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Dr. Robert Sumner passed away in December 2016. The Biblical Evangelist newspaper is no longer being published and the ministry of Biblical Evangelism has ceased operation. The remaining inventory of his books and gospel tracts was transferred to The Baptist Tabernacle of Los Angeles and may be ordered here. Off the Cuff (Part 3 of 3) PRO-BABY KILLERS & MASS An impressive source within the Roman Catholic church says pro-baby killing politicians like Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Rudy Giuliani should be refused Mass when they show up at church. He pointed out that they “are out of step” with church teaching about the sanctity of human life. Not only is the gentleman in question a church Cardinal, but he is now also the Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (a position something like our Supreme Court Chief Justice) at the Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, prior to his present position as chief of the Burke admitted, “…I’ve received very severe criticism, both at the time that I was insisting on applying the discipline and also in my writing and other situations. But I have to say that, I think about it again, the discipline itself, and it’s a consistent discipline from the time of As Burke explained, for a Roman Catholic “The Holy Eucharist is the most sacred reality. It is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. And I simply wouldn’t approach to receive Holy Communion if I was in a state of sin, and neither would I give Holy Communion to someone who I knew was in a state of sin.” In the meantime, Nancy – who has called late-term abortions ‘sacred ground’ – was saying her pro-life critics (she was talking about Republicans, not leaders in her church) needed a lesson on ‘the birds and the bees.’ She described it as a lesson in Sex Education 101. But what the connection is between killing an innocent baby in its mother’s womb and sex education, it would take a radical politician to understand. ED SNOWDEN, HERO OR BUM? Is he an evil man, a traitor? Or is he a patriot who loves and wants to save his country? Did you know Snowden kept a copy of the Constitution on his desk at his NSA Hawaiian office, “to cite when arguing against NSA activities he thought might violate it”? So said Andy Greenberg, who writes for Forbes, in an article about him recently. That doesn’t jibe well with the traitor bit, does it? One thing everyone who worked with him seems to agree on – except his superiors who were left holding the bag at the NSA office – is that he was a brilliant worker, intellectually. One former coworker put it like this, “That kid was a genius among geniuses ... NSA is full of smart people, but anybody who sat in a meeting with Ed will tell you he was in a class of his own … I’ve never seen anything like it.” While his former bosses at NSA claim he was a hacker, one who ‘cheated’ on his entrance exam and whom they found it necessary to destroy his computers after he took off for fear he had contaminated them, no one who worked with him believed that for a nanosecond. Quite the contrary, even before he was hired by the Greenberg said a staffer at NSA contacted him and, under condition of anonymity revealed quite a bit about the character of this character. The writer said he checked out some of it with Snowden, through his attorney Ben Wizner, and verified what the individual said. According to this individual, it was no mystery why Snowden had access to all the documents involved – he had earned that right through his work and his incredible competence. In short, he had “earned the access used to pull off his leak by impressing superiors with sheer talent.” To him, it was as simple as that. “It was given to him.” According to his former coworker, he was given status as a full administrator with virtually unlimited access to NSA data. “Big mistake in hindsight … But if you had a guy who could do things nobody else could, and the only problem was that his badge was green instead of blue, what would you do?” In fact, he said that when one manager was on vacation he gave Snowden his password so he could cover for him while he was away – and there is no evidence Snowden misused in any way those privileges. He was so highly esteemed by his superiors, Greenberg says, at one time they offered him a position on the Tailored Access Operations, an elite group of NSA hackers. He turned it down and, instead, signed on with ‘Booz’ Allen to work at NSA’s So, is Snowden a traitor or a patriot? History hasn’t written the final verdict on that one yet. In the meantime, Greenberg quoted his source as saying “he or she has slowly come to understand Snowden’s decision to leak the NSA’s files. ‘I was shocked and betrayed when I first learned the news, but as more time passes I’m inclined to believe he really is trying to do the right thing and it’s not out of character for him. I don’t agree with his methods, but I understand why he did it.’” The state is The claim to fame for The court house is a place of law. The Ten Commandments are what American law is based upon. So what’s wrong with their monument, residents ask. In fact, county officials insist that local citizenship support for the monument is absolutely unanimous, so what’s the big deal? Foreigners can butt out, thank you. A local businessman bought and paid completely for the monument. He takes care of all its maintenance. It doesn’t cost citizens one thin dime or one red cent. Here is another illustration of the imaginary constitutional violation of the so-called separation of church and state. The ACLU cannot find one English (or French, German, Russian, Spanish, etc.) word in the Constitution calling for that imaginary separation. Nor can the other atheists, agnostics, and assorted infidels find it in spite of all their fancy phrases to the contrary. How about giving honest, Bible-believing citizens a break and go after the terrorists now found on almost every street corner. In short, there are bigger fish to fry. Go fry them! HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN? … Since you won a soul to Christ? … Since you tried to win a soul to Christ? … Since your church engaged in an all-out effort to reach souls through an evangelistic crusade? … Since a new convert (age 12 or older) was baptized in your church? … Since an attendance record was broken? … Since any significant number of people got right with God at a public service in your church? In light of the above, could your church rightly be called an evangelistic church? In fact, could it really be called an evangelical church? [Reprinted from our June 1970 issue] THIS & THAT … Well, we told you it was going to happen if the Sodomite laws were upheld. We regret to admit that we were right. Utah Federal Judge Clark Waddoups has ruled that laws against polygamy are unconstitutional (they violated the First Amendment ‘freedom of religion’ right) and the case before him, a man with four wives (count ’em, four), Kody Brown (the five star on TLC’s ‘reality show’ “Sister Wives”) had a right to each one. Now we’ll wait for another judicial idiot to rule that a woman can marry her lap dog, another one of our predictions… Did you know that folks can now sign up for polygamous dating on line?... The First Lady of the Global warming, anyone? In January, just as Obama was planning to dish out billions more (as he shivered in his 6th – or was it the 7th? – Hawaiian vacation) to study global warming, a major part of the nation went into deep-freeze registering as low as -40 and wind chills as low as -70. And what about those ships loaded with scientists in the Why do so many church covenants omit the promise to abstain from boozing? The phrase “to abstain from the sale and use of intoxicating drink as a beverage” has been in the Some don’t believe Obama has been making his own laws, ignoring Congress. Ponder these statistics: Last year (2013), Congress passed and Obama signed 65 laws. Obama, during the same period – via his repeated ‘executive orders’ – enacted 3,659 ‘regulations!’ Never before has any president issued 56 ‘regulations’ for every law passed by Congress! What is happening to the separation of powers demanded by our Constitution?… We agree with Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the Dallas (TX) To all our friends who have fallen for all the propaganda trying to make out that George Washington, the Father of our Country, was a pagan, we dedicate this proclamation President Washington made in 1789: "I do recommend and assign Thursday ... next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be"… The downward trend of our nation continues. Both It was an important issue, so Oklahomans marched to the ballot box and voted. Well over a million of them – over three quarters of all voting – insisted marriage to be between one man and one woman, just as it had been throughout Roger Simon is a political columnist. The other day he penned an article declaring Republicans to be haters. He opened by saying he hoped John Boehner and Ted Cruz would drown (we assume, as implied, fatally). I am glad Roger is not a hater – no telling what he might have said if he were!... Unbelievable, huh? Even the defenders of our United Methodist Church Pastor Frank Schaefer faced a jury of his peers (fellow Methodist ministers) in Spring City (PA) just before Thanksgiving and was found guilty of violating UMC’s Book of Discipline by performing a same-sex wedding for his son. Amazingly, Schaefer publicly stated that three of his four children are Sodomites (homosexuals). Since sodomy is a learned behavior (no one is born that way), something must be radically wrong in the Schaefer family home life. The council gave him 30 days to repent and change his position before being defrocked, but he adamantly refused. Ipso facto, when the 30 days were up, he was defrocked. Meanwhile, the same month across the nation in There are two things our president seems to despise: the Christian religion and our military. Oh, he says all the right things that his speech writers have prepared and placed on his teleprompter, but we are talking about his actions, not his words. We find it very, very troubling… Every year there is a World AIDS Day and much is made of the needs of its victims. That is well and good, but the plain truth of the matter is that if it were not for sodomy there would be no AIDS epidemic... Wearing pink is fine to show support for breast cancer protection, but do you know what cancer kills more women than breast cancer and colon-rectal cancer combined? It is lung cancer. And do you know the leading cause of lung cancer in women? Right! It is cigarette smoking! Yes, you’ve come a long way, baby – backward!... Remember our warning? Some time ago we warned about the ‘miracle’ of electric cigarettes. Well, one exploded in the mouth of a man in Pensacola (FL) the other day. It severely burned his face, knocked out some of his front teeth, and ‘bit off’ part of his tongue. North Bay Fire Department Division Chief Joseph Parker said apparently the cig’s battery exploded while he was smoking the cigarette. The chief likened it to a bottle rocket exploding in the man’s mouth… Having six deacons because that was the number in the church at Jerusalem makes no more sense than having a hymnbook with 150 hymns and songs because that was the number in Israel’s hymnbook (the Psalms)… I have a 'dumb' phone, not a smart one. But those in the know tell me vile pornography is just a click away with a smart phone, day or night, wherever you are. By 2017 it will be available to some quarter of a billion users. This battle is getting bigger by the hour... Even the elephants are getting into the act. We are familiar with stories about illegal aliens and their fake papers, but The Asian Reporter told of police seizing 14 elephants that had fake identification papers in Who put this guy on the bench? William Skretny is a Buffalo Federal District Court Judge. The other day he ruled that one of My good friend, Dr. Bob Porter – yes, of God’s Simple Plan of Salvation fame – told me that this year, in my birth month of August, there will be three Fridays, three Saturdays and three Sundays. This only happens once in every 823 years he said! Is he correct? And can’t you just wait for the next one in 2837!... While she was in a supermarket shopping, a thief stole the wallet of Oklahoman Jessica Eaves. She later spotted him over in the pickle aisle (actually, he was in the figurative pickle) and said she would give him a choice, either she would call police or he could return her wallet (she said if he did, she’d pay for his groceries). He chose the latter and she went with him to checkout (he saying over and over, “I’m sorry; I’m sorry”). It cost her about $27. The last thing he said to this An open socialist and Castro supporter, Howard Zinn, has written A People’s History of the More of the same: Charlie “Chris” Bates had just raped four women at gunpoint in Tampa (FL) after tying up their male companions. He next found a woman sitting on her porch in the same apartment complex, forced her inside at gunpoint, forced her to undress and kiss him, then was about to rape her when she started quoting John 3:16. It was like he was transformed, apologizing to her, gave her a shirt to cover her nakedness, and then they prayed together. He wouldn’t accept the Bible she tried to give him, but she tore out several pages and gave them to him. He fled and she called 911. Bates, who was suspected of several other high profile crimes, was killed 12 hours later in a shoot-out with police following a high speed chase… Dan Gainor is vice president of business and culture for the A Costco store in Simi Valley (CA) labeled the Bible ‘fiction’ in its sales department. The company later apologized saying, “We deeply regret the mislabeling of the Bible and meant no offense to anyone.” So the company emailed several customers who had complained, adding, “The buyer has let us know that this was an error and the books are being pulled off the shelves to be re-marked.” Well, bully for them; the truth is that probably no one involved knew what was in The Book… Forbes editor Steve Forbes said, in an interview with Newsmax, that Obama’s planned economic reforms are “the definition of insanity” – just repeating failed policies hoping for a different result… The NYPD knows where to find criminal activity. It sent plainclothes police into some 250 mosques in Baptist Press quote: "Some studies show that 30 percent of Americans will struggle with alcohol in some way. That does not mean they are all alcoholics, but there are real issues to be addressed. If more evangelicals are going to accept beverage alcohol, we need to have this conversation. Even if the views don't change, there are still many secret alcoholics. So let's have the conversation either way." That is almost one out of every three in this country, including children... This will curl your hair: Robert Brame, who serves as criminology professor at the Death in How could But we can't condemn just the Democrats. While the political theater plays out in Ex-actor, ex-politician Fred Thompson, who is not always wrong, reported: “An Did you know that prisoners in American hearts were touched and moved with the Columnist Charlie Martin put it like this: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me; fool me for five years, I’m an Obama voter”… A second opinion: Humorist Frank J. Fleming offers: “Where did we get this idea that we need to save the environment? Has the environment ever tried to save us? No. Since the dawn of time, nature has tried to kill us. Earthquakes, plagues, sharknados – nature is always trying to find new ways to wipe us out”… February Quote of the Month: “If evangelical Christianity offers a richness of life not for sale in the Secular City, if it heralds a hope that can warm the coldest heart, if it guarantees a future that can surpass the prospect of a sojourn on the moon, if it can open the modern soul once again to the transcendent world, if its revelation of God can demonstrate the power and joy of new life in the spirit, then now – now – is the time to trumpet the good news!” – Dr. Carl F. H. Henry (1913-2003); President, Evangelical Theological Society (1969); Founding Editor, Christianity Today (1956-1968) March Quote of the Month: “If we work on marble, it will perish; if on brass, time will efface it; if we rear up temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and the love of our fellow men, we engrave on those tables something that will brighten to all eternity.” – Daniel Webster, (1782-1852) American Politician April Quote of the Month: “If you desire and hope to get to Heaven, listen to the answer given to the question, Who are they who find a place before the throne of God? ‘They have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.’ That washing takes place not in Heaven, and not at death, but here, during our life on earth. Do not deceive yourselves by a hope of Heaven if you have not been cleansed by that precious blood. Do not dare to meet death without knowing that Jesus has cleansed you by His blood.” – Andrew Murray (1828-1917) |
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