Re: Your visit to HELPinChrist.com

I want to take this opportunity to once again share an encounter I recently had online @ HELPinChrist.com...  This young lady has gone down a road that many of us have - myself included...  She's got a lot of self-examination to do now that she's given in to temptation and is now looking for a way to avoid facing what she's done...  Based upon my own experience, I believe that God is working on her - please pray that He helps her make the right decisions and that He changes her heart...  Her name and any overly personal information has obviously been changed or omitted...

And now, the exchange...

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My Name is:  Annabelle

My Challenge is:  I am a missionary overseas.  My father is a Pastor back home in the states.  I fell in love with my co-worker.  We both fell into sin.  I'm now pregnant.  Nobody knows about it yet, not even my family.  They don't like the guy that I love.  He has no work yet.  I don't know what to do now.  I'm afraid because I am one of the leaders in our church here.  I don't [know] what to do.  They are expecting highly from me.

How can we help?  Please help me, give me an advice.  I love the Lord, and I want to be used by Him.  But this what happened to me now.  I'm so depressed, hopeless.  I feel like if I will open this up they won't accept me.  They will hate me all my life.  Am I going to continue this pregnancy?  Pls help me.

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Dear Annabelle:

I've got to say that you've got an interesting situation here...  Though, I've got to say that no matter how complicated it may seem to you, the solution is pretty clear...

First, you're a missionary - therefore, I have to assume you are a born-again Christian, and if that's true, the Bible is your guide in life...  If that's so, you know that the Bible addresses your situation specifically one more than just one occasion...

If you fell into sin - that's understandable because we are still human...  However, in your desire to please and serve God, you know that you need to repent and confess your sin...  In order to be obedient to your parents, they need to be told...  In order to be submissive to those you are accountable to in ministry, they need to be told so that they can help you.

You mentioned that you are afraid because you are a leader, and they are "expecting highly" of you...  You should be afraid because God's Word tells us that fornication is a sin, and the wages of sin is death...

If you truly love the Lord and want to be used by Him, you'll do what He said in His Word - this didn't "happen to you"  You and your boyfriend did this...  And when it comes to having sex to the point of getting pregnant, it may not even be accurate to say that you "fell" into sin...  Sex is premeditated.  And whether or not you're going to continue with this pregnancy should not even be a question to a true believer in Christ.

If the people you are in ministry with are Christians, they will not "hate you all [your] life" they will rally around you to help you have this baby.

There are a couple of messages I want you to listen to - it'll take about two hours, and I want you to write back to me when you're done listening to them so that we can talk about your situation.

I want you to know that I'm not judging you and your eternal soul - I'm sharing the Biblical truth with you so that you can get this straightened out in your life.  This is not the end of the world for you - but you need to stop thinking about how this is devastating you, and how this looks to God - not to mention the life that is growing inside of you...

The first message you should listen to, Hell's Best Kept Secret, can be watched or listened to HERE...

When you're done with that, you should listen to the message True and False Conversion by clicking HERE...

I look forward to hearing back from you...

-Benjamin, Counselor

HELPinChrist.com

Shame on you Fox News 6

In the fashion of Mrs. Clinton, I thought I would comment on a recent "news" story I overheard on Fox 6 San Diego, regarding the Vanity Fair photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz. I don't feel its necessary to link the photos, or the article / news story. For the three of you who haven't yet seen/heard about this sad affair of bad parenting and poor judgment, I've included a censored copy of the offending image below.

And in case you think I'm over reacting, or blowing this out of proportion, consider that on the one hand, the Cyrus' claimed to be Christians the last time I checked - and on the other, I have a daughter, and would not want her displayed in this way for ANY amount of money or publicity... I welcome your comments...

Regarding your reporting on Miley Cyrus' photographs - first off, in my personal opinion it was unnecessary to show the photo of a minor without her clothes on...  

Your anchor's opinions that the photo didn't look all that "scandalous" to them was also unnecessary.  

Exploitation like this should neither be propagated or dismissed as innocent. It's indecent - plain and simple. Everyone gasps when a teenage girl is kidnapped, raped then brutally murdered.  

I make the connection because this type of reporting only causes viewers to change their opinions on subjects such as these. As long as we don't see anything wrong with portraying teens half-naked in magazines, television and the web, we shouldn't be all that surprised when a pervert capitalizes on a moment of opportunity to abduct and have his way with her...

Time for my two cents...

Recently, I was reading through another blog out here in cyberspace, and tripped across a conversation about Oprah. Her influence on the world, her claims about faith and Jesus in particular.

I threw my thoughts into the discussion, and thought I would share them with all 3 of you who actually read this blog...

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scottie said...
Obviously none of you have read the book. If you had, you would realize that your comments are from your ego (read "the flesh") and you are not present and living in the now. It can be a beautiful thing and it's exactly what Jesus asked of us. Perhaps you should read before you assume it's "crap" - I assure you, you will be truly enlightened and the resonance of Jesus is throughout.

Benjamin - The Sower said...
scottie:

While I would not use the word "crap" to describe the book in question, I would go as far as to say that the book is no more useful than The Secret which Oprah also lent her name to in order to bolster the gross sale success...

The bottom line is this, she is saying that this book holds the answers to all the questions the Bible fails to answer... And the Bible makes the exact opposite claim when it says of itself that it is sufficient for everything we might need in order to do every good work...

I am, of course, paraphrasing, however, you can see for yourself, in 2 Timothy, Chapter 3.  My reference is at the end of the chapter, but the part of the Bible that refers to Oprah is the first half of that same chapter...

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate Oprah, in fact, I pity her... She misunderstood a very simple passage of the Bible at a relatively young age, and has allowed that misunderstanding to corrupt the rest of her life it seems. I pray for her salvation, as I do for anyone who thinks that they themselves are divine and basically good without the need of forgiveness... Anyone who thinks that there is more than one way to get into heaven - needs a lot of prayer...

-Benjamin

(post script - As long as her message runs contrary to clear Biblical Teaching and Doctrine, those who follow her, should be warned using the Word of God, not another NYT Best Seller...)

Adultery... Fornication...

It's just not worth the cost...

eXpelled...

A good friend of mine... er, a guy I know... wait, this actor... now that's not exactly accurate either.  Hmmm; let me try it this way...  A man who used to write speeches for President Nixon, then played a bit part in a cult-classic 80's teeny bopper movie and coined a cultural phrase that will live on in infamy, went on to host a very popular quiz-game show where he gave away his own money, only to end up hocking eye drops...  has decided to make a movie...

Ben Stein asks the question, 'if, in the United States of America, we are guaranteed the Freedom of Speech in our Bill of Rights - why does that not extend into the arena of asking

 questions?'

You'll have to see the movie for yourself because my explanation of the movie could never do it justice.  Ben simply asks Evolutionists what is wrong with admitting that they might be wrong - and he interviews University Professors and Scientific Scholars who have asserted that the human body, plants, animals, the Universe, etc... are much too complex in their design and function to be the result of "billions of years of incremental changes."

For the record, as far as I know at this point - and after having seen the movie all the way through, Mr. Stein is neither a Christian, nor a Creationist in his scientific point of view.  He is, from everything I can gather, a Jewish intellectual who simply wants to know the Truth...  Not the most popular opinion...

If you see the movie, please leave a comment - I'd love to know what you thought.