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By: Bible Reading for January 14 | Faith Resting in the Power of God

Bible Reading for January 14 | Faith Resting in the Power of God — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:57:15 +0000

[...] children, but God’s promises for them still stand. I encourage you to read Russell Moore’s blog post interpreting the Sandy Hook [...]

By: Eutychus

Eutychus — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:36:49 +0000

Murder is evil and defiles because the murderer defies his Creator. Jesus made it perfectly clear that it’s not what is external to man that defiles him but what comes from within, namely, from the heart of man, the center of his being (Mat 15:11). Banning guns will not eliminate evil or its consequences but will always be a Band-Aid. What about banning knives and box cutters? How about banning evil? No, God will deal with that in due time. For now, what is needed for anyone is a changed heart and hope that our culture can Band-Aid the negative consequences of evil so we can survive to receive that changed heart.

By: Joey Kennedy

Joey Kennedy — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:19:37 +0000

Oh that our people would return to God. I could’nt agree more with this article. God Bless.

By: jill ezzell

jill ezzell — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:36:35 +0000

@stephen matlock, AMEN AND AWESOME!

By: Moore to the Point – Our Top 10 Posts of 2012

Moore to the Point – Our Top 10 Posts of 2012 — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:49:28 +0000

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By: Monday Links and Bullets 12.24.12 – Christmas Edition! « pastorkevinb

Monday Links and Bullets 12.24.12 – Christmas Edition! « pastorkevinb — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:24:23 +0000

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By: John

John — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:18:56 +0000

@stephen matlock, I agree with Dara.

By: Joan Haldiman

Joan Haldiman — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:43:06 +0000

This read is very somber and eye opening. What happened was evil and this explains the evil that were seeing more n more of. Beautiful Children….. I am sickened. For the loss ..for the poor grieving familes my prayers won’t stop . Thank you for an
Explanation that tho horrible, Made sense Satan is alive and well here on earth.

By: Shadow Walker

Shadow Walker — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:31:03 +0000

Dr. Moore –

You are right about the unmentioned spiritual warfare against children. Is it a mere coincidence that Suzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games and the Underland Chronicles, lives in Newtown, not just in that town, but in the affluent village of Sandy Hook where this tragedy took place? What spiritual forces of darkness and evil have been unleashed on that community through these books that focus on death, murder, brutality, genocide, suicide, and violence?

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:13:01 +0000

This is so true. Evil is evil. See in China and around the world. This is a powerful writing. Take comfort watching this powerful video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kfxxJgJW0M

While the events at Sandy Hook are terrible, those kids are better off today than they ever were on earth. Jesus came to earth to defeat evil.

By: Thomas A. Fields

Thomas A. Fields — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:33:47 +0000

@Kyralessa, Thomas No, that is not anything we have got to do, need to do, or should do. I don’t mean this in a mean way, but that line of thought is naive. The problem is not firearms, it is the culture of the country. People inclined to violence have only to look up a bomb recipe on the internet in order to commit mayhem. One way to change culture is to pray. Another is to refuse to buy the products, watch the movies, view the television shows, etc., etc. etc. of those who promote a no-rules, no God, do-what-you-want-to culture. If the “bad boys” (and girls) can’t make a living or reveive adulation tearing down our society, they will have to go into another line of work.

By: Catherine Edwards

Catherine Edwards — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:38:40 +0000

@Ben, All your references are Old Testament. Christ ushered in an era of Grace. Quite literally Christ changed everything… for the better.

By: Anno Domini

Anno Domini — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:02:06 +0000

Forces of evil are deliberately used to manipulate ignorant people only to discard them afterwards.
Satan is getting bolder under certain social names. When people in such groups are in charge, they organize provocative rituals dismissible as social vices.
Grieve and concern illuminate this whole drama in the whole place.
Open our eyes to wisdom Lord Jesus!

By: Red White

Red White — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:25:18 +0000

@stephen matlock, I can’t believe you’re serious about your view. Jesus preached LOVE. Please go and study.

By: Red White

Red White — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:00:24 +0000

@peter larson, your view seems detached from real life. any woman, very often young girl, deciding for abortion is in a crisis if not worse. just provide social security, money and respect, to woman and child and you’d be surprised about the permanently reduced abortion rates. But this needs an entire cultural change. (No more “Sex And The City”.) We can’t afford? Well don’t blame Roe v Wade.

By: Posts on the Sandy Hook Massacre « The Vineyard Ministry

Posts on the Sandy Hook Massacre « The Vineyard Ministry — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:54:33 +0000

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By: Eke, Augustine ESS

Eke, Augustine ESS — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:24:53 +0000

@Frederick W. Harrison,
Na so!
Even so come Lord Jesus.

By: Robert Duprey

Robert Duprey — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:05:18 +0000

@Ben,
There are many things hard to accept in scripture and many more hard to understand with out proper study.
I would encourage you to find a solid Bible teacher and ask to study what you have offered as offence at God.
There are many reasons God allows death.. judgement , calamity and yes required executions in times of war and cleansing of the land. But he is not crewl or pointless in His dealings with man.
You would do well to study this and find out Why a Righteous God would do it or command it be done. Without that study , you have failed to protect yourself from evil and allowed The Accuser to offend you concerning Gods judgements. God is not easy or ‘nice’ as some would think here in America. He is however kind , very just and right in what he does.
RJ Duprey

By: Thomas A. Fields

Thomas A. Fields — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:20:42 +0000

It seems to me that evil is certainly stalking this country, in a bolder way than I have seen before (I am 64). There are only 2 spiritual forces in the universe, and we have been pushing the good One and His Son out of our society and lives for decades now. The evil one is rushing in to fill that vacuum. What began as a decent, if secular, concern for the rights and/or feelings of unbelievers has morphed into a funhouse-mirror image of the society we used to have, where it seems that the primary belief system is unbelief, and the primary moral code is whatever one’s own happens to be. God disciplined Israel several times for turning away from him. Perhaps it is our turn.

By: Kelly Fields

Kelly Fields — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:50:27 +0000

..Demons (Legion) don’t give a crap about legislation!

By: Sandy Hook Unveils the Reality of Spiritual Warfare - Rise of the Right

Sandy Hook Unveils the Reality of Spiritual Warfare - Rise of the Right — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:56:59 +0000

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By: Thursday Three For All « Connective Tissue

Thursday Three For All « Connective Tissue — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:03:36 +0000

[...] School Shootings and Spiritual Warfare. By far the best response to the horrors of last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut. …let’s remember that Bethlehem was an act of war. Let’s remember that the One born there is a prince of peace who will crush the skull of the ancient murderer of Eden. Let’s pray for the Second Coming of Mary’s son. And, as we sing our Christmas carols, let’s look into the slitted eyes of Satan as we promise him the threat of his coming crushed skull. [...]

By: Alicia Porter

Alicia Porter — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:31:34 +0000

@Linda Rodgers. . . the “slitted eyes of Satan” comment was to paint a picture of Satan as a serpent, as he is depicted many times in Scripture. It was not a racial slur.

By: Ariko Di

Ariko Di — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:39:39 +0000

@Martin Kemp,
I believe there so many laws now for gun control. What is lacking is the “removal” from society this kind of evil!! The perpetuator is the problem… we should have stronger Capital Punishment for this kind of evil and the same with terrorist acts!!! Americans have generally became so soft to criminality and quick to offer excuses for the crimes of this kind…

By: linda rodgers

linda rodgers — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:29:38 +0000

Your article was forwarded to me by a member of my bible study. It was quite good, thanks for your insight.
I have only one small thing to point out:
At the end of the article , you say, “lets look into the slitted eyes of satan….”
I understand that you are trying to make the writing descriptive…. but there are human beings whose ethnicity means that they have slitted eyes, as in Asian type eyes. As christians, and human beings, we need to be cautious of these sort of subtle racial slurs. All beings with slitted eyes do not deserve to be thought of as having features of satan. We need to stop talking in physical racial terms, when we want to emphasize a point. This furthers the idea that all black dialects indicate the person is shiftless and lazy; or that people with over projected front teeth are stupid; that jewish surnames indicate stinginess, just to name a few. I am sure that this was an oversight, and not intentional. We will look into satan’s eyes,would be more appropriate.
By the way, I am not Asian.
Thanks for your article,
Linda Rodgers

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By: Is Christmas still good news for Newtown? « That Christ May Dwell

Is Christmas still good news for Newtown? « That Christ May Dwell — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:22:04 +0000

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By: Why do bad things happen? - The First Family

Why do bad things happen? - The First Family — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:23:35 +0000

[...] In the hours after the shooting, Jewish political and cultural commentator John Podhoretz called attention to a concept most Americans don’t like to think about at Christmastime, if ever: hell. Podhoretz noted the heightened iniquity of child sacrifice in the Hebrew Scriptures’ denunciation of the god Moloch. Moloch, of course, was a blood-thirsty deity who demanded his followers to pour out the lives of their children. The valley of this atrocity was called Gehenna. Jesus pointed to Gehenna when he told us about hell. MORE [...]

By: Articles of Interest (12/18) - Brent Walker

Articles of Interest (12/18) - Brent Walker — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:22:52 +0000

[...] Spiritual Warfare – “The nation is watching, with horror and disgust, news reports out of Connecticut of a horrific act of violence against an elementary school filled with defenseless children. While every act of murder ought to provoke outrage, there’s something especially condemnable about the murder of children.” [...]

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Links on Newtown | Redemption Church of Northridge — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:09:45 +0000

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By: Kyralessa

Kyralessa — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:07:54 +0000

You ask us not to offer pat, easy answers.

But “evil” is a pat, easy answer.

Evil is something we take for granted. It’s not something we can prosecute or legislate away until it doesn’t exist anymore.

As a result, when we attribute something to “evil”, it keeps us from the difficult work of changing our nation’s laws that allow this sort of thing to keep happening over and over and over.

Instituting gun control won’t be easy. Repealing the Second Amendment won’t be easy. But if we’re going to solve this problem, rather than sighing about “evil”, those hard things are the kinds of things we’ve got to do.

By: Out And About (12/18/2012) » All Things Expounded

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By: John Dalton

John Dalton — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:52:59 +0000

As a European atheist, I find the use of this religious rhetoric
quite disturbing.

I suppose the use of detailed scriptural references by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is not surprising, but I do tend to see this sort of bothering as - forgive me for saying so - a sort of American weirdness.

Likewise I see weirdness in people wanting or cherishing a
constitutional right to “bear arms”, or in a democratic government conceding such a right.

Who do they want to “bear arms” against? In this case clearly
defenceless children. It is clear however that the US is a very violent society whether in it’s own cultural life, what it does to children or what it does in the wider world.

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By: Charles Juma

Charles Juma — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 02:24:59 +0000

Spot on, Dr. Moore! Behind the veil of this unthinkable carnage, there is dark power at work. Unfortunately, this dark power is mostly either denied by or all together unknown to the modern western mind. Yet, the Bible says a whole lot about spiritual warfare and about Satan himself, as you have pointed out here so clearly. In fact, the Bible is a spiritual warfare book. It is the “sword of the Spirit” according to Ephesians 6: 17. So thank you for pointing out very wisely and clearly the reality of spiritual warfare behind this horrible massacre of children.

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School Shooting and Spiritual Warfare « struggling with all His energy — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:12:21 +0000

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By: Troy B.

Troy B. — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:12:58 +0000

@peter larson, I agree with you fully Peter.

MAAFA21.com - please watch this documentary, any and all.

By: Troy B.

Troy B. — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:11:40 +0000

“The mystery of evil is a declaration of war on the peace of God’s creation.”

What does “mystery of evil” mean?

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By: Katherine Wells Anderson

Katherine Wells Anderson — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:39:17 +0000

@Martin Kemp, There are legitimate arguments on both sides of the gun issue. The real issue is the wide open door to a spirit of death and disregard for human life in general that has become pervasive in this country through the legalization of abortion. 1,000s of innocent lives are taken daily in a violent manner and because it’s done under the guise of “medicine” we may safely ignore it. What good to take guns away from law abiding citizens; allow those who would to purchase them black market as they do drugs, etc. and yet, the silent torture of unborn children continue with the protection of authority?

We are no better than ancient societies who through their babies in the fire to satisfy the god, moloch.