24 December 2014

“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  [Ephesians 6:12]

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] PCA Chicago Metro Presbytery to Welcome Five Formerly RCA Churches into Presbytery

[2] ARP Church Calls for Prayer for the People of Peshawar, Pakistan

[3] A Letter from the Erskine College and Theological Seminary Board Chairman

[4] "What Is Truth?" by Gordon H. Clark Published in the Latest Trinity Review

[5] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[6] Headlines from The Christian Institute

[7] The Thinning Blue Line

[8] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[9] The Religion of Peace

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[1] PCA Chicago Metro Presbytery to Welcome Five Formerly RCA Churches into Presbytery

Five Reformed Church in America (RCA) churches have voted to leave the RCA and join the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). The PCA’s Chicago Metro Presbytery (CMP) has met with, examined, and approved the pastors and elders of these churches during 2014.

On 15 October 2014, the churches were officially approved by the CMP to join the PCA. On 1 February 2015 at 3:00 p.m., the pastors and elders will be installed at a celebration event at First Reformed Church in Lansing, Illinois.

All are welcome to come celebrate these five churches meeting together and joining the PCA.

The five churches are:

Crete Church | Rev. David Smith
24755 South Country Lane
Crete, Illinois 60417
Office: 708-672-5400
david@cretechurch.com
www.cretechurch.com

Grace Reformed Church | Without Pastor
2740 Indiana Avenue 
Lansing, Illinois 60438
Office: 708-474-0180
leroychildress@gracechurchlansing.org
www.gracechurchlansing.org

First Reformed | Rev. Ben Kappers
3134 Ridge Road
Lansing, Illinois 60438
Office: 708-474-9610
bkappers18@hotmail.com
www.firstreformedchurch.org

Peace Community Church | Rev. Kurt Kruger
21300 South LaGrange Road
Frankfort, Illinois 60423
Office: 815-469-2868
kurtkruger@peaceinfrankfort.org
www.peaceinfrankfort.org

Missio Dei | Rev. Paul Vroom
123 West Wood Street
New Lenox, Illinois 60451
Office: 815-717-8006
paul@mdchurch.us
www.mdchurch.us


+ Presbyterian Church in America, 1700 North Brown Road, Suite 105, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 678-825-1000, Fax: 678-825-1001, ac@pcanet.org

+ Chicago Metro Presbytery, 943 Sanctuary Lane, Naperville, Illinois 60540, chicagometropres@gmail.com

+ Reformed Church in America, 4500 60th Street Southeast, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49512, 800-968-6065, questions@rca.org


[2] ARP Church Calls for Prayer for the People of Peshawar, Pakistan

From the 18 December 2014 ARP News Update:

All are grieved at the massacre of schoolchildren and staff in Peshawar, Pakistan. We are extremely thankful to God that our schools in and around Sahiwal are not directly affected. But all in Pakistan, and around the world, are suffering from this tragic and devastating act of violence. Some schools will be temporarily closed for security, while observing a nationwide 3-day period of mourning. Let us continue to pray for God’s grace and mercy to prevail even in this tragedy.


+ Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1 Cleveland Street Suite 110, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601, 864-232-8297, Fax: 864-271-3729


[3] A Letter from the Erskine College and Theological Seminary Board Chairman

December 17, 2014

Dear Erskine Family:

The Erskine Board of Trustees held a special meeting on Tuesday, December 16th to hear a report from Dr. Kooistra and get an update on the progress of the financial stability plan.

We as trustees understand this plan to ensure Erskine’s long-term financial stability has a significant impact on the campus community, and we continue to lift them up in prayer. We would further like to express our appreciation and gratitude to those who continue to serve Erskine sacrificially, especially the faculty and staff.

The Board recognizes the cuts and changes that have been made are painful. Yet amid the challenges in Dr. Kooistra’s report, we heard several things that cause us to celebrate God’s blessings on Erskine:

-- Erskine continues to be accredited and to pursue its mission.

-- Erskine was cleared by its accreditors on all 19 recommendations from 2012 dealing with institutional efficiencies in the college (one item remains pending for the seminary).

-- The accreditors were complimentary and optimistic about the plans Dr. Kooistra has set in motion to keep Erskine on solid financial ground.

-- The four students most directly affected by the department closure will be able to complete their majors over the next two years.

-- Erskine has more than twice the number of annual donors thus far compared to last year.

-- Contributions to the annual fund to date are nearly double that of last year, putting us on a good trajectory toward our goal of $1.6 million.

-- Enrollment numbers for 2015-16 are on pace with the past two near-record years to welcome more than 220 new students.

-- Retention of current students remains steady.

The Board commends Dr. Kooistra and his team in the college and seminary. These are challenging days and difficult decisions. We remain committed to Dr. Kooistra and stand in solidarity with him. We appreciate his heart in all of these matters and his faith and trust in God. The Board also appreciates the faculty in both the college and the seminary for their support of Dr. Kooistra and his plan.

Finally, the trustees wish to express thanks to the students, faculty, staff, families, alumni, and the ARP Church for your support of Erskine. May God bless you all this Holy Season and may Immanuel be the hope within your heart.

In His Grip,

Bill S. Cain

Chair, Erskine Board of Trustees


+ Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1 Cleveland Street Suite 110, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601, 864-232-8297, Fax: 864-271-3729


[4] "What Is Truth?" by Gordon H. Clark Published in the Latest Trinity Review

The newest Trinity Review has been posted. "What Is Truth?" by Gordon H. Clark was first published in 1980 in the Fall 1980 issue of Presbuterion, the journal of Covenant Theological Seminary, and later published with other essays in the 1987 and subsequent editions of God's Hammer:


+ The Trinity Foundation, Post Office Box 68, Unicoi, Tennessee 37692, 423-743-0199, Fax: 423-743-2005, tjtrinityfound@aol.com


[5] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Intends to Allow Sodomites to Donate Blood

-- Proposed Rule Would Allow Secret Abortion Surcharge in Obamacare

-- U.K. Supreme Court Rules Health Care Workers Must Refer for Abortion


+ Freedom Force

+ LifeNews.com, Post Office Box 270841, Fort Collins, Colorado 80527, news@lifenews.com

+ LifeSiteNews.com, Incorporated, 4 Family Life Lane, Front Royal, Virginia 22630, 888-678-6008, Contact Page


[6] Headlines from The Christian Institute

Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:

-- Sex Ed in Scotland: ‘Parents Sidelined in Favour of Named Persons’

-- U.K. Rules for Three and Four-Parent Babies Released


+ The Christian Institute, Wilberforce House, 4 Park Road, Gosforth Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne NE12 8DG, England, 44-0-191-281-5664, Fax: 44-0-191-281-4272, info@christian.org.uk


[7] The Thinning Blue Line

“You can truly grieve for every officer who’s been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.” Jon Stewart

-- Four-Year-Old Standardsville, Virginia Preschooler Handcuffed, Shackled and Transported to Police Station for Allegedly Acting up in Class

-- Two Cops Killed in Las Vegas, Nevada 'Ambush'; Three Others Dead

-- ‘War on Cops,’ Effort to ‘Nationalize’ Local Police Underway

-- Northern Ohio Black Street Gang ‘Heartless Felons’ Issues Order to Murder All White Cops

-- After Killing of Two Officers, NYPD Union Declares Itself a “Wartime” Police Department

-- Al Sharpton’s Anti-Police Race Rioting Protesters Shut Down New York City

-- New Yorkers Explode in Anger at Race Baiters Sharpton, De Blasio and Obama for Cops Deaths

-- Buffalo, New York Cop Stops Fellow Cop from Choking a Handcuffed Man, She Was Then Beaten and Fired

-- California Highway Patrol Describes Itself as a “Paramilitary Organization”


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+ ABC News, 7 West 66th Street, New York, New York 10023, Contact Page

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+ Clash Daily

+ Ben Swann, Contact Page

+ Now the End Begins, Contact Page

+ The D.C. Clothesline, dean.garrison.99@gmail.com


[8] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

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

-- India Hindu Leaders Turn Up 'Reconversion' Rhetoric

-- EPA Hits Coal Industry with a Massive Regulation Right before Christmas

-- Chrislam’s Rick Warren Partnering with Mosques to Teach That God and Allah Are the Same

-- Gun Control Cultist Calls for Children to Steal Parents’ Firearms, Bring Them to Schools

-- Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder Declares Being Transgendered to Be a ‘Civil Right’


+ World Watch Monitor, Contact Page

+ The Daily Caller, 1050 17th Street Northwest # 900, Washington DC 20036, 202-466-3004, media@dailycaller.com

+ Patriot Outdoor News, Contact Page


[9] The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- The New Holocaust Has Started and the Doors of Europe and United States Are Closing

-- Wife Beating Rules for Muslims

-- ISIS Terror Plot to Blow Up Memphis-Arkansas Bridge (ISIS Has the Ability to Make a Bomb Equivalent to Mini Nuclear Bomb)

-- Boko Haram Releases Video of Mass Execution of Non-Muslims in Nigeria

-- Yazidi Girls Killing Themselves to Escape Rape and Imprisonment By Militants

-- NYPD Cop Killer Worked for Hamas-Linked Islamic Society of North America

-- Nigeria: Islamic Jihadists Bomb Bus Station, Murder at Least Twenty People

-- Pakistan: Eleven Christians, Including a Pastor, Accused of Blasphemy

-- U.S. Government Offers US$5 Million Bounty for Islamic Terrorist It Released

-- ‘Dragged by Hair and Sold for US$24 at Markets’ – Western Muslim Converts Buying Girls as Young as Twelve for Sex Slavery

-- Walmart Selling Islamic Crescent Moon and Star Ornament for Tops of Christmas Trees

-- Flag of Afghanistan Adopted after U.S. Invasion Includes Islamic Conversion Prayer and the Words ‘Islamic State’

-- Muslim Driver in Dijon, France Runs Down Pedestrians for Half Hour Shouting “Allahu Akbar” – Eleven Injured

-- Obama May Have Just Given ISIS the Capability to Manufacture Nuclear Arms

-- Child Sex Slaves Resort to Killing Each Other to Escape Horrors of ISIS

-- Islamic State Is Turning Churches into Torture Chambers in Iraq and Syria

-- Obama Has Blood of School Children Massacred by Pakistan Taliban on His Hands

-- Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights Claims ISIS Executes Scores of Women for Refusing to Marry Militants

-- Blood Money: How ISIS Is Selling Human Organs Harvested from Living Hostages and Its Own Dead Soldiers to Fund Terror across the Middle East

-- Islamic State Is Reportedly Executing Its Own Foreign Volunteers Who Just Want to Go Home

-- Nigeria: Islamic Jihadists Take Elderly People to Schools, Open Fire, Murder Fifty

-- Obama Releases Four More Jihadis from Guantanamo, Returns Them to Afghanistan

-- Yemen: Islamic Jihadists Murder Fifteen Children in Car Bomb Attacks

-- Military Spokesman on Taliban Pakistani School Massacre: "Their Sole Purpose Was to Kill Those Kids"

-- Boko Haram Muslims in Nigeria Massacre Thirty-Three People and Kidnap 200 Men, Women and Children

-- U.N.: More Reports of Children Crucified, Beheaded and Stoned to Death by IS

-- Pakistan: Jihadis Burn Teacher Alive In Front Of Students, Behead Children


+ Shoebat.com, Contact Page

+ Viral Buzz, Contact Page
+ Right Side News

+ Assyrian International News Agency (Nineveh Software Corporation, 2317 West Farwell, Chicago, Illinois 60645, 773-575-5863, Fax: 773-761-8534)

+ Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch

+ Atlas Shrugs, writeatlas@aol.com

+ The Sons of Liberty, P.O. Box 1126, Annandale, Minnesota 55302, 866-233-0747, info@sonsoflibertyradio.com

+ Mad World News

+ Jerusalem Post, Post Office Box 81, Jerusalem, 91000 Israel, 972-2-531-5666, Fax: 972-2-538-9527, uheilman@jpost.com

+ The D.C. Clothesline, dean.garrison.99@gmail.com

+ Assist USA, Post Office Box 609, Lake Forest, California 92609, 949-380-1558, danjuma1@aol.com

+ Right Wing News, Contact Page

+ THEBLAZE.COM LLC, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor, New York, New York 10036, contact@theblaze.com

17 December 2014

“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  [Ephesians 6:12]

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] The Presbyterian Church USA’s Terrorist Ties

[2] Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Statement on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Outbreak of the 1989 Romanian Revolution

[3] South Carolina Federal Judge Orders over US$197,000 Attorney’s Fees, Costs Awarded to Christian Pro-Life Missionary Represented by National Legal Foundation Legal Team in 2005 Greenwood Graphic ‘Abortion’ Signs Case

[4] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[5] The Thinning Blue Line

[6 Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[7] The Religion of Peace

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[1] The Presbyterian Church USA’s Terrorist Ties

A 9 December 2014 FrontPage Magazine article by Ari Lieberman titled “The Presbyterian Church USA’s Terrorist Ties” reports that the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) has maintained extensive contacts with the Islamist terrorist organization Hezbollah despite its designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S.

The article chronicles Hezbollah’s terrorist activities to include:

-- The 18 April 1983suicide truck bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon which killed sixty-three people including seventeen Americans

-- The October 1983 suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon that killed 220 marines and another twenty-one U.S. service personnel

-- A recent global campaign of terror spanning five continents including an attack and bombing of a civilian tourist bus in Bulgaria that resulted in the deaths of six civilians

The article additionally details the efforts of Shurat HaDin (Israel Law center) in producing a thirty-eight-page complaint with the IRS alleging that the PCUSA has engaged in “a range of activities prohibited under U.S. tax law” which are wholly inconsistent with PCUSA’s stated aims when it filed for tax exempt status in 1964.


+ FrontPage Magazine, Post Office Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, California 91499, Contact Page

+ Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, 888-728-7228, Fax: 502-569-8005


[2] Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Statement on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Outbreak of the 1989 Romanian Revolution

On the sixteenth of December – the twenty-fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the 1989 Romanian Revolution – we commemorate the sacrifices of those revolutionaries, heroes and martyrs whose courage and perseverance in the face of death led to the fall of the communist dictatorship.

We consider it important to highlight the role in the Romanian Revolution of the inhabitants of Temesvár (Timisoara), as their heroic opposition to dictatorship gave impetus to protest movements formed in Bucharest and other large cities. In those dramatic days the citizens of Romania declared their faith in the democratic transition, the rule of law and respect for human rights. Hungary, which had also suffered for decades under communism, watched these events with hopeful anticipation and contributed to the Revolution’s success with supportive intent.

When paying our respects to the heroes we should not forget László Tőkés, whose unwavering stand for his community and his faith became the catalyst for changes which transformed Romania. The shared Hungarian-Romanian nature of the struggle for freedom and the solidarity between the two peoples played a key role in the success of the revolution. Romania’s citizens of differing ethnicities and religions were as one in sharing in the acts of revolution, setting an example of solidarity between nations, and showing that freedom is a universal value which can only be won through strength in unity.

On today's anniversary we would like to express our conviction that Romania and Hungary will continue their shared path as members of Europe’s democratic communities and as strategic partners, and that this can open up new horizons to the two nations. We see one of our most important tasks, and also our shared responsibility, as fully utilizing the opportunities – offered by the membership of the EU and arising from close bilateral cooperation – for improving the situations of both the Hungarian minority in Romania and the Romanian minority in Hungary.

[Editor’s Note: The Rev. László Tőkés, a minister of the Reformed Church in Romania, was a close friend of the late Rev. Dr. Edwin Elliott, publisher of the Christian Observer from 1988 until his death in 2009. Edwin Elliott, his brother Francis, and several others arranged for a FAX machine to be smuggled into Romania and delivered to László Tőkés who used the FAX to send reports to the rest of Romania while he was under house arrest in Timisoara. An account of this historical incident can be found in the Rev. Dr. Frank Smith’s article “American Presbyterianism and the Cold War” in The Confessional Presbyterian Volume 6 (2012) available at URL http://www.cpjournal.com/store/products/the-confessional-presbyterian-6-2010/]


+ Embassy of Hungary, 3910 Shoemaker Street Northwest, Washington DC 20008, 202-362-6730, informacio.was@kum.hu

+ Bulgária-telepi Református Gyülekezet (Reformed Church in Romania),
400628 Kolozsvár - Cluj Napoca, Arad út 8-10 szám, Romania, 0264 - 415 756

+ The Confessional Presbyterian, Post Office Box 141084, Dallas, Texas 75214


[3] South Carolina Federal Judge Orders over US$197,000 Attorney’s Fees, Costs Awarded to Christian Pro-Life Missionary Represented by National Legal Foundation Legal Team in 2005 Greenwood Graphic ‘Abortion’ Signs Case

December 14, 2014

Senior US District Court Judge Henry Herlong, Jr. issued his Opinion & Order awarding [US]$197,849.89 in attorney’s fees and costs to Christian pro-life missionary Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life, on December 1, 2014. Lefemine has been very ably represented for years by the National Legal Foundation (NLF), whose President is Steven Fitschen. This case has been adjudicated two different times by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals [2012, 2014 ], and once by the United States Supreme Court [ 2012, per curiam, Lefemine v. Wideman, 133 S. Ct. 9 (2012)]. As of this release, neither side has declared an intent to appeal.

The federal lawsuit originated from an incident which occurred over nine years ago in Greenwood, South Carolina on November 3, 2005 during a Columbia Christians for Life (CCL) ‘Show the Truth’ Tour, in which about 20 men, women, and young adults were presenting a Christian pro-life witness at a busy intersection in Greenwood County. The Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office unconstitutionally forced CCL ministry team participants to cease displaying graphic pictures of babies [children] murdered by ‘abortion’ from the sidewalk or along the public right-of-way, both of which are traditional public forums for free speech and peaceable assembly, under the threat of being ticketed for breach of peace. The Title 42 lawsuit was filed October 31, 2008, and the US District Court (SC) Opinion & Order was issued July 8, 2010. As the same judge repeated in his December 1, 2014 Opinion & Order [p. 2], referring to his July 8, 2010 ruling, “This court held that the Defendants had infringed Lefemine’s rights of free speech, peaceable assembly, and free exercise of religion.” And so, “The court permanently enjoined the Defendants from “engaging in content-based restrictions on Plaintiff’s display of graphic signs without narrowly tailoring its restriction to serve a compelling state interest.”” However, “The court denied Lefemine’s request for attorney’s fees …” (Lefemine v. Davis, 732 F. Supp. 2d 624-25, 627). So the Christian pro-life position prevailed in the trial court’s July 8, 2010 Opinion & Order on the substantive issue of the constitutionally-protected right to display the graphic ‘abortion’ signs, however the US District Court (SC) refused to award Lefemine’s legal representation by the National Legal Foundation its due in attorney’s fees!

This anti-attorney’s fees ruling was upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals [2012], but then reversed by the United States Supreme Court [SCOTUS] on November 5, 2012 per curiam [ NLF Press Release ], in which the SCOTUS ruled ( without dissent from any of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices !) that Lefemine was legally a “prevailing party” in this case, and so attorney’s fees should ordinarily be recoverable unless there were “special circumstances” ( Lefemine v. Wideman, 133 S. Ct. 11 ). [emphasis added ]

The case was remanded to the Fourth Circuit; and then to the US District Court (SC); the latter court ruling [ 2013 ] there were special circumstances, again disallowing attorney’s fees. However, finally, on appeal, the Fourth Circuit reversed the District Court’s finding of special circumstances, remanded the case again to the District Court, this time ordering attorneys’ fees be awarded to Lefemine, “a prevailing civil rights plaintiff.” [July 11, 2014 Opinion, p. 20].

Steven Fitschen, NLF, says of the case, “We were so grateful to have vindicated Steve Lefemine’s constitutional rights of free speech, peaceable assembly, and free exercise of religion back in 2010. And now, over four years later, we are grateful to finally have been awarded fees. These fees will send a message to law enforcement all across the country that when the rights of pro-life protesters are trampled upon, serious consequences follow.”

“Glory to God for His Almighty Hand in this case," says Steve Lefemine. "May He be pleased to use this case to encourage Christians in standing for truth in the public square as witnesses unto Jesus, Who Is The Truth ( Acts 1:8, John 14:6, KJV ).  The Lord Jesus Christ says, “... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18). I wish also to express my gratitude for the fine work of the National Legal Foundation.”


+ Columbia Christians for Life, Post Office Box 12222, Columbia, South Carolina, 29211, CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net

+ National Legal Foundation, Post Office Box 64427, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23467, 757-463-6133, nlf@nlf.net


[4] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- 2014 on Record as the Year of the Satanic Attack against Christians

-- U.S. Supreme Court Allows Abortionists to Violate U.S. Food and Drug Administration Guidelines When Using Abortifacient RU-486

-- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Orders Insurance Companies to Cover ‘Sex Change’ Procedures

-- Ontario Province, Canada Forces All Doctors to Do Abortions or Refer for Them

-- ‘Lucius II: The Prophecy’ Video Game Lets You Be the Antichrist

-- Massive Incest Ring Busted, Parents Trade Children For Sex And Bestiality

-- Pro-Abortion Salon Writer Margaret A. Woodbury Describes Watching Abortionist Pull Arms, Legs Off Unborn Baby

-- New Prenatal Screening Tests are Leading to Abortions of Healthy Babies

-- Brisbane, Australia Woman Has Abortion at Twenty-Eight Weeks Because Baby Would Have “Deformed” Left Hand


+ Now the End Begins, Contact Page

+ LifeSiteNews.com, Incorporated, 4 Family Life Lane, Front Royal, Virginia 22630, 888-678-6008, Contact Page

+ LifeNews.com, Post Office Box 270841, Fort Collins, Colorado 80527, news@lifenews.com

+ Clash Daily


[5] The Thinning Blue Line

-- Spokane Valley, Washington Police Deputy Says Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles Are Needed to Defend against Constitutionalists

-- Are We Moving Toward a National Police Force?

-- Heavy Toll, Light Penalties for Police Who Drive Drunk

-- Orlando, Florida Cop Handcuffs and Beats African American Military Police Officer

-- Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin Man Speeds to Hospital for Asthma Attack, Police Stop Him and Won’t Let Him Go - He Dies

-- Acting on a Bogus Tip, Laurens County, Georgia Cops Raid Innocent Family, Execute Grandfather as He Lay Face Down


+ The D.C. Clothesline, dean.garrison.99@gmail.com

+ Godfather Politics, 457 Nathan Dean Boulevard, Dallas, Georgia 30132

+ The Boston Globe, 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, 617-929-2000, Contact Page

+ Counter Current News, CounterCurrentNews@gmail.com

+ The Liberty Crier


[6] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

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

-- 900 Documented Examples of Obama’s Lawbreaking, Lying, Corruption, Cronyism, Hypocrisy and Waste

-- Obama Stuns Congress by Demanding Expanded Powers to Declare War

-- Loudoun County, Virginia Attorney Wants Public Schools to Stop Renting to Churches

-- Olympics Now Banned From Any Country Restricting Spread of Homosexuality

-- FEMA, Through DHS, Buys Off “Clergy Response Team”. What Are They Up To?

-- Roman Pope Francis Decrees That All Animals Go to Heaven

-- Disney-Owned ABC Family Orders Transgender Docuseries Produced By Ryan Seacrest

-- U.S. Congress Passes Bill Which Grants “Unlimited Access to Communications of Every American”

-- Why Is the U.S. Department of the Treasury Ordering Survival Kits for Federal Bank Employees?


+ The Sons of Liberty, P.O. Box 1126, Annandale, Minnesota 55302, 866-233-0747, info@sonsoflibertyradio.com

+ Now the End Begins, Contact Page

+ Christian News Network, Post Office Box 30000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, Contact Page

+ LifeSiteNews.com, Incorporated, 4 Family Life Lane, Front Royal, Virginia 22630, 888-678-6008, Contact Page

+ Adina Kutnicki: A Zionist & Conservative Blog


[7] The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- Pakistan Taliban: Peshawar School Attack Leaves 141 Dead

-- Peshawar School Attack: Taliban's 'Revenge' for Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Peace Prize

-- Saudi Arabia Passes Law That May Impose Death Penalty on Bible Smugglers

-- Obama Authorizes First Wave of 9,000 U.N.-Approved Muslim Immigrants for U.S. Resettlement

-- Iraq Says 2700 Missing since ISIS Onslaught in June

-- Australia: Thirty-Four-Year-Old Man and Thirty-Eight-Year-Old Woman Dead, as Well as Jihadist Gunman, in Sydney, Australia Hostage Crisis

-- Islamist Behind Sydney Siege Abused Australian Jewish Soldier Killed in Afghanistan, Claimed Jews ‘No Better’ Than Hitler

-- Islamic State Stones Couple for Adultery, Beheads Four for Blasphemy

-- Somalia: Islamic Jihadists Behead Two Policewomen

-- ISIS Trying to Justify Sex Slaves and Child Rape

-- Is Your Church Secretly Indoctrinating You to Accept Chrislam?

-- U.K. Foreign Aid Millions Helped Iran Hang 3,000 in Reign of Terror

-- Islamic State Storms Town In Western Iraq, Kills Nineteen Police

-- Islamic State Jihadi Murdered Seventy Because “They Were Saying Bad Words about Aisha”

-- Philippines: Muslims Pledged to Islamic State Blamed for Bus Bombing that Murdered Ten


+ BBC, 201 Wood Lane, London W12 7TS, England, Fax: 020-8008-2398

+ International Business Times, 7 Hanover Square, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10004, 646-867-7100, info@ibtimes.com

+ Christian News Network, Post Office Box 30000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, Contact Page

+ Now the End Begins, Contact Page

+ Assyrian International News Agency (Nineveh Software Corporation, 2317 West Farwell, Chicago, Illinois 60645, 773-575-5863, Fax: 773-761-8534)

+ Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch

+ The Algemeiner Journal, Post Office Box 250746, Brooklyn, New York 11225, 718-771-0400, Fax: 718-771-0308, Contact Page

+ Girls Just Wanna Have Guns, Contact Page

10 December 2014

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Erskine College and Theological Seminary President Paul D. Kooistra Announces Restructuring Plans

[2] Scots Secularists and Free Church of Scotland Moderator Designate Cast Doubt on Kirk Moderator’s Goal of 100,000 New Members by 2025

[3] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[4] The Thinning Blue Line

[5] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[6] The Religion of Peace

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[1] Erskine College and Theological Seminary President Paul D. Kooistra Announces Restructuring Plans

December 2, 2014

Dear Erskine Students, Faculty, and Staff:

As you know, we have been working for several months on the details of a financial plan that will ensure the long-term quality and value of an Erskine education by addressing several immediate concerns related to accreditation and finances.

In August I announced the first of several measures, which included a reduction in salaries and benefits for faculty and staff, as well as a mid-year tuition increase. Our Aramark partners were also able to make reductions and adjustments resulting in a savings of approximately $300,000. Combined, these actions will enable us to achieve our budgetary goals for 2014-15.

I also announced in August that we would review programs in both the college and seminary, including structure and personnel. The various faculty and administrative committees have completed their reviews and provided their input and recommendations to me.

Yesterday, I began implementing a series of actions that will address the needs for the 2015-16 fiscal year. Altogether, the reductions and adjustments across the various categories total approximately $875,000 ($400,000 in the seminary, and $475,000 in the college). Unless otherwise noted, these changes will take effect in the 2015-16 fiscal year, which starts July 2015.

First, salaries for the president and vice president members of the senior leadership team will be reduced by an additional three percent.

In the Seminary:

•We will be eliminating three full-time faculty positions.

•The remaining seminary faculty members will voluntarily take a 25 percent salary reduction.

•We also anticipate an increase in seminary tuition revenue next year through expanded and new programs.

In the College:

•Three professors have announced voluntary departures or retirements at the end of 2014-15 (June 2015).

•Three professors will be on sabbatical for 2015-16 at reduced salaries for the year.

•Two professors have voluntarily requested significant load reductions with commensurate salary reductions.

•The department of Modern Languages will be discontinued, resulting in the elimination of all faculty positions in that department.

•In addition to measures already taken internally, the athletic department budget will be further reduced by $75,000.

These changes will require adjustments to curricular and graduation requirements and scheduling. Students with majors, minors, or specific courses directly affected by these changes will be contacted directly.

I encourage us all to exercise patience and extend grace to one another as we deal with the details of these changes. Disruptive changes such as these are especially difficult because they affect Erskine family members whom we love. So I would also ask you as an Erskine family to pray with and for those who are affected.

These actions, together with those we have already taken, will position us to achieve our financial and accreditation objectives. As we do that, I am confident that Erskine will be able to maintain compliance with accreditation standards, continue to operate from a solid financial base, and establish a pattern of long-term financial stability within our targeted two-year horizon.

Sincerely in Christ,

Paul D. Kooistra

President, Erskine College & Theological Seminary


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[2] Scots Secularists and Free Church of Scotland Moderator Designate Cast Doubt on Kirk Moderator’s Goal of 100,000 New Members by 2025

A 7 December 2014 Press and Journal article by Cameron Brooks titled “Doubts over Whether New Stance on Gay Clergy Could Revive Kirk Membership” reports that Church of Scotland Moderator the Rt. Rev. John Chalmers’ goal of attracting 100,000 new members by 2025 has been met with skepticism by both Humanist Society Scotland (SHS) chief executive Douglas Mclellan, and by Free Church of Scotland (FCS) Moderator Designate the Rev. David Robertson . Kirk Moderator Chalmers wants to embrace “radical change” and use the Internet to attract people who rarely attend services, and said that more conservative interpretations of the Bible are “being left behind” as more people have recognized that homosexuality is not a sin. Chalmers elaborated:

“Whilst religion is trying to put homosexuality and same-sex marriage at the centre of a lot of what it is trying to say, it does not necessarily make religion more attractive.

“If you look at belief, it is fragmenting.

“People are entitled to their own beliefs and no one belief system should have a privilege over any other.”

SHS chief Douglas Mclellan said letting Kirk congregations appoint a minister in a same-sex relationship would not necessarily make the organization more “attractive”.

FCS moderator designate Robertson urged Kirk moderator Chalmers to stop playing “fantasy church” and said that many official Kirk members were non-believers and “need to be converted, not replicated”.


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[3] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- Canadian Ethicist Advocates ‘Post-Birth Abortion’ for Newborns

-- U.K. Mother Legally Ends Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter’s Life

-- Fort Pierce, Florida Teacher Banned from Pro-Life Outreach at Abortion Facility after Worker Seeks ‘Stalking’ Order

-- Google: Online Searches for Ouija Boards Up 300 Percent

-- Minnesota Schools Allow Male Athletes Who Say They Are Female to Shower with Girls

-- Man Strangles Woman and Forces Her to Swallow Abortion Pill to Kill Her Baby

-- Missing 911 Call: Ambulance Rushes Sobbing Abortion Patient from Shoddy Jacksonville, Florida Clinic


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[4] The Thinning Blue Line

-- Police Stupidity Leads to Handcuffed Man’s Drowning Death

-- NYPD Cop Shoots Unarmed Man, Texts Union Rep Instead of Calling for Help

-- Cal State Monterrey Twenty-Year-Veteran Cop Is Being Fired For NOT Using Violence to Resolve a Situation

-- Beloit, Wisconsin Police department Asks Volunteers to Have Homes Searched for Guns

-- Arizona Cop Caught on Cam Brutally Attacking Teen Girl While Mother Begs Them to Stop

-- Denver, Colorado Police Beat Unarmed Man, Topple His Pregnant Girlfriend and Delete the Evidence

-- ‘If You Know Gun Enthusiasts, Turn Them In': Austin Police Chief Says Cops Need to ‘Vet’ Gun Owners

-- Houston Man Arrested for Video Recording Cop on Private Property


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[5] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

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

-- European Commission to Ban Heirloom Seeds and Criminalize Plants and Seeds Not Registered with Government

-- U.S. Army Chaplain Punished for Sharing His Faith in Suicide Prevention Class

-- Presumptive U.S. Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton Says America Must Empathize with Its Enemies

-- Thirty-Three U.S. States Allow Transgender Athletes on High School Teams

-- Obama’s Push For that National Police Force

-- Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren Says Pope Francis Is the Pope of All Christians Worldwide

-- King Obama Defies Congress and Rewrites Obamacare Law Yet Again


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[6] The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- ISIS Cites Quran to Justify Child Rape

-- ISIS Behead Four Children in Iraq after They Refuse to Convert to Islam

-- Taliban Indoctrinates Kids with Jihadist Textbooks Paid For By the U.S.

-- Iraq: UK Jihadi Murders Dozens in Jihad Suicide Bombing at Police Meeting

-- Palestinian 'Martyrs' Who Butchered Five in Synagogue to Be Honored

-- ISIS Trafficking Human Organs from Bodies of Kidnapped Captives, Dead Soldiers, and Injured Prisoners, Mosul Doctor Says

-- New Jersey Town Forced to Pay Muslims US$7.75 Million to Stop Mega-Mosque

-- World’s Biggest Children’s Book Publisher Scholastic Erases Israel from Map

-- Denmark: Muslim Gangs Enforcing Sharia in Residential Areas

-- Nigeria: Islamic Jihadists Abduct over Twenty Girls, Kill Elderly Men and Women

-- Muslim U.S. Naval Engineer Allegedly Gave Agent Info on How to Sink Aircraft Carrier

-- India Court: Sharia Trumps Ban on Child Marriage
-- Al-Qaeda Kills U.S. And South African Hostages during Failed Rescue Attempt by U.S., Yemeni Forces

-- ISIS Fighters, Supporters Continue to Use Ferguson Affair to Make Threats, Incite against U.S.

-- Muslims in Syria (Likely) Conduct Mass Beheading Session, and Create a Huge Puddle of Blood

-- European Court of Human Rights Orders France to Pay Damages to Somali Pirates

-- Pregnant Christian Woman in Pakistan Stripped Naked and Beaten, Causing Miscarriage, after Argument with Muslim Superiors

-- Sudanese Authorities Demolish Church and Arrest Thirty-Seven Christians


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