Jesus’ name ruled ‘unconstitutional’ – Judge says prayers to Christ ‘do violence to America’s pluralistic, inclusive values

FAITH UNDER FIRE – World Net Daily – By Drew Zahn © 2011 

A board of county commissioners in North Carolina is asking the Supreme Court for help: Its members don’t believe they should have to forbid volunteers from mentioning the name of Jesus in prayers offered before their meetings.

But the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are standing by their victory in a U.S. circuit court decision that states even “a solitary reference to Jesus Christ” in invocations before the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners’ meetings could do “violence to the pluralistic and inclusive values that are a defining feature of American public life.”

Furthermore, wrote Judge James Harvie Wilkinson III in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals majority opinion, legislative invocations offered in Jesus’ name are inherently “sectarian” and thus should be censored lest they make some attendees feel “uncomfortable, unwelcome and unwilling to participate in … public affairs.”

What is Christianity’s role in the nation? Find out in “Christianity and the American Commonwealth”

But the board disagrees, and with the help of the Alliance Defense Fund is asking the Supreme Court to trump Wilkinson’s ruling. (more…)

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Hillary Clinton goes off-script, suggests that Islamic governments fear religious debat

Posted by Robert on December 15, 2011 12:16 PM 

Off the cuff, Hillary says things that are likely to get her in dutch with the boss. “Hillary Clinton suggests Islamic governments fear religious debate,” by Neil Munro in The Daily Caller, December 15:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used an international conference on religious freedom Wednesday as a platform to suggest that Islamic governments which suppress Christianity are secretly afraid Islam will lose out in a public debate.

“Every one of us who is a religious person knows there are some who may not support or approve of our religion, but is our religion so weak that statements of disapproval cause us to lose our faith?” she asked the attendees, who included national representatives from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

“Especially when one person’s speech seems to challenge another person’s religion’s belief, or maybe even offends that person’s religious beliefs … we defend our beliefs best by defending free speech for everyone,” she said, while citing her own experience as a Methodist — a Christian movement made up of many Protestant denominations, and where debate is common. (more…)

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Exciting News – Australia Day National Prayer Gathering 2012 at Scots Presbyterian Church in Melbourne City / Other Events

 Dear family and friends in Christ across our nation of Australia, It’s with great joy that we wish to bring to your attention that the Australia Day National Prayer Gathering…

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Protect Your Man of God

by Dr. Larry Ollison

At a recent ministers’ conference, there was a seminar entitled, “Protecting the Anointing.” I overheard one minister comment, “Why should we try to protect the anointing? I thought it was the anointing that protected us!” Although his statement is true, it is also true that many times a good message from God can go unheard because of the senseless words of a third party. Let me explain.

A few years ago, I was prepared to deliver a specific word from God to my congregation. I spent much time in prayer and preparation in order to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. I wanted to deliver the message accurately and in the spirit that I received it. As I turned a corner in the hallway to the auditorium, an usher stepped forward, pointed his finger in my face, and began to tell me how he and his family would be leaving the church because of a letter someone in our church had written. I let him rant and rave for a couple of minutes.

When I asked him what the letter said, still huffing and hyperventilating, he said, “Well, I haven’t actually read it myself, but I know what it says.” The letter wasn’t the issue. The enemy knew that I had a message from God. The enemy also knew who he could use to attempt to spoil the message. The incident did not affect the teaching that day, although it took me a while to refocus. Actually, it made me more determined to deliver God’s message to the people.

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Amazing Christmas message from the Queen/Live webcast New Years Eve

The QueenDear family & friends in Christ,

1) A few weeks ago a minister from the Presbyterian church came to visit Pr Daniel at CTFM office. At this meeting he told him that he had spent time with the Queen in Scotland and that the Queen was truly born again. This was during the time she was visiting Australia.

Well glory to God the attached link is the message the Queen delivered for Christmas 2011. It is just amazing. I am sure you will be mightily blessed.

Please click here to watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEp_3Spc1g

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Warning over France’s Islamic suburbs which are becoming ‘separate communities in a divided nation

By Mail Foreign Service 6th October 2011

Arab communities are increasingly rejecting French values and identity to immerse themselves in Muslim culture and lifestyle

France’s run-down city suburbs are becoming ‘separate Islamic societies’ cut off from the state, a report has warned.

Arab communities are increasingly rejecting French values and identity to immerse themselves in Muslim culture and lifestyle, it was found.

Muslim pupils often boycott school dinners if the food is not halal and most Arabs oppose marriages to white French citizens, the study by respected political scientist Gilles Kepel revealed.

As a result, France – whose five million Muslims make up Europe’s largest Islamic population – was turning into a ‘divided nation’, the study called Suburbs of the Republic found.

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Israel PM Netanyahu’s Christmas and New Year Message 2012 / Netanyahu re-establishes PM Bible class

Dear friends and family in Christ across Australia and around the World, We’re forwarding the following 2 exciting prophetic links for your ongoing intercessory prayers for the Holy Spirit’s increasing…

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Wishing you a blessed CHRISTMAS and a victorious New Year in 2012 / Special video message from Pr Daniel

Dear family & friends in Christ in Australia & Around the World, May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy and blessed Christmas, in addition to…

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Targetting Darwish

Posted by Daniel Greenfield on Oct 11th, 2011

The recent conviction of the Irvine 11 was a reminder of how far the campus arms of the Muslim Brotherhood will go to silence dissenting speakers. For all their protestations during the trial, they don’t believe in free speech, what they believe in is a monopoly on campus speech.

Nonie Darwish, an ex-Muslim and an informed critic of Islam, has had her talks assailed by Brotherhood campus affiliates numerous times. In 2009, at Seattle University members of the Muslim Students Association did their best to disrupt a speech by Darwish. That same year at Boston University, a fire was set in a bathroom right before her speech to scuttle her presentation. Now, as Darwish was set to speak at a Federalist Society event at the George Mason University School of Law, another Muslim Brotherhood organization, CAIR, deployed a slightly more subtle line of attack.

While Muslim Brotherhood front groups routinely bring extremist speakers to campus, such as Imam Abdel Malik Ali and Norman Finkelstein, CAIR wanted the Federalist Society to provide equal time to a Muslim speaker to “balance” her views. The MSA has never extended such an offer to Jewish student groups, yet the Brotherhood expected it to be granted to them.

In her speech at George Mason University, Darwish described arriving at her first job in America and seeing a sign that said it did not discriminate. “For the first time in my life, I felt free and equal to men under the law.”

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A special video thank you and Christmas Greeting from Pr Daniel & family

Dear Friends, May I take this opportunity to sincerely thank all of you great and wonderful people for your steadfast love and faithful support over this blessed Christmas and New…

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Top Muslim Declares All Christians ‘Infidels

Posted by Raymond Ibrahim on Nov 1st, 2011

To what extent was Egypt’s Maspero massacre, wherein the military literally mowed down Christian Copts protesting the ongoing destruction of their churches, a product of anti-Christian sentiment?

A video of Egypt’s grand mufti,  Sheikh Ali Gomaa (or Gom’a), which began circulating weeks before the massacre, helps elucidate.  While holding that Muslims may coexist with Christians (who, as dhimmis, have rights), Gomaa categorized Christians as kuffar — “infidels” — a word that connotes “enemies,” “evil-doers,” and every bad thing to Muslim ears.

After quoting Quran 5:17, “Infidels are those who declare God is the Christ, [Jesus] son of Mary,” he expounded by saying any association between a human and God (in Arabic, shirk) is the greatest sin: “Whoever thinks the Christ is God, or the Son of God, not symbolically — for we are all sons of God — but attributively, has rejected the faith which God requires for salvation,” thereby becoming an infidel.

Gomaa then offered a hypothetical dialogue between Christians and Muslims to illustrate Islam’s proper position:

Christians: You have the wrong idea about us; we don’t worship the Christ.

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Christians Take a Stand for Israel

Praying in Israel

Nicole Jansezian : Oct 6, 2011 : Travelujah.com

“The need has never been greater. The whole world is taking sides regarding Jerusalem.” –Robert Stearns

(Jerusalem, Israel)—At a time when Israel faces caustic criticism and a rising tide of anti-Semitism from nations around the world, Christians gathered in Jerusalem—and thousands more tuned into a live broadcast—to pray during the Global Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem on Sunday.

This year’s attendees included an array of Christians including Palestinians taking part in the Jerusalem event. Around the world, 300,000 churches had signed up to host their own gatherings to pray while the event was broadcast live on God TV, a Christian satellite channel.

“It is incredibly moving to see so many Christians who have come together for the purpose of praying for the peace of Jerusalem,” columnist Michael Freund, director of Shavei Israel, told Travelujah. “These people sincerely love Israel and they believe it is part of their obligation to bless Israel. We gladly welcome them.”

Christian leaders from Jerusalem and around the world called for prayer including Rebecca Brimmer, director of Bridges for Peace, who noted that the supplication was originating from and were prayed for the city where God chose to put His name. This was the first time that a Catholic priest joined the line up in the Global Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem. A pastor from Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, also prayed for Israel. (Photo: Travelujah)

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Live Webcast Sun 18th Dec from CTFM – Pr Daniel speaking on issues of ‘Alcohol, Barreness and Great Victory’ and Christmas Carols Service

Dear family & friends in Christ,

This Sunday the 18th of December 2011, both the 9.30am and 6.30pm services (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time -AEDT) at Catch The Fire Apostolic Centre in Melbourne, Australia will be broadcast live through our website.

If you’re watching from outside of Australia, please note that the live stream time is AEDT (UTC/GMT +11).

Click the following link to find out the time difference from Melbourne, Australia to your part of the world.   http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/australia/victoria/melbourne/

We have now upgraded our computer web casting and trust that you will be mightily blessed through a very clear broadcast on Sunday.

On Sunday morning Pastor Daniel will be speaking on issues of ‘A culture of alcohol in the church, Why the church is barren, How to see Victory’. This message will definitely challenge everyone to rise up out of our complacency to take Australia and the Nations for Jesus. (more…)

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After Two Years in a Coma, God Woke Him Up

Mark Ellis : Oct 5, 2011 : God Reports

“Before the coma I denied Jesus. I heard His voice in the coma. He taught me the real meaning of love. Now I’m His.” -Randall Hall

(Laguna Beach, CA)—Randall Hall was once a free-wheeling playboy who traveled the world, went through women like “potato chips,” and dashed around town in his Mercedes 500 SL convertible. Seven clothing boutiques from Laguna Beach to San Francisco provided access to beautiful women ready to lay claim to his indulgent lifestyle. Then he tried to move in on someone else’s girlfriend one night at a bar in this coastal enclave. The woman’s boyfriend savagely attacked Hall after he left the bar, which left him unconscious, lying face down in an alley with blood oozing from a cracked skull.

Randall in a comaTo save Hall’s life, doctors at Mission Hospital induced a coma and removed a portion of his skull to relieve pressure on his brain. After five surgeries and complications due to infection, doctors failed in their attempts to bring Hall out of the coma. He lapsed into a persistent vegetative state for two years. Over time, his body atrophied and curled into a fetal position. His doctor estimated that only 30 percent of his brain function remained. Hooked up to breathing and feeding machines, with no response to sounds or movement, doctors recommended they remove life support.

From the beginning, Hall was a rebel who dropped out of school and became a professional escort at 17-years-old. Drugs, alcohol, sex, and travel fueled his innate passions, but in his early 20s, he found Jesus Christ at Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa. “It lasted for about a year,” he recalls.

Then he fell back into his old lifestyle, which kicked into high gear. He was a prodigal powered by jet fuel. Hall believes God used the assault and subsequent coma to rescue him from his downward spiral. “I was a bad person,” he admits. “I always took other men’s women,” he says, a practice that led to the violent assault.

“I was going to hell if I died, but God saved my life,” Hall believes.

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Sydney Catches the Fire / More than 10,000 Muslim converts to Jesus want to get baptised in Indonesia / Live Webstreaming of AM & PM services this unday at CTFM

Dear family & friends in Christ,

1) Glory to God for another weekend full of Kingdom action under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, as the Lord moved mightily in Sydney where Pr Daniel ministered the prophetic Word at a Christmas evangelistic outreach organised by some Indonesian and Korean churches!

Some Indonesian & Korean churches combined together and did an amazing job with music, dance, etc.

The Christmas Love Street Parade was so great and very colourful that it attracted the attention of thousands of people in the CBD of Sydney.

At Park in Sydney, a few hundred people gathered to watch this great afternoon of celebrating the birth of Jesus!

As Pr Daniel spoke on ‘Remembering the Special Gift on Christmas Day” many people passing by watched and listened with great interest.

Additionally, over the weekend several people gave their lives to Jesus, including 2 Indonesian Buddhist men, a taxi driver and a young man from China that were all led to the Lord through Pr Daniel!

The 22 year old young man from China, a university student, came to the house where Pr Daniel was before ministering at the service, gave his life to Jesus, and was very keen to get baptised in water!

After speaking to the leaders of this fellowship, Pr Daniel baptised the young man in the bathtub in their house. As this young man came out of the water, he also received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and burst out praying in tongues! It was just absolutely amazing!

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