Gay wedding

Are you sure you haven't misquoted me, about Rick Warren?

Rick Warren did a video on the Celebrate Recovery site that calibob gave the link for. Who said he founded it? Rick Warren has some history concerning gay issues, such as endorsing prop 8, then denying he endorsed prop 8 when it became inconvenient for him. Holding hands with Elton John making a crack about them kissing, it went viral...just the tip of the iceberg. No I'm not saying Warren is gay, I repeat, as far as I know Warren is not gay. He just has a bad memory?

Amen

There are others facing this same question. And each of us has to choose when it is our time. Just because my issue is over (for now), for others it is just around the corner.

But that's not PC

Amen. May the Holy Spirit guide her straight and true to the end.

What if we choose before we are in that situation? I was offered a recreational drug that lot's of people think is ok, when I was around 45 years old. I said "no", he laughed and ask why not? I said,.., man I made that decision when I was a kid! I don't even have to think about it now. For some reason that made a lasting impression on that man, and had it not been for his reaction to what I said I might not even remember it. As it happened, it made me realize I made lot's of choices well before I was in the position to choose.

Just to clarify, I've made more than my share of bad choices too.

He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness."

~ Noah was a drunk

~ Abraham was old

~ Isaac was a daydreamer

~ Jacob was a liar

~ Leah was unattractive

~ Joseph was abused and jailed

~ Moses had a stuttering problem and disobeyed God

~ Gideon was afraid

~ Samson was a womanizer

~ Rahab was a prostitute

~ David was an adulterer and a murderer

~ Elijah was suicidal

~ Isaiah preached naked

~ Jonah ran from God

~ Naomi was a widow

~ Job went bankrupt

~ John the Baptist ate bugs

~ Peter denied Christ... three times!!!

~ The disciples fell asleep while praying

~ Martha worried about too much

~ The Samaritan woman was divorced

~ Zacchaeus was too small

~ Paul was zealously religious for the wrong cause (originally)

Don't look for perfection in men. We are followers of Christ.

God's strength works best through our weaknesses.

I disagree, in my neck of the woods a wedding reception is for the purpose of the new couple "receiving" their guests for the first time as husband and wife. It's to thank the guests for sharing their happiness with refreshments, and a general celebrating the union. I could not possibly attend that of a gay couple, as I do not celebrate or support it.

I do not hate or condemn them. At times I decline to go to certain movies or other events, doesn't mean I hate the ones who invited me, not at all and they don't take it as such. We all have to make our own choices what we see, hear, speak, be involved in. But you created this thread, and I did try and persuade you not to go, because you asked.

That was a snide remark. You’re so convinced that you, and only you, know what the truth is, that you’re using cheap rhetoric to make people shut up when you’re being challenged.

Where did you learn that? That’s a well known strategy for people you really don’t want to be lumped together with.

Why don’t you instead start listening to what other people are saying? Maybe you could learn something? I have learned a lot from others in this thread, including the ones I disagree with, but with your posts it is difficult because you’re hiding under so many layers of armor.

I have two people in my family who are in this lifestyle, I could not attend any wedding or anything that their relationship was celebrated, if I did I would be approving and condoning it, and I can not and will not.

PROFANE > why would some on CC participate in this and call it the right thing to do?

PROFA'NE, a. [L. profanus; pro and fanum, a temple.]
1. Irreverent to any thing sacred; applied to persons. A man is profane when he takes the name of God in vain, or treats sacred things with abuse and irreverence.
2. Irreverent; proceeding from a contempt of sacred things, or implying it; as profane words or language; profane swearing.
3. Not sacred; secular; relating to secular things; as profane history.
4. Polluted; not pure.
Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.
5. Not purified or holy; allowed for common use; as a profane place. Ezek 42. and 48.
6. Obscene; heathenish; tending to bring reproach on religion; as profane fables. 1 Tim 4.
Profane is used chiefly in Scripture in opposition to holy, or qualified ceremonially for sacred services.

PROFA'NE, v.t. To violate any thing sacred, or treat it with abuse,irreverence, obloquy or contempt; as, to profane the name of God;
to profane the sabbath; to profane the Scriptures or the ordinances of God.
1. To pollute; to defile; to apply to temporal uses; to use as base or common. Ezek 24.
2. To violate. Mal 2.
3. To pollute; to debase. Lev 21.
4. To put to a wrong use.

From BBC.com/news/magazine;

Eating locusts: The crunchy, kosher snack taking Israel by swarm.
And a few, like Zivotofsky's unlucky locusts, are now landing up in heavily populated areas, like Tel Aviv.

Call it revenge, or just a practical killing of two birds with one stone - whatever the motivation, many Israelis have decided to cook them up, and eat them.


Locust is the only insect which is considered kosher. Specific extracts in the Torah state that four types of desert locust - the red, the yellow, the spotted grey, and the white - can be eaten.

OK all you wanna be Pharisees, Judaizers, Zealots and law keepers it's kosher! Dinner is served!

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:13
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:22
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
1Kings 14:24

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou know.
Psalm 40:
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 6:

Separation is a doctrine often avoided in the church today.

2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

For the cause of Christ
Roger