What a powerful, beautiful "Fixed It For You"!! Thank you, bless you Anne. As a parent of a son who is actively living a gay lifestyle -- living as a parent in the tension of standing on the Word of God while actively praying for and loving my son, your exposition is balm to my spirit.
I'm regularly confronted by christian parents who urge me to 'get over' 'move on' 'accept' my son's choices. A mother whose son is married to another man said "We wish things were different but actually love his husband so much that if they broke up, it would be really hard...." She smiled at me hoping I would 'see the light'. Another believing friend described a 3 day posh same sex wedding of a former pastor she and her husband were planning to attend. While calmly explaining how I would not attend and have made that clear to my son in his life, I say this is not MY idea, but my honoring of God's Word and heart for how He created this world.
Gregoire is lining up wth the fashionable 'love is love' 'don't drive your child to suicide' trope.
Lord keep us focused on Your Word, Your mercy, Your truths in Christ. It's a narrower road than ever to walk.
May the Lord continue to be your comfort and strength during this time. Lord, we pray that you would grab hold of bonnie's son's heart and "rassle" him to yourself. Bring light and truth bearers into his life and give him ears to hear, that he might repent and walk in the abundant life you have for him.
"Look at Jesus—every moment of every day. Look at him, the founder and perfector of your halting and desperate faith. Don’t look at yourself. Don’t look at the world."
When you have a child who makes choices outside of your faith Jesus is the only place to go. He has and always will be the better parent and that is where I put all my trust. Anne I am so grateful for the truths you espouse. I do not need straddle a fence between the world and my God because He is the only way and my child's salvation is not mine to give. I rest in my Lord's assurance that He will " leave the 99."
"A comprehensive review of over thirty years of research found that when LGBTQ+ youth were not given comprehensive sex education, they suffer." This is a flashing red light that Gregoire bases her "sex advice" on the "work" of Masters and Johnson and Kinsey rather than the Bible. They heralded and celebrated the shift of emphasis from sex being about reproduction to sex being about orgasm. They interviewed sex workers to determine what "average sexual behavior" is. They opened the door for the acceptance of Kinsey to interviewing incarcerated pedophiles and presenting it as "research" about children's (all the way down to infants!) and adult's "sexual behavior." (I am restraining words here because the "research" is so depraved.) The irony of her advising to "consider the fruit," when the tree from which she picks her fruit and bases her advice has its roots in the degradation and violation of children and adults is breath-taking.
Anne, such a great antidote to the muddled “numbers driven” narrative of Gregoire. Reversing the order of the two great commandments is not love, and she fails to consistently let John 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” be the defining character of love. Go ironically to the book of Numbers and imagine God saying, well 10 of the 12 spies say them giants are too much for Me to handle so the Spirit must disagree with My plans because going with the minority view of the remnant would not be very loving. Gregoire’s placing doctrinal alignment (God’s Law) against the fruit of the Spirit (from Anne’s 2023 linked article) is essentially dividing the Trinity and doing what is right in her own eyes. Encouraging others to do the same is dangerously flirting with causing “little ones“ who believe in Jesus to stumble.
This was brilliant. I love how your fix took sins out of the morass of sexuality and redirected the reader to look at things more wholly. We ALL sin and have disordered affections. We all need Jesus. Sexual/gender confusion doesn’t make someone special: either in their identity or sin. We all struggle, maybe all of our lives, with something. Or many things. Because we are not perfect. But we have a Savior who perfectly loves us. And it is to Him whom we should look. Regularly. All the time. As you say, go to church.
(Also it was great meeting you at the Synod meeting tonight.)
I’m going with, “ I can’t like the enough!” So much truth. Thank you, Holy and omnipotent Father, that Your Word is alive and moving in our debased and falling world.
What a powerful, beautiful "Fixed It For You"!! Thank you, bless you Anne. As a parent of a son who is actively living a gay lifestyle -- living as a parent in the tension of standing on the Word of God while actively praying for and loving my son, your exposition is balm to my spirit.
I'm regularly confronted by christian parents who urge me to 'get over' 'move on' 'accept' my son's choices. A mother whose son is married to another man said "We wish things were different but actually love his husband so much that if they broke up, it would be really hard...." She smiled at me hoping I would 'see the light'. Another believing friend described a 3 day posh same sex wedding of a former pastor she and her husband were planning to attend. While calmly explaining how I would not attend and have made that clear to my son in his life, I say this is not MY idea, but my honoring of God's Word and heart for how He created this world.
Gregoire is lining up wth the fashionable 'love is love' 'don't drive your child to suicide' trope.
Lord keep us focused on Your Word, Your mercy, Your truths in Christ. It's a narrower road than ever to walk.
May the Lord continue to be your comfort and strength during this time. Lord, we pray that you would grab hold of bonnie's son's heart and "rassle" him to yourself. Bring light and truth bearers into his life and give him ears to hear, that he might repent and walk in the abundant life you have for him.
"Look at Jesus—every moment of every day. Look at him, the founder and perfector of your halting and desperate faith. Don’t look at yourself. Don’t look at the world."
When you have a child who makes choices outside of your faith Jesus is the only place to go. He has and always will be the better parent and that is where I put all my trust. Anne I am so grateful for the truths you espouse. I do not need straddle a fence between the world and my God because He is the only way and my child's salvation is not mine to give. I rest in my Lord's assurance that He will " leave the 99."
MUCH better!!
"A comprehensive review of over thirty years of research found that when LGBTQ+ youth were not given comprehensive sex education, they suffer." This is a flashing red light that Gregoire bases her "sex advice" on the "work" of Masters and Johnson and Kinsey rather than the Bible. They heralded and celebrated the shift of emphasis from sex being about reproduction to sex being about orgasm. They interviewed sex workers to determine what "average sexual behavior" is. They opened the door for the acceptance of Kinsey to interviewing incarcerated pedophiles and presenting it as "research" about children's (all the way down to infants!) and adult's "sexual behavior." (I am restraining words here because the "research" is so depraved.) The irony of her advising to "consider the fruit," when the tree from which she picks her fruit and bases her advice has its roots in the degradation and violation of children and adults is breath-taking.
Anne, this is great! Can you do a series of "fixing" various bogus online anti-apologists?
Do Talarico next!
That's just what I was thinking lol, this needs to be a series obviously
Anne, such a great antidote to the muddled “numbers driven” narrative of Gregoire. Reversing the order of the two great commandments is not love, and she fails to consistently let John 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” be the defining character of love. Go ironically to the book of Numbers and imagine God saying, well 10 of the 12 spies say them giants are too much for Me to handle so the Spirit must disagree with My plans because going with the minority view of the remnant would not be very loving. Gregoire’s placing doctrinal alignment (God’s Law) against the fruit of the Spirit (from Anne’s 2023 linked article) is essentially dividing the Trinity and doing what is right in her own eyes. Encouraging others to do the same is dangerously flirting with causing “little ones“ who believe in Jesus to stumble.
The Holy Spirit knocked this one out of the park through you, Anne. 👏🏼
This sneaky affirmingness is actually FAR worse than open affirmation. Because that's just a wolf being a wolf.
But a wolf pretending to be a sheep? Reminds me of Red Riding Hood.
Sheila, my what big teeth you have!
All the better to follow Jesus with, my dear!
Sheila, MY what big wolf-like ears you have!
All the better to hear Jesus, my dear!
😂
Great re-write, Anne!
This was brilliant. I love how your fix took sins out of the morass of sexuality and redirected the reader to look at things more wholly. We ALL sin and have disordered affections. We all need Jesus. Sexual/gender confusion doesn’t make someone special: either in their identity or sin. We all struggle, maybe all of our lives, with something. Or many things. Because we are not perfect. But we have a Savior who perfectly loves us. And it is to Him whom we should look. Regularly. All the time. As you say, go to church.
(Also it was great meeting you at the Synod meeting tonight.)
I’m going with, “ I can’t like the enough!” So much truth. Thank you, Holy and omnipotent Father, that Your Word is alive and moving in our debased and falling world.
This was so wonderful. Thank you.
Threatening the parents that the child will commit suicide if not pandered to is such a tired trope.
Very well reasoned and writ.
I can’t like this enough!
This was so good, so full of hope and grace.