Are We Headed Toward a Genderless, Sexually Dysfunctional World?

Dystopia in a Therapy Training

A gender neutral sign is posted outside a bathroom at Oval Park Grill in Durham, N.C., on May 11, 2016. (Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)

By Pamela Garfield-Jaeger

May 25, 2023Updated: May 31, 2023

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On May 5 and 6, I attended a therapy training conference with one of the leading organizations in mental health, The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. This event attracted hundreds of therapists from throughout the country. I took several courses and will be writing a series of essays on my observations, thoughts, and impressions.

I attended the conference to have in-person interactions with colleagues and to learn firsthand what is happening in my profession.

One class was titled “From Unwanted Pain to Sexual Pleasure: Common Health Concerns Impacting People With Vulvas.” It was a class on sexual dysfunction for women.

The first part of the class was about erasing binary language and how terribly binary our world is. The instructor, Dr. Mia Fine, Ph.D., LMFT, CST-S, CSE, said there are as many genders as there are stars, like the constellations. She explained that the word “guys” is problematic because you never know who you are talking to.

She had a new definition of “woman”: “A person who identifies as a woman. Women can be trans women or cis women.”

She had a slide that stated, “Language is constantly evolving … please allow me to evolve too.”

However, this is not how language evolves; it’s how language is censored, bastardized, and compelled.

Dr. Fine described how our brains have neuroplasticity and practicing inclusive language rewires the pathways of the brain. This term, “neuroplasticity,” is usually reserved for when we learn a new foreign language or a new skill, not when we are erasing cultural norms and changing how we think to create a totalitarian society.

I felt uneasy, especially because other people in the class already used these terms with ease. They’ve had practice.

When the woman next to me asked a question about “people who were assigned female at birth,” I was squeezing my “woman—adult human female” keychain, purchased from Kellie Jay Keen’s online store. (I make an appearance in KJK’s film, Kellie Jay in the USA.)

I raised my hand and asked a question about the link between autism and asexuality. The instructor thought my comment was insightful and wanted me to repeat my question with a microphone. She said she didn’t want to speak for “this person” (referring to me) and handed me the mic so the class could hear my question.

The first thing I said into the microphone was, “I am a woman.” Then I proceeded to make my comment. I had to make that declaration. I didn’t do it to be combative or make a big statement, but simply to ground myself because this environment was making me unsettled. My statement about being a woman was ignored.

Despite these gender-fluid messages I strongly disagreed with, I felt comfortable with the instructor. She had a kind and openhearted demeanor. She allowed time for questions throughout the talk. Her tone was vastly different from that of the trans activists who led the gender affirmative care for children workshops I had attended the day before, who did not allow any discussion.

She was also pretty, fit, and well dressed. These descriptions are important because I don’t see her as an enemy. Despite her misguided instruction, she seemed to care about the audience and her clients whom she spoke about.

The rest of the class was about different sexual disorders and reasons women may have challenges sexually. It offered techniques and clinical ideas on how to address them. In that way, the class seemed factual and had useful clinical ideas.

After the class, my friend was texting me about my experience and I sent her a screenshot of the title of this one and explained what it was about. My friend asked if it was normal for so much talk about sex and sexual dysfunction to be in therapy conferences in the past. I said no.

At first I simply linked this shift to therapists’ belief that this topic needs to be talked about to reduce the stigma, and their desire to discuss more taboo topics.

Then I thought deeper about it.

That night, I woke up with racing thoughts. I realized how in the near future, more people are going to have significant sexual dysfunction.

Dr. Fine normalized kink, multiple partner scenarios, and other types of sex which lead to trust issues, desensitization, and sexual assault. She spoke about those alternative sexual scenarios in an ideal way and left out real-life consequences.

She offered tips on how to debrief and do self-care after an intense sexual experience so that it will all be okay, but she never discussed how these acts could be physically and psychologically damaging.

She also didn’t mention the negative impacts of hook-up culture, abortion, the birth control pill, the cultural push to eradicate traditional families, screen addictions, sexualizing children with graphic content in schools and drag shows, early exposure to porn, harmful impacts of cross-sex hormones and sex-reassignment surgeries, how dissociated many women are from their bodies and how this all could be a pathway to trans-humanism.

She did at least acknowledge how antidepressants can permanently lower libido, so Big Pharma got a mention.

My nightmare was of a sexless, over-medicated, dysfunctional, and unstable society. I realized this class wasn’t for a niche population with sex issues; it is a prediction of a dystopian future if our culture keeps going in this direction. It’s up to all of us to prevent this.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

       DON'T PUT OUT THE SPIRIT'S FIRE

                   By Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Quench not the Spirit. Despise not prophesyings. Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.

"And the very God of Peace sanctify you wholly: And I pray God your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless unto the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it." (1 Thes. 5:19-24)

This great scripture teaches us how our Lord views our whole person.We are sanctified wholly, totally and completely; spirit, soul and body. It is God's will to preserve us until He returns! St. Paul prayed that God would preserve us without blame (forgiven) and healthy (healed) in body and mind!

QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT!

Writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the great Apostle issued a strong directive to the church. He warned: "Don't try to control the blessed Holy Spirit. Do not offend Him by curtailing or impeding His course of action. Don't treat the Holy Spirit as your servant!

In this passage of scripture the literal Greek says, "Do not put out the Spirit's Fire. Do not extinguish the Spirit's flame." The actions of ignorant, lukewarm, clergy and nominal  Christians is very offensive  to Almighy God. It is a deliberate affront to our Lord Jesus Christ!

An uninspired pastor interfering with the moving of the Holy Spirit in  a church, is tantamont to a seasoned woodsman building a fire in a log cabin, only to have some inexperienced person shutting off the airflow by closing the damper!

Upon returning to the cabin, the woodsman would find it filled with smoke or the fire gone out. It is no wonder that God warns us through St. Paul that we must not, "extinguish or put out the Spirit's flame."

In my study of the Holy Bible, I have discovered that while each member of the Triune God is co-eternal and co-equal in all respects, yet the Blessed Holy Spirit has been given a special place by the Father and the Son. As has each member of the Godhead!

THE TRIUNE GOD IS A MYSTERY!

How could anyone in this world hope to understand God? We cannot and will never understand God. Does a dog, or even a horse understand a human being? How then can we expect to understand the Creator of all things, the universe and ourselves included?

John Wesley was asked, "Can a man understand God?" He answered, "Can a worm understand a man?"

The Bible is God's revelation to man. Here He reveals Himself, His attributes, His mind, His will and His purpose for the Church. The awesome, loving and perfect relationship experiencind  by Jesus Christ the Son, the Father and the Holy Spirit, is an example for us, His undeserving servants, to emulate!

JESUS CHRIST THE ONLY SAVIOUR!

Jesus Christ is the World's ONLY Saviour, because of His substitutionary, vicarious  Death for the sins of the whole world, and His glorius Resurrection from the dead! His Name is the only 'Saving Name'!

St. Peter stated: "Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by Him doth this man stand before you whole.

"Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be SAVED." (Acts 4: 10-12

When a crippled man was healed by Jesus Christ through the faith of Peter and John at the gate of the temple, the crowds were dumbfounded. Peter spoke to them, saying: "Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? Or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though  by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? 

"The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified His Son Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when He was determined to let Him go. But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 

"And killed the Prince of Life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. And His NAME through faith in His NAME hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by Him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all." (Acts 3: 12-16)

 Almighty God has declared it! Jesus met the Righteous Demands of Divine Justice in the Court of Heaven, by shedding His vicarious, all-atoning and effecacious  BLOOD for us!

The Bible says: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the ONLY begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:1, 14)

"Without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sins." (Heb.9:22); "The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanseth us from all sins." (1 John 1:7)

St. Peter stated: "Forasmuch as ye know that that ye were not Redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold from your vain conversation recieved by tradition from your fathers; But with the Precious Blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot; who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, 

"Who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God...Being Born Again, not of corruptible  seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 

"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away: But the Word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you." (1 Peter 1: 18-25)

GOD SENT HIS ANGEL GABRIEL!

"But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David. Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is concevied in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.

"Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

"Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:"And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called His name JESUS." (Matt. 1: 20-25)

St. Paul declares: "Who (Jesus) being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God but made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the Death of the Cross.

 "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him and given  Him a Name which is above every other name, that at the name of JESUS every knee should bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD to the glory of God the Father." (Phil. 2: 5-11)

GOD CALLS HIS SON, LORD & GOD!

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." (Is. 9: 6). God the Father calls His Son Jesus Christ, Lord and God, the Almighty, the Everlasting Father: 

"Again when He bringeth the firstbegotten into the world, He saith, And let all the angels of God worship Him. And of the angels He saith, Who maketh angels spirits, and His minister a flame of fire.

"But unto the Son, He saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever  and ever, a sceptre of righteousness is the scepter of Thy Kingdom... And Thou, Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thy hands. (Heb. 1:1-11). Jesus said: "I and My Father are One." (John 10: 30)

St. Paul declared: "But to us there is but ONE God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things, and we by Him." (1 Cor, 8:6)

His name in Hebrew is Yeshua......The Salvation of God, Saviour!

Every time we use the name of Jesus we say, "God saves", because that is what His name means. The word sozo in Greek means, 'to save, heal, make well, deliver'. His Name literally means, "The Salvation of God".

What does does the salavtion of God entail? Forgiveness of sins, healing from sickness and disease, peace for the mind and a clear conscience!That is why the Scripture says, "The prayer of faith shall save (sozo) the sick!

Therefore, when we speak His Name, we are saying: God saves, God heals, and God delivers! No wonder, we love to use His Name in prayer, praise to God and in deliverance from sickness, disease and demons!

In His Great Commission, Jesus said: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized  shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned. 

"And these Signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents (Paul in Malta); and if the drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; They shall lay their hands on the sick, and they shall recover." (Mark 16:15-18)

THE HOLY SPIRIT

Jesus Christ stated: "But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in My Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 14:26)

"But ye shall receive POWER after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttrermodst part of the esrth." (Acts 1:8)

The BIBLE says: "But this Man (Jesus), because He continueth EVER, hath an unchangeable priesthood. Wherefore He is ABLE also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them. 

"For such an High Priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled. separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens... For this He did ONCE when He offered up Himself." (Heb. 7:24-28). 

"This is the SUM: We have an High Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the Heavens." (Heb. 8: 1). He declares: "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquitues will I remember no more." (Heb. 8:12)

JESUS IS OUR SAVIOUR & OUR INTERCESSOR!

Jesus is presently seated at the Right Hand of His Father in Heaven! "For Chtrist is not entered into the Holy places made with hands, which are the figures log the true: But into Heaven itself NOW to appear in the presence of God for us.

"And their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Now where remission of these is there is no more offering for sin. Having therefore, brethren, BOLDNESS to enter into the Holiest by the BLOOD of Jesus by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh.

"let us draw Near with a TRUE heart in full assiutrance of FAITH, having our hearts sprinkled from an Evil Conscience, and our bodies washed with pure wayter. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering: For faithful is He that promised." (Heb. 10: 19-22). Amen.

Max Solbrekken World Mission Box 44220  RPO Garside Edmonton, AB T5V 1N6; Email: [email protected]; comehometojesus.ca; Youtube; FaceBook. Donations can be made by e-Transfer. Make donation to [email protected]. God bless you.

 

NOT I BUT CHRIST

Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.

I will sing of my Redeemer,
  And His wondrous love to me;
On the cruel cross He suffered,
  From the curse to set me free.

    Sing, oh, sing of my Redeemer,
      With His blood He purchased me,
    On the cross He sealed my pardon,
        Paid the debt, and made me free.

I will tell the wondrous story,
  How my lost estate to save,
In His boundless love and mercy,
  He the ransom freely gave.

I will praise my dear Redeemer,
  His triumphant pow'r I'll tell,
How the victory He giveth
  Over sin, and death, and hell.

I will sing of my Redeemer,
  And His heav'nly love to me;
He from death to life hath brought me,
  Son of God with Him to be.

Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher

"And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name. And Jesus said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the Enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." (Luke 10: 17)

In the beginning of His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ appointed twelve disciples to be with Him and be taught by Him, until His death on the cross for the Redemption of mankind. 

They witnessed His amazing wisdom and knowledge and His power to heal the sick, cast out devils and raise the dead! They also saw the awful hatred of some of the leading scribes and pharisees against Him!

"The people which sat in Darkness saw great Light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and Healing all manner of Sickness and all manner of Disease among the people. 

"And His fame went through all Syria; and they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments, and those that were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy, and He healed them.

"And there followed Him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan." (Matt. 4: 16,17; 23-25)

JEWISH LEADERS TURNED AGAINST JESUS!

Leading Jewish authorities knew that Prophets like Micah, David, Daniel, and Isaiah and others, had brought utterances about the Coming Messiah, and they saw the outstanding miracles of healing and exorcisms that He did. 

Instead of embracing His message of Repentance, they turned against Jesus."He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.

"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:11,12,14)

St. Paul declared: “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son: In Whom we have redemption through His Blood, even the forgiveness of sins.

Our Lord promised: "Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe I say unto you, That if two of you Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto My Father. 

"And whatsoever ye shall ye ask in my name, I will do it. If ye love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever." (John 14: 14-16)

JESUS promised: “If ye abide in Me and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” (John 15:7); “Verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

“Again I say unto you, That if two of shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of My Father which is in Heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matt. 18:18-20)

CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST!

St. Paul stated: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless, I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." (Gal. 2:20)

"But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom (Satan) the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." (2 Cor. 4:3-5)

"Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (qualified) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 

"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son: In Whom we have redemption through His BLOOD, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. 

"For by Him were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: 

"And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church: Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all the fullness dwell.

JESUS HAS PURCHASED OUR PEACE!

"And having made Peace through the BLOOD of His Cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in Heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He Reconciled, in the Body of His flesh through Death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight: 

"Even the Mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: To whom God would make known, what is the riches of the glory of this Mystery among the Gentiles which is CHRIST IN YOU, the Hope of Glory: 

"Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.

"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 

"For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power. In Whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.

JESUS SPOILED SATAN’S AUTHORITY & POWER

"Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are Risen with Him through the Faith of the Operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of the flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 

"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS. And having spoiled Principalities and Powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 

"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our LIFE shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in Glory... And have put on the New Man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew… but Christ is all and in all.

"And above all these things put on charity (love), which is the bond of perfectness. And let the PEACE of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. And let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom..." (Col. 1:11-3:16)

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; But made Himself of no reputation, and took on Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Phil.2: 5-11)

And now may the GRACE of our Lord Jesus, the LOVE of God the Father and the FELLOWSHIP of the Holy Spirit be with us all. In Jesus name. Amen.

Max Solbrekken World Mission Box 44220 RPO Garside Edmonton, AB T5V 1N6; Email:[email protected];comehometojesus.ca; Facebook; YouTube; Donations can be made by e-Transfer. Make the donation to [email protected]. God bless you.

 

                                                      Ontario  Premier Ford

 Defend Rights: Resist LGBT Event Bubbl Zones

Gregory Tomchyshynstarted this petition toPremier Doug Ford- 05/16/2023

Imagine a world where expressing your opinion or peacefully protesting could result in fines or imprisonment. This might soon be a reality for Ontarians if Bill 94, the Keeping 2SLGBTQI+ Communities Safe Act, becomes law.

Introduced by Ontario NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam, Bill 94 is designed to create censorship zones around drag queen story hours, gay pride parades, and transgender-promoting events.

It will function similarly to the "Safe Access" law, Bill 163, proposed and passed into law under the Kathleen Wynne Liberal government, that banned all pro-life speech regarding abortion around abortion clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies. This included banning life-changing and saving sidewalk counseling pro-lifers offered outside abortuaries to women.

This dangerous idea of silencing supporters of traditional family values began in Calgary, Alberta. The activist mayor, Jyoti Gondek, and the rest of Calgary city council recently introduced the "Safe and Inclusive Access Bylaw," which prohibits designated protests within and around all municipal public facilities. Under this bylaw, anyone wanting to demonstrate against pro-LGBT events at these public venues will be restricted from coming within 100 meters of the location. Violators of these newly implemented regulations could face penalties of up to $10,000 and a one-year prison sentence.

Bill 94 raises the same serious, if not more dangerous, legalities as it is designed to radically undermine and alter free speech and civil liberties within Canadian provinces, starting with Ontario.

This bill will severely limit free speech and freedom of assembly by restricting the rights of those who protest LGBT events, including Drag Queen Story Times and Pride Parades.

Moreover, Bill 94's potential violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is alarming. The Charter guarantees "freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression." By imposing restrictions on these fundamental rights, Bill 94 will continue setting a dangerous precedent for future legislation.

The bill argues its existence to protect the 2SLGBTQI+ community members from harassment and discrimination. However, they forget that existing laws address these issues without infringing on all Canadians' civil liberties already exist.

In conclusion, Bill 94 is designed to shut parents and concerned Canadians up about the LGBT community's continued attempt to stop anyone and everyone who works to stand in their way from grooming our children, erasing women from society, and continually sexualizing our culture.

The legal implications and demands of this legislation are too significant to ignore. As concerned citizens, we must stand up for our Charter Rights and oppose this bill.

Together, we can ensure a truly free and respectful Ontario exists without bending the knee before a sexualized minority seeking to enforce their perverse lifestyle upon all Canadians.

References:

Bill 94 as presented in the Ontario Legislation
https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-94

True North: Ontario NDP want to restrict protests against drag queen story times
https://tnc.news/2023/04/04/ontario-ndp-restrict-protests/

Campaign Life Coalition Blog: Dragging Ontario Down
https://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/clc-blog/id/265/title/dragging-ontario-down

LifeSite: Canadian constitutional lawyer rips Calgary law banning drag queen story hour protests
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-constitutional-lawyer-rips-calgary-law-banning-drag-queen-story-hour-protests/

ARPA CANADA blog post on Bill-163, Ontario's "Safe Access" legislation
https://arpacanada.ca/2017/10/27/bill-163-blog/ 

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A Life of Alcohol Says Rose Bishop - ONLY JESUS CAN DO THESE THINGS!

      Pastor Solbrekken: Rose, would you tell the people what happened to you ten years ago in the city of Calgary? Exactly when this happen?

      Rose: It happened on July 19, 1976. Well, ten years ago I sure wasn’t doing what I’m doing now. I was out in the world, lost, divorced from my husband and drinking every day to forget my problems.

     One of my nieces had been to one of Brother Max’s meetings before and I was telling her a long time ago I used to go to the Lutheran Church and I felt good but this is what comes from backsliding. In our church we were not taught about the power of the Holy Ghost.

      We were taught the salvation of Jesus Christ but that’s as far as the preaching went. When we went in it was a dead church. Forms and rituals, that’s all it was. But you see we didn’t have the Holy Spirit, I needed that power. I didn’t like the way my life was but I just couldn’t help myself. I didn’t have the power to be able to do what I wanted to do.

      Pastor Solbrekken: You drank every day?  

Rose: That’s right. I drank every day until my niece told me about the meeting. She said, “Auntie you should come over and hear this preacher preaching."  So I went and I’m sure happy that I did go because that’s where I got saved. The service was altogether different than what I was used to.

      I knew the first night that I was there that this was what I was looking for. Right where I was sitting, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ and I just cried that whole week. They had revival in Calgary the whole week and I was there every night because this was what I had wanted for so long.

     I received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost two or three months later after we got back from the Holy Land. The Lord made a way for me to go with the Solbrekken group to the Holy Land and while I was there I prayed to the Lord that He would save the rest of my relatives also.

     When I got back from the Holy Land I knew that God had to use me to go and tell my family about Jesus. For about 3 years I travelled completely just out of a suitcase. I didn’t have a home or anything. I just went wherever the Lord directed me and I was able to reach all of my relatives across Canada to tell them about Jesus.

     God put everything together for me. He delivered me from my drinking problem, then He made a way for my husband and I to get back together and remarry. He is saved also and 2 years ago the Lord blessed us with a trip to the Holy Land together. That meant a lot to my husband. I just thank Jesus for that.

     We have 4 grandchildren and one of my little granddaughters is filled with the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues and it is beautiful to see that. That’s a blessing from God when you can see something like that.

Rose & Ernie Bishop testifying at the July, 2016 Tent Camp Meeting at the House of Prayer on Hiway 623, south of New Sarepta, AB

 Dr. Max Solbrekken installing Rose Bishop as Pastor of the House of Prayer Community Church, Fort Macloed, AB on October 16, 2016

 

NOT I BUT CHRIST

Pastor Max Solbrekken, D.D.

I will sing of my Redeemer,
  And His wondrous love to me;
On the cruel cross He suffered,
  From the curse to set me free.

    Sing, oh, sing of my Redeemer,
      With His blood He purchased me,
    On the cross He sealed my pardon,
        Paid the debt, and made me free.

I will tell the wondrous story,
  How my lost estate to save,
In His boundless love and mercy,
  He the ransom freely gave.

I will praise my dear Redeemer,
  His triumphant pow'r I'll tell,
How the victory He giveth
  Over sin, and death, and hell.

I will sing of my Redeemer,
  And His heav'nly love to me;
He from death to life hath brought me,
  Son of God with Him to be.

Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher

"And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name. And Jesus said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from Heaven, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the Enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you." (Luke 10: 17)

In the beginning of His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ appointed twelve disciples to be with Him and be taught by Him, until His death on the cross for the Redemption of mankind. 

They witnessed His amazing wisdom and knowledge and His power to heal the sick, cast out devils and raise the dead! They also saw the awful hatred of some of the leading scribes and pharisees against Him!

"The people which sat in Darkness saw great Light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

"And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and Healing all manner of Sickness and all manner of Disease among the people. 

"And His fame went through all Syria; and they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with diverse diseases and torments, and those that were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy, and He healed them.

"And there followed Him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan." (Matt. 4: 16,17; 23-25)

JEWISH LEADERS TURNED AGAINST JESUS!

Leading Jewish authorities knew that Prophets like Micah, David, Daniel, and Isaiah and others, had brought utterances about the Coming Messiah, and they saw the outstanding miracles of healing and excorisms that He did. 

Instead of embracing His message of Repentance, they turned against Jesus. They watched Him and tried to 'catch Him in His words' but they were unable to outsmart Him. How sad. How tragic!

The Bible states: "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, ti them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.

"And the WORD became flesh and , and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the ONLY BEGOTTEN of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:11,12,14)

Our Lord promised: "Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto My Father. 

"And whatsoever ye shall ye ask in my name, I will do it. If ye love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever." (John 14: 14-16)

CRUCIFIED LIFE IN CHRIST!

St. Paul stated: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me." (Gal. 2:20)

"But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." (2 Cor. 4:3-5)

"Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (qualified) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 

"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son: In Whom we have redemption through His BLOOD, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. 

"For by Him were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principaloities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: 

"And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church: Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all the fullness dwell.

JESUS HAS PURCHASED OUR PEACE!

"And having made Peace through the BLOOD of His Cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in Heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He Reconciled, in the Body of His flesh through Death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in His sight: 

"Even the Mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this Mystery among the Gentiles; which is CHRIST IN YOU, the Hope of Glory: 

"Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.

"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him: rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosphy and vain deceit, after the traditon of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 

"For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power. In Whom alslo ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ.

"Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are Risen with Him through the Faith of the Operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead. And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of the flesh, hath He quickened together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 

"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, NAILING IT TO HIS CROSS. And having Spoiled Principalities  and Powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 

"Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our Life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in Glory... And have put on the New Man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew.. but Christ is all and in all.

"And above all these things put on charity (love), which is the bond of perfectness. And let the PEACE of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called  in one body; and be ye thankful. And let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom..." (Col. 1:11-3:16)

WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO NOTHING!

Jesus said; "I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth  in Me, and I in him, the sane bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing. 

"If a man abide not in Me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them in the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

"Herein is My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be My disciples." (John 15: 4-8)

And now may the Grace of our Lord Jesus, the Love of God the Father and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all. In Jesus name. Amen.

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