APRIL 2003 NEWSLETTER
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.” Romans 1: 18
Dear Friends, April 15, 2003
I recognize only 2 world-views: God’s and Man’s. God’s world-view is revealed in the Word of God. The script for our lives is in the scriptures. The world professes man’s world-view. It may be Humanism, Communism, Socialism, other isms, New Age Religion, or combinations thereof. God’s world-view never changes. He is the same “yesterday, and today, and forever,” Hebrews 13: 8
God’s world-view and man’s world-view are like dogs and cats. The world will hate you if you follow Christ:
“If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.” John 15: 18
Even your unbelieving family will hate you:
“And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” Matthew 10: 21-22
No wonder we are met with such hostility on the streets and on the campuses when we proclaim the will, law, and authority of Christ. The world wants to believe that they are the masters of their souls. They do not want to submit to their Creator. A heresy can be secular as well as religious.
Nationalism is a popular heresy. It is wrapping Jesus Christ in a flag. Why should God bless America when Americans are living in rebellion to God? American schools do not teach that God created the Universe. They teach sex contrary to the word of God. They have taken down his 10 Commandments, and forbid students to pray or study his Word. America makes laws permitting, promoting, and protecting baby murder and sexual perversion. Taxpayers pay for abortion. America is the world’s largest producer of pornography and smut.
American churches preach a popular love gospel that is contrary to the Word of God. It is New Age religion with a smattering of scripture. They wink at, or advocate the sins of our nation. The spotlight is on the Catholic Church, but other churches have their fair share of pedophiles, fornicators, and adulators. Such is the fruit of the love gospel. The mega-church exists because it is world-friendly. Major denominations do not exist in this wicked culture without selling out to the world. Is the Whore of Babylon (Revelation 17 & 18) the Catholic Church exclusively? Are there not whores in the Protestant churches as well? What difference does it make what religion a whore is? I am Protestant by doctrine. I find much Catholic and not a little Protestant doctrine repugnant to the scriptures. I have friends and family, Roman Catholics, whom I consider brothers and sisters in Christ. I know Protestants who have doctrine similar to mine that are two-fold children of the devil. Most true believers, it seems, have some degree of error in their beliefs. The only true Church is individuals from various churches who follow Christ whole heartedly and submit to his Lordship.
We are not to accept or ignore error, heresy, and apostasy, be it Catholic, Protestant, or secular:
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5: 11
You won’t have fellowship with heretics if you are reproving them. They will shun you, you need not shun them. Those who are in error will listen to you. In time they may see the truth and act on it. All of us are in error at one time or another. We can’t tell them the truth if we are shunning them!
A true heretic will try to “suppress the truth in unrighteousness.” They blast their radios, lay on their horns, or bang pots and pans when you preach. They complain to the authorities about your presence. They heckle you in a crowd of listeners. They try to sidetrack or entrap you with difficult questions.
| Donna speaking with war protestors as police listen to complaints about our presence. | University of IowaAfter our death watch at the Iowa City clinics, Donna and I preach on U of I campus. We position ourselves near the war protestors who are, with some exceptions, God-hating pro-abort, animal right, sodomite activists. |
My preaching caused some polarization to their ranks: When is Bush going to fight terrorism in America? When is he going to “liberate” the babies? Bush gave Planned Parenthood $240 million last year providing them with chemical weapons of mass destruction. RU486, Norplant, Depo-Provera, are among these tax-funded chemical weapons that Bush uses against his own people! When is he going to provide some material relief to the pre-born? When will he stop the looters and torturers from plundering their bodies?
Nebraska Campus Tour
We left for Omaha Sunday, April 6, in a snowstorm. Most of the dozen people on the tour got stuck 75 miles east of our hospitality house. We met on the University of Nebraska campus in Lincoln. The temperature was in the 30’s with 6” of snow on the ground . The literature flowed like water. But no one stuck around to talk. In Kearny, NE the weather was in the 40’s. With only 6,000 students, and bazaar class changes, made U.N. of Kearny the quietest campus I have ever been at. The students would dribble out every 20 minutes and disappear in 2-3 minutes leaving us to ourselves. We had good interaction with many of them. They have more pro-life activist on this campus than anywhere I have been! The weather was great when we reached Omaha. The conditions were just right for drawing a crowd. There was no happy ending there either. We were run off campus!
OBGYN Convention April 26 -30th
Donna, Adrian Horien, Drew Heiss, and I will be joining others in New Orleans for an OBGYN convention. It should be attended by many of America’s most unwanted. Many baby-killers need to renew their certification. These are the High Priests in the rite of child sacrifice. Babies are their money! We seldom have an opportunity to rebuke so many at one place, and at one time.
Pray for us. I commit you to the Lord and rest in his care.
dan & donna holman
Missionaries to the Pre-born Iowa