Challenging Church Compassion – 21: Christian Bowhunters an Oxymoron These comments are in response to the article: Christian Bowhunters use archery as a way to spread the word about God by Beth Slaughter Sexton. Bryan White, the founder of the local group in Georgia, is quoted in the article as saying, “All of us were [...]
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Child Abuse: 6 Year Old Fish Killer
Child Abuse: 6 Year Old Fish Killer Yesterday, Yahoo News carried the story titled: “Young angler hauls in fish bigger than him” which was connected to videos of this young boy catching a tarpon with great joy. All kinds of red flags went up about a devious form of socially acceptable child abuse: Someone had [...]
Challenging Church Compassion – 02: Love of Fishing
Challenging Church Compassion – 02: Love of Fishing A Love of Fishing Causes Emotional Violence People are constantly writing to us about how emotionally shocked and upset they become at the church’s hardness of heart when it comes to the suffering of animals. The following letter from Jenny Moxham is one of these examples: “My [...]
Removing Ourselves from a Violent World
Removing Ourselves from a Violent World A Sermon Delivered to The CompassionInternetChurch 3 March 2013 Frank L. Hoffman, Pastor Scripture References: Luke 13:1-9 Acts 3:1-26 We have talked about the fact that our living as peacemaking children of God is not a sometimes situation, such as during the Lenten season; it is for every day [...]
Living in the Will of God – 12 All Flesh Corrupted
Living in the Will of God – 12 All Flesh Corrupted As we continue with our study of living in the will of God, and the way the wicked people of this world had corrupted God’s creation intent, we also see in Genesis 6:9-13 that all flesh had also become corrupted. 9. These are the [...]
Living in the Will of God – 09 Lovingkindness
Living in the Will of God – 09 Lovingkindness In part 08 of this blog series we talked about hardness of heart, and the fact that many of the churches through their silence, complacency, and indifference to the suffering of animals helps keep the problems alive. The opposite of hardness of heart is what the [...]
Animal Farmers’ Hardness of Heart
Animal Farmers’ Hardness of Heart In order to raise animals for food, or slaughter them, and/or eat their flesh and by-products, we have to harden our hearts to the point that we no longer have empathy for the feelings of the animals or are indifferent to the animals’ pain and suffering. This was recently brought [...]
Child Abuse: Teach Children to Kill
Child Abuse: Teach Children to Kill For years we have been observing and studying the ungodly practice of teaching our children to kill through the supposed pleasure of hunting and fishing (fish killing), and how such practices harden the hearts of these children so that they no longer have any empathy for the feelings of [...]
Guns and Violent Deaths
Guns and Violent Deaths Stephen Augustine sent us some very interesting information from Lorraine Devon Wilke’s article (20 Jan 2013) about gun deaths. In the past 43 years (1968-2011) there have been 1,384,171 gun deaths in the United States. This is 18% higher than all the war deaths in U. S. history, which stands at [...]
Child Abuse and Fishing
Child Abuse and Fishing A few days ago when we were logging in and out of Facebook, we were greeted by an image of a little boy with a big smile on his face holding a fishing line with two fish hanging from it. The image really bothered us, and all we could think of [...]
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