What we have tragically had is a rush of children going to the infamous transgender medical clinic here in London, the Tavistock Institute, which is part of the state run NHS health service. There have been some unpleasant activities of schools forcing acceptance of transgenderism on the other pupils, parents, and in one case in a Church of England school, it caused the angry resignation of the local vicar who was also a governor of the school and did not agree with this policy, but basically was undermined by both the doctrinaire headmistress and his diocesan bishop.

What we have tragically had is a rush of children going to the infamous transgender medical clinic here in London, the Tavistock Institute, which is part of the state run NHS health service. There have been some unpleasant activities of schools forcing acceptance of transgenderism on the other pupils, parents, and in one case in a Church of England school, it caused the angry resignation of the local vicar who was also a governor of the school and did not agree with this policy, but basically was undermined by both the doctrinaire headmistress and his diocesan bishop.

That’s how I have generally travelled for all of my life. I have used a few commercial planes too, when I worked in Continental Europe, and once, when my late sister was learning to fly a small plane, I went up once with her instructor and even handled the controls briefly!!

The apostles Paul, Peter, James, Jude and John are clear about these practices, and where the practitioners end up, (unless they repent and get right with God).

I also understand that this problem of baptising pre-puberty children when they walk forward after an altar call without proper examination or doctrinal instruction, and while they are being brainwashed in the state owned public schools (temples of evolution, transgenderism, LGBT rights, abortion and libertarianism., as well as environmentalism earth worship), is a major problem in the SBC. They may not have infant baptism as such, but they are not far off that!! I also understand Freemasonry for pastors, deacons and other church officers is a huge problem and has been repeatedly swept under the carpet. No wonder the SBC is in a mess.

What a cheek. Here is a religious fundamentalist of the Muslim Faith, who would no doubt oppose abortion in her own country of origin, and her own community there in Minneapolis, and who knows only too well what her religion teaches about such things as immorality, LGBT issues, (throw them off buildings), and yet she has the gall to support unlimited abortion in the House of Representatives and oppose those states that have passed anti-abortion laws. This is takiyya (“sanctified lying”), in action!!!

Sadly, as we have been informed on SA News, the evangelical churches should not be self satisfied at the terrible revelations of the Catholic Church scandals, as tragically we have had some of our own scandals, and it shows all too well, the work of the enemy to destroy our testimony and witness. We constantly need to be close to the Lord, to His Word, and to be sober and to be vigilant as Peter the Apostle tells us, as the enemy goes about as a roaring lion, seeking to deceive and devour us. May we be strong in the Lord, and holy as He is holy.

I haven’t heard it for a long time, but Dr Alan Cairns of Faith FPC did a sermon on the Polish Reformation in one of his Reformation Day series some years back, here on SA.

The result in the ensuing anarchy that followed was that Iraq was effectively carved up between Shia militia areas, Sunni fanatics that later formed the basis for ISIS, and some Kurdish areas, most of which, apart from the Kurds were hostile to the Christians. This combined with political correctness in the West to ignore what happened to the Christians ended up in a recipe for disaster.

Tragically, many evangelicals are deeply compromised with scandals relating to money, sex, power and false doctrine, and combined with the long running saga of the Catholic paedophile scandals, had rendered the professed Christian voice in many places, unable to make any kind of reasonable opposition to liberal states such as California, New York, Vermont and so on.

Many rugby players come from these societies, and stand firm in the faith, and they will not compromise to suit the decadent desires of Western secularist liberals.

What about the right of the baby in the womb? This wicked Canaanite religion of Molech, Chemosh, Baal and Astarte is still very much alive today, even if it’s priests and priestesses are not literally bowing down in literal temples to literal idols. God will have them in derision as it says in Psalm 2, and He will confound their counsels.

My difficulty with unaccompanied psalms only, is it means I am always looking forward, to Jesus death on the cross to come, not looking back to it being already done, the psalms speak of playing on the harp and psaltery, etc., and most grievously, in those churches, I can never sing the NT name of Jesus in worship, but can only refer to him in veiled OT references.

Ironically, to go back to the Anglican missionary evangelical churches, the African and Asian women still firmly wear head coverings, though whether that is tradition, or is actually done for biblical reasons, I do not know.

I do believe that some very good solid evangelical denominations and churches, regrettably made a grievous error, when they scrapped the Biblical requirement for head covering for women in the 1960’s, and only a very few groups of Reformed, a few isolated IFB churches, the Brethren Assemblies, and some tiny independent Pentecostal groups continue this practice today.

The tragedy is women have so much to offer in the church without violating biblical requirements, or seeking for positions they are not allowed to have in scripture. I don’t just mean cooking food, or doing the teas, and flowers, though that is an excellent ministry. They can pray, they can get alongside and counsel younger and vulnerable women, they can evangelise other women one in one, they can act as chaperones for their pastor or elder husbands when they have to counsel women, and they can teach young children and women’s classes, all under the covering of the church elders. Otherwise we get the slippery slope of general women’s ordin

There are a handful of ordained ministers in the Methodist Church that will stand against this, but the policy of the Methodist Church is centralised and they keep moving their ministers around, so any kind of evangelical witness in a local Methodist church cannot last very long.