Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20 — King James Version

 

How about a very strong push against the tsunami of evil and lies from true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ to actually demonstrate authentic discipleship, to truly be salt, to truly be light in all this darkness and wickedness — rather than being as timid, as fearful, as appeasing, as otherwise occupied as so many have been?

How about we correct the errors in language? All of it. Every word. Every euphemism. Every abbreviation. Every laziness, corruption, perversity, and wrongful definition as evil appropriate words to their pleasure and use totally altering meanings in their never-ending quest to replace truth with lies, light with darkness, good with wickedness.

It is my hope and prayer anyone finding themselves here right now will also read Authentic Discipleship by Ian Hamilton, editor of The Banner of Truth Magazine, and a pastor. To learn there are others who see and write as I have been doing, using many of the same words as moved by the Spirit of God, these past 10 plus years. Regular readers, subscribers are probably weary of my continual writing that we’re living in Romans 1 and facing a tsunami of evil and wickedness, and that we need to be the salt of the earth, a light unto the world — but those things truly cannot be reiterated enough since so few seem to see, and so few seem to hear or quickly become distracted, or forgetful.

I’m just a feeble man. A sinner saved only by the grace of God and my faith in the Lord and His word. I was broken down to be lifted up. I had to be broken down. God shouting to me in my pain and physical state of my even more woeful and distressed spiritual condition. I was lost and mired in wickedness and sin. And the Lord called out to me one winter’s night as some of you know who have read about this here on ACP. The Spirit of God lifted me. From the depths of muck, wickedness, sin, and the pit of the darkness of this world’s ways. The Spirit of God restored me. Brought me to Life, out of darkness and into the Light, the Way, and the Truth. I do this out of thankfulness. And I’m retired. This is how the Lord has measured me out. Knitted me. Physically broken to be restored spiritually to strive to do the Lord’s will daily as long as He blesses me with breath and a beating heart. To hopefully do the work I am to do for Him. I’m a man who sins daily, makes more mistakes than is correct. But my gratitude to God, to Jesus for what He has been since before the creation of this earth, what He was while on earth, what He did for every and any sinner such as me? What God did in the promise of raising Jesus, His Son, from a death He ought not to have suffered was it not for a sinner such as me? To provide perfection in eternal life by His grace for our faith? This is something to remind ourselves more than a few times each day. And offer up a prayer of thanks upon every thought and reminder of this — many times a day! So whatever we may face and have to endure here is nothing, NOTHING compared to the glory that awaits in heaven for eternity. Let us each think on those things continually, frequently, daily. And it is our duty as soldiers for Christ and the word, the truth, in this spiritual war to fight continually, always, day and night. Soldiers do not take off in the middle of an escalating war to idle away time in other vain and worldly pursuits. The enemy does not take a holiday. Does not waver from its evil mission. Satan and his legions of ministers appearing as angels of light leading many astray do not take time off (see 2 Corinthians 11). Why do we?

It’s time more, many more, in fact, all those who proclaim to be His, profess to be a true Christian take up their cross and stand firmly, boldly, always, in all matters in these wicked, wicked times as a smothering darkness pervades this world. To no longer be timid, quiet, fearful, or appeasing of all this darkness and evil. To remain silent is in truth to put your stamp of approval on these things. It truly is whether you want to believe that or not. Because fear or timidity is allowing the noise and venom of wickedness to increase and course through the hearts and minds when we are to be authentic disciples, spreading the gospel — which is Jesus Christ — and living, being, salt and light.

Not hidden, fearful, timid, quiet, and invisible.

Nor are we to mistake what I’m writing here, or others do, that this means we make political activism our priority. No, dear ones — we make the ways and word of God, the ways and words of Jesus, we make Jesus, we make God, we make the Holy Spirit, we make the inerrant infallible living and active word of God our priority and our living to be authentic disciples our priority. THAT can and will and always has overcome any and all wickedness, any and all political movements ever to arise in this world warring against the truth, warring against the light. And we are to be on-duty soldiers, having on the whole armour of God continually in this escalating spiritual war everyone is enjoined in. There are no bystanders, no spectators, no conscientious objectors. Every person is on one side or the other. And there are only two sides to this war.

Which are you enlisted in and fighting for?

In the word. Of the word. By the word. For the word. Faithfully trusting the Holy Spirit to instruct, guide, give us our words and direction.

In Christ and Christ in us. May we all live that and not merely speak it — and may it begin to take effect and be seriously real in me. And you.

(I hope you will take time to open some of the “Related” articles found here on A Crooked Path found beneath the article below).
Ken Pullen

Wednesday, June 30th, 2021

ACP — A Crooked Path

 

Wisconsin governor orders gender-neutral birth certificates for parents who don’t identify as a mother, father

 

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

By Emily Wood

Reprinted from The Christian Post

 

Parents in Wisconsin will have the option of choosing “gender-neutral” terms for themselves instead of mother and father on their baby’s birth certificate, Gov. Tony Evers and the state’s Department of Health Services announced this week.

The new birth certificates, which will be available starting on Thursday, will include “parent-parent” in addition to “mother-father.” The gender-neutral terminology reflects the governor’s push to incorporate trans language in official government documents.

“This change reflects my and my administration’s commitment to gender-neutral terminology and to recognizing that Wisconsin families are diverse and should be valued and respected,” Evers said in a statement on Monday.

“I am glad to see this change being made as we continue to update our state policies and procedures to better reflect the Wisconsinites we serve,” he continued.

Terminology changes on the birth certificates also include the term “parent giving birth” instead of “mother.”

The new forms will be available in three languages: English, Spanish and Hmong.

Wisconsin DHS Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake said updating birth certificate forms is “one important step on the long road to adopting gender-neutral language in all of our external documents.”

“We are working hard to make Wisconsin a more inclusive, equitable, and just state and this update ensures our lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer Wisconsinites are seen and heard when welcoming a child into the world,” Timberlake said in a statement.

The governor also praised the decision on social media.

“As we celebrate #Pride, @DHSWI and I are excited to announce that, starting Thursday, Wisconsin parents will have a gender-neutral option for parents. This change reflects our continued commitment to recognizing that every family deserves to be treated with dignity and respect,” Evers tweeted.

Rep. Gae Magnafici, the Republican chairwoman of the Assembly Family Law committee, said the policy “is something that even the best satire writers cannot imagine,” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.

“As the Assembly chair of Family Law, a nurse, and a mom, I am insulted. I’m calling on Governor Evers to stop downplaying womanhood, stop downplaying motherhood, and stop downplaying settled science,” Magnafici said.

UnityPoint Health-Meriter President and CEO Sue Erickson, however, praised this action, arguing that same-sex couples are not reflected on birth certificates.

“Families have told us that a birth certificate that doesn’t accurately reflect their growing family can take away a piece of the joy when welcoming a new baby,” Erickson said in a statement.

“We are so pleased that Wisconsin created a more inclusive birth certificate form to reflect the families of our state and community,” she added. “This change allows all birthing parents to focus solely on their newborn.”

This comes after the Biden administration was criticized for using so-called “bias-free language” in regard to gender and replacing the term “mothers” with “birthing people” as part of their push to use transgender-inclusive language.

On the first day of June, Wisconsin flew the rainbow pride flag at the state Capitol to celebrate what lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender  activists call “Lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender pride month.”

“For the third year in a row, we kicked off #PrideMonth today by raising the Rainbow Pride Flag above the State Capitol. It’s never been more important to celebrate the vibrance, resilience, and contributions of our lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer neighbors who help make our state great,” Evers tweeted on June 1.

Evers also signed an executive order on June 1 to direct state agencies “to use gender-neutral language” in external communications.

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