Dogs & Doghouses

This post contains adult Baptist commentary. If you are a parent that monitors your child's use of the internet - good for you and you may want to pass on this. If you are a parent that doesn't monitor your child's use of the internet then you're lazy and derelict in your duty AND chances are your child has already seen far, far, worse than this.

So anyway - All in favor of keeping news about sexual preferences private please raise your hand. I hope you raised your hand. To get right to the point, I'm sick of Sodomites and the incessant message and carping about being 'that way' and how it's ok to be 'that way'.

If Baptists could get the message out the way the Sodomites do, a lot more people would hear the gospel. Think about it.

Just recently:

...the White House had to rearrange things because 'gay' couples wanted in on the Easter egg hunt.

...there is an annual 'Day of Silence' (we should be so fortunate) in many public schools. This is the day when the recently recruited school age stay quiet. Why just one day? Why not a 'Month of Silence'? Now that would be nice.

...several states are considering making 'Sexual Orientation' a part of their early learning (pre-middle school) curriculums. That's NEA code for, "We're going to tell your children Sodomy is ok." Most large city public schools offer students access to places for Sodomite counseling/recruitment.

...scan any of the large city newspapers and you'll see something about them. They like to protest and march and show their outrage - they're awfully outraged to be such a gay group.

If my kids are in the car with me I don't turn on the radio because I know something will come up that has to do with sodomy. They don't use that word of course. The talk is of homosexual and gay. There are any number of phrases, innuendos, and half unspoken jargon words to cover the same territory. They're talking about sodomy and I don’t think my kids should have to have that discussion yet.

And television, don't even get me started on television. I don't even have cable. Every show has to have a Sodomite character (except Bible movies - those show Sodom without Sodomites). Aren't they always funny and affecting? Oh, and lately there's the commercials, "'Don't miss the exciting three episodes of Will & Grace." Thank heaven it's the final three. I can't wait for the reunion show in a few years. Do you think they'll visit one of the characters who is on his death bed because of AIDS because he decided to visit the bath house one dozen times too many? Wouldn't that be zany? How loud will the laugh track be for that one?

And what was that Oscar winning movie out not too long ago, Sodomy Mountain?

Canada (think about that, Canada of all places) as well as several European countries have outlawed certain Bible passages because it is considered hate speech against the ever sensitive Sodomite.

It's just so important to the Sodomites that everyone knows the choice they've made about what to do with their sexual organs. I understand already and quite frankly, it's not that impressive.

Romans 1:26 – 27 - For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

What a trend we have in Jesus

shirts and signage that we wear.

What a wonder that we carry

Jesus baubles in our hair.


Rubber bands adorn our wrist bones

bumper stickers make them stare.

Dollars spent in all our efforts

just to show them we must care.


See the modern Christian artists?

Hear their music in the air.

Making millions from the CDs

as we covet all that's fair.


In the fancy Bible book store

ecumenical ignore.

Spend your money with abandon

just make sure you still want more.

I fully believe anybody in their right mind can look out their window and declare, "There is a God." To note the diversity and beauty (the rich blue of the sky or the jagged and speckled orange of a lobster's tail, for example) of creation and ascribe it to an accidental event is foolish. The Bible tells us that fools (and only fools) tell their hearts there is no God. Psalms 14 and 53 bear this out. The only hurdle lies in the ability to see beyond the created and know there is a creator. This too is offered to all with eyes to see and, again, I look to the Bible as verification of this, "The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all…" (Titus 2:11) And noticing the greatness of creation, and seeing our own tiny part in it, how great a God that must be?

I don't know how, but I trust that those who truly seek for God shall find Him and they will discover the salvation He offers. I don't think anyone will have an excuse that they did not know.

And we are given a choice in the matter - as God gives us life, it is ours to live. Free, moral will is what separates us from the animals. Else we would be nothing more than a separate herd from all others, going north and south with the seasons. We were given choice both for and because of the greatness of God. Ask yourself, where does the greater glory for God reside; from some robotic creation that He would entirely control - raising voices of praise as though turning the volume up on a radio, or from masses of people who, of their own volition, declare their maker's praise, in the midst of millions more who reject Him?

Herein resides the one great immutable law that all, believers and unbelievers alike must obey - this is the law of the harvest. One reaps what one sews. Plant onions you will not have garlic. Plant ferns and you will not have daisies. Plant nothing, and that's what you get.

It's a small glance around our lives to notice the suffering and wickedness of the world. People do wickedly, that’s what we plant, because we are sinful. Read the headlines. In Africa, tyrants steal the food and shoot at the soldiers of other tyrants while their subjects hack one another to pieces with machetes. Widows and orphans die in gun battles. Down the street from where I live children take drugs, fill their minds with hopeless songs and perform hateful acts upon others. Terrorists fly airplanes into buildings. So not only do we reap what we sew, but in many cases, we reap what others sew as well. Sin and death are terrible things to behold. These things don't happen because creation is Godless, but it is because people, in their choices, make Godless decisions. It's good that we see these terrible things, and cry out to God for help. Because there is a God, and because we are far less than He is, failing in our own right and knowing with intimate detail the calamities that befall each life, we need to cry out to Him.

Continuing in Titus, it's that vision of God's grace, bringing salvation, that calls us to, "…live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world:" come what may (Titus 2:12). The great creator God does not leave us stranded. There is hope. We know there is God. We know we need saving and we know the rest of the world needs saving.

And then there is hell. Remember what I said about all people being able to see the grace of God and that those who seek for Him shall find Him (as in Luke 11:9). If you are truly looking for the grace of God you will find it - no matter who or where you are. In many ways this is a mystery to me. But I know for a fact that using their God-given choice, people can go the other way. They can try, sometimes for all their lives on this earth, to be separate from God. In its most basic sense hell is God giving people what they have asked for all along, complete separation from Him. And yes, complete separation from God is going to be terribly painful.

I have no doubt in this.