Presbyterians Week Headlines
[1] Cork, Ireland, Celebrates First Huguenot Day to Honor French Huguenot Settlers Fleeing Persecution
[2] Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams Seeks Meeting with Orange Order
[3] Southern Baptists Remove Statement from Website Attacking Doctrines of Grace after Underwhelming Signature Campaign
[4] Christian Zionism Examined: A Review of Ideas on Israel, the Church and the Kingdom by Dr. Steven Paas
[5] New Yahoo Email Group is a Virtual International Study Group of the Synod of Dordt
[6] Headlines from LifeSiteNews.com
[7] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
[8] The Religion of Peace
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[1] Cork, Ireland, Celebrates First Huguenot Day to Honor French Huguenot Settlers Fleeing Persecution
A14 July 2012 Irish Times article by Olivia Kelleher titled “Grand Revival at First Huguenot Day in Cork” reports that the first annual Huguenot Day was held 14 July 2012 in Cork, Ireland, to honor the members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France, who left their home country for Ireland due to religious persecution, beginning with the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
Celebration events included talks by Dr. Alicia St. Leger and Dr. David J. Butler, the librarian and archivist of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Munster Freemasons, a tour of the Masonic Hall with emphasis on the items of Huguenot heritage on display, and walks to sites of Huguenot interest in Cork such as the Huguenot burial ground in French Church Street and the Triskel Christchurch.
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[2] Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams Seeks Meeting with Orange Order
A 14 July 2012 Irish Examiner article titled “Adams Seeks Meeting with Orange Order” reports that in the wake of violence in north Belfast started after a 12 July 2012 Orange Order parade marking the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. A separate parade was held the same day by Irish nationalists protesting the Orange Order parade.
Three blast bombs were thrown and approximately ten shots were fired by a gunman. Three car hijackings additionally occurred in the rioting areas. Twenty police officers were injured during the riots, and four arrests were made.
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+ Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Schomberg House, 368 Cregagh Road, Belfast BT6 9YE, Northern Ireland, 44-0-28-9070-1122, Fax: 44-0-28-9040-3700, info@grandorangelodge.co.uk
[3] Southern Baptists Remove Statement from Website Attacking Doctrines of Grace after Underwhelming Signature Campaign
Founders Ministries Executive Director Tom Ascoll in a 14 July 2012 blog article titled “"Traditional" Southern Baptist Statement on Soteriology Signatory List Shut Down” reported that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has removed from its website a 1 June 2012 statement titled “Statement of the Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God's Plan of Salvation”, an Arminian attack upon the doctrines of grace, and by implication a continuation of the ongoing attack on SBC ministers and members who, like Charles Spurgeon, find the doctrines of grace to be an important part of the whole counsel of God.
Ascoll reported that between 800 and 1000 signatures were added to the statement before its removal, at best representing .0000625 of all Southern Baptists. Ascoll very graciously said that the statement “has called attention to the great need for serious theological education and conversation within the SBC. Pray that this will take place without distraction from the shrill voices giving apocalyptic warnings and the sound of banging war drums, both of which can be found in various theological camps within and beyond the SBC.”
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[4] Christian Zionism Examined: A Review of Ideas on Israel, the Church and the Kingdom by Dr. Steven Paas
VTR Publications of Nuremburg, Germany, has recently published Christian Zionism Examined: A Review of Ideas on Israel, the Church and the Kingdom by Dr. Steven Paas.
Dr. Paas discusses various ideas about the position of present-day Israel with regard to the Church and the Kingdom of God. Paas criticizes the movement of Christian Zionism, which in his view mistakenly has placed post-Biblical physical Israel in a prominent position in the history and the order of salvation.
According to the author Christian Zionism has decentralized Christ and decreased his uniqueness, thus undermining the Church’s foundation and its calling of universally directed mission. Moreover, he suggests that Christian Zionism has distorted Christian-Jewish relations and has failed to find a safe sailing route between the cliffs of antisemitism and philosemitism.
Although the author himself sympathizes with Jews and modern Israel as a nation, he maintains that an exaggerated philosemitism has always tended to be morphed into antisemitism in history. The author gives a very readable historical overview of the theological development of Christian Zionism, and also answers the claim of Christian Zionists who characterize the view of their opponents as ´replacement theology´.
+ VTR Publications, Gogolstrasse 33, 90475 Nürnberg, Germany,
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[5] New Yahoo Email Group is a Virtual International Study Group of the Synod of Dordt
A new Yahoo email group has been established to provide a virtual international study group of the Synod of Dordt. The purpose of the initiative is to form an international reformed study group consisting of ordinary children of Christ who believe that God will be honored (Soli Deo Gloria; Romans 11:36) by the continuation and advancement of the reformation that started in the 16th century.
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[6] Headlines from LifeSiteNews.com
LifeSiteNews.com headlines of the past week include the following article:
-- Melinda Gates raises $2.6 Billion to Give Brown Women Depo-Provera
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[7] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
-- Pro-Life? Obama Administration Considers You a Terror Suspect
-- Seventy Children Rounded up, Seven Women Teachers Detained in Chinese Police Raid on House Church Sunday School in Xinjiang
-- Atheist Files Suit Over Restaurant’s Discount for Church Goers
-- Outrage in Brazil As Health Ministry Prepares to Instruct Women on How to Perform Illegal Abortions
-- Planned Parenthood Targets African-American Music Festival: Black Pro-Life Leaders Furious
-- Obama Ducking Black Ministers/Media To Avoid Gay Marriage Question
-- Olympics Forbids Married Australian Couple to Live Together During Olympic Games, but Allows Homosexual Couples to Live Together
-- Seattle Chamber of Commerce: Marriage is Bad for Business
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[8] The Religion of Peace
Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
-- Murdering 1,000 Christians Is Not Terrorism Says U.S.
-- US Government Study Says Muslim Terrorists Are Widely Misunderstood - They Aren’t “Aggressive Offensive Foe Seeking Domination”
-- Judge Delays 911 GITMO Hearing in Deference to Islamic Holy Day
-- Massachusetts Muslim to Plead Guilty In Islamic Terrorist Plot
-- Christian Convert from Islam Beheaded On Egyptian National TV
-- Muslim Clerics Calling for Destruction of Egypt's Pyramids
-- 40,000 Iran agents in Western Hemisphere - Awaiting 'Operations' against U.S.
-- Luther College Professor: "Jesus was a Muslim"
-- Jihad in the Philippines: Muslims Ambush Truckload of Laborers; Six Killed, Twenty-Two Wounded
-- Iranian President Ahmadinejad Denies Christianity and Judaism Exist
-- Fifty Christians Burned to Death in Pastor's Home
-- Nigerian Christians Fleeing Their Homes Following Mass Killings
-- Boko Haram Issues Yet another Grim Warning in Nigeria
-- The Unending War on Afghan Women
-- Why the West Loves Lying to Itself about Islam
-- UK: Four Muslims Arrested for Child Kidnapping, Rape, Sex Slavery
-- Christians, Persecuted Minorities Snub Cairo Meeting with Clinton, Claim U.S. Backs Jihadists
-- Islamization of Canada: Toronto: Muslim Cab Drivers Allowed to Refuse Riders with Dog
-- Muslim Cleric Says Canadian Women Should Be Forced to Cover Up
-- Muslim U.S. Congressman from Indiana: Islam in America Must Not Retreat
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