BITS and PIECES
A random collection of news and views
compiled by Frank McClelland for the
Toronto Free Presbyterian Church.
256th Edition – August 17, 2025
GOD PREDICTS GLOBAL WARMING
This has been one of the hottest summers on record, and several heat warnings have been issued throughout the country. Canada, from east to west, has been bombarded with wildfires, and a number of homes have been lost as a result.
These days, we hear a lot about climate change, and many are concerned about the future of planet Earth. Fears of climate change now influence politics, economics, and the way we live our daily lives.
Did you know that God predicted a cataclysmic global climate change two thousand years ago? The Bible warns of a coming crisis that might be called God’s ‘global warming.’ “The earth and works therein shall be burned up” [II Peter 3:10]. Everything will be consumed; nothing will be left. All our cities, skyscrapers, bridges, homes, vehicles, and all our belongings will be forever destroyed. “All these things shall be dissolved” [v11]. It shall be a dread day.
The foolish assumption of the scoffer is that “things continue as they were from the beginning of creation” [v4]. Because they have not seen God’s judgment in the past, they do not expect it in the future. Wrong!
The Lord sent the judgment of the flood in Noah’s day and warns us that “the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men” [II Peter 3:7].
You may or may not be a climate change skeptic – but do you scoff at God’s global warming? This solemn message comes as an inescapable warning to you.
Are you willing to recognize that the world will one day be destroyed by fire because of God’s wrath on human sinfulness? Do you realize God’s way of salvation through Christ is the only way to escape the coming cataclysm?
Do you see that God is reaching out to you in mercy, and that you can repent and seek reconciliation with Him? “Seek ye the Lord while He may be found” [Isaiah 55:6].
GREEN IS THE NEW RED
Commentators have begun to say what many have been preaching for years: the Green movement has provided a new home for communists, Marxists, left-wingers, and big-government advocates.
The people who couldn’t get their program accepted using the old red machine have repainted it an earthly Green. Communism and Socialism ruled the working class in many countries and, for the most part, kept them in poverty.
Then, about thirty years ago, both Communism and Socialism suffered crushing blows under market capitalism. But these forces of the left refuse to die. Just as it appeared they would be consigned to the scrapheap of history, they found a new home with a much more attractive name – environmentalism.
“Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat of Fabian socialism but – even better – in the name of the earth itself.” With religious fervour, these apostles of big government are achieving the success that evaded them when they tried to push similar policies under the banner of Marxist or Fabian philosophy.
They have succeeded in getting politicians, and now even some evangelical church leaders, on board to support the program to reverse the alleged man-caused warming of planet Earth.
Remember, this is the very same type of tyranny that the Al Gore crowd here in America wants us to adopt. This “green” solution to the energy problem of the earth will accomplish every Marxist’s dream of wrecking America’s economic strength. What we are facing is a Marxist revival.
We are not looking for Reds under the bed but Reds decked out in Green, posing as protectors of the Earth. [From an article by Dr Alan Cairns, Canadian Revivalist, Fall 2009].
ETHNIC ORIGIN!
The pupils of the Grade 2 class in the Whitefield Christian Schools were given an assignment to give a verbal presentation to their class on their ethnic origin. Little N decided on Ireland and made his speech.
He said that in Ireland, “they speak two languages,” one of which was English. “And what was the other?” asked the teacher.
He answered, “Garlic!” Cute.
