You must watch this one – Thumbs up for ABC Q&A having a balanced panel on Gay Marriage
Dear family & friends in Christ, Finally the ABC Q & A program had some common sense to air a balanced view and discussion on Gay Marriage. This interview is…
Queen meets survivors & liberators of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter, in Bergen-Belsen, – 26 Jun 2015
In a quiet room where the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh sat entirely alone at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, one simple message, left on a piece of paper by a recent visitor, summed up the personal tragedies among the mass graves outside.
Written in English, it said: “If I could live my life again I would find you sooner.”
The sheer scale of the atrocity committed at Bergen-Belsen risks reducing the human loss to a series of statistics; 70,000 dead, 30,000 of them Jews, 20,000 of them Soviets.
But here was a handwritten note that brought home to the Queen and others with no personal connection to the site that each of the jumbled bodies bulldozed into the grass-covered barrows that dominate the landscape was a unique individual who lived, who loved and who was cherished by others.
If Pastors Don’t Stand and Preach the Truth, America Will Fall
Shane Idleman – Christian Post – July 15, 2015
A paraphrase that is often attributed to Alexis De Tocqueville—a Frenchman who authored Democracy in America in the early 1800s, helps to open this letter: “I looked throughout America to find where her greatness originated. I looked for it in her harbors and on her shorelines, in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and in her gold mines and vast world commerce, but it was not there.”
“It was not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her success. America is great because she is good, and if America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Over the last few decades, Americans have seen the destruction of the institution of marriage between a man and a woman, the removal of God’s Word in several areas, and the blatant murdering of millions of babies. This is an indictment against America and the pulpit is partially responsible – our silence speaks volumes.
The pulpit regulates the spiritual condition of God’s people which affects the nation. A lukewarm, sex-saturated culture (and church) simply reflects the lack of conviction in the pulpit as well as the pew.
Sadly, many pastors are exchanging truth for passivity, boldness for cowardliness, and conviction for comfort…they are not aflame with righteousness. We aim to be motivational speakers rather than preachers of righteousness.
More Muslims from Britain trained as terrorists than ever before, says MI5
June 12, 2015 By Robert Spencer
MI5 apparently refers to them as “Britons.” The Telegraph certainly does. Neither one shows any indication of realizing that none — absolutely none — of these Islamic jihadis has anything but contempt for Britain, and none — absolutely none — of them think of themselves as “Britons.” British authorities should be asking themselves why, after all their pandering, all their accommodation, all their demonization of opponents of jihad terror, they have more jihad terror than ever. But that is the one question they will not and dare not ask.
“More Britons trained as terrorists than ever before, says MI5,” by Tom Whitehead, Telegraph, June 11, 2015:
There are more Britons trained in terrorism than at any point in the country’s history in a growing threat to national security, MI5 has warned.
The Security Service said the number of UK-linked suspects involved in or exposed to terror training or fighting with fanatics is “unprecedented”.
Rifqa Bary details transformation from Islam to Christianity
By JoAnne Viviano – The Columbus Dispatch – May 19, 2015
A woman who said she feared for her life after she converted from Islam to Christianity as an Ohio teenager has written a book through which she hopes to inspire girls and women who are desperate for freedom.
Rifqa Bary, 22, gained national attention in 2009 when she ran away from her northeast Columbus home to Florida, saying her father had threatened to kill her.
The book Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus tells her story. It was released on Tuesday by the WaterBrook Press division of Penguin Random House.
“Writing this book was so painful. I wept so much reliving everything again, and my hope is to save others who read it, to shed hope and light, and that it would cause other people to see that you can leave, that there is hope,” Bary, an evangelical Christian, said on Tuesday in a telephone interview.
“Even though I’ve had so much loss in my life, I’ve experienced more joy and love than I ever dreamed of, and I found that to be in my faith in Jesus Christ.”
Academic World Rocked by Discovery: The Free World Owes the Church for the Great Magna Carta
Teresa Neumann : Jun 22, 2015 : Bill Muehlenberg – Barbwire
“The Church… was central to the production, preservation and proclamation of the Magna Carta. The cathedrals were like a beacon from which the light of the charter shone round the country, thus beginning the process by which it became central to national life.” –David Carpenter
(United Kingdom)—As the world celebrates the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta—the historic British document that provided a modern foundation for freedom and instigated the West’s long march toward democracy—news from the world of science and archaeology has turned academics on their heads. (Photo via Barbwire.com)
A report in The Medievalists, noted that the question of who all were involved with the document has been “a conundrum that has puzzled scholars for centuries” but now has been discovered.
Originally, it was assumed that the equal-rights document approved on June 15, 2015, by King John was an entirely secular venture.
Power of Love: MSNBC Reporter Overcome by Charleston Crowd Singing Gospel Songs during Shooting Suspect’s Arraignment
Aimee Herd : Jun 22, 2015 : YouTube.com, MSNBC
…They’re singing a Gospel song?… and you heard from the family members …of those who were lost… You can see the outpouring of support for this community; it goes all the way down the street…”
EDITOR’S NOTE: What an incredibly powerful testimony of God’s love and forgiveness the people of Charleston are showing the world! It’s obviously having a great impact on secular media who expected the worst, and instead, found themselves covering the message of the Gospel being lived out in front of them. Thank you Charleston. -Aimee Herd, BCN.
(Charleston, SC)—While covering the arraignment for Charleston shooting suspect, Dylann Roof, MSNBC reporter Thomas Roberts suddenly choked up as he described the inspirational scene before him at a vigil which took place at the same time.
Roberts seemed astounded as he reported how the shooting victims’ family members had spoken one-by-one to the 21-year-old suspect, telling him they’d forgiven him for killing their loved ones.
Great win for Traditional Marriage in Parliament / Thanks PM Tony Abbott
Dear family & friends in Christ, Thank you so very much for praying and standing in the gap against homosexual marriage. Your prayers were definitely answered. On several news outlets…
Jerusalem Bishop: ‘There is a real escalation in anti-Christian violence’
Lucinda Borkett-Jones Christian Today Features Editor 22 June 2015
A Catholic bishop in Jerusalem has said the arson attack on an historic church near the Sea of Galilee last week is symptomatic of the growing threat of anti-Christian violence from extremist Jews.
Thursday’s attack on the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, in which two people were treated for smoke inhalation, is the second time the church has been targeted in the last 18 months. Last April an altar and a cross were also desecrated.
Bishop William Shomali, Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told Aid to the Church in Need: “There is a real escalation in anti-Christian violence: from a small fire which leaves little damage, to a bigger fire, and finally to an arson attack which is intended to produce major damage and even killing,” he said, adding: “We are allowed to ask: What will come next?”
The bishop acknowledged that the violence was likely perpetrated by “a very small and aggressive group”.
Iranian Muslim Interrogator Surrenders Life to Jesus Christ Thanks To Witness of Christian Prisoner
By Leah Marieann Klett (news@gospelherald.com) Jun 09, 2015
Open Doors is encouraging Christians in Iran to be brave and continue their ministry work despite ongoing persecution. The organization is also urging Christians worldwide to pray for and support believers in Iran, and for the persecution to subside.
An Iranian interrogator known for persecuting religious minorities surrendered his life to Jesus Christ after a Christian woman locked in solitary confinement shared the Gospel with him, Open Doors USA reports.
Noushin, a house church leader in the predominantly Muslim country, was arrested for her faith and forced into solitary confinement for three days.
“I wasn’t ready to go to prison,” she told Open Doors. “I knew it was a dirty place, a place where people are tortured and locked up in solitary confinement. I was afraid that I would be so fearful that I would give up all the names of the members of house church. I even feared that I would deny my faith if they tortured me.”
The Only Comment on Dylann Roof’s FB Photo Will Bring You To Tears
By Benny Johnson | - 2oth June 2015 Dylann Roof committed a heinous act on Wednesday night, killing nine at a church in Charleston. His ominous Facebook profile photo is…
Parliament stormed with flowers / A BIG thank you for your action
Dear family & friends in Christ,
Thank you so very much for sending the flowers to our PM Tony Abbott in support of marriage between a man and a woman. Last week I got a call from PM s office saying that they have received a multitude of flowers and that they cannot accept anymore.
This morning, along with Peter Kentley, a team from CTFM went to Canberra to personally receive and monitor the floral writing of MUM & DAD on the Parliament lawn.
They were joined by RUAP ACT President Irwin Ross and a few others. Thousands of flowers have now arrived and the aforementioned writing has been completed.
Several Senators and a representative from the PM s office will be coming to collect some bunches of flowers.
I personally want to thank you so very much for sending the flowers. Several media outlets have already visited the place and you may see it on news tonight. Over all, the main thing is that we get the message across to the PM & MPs that we do not support homosexual marriage.
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China Sees an Explosive Growth In Christianity
June 14, 2015 – BreakPoint – Eric Metaxas
In 1992, Bei Cun, considered to be one of China’s leading avant-garde writers, did something that really shocked his readers and admirers: He converted to Christianity.
But given the explosive growth of Christianity in China, it shouldn’t be all that surprising.
If you haven’t heard of Bei Cun, that’s okay. Neither had I, probably because his work hasn’t been translated into English. I only learned of his story because my BreakPoint colleague and friend Roberto Rivera recently read Philip Jenkins book, “The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South,” which tells Bei’s story.
After becoming a Christian, Bei wrote what Jenkins calls a “Kafkaesque story” entitled “The Marriage of Zhang Sheng.” In it, the protagonist, a scholar, opens a Chinese-language Bible and happens upon Romans 1:18, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.”
The passage leaves Zhang’s “intellectual assumptions in ruins.” Bei, just like his literary creation and hopefully his readers, interprets it as pointing out “the failure of relying upon mere human ideologies that neglect God.”
Pakistan’s ‘Pro-Taliban’ Gov’t Encourages Violent Muslim Attacks Against Christians, Fmr. Parliament Member Says
1 June 2015- Christian Post
People from the Christian community hold candles while taking part in a protest rally to condemn the suicide bombings which took place outside two churches in Lahore, in Peshawar, March 18, 2015.
Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore at least killed 16 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
Human rights activist Pervez Rafique, who’s also a former minority member of parliament representing the Pakistan People’s Party in Punjab, said it will be hard to change Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which he said are upheld by an Islamic government that has “strong relations” with Muslim extremists.
Australia to strip citizenship of Australian-born jihadis with immigrant parents
May 21, 2015 – By Robert Spencer
Common sense. This is a start in the right direction — one that no other Western country has had the courage to take. “Australia to strip citizenship of Australian-born jihadis with immigrant parents,” Associated Press, May 21, 2015 (thanks to Kenneth):
Australian Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton, seen here in February 2015, says that because Islamic State movement is not recognized as a state, membership is not currently grounds for losing Australian citizenship. He says the government wants to change that.
Australia plans to strip citizenship from Australian-born children of immigrants who become fighters for the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in its crackdown on homegrown jihadis, a minister said on Thursday.
The government wants to change the Citizenship Act to make fighting for ISIS a reason for losing citizenship, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said.
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