In the Gospels, Jesus warned His followers to beware of false prophets. That’s a warning that Christians seem to ignore today. Almost anybody who says he or she is a Christian minister and starts a church or buys radio or TV time (regardless of what they teach) is honored and respected. We know false prophets exist, but we hesitate to point them out because if we do so we will be called judgmental and unloving by both Christians and non-Christians. We need to learn to boldly yet humbly speak the truth in love. That’s what I try to do.

Christ-followers are called to go with the inner flow of God’s Spirit, not with the turbulence of temptation, deception, and popular opinion that shuts down their conscience and drowns out the still, small voice of God within them. We need to search the Scriptures and let their words continually burn in our heart and constantly renew our mind.

Society says “follow the science” but many opinions promoted by society reject these self-evident truths:

* The massive amount of carbon emissions caused by human activity are negatively impacting the planet.
* There are only two genders.
* A growing human fetus is alive and to abort it is to take his or her life away.
* For a two-party democracy to work, neither side can force its will on the other. Compromise and working together are essential for its long-term survival.
* Creating blame, confusion, anger, and hostility will eventually produce chaos.
* Kindly disagreeing with someone’s behavior or opinion is neither hatred nor judgment. It’s the freedom of conscience and the freedom of speech.

The bold and public rejection of such self-evident truth will eventually undermine the foundations of society and civil discourse. Constantly repeated falsehoods never become true, but they eventually deceive many people into believing that they are true.

To obscure the obvious opens the door to override objectivity with opinion. Seek to observe the obvious.

True transformation isn’t about changing your body, it’s about renewing your mind. (Romans 12:2.) Without the clear boundaries of male and female, sexuality becomes a jungle of confusion.

Here’s a popular miss-use of words:

When conception has occurred and a new life has begun to grow and develop, killing that life stops reproduction. It’s not “reproductive” and isn’t a “reproductive right.”

True love is to put the well-being of someone else before your own:

Your mother
Let your life
Live and grow
In her body
For nine months.
She chose love.