Where is Israel on evangelical Christian voters’ list of priorities?

August 27, 2015 by Paul Stanley of JNS.org

Seventeen Republican presidential candidates are vying for the support of evangelical Christian voters from the swing states of Ohio and Florida, to the cornfields of Iowa, to the small towns of the Deep South. Within the varied spectrum of 2016 election issues such as the economy, immigration, and health care, do evangelicals highly prioritize candidates’ positions on Israel and the Middle East?

Major evangelical leaders in America are saying, “Yes.”

“Studies show us there are approximately 90 million Christians in America who consider their beliefs to be evangelical,” Tony Perkins—president of the Family Research Council (FRC), a Christian education and lobbying group—told JNS.org. “Of that number around 9-10 percent have what we call a ‘biblical worldview,’ in that they believe what the scriptures say pertaining to Israel. That’s a large number of voters who can definitely make a difference in a primary or general election.”

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Jeremy Lin Shares Christian Faith in Beijing, Says ‘True Success Is Found in Understanding God’s Love’ in Speech Broadcasted to 100 Million Chinese

By Leah Marieann Klett Aug 28, 2015

In a televised sharing broadcasted live to hundreds of millions of Chinese, NBA All-Star Jeremy Lin spoke unreservedly about his Christian faith and why he believes true success is found in understanding God’s love.

“If I can encourage you guys to do anything today, it would be to love God and love others because God loves you,” the 27-year-old athlete told a crowd of thousands gathered in Beijing for a charity event entitled “Beyond Dreams.”

As earlier reported by the Gospel Herald, Lin joined other famous artists from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for the August 8 event, which was hosted by the Prince of Peace Foundation and sought to raise money for special needs children throughout China.

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Former DIA director: Obama White House made “willful decision” to support al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

August 8, 2015  Robert Spencer

Mehdi Hasan is a highly suspect analyst and Foreign Policy Journal appears to be a pro-jihad paleocon publication, and Al Jazeera is certainly a pro-jihad propaganda outlet. All that is noted, but if this transcript is accurate, former DIA director Michael Flynn is confirming that the Obama Administration knowingly decided to support al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, and directly enabled the rise of the Islamic State. And given the Obama Administration’s general stance toward the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, what would be unbelievable about that?

In a sane political atmosphere, this would be enough to bring down the Obama presidency. Instead, it will get little notice and no action whatsoever.

“Rise of Islamic State was ‘a willful decision’: Former DIA Chief Michal [sic] Flynn,” by Brad Hoff, Foreign Policy Journal, August 7, 2015 (thanks to Joshua):

In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.” [Lengthy discussion of the DIA memo begins at the 8:50 mark.]

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American Woman Raised by Lesbians Campaigns in Australia in FAVOR of Traditional Marriage

Teresa Neumann : Aug 18, 2015 : Australian Broadcasting Corporation

“What is government’s interest in marriage? It’s really not about affirming the connections that we have with one another. It has to do with the product of those unions and there’s something distinct about the product of a union between heterosexuals. What’s distinct is that they make babies and those babies have rights and those babies deserve protection.” -Katy Faust

(Australia) – As Australia is being pressured into voting to legalize gay marriage, proponents of traditional marriage are lending their support to the nation. One is Katy Faust, an American woman who was raised by lesbians and wants the world to know that children have a “right” to a father. (Video shot via ABC Australia)

Recently, Tony Jones, of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Faust. The following are excerpts from that interview:

TONY JONES: How is it that the daughter of lesbian mothers has become a leading opponent of gay marriage? How does that work?

KATY FAUST: Simply because I recognized that while my mother was a fantastic mother and most of what I do well as a mother myself I do because that’s how she parented me, she can’t be a father. Her partner, an incredible woman – both of these women have my heart – cannot be a father either. Children have a right to be in relationship with their mother and father whenever possible, and as a society, we shouldn’t normalize a family structure that requires children to lose one or both parents to be in that household. (more…)

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Alert: Top Ten American Universities Most Friendly to Terrorists

Nov 5, 2015 : JNS News

Washington, DC)—The David Horowitz Freedom Center watchdog group recently published a list of what it called the “Ten Top American Universities Most Friendly to Terrorists.” (Photo: MSA/via Princeton.edu)

The list, which can be read below, asserts that “there are organizations on American campuses that support the agendas of these terrorists (al-Qaeda, Islamic State, and Hamas) and spread their propaganda lies, and do so with the financial and institutional support of university administrations.”

“Two of these organizations, the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), were created by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, godfather group to al-Qaeda and Hamas,” the Freedom Center stated. “They are the chief sponsors of annual campus events called ‘Israeli Apartheid Weeks,’ whose sole purpose is to spread the propaganda lies of the terrorist organization Hamas, and to demonize the Jewish state…

They are the chief sponsors of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, inspired by Hamas, whose goal is the economic strangulation of the Jewish state…

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Oprah’s ‘Belief’ Leads Millions Into False Religious Deception

Oprah's Beliel Leads Millions Into False Religious Deception10/23/2015 Jennifer LeClaire

Oprah’s sudden river of religious talk is not based on some newfound appreciation for Christianity. It’s marketing spin for her new series, Belief, which the media pioneer describes as a “groundbreaking” television event exploring humanity’s ongoing search to connect with something greater than ourselves.

For the past several weeks, Oprah Winfrey has been sharing her heart about how of the Bible has impacted her life and how God gives her great joy. The only problem is, we aren’t really sure which god she is glorifying but she’s leaving Jesus out of the equation (or at least putting other gods on the same pedestal next to Him).

Let’s be clear. Oprah’s sudden river of religious talk is not based on some newfound appreciation for Christianity. It’s marketing spin for her new series, Belief, which the media pioneer describes as a “groundbreaking” television event exploring humanity’s ongoing search to connect with something greater than ourselves.

Again, no mention of Jesus. There’s definitely double-mindedness going on. Oprah has insisted she is a Christian. But a well-circulated YouTube video shows her arguing vehemently that Jesus is not the only way to the Father. And she flat out allowed no-hell Rob Bell to trash the Bible on her broadcast.

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Who’s Burning Black Churches?

By Michelle Malkin – Nov. 6, 2015 – Jewish World Review

Here we go again: another liberal narrative burned to a crisp.

Over a two-week period in October, an arsonist targeted seven churches in the St. Louis area — including several in Black Lives Matter protest hotspot Ferguson, Missouri.

The Atlantic magazine, invoking the “long history of terrorism against black churches in America,” lamented that the crime spree had been “slow to get the same attention” in the local and national media as another string of church arsons that occurred earlier this summer.

Reminder: Several of those hyped hate crimes against “black churches” had been committed by black suspects; a significant number of the “black churches” were, in fact, white churches; and the complex motives behind the crimes included mental illness, vandalism and concealment of theft.

Reminder: The same hyperventilators who stoked fears about this summer’s church incidents had also stoked hysteria about the 1990s black church arson “epidemic” that fell apart under scrutiny and ended with USA Today admitting that “analysis of the 64 fires since 1995 shows only four can be conclusively shown to be racially motivated.”

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10 Contrasts Between Real Christian Leaders and Hyped-Up Entertainers

October 31, 2015 – Charisma News

There is a great tendency in human nature to crave the affirmation of other human beings. With some people, their need for affirmation is so great it hinders their ability to discern between the will of God and the will of man. What is more alarming is the fact that those who lead churches and Christian organizations are not exempt from this tendency.

The fact of the matter is, if you are a local church pastor, chief executive officer of a ministry or business, you are called to lead not entertain. Many do not understand the difference. If your primary goal is to make people happy, become an entertainer, not a leader. Leaders by nature should be on the cutting edge of God’s will, which challenges people to leave their comfort zones.

Often times this causes people to be upset with their leaders. The leader also should keep people accountable to standards of excellence. This becomes especially difficult when a leader is close friends or family with those aligned under their spiritual authority. Many do not understand how to discern between business and friendship, and it causes a rift in the relationship.

The following are ten contrasts between entertainers and leaders:

  1.  Entertainers’ primary goal is to make people happy. A leader’s goal is to empower/provoke people to excellence.

An entertainer’s primary focus in their ministry is to keep their people happy and satisfied. Sometimes folks are happy because they are comfortable and feel secure but their own hearts are deceiving them. A true leader’s primary goal is to disturb the comfortable and provoke them to excellence. For example, if an athlete never pushed himself to the point of pain in his training, he will never excel. True leaders push their people to the perimeter of their potential in Christ.

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Putin to those who supported “Arab Spring” in Middle East: “Do you realize what you have done?”

September 28, 2015 By Robert Spencer

“Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done?”

No, they don’t realize what they have done, and they’re poised to do more of it. And those of us who warned at the time that the “Arab Spring” would not lead to “the triumph of democracy and progress,” but to “violence, poverty and social disaster,” were dismissed and derided as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes.” And no matter how often the establishment analysts get things wrong, and disastrously, fatally so, they never get called to account, and keep applying the same failed solutions over and over again.

“Putin: ‘Do you realize what you have done?,’” by Everett Rosenfeld, CNBC, September 28, 2015:

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday admonished those who supported democratic revolutions in the Middle East, telling the United Nations they led to the rise of a globally ambitious Islamic State.

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Why Ben Carson Is Right

September 23, 2015 – Nonie Darwish

The leftist media’s uproar against Ben Carson’s personal opinion against electing a Muslim U.S. president must be met with a much stronger and direct response from mature and informed Americans.

Dr. Carson’s opinion about Islam is correct, but the lack of a supportive counter-uproar by Americans is giving power to the leftist mainstream media. The Left cannot or will not accurately and objectively determine the dangers of an Islamic president, while there are also those leftists who just don’t want to know the truth.

The media claim that the majority of Muslims are “moderate,” but they ignore that fact that in the Muslim world, the “moderates” are out of power and always will be. The reason is not because they represent the true peaceful Islam, but because Islamic guides and books are not on their side. Islamic books, including the Quran, don’t support the concept of “moderation,” peace or forgiveness, but support the concepts of vengeance, retaliation and jihad. It is a fact that Islamic books have always sided with radicals, with no exceptions.

The only acceptable advocacy regarding Islam in America today is the propaganda that “moderate” Muslims are the real Muslims who reject Sharia and jihad. This is wishful thinking and pure fantasy. Meanwhile Muslim countries call Jihadists and Sharia-lovers the real Muslims.

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Obama’s Syria Doctrine: Blaming Others For His Own Failures

September 23, 2015 – Lee Smith – Weekly Standard LLC

In his testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday, former CIA director (ret.) General David Petraeus argued that the Obama administration can and should be doing more in Syria. Petraeus proposed “the establishment of enclaves in Syria protected by coalition air power where a moderate Sunni force could be supported and where additional forces could be trained, internally displaced persons could find refuge and the Syrian opposition could organize.”

Presumably the plan Petraeus sketched is similar to what he advocated before resigning from his CIA post in November 2012. The difference nearly three years on is that Russia has escalated its military presence in order to defend Assad, which makes any American military action—like firing cruise missiles at Assad’s air force, as Petraeus suggested—highly unlikely. Petraeus knows that if President Obama didn’t want to back the Syrian rebels previously, Russia’s incursion simply gives the White House another excuse not to move against Assad and his allies.

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The Crusades: A Direct Response to Islam’s Bloodlust

Liberty GB ^ | Sep 18, 2015 | Audrey Russo

Most of us infidels in the West have been lied to. Trusting the education system, foolishly, we believed all the bunk bundled into our textbooks concerning the period in history (1096-1272 AD) when the Crusades took place. They left out an itty-bitty piece of info … this will be great for all your ‘enlightened’ friends …

The real reason WHY the Crusades took place … and here’s the shocker: It was a response to Islam’s aggression!

That’s right, it all began with Muhammed’s implicit threat more than 450 years before the Crusaders entered Jerusalem. He said: “embrace Islam and you will be safe.” (Muhammed’s extortion letter to the Khaibar Jews.)

Some facts for your ill-informed friends / family / colleagues:

  • The Crusades were a delayed response for CENTURIES of Muslim aggression, that grew ever fiercer in the 11th century. The Muslims focused on Christians and Jews, forcing conversions, plundering and mortally wounding apostates.
  • The Crusades were a DEFENSIVE action, first called for by Pope Urban II in 1095 at the Council of Clermont.
  • The Crusades were a response against Jihad, which is obligatory against non-Muslims entering ‘Muslim lands’. (Muslim lands are any lands invaded and conquered by Islam.)
  • The motives of the Crusaders were pure. They were jihad-provoked and not imperialistic actions against a ‘peaceful’, native Muslim population. The Crusades were NOT for profit, but rather to recover the Holy Land brutally invaded and conquered by Muslims … who conquered for profit and as a notch on their superiority belt.
  • The lands conquered by the Crusaders were NOT colonized under the Byzantine Empire. The Empire withdrew its support so the Crusaders renounced their agreement.

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Statue of satan Unveiled in Detroit: Signs of Dark Times, but God’s Light Trumps Darkness Every Time

Aimee Herd : Jul 28, 2015 : Cody Derespina-Fox News

“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.” -John 1:5 (NLT)

EDITOR’S NOTE: It doesn’t surprise me when those who walk in darkness do dark things. But may it call us more and more to shine the Light and Love of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which will ALWAYS conquer it. -Aimee Herd, BCN.

Attendees for the big reveal numbered around 700, as some protesters gathered but soon dispersed.

The group’s original venue for the statue’s unveiling was cancelled after the outcry of local religious groups, and the dark event was finally held in an undisclosed location, attended by ticket holders only.

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U.S. Soldiers Disobeying Orders to Ignore Afghan ‘Allies’ Raping Boys

Truth Revolt ^ | September 21, 2015 | Trey Sanchez

Showcasing the honor of American soldiers in what is otherwise a harrowing report issued by The New York Times, U.S. military members are facing discipline for refusing to obey orders of turning a blind eye to Afghan “allies” who are keeping young boys as sex slaves.

Bacha bazi, translated literally as “boy play,” is considered the norm among Afghan police officers in the region. The practice has even been brazenly carried out on military bases. These “allies,” Afghani militia men organized to fight the Taliban, are armed and set in charge as commanders in villages and remain unfettered in their pursuits. But because bacha bazi is a cultural staple, Marines and other American soldiers “have been instructed not to intervene,” according to the NYT.

Dan Quinn is one of those featured in the report. He left the military after being “relieved of his command” as Army captain in Afghanistan for beating down “an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave” in 2011. He told the paper:

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