A
Christian legal group is urging caution in the case of the 463 children seized
by Texas officials from the "Yearning for Zion" polygamist sect. Liberty Legal
Institute says the State of Texas should be required to prove that hundreds of
children taken from a polygamist church compound were either abused or were in
imminent danger. Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for Liberty Legal, warns that
hasty action could result in permanent damage to religious liberties and the rights
of all Texas parents. "Our children aren't children of the state," he argues.
"They're children of their parents." More... |
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Sen.
Barack Obama's recent fallout with Rev. Jeremiah Wright transcends daily news.
The gravity of their broken friendship commands larger perspective. Now that they
have separated into opposing camps, it is possible to see their argument replaying
Black America's central conflict: Booker T. Washington vs. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois.
Every Black American is either Washington or Dr. DuBois. He either aspires to
self-reliance, or feeds off white guilt More... |
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There
is a Bible story familiar to practically everyone that relates directly to efforts
by the international community to divide Israel for the purpose of creating a
Palestinian state. It can be found in 1 Kings 3. The young king Solomon
dreams of a conversation with the Lord in which he asks for wisdom to judge God's
people. God grants the desires of Solomon's heart as well as bestowing upon him
a long life, great riches and honor. Immediately after Solomon claims this promise
with sacrifices, peace offerings and a feast to all his servants, he gets to judge
the most famous case of his life. Two harlots come before him – each claiming
a baby as their own. More... |
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This
past Friday Michelle Obama gave essentially the same stump speech in Charlotte,
North Carolina that she had given the week earlier in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Based
on the stump speech, Yuval Levin calls Mrs. Obama "The unhappiest millionaire."
Levin's NRO column carries a link to the C-SPAN video of Mrs. Obama's North Carolina
speech. It is well worth watching.Levin characterizes the pervasive themes of
Mrs. Obama's stump speech as the "gospel of bitterness." Levin finds Barack Obama
to be preaching a similar gospel, albeit one that benefits from "a peppier and
more upbeat stump speech[.]" Senator Obama's enormous political skills make it
much more difficult to discern the somewhat repulsive views and attitudes that
are nakedly on display in Mrs. Obama's stump speech. More... |
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...Ultimately,
the future of Greensburg -- and the future of our nation -- will belong to the
young. The education that you've received at this school will prepare you for
a lifetime of opportunity and achievement. And the lessons that you have learned
in this town will give you the strength to rise above any obstacle in your path.....
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...To
say "I am a Christian" is not enough. Why? Because the Christianity of the slaveholder
is not the Christianity of the slave. The God to whom the slaveholders pray as
they ride on the decks of the slave ship is not the God to whom the enslaved are
praying as they ride beneath the decks on that slave ship. How we are seeing God,
our theology, is not the same. And what we both mean when we say "I am a Christian"
is not the same thing... More... |
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| "As an eagle
stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh
them, beareth them on her wings: So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was
no strange god with him." | | Deut.
32:11-1 | | Motherhood
has always been sacred in American society. It has been a symbol of all
that is good and right in our culture. When I was growing up, you could
joke with your friends about many things. But 'mother" was off limits.
Women's liberation and the Equal Rights Amendment have dulled the luster of motherhood
for many modern day women, but motherhood remains the chief blessing that God
grants to women. In our present passage we find a strange occurrence.
God compares Himself to a mother eagle. Our God is an incomparable God.
It is difficult for man to understand His greatness and His wonder.
God declares Himself in scripture by comparing His previously unknown attributes
with other attributes that are known to mankind. He uses many pictures and
types in scripture to help us understand His personage. Read
more | .....
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| "And when she
had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The
Master is come, and calleth for thee." | |
John
11:28 | | "The
Master is come and calleth for thee." This passage takes us to the home in Bethany
where Jesus loved to be. It has to do with the sickness and death of Lazarus,
and his resurrection from the dead. Some years ago I heard a distinguished man
of God preach from this text. The light of heaven was on his face and the fire
of heaven was in his message. The outline of his sermon remains with me still,
and I am going to use his outline as I preach to you from this text. It must have
been a very remarkable family that lived in the Bethany home. Martha and Mary
and Lazarus. It may not have been the largest house in Bethany, nevertheless Jesus
loved to tarry there. If you tell me that you have the finest home in this city
and Jesus is not there, then it is not the finest. If you tell me that yours is
a home of poverty and Jesus abides with you, then I know that you do not mind
your poverty. No one can think of the Bethany home without being deeply touched.
Martha and Mary and Lazarus and - Jesus! Read
more | .....
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Holding
faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away
concerning faith
have made shipwreck: 1 Timothy 1:19 |
| In Bible
times the most dreaded catastrophe imaginable was the shipwreck. It was
comparable to train wrecks and airplane crashes in our day. Some of the
greatest disasters in history have been shipwrecks. The Titanic and the Lusitania
are great wrecks in American history. The Bible also describes great wrecks
on the waters. I Kings 22:48 and 2 Chron. 20:37 tell of a great fleet of
merchant ships that were lost at sea. |
| In our text,
Paul compares the catastrophe of a wasted Christian life to a shipwreck.
The word translated in the King James Bible comes from two Greek words naus,
meaning a large vessel or ship, and ago, meaning to take,
to bring to a point, to impel, to depart. The combined word is nauageo,
to suffer shipwreck. A shipwreck indicates huge devastation, much despair,
anguish, and misery. Likewise a loss of faith and an honorable testimony
leads to the same. It is an apt picture, if you have ever encountered such
a desolate soul as being described here. Read
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| | Thursday-Friday,
May 8th-9th
Obama Gains
Superdelegates, Clinton Vows to Stay in Race
Barack
Obama pocketed the support of at least four Democratic convention superdelegates
on Wednesday, building on the momentum from a convincing North Carolina primary
victory. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed to remain... More... |
McCain Castigates
Obama on Judges
Republican
John McCain criticized Democratic rival Barack Obama for voting against John Roberts
as U.S. chief justice, reaching out to the Christian right on one of their chief
concerns: the proper role of judges in government. More... |
Israeis Bucked
the West To Establish Israel 60 Years Ago
If
Jewish leaders had not been willing to stand on their own against the advice of
the U.S. and other Western nations 60 years ago, the Jewish State would never
have been established, said a man who witnessed the country's birth.
More... |
Analyst: Republican
Evangelical Support Already Maxed
Come
this fall, don’t expect evangelicals to top their 2004 support for President George
W. Bush, said a former top aide to Bush on Monday. More... |
New Obama
Pastor will Continue Wright's Legacy
Otis
Moss, the man slated to become the new chief pastor at Barack Obama's Chicago
church, subscribes to the ideology of retiring pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
and is expected to continue Wright's legacy, according to...
More... |
More Southern
Baptists Vie for SBC Presidency
The
number of persons vying for the top position of the Southern Baptist Convention,
the largest Protestant denomination in the country, has expanded to five this
week, with Johnny M. Hunt announced as the latest to join the race.
More... |
Clarifying the 'Evangelical'
label?
A
new document purports to "set the record straight" about what it means to be an
evangelical Christian. Drafters of "An Evangelical Manifesto" say they are trying
to clear up the "confusion" and "consternation" that surrounds the term "Evangelical"
in the U.S. More... |
Chinese Printer
Jailed Over Religious Material
A
Chinese businessman, jailed late last year for printing and distributing Christian
literature at no charge to the consumer, was released after international pressure
-- but his problems are not over. More... |
Film on Billy
Graham’s Life in Production
A
film on America’s favorite evangelist, Billy Graham, is being produced in Nashville,
Tenn., where one of the featured cast members is Graham’s first cousin.
More... |
MISSIONARIES
STRUGGLE TO STAY AFLOAT
very
month, Phil Davis receives a deposit of American money in his Czech bank account.
And every month, he sees that deposit shrink. Since the pastor and his family
moved from Charlotte to Prague three years ago to start a church, the falling
value of the U.S. dollar has brought home a sobering reality... More... |
Israeli Supreme
Court Sides with Messianic Jews
The
Supreme Court of Israel has ruled that Messianic Jews have the same rights regarding
automatic citizenship as Jews who do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah. The
case was brought by 12 applicants who had been denied citizenship primarily because
they were Jewish believers in Jesus. More... |
Plan for 'domestic
partner' benefits halted
Taxpayer
complaints and a rally in favor of traditional marriage may have had a role in
Miami-Dade County commissioners tabling a plan to provide benefits for domestic
partners of county employees. More... |
.....
Wednesday, May 7th
Cult Leader
Arrested on Sex Charges in Northeast New Mexico
The
leader of an apocalyptic sect was arrested Tuesday on sex charges and contributing
to the delinquency of a minor, police said. Authorities charged Wayne Bent with
three counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and three counts of contributing
to the delinquency of a minor, said Sgt. Bobbie Long of the Clayton Police Department.
More... |
More Than
3.5 Million New Voters This Election Cycle
Voter
excitement, always up before a presidential election, is pushing registration
through the roof so far this year, with more than 3.5 million people rushing to
join in the historic balloting, according to an Associated Press survey that offers
the first national snapshot. More... |
Myanmar Cyclone
Death Toll Soars Past 22,000
The
cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others
were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country's
deadliest storm on record, state radio reported. More... |
Speech Transcript:
McCain on His Judicial Philosophy
...Quite
rightly, the proper role of the judiciary has become one of the defining issues
of this presidential election. It will fall to the next president to nominate
hundreds of qualified men and women to the federal courts, and the choices we
make will reach far into the future. My two prospective opponents and I have very
different ideas about the nature and proper exercise of judicial power.
More... |
Op-Ed: Examining
the United Church of Christ and Black Churches
In
his recent incendiary remarks, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. claimed that criticism
of his views is nothing less "an attack on the black church launched by people
who know nothing about the African-American religious tradition." Can it really
be that millions of black Americans regularly choose to listen to viciously anti-white
and anti-American rants on Sunday mornings? More... |
Michelle Obama
About Bill Clinton:
"I
Want to Rip His Eyes Out!"
Michelle
Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama, known for saying what's on
her mind – candidly, spontaneously and frequently – has exposed this trait yet
again in a profile in the London Guardian. More... |
Dennis Prager
Op-Ed: Comparing Jeremiah Wright & John Hagee
...Though
many individual liberals have only goodwill toward black Americans, the liberal
world since the late 1960s (i.e., after the major civil rights legislation of
the mid-1960s) has done incalculable damage to black America and to race relations
in this country. More... |
Russian Church:
E.U. Needs to Do More to Protect Christians
The
European Union should do more to protect Christians worldwide, said the repre-
sentative of the Russian Church to European Union officials on Monday. More... |
Doctors Will
Let Some Die in Flu Pandemic -But How Will They Choose?
Doctors know
some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other
disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die.
More... |
Commentary
Magazine: 1948, Israel, & Palestine -The True Story
Sixty years after
its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self- determination,
Israel remains the only state in the world that is subjected to a con- stant outpouring
of the most outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels; More.. |
NY Post Op-Ed:
Considering Israel's Gifts To the World
May
4, 2008 -- As Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, the world should recognize
the enormous gifts the Jewish state has given the world... More... |
T.D. Jakes: Black Church
Unfairly Portrayed
Black
megachurch leader Bishop T.D. Jakes expressed pain on Monday at seeing the African-American
church portrayed negatively by the media. More... |
..... Tuesday,
May 6th
Israel's Peres:
Nuclear Iran Would Be 'Nightmare'
Israeli
President Shimon Peres warned on Monday that if Iran becomes a nuclear power it
will create a "nightmare" for the whole world and not just the Jewish state. "Iran
is a danger not only for Israel but also for the rest of the world," Peres told
foreign journalists. More... |
Rice to Israel:
Tear Down Anti-Terror Roadblocks
In
meetings here today, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israeli officials
to remove more antiterror roadblocks from the West Bank. More... |
Bush Proposes International
Day of Prayer
Saying
that he hoped there would one day be an international day of prayer, President
Bush marked the 20th annual National Day of Prayer at ceremonies held Thursday
at the White House. More... |
University
Suspends Staffer Over View of Homosexuality
The
University of Toledo suspended an administrator for stating in a guest column
in a local newspaper that choosing homosexual behavior is not the same as being
black or handicapped. More... |
Church, State
at Loggerheads in Wisconsin
In
the latest battle between church and state, a church's right to choose whom it
employs is running headlong into the state's authority to protect workers from
alleged age discrimination. More... |
U.S. Among
Most Bible-Literate Nations, Poll Says
Americans
are among the world's most 'Bible-literate' people and Spaniards, French and Italians
are among the most ignorant about what the "good book" says, according to a new
study released on Monday. More... |
Indian Minister
Says US Biofuels Contribute to Food Shortage
Indian
Defense Minister A.K. Antony said U.S. policies that encourage farmers to grow
crops for biofuels instead of food have contributed to a shortage of grain.
More... |
USA Today
Opinion: The Resilient Religious Right
Despite
the rumors, conservative Christianity is alive and well in the USA, still flexing
its moral muscle. And that’s a good thing. For those who might cheer its demise
fail to see that religious vitality is actually strengthened by the creative tension
between the left and the right. More... |
Lesbians Riot
at Smith College Speech
Rioting
lesbians have stormed a speech by "Born Gay Hoax" author Ryan Sorba on the campus
of Smith College in Massachusetts, shutting down his address, according to two
major pro-family organizations.... More... |
Diaries Show
Saddam Feared Getting AIDS in Prison
Saddam
Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity,
a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings.
The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in portions... More... |
A Look Back
at China's Growing Faith
Much
attention has been paid to China’s human rights violations, including its suppression
of religious freedom, ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August. But a look back
at the past decade shows how far the strictly secular and formerly atheistic nation
has come along in terms of religion. More... |
Discussion
on Religion, Homosexuality, Therapy Canceled Amid Protest
What was intended
to be an academic symposium, or a "balanced" discussion, on religion, homosexuality
and therapy has been canceled amid a wave of criticism from gay activists who
painted the event as anything but. More... |
Former Chaplain
Gets 4 Years for Sex With Inmates
A
Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for having
sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women's prison. More... |
Best U.S.
Christian Workplaces Named for 2008
The
Best Christian Workplaces Institute (BCWI) recently announced its annual list
of best Christian places to work in the United States for 2008. More... |
Court Rules
in Favor of Christian Themed T-Shirt
A
federal appeals court is upholding a student's right to wear a T-shirt that promotes
a Christian viewpoint on the issue of homosexuality. More... |
North Korean
Defectors Raise Awareness of Atrocities
North
Korea is responsible for more human rights violations than any other country in
the world, said members of a conservative human rights organization and refugees
who claim to have defected from the communist nation. More... |
Virginia Woman
Credits Prayer During Tornado
A
Virginia woman credits prayer for saving her and her husband from death or serious
injury when a tornado struck their home this week. Beth Catania says when a tornado
smashed into her Suffolk, Virginia, home on Monday,
she just prayed. More... |
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