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The Welcoming Committee

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That does it...I have to write this.

I've been tempted on occasion to write something about this topic for a number of years, but it just never quite came to the forefront and grabbed center stage. It's as if nothing ever pulled my trigger quite hard enough to make me to sit down and do it. But recently, that trigger got pulled.

And it got pulled hard enough to make me do just that.

(I occasionally use the expression "Somebody finally got their trigger pulled!" to mean that a certain person got saved, but not in this case.)

My Taiwanese wife Phoebe studies the Bible with a zeal that puts me to open shame, but one of the benefits of that is that she often asks me questions or wants my opinion on biblical teachings she's found on YouTube that often lead me to a deeper understanding of something I thought I knew pretty well.

Phoebe and I both hold to a pre-trib view of the Rapture, and recently she asked me about a YouTube video of a nice young Bible teacher who was holding forth in regard to the timing of the Rapture—only this guy was praising and promoting the post-trib view while doing a bang-up job of denigrating the foolish misconception of the pre-trib view. OK...heard all that before.

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APR '23: The Parables of Matthew 25
Hmmm...who could all these wise virgins, foolish virgins, faithful and slothful servants, sheep, and goats be? Let's put on our thinking caps...

The Parables of Matthew 25

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In this article, I want to deal with a topic that has nipped at my heels for as long as I can remember. Like many believers out there, I have long struggled to properly sort out some of the details of certain aspects of the Olivet Discourse, arguably the premier teaching on the end times that Jesus delivered to four of His disciples during the last week of His earthly ministry.

And in this case, the heel-nipping of which I speak pertains to the three parables that appear at the beginning of Matthew 25:

1. The Parable of the 10 Virgins (Matt. 25:1–13)
2. The Parable of the Talents (Matt. 25:14–30)
3. The Sheep and Goat Judgment (Matt. 25:31–46)

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 Weekly Commentary: 

6/3/2025 — From the "Being Silly" Department...

This is one of those occasions when something in the news just brightened my day and reminded me there are still people in the world who have a lick of common sense and the simple courage to stand for the painfully obvious truth that so many today cannot or will not grasp.

At the Oregon State Women's Track & Field Championships held in Eugene, Oregon this past weekend, the high jump event was won by a transgender male who was allowed to compete with the girls.

But when the top finishers stood on a row of platforms to receive their awards, two of those girls wanted no part of it.

Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard, who finished third and fourth respectively, stood on their appropriate platforms with the others at the beginning of the award ceremony. But suddenly both of them jumped off their platforms and then simply walked away in protest, ignoring the pleading of an official trying to herd them back to the platforms.

This is the first year this competition has allowed transgender males to compete against girls, and the "winner" was a boy who had competed in this event with other boys in 2023 and 2024. (And I haven't researched it, but I'd be willing to bet you a week's pay he never placed higher than either of the two girls who jumped off their platforms in protest.)

Oregon will now likely face an investigation into their refusal to comply with President Trump's policy of not allowing men to compete in women's sports, and the America First Policy Institute has already filed a complaint under Title IX against Oregon's policy of allowing such a violation.

Of course, there have been other such actions taken by women in various sports, such as when fencer Stephanie Turner took a knee in protest of being forced to compete against a transgender man in a collegiate competition in Maryland earlier this year.

Well, all I can say is this:

You go, girls! I am one of the millions of Americans who are on your side and fully support your actions. I am proud to be among those who applaud and honor you for being the champions you truly are.

I confess that I have a secret fantasy related to this whole ludicrous and satanically inspired idea of men competing in women's sports, and I may as well share it with you:

It's a major women's track and field competition and they are about to start the 400 meters. Among the women competing, there is one transgender male starting in the lead position of the staggered start along with them. The gun goes off, and the transgender runner gets a good jump and goes speeding off down the track.

But every single one of the other competitors, all of whom are women, don't move. They rise from their crouched starting positions and just stand there, and then gather and begin chatting and laughing as the transgender male is flying down the track.

As the crowd looks on in disbelief, the transgender runner—although he is excited to be in the lead—slowly begins to realize something isn't right. And as he races toward toward the finish line, the laughing girls begin pumping their fists and cheering him on:

"Run, sweetie, run!! YAY!! Come on, honey...you're w-i-n-n-i-n-g!!"

I'm being silly, I know...but it would be an awesome thing to witness, and would certainly be worth the ticket price.

However, when I said allowing men to compete in women's sports is "satanically inspired," I wasn't being silly.

I was being dead serious.

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