ABC’s Joy Behar (“The View”) Says Homeschooled Kids Are Demented

Joy Behar, a former public school teacher, described homeschooled children as “demented” on ABC’s “The View.” Her co-host, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, replied, “I think [homeschooling] actually is a good thing.”

Behar cut Hasselbeck off, saying, “A lot of them are demented when they’re homeschooled. … They’re afraid of children. They learn to be scared of other children.”

To use Bill O’Reilly’s expression: Joy Behar is a “pinhead.”

Jonathan Edwards On The Souls Of Wicked Men

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell fire, if it were not for God’s restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men, a foundation for the torments of hell. There are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell fire. These principles are active and powerful, exceeding violent in their nature, and if it were not for the restraining hand of God upon them, they would soon break out, they would flame out after the same manner as the same corruptions, the same enmity does in the hearts of damned souls, and would beget the same torments as they do in them. The souls of the wicked are in scripture compared to the troubled sea, Isa. lvii. 20. For the present, God restrains their wickedness by his mighty power, as he does the raging waves of the troubled sea, saying, “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further;” but if God should withdraw that restraining power, it would soon carry all before it. Sin is the ruin and misery of the soul; it is destructive in its nature; and if God should leave it without restraint, there would need nothing else to make the soul perfectly miserable. The corruption of the heart of man is immoderate and boundless in its fury; and while wicked men live here, it is like fire pent up by God’s restraints, whereas if it were let loose, it would set on fire the course of nature; and as the heart is now a sink of sin, so if sin was not restrained, it would immediately turn the soul into a fiery oven, or a furnace of fire and brimstone. (Sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”)

General Robert E. Lee: The Bible

“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

Are You Guilty Of Limiting God?

“With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27)

Do you and your church give the impression to the world that with God all things are possible? Is it possible that your example tends to limit God in the eyes of other people? Have you never picked up a biography of one of the old saints of God and been astounded by what God accomplished through just one life committed to His service?

If you read the New Testament at all, you must see very clearly the power of God through Christian men and women. This is all elaborated upon in the books of the New Testament very clearly. The writers were constantly exhorting others to be conformed to the pattern of life that grace had made possible to them. Christians should not hesitate to ask themselves if they are conforming to this pattern or if they may be limiting what is possible in their lives.

Is communion with God real to you? Do you have a consciousness of the presence of God. This is meant to be a wonderful blessing to the Christian. Many know nothing of this because they have limited God’s work in their lives.

Do you delight in God and in His commandments? The Christian does because God has enlightened his mind so that he is no longer willing to live in darkness. There are, however, those who limit God by giving the impression that the Christian life is all about duty and fear. Christians should delight in the law of God.

A Christian must always beware of self-confidence and self-satisfaction. We have not arrived! We must never believe that man can organize the church of Christ better than the Holy Spirit can. When Christians begin to think this way, they cut off the flow of the blessings of God. God desires to bless the humble heart. If you hold on to Jesus Christ and trust in His strength to save, all things are indeed possible.