Starbucks, headquartered in Seattle, has long exalted itself against God and His laws. In 2007 the company printed anti-God slogans on some of their coffee cups. In January of this year, Starbucks was one of the major corporations that endorsed the homosexual “marriage” law in Washington State. In a statement sent to all of its employees, Starbucks said the legislation “is core to who we are and what we value” (CNSNews, Jan. 27, 2012). Now Starbucks President and CEO Howard Schultz have boasted that the company’s stance has not hurt its bottom line. At a stockholders meeting, Schultz said, “Candidly, since we made that decision, there has not been any dilution whatsoever in our business” (“Starbucks,” WorldNetDaily, May 16, 2012). In response, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) launched the Dump Starbucks campaign. Jonathan Baker, founder of the NOM and a Starbucks shareholder, says, “If Howard Schultz and his insular Seattle liberals hear from enough of us, management will move to a more genuinely inclusive attitude toward its customers’ and partners’ diverse views on marriage. People should be able to drink or serve a great cup of coffee without betraying their own core values on marriage.” That’s all well and good (though I don’t think Starbucks serves good coffee). The problem is that practically all of the major multi-national corporations flaunt God’s laws, including Microsoft, Apple, and Google, all of which have come out in support of homosexual “marriage.” Starbucks’ moral debauchery simply proves that the Bible is true. It is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy (e.g., Psalm 2; 2 Timothy 3; 2 Peter 3). In Luke 17 Jesus likened the end-times to the days of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah. Peter, Jude, and John also mentioned Sodom in reference to the last days. Psalm 2 was written 3,000 years ago and describes the times in which we live in perfect detail. This prophecy not only describes the global rebellion of the end times, it also describes the return of Christ and the establishment of His kingdom. The “kings of the earth” are its rulers, referring not only to political leaders but also to captains of modern industries and the kings and queens of the pop culture. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion” (Psalms 2:1-6). 

(Friday Church News Notes, May 25, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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Madalyn Murray O’Hair, founder of the American Atheists in 1963, was a forerunner to the atheistic movement that has grown significantly over the past quarter century and has gained social and political influence. It was her lawsuit against the Baltimore school system that resulted in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding Bible reading in public schools. O’Hair, together with her son Jon and granddaughter Robin, were murdered in 1995 by a former employee of the American Atheists who also stole a half million dollars from the organization. O’Hair’s oldest son, William, became a Christian in 1978. In his autobiography he described his mother’s legacy as follows: “I thought my mother was a Marxist, and she was. I thought she hated God, and she did. She hated American society and the concept of the nuclear family centered on a heterosexual marriage. Her vision was of a society without marriage, but with plenty of sex. She sought a civilization with no rules but with a perfect order. Her ideal was a culture in which all human needs were supplied but no demands were made on the individuals. ... But none of these single insights allow me or anyone else to view the core of what Madalyn Murray O’Hair was; they just nibble around the edges. However, put everything together--the atheism, the Marxism, the sexual anarchy, the social standards that have never existed in any functioning society--and one soon sees that she existed in a state of Magic Thought. She was a utopian. She believed that humankind could devise a system on Earth that supplied all needs to all people. In her vision of society, there would be no hunger, no pollution, and no war. ... Utopians often approve of dictatorial or even violent means to reach the impossible utopia they envision, and all of them who have achieved power became mass murderers. ... in 2011 America lives in the fantasy land of the Internet, where perfect societies are created in virtual mode in only minutes. The cries for the masses to be supplied with their needs virtually out of thin air, in a perfect world arranged by the government, are no longer made just by dreamers like Madalyn Murray O’Hair and a handful of sixties radicals like Timothy Leary, but by presidential candidates as well. ... [What] were just pipe dreams of my mother and a few others in the 1960s, are now shared by an ever-expanding percentage of a population with hands perpetually outstretched toward government. At some point between the tough reality of 1960 and the insanity of my mother’s vision, the Western world gave up its sanity for a reality that does not exist. If Madalyn Murray O’Hair lived today, she could probably run for the presidency on the Magic Thought Party ticket promising change that would bring prosperity without perspiration and an effortless material paradise rather than struggle and opportunity” (William Murray, My Life Without God, 2012 edition, “Retrospect from 2011”). 

(Friday Church News Notes, May 18, 2012, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

Romans 1:20
"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse…"

Throughout the centuries, people have noticed, whether or not they believed in a Creator, that there is a mathematically precise structure to the universe and everything in it.

One everyday example of this precision can be found in plants. Many plants, including elm trees, grow their leaves, twigs and branches placed exactly halfway around the stem from each other.Next in the series are plants like the beech tree, with leaves placed one third of the way around the stem from the previous leaves. Third in the series are plants like the oak, with leaves placed at two fifths of a turn. The holly plant is next at three eighths, then larches at five thirteenths – and the sequence goes on.

Notice the number sequence of these fractions: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and so on. Each number is the sum of the two numbers that come just before it in the sequence. This particular mathematical pattern is called the Fibonacci series and is recognized as a basic mathematical series. Such mathematical precision is not arrived at by accident.

Such mathematical precision is only the product of power and intelligence, even as Paul says in Romans 1: "What may be known about God is manifest… His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made." And while they are not flocking to the Bible, this is why many scientists are abandoning evolution!

Notes: Murchie, Guy. 1979. "The exquisite mathematics of nature." Science Digest, Apr. p. 48.

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Two of the speakers at the recent Together for the Gospel conference warned that the “new Calvinists” are neglecting holiness. Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, Michigan, said that there has been a lack of “passion” for “personal holiness” (“Pastor Says,” Associated Baptist Press, April 13, 2012). The conference has been held annually since 2006 by “conservative Reformed evangelicals” who are called the “new Calvinists” and the “Reformed Resurgence.” Key personalities in the movement include Al Mohler, head of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, John Piper, and Mark Driscoll. It is not surprising that there is a lack of passion for personal holiness because the “new Calvinism” has been successful in appealing to this sensual generation by combining two irreconcilable things: “theological conservatism” and “cultural liberalism.” The Reformed theology appeals to the intellectual side of modern man while the cultural liberalism appeals to his love of the pop culture, particularly the culture’s music, which is one of the chief idols of this plugged-in generation. All of these churches use the sensual, mystical contemporary worship music. On a visit to John Piper’s church last year for research I was amazed to see an otherwise staunch Calvinist congregation rocking out and swaying and coming under the control of charismatic music. The philosophy of cultural liberalism, which tends to be more concerned about the boggy of “legalism” than about holiness, will not produce personal holiness, and when it does in the exceptional cases, it is not because of the theology but in spite of it. Peter Masters, senior pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England, has issued pointed warnings about the “new Calvinists.” Masters is a Calvinist after the fashion of Charles Spurgeon, which is far more Bible-based than that of the “resurgence” crowd, and he preaches a biblical basis for true personal holiness and for truly sacred worship. (See Masters’ book Worship in the Melting Pot, as well as “The Merger of Calvinism with Worldliness,” Sword and Trowel, 2009, No. 1, and “Christian Hedonism - Is It Right?” Sword & Trowel, 2002, No. 3.) 

(Friday Church News Notes, May 18, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

Genesis 1:21
"And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good."

If all life evolved from, and is related to, earlier forms of life, then closely related animals should also have similar kinds of chemicals in their bodies. As the science of biochemistry has grown, those who believe in evolution have held high hopes that creatures that look similar to each other would also have similar chemicals. For example, insulin from a shark should be more like insulin from other fish than insulin from mammals.

Unfortunately for the evolutionist, chemical comparisons between various creatures don't usually show the same relationships as their evolutionary charts. For example, research at the Medical University of South Carolina compared the hormone relaxin that was produced by pigs and rats with relaxin produced by sharks. The results showed that the pig's relaxin was more like the shark's relaxin than it was like a rat's.

This seems to suggest that pigs are more closely related to sharks than to another mammal, the rat. A similar study comparing insulin showed a closer similarity between the shark and the pig than between the shark and another fish, the carp.

While evolutionists will sometimes point out instances where these comparisons have worked out as they expected, those results are unusual. Normally, these comparisons show that the evolutionary histories and relationships that evolutionists claim are nothing more than imagination. As the Bible says, each kind of creature gives evidence to the fact that it was uniquely created by God.

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