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Others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire;
hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
–Jude 1:23 (KJV)–

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.
–1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)–

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Consumed with memories
That preceded today
Given the chance to bereave
Life that’s slipping away

Suffered through tragedy
Of my slow decay
Deceptive tendencies
Dragged my soul away

All that I know
There was no God for me
Force that shatters all
Absence of mortality

Revive all my fears
Revive wasted tears
Revive void within
Revive once again

Again
Again
Again
Again

Forsaken by destiny
Forsaken by my own mind
I must remove my skin
To see belief in your eyes

All that I know
There was no God for me
Force that shatters all
Absence of humanity

Revive all my fears
Revive wasted tears
Revive void within
Revive once again

Again
Again
Again

Reach for the sky
Touch the sky
Revive a hope
For mankind

–Fear Factory, “Resurrection”–

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Dr. Thomas C. Oden, The Transforming Power of Grace (Abingdon Press, 1993).

—. John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994).

Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1984).

Dr. John R. Rice, Hell: What the Bible Says About It (SLP, 1945).

Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, NOR HOMOSEXUALS, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners WILL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
–1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)–

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They condemn the Anabaptists,
who deny that those once justified
can lose the Holy Ghost.
–Martin Luther, The Augsburg Confession, Art. 12–

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Justin and Brian were invited, the two married gay men at the center of all the controversy. And I’m sure that you’ve read all about that. And here’s the thing about Brian and Justin: their stories and their journeys of growing up in church and maintaining their faith in Christ and their commitment to follow Christ all through their high school and college and singles and all up to the time that they were married, their story is so powerful for parents of gay especially kids, that it’s a story gay parents and gay kids need to hear.
–Andy Stanley, the Son of Charles Stanley–

²⁴ God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever! Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error.
–Romans 1:24-27 (NRSV)–

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2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. It psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity (Cf. Genesis 19:1-29; Romans 1:24-27; 1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Timothy 1:10), tradition has always declared that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.” (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Persona humana, 8). They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.

2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. They do not choose their homosexual condition; for most of them it is a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

2359 Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them their inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.

–THE CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH–

²⁰ BE NOT AMONG WINEBIBBERS; among riotous eaters of flesh: ²¹ For THE DRUNKARD AND THE GLUTTON SHALL COME TO POVERTY: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. ²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. ²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. ²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. ²⁵ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. ²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. ²⁷ For A WHORE IS A DEEP DITCH; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. ²⁸ SHE ALSO LIETH IN WAIT AS FOR A PREY, AND INCREASETH THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG MEN. ²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? WHO HATH REDNESS OF EYES? ³⁰ THEY THAT TARRY LONG AT THE WINE; they that go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ³² At the last IT BITETH LIKE A SERPENT, and stingeth like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold STRANGE WOMEN, and THINE HEART SHALL UTTER PERVERSE THINGS. ³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. ³⁵ THEY HAVE STRICKEN ME, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; THEY HAVE BEATEN ME, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I WILL SEEK IT YET AGAIN.

–PROVERBS 23:20-35 (KJV)–

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Alcoholics account for 20-40% of all suicides.
—Dr. Maurizio Pompili—

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Rio Summit, ’92
Street people kidnapped
Hid from view
“To save the earth”
Our rulers met
Some had other
Secret plans

No, no, no, no

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Say what?

Strip-mine the Amazon
Of cells of life itself
Gold rush for genes is on
Natives get nothing

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is Godzilla

Godzilla, rargh!

Mutations cooked in labs
Money-mad experiments
New food and medicine?
New germs and accidents!
Like Cubatão
“World’s most polluted town”
Air melts your face
Deformed children all around

Biotechnology
Ain’t what’s so bad
Like all technology
It’s in the wrong hands
Cut-throat corporations
When lots of people die
From what they’ve made

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is AIDS

Stop!

–Sepultura, “Biotech Is Godzilla”–

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John Flavel, Binge Drinking (Banner of Truth, 2008).

Dr. John R. Rice, The Double Curse of Booze (SLP, 1960).

David Wilkerson, Suicide (Spire Books, 1978).

—. What Every Teenager Should Know About Drugs (Bethany, 1968).

Joe Schimmel, Behind the Green Haze (GFM, nd).

Josh, great hellfire preaching,
great evangelistic sermon.
–J.B.–