Trans-sexuality, cross-dressing,” and seeking “
gender identity
development,” i.e., physical identity through radical surgeries, and hormone treatment; and, more broadly, “gender atypicality” that includes “myriad subcultural expressions of self-selecting gender,” and “intersectionality” with other “interdependence” movements, i.e., feminism, homosexuality.
[1] The idea of transgenderism has its roots in the primordial rebellion of humankind to the creation order of God.
Ancient pagan rituals would have included some aspects of transgender practice. More currently, social anarchists such as the otherwise brilliant French social critic, Michael Foucault, argued that Christianity, in particular, has leveraged its cultural “powers” (a recurring them with Foucault) to repress human sexual expression. Foucault taught that gender is a social construct, not a biological fact. The absurdity of such thinking was largely unchallenged in the 1960s and 70s when
Reported by CHRIS PANDOLFO | February 25, 2021 Read more at https://www.theblaze.com/news/rand-paul-child-sex-change-genital-mutilation/ Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday pressed President Joe Biden's nominee for assistant secretary of health on whether the government should override a parent's consent to allow a gender-dysphoric child to begin taking hormones or pursue sex-change surgery. Paul asked Dr. Rachel Levine, who identifies…
A Beautiful Message of Hope for Ash Wednesday Girlfriends in God See All Devotionals Dr. Michael A. Milton Author 2021 17 Feb
Jesus used stories with riddles, called parables, to teach heavenly realities with earthly images. In Jesus’ teaching about the Kingdom of God, He taught about a sower and different ways that seed land and grow. Then, He taught about wheat and tares, a variety of a useless weed that resembles wheat. And in doing so, He teaches us so much about ourselves. This is the inerrant and infallible Word of the living God.
Jesus put before the crowd another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, th
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Right before Jesus ascended into heaven, he instructed his followers to stay in Jerusalem until
the event happened. What event? They didn’t know. So they waited. Ten days later, the Holy Spirit stepped onto the scene and indwelled all of them in an event known as Pentecost. What is Pentecost? As discussed below, it’s the birthday of the church, when the Holy Spirit indwelled believers, and after they spoke in Jerusalem, they converted the first few thousand to the church.
But Pentecost didn’t take place ten days after the ascension by accident. It happened to fall during Sukkot, a Jewish harvest festival, showing that the seeds God had planted had finally come to harvest through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. In this article, we’ll dive into what Pentecost is, and why Christians should know about this important event