Wednesday, October 30, 2013

30 October 2013




Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1]
Delegates from Sixty-Two Countries Meet at Evangelism Explosion Congress of Nations in South Africa

[2]
Repaired Capitol Hill Ten Commandments Monument Re-Dedicated

[3]
Dr. Michael Milton Commentary: A Prayer for Revival as a Little Prince is Baptized

[4] The “Gadfly” Is Home after Being Deported from Iran: Pastor Eddie Romero Has Arrived Back in Southern California after Being Held for Thirty-Two Hours following a Daring Protest on Behalf of Five Prisoners of Faith

[5] Church of Scotland Criticizes Proposals to Ban the Distribution of Condoms in Edinburgh’s Seven Licensed Saunas

[6] Reformed Church in America Holds “Making Room for All 2013” Conference 24-26 October 2013 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Focus on Including Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People in the RCA

[7] Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) of Nashville, Tennessee in Lawsuit is Accused of Covering for Child Molester

[8]
Orders Being Taken for the 2013 Ninth Issue of The Confessional Presbyterian Journal

[9]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[10]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

[11]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

[12] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[13] 
The Religion of Peace

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[1]
Delegates from Sixty-Two Countries Meet at Evangelism Explosion Congress of Nations in South Africa

Delegates from Sixty-Two nations have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa 14-18 October 2013 for a Congress of Nations sponsored by Evangelism Explosion International, a global outreach that trains people to share their faith in Jesus Christ.

The assembly of Evangelism Explosion leaders from every continent is "very important to the worldwide ministry of EE and, more importantly, to fulfilling Christ's mandate to take the gospel message to every tribe and every nation," said Dr. John B. Sorensen, President of Evangelism Explosion International.

Nearly 7.9 million people worldwide professed faith in Jesus Christ through Evangelism Explosion in 2012 and the Congress gives delegates the opportunity to strategize on how to reach even more people with the gospel. Nation delegates will share methodologies and approve a series of resolutions that will be included in a formal Declaration issued at the conclusion of the strategic conclave.

The gathering in Cape Town comes three years after delegates from thirty nations participated in the first Congress of Nations in 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. That inaugural Congress launched a new approach to the global work of EEI in which indigenous EE organizations partner to strategize and work together for the effective spread of the gospel.

Founded in 1962 by the late D. James Kennedy, Ph.D., EE was planted in every nation by 1996. It is now intentionally shifting governance of the evangelism equipping outreach away from the U.S.-based organization to a growing international covenanted network of free-standing EE partnerships.

Each national EE group at the Congress of Nations has met a rigorous set of twelve standards necessary to participate and to be designated as an Evangelism Explosion "Multiplying Nation." Qualifying national groups must be self-supporting and have a board of directors, a national director, paid field staff, and an annual action plan. They must also be actively implementing EE in churches nationwide.

"By the 2016 Congress, our goal is to, again, double the number of multiplying nations; this time from sixty-two to more than 120 in a short three years! We're on our way to meeting and possibly exceeding that goal," said Sorensen.

EEI's ultimate goal is for the EE movement in every country to achieve multiplying nation status.

The Congress of Nations includes pageantry with a ceremony in which delegates march into the assembly hall, each carrying their nation's flag.

"It's not just a ceremony," says Sorensen. "Each of these participating nations represents ministries that are having a profound impact on the world through training people to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's the ultimate goal -- reaching every tribe, every nation and every people group with the good news of salvation through Christ alone!"


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[2]
Repaired Capitol Hill Ten Commandments Monument Re-Dedicated


The Ten Commandments monument which stands in the front of the Honorable William J. Ostrowski House, the headquarters of Faith and Action in the Nations Capital that had been toppled by vandals in September 2013 was rededicated Tuesday 29 October 2013 in an 11 a.m. ceremony attended by religious, civic, and political leaders. The house and monument are located across the street from the private east entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The monument was originally installed in 2006 after a multi-year legal battle with Washington DC government officials. The 850-pound granite sculpture is a replica of four similar monuments removed by a federal court order from the front lawns of public schools in rural Adams County, Ohio in 2003. The sculpture was given to the Rev. Rob Schenck of Faith and Action, a Washington, DC based Christian ministry to top federal government officials. It was installed at an angle designed so that the nine justices of the Supreme Court can view it as they arrive at and leave their building across the street.

The program consisted of:

-- Remarks on the importance of the Ten Commandments and of the monument on Capitol Hill

-- A report on police investigation and pursuit of perpetrators

-- The unveiling of the repaired monument

-- A reading of the Ten Commandments

-- A prayer of dedication

-- Question and answer period


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[3]
Dr. Michael Milton Commentary: A Prayer for Revival as a Little Prince is Baptized

The "Telegraph" reports that as Prince George is to be baptized [23 October 2013], he joins "the majority of Britons" who identify themselves as Christians. Of course, the culture in Great Britain -- and in the U.S., the Commonwealth of Nations, and Western Europe, which also claims a majority Christian population -- is increasingly secular by even the most optimistic evaluation. The report should cause believers to pray.

One might pray, indeed, for the future king's reign and ask that there might be a vibrant Christian faith renewed in the West. As Josiah, through Hezekiah, found the Torah in the Temple, (2 Kings 22:11), may George be surrounded by godly ministers and find Christ in the Cathedrals.

Lord of all, who has defied the gloomy prospects of doomsday naysayers before with surprising acts of undeniable spiritual revival, each act a glorious display of the crowning intervention in human history when Thy Son, our Savior, Christ Jesus, pierced the awful night of our imprisonment with the golden rays of an eternal light so bright that sinners were saved, lives were transformed, and entire nations were changed from brute idolaters into fellow worshippers of the one true God with angels and archangels, the prophets, apostles, martyrs, and all of the faithful; we believe that Thou canst come in power upon this child, George of Britain, and use him to rediscover the magnificent treasures that the knowledge of Jesus Christ hold for him and his subjects and the world, even as we pray for other children, all over the world, being dedicated to Thee, with all of the promise and potential that they, too, hold through Thy power and providence; praying, O God, that through Thy wondrous power, on this little prince, the everlasting Prince of Peace will be magnified to a world in desperate need -- a world which, if Christ should tarry in His Second Coming, we cannot even imagine from this distance -- and, we pray, that Thy creation may see not only spiritual revival, but, finally, the cosmic revival of all things, so that Paradise is restored, mankind and all of Thy creation -- infected by the rebellion of Satan and the fallen angels, and the tragic choice and Fall of the human race -- is redeemed, renewed, and resettled in a New Heaven and New Earth, through the singular victory of Christ on the Cross, never to suffer war, pain, or death any more. These things we pray, on this Occasion of the Baptism of Prince George of Britain, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Michael Milton, Ph.D. (University of Wales) is the Teaching Pastor of "Truth that Transforms with Dr. Michael Milton," a television broadcast ministry of "Truth in Action Ministries" ("Truth That Transforms with Dr. Michael Milton;" www.michaelmilton.org; Sundays: NRB, channel 378, DirectTV; - 10 PM EST). "Truth that Transforms" was founded by Dr. D. James Kennedy in 1974. Dr. Milton, a former pastoral intern under Dr. Kennedy and graduate of Knox Theological Seminary, also founded by Dr. Kennedy, is the President and Senior Fellow of the think-tank, "The D. James Kennedy Institute for Christianity & Culture." The author of seventeen books, including "Silent No More: A Biblical Call for the Church to Speak to State and Culture," endorsed by Michael Reagan, David Limbaugh, and Rev. Franklin Graham, is also a singer-songwriter with four albums released, a Presbyterian (PCA) pastor, church-planter and founder of a Christian academy in Kansas City. Dr. Milton, an educator, former seminary president and professor, is also a former Top Secret U.S. Navy linguist, and is presently serving as a U.S. Army Reserve chaplain (Lt. Col.). A frequent speaker, writer on issues of faith and culture, Milton is the author of the syndicated "Dr. Michael Milton Commentaries." He resides in North Carolina with his wife and son.


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[4]
The “Gadfly” Is Home after Being Deported from Iran: Pastor Eddie Romero Has Arrived Back in Southern California after Being Held for Thirty-Two Hours following a Daring Protest on Behalf of Five Prisoners of Faith

By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries

LOS ANGELES, CA (ANS) -- The Rev. Eddie Perez Romero, a minister at the Hacienda Christian Fellowship, La Puente, California, has arrived back in Southern California after being arrested outside of the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, following his audacious protest on behalf of five prisoners of faith, including Saeed Abedini, the American pastor who has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for his Christian activities conscience.

Romero, who is also known as the “Gadfly”, was held for 32 hours after his protest and then took refuge at the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, was greeted by a large crowd of supporters at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday, October 23, 2013.

The pastor, who made headlines in 2008 when he was arrested in China for his human rights activism at the Beijing Olympics, denounced what he called the “belligerent” Islamic regime, but also said that he had been treated well after being arrested.

He told reporters gathered at the airport, “We had long good discussions. The primary interrogator spoke very good English. We really had a serious, serious discussion.

“To me it was just a wonderful time together,” he added.

Romero protested outside Tehran's Evin prison, calling for the release of five inmates who he said were prisoners of faith and conscience, including a prominent human rights lawyer.

“We have to do things outside the box,” he told supporters and journalists gathered at Los Angeles International Airport.

“Because conventional ways are way too slow, way too slow for people who are languishing in prison, way too slow for families who are hurting to have their loved ones back.”

What made his protest amazing was that Romero managed to livestream about five minutes of his protest, before being arrested and taken into the prison for questioning, according to organizers.

He had been traveling with a tour group but left it three days before the protest, and went into hiding. Reports suggested he stayed at the Swiss embassy in Tehran.

“I'm a little bit unkempt right now, only because I have spent four nights on the streets of Tehran as a homeless person,” he told reporters.

“At least that's what I appeared to be, until I was able to go to the gates of the prison and raise my protest, and then be taken in,” he added.

Explaining why he did it, he said: “It is for freedom that Jesus Christ has set us free, not for bondage, not for tyranny. It's important for the church to understand that, and to work in many ways outside the box.”

“It's enough for a belligerent government to try to stop people to have a good conscience and freedom of faith… I'm just thankful to the Lord for the journey that we've been able to have here.”

The prisoners here protested on behalf are:

1. Farshid Fathi, an Iranian Christian pastor
2. Saeed Abedini, a naturalized American citizen from Iran who started an orphanage in Tehran and was arrested
3. Mostafa Bordbar, a Christian activist
4. Alireza Seyyedian, a member of a Christian house church
5. Mohammed Ali Dadkhah, a prominent human rights lawyer in Tehran and co-founder of Defenders of Human Rights in Iran

And if they have learned of his courageous stand on their behalf, they must be thrilled that a Hispanic Christian pastor was willing to put his life on the line on their behalf. The least we can now do is to pray for each one of them and thank him for his most unusual protest.

Dan Wooding, 72, is an award-winning journalist who who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 50 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and he hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on the KWVE Radio Network in Southern California and which is also carried throughout the United States and around the world. He is the author of some 45 books, the latest of which is a novel about the life of Jesus through the eyes of his mother called
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[5]
Church of Scotland Criticizes Proposals to Ban the Distribution of Condoms in Edinburgh’s Seven Licensed Saunas

A 24 October 2013 Pink News article titled “Church of Scotland: Banning Condoms in Saunas Will Hamper Fight against HIV” reports that the Church of Scotland has criticized alleged police proposals to curb the distribution of condoms in Edinburgh’s seven licensed saunas because a ban would result in unprotected sex and higher rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

The Church of Scotland praised the Edinburgh city council for rejecting the police proposal. Convener of the Kirk’s HIV programme the Rev. Dr. Robin Hill said:

“While issues of criminality need to be considered very seriously in licensing processes, it would be folly to ignore the risks associated with a possible increase in the incidence of unprotected sex in Edinburgh’s saunas.”


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[6]
Reformed Church in America Holds “Making Room for All 2013” Conference 24-26 October 2013 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Focus on Including Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People in the RCA

A 24 October 2013 Michigan Live article by Matt Vande Bunte titled “Gays in Church: Topic of Grand Rapids Conference That includes Minnesota State Senator” reports that the Reformed Church in America (RCA)held the “Making Room for All 2013” conference 24-26 October 2013 at Central Reformed Church for the purpose of focusing on including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people in the RCA.


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[7]
Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) of Nashville, Tennessee in Lawsuit is Accused of Covering for Child Molester

By Kevin Lessmiller

NASHVILLE (CN) - A [
Presbyterian Church in America] church covered up for a "confessed child molester," and "in cult-like fashion" put children in the molester's so-called "safe house," a family claims in court.

Austin Davis and his daughter Daisy sued the
Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville [, Tennessee] and its parishioner Dale Lewelling, in Davidson County Court.

Lewelling is not the alleged molester. The Davises claim Lewelling "assaulted the plaintiffs in an open hallway filled with people" during a period of turmoil at the church.

Austin Davis said in an interview that the alleged assault in the hallway came after he attended a class as a former member of the church.

"I got separated from my daughter and they were telling me I was breaking the law," Davis said. His daughter was a minor at the time.


In the lawsuit, Davis claims that on July 14, 2008, "the defendants quietly accept[ed] the resignation of the confessed child molester, John Perry, from the Covenant Diaconate, with Lewelling recorded in the board minutes as being present in the room."

Perry is not a party to the lawsuit, which continues: "The defendants intentionally conceal[ed] knowledge of the confessed child molester from appropriate authorities, the majority of the members of the congregation, and the plaintiffs. ...

"In furtherance of the concealment of the sexual abuse of a child or children, the defendants permit[ted] the confessed child molester to remain a member of Covenant (having access to the church, its members, and the private school elementary property associated with the church) until 2010." (Parentheses in complaint.)

The Davises claim they were harassed, and ultimately assaulted, because they "were privy to information concerning defendants' concealment and concealment efforts of the unlawful sexual abuse of a child or children."

Austin Davis claims that in 2008 he objected to "the defendants' cult-like abuse of authority over vulnerable children ... who were (in cult-like fashion) intentionally, knowingly, and willfully placed in an alleged 'safe house' owned and possessed by the confessed child molester." (Parentheses in complaint.)

Davis claims in the lawsuit that Perry was excommunicated on June 6, 2010, "for heinous and repetitive sin against his family."

In October 2012, Davis claims, the defendants threatened "to have plaintiffs arrested and thrown in jail," threatened to sue them "for no reason," threatened "to bring criminal actions" against them, defamed and intimidated them. The unnerving incidents allegedly culminated in the Oct. 21, 2012 assault, during which, Davis claims, Lewelling was acting as an employee or agent of the church.

Austin said in the interview that he had a right to be on church property.

"I think they're public places that people are allowed to go to," he said.

Davis claims he and his daughter "live under a continuing threat of arrest for communicating with Covenant members and threat of arrest for returning to Covenant property," while Perry "walks around a free man" because the defendants filed "to report the child molester to the appropriate authorities."

Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville did not respond to a request for comment.

The Davises seek punitive damages for malicious harassment, assault, and negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention.

They are represented by
Duncan Cates Cave.


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[8]
Orders Being Taken for the 2013 Ninth Issue of The Confessional Presbyterian Journal

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http://www.cpjournal.com/products-page/subscriptions/the-confessional-presbyterian-volume-8-2012-subscription-forthcoming-approx-early-dec-2012/

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News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- Quebec Won’t Let Christian Doctors Testify against Euthanasia Bill

-- Underage Somalian Girl Trafficked To U.K. For Organ Harvesting: U.K. Report

-- Left’s New Crusade: Adult-Kid Sex

-- National Education Association: I Heart Pedophiles

-- The Population Control Agenda Is Being Relentlessly Pushed in American Public Schools

-- Creation of Human Embryos with Three Parents Facing Massive Opposition

-- Charges Dropped against Mom Who Assaulted Pregnant Daughter for Refusing Abortion

-- Two-Thirds of Babies with Down Syndrome Die in Abortions

-- Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Terry McAuliffe: I Will Never Compromise on Promoting Abortion

-- Sexual Predator Honored with U.S. Postage Stamp


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Headlines from The Christian Institute

Headlines of the past week from
The Christian Institute:

-- Western Media Ignores Killing of Christians

-- Charlotte Church: Young Stars Forced to Be ‘Hypersexualised’

-- Kids as Young as Four Are Being Shown Cartoon Pictures of Adults Watching Porn in Their Sex Education Classes


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Articles from LifesiteNews.com

Articles from the past week from
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-- Mayors Cannot Refuse to ‘Marry’ Homosexual Couples: French Constitutional Court

-- Georgetown Law Class Required to Work for Pro-Abortion Lobby


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[12] 
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. Military Police Told Government Will Confiscate Our Guns

-- U.S. Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter’s Confidential Files during Raid

-- Gospel for Asia-Supported Believers Church Elder Murdered in Nepal:
Man Attacked Elder He Had Sought Out for Healing


-- Parents Group Urges Virginia: Don't Fund Gay-Transvestite Student Centers at Public Universities with Taxpayer Dollars

-- Combat Tactics: Cities Nationwide Militarizing Police Forces

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel Discovers Obama Gave Order to Hack Her Cell Phone

-- U.S. Army Briefing Tells Soldiers Christians and Pro-Lifers Are a “Radical” Threat

-- U.S. Air Force Academy Dropping Oath of Honor Due to “So Help Me God”

-- 197 Officers Removed from Obama’s Military during the Purge

-- Navy Seal Claims Top Brass Asked if They Will Disarm Americans

-- Renowned Author Says Military ‘Purge’ Meant to Weed out Officers Who Won’t Fire on Americans

-- Dog Dies in Owner’s Arms after Boise, Idaho Police Shoot It

-- Richland Hills, Texas Woman Forced to Strip and Serve Jail Time for Overdue Traffic Ticket

-- New York City Theater Will Admit Teens to NC-17 Lesbian Film ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’

-- In Ovid, California, ‘Jesus’ On Pastor’s Wife’s Tombstone Denied, Deemed Offensive

-- U.S. Social Security Administration Buying 174,000 Hollow-Point Rounds

-- Obamacare Has 1,500,000 Health Insurance Policy Cancellations with Millions More Coming

-- Austin, Texas Police Arrest Leaves Suspect Bloody, Head Smashed against Sidewalk

-- Armed Gun Boats Patrol Eden Isles, Louisiana Canals

-- University of Maryland Publishes Photos Online of Students Engaging in Sex

-- Twenty-Two-Year-Old with Down Syndrome Beaten by Miami-Dade, Florida Police for “Bulge in Pants” That Was His Colostomy Bag

-- Homosexual Men in California Medically Covered If They Are Infertile

-- Texas Judge Resigns after Being Caught Texting Instructions to Prosecutors to Help Win Convictions

-- CNN Anchor: Obama Administration Not Afraid to Threaten Jobs of Journalists Who Criticize Obama

-- Trigger Happy Cops: Smearing Law Enforcement’s Image Nationwide


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[13] 
The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- Proof That Muslim Millions Purchased the Obama Presidency Starting Way Back in 1979

-- Muslims in Pakistan Arrested on Forcible Conversion Charges: Assailants Beat Three Christians, Shoot at House, Police Say

-- Two Pastors Killed in Kenya’s Coastal Area Christian Leaders, Already on Edge, Grow More Fearful

-- Al Qaeda and Al Shabaab Flags Flying on a Mosque in Sweden

-- Sharia from the Moderates: Stoning, Flogging and Severing of Limbs to Be Introduced in Brunei

-- CNN Is Paid by Islamic Supremacist Regimes Not to Report "Damaging" Stories

-- Sharia in Action: "Christians in Iraq Are on the Verge of Extinction"

-- "The World Needs to Take Cognizance of the Genocide That Is Slowly Taking Place in Pakistan"

-- Geneva Conference Moves toward Criminalizing "Islamophobia"

-- Turkey Preventing Smithsonian Institution from Displaying Armenian Genocide-Era Artwork

-- Saudi Authorities to Behead a Shia Pilgrim for Crying in Al-Baqi Cemetery

-- Attempted Abduction: Muslim Trainees in Missouri Attempt to Lure Girl for Sexual Favors

-- Saudi Royal Airman Found Guilty of Raping Thirteen-Year-Old American Boy in Las Vegas

-- Sharia in Action: Afghan Woman’s Family "Behead Her and Her Lover and Dump Their Bodies in Graveyard in Horrific Honour Killing"

-- Obama and the Worldwide War on Christians, Massacres by Muslims

-- Eritrean Government Imprisons 150 Christians for Praying Together

-- Muslim Terrorists Using Mexico as Staging Area

-- New York Mayoral Candidates Pushing for Two Official Muslim Holidays for Schools

-- Muslim Military Forces Training in Missouri

-- Rights Groups: Civilian Casualties in Drone Strikes Soar, Administration Officials Guilty of War Crimes

-- Secret Documents Expose Depth of U.S. Agreement with Pakistan for Drones

-- Organization of Islamic Cooperation Seeks to Silence Free Speech Globally Beginning with the U.S.

-- The Islamic War to Wipe Out Christians and Christianity

-- Ohio Mosque Religious School: "If They Do Not Learn Their Religious Passages as They Are Instructed," They Are Sometimes "Chained to a Wall by Their Wrists and Ankles and Beaten with a Long Stick."

-- Iran gives Christians Eighty Lashes for Communion Wine

-- Jihad Pirates Kidnap Two U.S. Sailors Off Nigeria

-- Florida Student Beaten by Muslim Mob in a Sharia Zone in East London

-- Yemen: Muslim Father Burns His 15-Year-Old Daughter to Death for "Communicating with Her Fiancé"

-- Israel Warns World They Are Ready to Strike Iran

-- U.S. Muslim charged in New York City with Trying to Acquire 100 Surface-to-Air Missiles for Iranian Government

-- Canadian Muslim Student Threatens University of Saskatchewan with Chemical Attack

-- Pakistan: Muslim Husband Forces Wife to Drink Acid for Giving Birth To a Girl

-- U.K.: Taxpayers Pay Equivalent of US$567,000 for Muslim Parents' Court Battle to Win Right to Shave Disabled Daughter's Pubic Hair

-- Sweden: Muslim Savages Brutally Beat Eighty-Seven-Year-Old Woman Trying to Stop Them from Abusing a Puppy

-- Syria: Islamic Jihadists Posting Lists on Internet of Christians to Be Murdered

-- Jihad in India: Five Dead, Over Ninety Injured as Serial Blasts Rock Narendra Modi Election Rally

-- Jihad in China: Muslims Sought on Attack in Tiananmen Square, Five Dead, Thirty-Eight Injured

-- Obama's Homeland Security Quietly Considering Lifting Ban On Libyans Training In U.S.

-- Canada: Muslim Arrested at Trudeau Airport Attempting to bring Explosives onto Plane

-- Londoners Sign Petition Supporting Female Genital Mutilation Because "It's Part of Their Culture"

-- Sharia in Action in Pakistan: Women Stabbed for Shopping without a Male Relative

-- Israel Names Twenty-Six Jihad Murderers to Be Freed from Prison 30 October 2013

-- Syria: Muslims Screaming "Allahu Akbar" Threaten Christians -- "Convert to Islam, or You Will Be Crucified Like Jesus"

-- "Grand Day of Death to America" Rally Planned in New, Moderate Iran

-- President of Islamic Forum of Canada and Vice President of Islamic Council of Imams of Canada Justifies Stoning Sinners to Death

-- Muslims Complain about Lack of Mosques in Korea

-- Two Pastors Killed in Kenya

-- Two 'Puppy Bombs' Rescued from Egyptian Violence

-- Oklahoma Muslims Demand Changes to Police Training, Claim ‘Anti-Muslim’ Bias

-- Imam in Tennessee, ‘Jews and Christians Are Filthy, Their Property Belongs to the Muslim’

-- The Aggressive Islamic Indoctrination of American Schools


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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

23 October 2013



Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Church of Scotland Proposes Changing Religious Observance in Schools to 'Time for Reflection'

[2] Reformation Conference Scheduled 1-2 November 2013 at Hope Reformed Church in Pierre, South Dakota

[3] OPC Church Plant in Hillsdale, Michigan Looking to Borrow Chairs for New Building

[4] Kansas Supreme Court Crushes Hopes for Justice in Case Against Former Attorney General Phill Kline

[5] Charles Haddon Spurgeon Website

[6] Free EBooks Available

[7] Forthcoming Releases from Banner of Truth

[8] Naphtali Press Offering Prepublication Discount

[9]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[10]
Headlines from Christian Concern

[11]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

[12]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

[13] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[14] 
The Religion of Peace

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[1] Church of Scotland Proposes Changing Religious Observance in Schools to 'Time for Reflection'

A 17 October 2013 Christian Today article by Mark Caplin titled “Church of Scotland Proposes Changing Religious Observance in Schools to 'Time for Reflection'” reports that the
Church of Scotland is proposing that religious observance in the schools should instead be changed to a 'time for reflection' that is “genuinely inclusive of people of faith” and will “make very significant contribution to creating a genuinely inclusive society that moves beyond tolerance to deep respect, understanding and common living based on real self-understanding about others beliefs and values.”

Free Church of Scotland minister and director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity, the Rev. David Robertson, responded by accusing the Kirk of "capitulating to the secularist agenda", and commented:

"We hope and pray that the Church of Scotland will wake up to the dangers all Christians face and that it will stop committing suicide in the name of Christianity.

"If the national Church cannot stand for Christian worship except in the private clubs of its rapidly declining congregations, then we wonder what it does stand for?

"When the Church says it does not want worship or prayers but instead advocates what will inevitably be a state-sponsored non-Christian moralism, it has reached the stage where it is no longer fit for purpose and should no longer seek to style itself as Scotland's national Christian church."


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[2] Reformation Conference Scheduled 1-2 November 2013 at Hope Reformed Church in Pierre, South Dakota

The Protestant Reformation is a turning point in Christianity. A spark, ignited by a monk who found himself confronted by the Holy Word of God, kindled a fire that continues to burn throughout the world. The call of a man to stand firmly – and exclusively – on the Holy Bible resulted in a reforming of the Church that began with Ninety-Five Theses on 31 October 1517 and has continued every day since.

Hope Reformed Church is pleased to present the first REFORMATION CONFERENCE to be held in Pierre,
South Dakota on 1-2 November 2013. The Conference features the Rev. Jimmy John Hall who will present on the historical necessity and context of one of the significant works stemming from the Reformation.

Date: November 1st and 2nd, 2013

Time: Friday – 7:00 p.m. with refreshments to follow

Saturday – 9:00 a.m brunch, lecture at 10:00 a.m.

Location: Hope Reformed Church, 3017 South Garfield Avenue, Pierre, South Dakota 57501

Information: http://HopeRCUS.com


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[3] OPC Church Plant in Hillsdale, Michigan Looking to Borrow Chairs for New Building

Hillsdale Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Hillsdale,
Michigan is looking to borrow some chairs for the building they are in the process of buying until such time as they can purchase pews.

Please contact Hillsdale OPC Pastor Everett A. Henes with any leads.


The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 607 North Easton Road, Building E, Box P, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania 19090, 215-830-0900, Fax: 215-830-0350


[4] Kansas Supreme Court Crushes Hopes for Justice in Case Against Former Attorney General Phill Kline

The Kansas Supreme Court has handed down its decision in in the matter of Phillip D. Kline, the disciplinary action against former State Attorney General Phill Kline. In its decision issued today, the Court continued in its course of political pandering and decided against Mr. Kline, who was found to have been in violation of the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct.

"What began as a political lynching has ended with a further travesty of justice," says Dana Cody, President and Executive Director of the
Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF). "This case had nothing to do with the fair application of the Rules of Professional Conduct and everything to do with being politically correct on the issue of abortion. It is disappointing that the Kansas Supreme Court is more interested in political appeasement than the pursuit of justice."

The charges of professional misconduct sprang from Kline's investigation of several prominent abortion providers during his tenure as chief prosecutor at both the state and county levels.

As Cody sees it, this case represents business as usual in the abortion industry: "Pro-abortion forces are considered above the law -- including putting women and children in danger." She points to recent cases such as Dr. Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors, the dangerous clinics in Birmingham, Alabama and Jackson, Mississippi, and the utter lack of care for safety in clinics from Texas, to Illinois, to Delaware. "This is the true nature of the abortion industry, and we desperately need more prosecutors with the courage to stand up and enforce the law," Cody says, and adds that "The person responsible for initiating the campaign of harassment against Mr. Kline is now in our nation's capital as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Shame on this Court and shame on Kathleen Sebelius."

Ironically, today's decision was foreshadowed when an irreverent legal clerk in the Kansas Supreme Court was tweeting inside information from the Kansas State Supreme Court courtroom during Kline's November 2012 hearing, implying that the "fix is in" in the case against Kline. Cody asks, "What can Phill Kline do now? Can you imagine having to go back before this court to reinstate your law license? At least today's decision was not announced by a law clerk's tweet." Copies of suspended court clerk Sarah Peterson Herr's tweets from the courtroom during Phill Kline's hearing have been posted at:

operationrescue.org/images/twitter%20conversation%20during%20kline%20hearing%2011152012.jpg

Today's decision from the Kansas Supreme Court is posted at:

www.kscourts.org/cases-and-opinions/opinions/SupCt/2013/20131018/106870.pdf

Background on the case is available here:

lldf.org/kansas-suprreme-court-justice-phill-kline/

Phill Kline earned national attention when, as Attorney General of Kansas, he investigated and charged abortion providers in his state for their failure to report suspected child sex abuse. Although his actions were closely scrutinized, and the existence of probable cause was confirmed at every step in the process, Kline was subjected to years of opprobrium and character assassination led by political enemies within the Kansas Government.

While Kline served as district attorney in 2007, a district judge reviewed Kline's evidence and found probable cause to believe that Planned Parenthood committed 107 criminal acts, including falsifying abortion records to cover up illegal late-term abortions. Kline filed charges against Planned Parenthood the next day. Kline's dogged investigation and prosecution of Planned Parenthood for these illegal acts and for its cover-up of the statutory rape of young girls contributed to the abortion giant being defunded by some states and local governments, and even endangered its receipt of federal funding.

Though no longer serving in public office in the state of Kansas, Kline's enemies have not been content to let him go quietly on with his life. Over the past six years they have repeatedly claimed that he violated the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct. Last year, a panel of the Kansas Disciplinary Administrator made findings that Kline breached the Rules of Professional Conduct in ten instances. The panel recommended indefinite suspension of Kline's license to practice law in the State of Kansas. Note that the Disciplinary Panel served at the discretion of the Kansas Supreme Court, which consisted largely of appointees of pro-abortion Governor Kathleen Sebelius.

Kline and his attorneys, supported by LLDF, stated the ethics complaint was politically motivated and Kline filed exceptions to the claims. Kline's filings forced five of the seven Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from Kline's case, which was argued before a reconstituted court in November 2012. During the hearing held at the Supreme Court, a law clerk working with the Kansas Court of Appeals publicly tweeted derogatory comments about Kline and predicted that Kline would lose his law license. The attorney has since been fired and the Court announced that it would investigate its attorney staff for unprofessional conduct and bias. That investigation is still pending.

The criminal charges against Planned Parenthood were dismissed after it was learned that the administration of then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius destroyed records under criminal subpoena implicating Planned Parenthood of criminal conduct. The Sebelius Administration was never investigated for its conduct.


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[5] Charles Haddon Spurgeon Website

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[6] Free EBooks Available

Ligonier Ministries for October 2013

John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, and Doxology” by Nathan W. Bingham

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The Everlasting Righteousness - Or, How Shall Man Be Just with God?” by Horatius Bonar


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[7] Forthcoming Releases from Banner of Truth

Catechizing Our Children: The Whys and Hows of Teaching the Shorter Catechism Today” by Terry L. Johnson

Evangelical Holiness and Other Addresses” by Iain H. Murray

Power in the Pulpit” by Henry C. Fish

Pleading for a Reformation Vision: The Life and Selected Writings of William Childs Robinson” by David Calhoun


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[8] Naphtali Press Offering Prepublication Discount

Naphtali Press is offering for the next few weeks a prepublication discount for the upcoming book “George Gillespie: A Dispute Against the English Popish Ceremonies” for US$19.95 post paid to U.S. addresses.


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[9]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- The New Normal: Dutch Parents Burying Their Aborted Babies in Dainty Coffins

-- Abortionist Kills Disabled Babies as Old as Thirty-Seven Weeks if They Won’t Have “Productive Lives”

-- Officials Discover Child Trafficked From Somalia to UK to Harvest Her Organs


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[10]
Headlines from Christian Concern

Headlines of the past week from
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-- Ex-Gay Christian Counsellor Hounded Out by Psychotherapist Associations


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[11]
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Headlines of the past week from
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-- School Allows Boy to Dress as a Girl – Against Mum’s Wishes

-- Kids in California Allowed to Have Three Parents


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-- Former Heads of State Call on EU to Set Up State Surveillance of ‘Intolerant’ Citizens

-- Weep for your children: Sex Week at the University of Maryland


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Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:

-- Conviction of Christians for Murder of Hindu Leader in India Biased, Unfounded

-- Bajrang Dal Pressure Villagers to Leave Christianity

-- Report: Slavery Traps Nearly 30 Million People Worldwide

-- Lawsuit: EPA Conducted Nazi-like Experiments on Human Subjects

-- Department of Homeland Security Warns Tea Party 'Christianist Xenophobes'

-- New Homeland Security Minister Changes Oath of Office to Pledge Loyalty to Obama

-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Spends US$80 Million on Armed Guards for “Civil Disturbances”

-- Multiple Wyoming School Districts Implant RFID Chip Technology in Students without Parental Consent

-- Obamacare Will Segregate Doctors and Patients According to Race and Skin Color

-- Nobel Peace Prize Summit to Discuss Creating a One World Religion


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[14] 
The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- Gunmen Attack Christian Wedding in Egypt, Three Killed, Eighteen Injured

-- ‘Pakistani Minorities to Face More Persecution after 2014’, Says Well-Known Journalist

-- Experts Warn of Obama-backed Al Qaeda Biological Weapon

-- The Coming Caliphate: Al-Qaida, Muslim Brotherhood Hold Secret Meeting in Jordan

-- Afghan Governor Killed by Bomb Hidden in Quran

-- Nigeria: Islamic Jihad Attacks Force 3,000 Villagers to Flee to Neighboring State

-- Nigeria Deploys 10,000 Islamic Cops to Arrest Men Wearing Shorts

-- U.S. Fears Israel Now Preparing to Strike Iran Alone

-- Al-Shabab Justifies Jihad Beheading – Urges Western Muslims to “Make Their Choice Today” & Follow In Footsteps of Hasan, Merah, Abhulmutallab

-- Famine Comes to Syria: Fatwa Issued to Eat Dogs, Cats, Donkeys

-- Obama Administration Says Anti-Muslim ‘Hate Speech’ Can Be Punished

-- Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Works With Jihad Terror-Tied Islamic Society of Boston to Issue First-Ever Eid ul-Adha Greetings

-- Saudi Arabia's Candidate for Afghan President Has Ties to Both World Trade Center Attacks

-- Pakistan Textbooks Teach Muslim Boys Killing Christians Is Way To Martyrdom

-- U.S. to Sell US$10.8 Billion in Missiles, Bombs to Saudis, UAE

-- Religion of Peace: Syrian Snipers ‘Target Unborn Children in Chilling Competition to Win Cigarettes’

-- “Stand Up and Fight Back”: Rev. Jesse Jackson Tells Arab Americans That They Are “The New America”

-- Obama Sending $1.6 Billion to Aid the Taliban in Pakistan

-- Islamic Jihadists Murder Nineteen People at Nigeria-Cameroon Border

-- New York Mayoral Candidates Both Say Will Add Muslim Holy Days to Holiday Calendar

-- Infiltration: U.S. Naval Academy Instructor Now Serving as Research Director for U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Organization

-- Geneva Conference Moves toward Criminalizing "Islamophobia"

-- New York City ‘Progressive’ Candidate Linked to International Communism, Terrorism and Global Islam


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