Category Archives: Education

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Hi friends. Kathy and I are about to begin a new show where we discuss items of interest to the body of Christ. WE have named it THE SPOTT REPORT. SPOTT captures the goal and purpose of the effort – Strategic, Prophetic, Overcomers, Training and Tactics. Stay tuned for the launch announcement.

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Christian Schools Who Uphold Biblical Sexuality Being Targeted

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Inflation is off the charts, Russia’s on the verge of a Ukrainian war, shoppers can’t find a bagged salad to save their lives, and what is Joe Biden’s focus? Transgenderism.
While the country fights to stay above water in the COVID surge, worker shortage, price hikes, and every other crisis this administration has made worse, the Department of Education has decided to take the fight over gender identity to Christian colleges. If this is their attempt to change the conversation, it’s a pathetic one.
Secretary Miguel Cardona must be a glutton for punishment, because fresh off of the news that he was responsible for the “parents-as-domestic-terrorists” letter scandal, he’s directing his attack dogs at the Office of Civil Rights to investigate Lincoln Christian University in Illinois for not indulging the fantasy of one of its male students who wanted to be treated as a girl on campus. Kalie Hargrove, the young man in question, claims the university “discriminated against him” by associating him with his actual biological sex.
Hargrove, who’s no longer at LCU, complained to the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP), who is systematically targeting Christian institutions who uphold biblical sexuality. Now, the extremists at REAP have apparently convinced the DOE to act, writing, “In August 2021, the University discriminated against Kalie Hargrove (Student A) on the basis of sex (gender identity) by directing her either to withdraw from classes or face discipline because she publicly identified as transgender.”
Of course, under Title IX protections, any school that receives federal funds has to adhere to the far-Left’s definitions of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” The exception — the one REAP is desperate to undermine — is for religious institutions like LCU. But the DOE is apparently image-conscious, worried more what people will think if it doesn’t uphold the Left’s standard of wokeness than the First Amendment. In the lawsuit, REAP has damning words for the department, accusing it of turning a blind eye “to the abuses that thousands of LGBTQ+ students have endured at taxpayer-funded religious colleges and universities.”
Interestingly enough, back in June, Cardona’s agency seemed willing to defend the exemption, even as it promised “a comprehensive review of its regulations implementing the law.” REAP was apparently unsatisfied with that and demanded an investigation. Even so, they aren’t optimistic. “We are glad to see the Office for Civil Rights take this important step in protecting the rights of LGBTQ+ students at taxpayer-funded religious colleges,” REAP founder and director, Paul Southwick, said in a statement. “However, we fear that the religious exemption to Title IX will likely result in the dismissal of Kalie’s complaint.”
Even if they aren’t successful, REAP’s inroads at DOE sound an important alarm. This is the canary in the coal mine when it comes to religious freedom. Because the real goal here isn’t just agreeing to call a boy a girl. It’s about driving all Bible-believing Christians, Christian education, and Christian institutions into some sort of spiritual ghetto — far away from the public square.
This push to undermine the religious tenants of these institutions may be part of the Left’s response to the growing enrollment at Christian colleges and universities while secular institutions are seeing significant declines. It’s also driven by the idea that religion is something we should keep to ourselves. And eventually, as we’ve seen in oppressive regimes throughout history, even that won’t be enough.
As FRC’s Meg Kilgannon, a DOE official in the Trump administration warned, “The reality of sex is under attack by the fiction of gender. At the same time, respect for religious convictions and legal protections for believers are being undermined LGBTQ activists. Religious colleges and universities have every right to their beliefs. And so do LGBTQ activists. What they can’t do is force their beliefs on others. But that is what groups like REAP want to do — force a religious college to allow a man pretending to be a woman to study on campus, when religion and science both reject the notion that a person can change his or her biological sex.”
Unfortunately for the Left, they’ve picked this fight at exactly the wrong time. Yes, extremists finally have a radical president in the White House who agrees with their twisted priorities. But that’s all they have. The public — especially after incidents like the Left’s pool party last weekend — has turned on the idea that Americans should accommodate this gender madness at their children’s expense. The transgender movement knows it. Pollsters know it.
For a lot of families, especially in sports, the transgender debate is no longer an academic one. And as this conversation hits closer and closer to home, America’s reaction is becoming a lot like the swimmers’ parents at the recent Ivy League meet: this is “messed up.”
Originally published at Family Research Council

AMERICA – YOU KNEW!

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America – You Knew!

This question should be on the minds of every American who loves this country. “Will America recover? Will we survive the current tsunami of evil?”

We may survive. But if we do, it will be only by the grace of God moved by the mass repentance and heart-rending cry of God’s people all across this land. This is crucial to our survival. Hear me clearly friends – there is no political solution to the murderous death-grip wicked people have on America, if God is not in it. God must be front and center in our efforts to avert the impending disaster.

Today is a good day to set in motion the necessary steps to regain control of America. This begins with the Word of God. I call your attention to two passages of Scripture. I see them as bookends that encompass the possibilities for us as God-loving, fearing, reverencing, men and women. Friends, we have chores to do and the lifting is going to be heavy.

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A Modern Letter From Birmingham Jail – Dr. John Diamond

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To my Fellow Clergymen:

We live in a very strange and divisive time.  No matter the time, as believers in Christ we must respond to the culture of our day with both truth and love (Ephesians 4:15).  As we attempt to live up to that Biblical mandate, we must recognize that there are two very powerful voices arising in America in response to the various unlawful acts that have been committed against the American people by their government in the midst of the pandemic (sic).  In the first case, one group desires to appease the current culture.  This group believes that by going-along-to-get-along, peace can be found.  However, by not standing for individual liberty, this group essentially allows themselves (and their posterity) to become enslaved to a system of power mongers who rule by fiat.  On the other hand, another group of people wants to take justice into their own hands by picking up firearms and waging a revolution that they believe will restore our Constitutional Republic to what our founding fathers intended it to be.

Many Americans are increasingly expressing their desire to bring to justice those in power who are responsible for the great overreach of their authority.  These two aforementioned positions (indifference and violence) are both morally and theologically unacceptable for Christians; especially when there is still another lawful and Biblical course of action we can take.

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MUST READ for Every Christian and Especially Ministry Leaders

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One of the most important aspects of the American War for Independence was the Christian pulpits and patriot preachers who stood in them each week, exhorting the
American colonists in their God-given liberty that was worth fighting for.

The armed force most feared by the British was the Black Robed Regiment — pastors who preached with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper or rifle in the other. The most admired patriot pastor, Peter Muhlenberg, on January 21, 1776 told his congregation: “There is a time for all things; a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times
have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has come!”

Never has government so resembled a foreign master. Never have armed enforcers of state and federal tyrants more closely resembled those British redcoats, with their
unquestioning obedience to lawless orders. As Muhlenberg said, that time has come.

Let us take up the cause of Christ and the Constitution, instructing the repentant remnant in their authority so they will perform their duty to enforce the Constitution, which safeguards our Christian liberties.

You may order a signed copy of this important book by sending a donation/ministry gift of $10 which covers the cost of shipping. Send to:

Mike Spaulding

PO Box 3007

Elida, OH 45807