Presbyterians Week Headlines
[1] New Articles in the Christian Observer for February 2013
[2] How Scotland Should Reply to U.K. Threats: “You Promise?”
[3] Christian Defense Coalition Participates in Prayer Vigil and News Conference after Women Dies from Late-Term Abortion by LeRoy Carhart
[4] The Society for Truth and Justice, Mourns the Death of Baby Murdered in Botched Abortion Attempt in Which Mother Also Died
[5] Gilcomston South Church in Aberdeen, Scotland Leaving Kirk over the Issue of Allowing Active Homosexuals to Serve as Ministers
[6] Headlines from Christian Concern
[7] Headlines from The Christian Institute
[8] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
[9] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
[10] The Religion of Peace
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[1] New Articles in the Christian Observer for February 2013
New articles in the Christian Observer for February 2013 include:
-- Zwingli and the Kicker (Part II): “Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?” Romans 3:3 Geneva Bible – by Christian Observer Contributing Editor David Brand – Part Twelve in a continuing series examining the effects upon the church of the change in meaning of the Greek word pistis from faith to faithfulness by the English Revised Version Committee that began meeting in February 1870;
-- The American Education Train - by Christian Observer Contributing Editor Dr. Joe Renfro – Analogy between a dysfunctional railroad train and the American educational system;
Plus, regular features including weekly Sabbath School Lessons by Christian Observer Assistant Editor Dr. Robert LaMay, and Daily Devotionals by T.M. Moore, Christian Observer Contributing Editor, dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum, and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe
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[2] How Scotland Should Reply to U.K. Threats: “You Promise?”
By Mark Horne
I’ve written before about independence movements in Europe. Not only are we going to see the European Union crack up and fall apart in the near future (thought timing this kind of thing is virtually impossible) but we find that regions within European nations are themselves ready to secede from the “mother country.” Probably the most well known of these is Catalonia, which is the economic power house for Spain, but has its own language and is tired of being drained by the rest. In Italy, we have the growing Venetian independence party wanting to re-establish the Republic of Venice. This is an exciting time to watch the news and possibly see more manageable and prosperous countries emerge!
Closer to home, we also have Scotland seriously considering separating from Britain and no longer being part of the United Kingdom. How likely is such secession? Likely enough that the government of Great Britain has begun making threats.
“The pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) that runs Scotland’s devolved government plans to hold a referendum on the politically sensitive and emotionally charged subject next year, and has played down the impact of a ‘Yes’ vote on Scotland’s international status. But the fifty-seven-page legal opinion – drafted for the British government by two leading independent experts on international law – said the implications could be far-reaching. The overwhelming weight of international precedent suggested Scotland would be legally deemed a ‘new state,’ it said – a scenario that would force it to re-apply to join international bodies such as the EU, the United Nations and NATO. ‘If Scotland became independent, only the “remainder of the UK” would automatically continue to exercise the same rights, obligations and powers under international law as the UK currently does, and would not have to re-negotiate existing treaties or re-apply for membership of international organizations,’ the government said.”
I can only hope that the Scottish people reply, “You promise?”
Why would Scotland want to be part of NATO? Do the Scottish people feel left out and deprived at the thought of not having a role in supporting Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in Libya, Syria, and elsewhere? I can’t imagine how it could be considered attractive to support troops all over North Africa and the Middle East. Why on earth would anyone feel threatened by the possibility of losing NATO membership? Why would they even bother to re-apply?
The “danger” of losing membership in the European Union is even more of a joke. Obviously, it the people of Scotland don’t want to be under the United Kingdom any more, it is very likely they don’t want all their laws made in Lisbon rather than make them in Scotland. The EU isn’t going to last anyway. Scotland will still be a functioning country long after the EU is forgotten in the history books.
In fact, it is Britain that has been gaining from Scotland, not the other way around.
“Scottish secession could create serious problems for the remainder of the United Kingdom. Britain’s Trident nuclear submarine fleet is based in Scotland, revenues from Scottish North Sea oil remain important to its coffers, and analysts say Britain would find it harder to maintain its voice in international bodies such as the U.N. Security Council as well as in European Union decision-making.”
So Scotland has understandably felt like they were being treated second class in the UK, all the while they were greatly helping the UK’s power and prestige. No wonder they want to leave.
Go Scotland! Be Free!
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[3] Christian Defense Coalition Participates in Prayer Vigil and News Conference after Women Dies from Late-Term Abortion by LeRoy Carhart
A prayer service and news conference was held outside the late-term abortion clinic of LeRoy Carhart in Germantown, Maryland on 11 February 2013.
On Thursday, 7 February 2013, a twenty-nine year old New York woman died at a local hospital from a botched abortion at Carhart's clinic.
The Christian Defense Coalition joined the Maryland Coalition for Life in demanding the Maryland Department of Health to immediately close the clinic and the Maryland Board of Physicians to immediately revoke Carhart's medical license.
Reformed Presbyterian minister and Director of the Christian Defense in Washington DC the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, stated:
"First of all, we mourn and grieve for this tragic loss of life and pray for the husband, family and friends of this twenty-nine year old mother who passed away last Thursday.
"Sadly, this woman joins hundreds of others who have died from so called 'safe and legal' abortions since 1973. Our prayer is the barbaric practice of late-term abortions will come to an end as the first step in ending the violence of abortion completely in America.
"LeRoy Carhart has become a hero to the pro-choice movement and was recently 'lionized' in an acclaimed documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Yet this 'hero' butchered a woman, left her hemorrhaging in a hotel with no medical assistance, flies out of town after collecting his fee and did not return any of the calls from the woman's desperate family.
"Two years ago we warned the State of Maryland that something like this would happen based on Carhart's past record of unprofessionalism, incompetence and botching a late-term abortion which cost another woman her life several years ago.
"The blood of this woman must clearly be placed at the feet of the Maryland Board of Physicians and Health.
"In light of this horrific tragedy, we demand that the Maryland Board of Physicians and Health revoke Carhart's and the clinic's license so no more innocent women will have to die."
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[4] The Society for Truth and Justice, Mourns the Death of Baby Murdered in Botched Abortion Attempt in Which Mother Also Died
On 3 February 2013, Jennifer McKenna Morbelli, a twenty-nine year old women started a process with her accomplice LeRoy Carhart at the Germantown Reproductive Health Center in Germantown, Maryland, meant to murder her unborn baby. Morbelli died from complications on February 7, after murdering her baby.
Pro-life groups were quick to set up prayer vigils and memorials for Ms. Morbelli, even though she died while murdering her unborn child.
For example, Troy Newman of "Pro-Life Nation" said in an e-mail message:
"Jennifer was a beautiful woman was loved and cherished by many, whose future appeared bright. Her passing is an unspeakable tragedy....We are dedicated to working through the legal system to ensure that no more women will suffer Jennifer's fate."
Sadly, in Mr. Newman's statement and press release, he does not breathe one word about the baby that was murdered. Is Mr. Newman advocating better regulations so that women are safe when they take their children to be slaughtered?
David Lewis of The Society for Truth and Justice states:
"Is Mr. Newman a pro-life advocate, or an advocate for people who take their babies to be murdered, such as Ms. Morbelli? Mr. Newman is correct that this is an unspeakable tragedy. We send our sympathies to the Morbelli family for the untimely loss of this woman, however; the greater tragedy is the deliberate murder of a baby girl who had a bright future ahead of her and whose body is probably now decomposing in a landfill. Baby Morbelli will spend her eternity in Heaven, however we should fear for Ms. Morbelli's soul. Hopefully she repented for the shameful, evil, and despicable crime of murdering her own baby before she breathed her last breath. It would be a fearful, dreadful thing to leave this life and face God in the middle of committing a murder."
Andrew Beacham of the Society for Truth and Justice states:
"Many so called 'Pro-Lifer Leaders' are sending warm and kind eulogies concerning a woman who died shortly after murdering her baby; this should cause all of us to wonder if they know a child was just murdered by her mother, and it is mere coincidence the mother happened to die through the course of committing her crime.
"I ask: Where is the concern for the poor murdered baby, the victim in this crime?
"How much sympathy should we have for a KKK member who fell and broke his neck while lynching a black man? How much sympathy should we have for a Nazi soldier who was accidentally locked into a gas chamber with the Jews he was gassing? How much sympathy should we have for a man who died of a 'heart attack' while running down and killing his wife? Why should we have sympathy for a mother who murders her child by an 'abortion' and dies herself while committing this crime? I stand with the victims, not the criminals, and my duty is to seek justice for the babies."
It appears that "pro-life leaders" are losing their way and their focus. Today and forever, members of The Society for Truth and Justice, mourn the death of Baby Morbelli and the deaths of the other 55 million babies that have been snuffed out by murderers before they were even born.
[Editor’s Note: The juxtaposition of this article and the previous article intend no inference that the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney expressed excessive sympathy for the mother and family of the aborted child, nor that Mahoney downplayed the grisly murder of Mrs. Morbelli’s in utero child.]
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[5] Gilcomston South Church in Aberdeen, Scotland Leaving Kirk over the Issue of Allowing Active Homosexuals to Serve as Ministers
The minister of Gilcomston South Church (Church of Scotland) in Aberdeen, Scotland, the Rev. Dominic Smart, sent a letter to the church congregation in early February 2013 announcing that he is leaving the church and the Church of Scotland, and has been invited to be the teaching elder (minister) of a new congregation in Aberdeen that will hold its first service on 10 March 2013 at the Copthorne Hotel on Huntly Street in Aberdeen. Pastor Smart and the new congregation are leaving the Kirk over the issue of allowing active homosexuals to serve as ministers.
While counseling civility among the various factions, Mr. Smart’s letter addressed several key problems in the ongoing debate:
“Unity really isn't uniformity. Some folk are troubled by the fact that different people are responding in different ways to the bush-fire in the [Church of Scotland] that was sparked off in Aberdeen Presbytery in January 2009: the issue of same-sex partnerships and the ordained ministry and the underlying issue of the nature of the Bible and its place in the life of the [Church of Scotland]. But uniformity isn't unity.
“I freely say that I have genuine difficulty respecting the response of anyone who's simply sticking their head in the sand. Some are doing just that.
“I have also been shocked at the blatant nationalism cloaked in theological (but woefully threadbare) clothes. Culture Presbyterianism is alive and well I'm afraid, even among some of my fellow-evangelicals.”
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[6] Headlines from Christian Concern
Headlines of the past week from Christian Concern:
-- U.K. House of Commons Vote on Same Sex 'Marriage' - Still a Long Way to Go
-- U.K. Professional Counseling Body Says Therapy for Unwanted Same-Sex Attraction Is "Unethical... Regardless of Scientific Findings"
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[7] Headlines from The Christian Institute
Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:
-- Sussex, Scotland Police Sent to Transgender Awareness Course
-- U.K. Government Refuses Measures That May Catch ‘Gender Abortions’
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[8] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
Articles from the past week from LifesiteNews.com:
-- Pro-Lifers Should Be Concerned about Obama Assassination List: Judge Napolitano
-- Pentagon Expected to Offer Benefits to Same-Sex ‘Spouses’
-- Family Research Center Shooter Pleads Guilty to Terrorism, Says He Considered Bombing Building
-- Obama Fills Global Development Council with Population Control Advocates
-- Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI to Resign at End of February 2013, Citing Age, Health
-- Federal Judge Overturns Arizona Law Defunding Planned Parenthood, Abortion Providers
-- Canadian Government Halts Overseas Funding To Christian Group over Beliefs on Homosexuality
-- New Democratic Party Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair Declares Christian Sexual Beliefs ‘Completely Against’ Canadian Law
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[9] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Solicits for another 21.6 Million Rounds of Ammo
-- U.S. Justice Department Memo Reveals Legal Case for Drone Strikes on Americans
-- U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Releases New Drone Authorization List for Sixty-Three U.S. Sites
-- U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Denied Georgia Tech Request to Operate Surveillance Drones on Campus
-- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Says that President Obama Decides Who’s ‘Entitled’ to Second Amendment Rights
-- National Rifle Association Exposes U.S. Department of Justice Gun Confiscation Memo
-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Can Seize and Share Electronic Information within 100 Miles of All U.S. Borders
-- Here’s How Obama Is Using Executive Power to Bypass Legislative Process
-- U.S. Army Threatened with Lawsuit over Chaplain’s Prayer to ‘Heavenly Father’ at Public Event
-- Texas Senate Bill Would Strip Patients of Their Rights - Bill Would Force DNR Orders against Patient Wishes
-- Careless Police Shoot Two Innocent Women in California Cop on Cop-Killer Manhunt
-- Police Seeking California Cop-on-Cop Killer Opened Fire in a Second Case of Mistaken Identity
-- Thousands Die in U.K. Hospitals, How Many Will Obamacare Kill?
-- NAACP Threatens to Sue LifeNews, Black Pro-Life Leader
-- Could Martial Law Be Right Around The Corner For Americans?
-- Brown University’s Student Health Plan Will Cover Sex Changes
-- Australia Says No More Blowing Out Candles on Birthday Cakes
-- Connecticut Pushing Legislation for Surprise Investigations Aimed at Homeschoolers
-- Illinois Starts Push to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage by Valentine's Day
-- Florida Judge Reportedly Allows Gay Man, Lesbian Couple to Be on Daughter's Birth Certificate
-- University of Illinois Brings Porn Star to Teach Sex Week, Orgasm Workshop
-- Sex Toys among Prizes Awarded at North Carolina State University ‘Dirty Bingo’ Event
-- Laos: Police Arrest Three Pastors for ‘Spreading the Christian Religion’
-- Persecution on the Rise for Christians in Eastern Europe
-- Gun Confiscation Bill Proposed in California
-- Quebec Doctors Forced into Killing Patients in Assisted Suicide?
-- Handicapped Woman in Western Ohio Refuses Smart Meter — Has Power Cut in the Dead of Winter by American Electric Power
-- The Dalai Lama Says ‘No’ to Christian Conversions
-- TSA Arrests Man over Peanut Butter
-- Partners of Gay Military Personnel Are Granted Benefits
-- NAACP Threatens To Sue Organization for Revealing Their Ties to Abortions and Planned Parenthood
-- Detroit, Michigan ABC News Reporter Calls Two Recent Armed Robberies Thwarted by Armed Victims an “Alarming Trend”
-- New York Times Bends over Backward to Justify Former Los Angeles Police Officer Christopher Dorner’s Murderous Rampage
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[10] The Religion of Peace
Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
-- American Pastor Tortured in Iranian Prison
-- Obama Picks Muslim for CIA Chief: Former FBI Expert Claims John Brennan Converted to Islam
-- Al Jazeera and the Global Jihad in America
-- Alleged Kidnapper Threatens Family of Christian Girl in Pakistan
-- Fort Hood, Texas Jihad Massacre Hero Says President Obama 'Betrayed' Her and other Victims of Fort Hood Jihad
-- New York Muslim Arrested for Series of Twenty Bomb Threats
-- In Thailand, Jihadis Murder Thai Buddhist Fruit Buyers Because They Were Buddhists
-- Abdul Muhid, Member of “Sharia Patrol” in U.K. is a Convicted Muslim Groomer/Child Rapist
-- Nearly 800,000 Refugees Flee Fighting in Syria, U.S. Officials Say
-- Vocal Critic of Islamist-led Government Gunned Down in Tunisia
-- Ground Zero Mosque Imam Rauf Accused of Stealing Donations
-- Muslims in Pakistan Allegedly Rape Christian Teen
-- Gunmen Target Two Church Leaders in Kenya's Deadly Garissa Region
-- Syria's Christians Disproportionately Affected by the War: Report
-- Report on the Refugees of Syria Tells of Kidnapping, Rape, Smuggling
-- U.K. Muslim Patrol: 'We Will Implement Islam upon Your Necks'
-- Afghan Woman Forced to Marry Her Rapist
-- In Egypt, Two Christian Children to Be Tried for Insulting Islam; Family Imprisoned for Reconverting
-- In California, Jihadist Tries to Blow Up Oakland Bank of America and Blame It on the Right
-- In Nigeria: Jihadists Shoot Dead Nine Female Health Workers as Polio Revenge Attacks Spread
-- Saudi Court Releases Imam Who Raped, Murdered His Five-Year-Old Daughter
-- Somalia Jails Woman and Journalist over Soldier Rape Claims
-- In Bangladesh, Nineteen Christian Children Rescued from Muslim Traffickers
-- Saudi Arabia Arrests Fifty-Three Ethiopian Christians at Private Worship Service
-- More Nigerian Brethren Die in Violent Attacks, U.S. Workcampers Return Home Safely
-- Violence against Christians Spreading in India Maharashtra State Increasingly Vulnerable, Rights Leaders Say
-- Muslims Target Jerusalem Home with Firebombs
-- Hamas-CAIR Imam Leads Arizona State Senate in Anti-Jewish, Anti-Christian Prayer
-- Christian Children in Bangladesh Kidnapped, Forced to Convert to Islam and Become Suicide Bombers
-- BBC Covers Up Motives for Huge Scale of Muslim Honor Killings and Attacks in Great Britain
-- South Australia's Biggest Islamic school Warns Muslim and Non-Muslim Teachers That They'll Be Fired If They Don’t Wear Hijab to School Functions
-- Lebanon Grapples with Spread of Jihadists
-- Egypt to Prosecute Two Coptic Christian Boys, Ages Nine and Ten, for 'Insulting Koran'
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