President Obama, Are You Really a Christian?

President Obama11/19/2013 Larry Tomczak

Mr. President, I thank you for this opportunity to share the following with you.

After graduating from Cleveland State University, where I was privileged to serve as the president of our student body, I was selected for a post at the AFL-CIO headquarters across the street from the White House, your home. One day I bumped into President Nixon as he exited his limo, and I asked him this question: “Mr. President, do you read the Bible?”

The smile he tried to swallow surfaced on his face as he replied with a wink and a nod, “I not only read it, I even quote from it sometimes!”

Although Richard Nixon knew Bible verses, when I reflect on that interchange I still wonder if he was really a born-again Christian. The fruit and witness of his life are a tragedy and make it suspect, so I leave the eternal destiny of this departed leader in the hands of God.

President Obama, would you allow me to share with you that I and scores of others have similar doubts about your conversion and the authenticity of your Christianity? I say up front that while I’m in disagreement with many of your policies and beliefs, I do love you and pray for you every single day. I affirm your God-given leadership gifting and your exemplary role as a husband and a father to your two lovely daughters. Yet I must be honest with you: I’m not sure you’re really a Christian.

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For Urgent Action – Churches attacked in Sri Lanka by Buddhist Monks & Mobs

Monks attacking Church in Sri LankaDear family & friends in Christ,

While we in Australia and in the West enjoy the freedom to worship, Christians around the world are persecuted and attacked for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Christians in at least 3 churches badly damaged in Sri Lanka have been attacked while worshipping on Sunday the 12th January 2014.

Assembly of God on the Baddegama Road in Hikkaduwa and the Calvary Free Church were both attacked by the mobs yesterday.

Check the following links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHCQyxK3ps&feature=youtu.be  (Ada Derana News on Hikkaduwa Church attacks – Pastor Daniel has spoken personally to the Pastor in this broadcast who is a personal friend)

http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/27450

http://colombogazette.com/2014/01/12/police-report-to-court-on-church-attack/

http://www.ft.lk/2014/01/13/two-churches-attacked-in-hikkaduwa/

http://www.ceylontoday.lk/16-52769-news-detail-churches-attacked-in-hikkaduwa.html

Please note that although the national news broadcast is in the Sri Lankan language, the footage very clearly shows the Buddhist Monks and mob attacking the church.

Once on the main news site, click on ‘Sunday 12th, Jan 2014.’

http://www.swarnavahini.lk/news/ (need to select news on noon news 12.01.2014 – clip 1 )

Before more churches and Christians are attacked please take some time to act ASAP by emailing or calling the following Sri Lankan High Commission in your respective country.

Following are the contact details for the Embassies (High Commissions) of Sri Lanka in America, England, Australia.

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7-Year-Old Boy in India Tortured, Murdered for Christian Faith

 The son of a believer, Anmol went missing after attending Sunday school at a Believers Church on Nov. 17 in northern India. His body was found the following day. (11/27/2013 Taun Cortado – Charisma

The body of a 7-year-old boy in India retrieved from a pond last week revealed horrific details of torture before he was brutally murdered because of his Christian beliefs.

The son of a believer, Anmol went missing after attending Sunday school at a Believers Church on Nov. 17 in northern India. His body was found the following day. Previous threats and persecution of his family indicate he was targeted because of his family’s faith.

“The unprecedented torture and death of this innocent child sadden our hearts incredibly,” says K.P. Yohannan, Gospel for Asia founder and international director. “Persecution of Christians is a weekly occurrence, but this intensity of brutality against a child is unthinkable. In this horrible tragedy, we find strength and hope in Jesus.”

According to Yohannan, persecution of Christians has increased by more than 400 percent in the past few years.

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Public health chief warns of new gay HIV epidemic

Professor Kevin Fenton, UK Director of Health and Wellbeing

FamilyVoice Australia  Media Release  27 November 2013

“Australia should take seriously the warning by Professor Kevin Fenton, UK Director of Health and Wellbeing, that the world faces a new global HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men,” FamilyVoice Australia research officer Ros Phillips said today.

In an address to a UK HIV conference earlier this month, Professor Fenton said that new HIV infections are at a 20 year high, mainly among homosexual and bisexual men.  Even sub-Saharan Africa, with a huge incidence of HIV overall, the HIV rate in homosexual men is far higher than in heterosexual men and women.

Despite the development of new drugs, widespread condom promotion and availability along with other tools to combat the disease, there is a potentially catastrophic HIV epidemic in homosexual men in every part of the world.

The professor said the reason for the surge in infections is the two main characteristics of homosexual sex: anal intercourse and promiscuity.

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Youtube link to another amazing miraculous healing from near death of a 17 year old girl / Upcoming CTFM schedule in Hallam

Dear friends & family in Christ,

1) You may click the following link to watch another miraculous healing from near death of a 17 year old girl last May 2013 when Pr Daniel prayed for her and family at the Monash Hospital ICU in Melbourne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QfmEtmsyPc

All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ, our miracle working God, who brought back hope when there was no hope!

We thank everyone who was praying for this girl and will continue to pray for her total recovery.

2) Our weekly 9.30am & 6.30pm worship services are this Sunday 12th January at CTFM at our new premises at 30 Star Crescent in Hallam, Melbourne.

Pr Daniel will be praying for people at both services.

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UK: Schoolchildren told they would be punished for racism if they didn’t attend religious workshop on Islam

Raymond IbrahiUK - Schoolchildren told they would be punished for racism if they didn't attend religious workshop on Islamm – www.jihadwatch.org

“Headteacher Lynn Small wrote to parents and said if kids did not attend a ‘racial discrimination note’ would be made on the pupil’s records and would remain there for their school careers.” In other words, their futures would be destroyed. That’s how important it is to the dhimmi British to make sure that everyone has a positive view of Islam and forget about jihad terror and Islamic supremacism.

“Schoolchildren told they would be punished for RACISM if they did not attend a religious workshop on ISLAM,” from SWNS.com, November 22 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

Parents today slammed a school after children as young as eight were told they would be punished for RACISM if they did not attend a religious workshop – on ISLAM.

Angry mums and dads were sent a letter by Littleton Green Community School, in Huntingdon, Staffs., warning their children would be considered racist if they did not go on the school trip.

The visit to Staffordshire University – for Year 4 and Year 6 pupils – had been arranged as part of the children’s “cultural education” on November 27.

Headteacher Lynn Small wrote to parents and said if kids did not attend a “racial discrimination note” would be made on the pupil’s records and would remain there for their school careers.

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New Year’s Eve report

Dear family & friCelebrating New Years Eve at CTFMends in Christ,

Following is the message that Pr Daniel shared at the New Year’s Eve Worship & Hopper Night which we’re sure will be a great blessing to you & your loved ones in 2014.New Years Eve Hopper Night

The Donkey Story – One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down.

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Three American Teachers Slaughtered for Christian Faith in Muslim World

Ronald Thomas SmithDec 18, 2013 – Raymond Ibrahim – www.jihadwatch.org

Why was Ronald Thomas Smith II, an American teaching at Benghazi’s International School, shot to death last Thursday in Libya, even as he “was looking forward to his first Christmas in the United States with his wife and toddler son”?

Most Western media and analysts dismiss the killing as a random act of violence incited by a recent al-Qaeda video.

However, by connecting the dots and looking at precedence, it appears that Smith’s Christianity, specifically his talking about it among Muslims, was the motive behind the slaying.

First consider two facts gleaned from the AP report, “American killed in Benghazi remembered as ‘much loved teacher’”: 1) Smith once had plans to attend seminary, a place devoted to preparing Christians to share the Gospel—a crime according to Islamic law (recall the Coptic Christians tortured and killed on the accusation that they were proselytizing in Libya); 2) according to his home church in Texas, “Ronnie’s [Smith’s] greatest desire was for peace and prosperity in Libya and for the people of Libya to have the joy of knowing God through Christ” (emphasis added).

Then there is the fact that Smith was a “much loved teacher”—a phrase that immediately, if not eerily, brings to mind another very similar story of another “much beloved” American teacher who was killed in the Islamic world for talking about Christianity.

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National Australia Day United Prayer & Holy Spirit Revival Meetings with National Indonesian Prayer Leader in Melbourne in January 2014

Praying on Australia Day 2013Dear family & friends in Christ across this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit,Pastor Daniel Pandji

You may click the following links to listen to the 30 second audio promo and to download the leaflet for the National Australia Day United Prayer Gathering in Melbourne from 10am – 1pm on Saturday 25th January 2014.

https://reformationharvestfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Catch-The-Fire-11335-RVX-282819-KA-Bm.wav

https://reformationharvestfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CTF-Aus-Day-Flyer.pdf

This interdenominational Christian prayer gathering which brings together hundreds of prayer warriors from many churches, denominations and ethnicities across Australia, with special guest speaker Ps Daniel Pandji from Indonesia, will be preceded and followed by a series of Holy Spirit miracle healing revival meetings at the new CTFM Apostolic Centre at 30 Star Crescent in Hallam where he will also be ministering Saturday 25th at 7pm, Sunday 26th January at 10am & 7pm.

Daniel H. Pandji is the General Facilitator of the Indonesia National Prayer Network, facilitating City Prayer Networks among women, children, youth, and marketplace ministers in more than 300 cities throughout Indonesia.

He is also the National Coordinator of Indonesia Joseph Storehouse to provide disaster relief and combat systemic poverty and was Secretary General to the 2012 World Prayer Assembly, convening 100,000 intercessors to transformation prayer.

If you live interstate, please make every effort to book your flights now and come for the National Australia Day Prayer Gathering and stay on for the Holy Spirit miracle healing revival meetings. We assure you that you will be tremendously blessed.

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Shark attack victim Zac Young prayed with mates before dying (Australia)

The Australian ^ | DECEMBER 02, 2013 | ROSIE LEWIS AND RICK MORTON

AS 19-year-old bodyboarder Zac Young was being pulled to shore, bleeding heavily from a shark attack, he turned to his good mate Kurt Gillan and prayed.

“He passed away peacefully, no pain, with his last words to me being: ‘I love you brother’,” Mr Gillan, 18, wrote on Facebook yesterday.

“He began to pray ‘please God, my lord and Saviour, help protect my friends and help me through this time of need’. He then went unconscious.”

Mr Young died on Saturday afternoon at Reicks Point, north of Coffs Harbour, 540km north of Sydney. The Port Macquarie local had just passed his driving test and was on a surfing road-trip with Mr Gillan and two other mates.

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200,000 march for marriage in Taiwan protesting proposed same-sex ‘marriage’ law

200,000 march for marriage in Taiwan protesting proposed same-sex ‘marriage’ law

LifeSiteNews.com Life, Family and Culture News by Peter Baklinski – Dec 03, 2013 

TAIPEI, Taiwan, December 2, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com) – About  200,000 people marched in front of Taiwan’s Presidential Office on Saturday, according to organizers or the march. The crowd was protesting a proposed law that would allow same-sex couples to ‘marry’ and adopt

“God created human beings as male and female. Only the union of a man and a woman can create the next generation, and the ability to create offspring is an important function of a family,” said 40-year-old Ann Huang, who joined the rally with her friends,  reported  Focus Taiwan.

The protesters, consisting mainly of families with their children, held signs that read “Made by Daddy and Mommy”, “Defend Marriage”, and “Oppose Amendment to Civil Code Article 972”, the current law which holds that marriage is between a man and woman.

The event was organized by The Coalition for the Happiness of Our Next Generation.

“We worry that this alternative family formation idea will confuse children’s concepts on education and sexual identity,”  said Yu Yen-hung, one of the founders of the organization, to  The China Post. “Therefore, we decided to stand up and fight against this bill that will affect the next generation.”

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The Bravest Woman I’ve Ever Met

Fire in My Bones – 11/6/2013 J. Lee Grady

Pentecostals get a bad rap these days from all sides. Secularists don’t like us because we are morally conservative. Some mainline Christians classify us as holy rollers. And fundamentalists like John MacArthur question our very faith, claiming that all our experiences with the Holy Spirit are fake.

But there is nothing fake about Althea Meyer. And there is no way this woman could get her impressive boldness from any other source than the Holy Spirit.

A dedicated missionary to the African country of Malawi, Althea has given her life to save as many starving children as possible. (Malawi has the highest death rate for children under 6 in the entire world.) After seeing her efforts on the field this week, I consider her one of the bravest Christians I’ve ever met anywhere.

I arrived in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, earlier this week to speak at a couple of conferences for women and pastors. I had already met Althea during one of her U.S. visits, but watching her fearlessness in this challenging environment has given me renewed respect for all other career missionaries who work tirelessly month after month on foreign fields.

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Wishing you a blessed CHRISTMAS and a victorious New Year in 2014!

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Revival in Indonesia – More than 1000 people commit their hearts to Jesus in 4 days

Dear family & friends in Christ,

All glory and praise to Jesus for His mighty hand at work in Indonesia, the biggest Muslim country in the world. Now it is estimated that up to 25 % of the 250 million population is Christian. This means it is more than all of the population in Australia.

Pr Daniel stated, “When you have to wait in a traffic block for 20-30 min to get into church and when 2 out of the 3 lanes of traffic on the main road are blocked because people are trying to get into church, you cannot help but thank the Lord for what He is doing in this Muslim country.

I believe Indonesia will not export Islam to the world, but will export the name of Jesus to Australia and the world. I am challenging the some 200+ Indonesian churches in Australia to rise up and take Australia for Jesus.”

On Sunday the church where Pr Daniel preached has 6 services (7am, 9am, 11am 3pm, 5pm & 7pm) with each service having around 1500+ people. God moved most powerfully through Pr Daniel and the team that went with him from CTFM at the Christmas Crusade.

You may click the following links to watch some exciting footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3q9zoIs6c&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKmwJLeoO14&feature=youtu.be

More than 1000 people dedicated their hearts to Jesus and hundreds were healed, delivered and set free.  More than 300 people were baptised in the Holy Spirit and prayed in tongues for the very first time. Many people with demons started screaming and rolling all over the floor as Pr Daniel commanded them to leave in Jesus name.

One particular very powerful testimony is of a young Muslim couple who brought their little boy born blind to the altar for prayer. They came out with hundreds of people for a healing touch. Glory to God this little boy’s eyes opened. The parents told the Pastor of the church, “Now, we will come to church and not go to the mosque anymore.”

“Thank you Jesus for the supernatural hand of God at work!”

Pr Daniel stated, “When you see Leaders and helpers in the churches of Indonesia come at 6.30am, leave church around 10pm at night on Sunday, and then ask them how they do it, they simply say, ‘It is the Lord’s day’.

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CTFM Back Online in our New Home / Some interesting newspaper articles about Christmas in Casey & Dandenong

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) Praise God that we at CTFM have now moved into our new home at 30 Star Crescent, Hallam and are now back online.…

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