The Engaging Essentials

February 9, 2011 By

Planned Parenthood Unmasked – Live Action Films, and Lila Rose, continue to pull the mask off the face of Planned Parenthood.  What’s beneath is nothing much to look upon, but you need to know how to respond to the “exaggerated misstatements” PP is offering after getting caught in wrongdoing.

The Shifting Political Beliefs of Catholics – Michael Gerson observes what we might learn from the changing political mind of Catholics in Congress.

What the Bible Says About Sex . . . Really? – Does the title from Dr. Al Mohler really need any further elaboration?

99 Balloons – Every innocent human life is worthy of respect and recognition.  This family lived it out (grab your tissues):

About Jeremy Dys

Jeremy Dys is the FPCWV's President and General Counsel. In addition to his duties of providing strategic vision and leadership to the FPCWV, Dys is the chief lobbyist and spokesman. Dys is regularly featured in local, state, and national print, radio, and television outlets. He lives close to Charleston with his wife and growing family.

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The Engaging Essentials

January 31, 2011 By

Hey, remember me?  When the legislative session is in full-swing, as it is right now in WV, it’s a bit difficult for me to maintain my faithfulness to this intentionally irregular series I like to call, “The Engaging Essentials.”  Alas and alack, it must be what it is.  But, for today at least, here’s a bit of what you should be reading:

Chick-Fil-A Locked in Epic Battle – Well, that’s they way the story is being reported, anyway.  What is the pro-cow, pro-family outfit accused of this time?  Helping to strengthen marriages.  Wow.  And to think, just this weekend I had a big, fat helping of “anti-gay Jesus Chicken” (I can’t make this stuff up!) at my local CFA.

Why Regulate Abortion Mills? – Kermit Gosnell, that’s why.  Gosnell is the back alley, rusty coat hanger abortion doc that the pro-choice always laments.  The only difference, of course, is that Gosnell was legally conducting the “safe and rare” practice of abortion to the tune of millions of dollars, thousands of dead babies, and several dead women.  Shameful.

In His Own Words – Pastors, please take note: this example by Dr. Al Mohler is how we are asking you to use your prophetic voice in speaking Biblically for life, marriage, and religious freedom.  Here, Mohler takes on the pro-abortion statement of our President as he marked the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

ADF and Separation of Church/State – Have the great wall tearing down attorneys at the Alliance Defense Fund capitulated to the idea of separating church and state?  Hardly.

Stand for Life – Lila Rose of Live Action fame offers this moving challenge to the pro-life community.  Watch and share:

About Jeremy Dys

Jeremy Dys is the FPCWV's President and General Counsel. In addition to his duties of providing strategic vision and leadership to the FPCWV, Dys is the chief lobbyist and spokesman. Dys is regularly featured in local, state, and national print, radio, and television outlets. He lives close to Charleston with his wife and growing family.

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Engaging Essentials

November 29, 2010 By

Trusting each of you had a blessed Thanksgiving.  I was struck during our celebrations of how uniquely American Thanksgiving is.  Not just that, but how conjoined it is to Christianity.  It’s an interesting demonstration of our nation’s religious heritage.  Now, on to the essential reading list:

Single Member Districts – Hoppy’s Commentary calls for, “single member districts” in the WV House of Delegates.  Start reading up on this and getting familiar.  You’ll be hearing a lot about this in 2011, I’m sure.

Who Needs Marriage? – Al Mohler does his usually excellent, incisive critique of the importance of marriage and reveals some things we may not want to think about ourselves in the process.

Abortion and the 2010 Election – RedState examines how abortion did play a monumental role in the 2010 election and any suggestion that libertarianism = pro-life conservatism is incorrect.

Learning from Westboro – Pastor and author Kevin DeYoung examines the protestors from Westboro Baptist Church with an eye toward learning from their overt foolishness. He has three main points: (1) Any truth promoted to the exclusion of other truths can become untruth, (2) It matters how we’re heard, and (3) We must refuse to play into the binary stereotype which says the opposite of unconditional affirmation is fuming hatred. Read and learn.

About Jeremy Dys

Jeremy Dys is the FPCWV's President and General Counsel. In addition to his duties of providing strategic vision and leadership to the FPCWV, Dys is the chief lobbyist and spokesman. Dys is regularly featured in local, state, and national print, radio, and television outlets. He lives close to Charleston with his wife and growing family.

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On Homosexual Behavior, Should Churches Just Cue ‘Kumbaya’?

May 19, 2010 By

Conservatives v. Liberal Episcopals: Can we all just get along?

Al Mohler is a tremendous thinker.

Ok, I’ll admit it: I’m jealous.  Not only do I wish I could think as clearly as he does, I wish I could articulate such clarity of thought in the right way.

Yesterday, on his blog, he discussed the recent ordination by the Episcopal Church of Mary Glasspool of Bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles.  This is noteworthy, not simply because of her gender, but also because she is a professed lesbian (something of an orthodox double-whammy, really).  Glasspool joins Gene Robinson as the second to be ordained, openly living a homosexual lifestyle Bishop within the Episcopal Church.

This, of course, is something that is making waves throughout the Anglican/Episcopal community worldwide.  Conservative, orthodox Episcopals/Anglicans decry her ordination as against Scripture.  Liberal/progressives of the same cloth think otherwise.

Mohler does a fine job explaining the divide and I’ll leave it to you to follow the link and read his explanation.

But what has caught my eye is that a reporter with The Times in London that has reported on the Anglican church for decades has uttered a familiar cry – familiar, at least, to those of us who hear from the theologically liberal denominations with some regularity.  What is that cry?

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About Jeremy Dys

Jeremy Dys is the FPCWV's President and General Counsel. In addition to his duties of providing strategic vision and leadership to the FPCWV, Dys is the chief lobbyist and spokesman. Dys is regularly featured in local, state, and national print, radio, and television outlets. He lives close to Charleston with his wife and growing family.

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Al Mohler: Is Social Justice Forbidden Territory?

March 17, 2010 By

Al Mohler recently offered commentary against Glen Beck’s hyper call for men and women to leave their church if they hear the words, “social justice” anywhere therein.  Within his comments, Mohler makes an excellent case for why we are to be faithful in both the presentation of the gospel and its societal (or social) implications.

Do you agree with Mohler?  After you read the quote below, post a comment to share your thoughts.

The church is not to adopt a social reform platform as its message, but the faithful church, wherever it is found, is itself a social reform movement precisely because it is populated by redeemed sinners who are called to faithfulness in following Christ. The Gospel is not a message of social salvation, but it does have social implications.

Faithful Christians can debate the proper and most effective means of organizing the political structure and the economic markets. Bringing all these things into submission to Christ is no easy task, and the Gospel must not be tied to any political system, regime, or platform. Justice is our concern because it is Gods concern, but it is no easy task to know how best to seek justice in this fallen world.

And that brings us to the fact that the Bible is absolutely clear that injustice will not exist forever. There is a perfect social order coming, but it is not of this world. The coming of the Kingdom of Christ in its fullness spells the end of injustice and every cause and consequence of human sin. We have much work to do in this world, but true justice will be achieved only by the consummation of Gods purposes and the perfection of Gods own judgment.

Until then, the church must preach the Gospel, and Christians must live out its implications. We must resist and reject every false gospel and tell sinners of salvation in Christ. And, knowing that Gods judgment is coming, we must strive to be on the right side of justice.

via Glenn Beck, Social Justice, and the Limits of Public Discourse – AlbertMohler.com.

About Jeremy Dys

Jeremy Dys is the FPCWV's President and General Counsel. In addition to his duties of providing strategic vision and leadership to the FPCWV, Dys is the chief lobbyist and spokesman. Dys is regularly featured in local, state, and national print, radio, and television outlets. He lives close to Charleston with his wife and growing family.

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