HUGH HEFNER SAVES HOLLYWOOD SIGN
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner has helped save the famous Hollywood sign by donating nearly one million dollars to purchase the land as a public trust. By raising $12 million the Trust for Public Land purchased the Cahuenga Peak area where the sign sits, saving it from investors who planed to build luxury estates there. The pornography mogul said, “My childhood dreams and fantasies came from the movies, and the images created in Hollywood had a major influence on my life and Playboy.”
We have no doubt that this is true. Hollywood is a symbol for decadence and the flaunting of God’s laws and has had a incalculable influence for evil in modern society throughout the world, encouraging people to live in a fantasy world without God. Hollywood actor and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the sign is “a symbol of dreams and opportunity.” Indeed it is, but the dream is the one that John Lennon sang about, the vain dream that there is no heaven or hell, particularly the latter.
MORMON GLENN BECK ADDRESSES LIBERTY UNIVERSITY GRADUATION
Conservative talk show personality Glenn Beck was one of two commencement speakers scheduled to speak at Liberty University on May 15. The school, founded by Jerry Falwell and led today by his son, praised Beck as “one of the few courageous voices in the national media standing up for the principles upon which this nation was founded.” The other speaker was Paige Patterson, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s seminary in Texas. Beck is politically conservative, but he is a Mormon and thus worships a false christ. God forbids His people to yoke together with unbelievers (2 Corinthians 6:14-18) and associate with heretics (Romans 16:17; 2 John 8-11).
The root problem in America is not politics, and America will not be saved by conservative talk show personalities. In spite of the massive amount of conservative political activity of the last 40 years, including that done by conservative Baptists, American slide into moral filth has been unabated. If all of that political activity and fussing and fretting had been channeled into repentance and prayer, the nation would probably have been saved.
Pastors Blog: While unbelievers have made great contributions to society and continue to do so, unfortunately their spiritual influence has done incalculable damage. The natural man at best may have a wisdom of and for this world but they are deficient in matters pertaining to the architect who designed, created, and sustains it. That means that while we may learn and profit from their abilities and intelligence, never should we be enraptured by either.
Neither should we ignore the biblical instruction given in Psalms 1 which warns of walking in the counsel of the ungodly. No matter the reason or rhyme, its unconscienable that unbelievers would be given the opportunity to influence the LORDS people from a church pulpit or from a Christian College platform. To do so is to draw a distorted line that blurs the temporal from the eternal and robs GOD of His glory.
Additional thought. Contrary to what Joel Osteen is on record as saying, the mormon faith is not compatible with true Christianity. It is a cult and will be rejected by all who believe the bible.
ARRESTED IN ENGLAND FOR SAYING HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN
The following is from “Christian Preacher on Hooligan Charge,” Daily Mail, May 1, 2010: “A Christian street preacher has been arrested and charged with a public-order offence after saying that homosexuality was sinful. Dale Mcalpine was handing out leaflets to shoppers when he told a passer-by and a gay police community support officer that, as a Christian, he believed homosexuality was one of a number of sins that go against the word of God.
Mr. Mcalpine said that he did not repeat his remarks on homosexuality when he preached from the top of a stepladder after his leafleting. But he has been told that police officers are alleging they heard him making his remarks to a member of the public in a loud voice that could be overheard by others. Mr. Mcalpine, 42, who earns about £40,000 a year in the energy industry, was arrested and taken to the local police station in the back of a police van after preaching in the Cumbrian town of Workington on April 20.
After seven hours locked up in a cell, he was charged with using abusive or insulting words or behaviour contrary to the Public Order Act 1986. Mr. Mcalpine--who has delivered open-air sermons and handed out leaflets in Workington for years, and has never been in trouble with the police--said the incident was one of the worst moments of his life. ‘I felt deeply shocked and humiliated that I had been arrested in my own town and treated like a common criminal in front of people I know,’ he said. ‘My freedom was taken away on the hearsay of someone who disliked what I said, and I was charged under a law that doesn’t apply.’
Mr Adams [the officer who had Mcalpine arrested] has been a member of Cumbria police’s LGBT staff association and last year represented the force at the Gay Pride festival in Manchester ... On the social networking site MySpace, he describes his orientation as gay and his religion as atheist.
Shoppers in Workington were bemused by what had happened to Mr. Mcalpine. Rob Logan, the assistant manager of the O2 mobile phone store near where Mr Mcalpine preached, said he had no complaints. ‘He hands out leaflets, he says his piece and then he leaves,’ said Mr. Logan. ‘He is not aggressive or threatening. He is gentle.’ The Rev. Arthur Bentley-Taylor, 68, vicar of the Emmanuel evangelical church where Mr. Mcalpine worships, said: ‘As far as I am concerned, this is about free speech. If we arrested everybody who said something we found offensive, everyone would be in prison.’ The Public Order Act 1986 has been used by the police in a number of similar cases.”
- Articles supplied by Fundamental Baptist Information Service
