Month: July 2015

I’ll be in Portland, Oregon tomorrow night for a seminar. Little did I realize that I’d be heading into the twilight zone. The city of an annual nude bicycle race has broken yet another barrier of sensibility and rationality. The Oregon Trail which once directed adventurers westward has now led to an expansion of unexplored sexual frontiers. The Oregon Health Authority has adopted a transgender policy that now allows 15-year-olds to receive sex-reassignment surgery paid for by the taxpayers – WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT! Even the most liberal LGBT advocates have to be scratching their heads at this one. The same child who can’t buy a beer or a cigarette may, with public money, receive, for free, powerful drugs (cross-sex hormones) that will pave the way for a gender change. And apparently there are not stringent psychotherapy guidelines. Any parent who understands the lack of cognitive and rational neurological development of a 15-year-old must, like me, think this is a grossly misguided. Bruce Jenner was a post-middle-aged man, and one could assume he had the right to become Caitlyn at his own expense. But a minor, three years shy of adulthood?

Spare me whatever presumed logic the state of Oregon conjured to adopt this policy, including the argument that this largesse will reduce the number of suicides. Whatever happened to good ole parental oversight? It seems the purpose of this progressive, social-engineering policy is to circumvent any parent who might object to Harry becoming Hermione at the ripe old age of 15. If as an enfranchised adult an individual chooses sex reassignment, it’s a free country. Charity can become Chaz. But it is culturally, legally, and spiritually egregious to permit a child, yes a child, such a potentially irreversible option. How many parents have had a 15-year-old declare a life’s occupation mid-teen, and later change their mind? Should such barely post-pubescent individuals be given the option of possibly altering for life their sexual orientation without so much as a psychiatrist signing off on it? Can we finally say that in our society the moral bridge is out, and the government of Oregon has no warning signs?

 An encouraging word: DON’T CALL EVIL GOOD

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,” Isaiah warned (5:20). It’s easy to apply this injunction to any number of social and moral evils, but it is harder to look in the mirror and quote Isaiah. The nature of sin, both societal and personal, is that the fallen heart of man can attempt to justify almost anything. Name an evil, and someone, somewhere, has constructed an elaborate rationale. Even many Nazis believed that during the Third Reich they were on a noble mission, marching millions to gas ovens. Consider again every major decision you will make today and make certain that you aren’t doing something decidedly bad which you’ve somehow determined is not all that bad.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

I don’t watch TV much. Just cable news. Definitely not extreme leftist MSNBC. But while in Canada last week, I kept the TV on in the background (when I wasn’t doing Personal Spiritual Encounter sessions) to get the latest word on the Chattanooga, Tennessee shootings. On came an ad for an outfit called Cougar Life. A buxom blonde, barely clothed, strutted down the street followed by lustful young men half her age. You get the idea.

Then I get back to America this week and find that Cougar Life is part of a stable of dot-com sexual hook up sites, including Ashley Madison and Established Men. The parent company, Avid Life Media/ALM (a Toronto company-no wonder I was bombarded with these ads in Canada) had their data base hacked. Thirty-seven million users of the sexual hook-up service had lots of personal stuff stolen, including financial records. The company’s slogan, “Life is short. Have an affair,” could leave a lot of people with a whole lot of explaining to do if the hackers make the stolen data public.

Do any of you feel sorry for ALM or its customers? Not me. They aren’t victims. Their spouses are. ALM’s Chief Executive Noel Biderman lamented, “This is a criminal act.” Spare me. Biderman has been victimizing innocent wives, husbands, and children, to make his millions. The hackers threaten to release all ALM’s customer’s sexual fantasies and names and addresses. This sexual trafficking site, which is essentially a prostitution ring for married partners, could have seen this coming a long time ago if they had read Numbers 32:23, which says, “Be sure that your sin will find you out.”

An encouraging word: HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” So says the apostle Paul in Philippians 2:5. Now, that’s a tall order. As Christian we have the Spirit of Jesus, by and through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit when we are saved. We have the resurrection life in Christ to spend eternity in heaven. But that is what Jesus does for us. What we have to do for ourselves, no small feat, is to strive to have His thoughts and feelings, the “mind” of Christ. It’s not something to be achieved all at once. But today, may I suggest you read again the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter five and start with the “blessed.” Do your best to adopt at least one a week, and in no time you’ll be a lot nearer than you are now to the mind and thinking which was in Christ Jesus.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.