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Christians, God is good and what we believe is good. Hold onto that when the world tells us otherwise.
“Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!”
Psalm 34:8 ESV
Last week, after nearly 7 years, finished at @CConcern . Working at CC has been an adventure and I have learnt so much and grown in so many ways. CC will hold a special place in my heart and I will be leaving with lots of cherished memories.
They really are on the frontlines and it has been an honour to work with so many amazing people. Thank you @CConcern
Here is what is likely to be my last article for CC: with my usual nuance:
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The Archbishop of Canterbury recently admitted that he no longer believes the doctrine of the Church of England on sexuality.
@Benjamin_john calls out Church leaders who are responsible for promoting false teaching by submitting to the gods of the culture.
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"Perhaps the starkest truth for Christians to dwell on is this: assisted suicide does not end suffering for non-Christians. Rather, it signifies an eternity separated from God."
@benjamin_john reflects on the false gospel of assisted suicide and the myth of 'autonomy' of life and death.
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My latest article:
The false gospel of assisted suicide
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Benjamin John retweeted
'If we say it is okay for doctors to kill patients, that is going to shape our culture and our values.'
@benjamin_john spoke about our display outside the Senedd in Cardiff, as Welsh parliamentarians debated a motion to back assisted suicide. Praise God that they rejected it.
Penalising parents for not accepting the state’s provision... and taxing them for their care and nurturing of their children, is nothing like Robin Hood’s legendary taking from the rich to give to the poor; more like the taxes of the sheriff of Nottingham.
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Facts.
This is truly remarkable. SNL airs a sketch about the 16th century practice of castrating young male singers to block their natural puberty and preserve their high voices. And yet this is precisely what “gender-affirming care” clinicians are doing to young boys today: chemically castrating them with puberty blockers and estrogen, and then surgically castrating them when they’re in their late teens. And they’re applying the exact same reasoning! Block their puberty —> keep them feminine.
How did staff members at @glaad and @hrc react to this sketch? Did they think it was funny? Or did they turn the channel, because deep down they know that they’re advocating for the same practices today?
How about @SecretaryLevine? Did Levine laugh?
How anyone at @nbcsnl could put this together without thinking about the blatantly obvious and horrifying connection to today is beyond me.
Benjamin John retweeted
Plea to all who oppose #AssistedSuicide:
"Assisted Dying" is a euphemism which seeks to mask what is at stake. The proposed law is to permit one person to end another's life. This is about killing, not dying.
Don't do the apologists' work for them by using their words.
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I'm at the Court of Appeal to watch the Higgs v Farmor's School case.
#KristieHiggs
You can watch it on livestream or follow @tribunaltweets
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Pray for Kristie!
Kristie Higgs: Landmark Free Speech case to be decided in Court of Appeal.
This week, the second highest court in the UK will hear the high-profile and seminal legal case, backed by the Christian Legal Centre from the beginning, of sacked Christian school assistant, Kristie Higgs.
The outcome of the hearing, which begins at the Court of Appeal on Wednesday 2 October, will be determinative of the law on free speech and freedom to express faith in the UK for many years to come, if not decades."
Ahead of the hearing, Kristie said: "I wouldn't want any parent to go through what I have over the past five years. Nobody should be sacked for raising the concerns that I did in the way that I did."
There are now five interveners in the case including @EHRC @SpeechUnion @SexMattersOrg @Assoc_C_Teach
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@A_Minichiello on why her case matters: christianconcern.com/comment…
Please pray for Kristie this week with her case being heard in the Court of Appeal.
@A_Minichiello explains why this is a vital case for Christian freedoms in the UK
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We just watched this as @IPCEaling staff. It is outstanding, makes me want Sunday to come!
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John Calvin commenting on Psalm 139:16:
“The embryo, when first conceived in the womb, has no form; and David speaks of God’s having known him when he was yet a shapeless mass, to kuema, as the Greeks term it; for to embruon is the name given to the fetus from the time of conception to birth inclusive. The argument is from the greater to the less. If he was known to God before he had grown to certain definite shape, much less could he now elude his observation.”
According to Calvin, we are human persons—known by God our Creator and objects of his remembrance—from the moment of conception. This is why Calvin, commenting on Exodus 21:22, says that “the fetus, though enclosed in the womb, is already a human being (homo), and it is almost a monstrous crime to rob it of life which it has yet begun to enjoy.” He continues: “If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”
I’m grateful that those in the Calvinist tradition are not left without clear and firm guidance on this important, life-and-death issue.
Why do we eat shellfish but not practice homosexuality? Because Jesus says so.
Christians are sometimes accused of being hypocrites for endorsing what the Bible says about homosexuality, but not advocating what it says about not eating shrimp and shellfish.
@benjamin_john tells us how to answer to the weak 'shellfish' argument:
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Benjamin John retweeted
To All the Parents Who Embrace Covenant Theology, Don't be too discouraged by any season of your child's life. I've been walking with covenant kids for 25+ years and I've seen what happens, long-term, when they experienced Deut 6:4-6 as children. God is faithful!
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VINDICATED BUT STILL BLACKLISTED: The Archbishop of Canterbury, @JustinWelby ‘misunderstood the scope of his powers’, a senior Church legal officer for clergy discipline has found, after he repeatedly tried to block a serious complaint of misconduct being investigated over a bishop blacklisting an ordained @churchofengland chaplain.
The story exposes how Justin Welby and the Bishop of Derby, Rt. Rev Libby Lane have repeatedly misused safeguarding processes to uphold an illegitimate ban on Dr Bernard Randall’s ministry.
After giving a sermon in a CofE chapel in a school with a CofE ethos which reflected the CofE's teaching on marriage, Dr Randall was reported to Prevent and eventually sacked.
Worse was to follow, however, when the Derby diocese’s safeguarding team, under the watch of the bishop, blacklisted him as a safeguarding risk to children because of his orthodox Christian beliefs.
No evidence has ever been produced that Bernard is a risk or that he has done anything wrong. It has been revealed that the diocese departed from official guidance without explaining why and even concluded that the Bible's teaching itself is a 'risk-factor.'
Bernard has not given a sermon or worked in church ministry since.
Now it’s been revealed that Gregory Jones KC, acting on behalf of the President of Tribunals, has said that the Archbishop of Canterbury was ‘plainly wrong’ to dismiss Bernard’s subsequent complaint over how the safeguarding process was handled.
The President of Tribunals, Dame Sarah Asplin then said that the safeguarding procedure used against Bernard was "flawed" and “highly unsatisfactory”.
Six months later, Bernard has still not been contacted by the Bishop of Derby and there is no sign of him being given his licence back.
This has made it impossible for Bernard to continue working as a chaplain or in other Christian ministry and he has been unfairly forced into finding other work to support his family.
It’s time for the Church of England to give Bernard his life back. He’s been punished for nothing more than upholding his Christian beliefs, which are fully in accordance with Church of England doctrine.
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