Christ Episcopal Church Dayton, an ‘affirming’ Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio, is about as progressive and Jesus-hating as they come. Led by the Rev. Peter Homeyer, whose services typically consist of juggling the heads of sheep to entertain the goats, the congregation is populated almost exclusively by a smattering of senior citizens whose consciences are seared, lesbians, and the occasional effeminate man. During a recent message, the church cauldron of theological bile offered a rewrite of the genealogy of Jesus as part of their advent Sunday.
The genealogy, which is popularly used in ELCA, UMC, and PCUSA churches, was created by the late Sister Ann Patrick Ware. She was a feminist nun who famously fought for ‘reproductive health’ and the right to take a scalpel and double tap a baby’s brain while in the womb, turning a whole child into a slurry of blood and bone.
The ‘church’ offers:
~ A GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST ~
A genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of Miriam, the daughter of Anna:
Sarah was the mother of Isaac, And Rebekah was the mother of Jacob, Leah was the mother of Judah, Tamar was the mother of Perez.
The names of the mothers of Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon and Salmon have been lost.
Rahab was the mother of Boaz, and Ruth was the mother of Obed. Obed’s wife, whose name is unknown, bore Jesse. The wife of Jesse was the mother of David.
Bathsheba was the mother of Solomon,
Naamah, the Ammonite, was the mother of Rehoboam. Maacah was the mother of Abijam and the grandmother of Asa. Azubah was the mother of Jehoshaphat. The name of Jehoram’s mother is unknown.
Athaliah was the mother of Ahaziah, Zibiah of Beersheba, the mother of Joash. Jecoliah of Jerusalem bore Uzziah, Jerusha bore Jotham; Ahaz’s mother is unknown.
Abi was the mother of Hezekiah, Hephzibah was the mother of Manasseh, Meshullemeth was the mother of Amon, Jedidah was the mother of Josiah.
Zebidah was the mother of Jehoiakim, Nehushta was the mother of Jehoiachin, Hamutal was the mother of Zedekiah.
The the deportation to Babylon took place.
After the deportation to Babylon the names of the mothers go unrecorded. These are their sons:
Jechoniah, Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abiud, Eliakim, Azor and Zadok, Achim, Eliud, Eleazar, Matthew, Jacob and Joseph, the husband of
Miriam.
Of her was born Jesus who is called Christ.
The sum of generations is therefore: fourteen from Sarah to David’s mother; fourteen from Bathshebba to the Babylonian deportation; and fourteen from the Babylonian deportation to Miriam, the mother of Christ.
Jason David Frank, best known as the Green Power Ranger who appeared in multiple series over the last 30 years, has died of suicide at the age of 49. He is survived by his estranged wife and 4 children.
Apart from his movie career and frequent appearances at Comic cons, as well as a feature in the 2013 documentary ‘American Jesus’ he would go on to found “Jesus Didn’t Tap, a ‘Christian-based Mixed Martial Arts brand in 2014, whose website has been defunct for many years. Frank also tattooed the expression on his arm, explaining:
That means he didn’t quit, he didn’t give up – tap out. He could have tapped, snapped any time. He could have just called thousands and thousands of angels if he wanted to… ‘Tap out’ is an expression I can give mentally and physically, I give up, I give up. He never did that.”
It is unclear to what extent Frank continued in the faith over the last few years. A few brief interviews about his faith in God were conspicuously absent any substance and theology and a prolific presence on several Instagram pages reveals all content is either self-promotion of self-help schtick about the power of believing in yourself and law-of-attraction lite. At the time of his death, he was going through a bitter divorce, with court papers accusing the star of adultery and intolerable cruelty.
A recently released trailer from season 3 of The Chosen reveals that the show has gone full Mormon. In the clip published on the show’s Facebook page, Jonathan Roumie, the actor who portrays Jesus in the series, makes the statement, “I am the law of Moses.” Contrary to this misquotation, Jesus never claimed to be the law of Moses, but rather claimed to “fulfill the law” in Matthew 5:17.
The quotation “I am the Law of Moses” is actually derived from Nephi 15:9 in the book of Mormon:
I am the law, and the light. Look unto me, and endure to the end, and ye shall live
Though disappointing to Christian fans of The Chosen, this development in the series should not surprise viewers, as director Dallas Jenkins previously defended his Mormon friends, saying, “LDS are Christians” in a series of videos that defended Mormonism. The first video in the series began with the claim that God answered the prayers of director Dallas Jenkins, through the LDS church, allowing Jenkins to film season two of The Chosen in its Jerusalem set in Goshen, Utah. Apparently, Jenkins’ use of LDS resources and his friendship with Mormons have opened the door to heresy and compromise in the production of the series. As the series has gained popularity, its producers and actors have embraced ecumenism, with Jonathan Roumie and Dallas Jenkins visiting the Vatican to promote the series by meeting Pope Francis. The Pontiff asked Jenkins if he played Judas, which isn’t a stretch, considering his recent betrayal of the words of Christ.
Gay Anglican priest Sam Allberry, known for partnering up with the Gospel Coalition and the ERLC to be one of the architects for the acceptance of Same-Sex Attraction (SSA) “Christianity, has revealed that he wears a wedding ring on his ring finger, despite being single, as a reminder that God is “pursuing him.” For this reason, he believes he is just as “swept up” in the “whole marital romance” thing as a married couple might be resulting in him being “taken by Jesus.”
As a single person with an increased capacity for friendship that comes with that, there’s a breadth of intimacy I get to experience that you don’t. So there’s, again, there’s some unique pluses to being in my situation. And I keep coming back to ‘I know the bridegroom’. I’m not actually missing out. I’m not getting that the temporal signpost of the love of God that marriage is designed to be. I’m not getting the appetizer, but I’m getting the entrée, and the entrée is so good I can skip the appetizer.
So if I have the bridegroom, then I’m not missing out on the whole marital romance- all of that stuff-actually, I’m just as swept up in it. That is profoundly meaningful to me. I’m wearing a ring on my ring finger, which is a cultural signal for ‘hey, I’m married.’
There’s other stories to why I’m wearing this to do with medical research, it’s a smart ring. But I felt, I felt actually, I’m gonna wear on this ring because I’m taken. I belong to someone. And it’s a nice tangible reminder to me that the bridegroom pursues me.”
This type of thinking is strange behavior, particularly because he’s not ‘taken’ in the way he thinks. He could easily marry a woman if he so chose, rather than suggest he’s married to Jesus, then deal with the scriptural pretzeling that would result in trying to justify his divorce/ annulment from his marriage to the Almighty to pursue a real one.
Honestly, this is the sort of thing a newly converted 14-year-old girl who just returned from a bible camp run by women youth pastors would come up with. Still, the line of thinking is consistent with the sexual ethos of the SSAC movement that Allberry has spearheaded and continues to promote.
Bonus: SSAC is the movement within the larger evangelical movement that narrowly defines the sin of homosexuality to include only acting upon one’s sinful desires, and defines the sinful desires themselves as simply a part of a person’s identity and something God is content with not changing in the heart of the believer.
The false beliefs of the SSAC movement include:
Same-sex attraction is never a result of early childhood abuse and is always unchosen.
Same-sex attraction only becomes sin if it is acted upon.
Homosexual acts are no different than other sins.
Christian regeneration has no influence over same-sex desire.
The church is guilty of oppressing this group instead of helping them bear their cross of unchangeable same-sex attraction.
Mika Edmondson is a frequent Gospel Coalition contributor and the lead pastor of the Koinonia” campus of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, which is part of the conservative PCA. He is the husband of Christina Edmonson, who is the “scholar in residence” at his church and who is also part of the Truth’s Table podcast- a ‘Christian” talk show which she co-hosts with pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ pastrix known for her sermon about the queerness of the Trinity
During a panel discussion on “Race And Justice” last year for the Q Ideas conference, Edmondson insists that “Christian men must sit at the feet of Christian women” and suggests that Jesus’s Sermon On The Mount was primarily inspired by, if not directly taught by, his mother Mary.”
I went to Johannesburg, South Africa…The pastor that was there that was helping to host us, he drove us from the airport…I noticed this large hill in the distance, and it had a completely flat top. He said, “You see that hill?” And I said, “Yeah.” He said that’s not a natural thing, that’s a man-made hill. That’s a mine dump where they would take material from the diamond trade and they would just dump it from this particular area.
I said, “Oh, wow.” He said, “But you know why it’s put right here?” I said, “Why?” He said the reason this mine dump is here is because the township of Soweto is on the other side. And the white South Africans, when they were coming into Johannesburg, did not want to look at the township on the other side. And so the mine dump keeps them from having to reckon with the human cost of their oppressive system.
And I would suggest that a lot of theology is like that mine dump. A lot of theology is constructed in such a way that it keeps us from having to reckon with the human cost of injustice, particularly racial injustice in America.
We have a theology that has comfortably co-existed with 250 years of chattel slavery, with Jim Crow, with the lynching tree, with segregation, with mass incarceration, with any number of things that you can name.
And you say, “Well, how can that be?” Well, it’s a theology that was deliberately constructed to be blind in certain places. So we say, why is it that the church is behind on issues of race? It’s because the theology is working as designed. And what that means is we need another theology, a biblical theology that actually tells us the truth and allows us to see the township.
It’s amazing that Jesus, when he was born, would [sic] chose to be born in a township.
… So this issue is a big issue. It causes for us to listen to one another. Christian men must listen, they must sit at the feet of Christian women, because when they read the Bible and when the Lord speaks to them, they’re gonna see some things that we as men would not see. It’s significant that the first Bible teacher that Jesus had was his mother. That’s significant, right? I mean, we don’t hear much about Joseph’s Bible teaching to Jesus. But the Magnificat, Mary’s song she sang in praise to God, the themes of the Magnificat is [sic] coming all out on the Sermon On The Mount. And you say, “Wait, where did he get that?” Well, Jesus got that from his mother, who the Father used to speak to the Son.“
Editor’s Note. h/t to WokePtreacherTV, who also provided the transcript.
Several days ago, the Babylon Bee, Christendom’s premiere satire website, managed to snag a two-hour interview with Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of Tesla, Space-X. Musk is well-known for his love of memes and has occasionally retweeted the Bee.
At the end of the show, after guests are invited to give rapid-fire answers to 10 questions, one of the hosts asks Musk to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Here is his answer*:
Bee: “To make this church, we’re wondering if you could do us a quick solid and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior.”
Musk: “I mean, let’s just say like, I agree with the principles that Jesus advocated. There’s great wisdom in the teachings of Jesus. And I agree with those teachings. And things like turn the other cheek, are very important because, as opposed to an eye for an eye, an eye for an eye leads everyone blind. So forgiveness, you know, it’s important and treating people as you would wish to be treated. Love thy neighbour as thyself. Very important.”
Bee: “So that’s like a 60 70% ‘yes’?”
Musk: “I would say I believe in the God of Spinoza. (Editor’s Note. Baruch Spinoza was a famous Philosopher during the 17th century who basically argued that God and nature were one, and ferociously rejected the God of the bible. So hey, if Jesus is saving people, I mean, I wouldn’t stand in his way. You know, like, “sure I’ll be saved, why not?”
Bee, clapping with crosstalk: “Sweet. We did it!. I think he just said yes. We got him! Do you want to get baptized or anything real quick?”
Musk: “I was baptized. Yeah, they dunked me in the water when I was just a baby. I even had, like, you know, whatever, the blood and water of Christ. That was kind of weird, you know? As a little kid, let’s give him some weird-tasing wine You know like ‘what the hell is this?’ I’m like ‘isn’t this kind of weird?”
Bee, looking at camera: “just cut it off when he said ‘yes.'”
Musk: “Is this kind of like, some weird metaphor for cannibalism or something. I don’t get it. Like what the hell? I remember thinking that was just crazy when I was a kid. And like ‘whoa’ you know? Even as a metaphor it’s kind of odd, you know? So it’s like, should we giving alcohol to minors?”
Bee: “We do grape juice, we’re Baptists. But I think it’s unusual to even be thinking about that as a kid. As a kid you just go through the motions, and it’s later on that you think, ‘wait a minute, what does this actually represent? What am I doing?”
Musk: “No, when I was a kid, I was like, ‘is this actually the blood and body? What? I’m not for eating somebody…this is just pretty odd’. You know, I remember thinking that even at age five. So I was definitely in Sunday school, when they were telling me all the stories and I was like, asking questions and like, they really were upset that I was asking questions. I was like ‘how did Jesus feed the crowd with five loaves of bread and three fish, like, how big was the crowd? And like, where did the fish and bread come from? From his cloak or something?
Because I was reading books, and I was like, did they materialize? Where do they come from, you know? Would you take a bite of the bread and the bread would just come back to being a full bread? They left out the details”
Bee: “Where did the universe come from?”
Musk: “Well, I’m not saying I know all the answers here. It’s just, Jesus was obviously very pro-alcohol, you know? Because one of his miracles was turning water into wine. Yeah, that was like they were having a party. They ran out of wine, and they’re like “let’s keep this bender going” Who can solve this problem? Friggin stores closed. Jesus like “I got you: water, now wine.” And they’re like “party on!” So pro-partying with alcohol was literally one of the miracles. So it’s definitely- you’re the savior, you keep the party going with lots of wine. That’s great. “
We’re grateful the Bee broached the subject, but ultimately, the whole thing was awkward given that they assumed that Musk knew the gospel or anything about Christianity, which he did not.
It would have been far more profitable to say something like “because we’re a bunch of Christians here, we’d regret it if we didn’t at the very least explain to you what the gospel is that we believe, because it’s one of those things that frequently gets twisted and lost and misrepresented” and give him a clear presentation, rather than making a joke out of it an having the whole thing be a non-starter.
To be blunt, if anything, the attitude and tone they took about it could very well be viewed as blasphemous. It was not good at all and came across as if they really didn’t care that he be given a serious, biblical view of the gospel- because whatever that was, it wasn’t the gospel. Joking is all well and good, but this is not something you joke about.
It’s a missed opportunity, but we hope they get another chance at it one day.
*Editor’s Note. Because Musk has a bit of a speech impediment and an occasionally jilted way of talking, we lightly edited the interview for clarity.
Editor’s Note 2. Our initial article didn’t go into our displeasure with the presentation, and we added a few lines to highlight the problems. Original post can be seen here.
Mikhaila Peterson, daughter of famed Psychologist and author Jordan Peterson, revealed on her October 1, 2021 podcast, in conversation with Seamus Coughlin, a devout Roman Cathlolic, artist, animator and creator of ‘Freedom Toons’ that she ‘found God’ and tells of her conversion story.
It’s an interesting story, but there are more than enough red flags that we ought to be cautious with her profession of faith. Bare theism won’t do it it, but rather repetence of sins, faith in the biblical Christ, indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and ongoing sanctification are needed.
Still, this is worthy of much prayer, and shows a fascinating “working out” of a new believer who isn’t immersed in a solid Church with solid and biblically faithful instruction.
I can talk about this because I haven’t talked about it before, but I grew up with dad so I learned a lot about the psychological significance of the bible, the YouTube series, and it was always kind of through that lens, like metaphors. And then I had way too many really absurd experiences that I couldn’t wrap my head around, where I was like, my life doesn’t make any- this doesn’t make any sense. This doesn’t make any sense. This is too weird, too coincidental and that happened for five years like every day.
Then I had some rough experiences over the summer. And about a month ago, I would say- I think I think I can say this- I would say I found God, which I haven’t before. Like I didn’t, I definitely haven’t before. And it was very sudden. I’m pretty new to this, and what I’ve been doing for the last month or so is reading the Bible and praying for it, I guess in a way that’s more like Protestant, probably.
And it’s been the like, the amount of peace that I’ve had, I haven’t had before. It’s completely absurd. I can’t believe it.
…I was looking forward to talking to you (Seamus) because my mom practices catholicism, and I haven’t really understood it very well. Because I felt like part of it was kind of, I don’t want to say vindictive, but I felt like there was a punishing element to it so that if you do something wrong, it’s like, you know, repent and kind of punish yourself, and I feel like with my type of brain I have enough guilt in me that I punish myself enough for anything I maybe even don’t even do that wrong. So I wasn’t very attracted to the whole catholicism thing because I thought there was a punishment element.
So I had this one day where I was worrying about… four really important parts of my life, and all of them were going really badly, like, in ways where I was like, ‘What am I- Am I not trying hard enough? Like what more can I do? I can’t do more to fix these four major problems.’
And then I met somebody and he’s Christian. And he was like, ‘Well, how are you managing with all these problems?’ And I was like, ‘I’m really not managing well.’ Like I’m working, and I’m keeping it together, but I don’t feel good. And I used to be clinically depressed, and it wasn’t depression. I just wasn’t feeling good.
And he was like, ‘well, that’s why you need God’. And I said okay, well that’s fine and dandy. It’s nice when somebody comes up to you and is like ‘well you need God’ because how are you supposed to wrap your head around that?
I was like, yeah, okay, maybe that sounds great, but I don’t know how to get there. And he said, ‘Just beg for him to reveal himself. Like- that’s what he said,- ‘ask him to reveal Himself to you.’
And so I went home that night, and I was was pretty upset about these four major problems. And I was in bed so I was praying, like seriously praying, like, ‘please give me some sort of sign, please reveal Himself to you.’ And the next day, all four problems cleared up in ways that made sense. It was a lot like they could have cleared up, but the likelihood of all four of them clearing up randomly that day was just too much.
So that happened. And I also woke up with this sense of calm I hadn’t felt- like the sense of calm right here. (points to heart) And that was enough. I was like, Okay, that’s good. That’s good enough for me.’
So it was kind of like a ‘click’ there, which is different for me. I’ve been talking about it on the podcast a little bit and bringing people on and talking to my mom but nothing clicked. So it was really sudden ‘click’ and then everything was great for about two weeks, so I was praying I was reading the bible, I was like ‘this is fantastic. Everything’s working out’ and then two weeks later, (there was a) little thought that was like ‘am i being silly?’ There are actual more logical explanations for why things turned around.
And that happened, and then I had two just miserable days. It was like ‘what is happening?’ Why do I feel this existential horror again, which I would differentiate from depression. Because I’ve been depressed before- this was really like existential angst. So it’s not like I’d stopped reading the bible or stopped praying, but I was just a little bit more removed from it and so I went back to it and then I had the most wild dream.
I was I talking to my parents about this and being like, ‘I think I found God, like isn’t that crazy?‘ And I went to sleep that night and I wokeup at 5:30 in the morning and I had a dream, and this loud thundering voice just yelled “Do it!” in the dream. And I woke up at 5:30 in the morning and was like ‘I think I just got yelled at by God. I think that just happened.’
That’s what it felt like. What does that mean ? What does it mean? So I had kind of a rough morning.. I was like ‘I don’t know what this means. Is that really what happened?’ And then it occurred to me that I think what it meant was ‘just go all in, don’t do this like 75% in. Anyway so it’s been a wild month. I’m doing really well, it’s just i’m a little bit shocked.
A Bethel pastrix (because there are no such thing as women pastors) claims that she had a radical encounter with Jesus that resulted in her being healed of mental illness, psychosis and suicide, one that involved the Lord of glory slithering up next to her in bed and playing with her hair, running his fingers through it, his fingertips lightly scraping her scalp and his whispered sweet deliverances.
Jenna Winston is a pastrix at Bethel in California and also the proprietor of the ‘Heartscaping’ ministry. Her testimony is that she is a diagnosed schizophrenic who spent the first 40 years of her life going through psych ward holds and ‘multiple abuses, mental illness diagnosis’, extreme drug addictions and suicide attempts’ before winding up at a faith-based recovery program where she claims to have a radical encounter with Jesus that forever changed the trajectory of her life.’
Finding freedom from her demons, she calls herself a ‘Seer Prophet’ and does counseling through her Heartscaping ministry and “specializes in inner healing, prophetic deliverance, identifying and cultivating your spiritual gifts and restoring your full identity.” One distinctive is that unlike most people shilling their wares, her are unusually upscale in terms of their price, with a typical course video being $129,
In a video published by Reformation Charlotte, she explains what this radical encounter was, while she was in the psych ward.
Not long after I got there I ended up having um this encounter- well no, I ended up having what I now know to be natural deliverance, okay?
So much Jesus was going in and all of a sudden to me it felt like I got connected to all of this rage and I started screaming and yelling and cussing and throwing stuff, and now I know it was actually the demons leaving. And after that happened I literally, I’ve never experienced anything like it. I was spiritually, mentally emotionally physically exhausted- like nothing left in me.
I passed out on my bed and that is when Jesus became real for me, because Jesus walked in there and laid in that bed with me and started to play with my hair. And instead of telling me all the things I needed to fix, he said “I am so sorry for all the things that happened to you that made you not want to feel, and if you trust Me, I’m going to make every day of your life better than any day that you ever lived.”
It makes one wonder if the schizophrenia really left.
Every Tuesday evening Jordan Hall and the gang crack open their bibles and have an interactive bible study. “Witness Level” patrons can take part in it, and can ask questions and interact in an intimate setting, hearing personal stories and anecdotes from JD along the way.
Because many people have heard about it, but have never seen it or listened to it, we wanted to give you just a glimpse into what they’re like.
In this study from 1 Corinthians 8, we were asking in what ways we can make “the weaker brother stumble” from alcohol, yoga, to music, etc. What’s so neat about this perk is that you can interact and share your thoughts as we go through the Bible. To take part in Bulldogmatic (or just to watch it) sign up as a patron below.
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(Rerformation Charlotte) Self-proclaimed “Christian” rap artist, KB, who is part of the Reach Records group along with other well-known names like Lecrae, Trip Lee, Andy Mineo, and Hulvey, recently published a cartoon video blaspheming and mocking Jesus.
The cartoon that he dubbed “the Southside Jesus,” presents Jesus as a “gangsta” walking on water as others stand around laughing and making fun of him. “Is the fish kissin’ yo’ feet?” one of cartoon characters asks the caricature of Jesus. “They might as well,” “Jesus” responds, laughing and acting stupid.
The entire cartoon displays a total lack of reverence and fear of God and who he is. Making an idol of Jesus to fit their own description, to justify their own lifestyle choices and habits. This is the epitome…
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Editor’s note. This article was written by Jeff Maples and published at Reformation Charlotte.
