Does Rick Warren Endorse Chrislam?

by Brandon Cox  – 30th July 2013

No.

Period.

It’s a funny thing. Since we’ve announced that we’ll be planting a new church in cooperation with the new Saddleback Network and that Rick Warren has endorsed and sent us, I’ve gotten quite a few questions about the controversy over “chrislam.” I’m not going to link to any articles – Google tells the story, and it’s a sad and frustrating one.

The rumor is that Rick Warren and other prominent religious leaders are promoting a new belief system known as chrislam, which is a kind of twisted entangling of Christianity and Islam. Let me make a few things clear…

1. Rick Warren affirms that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved for eternity.

Here’s what Rick says about the issue: “If you can be saved without Christ, missions is a crock. We’re better off not to go.” This is from a recent interview between John Piper and Rick Warren in which Rick had an opportunity to set the record straight on a number of issues.

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Live Webcast this Sunday 25th August

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Brief YouTube clips of RUA Party’s Freedom of Speech Policy

Dear friends & family in Christ, You may click the following links to watch brief YouTube clips of RUA Party’s Freedom of Speech Policy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY52_j0stEk  (Freedom of Speech Promo -…

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More RUAP Media Coverage in Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Advertiser & Courier Mail Newspapers

Dear friends & family in Christ, Following are the links to more RUAP Media Coverage in the Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Advertiser & Courier Mail Newspapers. Please be encouraged…

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‘Libs direct preferences to anti-Muslim party’ – The Age & Canberra Times / Live Webcast – Pr Daniel on Rebuilding the Walls – A must watch

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) You may click the following links to read an excellent article about RUAP that appeared in The Age Newspaper, Canberra Times and other…

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5 Women Missionaries Beaten Publicly in India for Sharing Gospel

Charisma News – 7/26/2013 Taun Cortado

Five women have been beaten by a man in the Andhra Pradesh region of India while sharing about the love of Jesus in a public marketplace. Amazingly spared, they retreated to safety, thanking God for the honor of suffering for His sake.

The women, all leaders in the Gospel for Asia (GFA)-sponsored Women’s Fellowship ministry, had been sharing with store owners and shoppers when one man demanded to know what they were doing. The assault began with a powerful slap to the face of one woman and continued to the others, one of whom was isolated and surrounded by five men.

“Jesus promised persecuting and hardships,” says Daniel Punnose, vice president of GFA (gfa.org). “These young ladies see it worth facing the beatings in order to share the love of Christ.”

The women, Bansari, Jaladhi, Kuyil, Sunita and Viveka, were beaten on their faces, ears and heads. All report that no bystanders came to their defense during the ordeal and that they miraculously escaped from their multiple attackers and were delivered from further harm.

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What President Obama Left Out of His Talk on Race

By Bernard Goldberg  http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |  Jewish World Review July 23, 2013/ 16 Menachem-Av, 5773

Six days after the trial of George Zimmerman ended, President Obama talked to America about why the not guilty verdict caused so much hurt and pain and frustration among black people, especially young black men who are often viewed with suspicion, just as Trayvon Martin was.

He spoke informally, from notes, not from a teleprompter. And he spoke in personal terms, as a black man who has also experienced the humiliation of being taken for someone up to no good. He said that, “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”

He talked about how young black men are followed when they walk into a store. He said he was. He talked about how people lock their car doors when young black men come into view. He said it happened to him before he became a U.S. senator. He talked about how women in elevators clutch their purses when a young black man enters.

It must be frustrating when this happens to good, decent African Americans who have no intention to do anything wrong. It must be hurtful. And it also must look like racism. But looks, as we know, can be deceiving.

The president examined humiliation through the eyes of black Americans. What the president did not do is examine these humiliations from the view of the wary shop owner, or the frightened people in the car, or the suspicious woman on the elevator. What they all know is that young black men commit a disproportionate amount of crime in this country. That’s why they’re suspicious of African American males of a certain age. Black people know this too, since they’re the ones most likely to be victimized by young black men.

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More Western jihadis fighting in Syria than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia or Yemen

www.jihadwatch.org – Sunday, 28 July 2013

Eventually they will return home — to stop them would be “Islamophobic.” And then then it will get even more interesting. “Worries Mount as Syria Lures West’s Muslims,” by Eric Schmitt for the New York Times, July 27 (thanks to Kenneth):

WASHINGTON — A rising number of radicalized young Muslims with Western passports are traveling to Syria to fight with the rebels against the government of Bashar al-Assad, raising fears among American and European intelligence officials of a new terrorist threat when the fighters return home.

More Westerners are now fighting in Syria than fought in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia or Yemen, according to the officials. They go to Syria motivated by the desire to help the people suffering there by overthrowing Mr. Assad. But there is growing concern that they will come back with a burst of jihadist zeal, some semblance of military discipline, enhanced weapons and explosives skills, and, in the worst case, orders from affiliates of Al Qaeda to carry out terrorist strikes.

“Syria has become really the predominant jihadist battlefield in the world,” Matthew G. Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told a security conference in Aspen, Colo., this month. He added, “The concern going forward from a threat perspective is there are individuals traveling to Syria, becoming further radicalized, becoming trained and then returning as part of really a global jihadist movement to Western Europe and, potentially, to the United States.”

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Pakistan: Violations against Christians Soar

by Mohshin Habib – July 15, 2013

She is on death row for a comment that Jesus Christ is not dead but that the Prophet Mohammed is dead. Pakistan is now one of the most dangerous places for Christians to live.

Rimsha Masih, a young Pakistani Christian girl, who was arrested in August 2012 by Pakistan’s police for alleged blasphemy, has escaped the country with the direct help of Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and AVAAZ, a civic organization. Local media and her parents said she was as young as 11 at the time of her arrest; medical reports classified her as an “uneducated” 14-year-old with a mental age younger than her years. Accused of burning pages of the holy book for Muslims, the Quran, Masih, under Pakistan’s “blasphemy laws,” faced the death penalty.

Masih fled with her family members to Canada, where Immigration Minister Jason Kenney instructed officials to process the family’s applications for permanent residency on humanitarian grounds.

While Masih and her family are fortunate, no one knows what will happen to the rest of the Christians of Pakistan. Even though they make up only about two percent of the population — or precisely because of it: there are so few, they may appear invitingly vulnerable — they suffer beatings by their neighbors, murder by the police and imprisonment by the courts.

Last month, three Christian women, Arshad Bibi, Sajida Bibi and Sauriya Bibi (Bibi means a lady or girl) were brutally beaten and forced to parade naked by the armed henchmen of a landlord, who happens to connections in ruling party PML(N).

According to reports, the incident occurred on the night of June 3, as the male members of the family were at work. The armed men entered the house by jumping the boundary wall, then unlocked the gate from inside. The women, along with two elderly relatives, were asleep. The attackers looked for the men; when they could not find them, they began to beat the three women. They then took the young Christian women into the street, tore off their cloths and forced them to parade naked.

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Live Webcast this Sunday 18th August – Pr Daniel on Rebuilding the Walls

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Media Release: Rise Up Australia Party standing 93 Candidates – 77 Lower House & 16 Upper House – Federal Election on 7th September 2013

General Immediate Media Release 16th August 2013 Media Release: Rise Up Australia Party will be standing 93 Candidates - 77 Lower House & 16 Upper House for the Federal Election…

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Secretary of State Kerry: promoting gay rights abroad ‘at the very heart’ of U.S. policy

by Kirsten Andersen – Jun 10, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10, 2013 (LifeSiteNews) – Secretary of State John Kerry wishes homosexuals around the world a “Happy Pride Month.”  That was the message conveyed in a recorded message released Friday to employees of the U.S. State Department, in which he outlined the bureaucracy’s robust approach to promoting homosexual advocacy throughout the world.

“I wanted to take a moment to join people around the world in celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride month,” Kerry said in the message.

“This month is about the assertion of equality and dignity. It is about the affirmation of fundamental freedoms and human rights. It is about people taking pride in who they are, no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity. Protecting universal human rights is at the very heart of our diplomacy, and we remain committed to advancing human rights for all, including LGBT individuals. We are committed to advancing these rights not just in the month of June, but year-round.”

“As Secretary,” Kerry added, “I join with my colleagues at our embassies, consulates, and USAID missions around the world in saying, no matter where you are, and no matter who you love, we stand with you.

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Exciting News More than 90 Candidates Running for Rise Up Australia Party / Your Support is Urgently Needed – Pr Daniel Nalliah

Dear friends & family in Christ,

We thank you very much for all your faithful love, prayer, moral and financial support for Catch the Fire Ministries over the years and for Rise Up Australia Party in the recent past.

Rise Up Australia Party is well on its way to contest our upcoming Federal Election on Saturday 7th September 2013 and will definitely make a difference in changing the landscape of our country to protect our nation for the next generation.

We thank God that the response to our call to action to Keep Australia Australian has been well received and that we can confirm that Rise Up Australia Party is running more than 90 Candidates across the country for the Lower House (Rep) and Upper House (Senate).

This is exciting news because now RUAP will be above the line on the Senate ballot paper in every state and territory across our nation.

However, our great need right now is to raise the necessary funding to begin TV advertising over the next few weeks. We urgently need $50,000 ASAP to begin our TV advertising campaign. Our ad is already produced, approved and ready to go once payment is made.

Would you please sincerely consider donating whatever amount you could?

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Why Is Christianity losing in America?

By S. Michael Craven, Christian Post Guest Columnist – June 4, 2013

This is the question with which all serious Christians must wrestle. To think that Christianity is thriving in America simply ignores the obvious and overwhelming facts of our times. Much like the century preceding the Protestant Reformation and subsequently the Catholic Counter-Reformation, the church was in a dark and desperate period. In its general understanding and representation, Christianity had drifted from its mission and biblical foundations-and the results were devastating.

Similarly, the church in America today has also drifted from its biblical mission and the result has been a church largely divorced from its kingdom purposes and therefore increasingly irrelevant to people living in the real world. At the heart of our present dilemma is our diminished understanding of the gospel, namely the gospel of the kingdom. In reforming the church, the Reformers taught that Jesus-being the Son of God-was born, crucified, and rose again, and because of these facts, your sins can be forgiven. This was and no doubt remains “good news.” However, this summation could be drawn from Paul’s letters without ever reading the four books commonly known as the Gospels.

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Salvations & Water Baptisms in QLD/ Great RUAP Campaign

Dear family & friends in Christ,

We thank and praise almighty God for His awesome presence at the RUAP & CTFM meetings in the Gold Coast & Brisbane!

Who said ‘Church & Politics’ should not mix??

Well, we are seeing the amazing fruits of both working together for the advance of God’s Kingdom and righteousness across our nation!

The RUAP campaign meetings were very well attended, with up to 200 people at some meetings. The people gathered were greatly excited and tremendously blessed.

A few months ago when Pr Daniel was interviewed by Sunrise on Channel 7, an army soldier who fought in Iraq contacted us and was very upset with David Koch.

Ever since that point he has been in touch with us.

Well, he along with his wife and also another young woman who heard about RUAP, attended the meetings in QLD.

Glory to God they were so touched by the presence of God, that all three of them gave their lives to Jesus and wanted to be water baptised.

That afternoon Pr Daniel baptised all three of them in a bathtub at the place where he was staying. What a mighty God we serve!

Pr Daniel stated, “I thank God that RUAP is touching the hearts of the unchurched. People are looking for answers. Praise God that Jesus is the Answer.”

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