or to say, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?' But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) "I say unto thee, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.'" And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, 'We never saw it on this fashion.'

John 5:17-18
But Jesus answered them, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

John 8:58
Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, 'Before Abraham was, I am'." [compare with Exodus 3:14 - And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM," and he said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'I AM hath sent me unto you.'"]

John 10:30-33; 36-39
[Jesus said,] "I and my Father are one." Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" The Jews answered him, saying, "For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." [Jesus said,] "Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, 'Thou blasphemest'; because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand...

John 13:13-14
You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Revelation 1:8
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending," saith the Lord, "which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

Jesus is called God by others or by the Bible

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

Matthew 1:23
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, "God with us".

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 20:26-29
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be unto you." Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." And Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God." Jesus saith unto him, "Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

John 21:17
[Peter said to Jesus], "Lord, thou knowest all things."

Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Romans 9:5
Of [the Israelites] as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.

Revelation 17:14
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

Colossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

All things created through Jesus (and thus He existed before everything)

John 1:1-5,9-14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Colossians 1:12-20
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Hebrews 1:1-8
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, 'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?' And again, 'I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?' And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, 'And let all the angels of God worship him.' And of the angels he saith, 'Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.' But unto the Son he saith, 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.'

OBAMANGST’S ‘HEALTHCARE’ = ALL ABOUT EGO

2010-02-25T12:14:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Barack Hussein Obama has failed. For over a year he’s done nothing but confuse America and ruin what we had going right.

Therefore, when Obama rams Obamangst not-healthcare, it’s all about his ego. He’s totally politically opportunistic with that issue, per usual.

What needs to be done is cut Obama off at the political knees by forcing him to burn that paper stack no one thoroughly understands, then start all over.

Obama has done so miserably that his dictatorial nature is bound to force his bill even if it implodes this democracy. Obama not losing face is his all-in-all.

America’s grassroots must stage the revolution of forcing a fresh start to legitimate, reasonable health care. Nothing else is acceptable.

To force such health care detail into a supposed “summit” is so infantile as well as horrifically dangerous that it brings the shudders to millions of intelligent patriots.

What other complicated issue could be reasoned out properly in such a tense time frame—with the back drop of arrogance of Dem power? All of a sudden, Obama seems to get the message that his despotism is in big time trouble, causing countless Dems to be scrapped at election time. All of a sudden, Obama then pushes emergency
surgery on his bill.

If this whole babyfied scene were not so destructive, it would be the sickest joke of the century.

Here is another thought: Could it be that Marxist Muslim Obama has staged this whole nightmare for the furtherance of Islam World Rule? It just could be that is the prime motive driving the Chief Enemy seated in the Oval Office.

Read “Obama beheads America” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100224

NAZNET ZAPS JESUS’ ACCEPTANCE OF SCRIPTURE

2010-02-25T11:37:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet posts the Bible thrown out in favor of sweet-Jesus-only. No place for moral absolutes.

NazNet posts that when believers study Scripture God blurs out.

NazNet posts the Word error-riddled.

NazNet posts hope that all souls go to heaven—Unitarian’s universalism.

NazNet posts no hell but unsaved souls being burnt up at death.

NazNet posts an “intermediate state” after death.

NazNet posts writing your own religion according to your subjective whatevers, in other words “situation ethics” / moral relativism.

Question: What did Jesus believe about Scripture? Answer: He believed none of the above NazNet positions.

Jesus never questioned the divine inspiration or accuracy of Scripture.

On the Road to Emmaus, Jesus informed two travelers about Himself according to the Old Testament record.

Jesus warned more about hell than providing detail about heaven.

Jesus never spoke of an “intermediate state.” Jesus referred only to heaven and hell as the options for souls upon death.

Jesus accepted the historicity of Old Testament detail. For instance, Jesus accepted the reality of Abel’s existence. Further, He accepted Noah and the flood as having existed. He never questioned the existence of Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Lot, Jonah, Daniel, and Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jesus accepted the fact that Moses wrote the books of law.

Jesus stated that Scripture was penned by mortals but inspired by God. Note Matthew 19:4, 5; 22:31, 32, 43; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37.

Jesus castigated those who remained ignorant of the Divine Word. Note Matthew 22:29; Mark 12:24.

Jesus warned against slicing and dicing Scripture. He taught that one accepted by faith the Word of God as is. Note Matthew 5:17; 15:1–9; 22:29; (cf. 5:43, 44); Mark. 7:1–12.

Jesus Himself lived out Old Testament prophesies regarding Himself. In other words, Jesus personified the accuracy of Scripture. One cannot go further than that—living out via one’s own bodily existence the eternal truth of holy writ.

Jesus Himself IS the Word. “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.”

Is Jesus the Word errant? Is Jesus the Word prone to mistake? Is Jesus the Word riddled with suspicion? No. Jesus is the perfect image of God. He is the incarnation of deity.

Yet emergent church gurus as Brian McLaren want to toss out Scripture in favor of a love hug with Jesus alone. That cannot be done without coming under divine wrath. One cannot have Jesus without Scripture for Jesus is the Word in flesh and bones.

How clever of Satan to fool such individuals as McLaren and hysteriacs who follow him as the new Pied Piper. The fact is that the emergent heresy is nothing other than the old-line theological liberalism that has been around for centuries.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

ADDENDUM: JESUS THE WORD AS GOD

Jesus calls Himself God

Matthew 12:8
For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.

Matthew 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

Mark 2:5-12
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, "Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee'; or to say, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?' But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) "I say unto thee, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.'" And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, 'We never saw it on this fashion.'

John 5:17-18
But Jesus answered them, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

John 8:58
Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, 'Before Abraham was, I am'." [compare with Exodus 3:14 - And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM," and he said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'I AM hath sent me unto you.'"]

John 10:30-33; 36-39
[Jesus said,] "I and my Father are one." Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" The Jews answered him, saying, "For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." [Jesus said,] "Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, 'Thou blasphemest'; because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand...

John 13:13-14
You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Revelation 1:8
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending," saith the Lord, "which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."

Jesus is called God by others or by the Bible

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

Matthew 1:23
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, "God with us".

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 20:26-29
And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be unto you." Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." And Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God." Jesus saith unto him, "Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

John 21:17
[Peter said to Jesus], "Lord, thou knowest all things."

Acts 20:28
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Romans 9:5
Of [the Israelites] as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.

Revelation 17:14
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

Colossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.

All things created through Jesus (and thus He existed before everything)

John 1:1-5,9-14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Colossians 1:12-20
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Hebrews 1:1-8
God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, 'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?' And again, 'I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?' And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, 'And let all the angels of God worship him.' And of the angels he saith, 'Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.' But unto the Son he saith, 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.'

NAZNET’S SWEET JESUS EMERGENT CRUCIFIES JESUS AFRESH

2010-02-25T04:50:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Emergent mess-up guru Brian McLaren says that “objective truth” is to be discarded for a Jesus all-in-all love fest.

Does McLaren think this kiss up to Jesus is pleasing to Jesus?

McLaren stands on extremely dangerous ground when he makes Jesus is to be the Nice Guy Max so that Jesus’ own divine revelation can be canned. In other words, someone needs to warn McLaren that there’s a hell.

To make this whole diabolical scheme worse, a holiness denomination is in danger of imploding via NazNet, a web site founded by a political opportunist named Dave McClung.

NazNet, unofficial “friend” to the holiness Church of the Nazarene, endorses via moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff in particular the sidelining of Scripture. Deventer states outright that he does not believe the Bible. What then is important to Deventer? Jesus only.

Does Deventer do Jesus a kindness with that devil’s doctrinal blasphemy? Obviously not.

Cundiff goes so far as to state on NazNet that the more he reads the Bible, the less God comes into focus. God fades out the more biblical research is engaged. In other words, invite dust to cloak the Scriptures while God goes fish.

Both Deventer and Cundiff disparage Scripture to such a hellish degree. And all the while McClung baptizes these moderators as legitimate.

From what I read in the Bible, McLaren and clique sidelined, Jesus does not like that kind of religiosity. In fact, Jesus considers it hypocrisy.

Jesus is, frankly, angry this moment because of the McLaren crowd, including Deventer, Cundiff and McClung.

Judgment Day is coming down on this wayward crew. They will burn and burn some more forever, though none of them admit even the existence of an eternal hell. Deventer dismisses hell completely, unabashedly. The others do so by companionship with the heretics.

There is no Sweet Jesus apart from Scripture. There is no Nice Guy Jesus apart from divine revelation.

And for McLaren, who claims all religions are under the Jesus umbrella if one wants them to be, Jesus is not in agreement with that “exegesis.” It was Jesus who stated no one goes to God the Father but by Jesus, that HE is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Holding to Jesus is an exclusive cling, not a swing-and-sway your way with Jesus and Buddha and Confucius.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

MUSLIMS: JEWS CAN’T PRAY

2010-02-25T04:32:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

When my wife and I toured Israel in 1966, we prayed wherever we wished. But now it is quite different for both Jews and Gentiles, except controlling Islamics.

Jews are planning a tour around the Temple Mount gates.

Muslims dictate that Jews making the tour cannot make any attempt to pray. No prayers. Absolutely no prayers.

One would think the Jews were making the tour with rifles. Or bombs. Or machetes.

No. Muslims prohibit Jews walking around the sacred area to offer any words to Jehovah. No nod of the head heavenward. No lips moving as in petition or praise. Over and out.

Prayer then must be quite powerful just as the Bible states: “The effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails much.” So even the enemy admits the might in prayer to the God of Scripture. Prayer’s dynamic is so moving that it is emphatically negated.

Muslims have told tour planners that those taking the walk cannot number more than 15. They cannot sit on stools while listening to any guides’ explanations. All must appear totally secular at all times. No prayers.

Muslims despise Jews going near the Temple Mount, the place where Abraham was willing to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. God prohibited that happening for God will not tolerate human sacrifice. However, the Lord wanted to test Abraham’s obedience, hence the divine command.

That area is where the father of the faithful, Abraham, followed God’s command to the letter. Since then believers have taken to heart God’s call to obedience. God stated in Scripture that he desires obedience rather than sacrifice.

But now when Jews yearn to pray while touring the gates, they must obey Muslims rather than Jehovah. Yet Muslims’ deity is the antithesis to the biblical deity. The Koran’s Allah demands slaughtering all non-Muslims. Allah demands the horrific, dreaded sharia for so-called societal justice. Read the Koran at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html

Biblical Christians know that peace will not come to the Temple Mount or all of Israel until Christ returns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Christ, the Prince of Peace, will usher in a millennium of holiness on Earth.

Christ, leaving the right hand of God the Father, will descend through space with a host of angels and the redeemed of all time. He will speak the word to win the Battle of Armageddon waged in the Valley of Megiddo.

Christ’s first stop on the planet will be at the Temple Mount. His two feet will touch it, splitting it in half, signifying the start of His mighty reign on His rightful turf. Christ created the planet; Christ will then rule on His planet.

Until then such strife as is going on concerning this Temple Mount gates tour will continue.

Read “No Prayer Permitted on Temple Mount Gates Tour” at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136197

NAZNET’S DAVE MC CLUNG’S CRONYISM UPS EMERGENT DEVILMENT

2010-02-24T17:41:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet’s founder Dave McClung furthers the emergent church fracas by way of his ongoing ecclesiastical power cronyism within the Church of the Nazarene.

McClung is wealthy as a successful businessman. At the same time, he has been a stroked layman placed on denominational prestigious boards, even serving as past-president of Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy MA.

That political opportunism permits McClung his favored status as NazNet founder in upping the emergent evil. McClung’s web site states he wants to foster “community.” He says NazNet is a “friend” to the holiness church.

Bosh.

NazNet squashes holy community within an evangelical church that is founded upon God’s call to the holy life.

NazNet does not enhance holiness of heart and life. The site disclaims biblical holiness by endorsing the emergent church’s claim that the Bible is sidelined while sweet Jesus is all that’s necessary. One can even bring under the Jesus tent all world religions, embracing whatever in Jesus love.

This is a blatant prostitution of the Jesus reality.

Do you see how far flung McClung’s cronyism within the Church of the Nazarene has brought the denomination into heresy via NazNet? It is blasphemy. It is diabolical.

Will the denominational leadership bring McClung to a “come to Jesus” agreement to expunge NazNet of heresies posted especially by moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff? If those denominational leaders do not do that, God will take care of the Church of the Nazarene in a most severe disciplinary manner. God being God, He is justice as well as mercy.

The emergent mess says that eternal absolutes are foolish, in the way, a nuisance. Emergent fuzz guru Brian McLaren states: “I believe people are saved not by objective truth, but by Jesus. Their faith isn’t in their knowledge, but in God.”

By “objective truth” he means “eternal, biblical absolutes.” In other words, McLaren and disciples believe in moral relativism—situation ethics. There are no “object truths.” None. Religion is all about being subjective—whatever you make “truth” to be, it is.

That is anti-Bible, antiChrist, anti-scriptural Christian theology. That is in-your-face old-time theological liberalism believed by Unitarians and all others disclaiming the Bible as the Word of God.

McClung’s site actually encourages this widespread devilment. How does he get by with it to this very moment? Why has he not been brought to task?

Remember: He is one of the power structure’s cronies. It’s politics, not truth, that counts with McClung and his clique.

That is being Pharisee groupie present-tense. McClung and colleagues stubbornly stand fast against God’s divine revelation.

I think there will be numerous Nazarenes standing quite stark naked, frosted in fear, at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Yet today they claim to be “holiness people.”

Such is the confusion of the times when it comes to holiness as defined by Scripture.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA

2010-02-24T13:35:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama is carrying through with Islam World Rule by destroying the most powerful nation on Earth.

He does this by beheading America financially. Our economic head is being cut from the neck and it is going on every day and night via Obama’s czar shadow government.

Congress’ Dems join in the beheading by siding up to Obama, not realizing that they themselves are losing their heads.

Muslim slaying of infidels does not have to be a physical beheading. Obama has taken it to the more subtle level. In any case, once the head is gone, death is the vogue.

Americans daily wonder about their future. They question Washington’s ability to govern. They worry about their wallets and their health coverage.

In other words, America is feeling the awful pain of being beheaded by those in power to see through the act.

Obama knows exactly what he is doing. So do his henchmen from yesteryear who attend to his every command. Dems bow and scrape to be party to the atrocity.

Common sense politics is nowhere to be found in Washington. Civility has been tossed. Insanity, particularly regarding budgets and deficits, is the mode. Put it together and one has the beheading of the Republic.

This will last as long as Obama continues double-talking, breaking promises, lying as an Islamic virtue, and getting by with time served in the White House. After all, he has three more years to last as resident of the Oval Office.

Obama is the most exemplary Muslim on the planet in that he has reached the pinnacle, weighs in against grassroots intelligent citizens and threatens with the most caustic retaliations if one crosses his plots.

Read the KORAN at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html

NAZNET’S EMERGING CHURCH POSITION: NIX BIBLE

2010-02-24T06:09:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet goes the way of the emerging church debunking of the Bible’s absolutes. Brian McLaren, popular voice for the emerging church, discounts what he calls “objective truth.” In other words, God’s absolutes in Scripture do not matter.

NazNet is parroting that blasphemy. Yet the Bible calls for faith in its being divine revelation, not to be added to or subtracted from. Therefore, those who sideline the Word of God will answer beneath the heel of divine wrath.

John 17:17: “Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.”

That is one of the chief verses that the Church of the Nazarene has been based upon since 1908, its founding year in Pilot Point, Texas.

The Nazarenes have proclaimed holiness of heart and life. The Nazarenes have preached without apology that a mortal can not only be saved from sins but saved from the carnal nature—sin.

How can one come to know about this divine grace potential? Through the entire Word of God—from Genesis to Revelation. God’s Word is truth.

The Church of the Nazarene has given forth faithfully the glad tidings that the Bible can be trusted. God’s Word is “truth.” All of God’s Word is “truth,” not just parts of it.

However, NazNet site founder Dave McClung says just the opposite. It states through such staffers as Scott Cundiff and Hans Deventer and cheered on by such former staffers as Barbara Moulton that the Bible is error-laden.

In other words, one must be careful when reading the Bible for there are landmines in it that can lead one astray. Therefore, one must be clever enough to pick and choose what is to be believed and what is not to be believed.

Cundiff goes so far as to state that the more one reads the Bible the more God fades. The more one researches the Scriptures, the less one knows about God. Deventer states on NazNet that he concurs.

This is exactly what the NAZNET DISTORTS site exposes about NazNet. NAZNET DISTORTS lays bare the heresies propagated by NazNet and permitted by founder McClung.

Why is NazNet up to this? Who knows? But it is there on the Internet for anyone to research. NAZNET DISTORTS has done much of the homework for the wise and discerning.

Click onto http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

It is part of the “great falling away” for the Church of the Nazarene to be attacked by its own. The General Superintendents have been informed of this intrusion. What have they done about it? I don’t know but I have at least informed them.

I have also informed the District in which Cundiff’s Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene resides. What that officialdom does about it is under God’s surveillance. The last move they should make is to turn upon the truth giver—NAZNET DISTORTS.

God’s Word is reliable from cover to cover. Christians have witnessed that to be practical truth throughout their lifetimes.

Now come along doubters McClung, Cundiff, Deventer, Moulton and naïve posters who have lauded their positions on NazNet. It is a shame. It is blasphemy. It must be exposed far and near.

Read “Yes, you can believe in the Old Testament God” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100209

NAZNET’S GURU BRIAN MCLAREN = ALL RELIGIONS OK

2010-02-23T13:16:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

When a NazNet moderator posts that the Bible is not important, that’s apostasy.

Read NAZNET DEBUNKS SCRIPTURE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-rejects-gods-infallible-word.html

When that moderator claims Jesus is The Only Item, downplaying Scripture, that’s apostasy.

Further, it is also old-fashioned theological liberalism, the type that I was taught long ago when a student at Harvard Divinity School.

Therefore, when NazNet moderators adopt Emerging Church Brian McClaren as their prime guru, they are embracing Unitarianism, the foundational theology that governs Harvard Divinity School.

Read NAZNET = MORE UNITARIAN THAN NAZARENE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-more-unitarian-than-nazarene.html

How far then a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene, namely NazNet by its own advertisement, attempts to swing this holiness church into blasphemy.

Read DISASTER AREA: NAZNET DAVE MCCLUNG AXES COMMUNITY at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/disaster-area-naznet-dave-mcclung-axes.html

If Nazarenes go for the blasphemy, God will level His wrath upon the denomination. It will crumble. If Nazarene leaders do not weed out this demonic intrusion, the structure will disintegrate globally in short order.

Read NAZNET SNUBS GOD'S BIBLE TRUTH at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-snubs-gods-bible-truth.html

McClaren states: “. . . help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu or Jewish contexts. . .”

That is theological liberalism—plain and obvious. It is not what evangelical biblical disciples hold to. Liberalism’s anti-Bible dogma is at the very opposite end of the evangelical spectrum.

Therefore, when NazNet claims moderators Hans Deventer’s and Scott Cundiff’s pro-McClaren conclusions as posh doctrine, NazNet betrays God, the Bible and the Church of the Nazarene.

Read NAZNET’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH EMERGING CHURCH at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznets-love-affair-with-emerging.html

Not only does Deventer betray his own church, but Cundiff betrays his own pastoral vows for he is the minister at the Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene.

His church’s web site portrays Cundiff as a “holiness preacher;” however, his NazNet Unitarian-type doctrinal positions are just the opposite of Nazarene teaching. In other words, Cundiff lives theologically a “double life” kept secret from his small congregation.

Read NAZNET PASTOR SCOTT CUNDIFF’S ‘DOUBLE-LIFE’ EXPOSED at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-pastor-scott-cundiffs-double_15.html

Garbled McClaren continues his mix-and-match beliefs with such nonsense as the following: “To help Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and everyone else experience life to the full in the way of Jesus (while learning it better myself), I would gladly become one of them (whoever they are), to whatever degree I can, to embrace them, to join them, to enter into their world without judgment. . .”

Do you get the wishy-washy feel of this swing-and-sway McClaren give-forth? It is gibberish. It is whatever-makes-you-feel-fuzzy religion. This infantile approach to doctrine is mirrored by the likes of Deventer and Cundiff on NazNet.

It is, however, more than that. It is a collection of belief statements that will damn McClaren’s soul, a popular false prophet in these confused times.

NazNet moderators who adopt McClaren’s false teachings are likewise in danger of damning their souls for they have wedded into his apostasy. They do more than that, however. They proclaim same on the Internet for the world to read, hoping the readers will agree with their devilment.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

NAZNET’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH EMERGING CHURCH

2010-02-23T07:19:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet’s guru is Brian McLaren who states: “I believe people are saved not by objective truth, but by Jesus. Their faith isn’t in their knowledge, but in God.”

NazNet moderator Hans Deventer parrots this apostasy by stating Deventer does not believe the Bible, only the part about Jesus forgiving sins. Deventer, opportunist maximum, wants Jesus’ forgiveness to get into heaven. That’s all. Figures.

Deventer commits blasphemy by following Pied Piper McLaren rather than God’s infallible Bible. Deventer will pay at the Judgment Seat of Christ, as will all others who discount the divine revelation for their own egocentric “theologies.”

For McLaren to say he rejects “objective truth” is to state that he discards moral absolutes. That is exactly what the adolescent emergent church is built upon—the sand of their own situation ethics.

One does not throw away God’s absolutes in Scripture for a sweety notion of Nice Guy Jesus. That is anathema, yet McLaren and NazNet disciples fold right into such heresies.

NazNet founder Dave McClung does nothing to discount this on his web site. Instead, McClung along with other moderators such as Scott Cundiff and former moderator Barbara Moulton say Amen to it.

Do not these mortals factor in the Judgment Seat of Christ? They were all reared in the Scripture; now they throw the Bible to the winds for their own moral relativism.

McLaren states: “I don’t believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion.” McLaren espouses one world religion, as does NazNet.

Yet NazNet claims to be a “friend” to the holiness Church of the Nazarene. What will the Board of General Superintendents, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Nazarene Theology School, Nazarene Bible College and Nazarene college religion department heads do about such heretical intrusions?

Time will tell.

Thus far, McClung and clique have relied on their political cronyism to keep them intact with the power structures throughout the denomination. Will that continue? If so, God’s wrath will descend upon the church. God will not tolerate blasphemy.

Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene Pastor Scott Cundiff in particular is enamored by the likes of McLaren. Cundiff posts on NazNet that the more he studies Scripture, the less he knows God. He states that when meditating on this concept, it keeps him more in line with his Wesleyan theology.

Is that not crazy? Is that not evil? Wesleyan theology siding up to discounting the Bible as divine revelation? Wesleyan teaching a companion to moral relativism?

NazNet is one of the most dangerous web sites on the Internet in that it slices and dices the biblical call to heart holiness—the highest calling from the divine.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at [url=http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/]http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/[/url]

FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY

Hebrews 9:27:

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.

Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:

But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Romans 2:6-11:

God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.

Romans 14:10-12:

For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

I Corinthians 4:5:

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

II Corinthians 5:10:

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Numbers 32:23:

Be sure your sin will find you out.

NAZNET NIXES THE SAVED = PRONTO HEAVEN

2010-02-23T05:05:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Apostle Paul writes: “We are confident. . .to be absent from the body (is) to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:8

NazNet moderator Hans Deventer states that when one dies the soul goes into an “intermediate state,” whatever that means. The saved soul, per Deventer, does not go “to be present with the Lord.”

Deventer does not mind discounting the Bible. When in his whim, he does so frequently on NazNet.

Yet NazNet is represented as “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene, per web site founder Dave McClung. That church does not teach an “intermediate state” upon death.

The Church of the Nazarene has always held to the biblical data of the saved going immediately to heaven and the unsaved going immediately to hell.

Deventer makes up his anti-Bible “theology” as he goes along his moderator trail. He posts that he does not believe the Bible, for instance. What he does believe in that Book deals only with Jesus’ mercy for obviously Hans wants to go where Jesus is when Deventer dies.

However, because Deventer contradicts himself throughout NazNet, upon death he cannot go where Jesus is until Deventer first passes through his “intermediate state.”

By the way, Deventer posts on NazNet that the unsaved souls are annihilated. However, once again confusion reigns. Does the unsaved soul first go to an “intermediate state” before being annihilated?

Deventer discounts such biblical warnings concerning hell: Matthew 5:22, 29, 30; 7:13; 10:28; 13:38-42, 49-50; 23:15, 33; 25:28-41, 46; Mark 9:43-47; Luke 12:5; 16:23-26; II Thessalonians 1:9; James 3:6; II Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6; Revelation 1:18; 6:8; 9:1-2, 14:10-11; 19:20; 20:10, 13-15; 21:8.

Does McClung do anything about Deventer’s heresies? No. McClung permits them to remain on NazNet.

Yet McClung is esteemed by the Church of the Nazarene as an outstanding wealthy layman, even appointing him to prestigious denominational boards as well as one-time President of Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA.

The sad picture then comes into focus: McClung has ingratiated himself politically into the ecclesiastical machine so as to be permitted trashing the Bible as well as destroying the denominational foundations.

In short, politics counts more than biblical truth. Just another travesty of these confusing religious times.

FOOTNOTE: HEAVEN

To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. II Corinthians 5:8

Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Matthew 25:34

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. I Corinthians 2:9

Lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. Matthew 6:20

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:l6

Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. John 11:25

For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. II Corinthians 5:1

If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His spirit who dwells in you. Romans 8:11

This is the promise that He has promised us — eternal life. I John 2:25

He who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. Galatians 6:8

Jesus said: My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. . . John 10:27-28

NAZNET DEBUNKS SCRIPTURE

2010-02-21T07:31:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

God Himself attests to His Word being perfect:

2 Peter 1:20-21 “Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”

The Holy Spirit cannot provide an imperfect revelation. Those who regard the Bible as error-prone are blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, the Scripture’s Author.

2 Timothy 3:16 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.”

Note that the word “all” is used. “All Scripture is God-breathed. . .” Yet mortals would breathe upon the Bible to disregard what they don’t like and keep what they do like. That is the height of hubris and will answer at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Proverbs 30:5-6 “Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.”

Note the words “every word” are used. “Every word of God is flawless. . .”

John 12:47-50 "As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day. For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and how to say it. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say."

Note: “. . .whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.” The Father cannot be mistaken, though some mortals claim Him to be in His ability to communication divine revelation.

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”

Note that “. . .the word of God. . .judges the thoughts. . .” Those discounting the divine revelation set forth in the Scriptures will regret the moment they ever started on that course.

Jeremiah 23:29 "’Is not My word like fire?’ declares the LORD, ‘and like a hammer which shatters a rock?’”

John 12:48 "He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.”

Rejecting the inerrant Word of God will convict the rebellious one at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Psalms 12:6: ". . .the words of the LORD are flawless."

Can God speak more clearly than that?

Psalms 119:89: "Your word, O LORD, is eternal, it stands firm."

Dare one earthly mortal contest the eternal truth of divine revelation?

Matthew 5:18: "For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

Christ is most efficient in His overview of the divine inspiration. “. . .one jot or one tittle. . .”

John 10:35: "...and the scripture cannot be broken."

Those who break the Word of God will be broken by it at the Last Day.

Revelation 22:18-19 “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”

What applies to this divine revelation by extrapolation applies to any divine revelation throughout the Word of God.

What about the severe passages in the Old Testament?

In the Old Testament, God commanded the death penalty in twenty-some cases. This was not because God was barbaric, but because God was civil. The Israeli twelve tribes had no law enforcement agencies. Further, they were surrounded by barbarisms of strange magnitudes exhibited by neighboring pagan nations.

Consequently, for God to establish an Israeli civil community, He set forth stringent punishments--some being the death penalty. He Himself became, in other words, the Law Enforcement Agency for the new nation of Israel. That chosen community thereby was to model morality / civility to the surrounding nations.

Extremely severe penalties then were commanded by God in order to bring in line an Israeli community which tended to be unruly like its neighbors. If God had been lax in penalties, human nature, being what it is, would have tested gladly the boundaries. But when penalties were severe, human nature thought twice before testing the boundaries, hence the death penalty prescribed by God in some instances.

However, once Israel lost its nationhood by "going a-whoring after other loves", Israel's civil structure disappeared. Israel as a nation lost its temple, its government--that is, its two primary components of culture--religion and politics. Pagan nations then ruled over the heretofore nation of God. In this loss was the disappearance of death penalties previously prescribed by God. The death penalty period as dictated by divine revelation, in other words, ended near the close of the Old Testament era.

That is why when Jesus appeared as flesh-and-bones divine revelation, He pronounced, "You used to say, 'An eye for an eye', but now I say to you: Love your enemies." Jesus pronounced a civility of love toward one's enemies. "Love your foes, pray for your foes." This was the New Testament for it was now a new way of dealing with others--all others.

Government was now established primarily within the believer rather than under Israeli kings. "The Kingdom of God is within you." Law was now primarily of the heart. "My law will be written on your hearts." That was the new politic. Further, the tabernacle was now primarily the human frame: "Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit." That was the new religion.

Therefore, for the New Testament Church Age, it is the law of love toward all--friends and foes. Jesus provided a simply stated ethic. He refused to garble it with amendments. But, one may ask: "What about these atrocious crimes and the death penalty?"

The biblical answer is still the same: love your friends and foes in Jesus. What kind of Christian love then can be shown to a multiple-murderer / rapist / arsonist / child molester? What kind of Christian love can be meted out to a Hitler?

It is a Christian tough love. Tough love keeps the exceptional criminal alive but consigns that one to supervised environs without parole. Hopefully, even that exceptional criminal then may come upon redemption through Christ, yet never be placed in tempting circumstances whereby he again may do others and Himself harm.

Keeping the individual alive also allows the possibility that, realizing human justice systems to be flawed, that person in truth may be found innocent though originally pronounced guilty. Indeed, the future may prove this to be fact if new evidence is forthcoming. History has case files on those in the aforementioned category.

Reason this moral / ethical situation from God's perspective: Adam and Eve slew God's love when they played loose with Eden's snake. However, God did not slay them. Instead, God banished them to their own solitary isles of remorse, hoping at least for their eternal redemption.

You once slew God's love by going your own stubborn way. In reality, you pronounced yourself Lord of your life. It is a hurtful truth to you now that you are a believer; nevertheless, living once in sin and for sin, you were once that callused toward your own loving Creator. However, did God obliterate you? No, instead God searched you out, loved you even while you were enemy, in hopes of redeeming what was left of your destiny.

He now invites each Christian to live out that same kind of persevering, at-times-tough love toward all others--especially those who are Enemy. God has already walked for us the path of love-for-foes. We, of all creatures, should know this for sure. Praise be to a loving, merciful God!

He then invites us to join Him on that love path. He has walked it for us. He asks us now to walk it for others.

FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY

Hebrews 9:27:

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.

Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:

But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Romans 2:6-11:

God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.

Romans 14:10-12:

For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

I Corinthians 4:5:

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

II Corinthians 5:10:

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Numbers 32:23:

Be sure your sin will find you out.

NAZARENE LEADERS CONCERNED RE NAZNET HERESIES

2010-02-20T19:11:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Many within the Church of the Nazarene have not been aware of NazNet heresies on founder Dave McClung’s web site. This site says it is a “friend” to the denomination, though it is a prime enemy to Nazarene theology and practice.

Now Nazarene leaders have been informed concerning the NazNet undermining.

The Church of the Nazarene Board of General Superintendents, General Secretary and Department Heads have received the data.

The Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas
City, Missouri, administration and staff likewise have specifics concerning the site’s blatant posts advocating, for instance, the annihilation of unsaved souls at death.

These posts state there is no eternal damnation for the unsaved; instead, there is universal salvation. In other words, all souls go to heaven though the Bible warns just the opposite.

So have the Nazarene Bible College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, administration and faculty now been informed of numerous anti-Bible posts debunking faith in the Scripture as the Word of God. NazNet is openly suspicious of holy writ, concluding one’s doubt is a virtue rather than total faith in divine revelation.

Numerous Nazarene District Superintendents received explicit detail relating NazNet statements advocating, for example, that upon death souls go to an “intermediate state.” The Church of the Nazarene has never preached such a Catholic teaching. Yet that is posted on NazNet.

Apparently countless Nazarenes have believed NazNet’s byline that it is cordial to the holiness church. It is not. Instead, McClung and moderators have taken advantage of the Nazarene’s trust in order to propagate anti-Bible inroads.

Now Nazarene leaders and academicians know that NazNet cannot be blindly accepted as a companion to the church. McClung, having built up a personal trust politically and socially within the denomination, has done the church a grave disfavor. He has misused his relationships within the Church of the Nazarene.

McClung should have expunged these heresies a long time ago. He should have appointed only moderators who were biblically faithful in agreement with the Wesleyan holiness doctrines.

In that, McClung has failed miserably. And now we have in these confused times a site that undermines the very fundamentals upon which the Church of the Nazarene was built upon since its inception in 1908.

One of the most blatant intrusions focuses on Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene Pastor Scott Cundiff. On his church’s web site he makes his pastorate appear as a congregation in tune with the “classic southern gospel style.”

Nazarenes reading that would assume that Cundiff’s preaching and teaching are loyal to the traditional Nazarene understanding of Wesleyan theology.

However, when moderator on NazNet, Cundiff changes from Alvin Texas web site Nazarene loyalist to cavalier theological liberal.

He is one of the most adamant in posting suspicions concerning the Bible as God’s infallible Word. He does not trust the Scriptures to be without error. In fact, he holds that the more one reads the error-prone Word, the less one knows God.

This is heresy. It is blasphemy.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

ISRAEL SUSPICIOUS: OBAMA’S AMBASSADOR TO TERRORIST-LIST SYRIA

2010-02-20T18:32:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Is there any wonder that Israelis are concerned about Muslim Barack Hussein Obama appointing a U.S. ambassador to a country still on America’s terrorist list, namely, Syria?

Obama continues to lean in the Islamic direction while Islamic heads continue to up the threat against America and Israel.

The U. S. ambassador was called out of Syria in 2005 due to increased threats from Syria against non-Muslim nations. Why is it now that Obama then reinstates an ambassador when Syria has given no indications of being a trusted friend to America?

Obama determines to take such risks at the peril of the American people. Obama persists in siding up to Islamic regimes, giving the message that he overlooks their upfront threats to our very existence.

“Reversing yet another policy of former President George W. Bush, current U.S. President Barack Obama announced this week that he would nominate career diplomat Robert Ford to become Washington's first ambassador to Syria since 2005, when the former ambassador was removed in the wake of the assassination of Lebanese President Rafik Hariri” per David Lev’s “U.S. Engaging Syria - a Terror State - on Anti-terror Concerns” (IsraelNN.com) at
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136092

Taking such risks with our Republic, not to mention Israel, communicates weakness, not strength.

Why is it that the United States must be the first to show transparency while such regimes as Syria carry on with clandestine plots?

MUSLIMS PLAN FOOD POISON AT FT JACKSON

2010-02-19T07:47:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“The men are suspected of trying to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson.”

Yes, we are at war. Though Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama wants to continue his denial mode, America is at war, has been at war and had better up the anti-war machine.

What irony.

An Islamic as President of the country at war against Muslims thirsting the beheading of every infidel.

In the meantime, Obama sees to it that America is beheaded fiscally. So it goes—with or without blood in the streets. It’s blood in the wallet.

“CBN News has learned exclusively that five Muslim soldiers at Fort Jackson in South Carolina were arrested just before Christmas. It is unclear whether the men are still in custody. The five were part of the Arabic Translation program at the base.”

These are “soldiers at Fort Jackson.” So they are to the right and to the left, beneath and above. They are ubiquitous, in other words. It surely is a different kind of war.

“Patrick Jones, the Deputy Public Affairs Officer for Fort Jackson, confirmed for CBN News yesterday afternoon that an investigation was ongoing.

“The men are suspected of trying to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson” per “Stakelbeck on Terror: Erick Stakelbeck” at http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/archive/2010/02/18/update-five-muslim-soldiers-arrested-at-fort-jackson-in.aspx

Will Obama call for another commission as he is doing regarding his overspend agenda? Perhaps. When reality fails and the President is ignorant as to what to do, call a commission. It’s all academics, after all.

“A source with intimate knowledge of the I
investigation, which is ongoing, told CBN News investigators suspect the ‘Fort Jackson Five’ may have been in contact with the group of five Washington, DC area Muslims that traveled to Pakistan to wage jihad against U.S. troops in December. That group was arrested by Pakistani authorities, also just before Christmas.

“Coming as it does on the heels of November's Fort Hood jihadist massacre, this news could have major implications.”

Sure thing.

REPS: LEARN FROM TEA BAGGERS

2010-02-18T15:31:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The Tea Party Nation represents healthy-raw, committed patriotism. What a breath of fresh air.

So the Reps had better keep their mitts off the Nation. Let the Nation form itself according to its own basic moorings. Trust the formation.

America is hungry for true-blue citizens who don’t give a rip about political correctness, personal opportunism or blowing steamy air.

Tea Party enthusiasts are the down the block Americans who have had it with Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama and like clones hatched to his right and left. They cannot stomach Obama’s shadow government. They are ready to ax the pro-Islamic czars.

Would not thinking, righteously angry, flag-waving human beings want to turn upside down the damnable bunk load in DC? And so they are doing it. Then Reps had better let them carry on!

Therefore, today’s reality teaching that reveals Reps splicing and dicing for their own posterior protection, thus betraying common sense grassroots, means Tea baggers had better keep trucking down the right trail.

And they are on the right trail. They know it. Their heads think it. Their hearts beat it. Their souls confirm it.

That’s saying a lot more for the so-called common men and women than many Reps straddling fences looking out for themselves. Enough straddling in the name of “Republican.”

Isn’t it thrilling to see these Tea Bag zealots lifting loftily the virtues America was known for decades ago? These are the ethics that have been swept away by Obama leftists beheading the country. These are the absolutes debunked even by some chancey Reps.

What Reps need to do is go to the Tea Bag committed, ask them how they do it, what they have faith in, and then side up to their genuine postulates.

Everybody is saying the Reps don’t have a common base, a moral foundation, a solid ethical contract. There’s wishy-washy this and wishy-washy that.

So if that is true, Reps need to learn virtuous catechism from the Tea Bag Nation. The baggers know what that’s all about and are living it.

In short, Reps need to be humble enough to learn how to be red-white-and-blue Americans once again—surrendered to what made us great and sound.

OBAMA DEFICIT COMMISSION-LESS

2010-02-18T06:29:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

When Barack Hussein Obama does not know what to do about a matter, he calls for a commission to gather.

What does that mean? Nothing but wasted time and cost. Does he actually believe America is so stupid as not to get it? Yes, he actually believes America is so stupid as not to get it.

Obama has never really held an actual job where he had to appear year-round at work at 9 in the morning.

He has floated through time as a dust feather.

Obama does not know how to figure out his own life let alone the government of the United States.

Now he has maxed out America’s funds so that the nation is imploding one piece at a time. Before the entire country disappears, Obama calls a commission to diagnose federal government overspending’s problem.

Those of us who still pay our bills on time know that if we overspend we pay a penalty. We don’t call a clan meeting. In fact, we may be embarrassed to call a clan meeting.

If we are not frugal, we learn how to be. In that, we tighten up. We cut out some frills. We get back to basics.

Obama does not seem to know that that works for the federal government as well. He needs to do the obvious; however, since Obama does not know how to do that he calls a commission.

Its assignment is to figure out what to do about the federal government’s overspending.

It is time to kick out the White House fraud to start all over, not to mention his clones in Congress.

NAZNET HANS DEVENTER’S BOSS ‘WILL DISCUSS QUESTIONS’

2010-02-16T18:24:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

That’s correct.

NazNet moderator Hans Deventer’s district superintendent in the Netherlands will dialogue with Deventer regarding serious issues conveyed to the boss.

It is about time that this avant-garde non-Nazarene Nazarene, more like unto Unitarian, is confronted with his apostasy posted on the supposed “Nazarene friendly” NazNet founded by supposed “Nazarene friendly” Dave McClung.

Neither Deventer nor McClug are in fact doctrinal companions to the holiness denomination. Instead, they tolerate heresies posted daily.

How do they get by this?

Deventer no doubt has a track record of ten years-plus with NazNet, such time frame making him feel quite comfortable in spewing forth anti-Bible “stuff” from right to left.

McClung is a cozy political crony with scores of high-powered personages in the denomination over years. He also has money, being a wealthy businessman.

However, a third heresy push elitist, Alvin Texas Nazarene Pastor Scott Cundiff, has now been exposed as denomination-loyalist at home base small church but high-powered theological renegade as NazNet moderator.

Now his little flock knows about his double life. His South Texas District leadership knows as well. The Nazarene General Superintendents, Kansas City, Missouri, likewise have been informed.

Finally, truth is getting out regarding the apostasy rampant on NazNet, let loose over years with young posters in particular being sucked into this leftist anti-Scripture profile.

As one NazNet reader emailed me, when analyzing the site’s bowing and scraping to anti-Bible theses, the diabolical data “cuts like a knife.”

Indeed.

To think that the denomination begun in 1908 in Pilot Point, Texas, has sludged into such doctrinal depths is horrific. God, however, being the Omega as well as Alpha, will bring His final say to the wayward site.

McClung, Deventer, and Cundiff in particular will answer severely before the Judgment Seat.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

AMERICA: GOD-THANKFUL SOULS STARTED IT ALL

2010-02-16T17:03:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.”

William Bradford (1590-1657) wrote those words: “. . .fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven. . .”

Bradford, part of the community of believers, sailed from Southampton, England on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

In his writings, he gives forth with the Christian testimony of total reliance upon the God of the Bible.

Anyone knowledgeable regarding our early settlers realizes the trials that beset them. However, their faith in Christ remained firm.

“What could now sustain them (fellow settlers) but the Spirit of God and His grace?

“May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say ‘Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity.

“’Let them praise the Lord, because He is good: and His mercies endure forever.’

“‘Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, show how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness and His wonderful works before the sons of me.’”

With that, Bradford unabashedly quoted Scripture, believing it to be the infallible Word of God—sustaining, guiding and lifting high.

Was this “Lord” Oprah’s New Age god or goddess? No.

Was He the worldly deity of lapsed Catholic Nancy Pelosi? No.

Was He the Allah of Barack Hussein Obama? No.

Was this “Lord” the liberal school text authors rewriting American history so as to expunge every semblance of Christian faith? No.

The “Lord” referred to by Bradford was the biblical God who became incarnate in Christ Jesus. What courage those settlers had.

God will continue to honor their faith in Him even to this very hour. Time means nothing finally to God. God is above and in time. Time answers to God.

Those early believers’ petitions and thanksgiving are still before the heavenly throne as if placed there moments ago.

Consequently, Christian, take heart. Join your prayers and gratitude to that gracious bouquet of America’s early days. Place your offerings before the eternal throne, believing the same God who delivered them will deliver us from this present threatening age.

God is the same yesterday, today and forever. God is forever faithful. God cannot forsake His grace children. The small righteous remnant is all-important to our merciful Christ.

Then lean hard upon Him, keeping the faith strong.

GLORIFYING THE LORD

2010-02-16T10:02:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

". . .He shall glorify me. . ." John l6:l4

We are here to glorify Jesus. If the Holy Spirit came upon Church Age disciples to glorify Jesus, then cross bearers will do the same for they are the ones overcome with this same Spirit. Therefore, this Spirit will work out His mission of always glorifying Jesus by way of those whom He possesses.

Consequently, we are not waking up mornings to bring glory to a denomination nor creed nor liturgy nor self. We are breathing to breathe out glory unto Jesus the Sinless Sacrifice.

Whatever the cross carrier does in one day must focus primarily upon Jesus, even in the slightest manner. In fact, what may appear to be the slightest manner may in truth be a glorious glorification of Jesus. Heaven seems to accent primarily the small as measured by earthly standards.

". . .when the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself: but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. . ."

The indwelling Spirit of truth reveals more and more the unique individuality of Truth Jesus. Whatever the baptizing Spirit does, such always comes full circle to the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. One prime reason is due to the fact that it was this personage of the triune godhead who willed prior to earth's start that He would create earth, offer Himself as earth's Redeemer, then literally provide the salvation sacrifice for earth. How logical then that earthly time span's chief light would fall upon the Christ.

Yet such perfect communion exists within the triune godhead that the Christ comes to His own turf, earth, to see through nothing but Father's will. And in the end of all things earthly, the Christ presents the earth to Father. All this is accomplished by the work of the Spirit of God moving upon creation waters, Spirit of God coming upon Old Testament disciples, Spirit of God blessing the Christ at His baptism, Spirit of God resurrecting the Christ from the dead, Spirit of God empowering the Christ's followers throughout the Church Age.

It is with like communion that each cross bearer honors the triune godhead by addressing prayer to "Our Father" in "Jesus' name" while knowing that all spirituality is due to the indwelling Spirit of God.

Whatever you do today, do to the glory of Jesus. The Spirit within will see to that for His presence is to do just that. When one professes spirituality but does not glorify Jesus as God, then that one gives himself away as having bogus spirituality. The true indwelling Spirit of God always lifts high Jesus as deity, Savior, Sinless Sacrifice.

There is much talk about spirituality; but not all such profession confesses Jesus as the Christ. Therefore, the spirits indwelling such "spiritualities" are of Satan and not of God.

JESUS IS WITH YOU

2010-02-16T09:58:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

"I pray for them. . ." John l7:9

Salvation was procured by Christ for every repentant believer.

After Christ left this planet, He ascended to the right hand of the Father's heavenly throne. There Christ intercedes for His grace children.

The highest mission Christ was set upon while earth-bound was to see His salvation venture through to completion. "It is finished!"

In follow through to that gain, Christ proceeded to intercede for the saved ones. He continues to intercede. Therefore, it appears from the Word that Christ's chief purpose has been to save and intercede for the saved.

Prior to His crucifixion and ascension, Christ interceded in Gethsemane for His own. "I pray for them. . ."

Though it is not given much attention in preaching and teaching, study and exposition, it is evident that Christ's reason for being is to redeem and pray for the redeemed. The redemption aspect is given due attention; but the intercession dimension is not. Nevertheless, to the cross bearer it is most imperative and likewise encouraging. It is our comfort. In other words, we know then that we are not alone in the Calvary mountain climb. We have our Intercessor yoked to us in the trek.

Therefore, no matter what occurs on the cross way, nothing can defeat the cross bearer for Intercessor Resurrected One has already preceded the event with intercession, sees through the struggle with intercession, and will activate climaxing victory by way of intercession. The reason? Intercessor has trounced all enemies by defying grave, death and hell. That trinity then cannot subdue Second Person of Holy Trinity. That in itself is a spiritual, eternal given.

Then no wonder the Word speaks of God laughing at His foes. No wonder the same Word refers to the ransomed mortals not fearing what any enemies can threaten. It is all because of the commission duo--crucifixion price paid and resurrection presence come upon. This duo is personalized within one figure--Christ Jesus. This Christ Jesus is none other than the cross bearer's Intercessor Victor.

"I pray for them. . ."

Amazing! God prays for us! God Christ intercedes for us--twenty-four hours every day--without stop. God Christ does not sleep, nap nor slumber. He is ever attentive to His own. That is divinity fact. It is reality above all realities. Therefore, cross carrier can count on it, though all hell's fury may attack. The attack is but temporary bogus.

"I pray for them. . .

Imagine! We are being interceded for when sleeping, shopping, driving, bathing, waiting for a doctor's appointment, going into surgery, studying for an exam, walking into a job interview, burying a loved one, facing the final hour. We are being interceded for by the very One who loved us enough to climb upon the tree in our stead.

Surely we can carry any cross when we know that God Himself is praying for us. How could we ever lose when God Himself is interceding on our behalf?

KNOWING GOD MORE CLEARLY

2010-02-16T09:53:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

". . .every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit." John l5:l2

When believers as branches continue to take in the daily life flow from trunk Jesus, then they bring forth fruitage to the Father's pleasing.

The more believers remain in close communication with Jesus, the more they are "purged." That is, they are refined in the way; they are matured in matters spiritual; they are tutored in the finer detail of the cross way.

Purging is not always pleasant. It is to bring forth a pleasant result; but the purging itself will be painful.

This is especially the case when purging focuses upon the egocentricity which forever seeks to return as center piece to the believers' very existence.

Jesus is a jealous God. He will not tolerate the human conceit to sit upon His throne. He is Lord God. The throne of the believer's inner room must be reserved only for the eternal royalty. Therefore, when Lord God Jesus insists that pride removes itself from the pivotal position, such will bring its own pain.

That pain will cause the sensitive soul to wince, even at times to cry out in excruciating agony. In that reaction is the telling of what choice believer will then make. Will believer give in to pride or oust pride on the spot? The former is extremely hurtful to King Jesus. The latter is most reassuring to King Jesus.

And so the purging must continue for the good of the branches, also for the producing of holy fruitage. In all situations, Father must be pleased. There is nothing which can detract from blessing Father God.

Consequently, indwelling Spirit of Jesus, having been true to Father's will while on earth, will continue to be true to Father's goal in believer's soul. There can be no compromise with deity. He must be true to His own integrity. His holy character demands it.

Therefore, cross carrier realizes from the start that when Jesus instructs to deny self-absorption, such commission is operative till the close of earthly sojourn. There can be no letting up for any reason. Self-surrender must be daily discipline in order to remain Christian.

In that course, cross bearer understands that on-going, in-depth purging will take place. Sometimes it will be extremely intense in order to see through the deeper works of purification.

When Paul wrote that he sought to live out Christ, he was confessing to coming under the personal purging. He was undergoing surgery of the human spirit. Paul, being particularly headstrong, ambitious, intelligent, and persistent, must have gone under the divine knife on numerous occasions in order to witness to the sanctification enjoyed. Through it all, Paul gave thanks to heaven for seeing through the severe work.

So it is with the cross carrier. The cross is meant to cut deeply, completing its surgery in order to lead to resurrection presence. It is the way of earth's travels when such are intersected by heavenly parenting. Father knows that we grace children must be governed in such a way of purification that nothing can deter the purging. Purging yields increased fruit, the most precious being the total obedience to the indwelling Christ King.

NAZNET = MORE UNITARIAN THAN NAZARENE

2010-02-16T04:56:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet lauds itself on being the “friend” to the holiness, evangelical, Wesleyan Church of the Nazarene.

Not so.

NazNet is more Unitarian/Episcopalian/Catholic than Nazarene.

NazNet moderator Hans Deventer believes the Bible is just another book. He states he does not believe the Scriptures to be the infallible Word of God. Unitarians believe the same.

NazNet moderator Scott Cundiff agrees with Deventer. NazNet founder Dave McClung permits those positions to remain on his Nazarene-friendly site.

NazNet also permits the belief in an “intermediate state” upon death. Roman Catholic teaching states the same.

NazNet permits the annihilation of the unsaved souls at death. Liberal theologians hold to the same.

NazNet espouses infant baptism for all Nazarenes worldwide. There is no record of an infant baptized in Scripture. Liturgical denominations such as Episcopalians and Roman Catholicism believe the same.

NazNet delights in referring to the Lord’s Supper, not as “communion” in the traditional Nazarene manner, but “the Eucharist.” That term is Episcopalian, Catholic, and other liturgical church verbiage. NazNet thrills as being “high church.”

NazNet permits the belief that all souls eventually go heavenward, that is, no souls are damned. If there is an eternal bliss we all find our ways there. Unitarian-Universalists believe the same. Most theological liberals concur.

NazNet considers it posh to promote the emerging church that holds to no moral absolutes. One writes his own religion in the emerging church. Unitarians in particular hold to that. Liberal theologians in general claim that as a staple.

If NazNet is such a friend to the Church of the Nazarene, why does it not provide more dialogue regarding Nazarene heritage emphases? Why does not NazNet accent more fully the biblical call to a holy life, the sanctified experience?

NazNet is wanting in its serious exploration of Wesleyan history and teaching. And when it does refer to Wesleyan teaching, as Scott Cundiff did in his profession of disbelief in the Bible as inerrant, he was wrong. The context of his statement had nothing to do with Wesleyan teaching; in fact, it countered Wesleyan teaching.

Nevertheless, Cundiff must have felt it opportunistic to use the term “Wesleyan” when discounting Scripture as divinely inspired. Did he really know that the word “Wesleyan” in that context was totally contrary to the context?

NazNet has a perfect opportunity to provide posters with in-depth Wesleyan doctrine, biblical holiness and the real-life sanctified experience.

But seemingly all that is “old hat” to the elitists on NazNet. Who, after all, would want to go back to all that bygone stuff when we can knock the Bible as God’s Word, say that all souls end up in paradise, and debunk an eternal hell?

LET GOD OVERSEE CLIMATE

2010-02-16T04:23:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Let the Creator be in charge of climate.

Mortals are playing God when they move into changing climate and moving continents and sludging taxpayers and kissing up to unbelieving loudmouths and passing legislation that will gouge Americans and so forth.

God is God.

This particular planet, along with the entire universe, is God's. He is Maker and Owner. He is the one in charge of sun, moon, stars, seasonal changes and everything else related to creation. God has His hand upon it all. His claim is tagged to every part of it.

Mortals are so intent on playing deity that they play right into the hands of God's enemy, Satan. Satan always wanted to be God. He sought to take over the eternal throne. That cost him his place in hell. Now he is known in the Bible as the "King of the Pit."

If these mortals keep playing God, they will end up with the King of the Pit.

Genesis 8:22 is holy writ. This is revealed information from the God of creation. In that verse alone God states that "as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."

". . .will never cease."

All detail related to that overview is under God's surveillance, not mortals'. Tell that to Al Gore. Inform Bill Clinton of that basic reality.

It was a delight to see God's sense of humor sprayed out over the Copenhagen cop-out when snow blanketed empty-headed conferees. It was particularly encouraging to read that snow gusts stalled Nancy Pelosi's jaunt to the climate flop.

If mortals continue to play deity, they will answer with severe divine wrath. They will be blanketed with that which they never dreamt of. Horrific it will be.

Al Gore, once a born again believer, reared in such a biblically moored home, has gone the way of the transgressor. For years he and his wife have given up on the Bible as the Word of God.

Similarly with Bill Clinton, reared in the same biblical milieu. He too has put aside the divine revelation for his own egocentricity, writing his own religion.

These are representative of the climate-geared God-mockers who seek to manipulate creation to their own ends. Their own ends will be what is described repeatedly in Scripture as damnation.

MY TRUTH-TELL SCARES NAZNET

2010-02-15T19:48:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I scared NazNet. NazNet shut me down so that I cannot access NazNet via my server.

Why did NazNet shut me out?

Truth.

NazNet has got by with deceit for so long that NazNet’s founder Dave McClung and staffers Scott Cundiff and Hans Deventer along with former staffer Barbara Moulton thought their lie-trail could go on forever.

It has not. Their trail has been exposed as heretical. NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/ has set forth in detail the outrageous anti-Bible claims on NazNet.

That scares McClung in particular. He has ingratiated himself as a politician among ecclesiastical politicians throughout the Church of the Nazarene. He is also wealthy as a businessman. McClung believed that he then could get by with his heretical web site without discipline.

In truth, McClung as a cyberspace Pied Piper was creating an Internet “church” in competition with the Church of the Nazarene. That gave McClung some sort of jollies kick, evidently.

However, I am not a part of any political network in the denomination. I don’t believe in that kind of egocentric opportunism for it opposes the Christian ethic.

Therefore, I exposed heresies on NazNet and so cut through the NazNet heretical deceit trail.

For instance, NAZNET DISTORTS reports on such NazNet heresies as these:

The unsaved do not go to hell when they die. They are annihilated. A loving God would not permit eternal punishment for the damned though Jesus stated such. This is per Hans Deventer in particular. Cundiff agrees.

The unsaved go into an “intermediate state,” the details not defined on NazNet but defended by moderator Hans Deventer. Question: how does an intermediate state, such as believed by Roman Catholics, mesh with Dementer’s annihilation of the wicked at death?

Deventer is a master at such contradictions. They do not bother him. He spins contradictions on one point on NazNet and then spins others elsewhere on the web site. That is no problem to Deventer as he cavalierly weaves his so-called theological yarns as biblical truth.

Further heresies: The souls of all mortals hopefully will go to heaven, none going to hell. Deventer says that he hopes God believes in universal salvation, that is, that all souls end up in eternal bliss, none excepted. That is nowhere found in the Bible; however, Deventer created his own doctrines contrary to the Word of God.

Again, how does universal salvation mesh with an intermediate state upon death and the annihilation of the wicked? Obviously, none of this poses problematic to Deventer, the end-of-the-line when it comes to theological certainty.

More heresies: The Bible is fallible. It has mistakes in it. It has errors throughout its pages. Deventer states boldly that he does not believe the Bible, except for Jesus passages that provide salvation. In other words, Deventer wants heaven when he dies and so he wants Jesus as Savior; all else can be dismissed.

Regarding suspicions about the Bible, who can believe in a literal flood in Noah’s day in which scores of humans were drowned under the directive of God? What kind of loving God could see that through?

Further, who can have faith in a believable God instructing Israelites to wipe out pagan peoples? That must not be accepted as historical. Therefore, it must be folklore.

Cundiff accents especially that the more one researches Scripture, the less one knows anything about God. So don’t study the Bible over a lifetime for it will lead you to a fading God. Deventer concurs.

The more one reads on NazNet the dictates of Deventer and Cundiff, the more one realizes they are more Unitarian than Nazarene. McClung counters none of this theological liberalism on his own site.

NazNet moderator Deventer also champions infant baptism throughout the Church of the Nazarene. Nowhere in the Bible is an infant baptized; yet Deventer presses for it to be embraced globally.

The emergent church’s infantile glob with no moral absolutes believed in is enthusiastically embraced by NazNet moderators Deventer and Cundiff, thereby countenanced by founder McClung.

For more heresies, click onto NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

NazNet does not want any more heresies uncovered. Therefore, NazNet is afraid of me and my truth-telling. Consequently, my server has been shut down from a bridge build to NazNet, as if I cannot get access elsewhere.

The bottom line is evident: NazNet is frightened of my truthful investigative quest to expose NazNet as a prime enemy to the Church of the Nazarene. McClung states his site as a “friend” to the Nazarenes; but the facts prove otherwise.

I have stayed true to the facts on NazNet. I have cut through NazNet’s deceit. NazNet cannot tolerate any further exposures and therefore, playing the coward, NazNet has shut me out.

NazNet is afraid of me.

But it won’t work. I will continue to investigate and report the truth.

Read YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021010.shtml

OBAMA: WHEN BLACK IS NOT RACIST

2010-02-15T17:31:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I am not racist.

My wife and I adopted a black baby when he was 2 l/2 months old. We gave him my name. We have loved him dearly.

In the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, we ministered in a black community, lived in the black pastor’s parsonage, worshiped in his black church and thoroughly enjoyed making friends of black parishioners.

We were reared in homes where prejudice was not. In other words, our parents were not biased. We never picked up on bias. And so we grew into adulthood being colorblind. We were most fortunate in that respect.

Therefore, when I now refer to black people, it is not with prejudice. It is reality.

Black Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama was swooned into office by countless blacks because he is black. Blacks fawned him, cried over him, stroked him and lauded him as the new messiah.

Many whites who are against prejudicial treatment of any peoples were more than in favor of a black becoming President. Therefore, add those figures to the blacks-for-Obama voters and you have quite a mob.

However, by now we should understand that electing any mortal into a public office should never be because of his skin color. Never.

We have a black man in the Oval Office who is totally inept. That is not because he is black. It is because he does not know how to be President. He was never qualified. His shallowness now blats in our faces every morning upon awakening.

I don’t know of many Americans who now proudly tout Obama as President because he is black. I think his color has basically disappeared as a qualifying reason for him sitting in the White House.

It should have been just that when he ran for the office.

Black as his color should have meant nothing. Yet the Oprahs of the nation colorscaped the entire country with color and more color. It was a loyalty thing for black people to adore and vote for the black man from Illinois.

Was he qualified? That did not make any difference. He was black.

By now America should certainly wise up to the logic that skin color be shunted. It’s not the all-in-all for casting a ballot in favor of anyone.

PRESIDENTS’ DAY & THEN THERE IS OBAMA

2010-02-15T08:51:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama has brought such confusion and depression to the title “United States President” that celebrating Presidents’ Day leaves one in a quandary.

How can we really sit back to contemplate the high office of U.S. President while knowing that the chief enemy of America sits in the Oval Office? It is such a sad and dangerous dilemma.

Yet how to rid the White House of this horrific mistake. He sits there with his czar shadow government, profiling dictatorship images while grabbing executive privileges for everything his heart desires.

He bypasses legitimate channels, ignoring the Congress now cracked via Senator Scott Brown’s vote and marches forward to behead the nation.

Presidents’ Day should be a time to honor George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s natal days in February. However, now even the term “President” conjures up our drudged present tense.

Obama in his first year-plus has done nothing commendable for this country. Nothing.

Instead, he has lied repeatedly. He has broken promise after promise. He has followed through with his loyal-Islamic code, otherwise known politically correctly as his “ideology.”

Yet a nation of millions wakes up captive to this anti-white, anti-Jew despot every morning. When we go to sleep at night, we pray that when awakening the nightmare will be gone. But he is still there.

Further, Michelle talks to Barbara Walters about her amazing husband. Of course Walters smiles throughout for she along with her liberal moral relativists cannot think reality.

The liberal ethical relativists along with mob hysteriacs swooned this Illinois, Nation of Islam child onto Pennsylvania Avenue. And now the intelligent citizenry is stuck with the worst irony our history will ever have to endure: a Muslim cultist so soon after 9/11.

ADDENDUM: THINKING OF PAST PRESIDENTS COMMENDABLE

President George Washington wrote a prayer addressed to “O most glorious God, in Jesus Christ” and ended it with this: “Let me live according to those holy rules which thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word. Direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life. Bless O Lord all the people of this land.”

President Thomas Jefferson: “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis — a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

President Andrew Jackson: “I nightly offer up my prayers to the throne of grace for the health and safety of you all, and that we ought all to rely with confidence on the promise of our dear Redeemer, and give Him our hearts. This is all He requires and all that we can do, and if we sincerely do this, we are sure of salvation through His atonement.”

Patrick Henry: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, property, and freedom of worship here.”

President Abraham Lincoln: “The ways of God are mysterious and profound beyond all comprehension. ‘Who by searching can find Him out?’ God only knows the issue of this business. He has destroyed nations from the map of history for their sins. Nevertheless, my hopes prevail generally above my fears for our Republic. The times are dark, the spirits of ruin are abroad in all their power, and the mercy of God alone can save us.”

President Grover Cleveland: “All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purist patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.”

President Woodrow Wilson: “America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scriptures.”

President Dwight Eisenhower: “Without God, there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Begin is the first — the most basic — expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus With God’s help, it will continue to be.”

NAZNET PASTOR SCOTT CUNDIFF’S ‘DOUBLE-LIFE’ EXPOSED

2010-02-15T07:03:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

To read the Alvin, Texas Church of the Nazarene web site, one would conclude that Pastor Scott Cundiff ministered in the old-fashioned Nazarene way.

Cundiff states on the site that he cares for his people in the “classic gospel southern style.” His services and daily devotional offerings are characterized in that fashion as well. In other words, to belong to Cundiff’s church family is like being “down home holiness” folk.

“Classic gospel southern style” would convey that Cundiff’s preaching focused on inviting worshipers to be saved. Then he would preach sermons on believers being sanctified. All this is standard in that holiness denomination since its inception in 1908.

Cundiff’s sermons would be based solidly on the Bible as the trustworthy Word of God; that is, if one believed his “classic gospel southern style” of sermon preparation and delivery. The Bible would be considered the Word of God—entirely, without doubt.

One would then assume that Cundiff’s exegesis of Scripture would be carefully focusing on holy writ as divine revelation—no question. That’s the “Nazarene way.” The Bible is God’s infallible, inspired communication.

After all, is not God capable of providing a revelation that is perfect? If God is God, then His Book is without error.

John 17:17: “Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.”

However, Cundiff has lived a theological double life now exposed to his South Texas District colleagues and the General Superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene.

Also, this exposure has been communicated to his NazNet colleagues for Cundiff is one of founder Dave McClung’s long-time moderators on NazNet. However, these NazNet colleagues have known of Cundiff’s double life all along for they are a part of it.

While giving the impression to his Bible belt congregation that he is an honest biblically faithful preacher, Cundiff espouses disbelief in the Bible on NazNet. He is joined by fellow moderator Hans Deventer from the Netherlands. Both of these NazNet staffers are permitted their heresy push by McClung—over years. NazNet is in fact a prime enemy to the Church of the Nazarene.

Cundiff and Deventer have posted often on NazNet their conclusion that the Bible is laden with errors. Deventer goes so far as to state that he does not believe in the Bible, except for passages related to Jesus. After all, believing the sections about Jesus provide Deventer with salvation and heaven. The rest of the Book can be discarded.

Cundiff holds basically to the same.

Cundiff witnesses on his church site to being a trustworthy biblical preacher and teacher. But in fact on NazNet he is a cavalier theological liberal who shunts the Bible as a take-it or leave-it. In truth, on NazNet Cundiff comes across as being more Unitarian than Nazarene.

Note this on NazNet as posted by moderator Scott Cundiff:

“In a devotional I dealt with the command given by God to wipe out entire people groups as part of the occupation of Canaan. Writing from a devotional point of view my take away is that there’s that about God, an ‘otherness’ that is beyond us and that passages like that are reminders of that fact.

“Van de Beek is right. No matter how hard one tries, it is impossible to reconcile the many commands to kill enemies in the Old Testament with the commands to love our enemies in the New.

“Even more difficult is the portrait painted of God as a violent and genocidal child killer in the Old Testament (Noah’s flood, the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the slaughter of the Canaanites and Amalekites), and in Christ the lover of children in the New.

“Van de Beek admits as much. He confesses that ‘The more one wants to let all of Scripture speak for itself . . . the more unclear the Bible becomes. The more we believe that the whole Word is revelation, the less we know who God is.’”

Read that again: “’The more we believe that the whole Word is revelation, the less we know who God is.’” That is provided by Cundiff on NazNet, the latter allowed by NazNet founder McClung.

To the above quotes, Deventer exclaimed his ecstatic approval related to Cundiff’s skepticism concerning the Bible’s trustworthiness.

So there you have it: NazNet moderator Cundiff believes that the more we research the Bible, the “less we know who God is.” At the same time, Cundiff plays “holiness, Bible-believing” preacher to his Texas worshipers.

With all this deception, McClung repeatedly states on NazNet that his web site is a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene.

Not so.

Read more about Cundiff at NAZNET: STUDY BIBLE, WATCH GOD FADE at http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/5187366-naznet-study-bible-watch-god-fade

Read still more about NazNet heresies at NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

Read “Yes, you can believe in the Old Testament God” at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021010.shtml

NAZNET PASTOR SCOTT CUNDIFF'S 'DOUBLE-TONGUE' EXPOSED

2010-02-14T21:23:00.001-08:00

NAZNET SNUBS GOD'S BIBLE TRUTH

2010-02-14T16:39:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

John 17:17: “Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.”

That is one of the chief verses that the Church of the Nazarene has been based upon since 1908, its founding year in Pilot Point, Texas.

The Nazarenes have proclaimed holiness of heart and life. The Nazarenes have preached without apology that a mortal can not only be saved from sins but saved from the carnal nature—sin.

How can one come to know about this divine grace potential? Through the entire Word of God—from Genesis to Revelation. God’s Word is truth.

The Church of the Nazarene has given forth faithfully the glad tidings that the Bible can be trusted. God’s Word is “truth.” All of God’s Word is “truth,” not just parts of it.

However, NazNet site founder Dave McClung says just the opposite. It states through such staffers as Scott Cundiff and Hans Deventer and cheered on by such former staffers as Barbara Moulton that the Bible is error-laden.

In other words, one must be careful when reading the Bible for there are landmines in it that can lead one astray. Therefore, one must be clever enough to pick and choose what is to be believed and what is not to be believed.

Cundiff goes so far as to state that the more one reads the Bible the more God fades. The more one researches the Scriptures, the less one knows about God. Deventer states on NazNet that he concurs.

This is exactly what the NAZNET DISTORTS site exposes about NazNet. NAZNET DISTORTS lays bare the heresies propagated by NazNet and permitted by founder McClung.

Why is NazNet up to this? Who knows? But it is there on the Internet for anyone to research. NAZNET DISTORTS has done much of the homework for the wise and discerning.

Click onto http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

It is part of the “great falling away” for the Church of the Nazarene to be attacked by its own. The General Superintendents have been informed of this intrusion. What have they done about it? I don’t know but I have at least informed them.

I have also informed the District in which Cundiff’s Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene resides. What that officialdom does about it is under God’s surveillance. The last move they should make is to turn upon the truth giver—NAZNET DISTORTS.

God’s Word is reliable from cover to cover. Christians have witnessed that to be practical truth throughout their lifetimes.

Now come along doubters McClung, Cundiff, Deventer, Moulton and naïve posters who have lauded their positions on NazNet. It is a shame. It is blasphemy. It must be exposed far and near.

Read “Yes, you can believe in the Old Testament God” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100209

CUT THE LUGAR RUN

2010-02-14T14:50:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

He was just a youth. He’s now dead.

He should have never “done” the lugar run.

“’He called me before the Olympics, three days ago, and he said, “Dad, I'm scared of one of the turns,”’ David Kumaritashvili said in an interview

“His son, 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, lost control of his luge on the final turn of the course, the world's fastest, and slammed into a steel support at 90 miles per hour.

“’I said, Put your legs down on the ice to slow down, but he said if he started the course he would finish it. He was brave,’ Mr. Kumaritashvili's father said, adding that his son had dreamed of being an Olympian from childhood and could have competed in two more games” per Wall Street Journal’s Samantha Shields.

I wondered when watching the opening ceremonies about the mental and emotional stability of many of those competing.

We know that countless young people are put through such rigorous training because of parents and coaches pushing them to the limit—and for some over the limit.

When they were very young, did they themselves make the choice to enter into such a journey of pain and pleasure? How many did?

How many were put onto the track without their consent? And how many in later years need therapy because of the one-lane lifestyle—train train train with practically nothing but train.

Day upon day. Week upon week. Month upon month. Year upon year.

For those who go back home with no winnings, so it is. They are told that that’s the gamble.

For those who go back home with the winnings, so it is with acclaim. But even they may be scarred.

Naturally we want youth to learn sports and the ups
and downs of competition with like-skilled youth. That should not be denied them.

However, with all of life, there has to be a balance in all things. Where is the balance in these competitive games and the training that leads up to the press?

With the Georgian, my heart aches when knowing
that he confided his fears in his Dad just before his death. They were haunting him. The Dad knew that. No doubt that caring Dad would have liked to have traded places with his son; but of course that was
impossible.

Thinking it over—all the pathos—I keep wondering what is healthy in sports competition and what is unhealthy and who is responsible for the unhealthy.

Read “Luger Who Died Was Terrified of Track” at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447704575065492351741522.html?mod=WSJ_olympics_LeadStoryCollection

WHY DOES NAZNET SHUT DOWN SITE TO ME?

2010-02-14T06:35:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

As of February 14, 2010, NazNet forbids me to get into NazNet. Why?

Every avenue to the site has been cut off to me.

Logic says NazNet Founder Dave McClung and staffers Scott Cundiff and Hans Deventer do not want me to expose their heresies any further.

Moreover, NAZNET DISTORTS http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/ exposes detail upon detail regarding NazNet’s anti-Bible, anti-God postings.

In addition, NAZNET DISTORTS has exposed former NazNet staffer Chaplain Barbara Moulton’s refusal to witness publicly concerning God’s abhorrence of homosexual practice. Moulton stated she would not perform “wedding ceremonies” for same-gender duos but she would not witness publicly to the biblical prohibitions of same either.

Since that exposure, Moulton has left NazNet as a staff member and her name and email address no longer appear on the NazNet masthead; however, she continues to post comments throughout NazNet.

The latest revelation regarding NazNet has been Alvin, Texas Church of the Nazarene Pastor Scott Cundiff’s refusal to accept the Bible as the infallible Word of God. He, a NazNet moderator, has stated that the more one researches the Bible, the less one knows God. Deventer agrees. McClung does nothing to expunge this anti-Church of the Nazarene position from NazNet.

As soon as Cundiff’s lack of faith in the Bible was posted on the Internet on February 13, 2010, NazNet was cut off to me. I have been forbidden access following that exposure.

Nevertheless, as of February 14, 2010, South Texas Church of the Nazarene District officialdom has been informed of Cundiff’s NazNet statements concerning his disbelief in the entire Bible as divine revelation.

One wonders how far NazNet will go in its splintering of the Church of the Nazarene before McClung as Founder will apologize to the Church of the Nazarene for propagating heresies.

Then Cundiff needs to confess at least to his local congregation that he does not have faith in the entire Bible as God’s error-free Word.

Deventer needs to make exit from NazNet for he is exceptionally brash in his forthright denial of eternal damnation. He does not believe the Bible per his own confession on NazNet. Yet McClung permits this moderator to continue posting anti-Scripture opinions.

All the while McClung repeats that NazNet is a “friend” of the Church of the Nazarene. It is not. It is a prime enemy and has been for some time.

Read NAZNET DAVE MCCLUNG IS IRRESPONSIBLE AS ‘CHRISTIAN’ at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3472

In addition, the denomination’s General Superintendents have been informed all along of NazNet’s heresies push. Specific details have been sent to the Superintendents every time NazNet heresy exposures have been placed on the Internet.

I have sent to McClung, Cundiff and Deventer the following article detailing faith in the Bible as the infallible Word of God; however, NazNet’s power clique continues to hold to the Bible being laden with errors.

Read “Yes, you can believe in the Old Testament God” at RenewAmerica.com http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100209

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

ALVIN TEXAS NAZARENE PASTOR SCOTT CUNDIFF LIES

2010-02-13T17:30:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet Moderator Scott Cundiff hides his disbelief in the Bible when presenting himself as a Church of the Nazarene pastor in Texas.

Check it out here: http://www.pastorscott.com/

Cundiff and wife are pictured as a sweet couple furthering the gospel message. In fact, that is exactly what Cundiff states. One would think that he is an old-fashioned Nazarene loyalist preaching scriptural truth. In other words, Cundiff fits right in with the Bible belt where he ministers.

He describes himself as a hard-working local pastor and web site master. He states he’s on NazNet staff. And so forth.

Cundiff invites readers to click on to his daily devotions. His site is chummy enough to ask friends to view his clan’s photo album. He describes his ministry as in the “classic gospel southern style.”

However, there is no inkling on his church’s site that Cundiff does not believe in the Bible.

Yet Cundiff has severe suspicions about the reliability of the Scriptures. He really does not accept the Bible as trustworthy; in fact, the more one researches the Word, the less one knows God. That’s Cundiff’s final conclusion on studying the Book.

However, no hint of that agnosticism is on Cundiff’s Texas church site. None.

Cundiff on NazNet encourages readers to fall right in line with those suspicious of biblical detail. He chooses what he wants from the Bible; he discards what he considers not palatable.

In that, Cundiff is a cohort with NazNet staffer Hans Deventer. Further, Cundiff is theological companion to NazNet Founder Dave McClung. In reality, these three plant repeated blatant suspicions regarding Scripture, thus undercutting the faith in the Christian’s holy writ.

Cundiff poses as a kind local pastor and web site connoisseur while at the same time slicing and dicing the very God he claims to defend. In other words, Cundiff does not tell the truth; he lies. He does lie. There is no kinder way to state it but that Cundiff lies.

He witnesses on his pastoral site to being a trustworthy biblical preacher and teacher. But in fact on NazNet he is a cavalier theological liberal who shunts the Bible as a take-it or leave-it.

Note this on NazNet as planted by Moderator Scott Cundiff:

“In a devotional I dealt with the command given by God to wipe out entire people groups as part of the occupation of Canaan. Writing from a devotional point of view my take away is that there’s that about God, an ‘otherness’ that is beyond us and that passages like that are reminders of that fact.

“However, in the open letter (of Dr. C. S. Cowles of Point Loma Nazarene University), I find a solid Wesleyan perspective that helps me deal with the issue, not from a devotional point of view, but rather from a theological one. I appreciate this insight.

“And van de Beek is right. No matter how hard one tries, it is impossible to reconcile the many commands to kill enemies in the Old Testament with the commands to love our enemies in the New.

“Even more difficult is the portrait painted of God as a violent and genocidal child killer in the Old Testament (Noah’s flood, the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the slaughter of the Canaanites and Amalekites), and in Christ the lover of children in the New.

“Van de Beek admits as much. He confesses that ‘The more one wants to let all of Scripture speak for itself . . . the more unclear the Bible becomes. The more we believe that the whole Word is revelation, the less we know who God is.’”

Read more about Cundiff at NAZNET: STUDY BIBLE, WATCH GOD FADE at http://zenithmax.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/naznet-study-bible-watch-god-fade/

Read still more about NazNet heresies at http://zenithmax.wordpress.com/

Read “Yes, you can believe in the Old Testament God” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100209

TEXAS PASTOR SCOTT CUNDIFF HIDES NAZNET HERESY

2010-02-13T16:43:00.000-08:00

DISASTER AREA: NAZNET DAVE MCCLUNG AXES COMMUNITY

2010-02-13T15:55:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet Founder Dave McClung states this on his site: “The only goal I have ever had for NazNet is to build community.”

As I reread that one sentence, I could not help but wonder who this double-speak McClung really is?

He has come across as a sweet gentleman who loves people and wants to help them. However, now that he has set up his web site, he has come across as a major disaster area.

McClung’s site, advertised as a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene, is anything but. The Church of the Nazarene, birthdated in 1908 in Pilot Point, Texas, has preached biblical holiness.

It is in the Wesleyan theology tradition. The church has brought countless souls to Christ as Savior and Sanctifier.

The Church of the Nazarene has a heritage of teaching biblical truth without compromise or apology. Its educational institutions have brought the denomination in a high level of academic recognition.

I for one graduated from Eastern Nazarene College, then was immediately accepted into Harvard Divinity School. That small Nazarene college in Quincy, Massachusetts, had an outstanding academic standing with Harvard.

But now this church is under attack from one who claims that all he has wanted to do is create community, specifically within the Church of the Nazarene.

How can one acknowledge this while reading on McClung site’s his staffers championing outright heresies?

For instance, NazNet sets forth that there is no
eternal hell for the unsaved. Hans Deventer aggressively, repeatedly leads the march on that one.

That kind of carnage on NazNet does not create biblical community; it fosters confusion and dissension. It can even lead theological novices into blatant untruths. For that, Deventer will answer at the Judgment Seat of Christ; however, reading Deventer on the site makes one wonder if he actually believes in a Judgment Seat of Christ.

Further, NazNet proclaims that the Bible is not to be believed from cover to cover. Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff endorse this heresy with gusto. Flippantly they dismiss the Word of God is grossly suspect. They apparently have no qualms about scuh blasphemy.

Surely McClung knows of these two staffers cutting through Scripture with their coy suspicions. Further, when Deventer and Cundiff post these suspicions, posters are persuaded to follow their doubts. That is apparent in the comments following. Not all, but even one led astray is one too many for a site that is supposed to be a “friend” to a holiness church.

Read NAZNET DAVE MC CLUNG = LIBERAL PIED PIPER at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3475

Deventer states that he does not believe the Bible except the part about Christ as Savior. That unreasonable approach to scriptural study is so exegetically moronic that it does not deserve retort.

However, Deventer and Cudiff cavalierly delight in picking and choosing what biblical passages they believe deserve acceptance and which ones are to be discarded. Such hubris.

McClung knows of this. McClung does nothing about it. McClung thereby does not build community. He implodes it.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS for numerous other intrusions on biblical truth. Conclude for yourself whether or not McClung is the kind, gentlemanly Christian he poses for others to believe him to be.

The fact is that he is just the opposite. In these confused theological times the last person a holiness denomination needs is a splinter fitter named Dave McClung.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

CONGRESS: MORAL CONVICTIONS AWAIT

2010-02-10T19:25:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

This “reaching across the aisle” business has got to stop.

In other words, bi-partisanship must be passe.

There is no Congress worth listening to, let alone voting for, that lacks moral convictions.

Scott Brown got elected because voters sensed in him a person of moral conviction. He was not swayed one way or another by political opportunism.

Brown was not beholding even to DC Republicans for he said that he got no practical help from them during the campaign. He worked hard with close friends assisting. His DC Party was out to lunch.

Therefore, Brown is not going to bow and scrape before Republican power heads in Congress. He will continue to win on his own inner strength, just as he did in Massachusetts.

Sarah Palin is another personage of moral convictions. She knows what values are supreme. She has an ethical might that is defined by Scripture. She has total faith in the God of the Bible.

Therefore, Palin wakes up each morning, not driven by political opportunism, but what she considers to be God’s will for that day. If she does not sense it to be providentially directed, she doesn’t touch it.

This kind of conviction base is what the grassroots is hankering for. There is no doubt about it. These upright citizens are clamoring. They are organizing.

To put it negatively, America’s patriots are so angry at officials revealing their egocentric opportunism that patriots are ready to wipe the current slate clean.

To put it positively, America’s patriots are scouring the landscape, vetting the personages, and determining ballot choices on campaigners who are proven true. The candidates must be real just as the grassroots defines itself as “real America.”

One of the main benefits of the Tea Party Nation is its demand that those running for elections be “real America.” If they are phonies, Tea Party enthusiasts flip them into the nearest dumpsters. Tea Baggers are adamant. They will will strip naked the fakes.

Liberals have convictions. But they are those based on moral relativism and situation ethics. Anything goes, in other words. They have convictions based on anti-God, anti-Bible foundering.

Conservatives are well aware of the liberal convictions for they are antithetical to the conservatives’ moral convictions. These right-wing voters know their ethical moorings. They are well aware of what they hold dear, what they would die for.

Consequently, these moralists will stretch this nation from coast to coast with the stipulation that candidates be morally based. They cannot be merely cute or charismatic. They must be morally grounded.

BIBLICAL SARAH PALIN

2010-02-10T18:57:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Sarah Palin is no mystery to biblical believers. She is a sister in the faith to those who are genuinely Christian.

Therefore, one can figure out this woman. She is no mystery. Talk about transparency. She’s it.

Palin believes in the Bible as God’s Word. She does not doubt it in any way. She takes seriously the Book stating that one must not add to or subtract from the divine revelation. Therefore, Palin believes in God’s Word as infallible from Genesis to Revelation.

Further, Palin believes that God appeared in Christ as fully God and fully man. This Christ then is her personal Savior. But more: this Christ is her Sanctifier for Palin believes in being filled with the Spirit of Christ.

All of this is experiential with Palin. It is more than church doctrine, more than biblical theology. It is an individual relationship daily with Christ through His indwelling Spirit.

In addition, Palin feeds her friendship with God through daily devotions; that is, she reads her Bible and prays faithfully. When busy, she recalls those biblical verses for soul enrichment. She also maintains that “praying without ceasing” mindset throughout her schedule.

Palin has informed the press that she has surrendered her existence to the God of the Bible. That means that her future is not hers to govern. It is submitted to Providence.

Therefore, whether or not she runs for President is directed by Providence. If she does run, whether or not she wins the office is directed by Providence.

All of this folds into her being a Christian mother and wife. It relates to her morality. It has to do with her entertainment, reading material, hobbies, and so forth.

In other words, being a born again Spirit-filled Christian, Palin enjoys the submission of everything to her Creator Redeemer. This is no chore. This is her liberation.

Having been converted to Christ by confessing her sins to Him, receiving His mercy and forgiveness, Palin witnesses to a life of hope. That hope is founded upon scriptural promises. She believes in a God who cannot fail, who is eternally faithful to His grace children.

Now with this belief system, Palin knows full well that the opposition will seek to destroy her in every way, particularly politically. That is why when Martha Stewart, not a professing born again Christian, snubs Palin by saying Palin is “boring,” Palin is not surprised by that.

Palin knows that Christ informed His followers that they will be hated, let alone snubbed. Therefore, Palin concludes her work to be divinely networked in the spiritual battles.

Palin does know the enemy. She understands the demonic schemes out to undercut her. She is not about to war the fight in her own energies; instead, she commits every one to God as soon as they appear.

Palin has been living this style for years, ever since submitting her existence to Savior Christ. All the more she has fine-tuned her soul to surrender even more precisely each situation to God’s will.

When non-believers then do battle with Palin, it would be wise for them to study her spiritual beliefs. However, most won’t for they don’t care. Or they consider her beliefs to be adolescent, mundane or just plain wrong. That is nothing new of course to biblical believers.

So on with the future. Palin is ready, more than ready, for she has committed that future to her God. What God details for her tomorrows is just fine with Palin. She would have it no other way.

NAZNET DAVE MCCLUNG IS IRRESPONSIBLE AS ‘CHRISTIAN’

2010-02-09T07:34:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet Founder Dave McClung is irresponsible as a biblical Christian for permitting staffers who decry the Word of God as infallible. Question: Is McClung truly a Christian in light of the theological aberrations he is broadcasting via NazNet?

Read NAZNET MODERATOR’S DAVE MCCLUNG IS LAX, INEPT, A TROUBLE-MAKER at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-moderators-dave-mcclung-is-lax.html

Moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff are prime promoters of heresies.

Yet McClung continues to repeat that NazNet is a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene. He is not. He is a major enemy to the holiness denomination.

McClung however has held official positions at the Nazarene headquarters and elsewhere. In other words, he had hobnobbed with those in ecclesiastical power—both past and present.

That means that the authoritative personages appear reluctant to discipline McClung for his NazNet continues the heresy push. These authorities have been aptly informed of McClung’s endangerment to the church.

NazNet promotes the Bible as not divine revelation. Deventer blatantly states that he does not believe the Bible. Cundiff has come out for the Scriptures as being just another book.

Read NAZNET HANS DEVENTER: ‘I DON’T BELIEVE THE BIBLE’ at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-hans-deventer-i-dont-believe.html

Read NAZNET’S SCOTT CUNDIFF KNOWS LESS OF GOD at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznets-scott-cundiff-knows-less-of-god.html

Read NAZNET STILL NOT SURE ABOUT BIBLE BEING INFALLIBLE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/12/naznet-still-not-sure-about-bible-being.html

Read NAZNET = BIBLE NOT THE WHOLE WORD OF GOD at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-bible-not-whole-word-of-god.html

Deventer and Cundiff repeatedly accent their pet anti-Bible theme.

How does McClung reconcile these horrific theses with being a Christian let alone friendly to the Church of the Nazarene?

Read NAZNET MANAGER SCOTT CUNDIFF DELETES BIBLE AS ALL- OK: INERRANT VS. ERRANT at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-manager-scott-cundiff-deletes.html

Read ANOTHER NAZNET STAFF, SCOTT CUNDIFF, SUPPORTS ERROR-PRONE BIBLE
BIBLE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-naznet-staff-scott-cundiff.html

Deventer also pushes his belief that God accepts all souls into heaven—universal salvation. That means that no soul is in hell. In fact, Deventer does not believe in hell. All this is on NazNet as “friend” to biblical believers.

Read NAZNET HANS DEVENTER HOPES GOD TAKES ALL SOULS HEAVENWARD at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-hans-deventer-hopes-god-takes.html

Read NAZNET’S HANS DEVENTER: HELL DARK & LIGHT? at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznets-hans-deventer-hell-dark-light.html

Read NAZNET’S HANS DEVENTER: ‘NO’ TO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznets-hans-deventer-no-to-eternal.html

Read NAZNET CONTINUES TO ESPOUSE HELL AS ANNIHILATION at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/12/naznet-continues-to-espouse-hell-as.html

Then Deventer comes up with an “intermediate state” after death. McClung knows that is Roman Catholic teaching; it is not evangelical, holiness belief. Yet McClung permits that blasphemy to stay on NazNet. Why?

Again, it appears that McClung is so webbed by Nazarene politics that he can allow anything he wants. That is why it makes one suspicious that McClung is trying to create a “church” in competition to the Church of the Nazarene. His “church” exists on the Internet.

Read NAZNET NOT A CHURCH? at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-not-church.html

Read NAZNET UNDERCUTS THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-undercuts-church-of-nazarene.html

Further, Deventer has this fetish about infant baptism being enveloped globally by the Church of the Nazarene. Nowhere in the Bible is an infant baptized; however, “high church” Deventer and Cundiff want it. Forget the Bible, just state your own manufactured doctrine as truth and you’re in.

Read NAZNET MODERATOR HANS DEVENTER SUPPORTS INFANT BAPTISM OVER ADULT BAPTISM at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-moderator-hans-deventer-supports.html

Then there is former Moderator Chaplain Barbara Moulton who states she will not marry same-gender duos. However, she will never take a biblical public stand on the issue. In other words, she will keep her Christian witness “in the closet.”

Read NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR KEEPS ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ IN THE CLOSET at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznets-chaplain-moderator-keeps-gay.html

Read NAZNET’S CHAPLAIN MODERATOR BARBARA MOULTON DRAWS SPIKED REACTIONS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznets-chaplain-moderator-barbara.html

Moreover, NazNet is enamored by the emerging church. That is quite the new find for NazNet moderators, particularly Cundiff.

Read NAZNET LAUDS OLD HIPPIES’ RELIGION at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-lauds-old-hippies-religion.html

The Bible has errors throughout it.

There is no eternal hell.

All souls go to heaven.

Infant baptism should be practiced worldwide.

A chaplain will not publicly defend God’s position on homosexual practice.

The Church of the Nazarene is old-stuff and needs a liberal release.

McClung creates a “church” on site, same being a competitor to the Church of the Nazarene.

The emerging church flimflam is where it is at for worshipers’ futures.

All the above is boldly stated on the McClung site. There is his photo. There is a group photo of his site pals. And there are the forums in place to proclaim heresies.

Though the General Superintendents have been informed of all this detail, seemingly they have no authority by which to expunge from McClung’s Internet “church” these declarations in direct opposition to the Nazarene heritage.

McClung will answer at the Judgment Seat of Christ for fomenting anti-God beliefs and leading many posters astray with his cute image, flip style, and sweet way of luring especially the young into his web.

Apparently McClung’s ego is large enough in his Pied Piper play at the moment that he really does not care about a final accountability. I frankly do not believe that he, Deventer, Cundiff, and Moulton believe in the Judgment Seat of Christ.

FOOTNOTE: JUDGMENT DAY

Hebrews 9:27:

It is appointed unto men once to die, but after that the judgment.

Matthew 7:21-23: the words of Christ:

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Matthew 12:36-37: the words of Christ:

But I say unto you that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Romans 2:6-11:

God who will render to every man according to his deed: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immorality, eternal life; But unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; But glory, honor and peace to every man that worked good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: For there is no respect of persons with God.

Romans 14:10-12:

For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

I Corinthians 4:5:

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsel of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

II Corinthians 5:10:

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Numbers 32:23:

Be sure your sin will find you out.

NAZNET HANS DEVENTER: ‘I DON’T BELIEVE THE BIBLE’

2010-02-08T14:48:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Dave McClung: Why do you permit this heresy on your NazNet site? You are ultimately responsible for this kind of anti-Bible detail appearing.

NazNet Moderator Hans Deventer states: “So I don't believe in the Bible, I believe in the God to Whom the Bible testifies. A subtle, but crucial difference.

“The witness is trustworthy to bring us to Christ (John 20:31). It can be trusted to do so. And that is its sole purpose, and the only one in which it is and needs to be inerrant.”

Click here for the quote: http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php/26610-JUD805-Inerrancy-of-the-Scriptures?p=275152

This is the site that claims to be a “friend” to the holiness Church of the Nazarene.

Yet a site Moderator Deventer states outright that he does not believe in the Bible. Is that helping the denomination? Does that help anyone questing for divine truth? Does that uphold divine revelation of Scripture?

No.

If one does not by faith accept the Bible as divine revelation, how in the name of reason can one have faith in the data relating to Christ? There is no reason why that data should not be suspect.

Missionary to Africa Albert Schweitzer read the data and concluded that Christ was not God. Schweitzer set his thesis forth in “The Quest of the Historical Jesus.”

In that dissertation he said he believed Christ to be a disillusioned young male Jew who held that by dying a violent death He would usher in the kingdom of God.

One must come to the Bible in faith believing it to be the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation. Otherwise, a person can pull one suspect thread after another from the revelation to conclude in nothing. The Unitarians do that all the time.

Therefore, Deventer and other theological liberals on NazNet do no favor for God and the Bible by printing their agnosticism, particularly for young posters to digest it. Deventer is no Christian mentor for posters; he is an enemy to divine truth.

Why then does NazNet Founder Dave McClung and fellow Moderator Scott Cundiff permit Deventer such prime place on NazNet? The buck stops especially at McClung’s desk. He is lax. He is wrong. And he will answer for this at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

Of course, one wonders if the three even believe in the Judgment Seat of Christ, their biblical suspicions running wild throughout the site.

For those interested in believing the Old and New Testament God to be the same merciful and just deity, read YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD at http://zenithmax.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/yes-you-can-believe-in-the-old-testament-god/

YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD

2010-02-08T07:44:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

In the Old Testament, God commanded the death penalty in twenty-some cases. This was not because God was barbaric, but because God was civil. The Israeli twelve tribes had no law enforcement agencies. Further, they were surrounded by barbarisms of strange magnitudes exhibited by neighboring pagan nations.

Consequently, for God to establish an Israeli civil community, He set forth stringent punishments--some being the death penalty. He Himself became, in other words, the Law Enforcement Agency for the new nation of Israel. That chosen community thereby was to model morality / civility to the surrounding nations.

Extremely severe penalties then were commanded by God in order to bring in line an Israeli community which tended to be unruly like its neighbors. If God had been lax in penalties, human nature, being what it is, would have tested gladly the boundaries. But when penalties were severe, human nature thought twice before testing the boundaries, hence the death penalty prescribed by God in some instances.

However, once Israel lost its nationhood by "going a-whoring after other loves", Israel's civil structure disappeared. Israel as a nation lost its temple, its government--that is, its two primary components of culture--religion and politics. Pagan nations then ruled over the heretofore nation of God. In this loss was the disappearance of death penalties previously prescribed by God. The death penalty period as dictated by divine revelation, in other words, ended near the close of the Old Testament era.

That is why when Jesus appeared as flesh-and-bones divine revelation, He pronounced, "You used to say, 'An eye for an eye', but now I say to you: Love your enemies." Jesus pronounced a civility of love toward one's enemies. "Love your foes, pray for your foes." This was the New Testament for it was now a new way of dealing with others--all others.

Government was now established primarily within the believer rather than under Israeli kings. "The Kingdom of God is within you." Law was now primarily of the heart. "My law will be written on your hearts." That was the new politic. Further, the tabernacle was now primarily the human frame: "Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit." That was the new religion.

Therefore, for the New Testament Church Age, it is the law of love toward all--friends and foes. Jesus provided a simply stated ethic. He refused to garble it with amendments. But, one may ask: "What about these atrocious crimes and the death penalty?"

The biblical answer is still the same: love your friends and foes in Jesus. What kind of Christian love then can be shown to a multiple-murderer / rapist / arsonist / child molester? What kind of Christian love can be meted out to a Hitler?

It is a Christian tough love. Tough love keeps the exceptional criminal alive but consigns that one to supervised environs without parole. Hopefully, even that exceptional criminal then may come upon redemption through Christ, yet never be placed in tempting circumstances whereby he again may do others and Himself harm.

Keeping the individual alive also allows the possibility that, realizing human justice systems to be flawed, that person in truth may be found innocent though originally pronounced guilty. Indeed, the future may prove this to be fact if new evidence is forthcoming. History has case files on those in the aforementioned category.

Reason this moral / ethical situation from God's perspective: Adam and Eve slew God's love when they played loose with Eden's snake. However, God did not slay them. Instead, God banished them to their own solitary isles of remorse, hoping at least for their eternal redemption.

You once slew God's love by going your own stubborn way. In reality, you pronounced yourself Lord of your life. It is a hurtful truth to you now that you are a believer; nevertheless, living once in sin and for sin, you were once that callused toward your own loving Creator. However, did God obliterate you? No, instead God searched you out, loved you even while you were enemy, in hopes of redeeming what was left of your destiny.

He now invites each Christian to live out that same kind of persevering, at-times-tough love toward all others--especially those who are Enemy. God has already walked for us the path of love-for-foes. We, of all creatures, should know this for sure. Praise be to a loving, merciful God!

He then invites us to join Him on that love path. He has walked it for us. He asks us now to walk it for others.

NAZNET’S SCOTT CUNDIFF KNOWS LESS OF GOD

2010-02-08T05:38:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

In the Old Testament there is recorded the divine directive to kill. In Noah’s generation, God drowned all but eight righteous individuals.

Let God be God.

There is not only the loving, merciful component in the divine persona; there is also the wrathful, just component. Deal with it. Accept it. That’s God.

Since God created the sphere and all related to it, God has the right to set His own rules. One of them is that following God is to live; turning against God is to die.

Noah’s generation knowingly turned against God. Sodom and Gomorrah did the same. And so forth. When cultures rebel against the God of the universe, they die in one way or another.

The innocent children within those collections are taken to heaven via divine mercy, for “of such is the kingdom of God.”

Christ stated the same concerning obeying and disobeying God; therefore, the New and Old Testaments agree. Christ stated that those who turn against God spend eternity in hell. Those who obey God spend eternity in heaven.

Therefore, there is no violent, mad Old Testament God in contest with a sweet, caring New Testament God. God is the same God throughout the Bible.

Regarding the harsh punishments set forth in the Old Testament, read BIBLE HARSH PENALTIES & CHRIST’S ETHIC at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3465

However, NazNet Moderator Scott Cundiff and others on that website staff do not like the Old Testament God’s actions when He destroys peoples. That is one conclusion that prods these staffers to discount the inerrancy of Scripture.

NazNet staffers in the main champion a Bible with errors in it. That opens up the following: pull one error thread and where does one stop? It’s all up to the reader, of which there are countless. The ultimate thread pull is to end up in the Unitarian-Universalist camp.

What mortal dares to discount the Word of God as totally reliable, eternally revealed truth that must not be added to or subtracted from? Yet on NazNet that exercise is championed. It is lauded. That is blasphemous.

Note this on NazNet as planted by Moderator Scott Cundiff:

“In a devotional I dealt with the command given by God to wipe out entire people groups as part of the occupation of Canaan. Writing from a devotional point of view my take away is that there's that about God, an ‘otherness’ that is beyond us and that passages like that are reminders of that fact.

“However, in the open letter (of Dr. C. S. Cowles of Point Loma Nazarene University), I find a solid Wesleyan perspective that helps me deal with the issue, not from a devotional point of view, but rather from a theological one. I appreciate this insight.

“And van de Beek is right. No matter how hard one tries, it is impossible to reconcile the many commands to kill enemies in the Old Testament with the commands to love our enemies in the New.

“Even more difficult is the portrait painted of God as a violent and genocidal child killer in the Old Testament (Noah's flood, the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the slaughter of the Canaanites and Amalekites), and in Christ the lover of children in the New.

“Van de Beek admits as much. He confesses that ‘The more one wants to let all of Scripture speak for itself . . . the more unclear the Bible becomes. The more we believe that the whole Word is revelation, the less we know who God is.’”

Can one imagine that? The more one researches the Bible, the more the Word of God becomes “unclear.” That leads to unbelief; but that is permitted for there is no other choice. “The more we believe that the whole Word is revelation, the LESS WE KNOW WHO GOD IS.”

Consequently, a flippant knowledge of Scripture is best for the reader really does not get to know the God of the Book. However, when one spends a lifetime delving into the Bible’s minutia, the less one understands God. That’s what NazNet’s staffers declare by their support of Cowles and Van de Beek.

And with that, Cundiff applauds both men. Staffer Hans Deventer agrees, of course, for Deventer’s statements elsewhere on NazNet conclude him not to accept the total reliability of the Bible.

Where is NazNet Founder Dave McClung at this point? He is agreeing with the Cowles statement. Not only that, he agrees having it posted on his site that claims to be a “friend” of the Church of the Nazarene.

The denomination has never promoted disbelief in the Bible and thereby concluding one finds God unknowable.

FOOTNOTE: BIBLE HARSH PENALTIES & CHRIST’S ETHIC at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3465

JEWS QUESTION OBAMA’S BELIEFS

2010-02-07T17:43:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, expressed concern about Obama in a June interview with Newsmax’s Chief Washington Correspondent Ronald Kessler.

“’There’s a lot of questioning going on about what he (Obama) really believes and what does he really stand for,’ Hoenlein said.

‘[Jews] are genuinely very concerned,’ he
added.”

Surely this is so much talk that already knows the answer; but is it politically correct to ask questions that one already knows the answers to? Apparently.

Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama is true to the Koran’s Allah. That should give the edge to Jews wondering where Obama is coming from when it comes to his do-nothing about Israel. It also should give American Jews a hunch as to why Obama is not doing more to prevent Islamic terrorists from blowing up portions of our country.

Why oh why do these queries about Obama’s beliefs continue to feed news reports?

And why oh why do American Jews still vote for Obama and his shadow government along with Dem comrades out to behead our nation?

“The Anti-Defamation League’s National Director Abraham Foxman gives President Barack Obama an ‘F’ – a failing ‘report card’ grade after his first year in office for his ‘accomplishments’ in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Surely. So does Fox News’ Shawn Hannity give Obama an F. Every thinking patriot should do the same though some of Hannity’s so-called intelligent panel members have even upped Obama to a C+ grade. Hannity responded frustratingly at such moments by assuring his viewers that he personally gave Obama an F across the board.

Obama does nothing practical for Israel because as a Muslim he is on the side of the Muslim despots out to do in Israel. Is not that obvious? What else would a devout Muslim do, especially when the head of the most powerful nation on Earth?

All the while Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas continues to applaud Obama’s do-nothing policy. Each day Obama does nothing to aid Israel, Abbas wins. And so it will continue throughout the Obama
dictatorship.

Read “ADL's Foxman Gives Obama 'F' Grade for Accomplishment” at http://newsmax.com/Headline/foxman-obama-middle-east/2010/02/07/id/349206

CHRIST TRUMPS OBAMA

2010-02-07T07:42:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“Now Christ is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come.” Ephesians 2:21

That is saying a lot.

Yet that is what the divine revelation states plainly. Taking that verse to today’s Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama, one must admit as a believer that Christ trumps Obama.

Obama got where he is due to hysteria. The mob gushed him into the White House. Now we all are paying the horrific price.

However, God loves America. God is watching over this Republic’s good.

The Republic’s founders called upon the Bible’s God and wrote about that God in their documents, no matter what God-haters try to brainwash otherwise.

Now believers are starting to witness the divine judgment coming upon Obama. Yes, Christ, the Almighty Ruler Over All, is putting His heel into Obama’s lies and deceit.

Have you ever witnessed the vengeance of God come upon your spiritual enemies?

I have. When proclaiming the gospel, the God-haters sat in the church pews for church buildings do have in them hypocrites and devil friends.

The more I preached holiness, for instance, the hotter under the collar the hypocrites got. They could not stand the proclamation of clear biblical truth. Consequently, their gossip increased, their madness broadened.

I the proclaimer was visible. Therefore, I was attacked to my face. My family was threatened. However, the One the devil friends were really after was the Invisible God. I knew that; so I committed the whole warfare to God.

I have lived to see that God execute His vengeance upon the gospel’s enemies—thereby my enemies—so that they are today undone.

Some were literally slain. They are dead. Their families have grieved. Their chairs are empty. The pews they sat in to make trouble don’t seat them any longer.

Others have come under such pain it is unbelievable. Over years I have sat in one community, praying and believing, to see around me the foes of Christ unraveled.

Now I look at Obama in the White House. He, an enemy to the Christian heritage of this country, has tried every trick of the evil trade to implode the Bible’s God, Scripture, Christian worship and public proclamation.

However, God loves America. And God in Christ is leveling the vengeance even as I type. That will continue.

Christians know that Christ is “far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come.” Therefore, it is only a matter of time for Christ to trump Obama and his ilk. Christian heritage America will survive and more.

Keep the faith, Christians. Thank God already for the power of His might.

Read CHRISTIAN: THINK THIS WAY at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/js012910.shtml

Read JESUS IS MY PRESIDENT at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/js012810.shtml

SARAH PALIN: ‘BI-PARTISANSHIP’ OUT

2010-02-07T05:34:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head when she told the Tea Party Nation Convention that this repeated mantra of ‘bi-partisanship’ needs to find exit. Quickly. Like right now.

When Congressmen continue to boast on their bi-partisanship, it reveals their lack of conviction. That’s the upshot of what Palin was declaring.

For an elected official to state sweet things to media by continually bragging on how nicely he reaches “across the aisle” makes bland a Congress.

Greta Van Susteren of Fox News gets to the same point. When interviewing John McCain, he kept sounding lovely by accenting his “bi-partisanship” in Congress.

She interrupted him abruptly to ask him why he said those sweet words about his opponents. And then she went on to refer to others who do the same. She did not let up on her criticism of limp verbiage.

She put it to McCain by saying that accenting how kindly Congressmen dialogue with one another gives the American public the idea that conviction has drained out. Of course, the present proof is that conviction has indeed drained out, except for liberals. They cling to insane conviction even when it beheads the nation.

Van Susteren said that conservative patriots want leaders who stand for something, not for officials who kiss up to one another with these pretty phrases.

Palin drummed the same. And the Convention responded loudly with cheers of assent.

From what Scott Brown has been telling about his senatorial style, it appears he is of the same conviction cloth. He’s not going to be cute with other Congressmen; instead, he’s going to stand up for what Brown believes and so go at it.

It’s time that this wishy-washy laudatory verbiage be cut out of Congressmen’s giving forth. It does not make points with the grassroots.

Let feathers fly. Let sparks flash. Let the moralist convictions light up the sky.

If not, we have a mush for a Congress. At present, that appears to be what we are paying for, keeping the mush limpid.

OBAMA: SHOW YOUR BIRTH PAPERS

2010-02-06T17:17:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Isn’t this what makes patriots distrust Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama all the more? In his address to the National Prayer Breakfast, he inserted this:

“’. . .surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith, or, for that matter, my citizenship.’”

Everyone should continue to press this man to the wall concerning his “faith” and his “citizenship.”

His faith is Muslim for he said “my Muslim faith” when interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. His Protestant papers are a mask for his commitment to the Koran’s Allah.

View “Barack Obama Slips Up - My Muslim Faith” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18VOGykrgHo

Another view “Obama: ‘My Muslim Faith’”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw

For more coverage, click here: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&ned=us&tab=nw&q=#hl=en&source=hp&q=my+muslim+gaith+george&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=173c88006b48283c

And for his citizenship, every thinking American not biased to Dems simply says to the President: Show us your birth certificate.

Anyone else who values his integrity would have shown his birth certificate long ago in order to settle that matter once and for all.

Yet to this day, that issue continues to remain unwrapped because Obama hides truth, even thinking that by mentioning it in his speech he will convince the public to accept his honesty. Not going to happen.

Those familiar with Islam know that Islamics are commissioned by their deity to lie. Lying is a virtue to Muslims. Therefore, we have a lying person in the Oval Office. He has been caught in so many lies that it is laborious to list them all.

And if making promises and then not keeping most of those promises can be regarded as lying, add that to his lying lifestyle and one has an arch-deceiver in the White House.

There simply has to come the moment when some American-loyal judge demands the obvious—Obama’s birth certificate. This waiting game is a travesty, a slap in the face to Liberty.

Grassroots Americans remaining true to the U. S. Constitution, their pledge of allegiance to the American flag, and working hard to keep our freedoms secure deserve a leader who is at least that much in line with the core of the nation.

However, we don’t.

All the more then that Obama’s faith and citizenship be questioned until this lying personage coughs up facts to the satisfaction of every honest American.

Read “Obama's prayer: ‘Don't question my citizenship’” at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124115

NAZNET HANS DEVENTER HOPES GOD TAKES ALL SOULS HEAVENWARD

2010-02-06T15:52:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet Site Coordinator Hans Deventer wobbles again.

The question is asked on NazNet as to who believes in universalism.

Read http://www.naznet.com/community/showthread.php/30581-Are-you-a-universalist-at-heart

Universalism believes that all souls go to heaven. God’s grace is universally applied, no soul excepted, hence the creation of the Unitarian-Universalist Society, headquartered in Boston.

“Universalism refers to the belief that all humans can be saved through Jesus Christ and eventually come to harmony in God's kingdom. A related doctrine, apokatastasis, is the belief that all mortal beings will be reconciled to God, including Satan and his fallen angels. In the 17th-century and 18th-century Europe and America, other Christian reformers came to believe in a universally loving God and felt that God would grant all human beings salvation. Read “Universalism” at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalism

The Bible over and over again states that there is an eternal hell and an eternal heaven. Those who follow Christ go to heaven. Those who do not, go to hell. This reveals divine mercy and justice in balance, just as the Bible teaches.

Can the Bible get clearer than that?

Obviously the Bible is offbeat for Deventer. Deventer does not regard the Bible as infallible. He holds that it has errors in it. Question to Deventer: Once you pull one error thread from the Bible, where do you stop? If you logically continue to your heart’s content, you will end up in the Unitarian-Universalist camp.

Deventer states in reply to this NazNet site question “Are you a universalist at heart?” the following limp response for a designated NazNet staff member.

“’I'm a Nazarene, I do not believe in universalism, but I hope God does.’”

Sappy.

That is typical unsteady Deventer and others on NazNet. Instead of forthrightly endorsing the Bible with Scriptural references, they wobble, they waffle. They must think that is cute. It is not cute. It is blasphemous to counter the Word of God with one’s willy-nilly statements.

Again, NazNet claims to be a “friend” of the evangelical, holiness Church of the Nazarene. No way does that church support universalism or wobbly sweet nothings as Deventer prints on the site.

NazNet cannot be trusted. It is not biblically solid.

Deventer also believes that unsaved souls are annihilated at death; they suffer no eternal hell.

NazNet is no friend of God, the Bible or the Church of the Nazarene.

Read NazNet Distorts at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

NAZNET LAUDS OLD HIPPIES’ RELIGION

2010-02-06T15:24:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank Jr.

NazNet’s Coordinators Scott Cundiff and Hans Deventer stand at the forefront of cheerleaders applauding the emerging church.

NazNet Founder Dave McClung obviously endorses the emerging church along with his staffers for he does not discount their enthusiasm.

One can count on NazNet to champion the bizarre and left of center while at the same time repeatedly stating it to be a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene. That denomination is having troubles enough regarding the emerging church without a site “friend” getting onboard this experimental charade hoodwinking congregations into believing the emerging church is solidly based on Scripture.

Regarding the emerging church, once you proclaim that there are no absolutes, you put yourself outside Christianity.

Christianity is constructed on the biblical absolutes or it's not Christianity.

There are all kinds of prostitutions of Christianity; but God knows Christianity when He sees it. And when He sees the real thing, it's based on His absolutes as set forth in divine revelation.

The Emerging Church basically is the throwback to hippies with religion tagging along somehow somewhere.

The Emerging Church won't say anything absolute about homosexuality or abortion. That means it's a cowardly conclave that wants more of self than God's truth.

God's truth is set forth in Scripture. Regarding homosexual practice, God abhors it. Regarding killing womb babies, God abhors it.

Therefore, when the Emerging Church plays chicken on such ethical concerns, it sides with the dark powers. God is light. The Emerging Church cohabitates with compromise and that lifts it outside the genuine company of believers.

The Emerging Church is a fad that will fade - and the quicker the better. It is a giggle kind of group that is self-centered in that whatever plays best for the constituents is what goes.

Christians are not on Earth to play best for self. Christians are here to live out the biblical ethic - period.

The Emerging Church boasts of its swing dance group, its happy hour, its hiking clubs and so on and so on. Whatever serves self's giddy get-up this Friday works for the Emerging Church.

That's a far cry from biblical commissions to live out holiness, go into all the world to make disciples of Christ, and be separate from worldliness unto God's impress.

The Emerging Church is touted among some today as The Latest in religious zeal, even at times including the term "evangelical" in its description.

All this is so much untruth in advertising.

This Emerging Church self-based flimflam will dissipate for it has no actual substance. Its little candle will light itself dry soon.

The world is crazy. Yes. And part of that nuthouse stuff is the Emerging Church.

With that, farewell to those who pride themselves on having discovered something new. It's nothing more than the old hippie bag with a religion of self-preoccupation.

NAZNET’S HANS DEVENTER: HELL DARK & LIGHT?

2010-02-05T05:21:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

NazNet Coordinator Hans Deventer poses his questions about an eternal hell.

One of the dilemmas he posits is that there cannot be an everlasting fire in total darkness called “hell” even though Jesus stated that.

Therefore, this reasoning helps Deventer conclude that when Jesus speaks of an eternal burning fire as well as entire darkness, He must have been uninformed.

That then edges Deventer closer to his doctrine of the annihilation of the unsaved rather than those souls spending forever in punishment.

In other words, Deventer knows more than Jesus. There is no other conclusion that a bystander can reach but that—Deventer knows what hell is and Jesus was mistaken. Consequently, eternal hell is not. Deventer says so.

Deventer is obviously ignorant of the fact that total darkness with intense heat already exists. It is the burnt out star known as the “black hole.”

Black holes in the universe are just those—entities in which there is no light at all and at the same time there is heat beyond description. In other words, black holes could very well stand for “hell.” At least, they supply the existence of Jesus’ definition.

Deventer needs to move over and let Jesus be God. When God speaks in the Bible, whether we understand what is there or not, does not discount what is there.

Deventer finds it difficult to reckon with his finite brain. He is mortal. He is not capable to think through eternal data to its nth degree. Therefore, Deventer needs to quit depositing doubt on NazNet and start upping his faith quotient in the infallible Word of God.

However, Deventer and fellow Coordinator Scott Cundiff do not hold to an infallible Scripture. They conclude that the Word of God has errors in it. That doubt factor is blatantly stated on NazNet. What then are posters to think when these two staffers question the Bible as the truth-full divine revelation?

In the meantime, NazNet Founder Dave McClung needs to request Deventer in particular to keep his anti-Bible doubts to himself rather than blather them all over a site that claims to be a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene.

Such cutting up Nazarene beliefs in the name of “friend” is not friendly at all. It is betrayal.

All of this has been pointed out to the Church of the Nazarene General Superintendents, but seemingly to no avail. Could it be because McClung has been “high up there” in various denominational positions over years and therefore has insulated himself against criticism?

I don’t know; but the heresies continue to stand on NazNet even though the Nazarene leaders have been requested to do something about them. Apparently the denomination can be sacrificed in other protect a fellow politician.

And so the dreadful beat goes on of NazNet threatening the Church of the Nazarene’s integrity. NazNet, in short, appears to be creating a “church” of its own while playing up to the Church of the Nazarene hierarchy, trying to appear companionable.

Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

NAZNET: ‘GAY-MUM’ CHAPLAIN BARBARA MOULTON RECANTS NOT

2010-02-03T09:59:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Chaplain Barbara Moulton, former staff member of NazNet, stated as a clergyperson she would not perform homosexual “marriages.”

However, she then stated she would not publicly say she disagreed with same-gender duo nuptials.

In other words, she would not use her chaplaincy to conduct weddings for two women or two men; however, she would not let the world know her position either.

Moulton was confronted with this inconsistency of refusing performing nuptials but not stating her biblical position “outside the closet.”

Read FORMER NAZNET CHAPLAIN BARBARA MOULTON STILL CLOSETS ‘GAY UNIONS’ at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/former-naznet-chaplain-barbara-moulton.html

With that confrontation, I was informed by NazNet Founder / Coordinator Dave McClung that Moulton was quite “pained” in having to be faced with her contradiction. I did not respond to McClung. Nevertheless, I did wonder how a Nazarene chaplain could be on staff for NazNet and yet hold to such a “gay-mum” stance.

Read NAZNET MODERATOR’S DAVE MCCLUNG IS LAX, INEPT, A TROUBLE-MAKER at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-moderators-dave-mcclung-is-lax.html

Since then, Moulton’s name is no longer on NazNet’s masthead though she frequently contributes to the sites’ discussions, usually on the liberal side of issues.

The Church of the Nazarene General Superintendents have been informed of this debacle, as well as informed of numerous heresies propagated by NazNet, seemingly with no significant results forthcoming.

Read NAZNET UNDERCUTS THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2009/11/naznet-undercuts-church-of-nazarene.html

It is often circulated that the General Superintendents
muffle their authority on a number of themes; consequently, I was not surprised that they had not made an imprint on NazNet for change.

Many wonder if the Church of the Nazarene is changing for the worst, moving from its original calling of proclaiming scriptural holiness worldwide. Now it has become bogged down in contentions of one sort or another.

Read CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE THREATENED BY HERETICAL NAZNET SITE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/church-of-nazarene-threatened-by.html

The Moulton situation is exemplary of how stogy the Nazarene Kansas City headquarters headship has hidden its head in the sand. All the while, the denomination founders.

Concerning Moulton, there have been those who hoped that she would put down her silence position to come out publicly on behalf of God’s Word. The Bible states without doubt that God abhors homosexual practice, let alone “marriages” of same-gender duos.

Nevertheless, Moulton does not recant regarding her “gay-mum” lock-in, at least not via NazNet. Therefore, her cowardice remains intact to confront her at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

ADDENDUM:

ANTI-HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE

Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."

Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."

Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .

"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .

"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."

I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."

THE GLOBE COMES TOGETHER

2010-02-03T05:16:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Since the nuclear age began, the globe has been threatened with extinction. Evil mortals have sought to wipe out our very existence.

However, this has not happened. Why? There is a reason why we have not disappeared.

It is not because of any civil defense systems or international protective shields. Mortals are not capable of securing the planet.

It is because God in Christ created this sphere. This Creator oversees the maintenance of our dwelling place. And it is He who will bring this globe into its final phase.

There is no other explanation that can be given, considering mortals’ intent on destroying whatever comes along. And considering the tendencies to error, there is no reason why something should not have gone awry in the nuclear systems to blow up the world.

Nevertheless, the Earth continues to spin upon its axis. Day follows night. Seasons follow one another. And our earthly housing remains intact.

Of course, the factual answer to all of this is from the Bible. The God in Christ who created this sphere informs the disciples of data related to this globe. The detail is in the Word of God.

Genesis sets forth information concerning the Earth’s start. Then throughout Scripture more detail is revealed, even that relating to the close of the sphere.

For instance, in Ephesians 1:10, the Bible states: “At the right time He will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth.”

Such a simple statement, yet how profound. And how comforting to the believers. Mortals cannot destroy what is under Christ’s care. Mortals must wait for Christ’s moment when He will bring under His power both the globe and atmosphere (heaven) surrounding it.

In the meantime, believers thank God in Christ for His authority. It is that surveillance that provides us with our earthly abode. And it is that power that will bring all things to an end.

FOOTNOTE:

CHRIST CREATED ALL THINGS

Psalm 24:1
Psalm 33:6,9
Proverbs 3:19
John 1:1-3,14
I Corinthians 8:6
Ephesians 1:10; 3:9
Colossians 1:16
Hebrews 1:1-2

CHRIST CONTAINS ALL THINGS

I Corinthians 8:6
“through whom we exist”
Colossians 1:15-17
“in Him all things hold together”

CHRIST CLIMAXES ALL THINGS

Ephesians 1:10
“will unite all things in Christ”
Philippians 3:21
“subdue all things unto himself”
Matthew 28:18-20
“all power is given unto Me”

HAWAII: CHRISTIANS NIXED ‘GAY UNION’

2010-02-02T10:09:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Christians got to work, including prayer, to defeat officialdom from blessing ‘same-sex unions’ as legal, per Baptist Press’ Michael Foust.

Believers banded together to network. They showed up before lawmakers to tell them not to legalize these unions.

They prayed in church, at home and in their individual devotions that God would bring biblical ethic victory to Hawaii. And it happened.

“Rick Lazor, pastor of OlaNui Church, a Southern Baptist congregation, told Baptist Press the outcome was pleasantly surprising.

“’We can come up with some good procedural reasons [for why it failed], but I don't have a doubt in my mind that it was prayer,’ Lazor told Baptist Press.

“‘We can't figure out how seven or eight representatives switched [in the last year], and some of these who became “no” votes or didn't want to vote were folks who were extremely passionate about passing it last year. It was pretty amazing.’”

God promised that the “effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avail much.” God inspired his Holy Word to guide us in intercession and to keep the hope alive when battling various social evils.

Christians around the world daily are more and more aware that the sphere is spiritual. We are not confined to a secular world. We are living in a sphere in which the forces of good battle against the bad. Therefore, believers must be on the front lines defending the Scriptures as divinely inspired. Consequently, they defend scriptural morality.

As an example of how not to do it, chaplain Barbara Moulton, former staff member of NazNet web site, stated that she would not testify publicly against same-sex “marriages.” Yet she claims to have been a writer for the pro-friendly Church of the Nazarene read.

NazNet is not officially linked to the holiness church; however, Dave McClung, founder, repeatedly states that his site is a “friend” to the denomination. This cannot be fact for the site espouses teachings that are heretical to the Church of the Nazarene, e.g., annihilation of the unsaved at death, an “intermediate state” following death, the teaching that the Bible cannot be trusted for it has errors in it, and the hope of universal salvation.

Read NazNet Distorts at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

For Ms. Mouton, as an example, to refuse to give witness to the biblical definition of marriage is appalling. Thank heaven the believers in Hawaii disagreed with her cowardice.

Read “Christian opposition (again) credited with defeat of Hawaii gay unions bill” at http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=32182

CATHOLICS SUPPLY FREE SYRINGES TO ADDICTS

2010-02-02T09:45:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The Catholics distributing free syringes to addicts say that it is the lesser of two evils. They state that it is also within their Christian ethic in helping the “poor and vulnerable.”

Others state that it gives the message that drug misuse is a viable option. Also, that the server-giver agencies will be more than pleased to assist those willing to stay addicted. It can in addition invite younger ones to get into the drug misuse, believing that if they cannot handle it, Catholics will be there to walk the mile.

Per RNS’ Daniel Burke, “Catholic Charities of Albany, N.Y., has launched a new program to provide free syringes to intravenous drug users, an unusual move for a church that preaches abstinence for overcoming drug addiction and stanching the spread of HIV/AIDS.

“After five years of studying the program, ‘Project Safe Point’ began in two urban locations on Monday (Feb. 1) in the Upstate New York diocese. The project will be funded by $170,000 in grants from New York State.

“Sister Maureen Joyce, CEO of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, said in a statement: ‘We view this new direction as an extension of our mission to serve the poor and vulnerable.’”

Question: Should state-funded grant money be used for this? Will it become a never-ending demand/supply? Has Catholic Charities worked its
way into the corner of no way out?

U.S. Bishops, in contradiction to this latest move, stated that sexual abstinence and “avoidance of intravenous drug abuse are the only morally correct and medically sure ways to prevent the spread of AIDS.” The Vatican confirmed this.

Bishops elaborated: “Although some argue that distribution of sterile needles should be promoted, we question this approach for both moral and practical reasons.”

Read “N.Y. Catholic Charities office to offer free needles to drug addicts” at http://www.religionnews.com/index.php?/rnstext/ny_catholic_agency_offers_needles_to_drug_addicts/

THERE IS NO PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE

2010-02-01T18:12:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Mark it down as biblical truth: There is no pre-tribulation rapture.

However, untold thousands believe in the "secret rapture of the church" prior to the tribulation period. This is because untold thousands don't want to have to think of suffering through a tribulation time frame. The late Corrie ten Boom called this pre-trib rapture teaching the "American doctrine." Go figure.

The belief in a secret rapture of believers before the tribulation is also because of a best-seller, "The Late, Great Planet Earth," by Hal Lindsey which was set loose in the l960s. It has been a paperback aggressively pushed by practically every evangelical / fundamentalist engine going.

Theologians, videos, films and preachers bolster up this myth with their earnest preachings and teachings.

Yet this is nothing but a myth, accented as much by certain theologically conservative Protestant segments similar unto the Roman Catholic underlining of the immaculate conception of Mary. Nevertheless, if there is no biblical support for such a Mariology teaching, it is bogus. Likewise, the pre-tribulation rapture teaching is bogus.

The pre-trib rapture concept was manufactured in the 1800s in an 18 year old Plymouth Brethren girl's dream, told to her Pastor, John Darby, and then relayed to C. I. Scofield who bought into the dream as revealed truth. Scofield placed this pre-tribulation rapture notion as a footnote in his popular Bible, hence the spread of the myth.

However, just the opposite is biblical truth. In Matthew 24:29-3l, for instance, the rapture ("gathering together") is placed in the same time frame as the open second coming of Jesus Christ. And all of this is "after the tribulation" (verse 29). That is it in a nutshell!

Yet pre-tribulation rapturists sidestep this clear passage for more oblique passages. The latter are twisted and turned in order to fit into the "American doctrine." Yet such twisting is not sound exegesis. And for biblically-riveted evangelicals and fundamentalists to commit this drastic error is bordering on the horrific.

All other passages in Scripture relating to the "gathering together unto Him" must refer back to the literal time line provided by Jesus in Matthew 24.

One must not use a symbolic passage in the Book of Revelation or any other symbolically-based section of the Bible by which to draw a pre-tribulation rapture doctrine.

Further, one must not take words of the apostle Paul so as to insert them opportunistically into a conjured pre-tribulation string of Scripture references. Yet this has been done ad infinitum.

Instead, Jesus' literalism of Matthew 24 must be used as the benchmark for all other "gathering together" themes of Scripture.

One starts with literalism and moves into symbolism when seeking to understand Scripture; it is not the other way around.

During the 1970s and 1980s there was much written and preached about a pre-tribulation rapture. This has wound down some in the last decade or so. Why?

Today, with the world situation being what it is, there is not that much risk-taking in preaching dogmatically the pre-tribulation rapture. Why?

Is it because there are many who are beginning to question its validity? Is it because the world state is so uncertain that to go out on a limb with a false hope may ricochet?

One wonders, with world events progressively becoming more and more anti-Christian, why the pre-tribulation rapture persons are not celebrating each dawn as the day when Jesus may return to earth.

Such is not the phenomenon on a large scale. Furthermore, it may be because the next generation has not bought into this notion.

In any case, it is a myth, a legend of conservative Protestantism's own conjuring and has no base in the Holy Scriptures.

Yet these very Protestants are the ones who ardently point out the myths of Catholicism while holding to some of their own myths. Both segments of Christendom need to do some serious housecleaning of manufactured legends in order to return to the simple Bible truths; otherwise, the church suffers from severe lack of knowledge.

What is so frightening about holding to a pre-tribulation rapture? It is more than mere academic quibbling. Holding to such a notion is drastically weakening the church worldwide.

The church should be preparing for spiritual battle against the most evil forces arrayed by hell.

Instead, the church is languishing with a false hope. This is all orchestrated by the demonic powers in order to eventuate in a limp army of believers. And to see that through in this age of laxity in religion does not take much on the part of the dark powers. In addition, the apostate segment of religion is doing its fair share of blackening truth.

Does it take much intelligence to realize that there are awesomely wretched days yet ahead for the righteous remnant?

Those who are not strong will drop--fall away, as biblically predicted. They will be too numerous to contemplate. But for those who are truly into carrying the daily cross there will be nothing able to thwart their zeal for Christ.

Already the remnant is being strengthened by the Spirit of light. He is gathering His own together in the power of the resurrection and the might of the revealed Word. Their numbers are few; but their ardor before the Father is lovingly honored.

Set your vision upon the difficulties yet to be. They are but the trials permitted by the coming Christ.

At the close of the tribulation period, then there will be the gathering together of the believers from the four corners of the earth. They will greet Jesus in the clouds as He descends through space, having left the right hand of the Father in heaven.

The gathering together ("rapture") and the second advent then will be realized as one and the same event occurring at the end of the tribulation time frame. Jesus' declaration in Matthew 24:29-3l states it clearly.

ADDENDUM:

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 (NKJV) For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 2:1 (NKJV) Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him. . .

Matthew 24:30-31 (NKJV) Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

2 Thessalonians 1:7-8 (NKJV) and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 14:2-3 (NKJV) In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.

Matthew 24:29-31 (NKJV) Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

CHRISTIAN VS. VOODOO IN HAITI

2010-02-01T13:04:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Christians are taking over. Voodoo priests feel left out.

So goes the bickering as people suffer and die. It is sad.

Christians are quick to respond when help is needed. It is because Christ told His own to love God with all they’ve got and their neighbors as themselves. Therefore, genuine Christians do just that.

Also, Christ taught the parable of the Good Samaritan. A man was on the road, attacked and left torn, then was serviced by a Samaritan walking the way.

That depiction has spun around the world for two thousand years. It has inspired countless believers to be Good Samaritans.

Christ Himself climbed upon the cross to permit nails pounded into His flesh, a sword spiked into His side and His body ripped from top to bottom. This was the sinless Sacrifice offered eternity’s justice in our stead.

The whole Christian gospel is sown up in golden threads of service. Consequently, when Haiti was rocked by quakes, Christians in particular responded in person and with money.

Now voodoo priests are up in arms about the contest. But they should realize that there is plenty of need to go around. Why do any persons have the strength or time to whine about others helping others?

If voodoo spokespersons want to spill goats’ blood and see drum their incantations, go to it. But don’t slam Christians who are working night and day to bring relief.

Actually, what these voodoo voices are displaying is their own misunderstanding of Christian truth. Further, they are too absorbed in their complaints to be out and doing.

Do not the voodoo leaders show their ineptness by such quarreling with Christians who don’t have the time to respond? Christians have been made fun of, derided, misinterpreted and put down for centuries. They are used to the opposition.

Consequently, with voodoo taunts rising to the skies, Christians keep on stepping in Christ’s footprints to relieve the desperate situation on the island.

Read “Haiti earthquake: voodoo high priest claims aid monopolised by Christians” at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7119572/Haiti-earthquake-voodoo-high-priest-claims-aid-monopolised-by-Christians.html

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE THREATENED BY HERETICAL NAZNET SITE

2010-02-01T08:36:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The Church of the Nazarene holiness heritage is threatened by heresies propagated by NazNet and obviously permitted by founder Dave McClung.

Check out NazNet: http://www.naznet.com/

Staffers offering their own versions of Christian truth include Hans Deventer, Scott Cundiff, and Dave McClung.

Chaplain Barbara Moulton, once on staff, has since bowed out after stating she would not perform marriage ceremonies for same-sex duos but also she would not take a public stand against such either. So goes her biblical testimony on behalf of one-man one-woman nuptials.

Heresies furthered by NazNet include Deventer believing that unsaved souls are annihilated at death. For him there is no everlasting punishment called “hell.”

Deventer also refers to an “intermediate state” for the soul after death. Where does the Bible teach that? It doesn’t. It is a Catholic / sometimes Anglican teaching but not found in Scripture. Nevertheless, Deventer goes on elaborating nonsense on behalf of an “intermediate state.”

Several staffers, including Deventer and Cundiff in particular, do not believe that the Bible is totally reliable as 100% divinely inspiration holy writ. In other words, the Bible has errors in it. Once we pick out one error, then when and where do we stop if we don’t accept the infallible Word of God?

Deventer states that he does not believe in universalism—that is, universal salvation in that all souls go to heaven—but wishes that God believed in universal salvation.

Now that is totally sap material and should never find a place on a website that repeatedly claims it is a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene.

Deventer is quite enthusiastic about infant baptism
so believes it should be accepted worldwide as a bottom line ritual. Though there is no reference in the Bible to infants being baptized, Deventer wishes that it was embraced globally by the Church of the Nazarene.

NazNet has an obvious bias for a “high church” Church of the Nazarene. Mimicking Catholicism / Anglicanism is a prime choice by staffers.

NazNet cheers on the emerging church with its flim-flam diluting of biblical preaching and teaching. NazNet thrills at the thought of an emerging church engulfing the Church of the Nazarene.

I have contacted NazNet staffers repeatedly as well as the General Superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene concerning these heretical intrusions. However, nothing basic has changed at NazNet.

And apparently the General Superintendents leadership is sadly limp at this point, that is, relating to NazNet’s destructive influence. If with NazNet, where else are Superintendents lax?

Why doesn’t the Church of the Nazarene use this religiously confused time to spell out more exactly the denomination’s historic biblical truths: salvation, sanctification, heaven, hell, biblical infallibility, grassroots evangelism and so forth?

Instead, NazNet delights in the heretically novel, playing up to young posters especially, trying to be on the theological edge and baiting doctrinally grounded biblical Nazarenes to beg off the site for fear of being ostracized by the heretically “elite.”

If this continues, the Church of the Nazarene will splinter further. It is fractured now; but the NazNet heresies’ push with Superintendents’ laxity will further the malaise.

While the world awaits a more specific explanation regarding the Nazarene’s historically prime call—preaching and teaching biblical holiness—the denomination crumbles due to lack of leadership and divisions increasing within its ranks.

Read NazNet Distorts at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/

BROWN FOR WOMEN’S ABORTION RIGHTS

2010-01-31T05:52:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

MA Republican Senator Scott Brown told media that he is not for feds funding abortions but believes in the woman’s right to choose one.

Brown says that more money should support reducing the number of abortions in America.

In other words, Brown straddles the fence.

Abortion is murder. To champion a woman’s right to kill in America is still supporting killing womb babies—whether that is funded by feds or that is the choice of a woman, her doctor and her family. For a politician to make that declaration is to state one reason at least why abortion can stay.

Those who have the conscience to give any allowance for slaying infant children in women’s bodies is not a conscience that lines up with the Christian ethic.

Yet Scott claims to be Protestant, his bio stating that he attends the evangelical, Calvinistic New England Chapel, a congregation of the Reformed Church.

It’s all too messy for those who cannot tolerate thinking that anyone would permit a wedge opening for doing away the unborn boy or girl in mother’s bodies.

Brown told media that he does not agree with Republicans who champion the overturn of Roe v Wade. He said that he is fiscally conservative but not so necessarily on social issues.

ADDENDUM:

THE BIBLE AND ABORTION

It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: "Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime."

There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.

But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person's body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body's life to continue.

The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.

“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).

"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).

"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).

"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).

In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).

"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).

Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:

"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."

All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:

"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).

Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):

"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).

Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.

Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."

If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.

John Adams said the following:

"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."

Andrew Jackson said the following:

"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."

Daniel Webster:

"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."

"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).

Read “Sen.-Elect Brown Says He Supports Abortion Rights” at http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/scott-Brown-Abortion-rights/2010/01/31/id/348502

ISRAELIS SQUEEZED BETWEEN TRUTH AND OBAMA

2010-01-30T11:29:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Grassroots Israelis true to their own heritage are angry with their politicians playing up to Barack Hussein Obama.

These Israeli leaders in recent days changed their rhetoric not to offend Muslims so as not to offend Muslim Obama. Now they are slowly changing their vernacular due to pressure from the citizenry.

Three cheers for the citizenry, many who say that it would be healthy for Jews to be loyal to Jews and forget the pro-Islam US Oval Office.

Does that sound reasonable? Does that sound patriotic in the Israeli definition? Seems so to me.

It’s similar to politically correct media in America bowing and scraping before the anointed one. FoxNews plays the truth track. Thank God there is someone out there who won’t bend for the opportunists flattening America and Israel.

Obama wants Israeli leadership to hand over to Muslims Judea and Samaria. Why? It’s all so crazy. The Israeli grassroots is barking at leadership to forget it and play smart.

Now Israeli governmental officials are saying the are going to try again to make sense with Palestinian Authority crooks and liars. That’s like patriots in America trying to make sense of the Obama corruption.

It won’t work in Israel. It won’t work in DC.

Actually, peace will only come to the Middle East when Christ returns. At the close of the Church Age, Christ will return as Lord of Lords and King of Kings—religious and political venues.

He will rule from Jerusalem after His two feet touch down on the Mount of Olives, splitting it in half to indicate His power come to Earth.

Ruling from the Holy City, the redeemed of all time will rule with him as “kings and priests,” to use New Testament terms. Such reign will last one thousand years—the millennium.

Until Christ returns, the Middle East will always be unsettled, humans trying to bring peace in their own fractured selves. The Holy One has the means by which to usher in the age of peace, and He alone.

Israel in particular is very significant to the God of the Bible. He placed the father of the faithful, Abraham, there to establish a base from which holiness could flow throughout the then-known world.

Though Abraham’s descendants disobeyed God more than followed His projections, God has remained fond of the Holy Land. That strip of land is only the size of New Jersey; yet it is in keeping with God to have a high regard for the small. Throughout Scripture, God has bestowed honor upon the little and insignificant.

Israel is the navel of the planet. The globe spins upon its happenings. Therefore, the interplay going on today regarding Israel and the PA plus Obama’s nasty input is simply another chapter preceding the coming of the Christ.

Read “Christ is the Answer to Middle East Peace” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/Christ_is_the_Answer_to_Middle_East_Peace12886.shtml

NEXT MUSLIM ATTACK WILL SWING OBAMA INTO REALITY, MAYBE

2010-01-30T10:55:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“President Obama recently used the phrase that 'we are at war' with terrorists. But unfortunately his rhetoric does not match the actions of his administration,” Maine Sen. Susan Collins said.

Bill O’Reilly said practically the same on his O’Reilly Factor recently.

But O’Reilly added that the next Muslim attack on America will put Obama in the doghouse. I believe that to be true; however, he may adapt even to a doghouse for he is quite adept at swinging and swaying according to his opportunism.

Obama does not watch out for the United States as he should be because, of course, he is “one of them.” A Muslim looks out for Muslims, especially those tearing America apart. Obama, a Marxist Muslim with “Christian” mask, works night and day to see through his Islamic agenda. Thus far, for one year, he is on schedule.

Mob hysteria put him where he is. Now patriots are stuck with the Chief Enemy. The Chief Enemy’s actions speak louder than any speech he reads from the teleprompter.

By now the list of Obama’s shields protecting Muslim terrorists is so long it runs off the paper. So no use reading through that litany one more time. Too wearying.

Nevertheless, with that, Collins speaks fact. Congresspersons into brain cells working healthily should repeat the same.

Now what to do with a Muslim in the White House who parrots patriotism while plotting our demise?

View "My Muslim Faith" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw

NAZNET UNIVERSALIST HANS DEVENTER WOBBLY

2010-01-29T10:20:00.000-08:00

OBAMA CONTINUES ‘CHRISTIAN’ MASK

2010-01-29T09:39:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Yawn.

Barack Hussein Obama and family have yet to find a church to attend regularly.

They left the Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, when its cultic rants delivered by Jeremiah Wright were exposed.

However, since moving to Washington, Obama has steered clear of Sunday worship in a city sanctuary. However, he tells media that he is practicing his Christian faith, regardless.

His “testimony” is backed up by liberal churchmen such as Jim Wallis. They endorse Obama’s Christian commitment.

Obama also says that he prays every night. He reads a devotional every morning. He counsels with church leaders—theological liberals—from time to time.

All this continues that Christian mask to cover up his Islamic loyalties.

The Bible says that by our fruits we are known.

Jesus would never support same-sex
“marriages.” Jesus would never endorse killing womb babies. Jesus would never give atheism the same level of importance as Christianity and other religions.

Jesus would not aggressively work to wipe out biblical broadcasting and telecasting in America. Jesus would not side with anti-Christian voices replete throughout the country. Jesus would not encourage unbelievers to up America’s Christian-heritage erase.

Yet Obama claims to be a “Christian” which means that he would follow the precepts of Jesus. However, he does everything but that.

Further, knowledgeable citizens know the long list of pro-Muslim policies and obvious gestures Obama has extended to Muslims worldwide, particularly in America.

In a TV interview, Obama confessed his “Muslim faith.”

View "My Muslim Faith" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw

CHRISTIAN: THINK THIS WAY

2010-01-29T09:07:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits at God’s right hand in the place of honor and power.” (Colossians 3:1)

Christians must remind themselves over and over where the real planetary power is. It is not in the Oval Office, North Korea or Iran. It is in heaven.

It flows from the throne.

Christians have at their disposal the mighty Christ. . .”in the place of honor and power.”

When Christians get their heads into the secular newscasts, they tend to forget that all this is temporary. Further, it can be toppled in seconds.

That which is permanent and powerfully at work on the deepest levels is the heavenly dynamic overseeing all global happenings.

“Let heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth. For you died when Christ died, and our real life is hidden with Christ in God.”

Paul continues to remind all generations throughout the church age that we must start with heaven before we can understand earth. We must begin with God before we can take in the human community.

At the moment, Muslim Barack Hussein Obama claims the power. His shadow government and the Dem Congress do the same. Even in these confusing days, they continue the mantra: We are the power. We are the power. We are the power.

That threatens every patriotic citizen except Christians. They know that Obama is not the all in all. His Islamic clique is not controlling America’s destiny.

The Christian-heritage America is watched over by God who blesses the intercessions of biblical believers. God is start and finish of everything that exists, including this nation’s welfare.

Therefore, when Christians dialogue with one another about current events, they should point constantly to the Word of God. It is there that we need to begin our discussions and end our discussions.

“When Christ, who is your real life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.”

Read JESUS IS MY PRESIDENT at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/js012810.shtml

SCOTT BROWN: NO DC REP HELP

2010-01-29T08:43:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Newly elected Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts told DC Republicans that he is going to stick to his own definition of who he is.

He is “Scott Brown Republican.” He is who he knows himself to be without having to mimic someone else or read up on what it means to be a Republican.

In responding to the queries, he simply stated that in running his campaign he did it with a few loyal friends. He did not get booster support from Washington Republicans.

So when Brown goes to DC, he warned media that he will dialogue with everyone—Dems as well as Reps. In other words, he’s his own person.

DC Reps left him to his own ingenuity to dump Dem Martha Coakley. Brown worked through it all with his own state connections—friends, real friends.

He made it to a win in the Kennedy-held state.

I like this about Brown. He is a unique, intelligent, committed patriot. What more do we need?

Read “In Praise of Scott Brown” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/In_Praise_of_Scott_Brown12966.shtml

JESUS IS MY PRESIDENT

2010-01-28T10:01:00.001-08:00

J Grant Swank Jr.

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

". . .and the government shall be upon his shoulders. . ."

Right now, the coming King of Kings is my President. The coming Lord of Lords is my President.

The man sitting in the White House is a Marxist Muslim. He thereby is not my President.

What better way to destroy America than a Muslim sitting in the Oval Office putting forth the immoral platforms, the latter especially including his pro-abortion and pro-homosexual stance?

This man is anti-Israel. He is pro-Iran. The newsfeeds provide us the alarming detail on both these issues.

This man is a socialist. He is out to destroy the middle class with taxes maximum when having told his campaign hysteriacs that he was not going to raise taxes.

Remember that Muslims can lie. Lying is a virtue according to Allah in order to see through Islam World Rule.

Barack Hussein Obama lies in order to establish the ruination of this Republic. Muslims need not overthrow America with overt terrorism. The overthrow is being seen through daily from the Oval Office.

Therefore, Jesus in my President. The Word of God declares that Jesus, returning from the dead to defy death and the grave, is the Ruler Maximum.

The Word continually states that God has the last sentence in every nation's existence. God sees all. God judges all. God places the last period in every nation's existence. God's final declaration is the judgment of commendation or the judgment of condemnation.

Therefore, I claim this God as my President. He is the God who was incarnate in Jesus.

On April 18, 1775, a British soldier ordered John Hancock and others to "disperse in the name of George the Sovereign King of England."

John Adams responded to him: "We recognize no sovereign but God, and no king but Jesus!"

". . .no king but Jesus!"

These are the convicting words of one of our founding fathers.

Those founding fathers' and mothers' prayers on behalf of the Republic are still resounding powerfully before the eternal throne of God. Those intercessions were not for naught. They are mighty to this day.

Therefore, I join those intercessions in this time of crisis. Millions of other Christians are doing the same. This righteous remnant belongs to God, is honored by God and will be empowered by this God.

When Washington took the oath of office on April 30, 1789, he asked that the Bible be opened to Deuteronomy 28.

Washington stated "So help me God" and then bent forward to kiss the Word before him.

He then delivered America's first inaugural address, noting America's indebtedness to the God of the Bible.

He stated: "No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.

"Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency."

Compare that unapologetic faith of our first President with the Marxist Muslim in the Oval Office.

That is why my President is Jesus, not the mere mortal who claims power from Pennsylvania Avenue. That
mere mortal will answer to the God of eternity for seeking to destroy our Christian heritage as a country.

He will learn that God in Jesus is more powerful than his devilish schemes.

Read: http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com

OBAMA LIES: ‘TO DO OUR WORK OPENLY’

2010-01-27T19:19:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

How can one believe Barack Hussein Obama on anything when he plants in the middle of his State of the Union speech these words: “. . .to do our work openly.”

Obama has been the most secretive President. Whatever he has done of significance to his hubris and opportunism has been sneaked behind closed doors. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have stood right alongside him in his cut and paste, slice and dice.

The knowing public catalogues the details. What frustrates that public most is when Obama mounts the SOTU pulpit to whitewash his destructive plots.

He surrounds himself with a non-vetted socialist shadow government. His czars report to him and him alone.

He claims bipartisan cooperation while he and Dems have shut out Republicans in the overbearing Dem arrogance of power.

Despot Obama will continue his modus operandi on his same dictatorial track. His speech sounded sweet on education this and that for the earnest youth anxious for college and university. So he pockets their ballots.

He speaks in illustrative glow of this family or that mother who writes him about her struggles. That pockets those ballots.

He speaks as one crippled by the Bush past. That pockets the Bush-haters’ ballots.

With that, only fools—of which there are millions—will buy into his patriotic vernacular as he attempts to sound like a flag-waving patriot. He’s not. He’s a secretive betrayer with a cadre of liars and crooks to right and left. That will continue.

“Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” Jesus gave that counsel to His own. Those believers must maintain that vigilance when dealing with a Marxist Muslim President ever committed to imploding our democracy.

A one-night speech does not erase his first year of destructive undercutting. There is too much evidence in the fact file to support that, no matter his down home phrasing in his SOTU charade.

OBAMA, KEEP IN MIND THAT CHRIST RULES EVERY RULER

2010-01-27T16:36:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“Christ is the Lord over every ruler and authority in the universe.” Colossians 2:10

That’s either true or false.

Nonbelievers scoff. Believers hold to that with their very souls.

What does that verse mean? It means that Obama has not the final say regarding America. Christ does.

Hitler answered to Christ. So did Stalin. So will every present and future ruler just as every past authority.

That gives hope to the Christ follower for no matter how dreadful the present moment may be—as it was when Hitler gassed Jews and Gentiles, for instance—mortals will perish, going to their eternal destinies.

Likewise, those dealing such atrocities will stand before Judge Christ. They will consign their souls to heaven or hell. Christ plays the part as secretary in that scenario. He of course is Judge; however, by His own plan of eternal legal procedures, He in effect hands the gavel to the free will mortal.

Christ as Alpha and Omega has the first and last of everything existing in this spiritually sick sphere. That includes every ruler and authority, per Colossians.

American Christians, hold fast to your biblical faith. Keep it close to head and heart. Read God’s Word thoroughly and often. Keep the promises close to your every moment and live in the power of the God who cannot lie.

Your Christ “is the Lord over every ruler and authority in the universe.” So be it.

Read “Jesus is My President” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/Jesus_is_My_President12265.shtml

HOW CULTIST OBAMA THINKS

2010-01-27T11:52:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Chris Wallace related to Fox News that Barack Hussein Obama appeared especially poised and optimistic at the White House luncheon for a dozen or so newscasters. This was the day of the State of the Union speech.

Fox several times pressed Wallace on Obama’s demeanor. Wallace’s response was always the same. Obama was not confused, angered or depressed. Instead, he was upbeat and anxious to present the address.

With that, I thought: Now that is the way a cultist thinks and acts—confident, unmoved by facts, and ready to charge ahead.

Wallace said that he expects no apology or anything like unto that from Obama. Obama will not recant or restart anything. Obama believes he is thoroughly in the know and totally on course. Most of America disagrees; however, that does not influence Obama.

Though Obama claims to be Protestant, he has himself stated his “Muslim faith.”

By now knowledgeable citizens around the world realize that a Muslim, not a Protestant, sits in the Oval Office. His United Church of Christ membership is a mask.

Obama and family have been Muslim minded at least throughout their twenty years under Muslim-aligned Jeremiah Wright’s brainwashing cult factory called a “church.”

Obama was a Muslim brother to Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, particularly when they planned the Muslim Million Man March on Washington DC in 1995.

Prior to attending the rant and rave at Wright’s conclave, Obama had so many Muslim influences molding his personality that it is not at all surprising that he is a devotee of Islam.

Islam is not a religion among world religions. It has nothing like it on the planet. It is a killing cult with a bloody ‘holy writ’ for its scriptures. Its deity is a slaughtering Allah. And its zealous members are out to establish Islam World Rule. That bottom line equals only Muslims alive on this globe.

To deny that is to deny reality. To whitewash that is to give the enemy front row seats in ridding the Earth of infidels.

Now that Obama is committed to a killing cult, one can realize all the more how he is elated over whatever he does. Cult members work that way. They have come upon their definition of truth. It is locked in their head and heart. Nothing then can persuade them to take a U-turn on their ideology.

Conservative newscasters know all this but they won’t say “Muslim” or “Islamic” relating to Obama. However, they will speak of him as an “ideologue.” That is code language for
“Muslim” and “Islamic.” So they get the truth message. However, in their own political correctness they cannot say the “M” or “I” words.

Nevertheless, for the rest of us into reality, we need to understand the make-up of the cultic mind. It is in cement. It is energetic and surrendered to the power of the cult.

Take any cult you have read about or experienced in any way and you will endorse that statement.

Therefore, that is who we have in the White House—a cultic member living out the cultic mindset. No wonder Obama is enthusiastic about a SOTU speech that runs directly counter to the non-cultic American mind.

Click: Oops! Barack Obama says 'my Muslim faith' in interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos at [url=http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1150540,CST-NWS-faith08.article]http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1150540,CST-NWS-faith08.article[/url]

SCOTT BROWN’S FRANKLIN MASS CHURCH

2010-01-26T13:54:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The Scott Brown family attends worship at the New England Chapel, 40 Kenwood Circle, Franklin, MA. Chris Mitchell is the Senior Pastor, a graduate of the evangelically renowned Gordon-Conwell Seminary, where Billy Graham once chaired the board.

The local congregation is a part of the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

This is what that congregation’s members believe per their website at http://app.razorplanet.com/acct/41591-7315/tmpl/index.php?nid=62094&s=hm&preview=true :

We believe that Scripture is the ultimate guide and authority for our faith and life. All of our values and ministries are guided by the Bible.

We believe that prayer is the best way to express our love and gratitude to God as well as our dependence on Him as our Heavenly Father. Our ministries are discovered, developed, and empowered through prayer.

Jesus said that the two greatest commandments were to love God and to love people wholeheartedly. Rather than pretending we have it all together, we strive to live out our love for God and each other honestly, with authenticity.

God's Great Commission to His church is to bless the world by bringing Jesus to people, no matter where they are on their spiritual journeys. All of our ministries are guided by this purpose.

People cannot embrace something they do not understand. Our ministries aim to communicate God's love and truth in clear, practical, and creative ways that speak to us in meaningful and understandable ways.

Everyone needs to care and be cared for in order to grow in the love of Christ. Through intentional friendships and small groups, we seek to build relationships of love, honesty, and unconditional support.

Everyone plays an equally important part in the community, and each person is shaped to play a role on the team. We provide support and guidance in discovering and developing the gifts of each person.

The church’s website relates the congregation’s journey:

“About 10 years ago, a core group of people set out to have a different kind of church for people in today’s culture, showing God’s love in ways they could relate to. The group met in homes, then in Franklin school auditoriums, and in 2001 finally moved to 40 Kenwood Circle, our first permanent home. Since that time, we’ve more than doubled in size and just keep growing.

“NEC is a place to feel accepted, even if you have questions and doubts. It is a place to meet people without hidden agendas. It is a place where the music and the messages speak to your real life. It is a place to belong, share, and serve the community. It is a place to find God in your own time, at your own pace—all without pressure and judgment, but with hope and patience.”

Scott Brown, one many refer to as a “Bible Christian,” reaches out to those of other denominational communities, including Roman Catholic. Read about it here: http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3432

For information concerning his local church, phone 508.541.9078.

SCOTT BROWN DEFEATS OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT

2010-01-26T11:53:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

U. S. Senator Scott Brown would defeat Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama in a presidential bid.

Already, the charismatic, intelligent, handsome Massachusetts Tuesday miracle has moved to the front.

Mr. Forty-first has got the attention of knowledgeable citizens. Appearing on Jay Leno Show Thursday night will no doubt continue the pace.

Read SCOTT BROWN ON JAY LENO at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3432

“The poll asked likely voters: ‘If the election for president of the United States were held today and the only candidates were Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Scott Brown, for whom would you vote?’

“Based on the 4,163 responses, Obama leads Brown by 46.5 percent to 44.6 percent. That amounts to a statistical tie because the Zogby survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.5 percent” per Newsmax.

When it comes to ticking off his conservative positions, Brown can do it in a flash—and impressively substantively.

When it comes to convictions that line up with middle class moralists, he appears to be one of them. One question involves pro-lifers. He, living in liberal environs, has not got on-board.

Nevertheless, conservatives endorsed Brown against Martha Coakley for she fell off the left margin.

Can Brown move into pro-life venue once he gets out of Massachusetts’ liberalism? Maybe.

Brown voted for the Massachusetts Marriage Amendment in 2007.

Brown is a survivalist. When a child, his parents divorced. He was reared by various relatives. His life was not all that stable, opening various situations for “getting into trouble.”

But then he was a survivalist and ended up with a law degree, commendable status among fellow politicians, and now Massachusetts Republican Senator.

Barack Hussein Obama was swooned into the White House by mob hysteriacs who had no idea that he was a Marxist Muslim. He lied. He said he was for America, was a Protestant. Both lies.

Now the world knows fact. Obama is the chief enemy to the Republic. He has lost his charm, even with many initial enthusiasts.

In other words, leaving the detail to you informed citizens, Obama’s house is crumbling after only one year. Many of his own house dwellers are scared because the master of the manor has not managed well at all.

The vacuum. Who then will come to the fore to fill in the void?

Perhaps Scott Brown.

It could be that Republicans have found their charismatic, intelligent, handsome leader. He’s fresh. He’s fun. He’s committed. He’s proven himself a winner. American voters--young and old--like that.

Remember Obama’s “I won”?

It just might be that that echo will come from Scott Brown in America’s future.

Read “Newsmax/Zogby Poll: Scott Brown Could Defeat Obama in Presidential Race” at http://newsmax.com/Headline/brown-obama-poll-president/2010/01/26/id/348031

OBAMA’S ‘STATE’ = AMERICA ALREADY LAUGHING, AND CRYING

2010-01-26T10:34:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“President Obama, after spending hundreds of billions his first year, now is seeking a partial three-year federal spending freeze that would reduce budgets by less than 1 percent.

“The drop-in-the-bucket nature of the president's proposal was underscored Tuesday by a Congressional Budget Office estimate projecting the 2010 federal deficit to hit $1.35 trillion -- Obama's spending freeze would be expected to save up to $15 billion the first year.”

U. S. Chief Enemy Barack Hussein Obama still does not get it. America is not made up of mannequins. We are mortals with brains and free will. We think. We vote. And we elect Scott Brown over Martha Coakley.

Yet Obama lives in his dictatorial cocoon with his puppet shadow government bowing and scraping. With this, Obama scans across the nation to see like puppets heralded by Oprah bowing and scraping as they did on his inauguration day.

But reality is that America is already, prior to hearing his State of the Union Speech, laughing so loudly citizens have spun onto their living room floors. Yet at the same time, sincere individuals are crying out to God to deliver us from this despot.

Laughing and crying.

In response to media data regarding Obama’s money freeze, read this: “’Given Washington Democrats' unprecedented spending binge, this is like announcing you're going on a diet after winning a pie-eating contest,’ said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner.”

Read “Obama Seeks Partial Three-Year Spending Freeze” at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/25/obama-seek-freeze-budget/

SCOTT BROWN ON JAY LENO

2010-01-26T09:30:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

It’s Thursday night that US Senator Scott Brown appears on NBC’s soon-to-be-zipped Jay Leno Show.

Good. The charismatic, intelligent, handsome new Republican find then will be shown throughout the world via follow-up You-Tube showings.

Republicans salivated for a commendable leader who counts. Brown, Mr. Forty-first, could be it.

Among his magnetic qualities is his charm. What makes Brown charm significantly different from the Obama fraud is that Brown is genuine.

When I lived in Walpole, MA, I had surgery at a nearby hospital. In the same room was a monk who worked on a contemplative silence convent farm in Wrentham. We—I a Protestant and he obviously a Catholic—enjoyed a most friendly rapport.

From that meeting, my wife and I visited the farm—Cistercian Catholic nuns’ Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, Wrentham. We met some of the nuns in their bread lazy-Susan store.

We rang the bell. We then heard a nun’s voice asking what we would like to purchase. We told her what breads. The lazy-Susan apparatus spun around where we placed the cash and then with another turn received the bread. The Abbey accents its nun-made candies; however, bread is also available.

Now years have passed and we have moved to another state. Yet the Abbey and Wrentham hold a special place in our hearts.

Today I read that Scott Brown befriended the nuns when they were in a tight financial squeeze. As a Protestant, Brown raised funds for the nuns. In return, they vowed to pray for Brown three times each day.

Read “Scott Brown, a Protestant, Holds Special Relationship With Local Cistercian Nuns” at http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/01/scott-brown-a-protestant-holds-special-relationship-with-local-cistercian-nuns/

“It has turned into a beautiful friendship,” said Sister Katie McNamara, the monastery’s nurse.

“When you have nuns praying for you three times a day and you’re not Catholic, anything that anybody can do or say about me, it’s Teflon,” Brown said. “It bounces right off.”

I believe that when Brown takes America from coast to coast, that sincere charm plus intelligence will grab hold for the rescue of our Republic.

Read SCOTT BROWN = PRESIDENT? at http://grantswank.blogtownhall.com/2010/01/23/scott_brown_=_president.thtml

TRUST A LYING PRES’ STATE OF THE UNION?

2010-01-26T07:15:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Can honest people ever trust an addictive lying President, particularly with a State of the Union U-turn address?

No.

Barack Hussein Obama is given to lying as a bottom line to his creed. It is part of his spiritual commitment as a Muslim. The Koran’s Allah informs devotees that lying is a virtue when it furthers Islam.

Obama has been a most devout Muslim while masking as a Protestant. That in itself is his religious affiliation lie.

Honest news reports have listed ad infinitum Obama’s lies, starting with his birth certificate whereabouts. Informed citizens can enumerate the long list themselves.

Obama has surrounded himself with a lying shadow government replete with czars. The whole White House is given to lying by keeping in step with the ‘anointed one.’

Therefore, who is gullible enough to believe Obama’s promises set forth in his State of the Union address? It cannot be done. His personality is wedded to lying. His speech writers are given to lying.

When listening to his SOTU speech, honest citizens will be side-listening. To the lie side they will hear what Obama is stating. To the honest side they will hear what their truthful heads are saying he’s saying.

Any honest listener will not absorb Obama’s sentences as believable for nothing he has stated since inauguration day has been believable.

We have been conned for a year-plus. Why should we be stupid enough to conclude that we are not going to be conned for three more years?

Further, Christians are taught in the Bible to pray for the gift of discernment. Therefore, when biblical believers listen to Obama, they will be praying to the Holy Spirit for discernment.

The gift of discernment is provided Christians for them to decipher between truth and fraud. This gift yields a leading of the Holy Spirit regarding any life situation—verbal and non-verbal. The Holy Spirit, in other words, puts up
the truth mirror to reveal to the Christian what is genuine and what is fake.

Consequently, when Christians hear the SOTU speech, they will constantly be beseeching the Holy Spirit’s interpretation. If those believers are honest disciples, they will receive the Holy Spirit’s message alongside Muslim Obama’s lies.

Wednesday evening’s address should prove quite revealing as a liar steps to the podium to con America one more time.

Moreover, it will be one thing to hear him say whatever he has to say and another thing to watch him in the months ahead as he slices through his promises, cancels out his positions, and proceeds with his dictatorial policies to behead the nation.

SCOTT BROWN FOR MARRIAGE AMENDMENT

2010-01-25T06:37:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

It was mistakenly reported by some newsfeeds that Scott Brown voted against the Massachusetts Marriage Amendment. Fact: he voted for the Massachusetts Marriage Amendment in 2007.

Per Baptist Press’ Michael Foust: “Brown opposes ‘gay marriage’ and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and supports the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

"’Scott Brown not only voted against our community, but he did so unequivocally, proudly and loudly,’ Arline Isaacson, chairwoman of the Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, told Keen News Service. ‘Brown voted at least 20 times against marriage equality, over and over again.’

Brian Brown, the executive director of the National Organization for Marriage, saw it much differently, calling the election ‘a victory for marriage.’

"’The support of the people of Massachusetts for traditional marriage was clearly a factor in this election as marriage supporters turned out to elect Scott Brown to the United States Senate,’ Brian Brown said in a statement.”

When it comes to Brown and pro-life issues, Brown is not fully pro-life but he does support pro-lifers regarding endorsing parental notification laws, opposing partial-birth abortion, opposing tax moneys paying for abortions. and opposing the so-called Freedom of Choice Act.

Read “Brown win a setback for gay activists, liberal causes” at http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=32084

CHRIS MATTHEWS LOSES OBAMA LEG TINGLE

2010-01-24T12:54:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” was so adoring of Barack Hussein Obama that he exclaimed that when Obama talked, Matthews felt a “thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.”

Imagine that. “. . .a thrill going up my leg. . .”

That anatomical surprise swooned Matthews during Obama’s presidential campaign.

The tingle thrill has disappeared since the Massachusetts Tuesday miracle putting Mr. Forty-first Scott Brown in the US Senate.

Once it dawned on Matthews that Brown headed toward DC, Matthews exploded to archliberal Rachel Maddow. He let loose on Tuesday evening when the Brown victory was sealed.

Per Newsmax here is Matthews uncovered publicly: “I look at the numbers and I’m worried.

“I’m worried about this government committing itself to so many entitlement programs and committing itself to such a level of taxation that supports those entitlement programs . . .

“The debt is too big. The government’s taking on too many responsibilities . . .

“We’re a dissatisfied people. We are easily drawn to a candidate who promises deliverance. Two years ago, we voted for deliverance with Barack Obama. We will vote for deliverance again in two years if we’re not happy.”

Then comes the leg thing. Let’s sound track back when Obama was thirsting for the White House. Matthews said then: "I have to tell you, you know, it's part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama's speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."

But times change, don’t they, Chris?

Chris adds his name to the disenchanted liberals. Some are still quagmired in the Dem dictatorship due to hubris entrenched. However, some are beginning to see the light.

Best wishes, Chris. Maybe there is hope for your recovery since Tuesday’s blustering confession.

AMERICA, TOO: CHRIST HOLDS IT TOGETHER

2010-01-24T06:01:00.000-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

The world should have blown up by now. Why are we still here?

America is under attack again. Our democracy is in danger. Why does the Republic still exist?

The answer is in Christ. Christ created the planet. Christ contains the planet. Christ will climax the planet.

Throughout the universe, this Earth is Christ’s particular property. He is ultimately in charge, though it is spiritually damaged due to The Fall.

Colossians 1:17: “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” (NIV)

Therefore, praise and prayer given Christ is paramount in the Christian’s life. Praise the One who has our planet in the palm of His hands. Pray to that One for guidance and peace.

Scripture, time and again, teaches that deity is very much aware of the political leaders of this world. He allows them free will as mortals; however, even when the damaged sphere yields atrocities, He has the final surveillance.

With America, His oversight is special in that this nation was founded on the Bible as God’s Word. Believing settlers breathed out their faith in the biblical deity. This is the only country with that unique start.

God has watched over this nation with a special concern since that beginning. He continues that concern to this day, especially since a Marxist Muslim sits in the Oval Office.

A Koran abiding Allah-worshiping disciple has got into the White House—with a wife of like commitment. He is surrounded in his shadow government with these anti-American slugs.

All the more, with the battle waged being between Christ and Satan, Christ oversees the protection of America.

Obviously the conflict is fierce. Day by day, it is played out in the newscasts, there presented in a secular context. However, biblical students know that the whole scene is spiritual.

What then is the poise of the Christian in this present war? It is peace through praise and prayer to Christ who “holds all things together.”

We wait. We wait upon Christ’s next move. We wait in strong faith.

ADDENDUM:

CHRIST CREATED ALL THINGS

Psalm 24:1
Psalm 33:6,9
Proverbs 3:19
John 1:1-3,14
I Corinthians 8:6
Ephesians 1:10; 3:9
Colossians 1:16
Hebrews 1:1-2

CHRIST CONTAINS ALL THINGS

I Corinthians 8:6
“through whom we exist”
Colossians 1:15-17
“in Him all things hold together”

CHRIST CLIMAXES ALL THINGS

Ephesians 1:10
“will unite all things in Christ”
Philippians 3:21
“subdue all things unto himself”
Matthew 28:18-20
“all power is given unto Me”

SCOTT BROWN = PRESIDENT?

2010-01-23T19:22:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Republicans have been searching for a charismatic, intelligent, attractive personage as leader.

Where has she been?

Some say it is Sarah Palin. And it could very well be. She is charismatic, intelligent, and attractive. She is moving across the scene with calculated speed—Fox News Correspondent, for instance.

Palin certainly has been vetted, more than many others seeking one position or another.

However, there now is on the scene Scott Brown. He too is charismatic, intelligent and handsome. His Massachusetts Tuesday win has catapulted him to daily headlines status, surely celebrity billing in many ways.

When it comes to ticking off his conservative positions, he can do it in a flash—and impressively substantively.

When it comes to convictions that line up with middle class moralists, he appears to be one of them. One question involves pro-lifers. He, living in liberal environs, has not got on-board.

Nevertheless, conservatives endorsed Brown against Martha Coakley for she fell off the left margin.

Can Brown move into pro-life venue once he gets out of Massachusetts’ liberalism? Maybe.

Brown voted for the Massachusetts Marriage Amendment in 2007.

Brown is a survivalist. When a child, his parents divorced. He was reared by various relatives. His life was not all that stable, opening various situations for “getting into trouble.”

But then he was a survivalist and ended up with a law degree, commendable status among fellow politicians, and now Massachusetts Republican Senator.

Barack Hussein Obama was swooned into the White House by mob hysteriacs who had no idea that he was a Marxist Muslim. He lied. He said he was for America, was a Protestant. Both lies.

Now the world knows fact. Obama is the chief enemy to the Republic. He has lost his charm, even with many initial enthusiasts.

In other words, leaving the detail to you informed citizens, Obama’s house is crumbling after only one year. Many of his own house dwellers are scared because the master of the manor has not managed well at all.

The vacuum. Who then will come to the fore to fill in the void?

Perhaps Sarah Palin.

But also perhaps Scott Brown.

It could be that Republicans have found their charismatic, intelligent, handsome leader. He’s fresh. He’s fun. He’s committed. He’s proven himself a winner. American voters--young and old--like that.

Remember Obama’s “I won”?

It just might be that that echo will come from Scott Brown in America’s future.

BROWN STRANGLES OBAMA IN SENATE

2010-01-23T11:00:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

“The difference is that with 41 seats in the Senate they (Republicans) are in a position to block almost anything Mr. Obama proposes. . .” per Financial Times’ Edward Luce.

Luce referred to Scott Brown’s Massachusetts Tuesday win. Brown becomes Mr. Forty-first.

With Brown’s victory, this means that Republicans can do now just as Luce states: “. . .block almost anything Obama proposes. . .”

The Brown win was multi-dimensional, of course. One major dimension is the power Senate Republicans now wield.

With the Obama dictatorship alongside the
Dem Congress despotism it was a given that Republicans could have no say whatsoever regarding anything.

Not any more.

Read “White House nightmare persists” at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/821dce96-0786-11df-915f-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

“Pride goes before a destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall” per Proverbs 16:18.

Obama filled the Oval Office with hubris, particularly as mob hysteriacs cheered him onto Pennsylvania Avenue. He has surrounded himself with crooks and liars of like pride.

However, at times divine justice works slowly in human time frames; nevertheless, the “ontime God” performs his justice perfectly according to His timing.

Read GOD CAN WORK FAST at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3424

Interestingly, for biblical believers the Massachusetts Tuesday victory revealed a God move that attributes to Him the source of that Scott Brown win.

Again, it is not just a Brown move to DC; the win is multi-dimensional, one of the dimensions being the splintering of Senate Dem power holds. Let the divine continue His just moves throughout the Republic’s caverns.

In the meantime, the righteous remnant continues its watch in power and faith.

Read AMERICAN BELIEVERS: LET GOD BE GOD, JUST BELIEVE at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3425

GOD OWNS ONE TENTH OF YOUR INCOME

2010-01-19T09:45:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Do you believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of God—divine revelation that needs neither adding to nor subtracting from?

If you do, then take seriously God’s statements regarding the tithe—one tenth of your income. It is God’s, not yours.

God calls you “robber” if you take His tithe for your own use.

Hebrews in Old Testament times brought down God’s unbridled anger upon themselves for various reasons. One chief reason was that they stole God’s tithe.

If every believer tithed to the local church, there would be no financial problems in Christendom. Then there would be no need for bean suppers and fairs and raffles.

The church is not the place for making money by such methods. Jesus cast out the merchandisers from the place of prayer because that kind of business was not to be tolerated in God’s House.

I shudder when I pass church buildings advertising Saturday night money-raising suppers. I ask myself: “Is that what the church is for? Is that what the church has come to?”

I would like to see those buildings posting signs that read: “Prayer Meets Here Weekly At Tuesday at 7 PM” or something of that sort.

It would be in place for those buildings to post signs reading: “Worship Gathers on the Lord’s Day Morning and Evening Here. All Welcome.”

The church is to be concentrating on saving souls. If souls are not saved, they are damned. What is the main thrust of any church? It is to see that souls escape hell and go to heaven.

Therefore, whatever the church can do to get souls under the preaching of salvation is what the church should be up to.

Again: if every believer gave God His tithe faithfully, the church could concentrate all its energies on worship, prayer, fellowship in Christ and Bible research.

God has an economic plan for His church. It is the tithes and offerings put into the local church—“the storehouse.” How can mortals sideline God’s economic plan? How can they be so stupid or brash to substitute the divine agenda for their own—many times a worldly-based gimmick?

God instituted the tithe with Abraham when Abraham gave the tithe to the priest. Then Abraham’s lineage continued the tithe. So it was to continue down through sacred history.

But Hebrews rewrote their own religion on numerous levels, one being absenting God’s tithe for mortals’ own take. God did not appreciate that at all.

Christ brought the tithe into the New Testament Church Age. He pointed to hypocrites who were tithing, thereby instructing His disciples that they were to do the same by being more righteous than even the tithing hypocrites.

Tithing then is not an Old Testament expectation alone. God brought that workable system into our present time.

I have tithed all my life because my parents were tithers. We children were taught to tithe with our weekly allowances. I never thought of robbing God when I was a child.

As a teen and young adult I tithed and never quarreled with God about it. I met a young girl at college who was reared the same way. We married and never fought over the tithe.

The firstfruits of our financial intake was God’s tithe. It was so because God said it was so. How could we disobey God? We could not and we would not.

Therefore, we gave God His tithe as the first item to set aside. All other bills came later. We did not say, “Well, we will tithe if we have it when we pay all the other bills.”

Never. We knew better than that.

Because we as a couple have tithed for nearly half a century we have never been forsaken. We have been through many trials and difficulties. But God has never forsaken us. We have never lost a night’s sleep over money. We have never questioned whether or not God was adequate to see through our financial obligations.

God is faithful. We have been faithful. The match-up has been glorious and a testimony to the fact that being honest with God is not only healthy for the wallet, but the heart as well.

I have had people try to argue with me about the Old Testament tithe and the New Testament Church Age, trying to twist my arm to admit that Christ really did not mean for that system to be brought into the Church Age.

I have not spent much time in that debate. I have been so convinced of the Scripture making sense and my own personal experience proving it out that I have little time with the arguers.

Instead, I think to myself: How can a person saved by grace ever argue with God when He spilled His holy blood to redeem a soul? How can a person even think of stealing from God who poured out His young body on such a bloody tree?

How groveling and low-life can a person be to try to steal God’s tithe when God has promised eternal life—blissful heaven—for the saved by grace?

Yet they argue. And they debate. I don’t think then that they really get the message of God’s love and care.

Do you?

FOOTNOTE: TITHING SCRIPTURE

Malachi 3:8-10: “Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, `How are we robbing thee?' In your tithes and offerings.

“You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me; the whole nation of you.

“Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house; and thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.”

Matthew 23:23: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.”

Matthew 5:20: "For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”

COULD HAITI UNDO OBAMA?

2010-01-14T18:46:00.001-08:00

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Barack Hussein Obama has quickly come to the fore regarding the tragic Haitian situation.

However, in proposing extremely large funds to Haiti could Obama stretch the already stretched American dollar to its ripping point?

Further, in rushing to bring together a shredded society that has no governing base, could Obama become the stepfather to a deeply troubled Haitian public?

If that is so, Obama has over his head one project too much. It cannot work.

Obama already is in over his head concerning his own country. He has not brought hope and change as he promised. He has been discovered as the inept individual many knew him to be before he walked into the White House.

By now, countless Americans can recite the litany of failures catalogued in stacks standing alongside a failure President.

Then to take on a torn country would be something out of reach for a mere mortal. Obama may think that Haitian aliens someday in America would add up to be a Dem vote increase; but that cannot happen until they come upon immediate survival basics.

They have no governing head, no governing buildings, no societal structure with the fundamentals for a culture to build upon. Food, water, medicine, shelter—gone in a few moments of time.

Of course, Haiti is reaching out to America. Many Americans are reaching back to help. But Obama, being President of America, symbolizes that one individual Haitians may appeal to for the impossible.

Day upon day will spell such grief and loss, that who in the world will be able to step in to provide? Not Obama.

That in itself could bring such weights upon the man that he will collapse beneath the load of retrieving his own position in his own country while trying to bring survival surgery to Haiti.

Newsmax posted a photo of Obama with an extremely downcast countenance. The caption read: “A grim President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement about the earthquake in Haiti, Thursday, at the White House.”

That photo will show a countenance more and more fallen as the excruciating pressure increases beyond one man’s ability to fix Haiti.