Wednesday, January 1, 2014

1 January 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]

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“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]
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Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1]
Death of the Rev. Dr. Robert L. LaMay, Christian Observer Assistant Editor and Sabbath School Lessons Author

[2]
New Christian Observer Articles for January 2014

[3]
Free Church of Scotland Minister Condemns Scottish National Party Plans to Eliminate UK£200 Marriage Tax Break

[4] Presbyterian Church in Ireland Moderator Expresses Concern for Worsening Situation in the South Sudan

[5] Broad Street Ministry to Ordain Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s First Presbyterian (PCUSA) Homosexual Pastor 5 January 2014

[6] Café Press Channels Caligula

[7]
Rose Parade's Homosexual 'Wedding' Float Corrupts Children -- Seven Lessons for Christians

[8]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[9]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

[10] The Thinning Blue Line


[11] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[12] 
The Religion of Peace

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[1]
Death of the Rev. Dr. Robert L. LaMay, Christian Observer Assistant Editor and Sabbath School Lessons Author

Christian Observer Assistant Editor and Sabbath School Lessons author the Rev. Dr. Robert L. LaMay, 83, joined the ranks of the good and faithful servants in Heaven on Sunday, 29 December 2013, after a brief illness.

Dr. LaMay was born 16 October 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, and was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received the Master of Divinity from Biblical Seminary in New York City, and a Doctor of Literature from Covenanter College in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. LaMay served as a Christian Minister for more than fifty years, and was the senior minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church – Hanover Presbytery.

Dr. LaMay is survived by his wife of forty-seven years Kay, a daughter Dorcas Jarrard and her husband Rob of Washington, Iowa; a son Philip LaMay and his wife Michelle of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; a brother Louis LaMay and his wife Joan of Horseheads, New York; and six grandchildren.

Funeral Services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Thursday, 2 January 2014 at the Beatty Funeral Home in Washington, Iowa. Burial will follow at the Plains Cemetery located north of Washington, Iowa, with military honors. Dr. LaMay’s family will receive friends from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday 1 January 2014 at the funeral home.

Dr. LaMay was a dear friend of the editor, who both grieves the loss of his dear brother in Christ and rejoices that he is now in the presence of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. While a seminarian in New York City, Dr. LaMay befriended Reformed theologian Loraine Boettner, who significantly influenced Dr. LaMay’s subsequent ministry. Dr. LaMay was the author of eight books published by
Full Bible Publications on Lulu.com, and had recently completed an unpublished book with the working title The Christian Life, a study of the Epistle of James.


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[2]
New Christian Observer Articles for January 2014

New Christian Observer articles for January 2014 include:

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Reformed Theology in America - by Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D., President of the Young American Leaders Association Missionary Training School in Los Angeles, California – Transcript of the two inaugural addresses delivered by Dr. Smith to the Young American Leaders Association Missionary Training School on 5 March 2013 and 3 December 2013 respectively;

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In Transsexual Economy, U.S. Seeks Prosperity in Debt, Hope in Coercion - by Christian Observer Contributing Editor David Tulis – the similarities between the identity confusion of the U.S. national economy and transsexual individuals;

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Big Brother Does Not Like Homeschooling - by Christian Observer Contributing Editor Dr. Joe Renfro - the threat of home-school education to the public school establishment and its role within the secularist empire a.k.a. Big Brother;

Plus, January 2014 Sabbath School lessons written by the late Rev. Dr. Robert LaMay, Assistant Editor for the Christian Observer [editor’s note: please pray for the Christian Observer as we seek a replacement author for the Sabbath School Lessons), and 
Daily Devotionals by T.M. Moore, dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe.


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[3]
Free Church of Scotland Minister Condemns Scottish National Party Plans to Eliminate UK£200 Marriage Tax Break

A 30 December 2013 Christian Today article by Carey Lodge titled “Scottish Church Leader Condemns Plans to Scrap Marriage Tax Breaks” reports that Free Church of Scotland minister the Rev. David Robertson is condemning the Scottish National Party (SNP) for its plans to eliminate the UK£200 marriage tax break that the U.K. plans to give low income married couples beginning in 2015.

Robertson accuses the SNP of:

"have[ing] resorted to a cheap populism…hidden behind the guise of 'discrimination'….We appreciate and agree with the fact that better childcare provision is needed - but the Scottish Government are missing the point - which is that the best childcare provision is made within the family….We believe the government should 'discriminate' in favour of those who work hard, who want to be educated, those who want social justice, and especially those who want to retain the traditional family."

Robertson described the disintegration of the family as "the great social and economic tragedy of our generation…Instead of playing along with that we would hope any Scottish Government would seek to reverse it."


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[4]
Presbyterian Church in Ireland Moderator Expresses Concern for Worsening Situation in the South Sudan

A 28 December 2013
News Letter article by Billy Kennedy titled “Presbyterian Concern on Sudanese Conflict” reports that Presbyterian Church in Ireland (PCI) Moderator the Rev. Dr. Rob Craig has requested urgent prayer be made at Presbyterian services during the Christmas/New Year period for the worsening situation in South Sudan.

A letter by Dr. Craig to PCI ministers said:

“With Christmas almost here, news is reaching us from the fledgling nation of South Sudan that the threat of civil war, primarily between the Dinka and Nuer tribes, is very real with 500 people having already lost their lives, and many more unaccounted for, in the violence that has erupted there in the past few days.

“On behalf of the people of South Sudan, I am therefore imploring you to join with me in urgent prayer for this fledgling state and its people. On Christmas Day, and again on Sunday December 29, I ask you please to lead your congregations in prayer for South Sudan, and to encourage your members to continuing praying daily for the precarious situation there.”


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[5]
Broad Street Ministry to Ordain Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s First Presbyterian (PCUSA) Homosexual Pastor 5 January 2014

A 31 December 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer article by Alex Wigglesworth titled “Philly's First Gay Presbyterian Pastor Ordained at Broad Street Ministry” reports that on 5 January 2014 at Broad Street Ministry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mr. David Norse, the city’s first openly homosexual Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) minister, will be ordained as pastor.

Mr. Norse is a graduate of
Princeton Theological Seminary.


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[6]
Café Press Channels Caligula





Café Press is selling three dozen or so items with a picture of a lion and the caption “So Many Right-Wing Christians, So Little Time…”


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[7]
Rose Parade's Homosexual 'Wedding' Float Corrupts Children -- Seven Lessons for Christians

Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) President Peter LaBarbera offers the following seven lessons from the first-ever homosexual "wedding" occurring on a float in the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena on New Year's Day -- another tragic marker of America's moral decline

-- THE HOMOSEXUAL "MARRIAGE" MOVEMENT IS EVIL: Moral-minded Americans need to face the truth of what the homosexual "marriage" movement is: a social evil – anti-Christian to the core – that celebrates what the Bible calls an egregious sexual sin as a moral good. Homosexual activists' are desperate to "normalize" their aberrant lifestyle; their movement has become the Left's vanguard in undermining and redefining civilized Judeo-Christian principles. The LGBT Lobby has become what historian Paul Johnson calls a "Monster in our Midst," trampling over and appropriating society's wholesome traditions and institutions – even Christianity itself -- to achieve its godless goals.

-- PLATFORM TO CORRUPT CHILDREN: The homosexual "marriage" movement corrupts impressionable children by teaching them that wrong is right (Isaiah 5:20) and that erotic "love" between two people of the same sex is "equal" to natural marital love as ordained by God. Jesus Christ had strong words for anyone who promotes sin and corrupts the souls of innocent children.

-- EVEN "CONSERVATIVE" ASPECTS OF LGBT AGENDA ARE RADICAL: The Rose Parade's live homosexual "wedding" again illustrates that even the supposedly "conservative" side of the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) agenda is revolutionary and destructive – primarily because legalized, "domesticated" homosexualism provides a very public platform from which to redefine God's wonderful institutions of marriage and family. "Gay" activists and their liberal allies co-opt noble institutions like the Rose Parade and use them to indoctrinate children in the Big Lies that homosexuality is just another kind of love and a mere "civil rights" issue. Similarly, schools across America are being used to promote immoral same-sex conduct as an "equality" issue.

-- SYMBOLIC OF AMERICA'S DECLINE: The "gay wedding" float is symbolic of America's ongoing moral disintegration: in the name of "tolerance," "diversity" and "inclusion," we proudly parade our sin down our streets – defying our Creator and aggressively corrupting the minds and souls of future generations. As historians have documented, sexual immorality, escalating fornication and the abandonment of fidelity in marriage bring about the collapse of civilizations; the United States will be no exception. No wonder developing nations like Jamaica don't want to emulate us.

-- FOLLY OF SECULAR (PRO-"GAY") "CONSERVATIVES: The homosexual "wedding" float clearly demonstrates the folly of secular "conservatives" (like atheist S.E. Cupp) and libertarians who argue that legalized homosexual "marriage" is a conservative proposition. Radically remolding God-given institutions to celebrate sin – and modeling such deviance and confusion as normal to impressionable children – is hardly "conservative." In fact, it is the essence of the Left's destructive Sexual Revolution. Republicans will seal their own demise if they foolishly embrace counterfeit "marriage" and other aspects of homosexualism, replacing their pro-family Platform.

-- DEMONIZING CHRISTIANS AS "HATERS" AND "BIGOTS": As the Phil Robertson/Duck Dynasty controversy shows, homosexual groups like GLAAD regularly smear moral and religious critics with malicious slurs like "Bigots, Haters, and Homophobes." Opposing homosexualism (the ideology of proud homosexuality as a "civil right") in all its forms is not "hate." Rather, it is being faithfully obedient to our loving, holy Creator. True Christians should offer the hope of the life-changing Gospel – not counterfeit "marriage" – to homosexuals. Jesus has helped many people like Michael Glatze abandon homosexual sin.

-- FAITHFUL CHRISTIANS MUST SPEAK OUT NOW: The unbiblical "progressive evangelical" and liberal Catholic movement to affirm unrepentant homosexuals as "Christians" serves Satan's agenda, not God's. (Substitute another sexual sin for "gay" and see if it makes sense: would the Rose Parade allow a live incestuous "union" atop one of its floats?) Bible-believing Christians must speak out against the agenda to normalize homosexuality -- especially since children are its target. If Christians will not resist the evil specter of homosexual "marriage," who will?


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News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- Abortion Is the Leading Cause of Death in America

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"Experts" Say Pedophilia is a Sexual Orientation

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Chinese Doctor Admits Stealing and Selling Newborn Babies

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China Forces Woman Nine Months Pregnant to Have an Abortion

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Woman Has Abortion Because She Couldn’t Fit Into Her Wedding Dress


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Articles from LifesiteNews.com

Articles from the past week from
LifesiteNews.com:

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Billy Graham’s Son Franklin: Homosexuality Is ‘A Sin,’ and ‘I Want to Warn People’


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[10]
The Thinning Blue Line

-- Congress Urged to Investigate 'Murder' by Washington DC Cops

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Milwaukie, Wisconsin Cop Sentenced to Just Two Years for Anally Assaulting Dozens of Black Victims


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[11] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

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

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Not True - Pope Francis Declares All Religions are True

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America on the Verge of Martial Law, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Insider Says Big Events Are Imminent

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Obama Secretly Signs No Free Speech Bill

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security to Push National ID, Transit Documents

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U.S. Federal Judge Rules NSA Spying Is Legal; Strange Ruling Cites Emotion, Sept 11, and Edward Snowden “Spawning Mischief”

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Obamacare Cancelled 5 Million Insurance Plans

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U.K. Snatches Obese Kids from Families


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[12] 
The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

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FBI Investigates Military-Style Attack on California Power Station: ‘You Should Have Expected U.S.’

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Graphic video: Taliban members play soccer with severed heads – YouTube Removes Video for Being “Shocking and Disgusting”

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Saudi Arabia on Track to Break Its Own Beheading Record

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Canadian Muslims Declare “Honor Killing” Is a Racist Term

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Female Suicide Bomber Kills Fourteen in Volgograd

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Nigeria: Muslims Murder Twelve Christians in Attacks on Two Christian Villages -- Eight at Wedding Reception

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'Moderate' Malaysia: Sharia Police Hunt Down Christians Who Use the Word Allah

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Death Penalty Order for Those Who Insult Muhammad Deepens Sharia Trend in Pakistan

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Islam to Become Ireland's 2nd Biggest Religion

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Russia: Ten Murdered in Second Jihad Attack in Two Days in Volgograd

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Nigerian Islamic Extremist: Allah Says We Must Decapitate, Forbids Cannibalism

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Jihad in Afghanistan: Jihadist Car Bomber Attacks International Troop Convoy in Kabul, Three Coalition Soldiers Dead

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Afghanistan: Over 500 Taliban Prisoners Released from Jails

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A Century of African-American Islam

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Video: Muslims in Atlanta Whip Themselves Bloody for Arbaeen, December 23, 2013


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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

25 December 2013



“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]
RPCNA Core Group Meeting Every Fourth Sunday in Richmond, Virginia for Psalm Singing – Desire to Start an RPCNA Church

[2]
Judge Rules Geneva College Does Not Have to Provide Coverage for Contraception

[3] Atlanta, Georgia Inner-City RPCNA Church Plant Sees God’s Providential Blessings

[4] Covenanter International Holiday Conference 2014 Scheduled 19-26 July 2014 at the Gartmore House in Gartmore, Scotland

[5] 25th Anniversary of the Lockerbie, Scotland Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey Held 21 December 2013

[6]
Uzbekistan Presbyterians Ordered to Pay Exorbitant Fines after Arrests for Teaching Children

[7]
Houston Grand Jury Won't Indict Abortionist for Twisting Heads off Babies

[8]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[9] The Thinning Blue Line

[10] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[11] 
The Religion of Peace

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[1]
RPCNA Core Group Meeting Every Fourth Sunday in Richmond, Virginia for Psalm Singing – Desire to Start an RPCNA Church

A core group of saints in Richmond, Virginia with the desire to start a Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) church is meeting every 4th Sunday evening for Psalm-singing.

Anyone in the Richmond area interested in such a work is asked to contact Chris Myers of the
Grace & Truth Reformed Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia via the following contact information:

Christopher W. Myers
Post Office Box 2713
Harrisonburg, VA 22801

www.GraceAndTruthRPC.org
info@GraceAndTruthRPC.org


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[2]
Judge Rules Geneva College Does Not Have to Provide Coverage for Contraception

A 23 December 2013
Pittsburgh Post Gazette article by Rich Lord titled “Judge Rules Geneva College Does Not Have to Provide Coverage for Contraception” reports that U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti ruled 23 December 2013 that Geneva College of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania does not have to provide employees with insurance coverage for contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and other "preventive services" because if the institution has to comply with the Affordable Care Act's rules’ contraception mandate, it will be compelled to violate its founding tenets.

The judge ruled that if a temporary injunction was not granted, that
Geneva College would be “forced to choose between: (a) violating its religious convictions by acquiescing to a government requirement that it facilitate access to abortion-inducing drugs and devices; and (b) violating its religious convictions by cancelling all health care coverage for its employees."

In June 2013, the judge granted a preliminary injunction so that
Geneva College isn’t forced to provide contraception coverage to its students.

As the injunctions are preliminary, the case will continue in the same court, and the court’s eventual decision will likely be appealed to the
3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.


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[3]
Atlanta, Georgia Inner-City RPCNA Church Plant Sees God’s Providential Blessings

Penny Smith, wife of Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) pastor the Rev. Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D., wrote a 21 December 2013 article in The Atlanta Fund: Christian Ministry in Downtown Atlanta blog titled “Changing Venues – Again!”, which reported that the Atlanta Presbyterian Fellowship recently received an unexpected notice that the rental fee for the church where the fellowship met was to be raised by 150 percent.

Please read the blog article to see how God abundantly provided for the fellowship and again demonstrated the promise of Romans 8:28 -

http://theatlantafund.com/2013/12/21/changing-venues-again/


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Covenanter International Holiday Conference 2014 Scheduled 19-26 July 2014 at the Gartmore House in Gartmore, Scotland

The
Covenanter International Holiday Conference 2014 is scheduled for 19-26 July 2014 at the Gartmore House in Gartmore, Scotland. The conference includes Gospel teaching, opportunities for fellowship with fellow conference attendees, and organized activities for children. Opening the Word of God at the morning gatherings will be the Rev. Kenneth Stewart, pastor of the Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland.

For further information, please access:

http://gartmore2014.rpc.org/

Combined with the
Covenanter International Holiday Conference 2014 is the 2014 Premium Scotland Covenanter Holiday Tour scheduled 12-26 July 2014, which includes pre-conference tours of Glasgow, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and numerous other venues of Covenanter and Scottish history. For more information, please access:

http://www.covenantertour.org/index.html


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[5] 25th Anniversary of the Lockerbie, Scotland Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 Memorial Service at Westminster Abbey Held 21 December 2013

A 20 December 2013 The Courier article titled “Services to Mark 25th Anniversary of Lockerbie Bombing” reports that the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Lorna Hood, took part in the 21 December 2013 memorial service at Westminster Abbey for the 25th anniversary of the Muslim terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in which 243 passengers, sixteen crew and eleven on the ground were murdered.

Ms. Hood commented:

"It is difficult to believe that twenty-five years have passed since that awful night when so many innocent lives were lost and a town in Scotland would be forever associated with one of the worst terrorist attacks in recent history.

"I remember so clearly the devastation of the town and the grief and sorrow of relatives who journeyed across the Atlantic to see the spot where their loved ones died.

"For weeks after, rescue workers, police, members of the forces and civilians worked tirelessly to recover as much evidence as possible from the wreckage and, to this day, live with difficult memories of that time.

"I know that for many there are unanswered questions and a continuing search for truth, but this is a time to remember the 270 innocent lives cut short and the families here in Scotland and the U.S.A. living with that loss."

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[6] Uzbekistan Presbyterians Ordered to Pay Exorbitant Fines after Arrests for Teaching Children

Forum 18 News Service reported 18 December 2013 that in September or October 2013, two Presbyterian women, Rovza and Marina Sultanova, and six others were arrested for teaching children in a private home. The two women were each fined ninety times the minimum monthly wage, with the other six given lower fines. The police also confiscated Christian materials, which a judge ordered be destroyed.

The average monthly wage in Uzbekistan is approx. equivalent to US$45.


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[7] Houston Grand Jury Won't Indict Abortionist for Twisting Heads off Babies

A Houston grand jury has refused to indict late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen after a months-long investigation into allegations of illegal late-term abortions and the killing of babies born alive at his two abortion clinics.

"The refusal to indict Karpen is a gross miscarriage of justice. The grand jury has essentially freed Karpen to continue to violate Texas laws and take the lives of late-term babies that the law was meant to protect," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "It's upsetting to know that the kind of brutality shown in the photos taken at his clinic will be allowed continue."

Operation Rescue alleged that Karpen was murdering babies in in a similar way as convicted Pennsylvania abortion Kermit Gosnell, who was found guilty of three counts of First Degree murder for intentionally killing babies born alive during late-term abortions.

The allegations against Karpen were based on information acquired from four former Karpen employees and on photographs of dead late-term babies taken by some of the workers on their cell phones. The grisly photos showed very large aborted babies that were nearly decapitated.

The informants also told Operation Rescue that Karpen routinely did abortions beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks, which seemed to be supported by the photographs.

"It's simply unbelievable that a grand jury would not find that Karpen broke the law, just based on the photographic evidence alone," said Newman. "There's no way any reasonable person could look at the images of those abortion victims and say that nothing was done wrong. The babies' throats were cut from ear to ear. That isn't something that can be done inside the womb."

Newman continued, "We are not giving up on the Karpen matter. We will continue to seek ways through the legal system to bring him to justice. This isn't the last anyone will hear of this."


+ Operation Rescue, Post Office Box 782888, Wichita, Kansas 67278, 800-705-1175, Fax: 916-244-2636, info@operationrescue.org


[8]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

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Girl Dies on Dublin, Ireland Sidewalk after Pharmacist Refuses to Give EpiPen without Prescription

-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Complicit in Cartel Human Trafficking of Minors to Illegals Living in the United States


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[9] The Thinning Blue Line

-- Garden City, New York Policeman Threatens Ticket for Homeowner Washing Car in Driveway

-- Los Angeles Police Department Officers Suspended Who Fired Twenty-Two Shots, Killing Unarmed Driver


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[10] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

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

-- Half Naked Homosexual Men in Secular Christmas Headgear Spread Obamacare Enrollment Message in New Commercial

-- Georgetown Professor: Loving Jesus 'Interestingly Homoerotic'

-- Citing "Same-Sex Marriage," Federal Judge Overturns Polygamy Ban



-- Outrage as U.S. Army Bans Word ‘Christmas’: ‘Treats Pornography Better than It Does Christmas’

-- Pope Francis: “All Religions are True”

-- New York State Gun Owners Bracing for Governor Cuomo’s Confiscation Scheme

-- Saxo Bank's Jakobsen: Europe Moving toward Totalitarianism


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[11] The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- Obama, Clinton Charged by Egypt in Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy

-- U.S. Embassy in Kabul Attacked on Christmas Day

-- Christmas Day Bombings Target Christians in Iraq, Thirty-Eight Killed

-- Terrorists Released Because of John Kerry Unleash Mayhem upon Israel

-- Egypt: Bombing at Police Station Murders Twelve, Government Blames "Terrorist Organization" Muslim Brotherhood

-- Pakistani Muslim Group Threatens Deadly Jihad Attacks on New York and Washington DC

-- Jihad in the Congo: Muslim Terrorists Rape and Mutilate Twenty-One in the Congo

-- Al Qaeda Apologizes For Blowing Up Yemen Hospital: “We Are Preachers of Sharia and Not Frauds”

-- Thailand Rocked by Jihad Bomb Attacks, Injuring over Two Dozen People

-- California: McDonald's to Pay US$50,000 to Muslim Employee in Beard Discrimination Lawsuit

-- Harvard University Describes a Quran Verse as One of the Greatest Expressions of Justice

-- Syria: Islamic Jihadists Murder Twelve People by Firing Mortar Shells at Church

-- Libya: Jihad/Martyrdom Suicide Bomber Murders Thirteen People at Army Checkpoint outside Benghazi

-- Central African Republic: Muslims Murder Nearly 1000 Christians over Two-Day Period

-- U.K.: Marks & Spencer Tells Muslim Staff They Can Refuse to Serve Customers Buying Alcohol or Pork

-- 150 Muslim Clerics Ask Pakistani Government to End Option of Life Sentence for Acts of Blasphemy, Retain Death Penalty as Only Punishment

-- Report: Up to 11,000 Muslim Fighters from Seventy Nations Are in Syria

-- New Secret Justice Scandal: Pakistani Student Forces Woman with Mental Age of Seven to Have His Baby - So He Can Stay in the U.K.

-- U.S. Imam: Muslims Can Take the Property of Christians and Jews

-- Amnesty International Admits Links to Activist Accused of Funding Al Qaeda

-- Qur’an-Approved: Saudi Pedophiles Buy Syrian Refugee Girls for Sex, Some as Young as Thirteen

-- Fifty Christians Burned to Death in Pastor’s Home: Nigeria Becoming ‘Killing Fields’ as Islamists Declare, ‘Convert or Die’


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+ Patheos, information@patheos.com

+ Wakeup Call News


Wednesday, December 18, 2013

18 December 2013



Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Iowa Attorney General Files Application for Further Review of Iowa Appeals Court Decision Overturning Sexual Misconduct Convictions of Former URCNA Pastor Patrick Edouard

[2] Beveridge Translation of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion Available on Audiobook

[3] Three New Ebooks Free from Reformation Trust


[4] Archbishop Desmund Tutu Laments Exclusion of Dutch Reformed Church and Afrikaners from Nelson Mandela's Memorial Funeral Services

[5] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[6]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

[7]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

[8] The Thinning Blue Line

[9] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[10] 
The Religion of Peace

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[1] Iowa Attorney General Files Application for Further Review of Iowa Appeals Court Decision Overturning Sexual Misconduct Convictions of Former URCNA Pastor Patrick Edouard

An 11 December 2013 Journal Express article titled “State Files Application for Further Review” reports that the Iowa Attorney General's Office on 10 December 2013 filed an application for further review with the Iowa Supreme Court regarding the Iowa Court of Appeals’ recent decision to nullify several sexual misconduct convictions against former pastor Patrick Edouard.

Edouard was the pastor of Covenant Reformed Church (
United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA)) in Pella, Iowa. He had been convicted of three counts of sexual exploitation by a counselor or therapist, and one count of entering into a pattern/scheme of exploitation by a therapist.

The Iowa Court of Appeals overturned the verdicts saying that the jury instructions were not provided regarding what was and was not a “counselor” as defined by the applicable statutes, and that Edouard was denied the testimony of an expert witness who should have been allowed to testify.

The state’s application for further review can be seen here:


http://www.journalexpress.net/archive/x1801395085/file


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Iowa 50138, 641-842-2155, Fax: 641-842-2929, publisher@journalexpress.net

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[2] Beveridge Translation of Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion Available on Audiobook

The Henry Beveridge translation of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion is now available in audiobook from Amazon’s “audible” service for US$41.97 for non-members or free with a thirty-day trial membership (US$14.95 per month, includes choice of one book per month, cancel membership anytime).

The audiobook version is unabridged, and contains sixty-seven hours of narration by Bob Soeur.


+ Audible Headquarters, One Washington Park, Newark, New Jersey 07102, 973-820-0400, Contact Page


[3] Three New Ebooks Free from Reformation Trust

Three new ebooks in the Crucial Questions series by the Rev. Dr. R.C. Sproul are available for free download from Reformation Trust:

-- How Can I Develop a Christian Conscience?

-- What Is the Church?

-- What Is the Lord’s Supper?

Additionally, paperback versions are available for US$3.20 each plus shipping.


+
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[4] Archbishop Desmund Tutu Laments Exclusion of Dutch Reformed Church and Afrikaners from Nelson Mandela's Memorial Funeral Services

IAfrica.com reported 17 December 2013 that Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu stated that the Dutch Reformed Church should have been part of the interfaith ceremony at Nelson Mandela's memorial funeral services.

The retired archbishop apologized to the Afrikaner community, saying that Mandela had strived to ensure that the Afrikaners continued to feel that they are a part of South Africa.

Tutu commended the organizers of the memorial activities for Mandela, but said that the organizers should not have been limited to members of the African national Congress.


+ IAfrica.com, 6th Floor, Upper East Side, 31 Brickfield Road, Woodstock, Cape Town 7925, South Africa, 087-700-0777, wasiefaf@primediaonline.co.za


[5]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- Apple Inc. Approves Homosexual Meet-Up App Utilizing GPS for Users as Young as Twelve

-- ‘Insanity’: Belgian Senate Passes Bill Permitting Doctors to Euthanize Children

-- Michigan Education Association Demanding US$10,000 Severance for Teacher Who Molested a Child for Three Years

-- U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander’s Chief of Staff Placed on Leave for Child Pornography

-- Planned Parenthood in 2012 Received US$540.6 Million in Tax Dollars, Performed 327,166 Abortions

-- Northern Ireland Justice Minister: Allow Disabled Babies/Babies Conceived in Rape to Be Aborted

-- Graphic sex Education Program for Five-Year-Olds Shocks New Zealand Parents

-- Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Seeking “Right to Life” for Chimpanzees

-- Pro-Life Teacher Fired after Kicking Planned Parenthood Out of His Class

-- Babies with Down Syndrome Are Aborted in the U.K. at Alarming Rates

-- Judge’s Ruling Puts Polygamy on the Way to Legal Recognition

-- U.K.: 127 Babies Conceived in Tax-Funded IVF Killed in Tax-Funded Abortions

-- Murderer of Nine Children in Cleveland House Fire Convicted – No Death Penalty

-- Sixty-One Year Old St. Paul, Minnesota Pastor Who Allegedly Touched Young Girls Accused of Blaming Victims

-- Neurologist: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Downgraded Me Because I Followed Standard Protocol for MS Patients


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Muskegon,
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+ The Free Patriot

+ All Christian News, Contact Page

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[6]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

Headlines of the past week from
The Christian Institute:

-- U.S. TV Show ‘Spreading the Gospel of Polyamory’

-- MS Sufferer Warns Against ‘Vague’ Scots Assisted Suicide Bill


+
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]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

Articles from the past week from
LifesiteNews.com:

-- Obama Administration May Add Taxpayer-Funded Sex-Change Operations to ObamaCare, Medicare, Medicaid

-- Denver, Colorado Baker Says He’d Rather Go to Jail after Judge Orders Him to Bake Cakes for Homosexual ‘Weddings’

-- Southern Poverty Law Center Urges U.S. Army to Declare American Family Association an ‘Extremist’ Group


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[8] The Thinning Blue Line

-- Pennsylvanians Coerced into Giving Cheek Swab at “Voluntary” Checkpoint

-- Lawsuit: New York City Police Department Breaks Windows, Enters Home, Beats Family, Crushes Parakeet, Files Charges That Don’t Stick

-- Irving, California Jail Staff Allows Diabetic Woman to Die Without Insulin

-- Wilmington, Delaware Police Officer Shoves Dog through Car Window of Man Surrendering with His Hands Up

-- Campbell, Wisconsin Police Cite Citizens for Displaying the U.S. Flag

-- Colorado Springs, Colorado Police Threaten to Taser and Beat Man Up for Exercising His 2nd Amendment Right

-- Legal Experts: Washington DC Police Murdered Woman

-- Unarmed Woman Accidentally Shot in Head by Ross County, Ohio Police during Raid

-- Stockton, California Police Zip Tie Special Needs Five Year Old and Charge Him with Battery on Officer

-- Sydney, Australia Police Charged in Death of Naked Student They Tasered Fourteen Times

-- How the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Manufactures Crime

-- Marian County, Florida Policeman Slams Man’s Head into Wall after Falsely Accusing Him of Spitting


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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:

-- Obama’s Harvard Law Review Biography Says Obama “Born in Kenya”

-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Whistleblower Says War on Terror is a Charade…Real Target American Patriots

-- U.S. Retirement Plans Attacked for 'Savings Inequality': Feds Setting Stage for 'Income Redistribution'

-- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Changing the Rules to Steal Private American Water and Property

-- Florida Judge Forces Home-Schooled Kids into Public School

-- Is War With China Inevitable?

-- New Obama Adviser Wants to Cede U.S. Oceans to United Nations

-- New Mayor of New York City Active Supporter of Brutal Sandinista Communist Regime in Nicaragua

-- Obama shook Raúl Castro's Hand after Six Months of Secret U.S.-Cuba Talks, Report Claims

-- Illegal Alien Using Fake Social Security Number Sues over Job Rejections

-- U.S. Republican Elected Officials and Party Leaders More Worried about Loss of Power than Loss of Liberty for Americans

-- U.S. Voices 'Concern' at India’s Law Banning Homosexual Sex

-- Russia Confirms Tactical Missile Deployment on NATO Borders

-- Obama Rolling Out ‘DNA Checkpoints’ Trial Balloon across America

-- Duluth, Georgia High School Student Suspended For One Year after Hugging Teacher

-- United Methodist Bishop Rules That Lesbian's Clergy Candidacy Can Proceed

-- U.S. Federal Judge Orders Removal of San Diego, California War Memorial Cross


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[10] The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- Obama-Backed Syrian Rebels Beheading and Burning Christians in Ovens

-- "Incontrovertible Evidence” That Saudi Government Officials Helped 9/11/2001 Hijackers Financially and Logistically

-- Inside the Saudi 9/11/2001 Coverup

-- Media, Silent about Two Christians Beheaded in New Jersey by Muslim Man

-- U.S. State Department Likely Trained Twitter and Facebook Dissidents Responsible for Arab Spring

-- Muslims Massacre At Least 700 Christians in Bangui, Central African Republic

-- Central African Republic: Thousands of Christians Flee after Muslims Hunt Door-To-Door for Enemies of ‘Allah’

-- Six U.S. Soldiers Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash

-- Three American Teachers Slaughtered for Christian Faith in Muslim World

-- New U.S. Army Manual Orders Soldiers Not to Criticize Taliban

-- Obama Drone Strike Murders Fifteen Innocent Civilians at Wedding Party

-- Obama Buys Russian Helicopters for Muslim Military with American Money

-- Thousands of Saudi Terrorists Fighting in Syria under Al-Qaeda Umbrella

-- Pakistan: Muslim Mob Kills Man after Fruit Found Wrapped in Qur'an Pages

-- U.S. Admits Iran will get US$20 Billion, Not Just $7 Billion, from U.S. Sanctions Relief

-- Muslim Terrorists Crossing U.S./Mexican Border

-- Muslim Brotherhood Symbol Displayed Behind Speakers Rostrum at Nelson Mandela’s Funeral

-- Study: Eighty-One Percent of U.S. Mosques Promote Jihad

-- Wave of Attacks Kill Sixty-Five People in Iraq

-- "Whole Families Murdered": Syrian Jihadists Murder over Eighty Civilians outside Damascus

-- China: Sixteen Dead as Muslims Riot, Battle Police in Xinjiang

-- Nigeria: Muslims Murder Four People and Burn Down 100 Houses in Christian Village

-- California: "Pillar of the Muslim Community" "Active Member of His Mosque" Sentenced for Trying to Honor Murder His Wife

-- Islamists Threaten British Shop Owners with Forty Lashes for Selling Alcohol

-- Saudi Writer 'Urges 97,000 Twitter Followers to Sexually Molest Working Women'

-- Iran’s Revolutionary Court Sentences Iranian Pastor to Prison

-- Bangladesh: Muslims Riot, Murdering Five People as Islamic Supremacist Party Issues Threats in Wake of Execution of Party Leader for War Crimes

-- British Convert to Islam Linked to Jihad Grenade Attack on British Tourists in Kenya

-- Interfaith Outreach in Nigeria: Muslims Murder at Least 205 Christians

-- Thailand: Muslim Terror Bombing at Schools, Children, Parent Shot


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