tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58897204229286734482024-03-14T02:55:34.117-05:00Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church Of the RPCUSPLEASE NOTE: WESTMINSTER OFFICIALLY CLOSED ON APRIL 8TH, 2012.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-26471979900412580462012-05-02T10:06:00.004-05:002012-05-02T10:09:17.662-05:00Westminster Mission Work is Officially Closed<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Westminster Mission Work Officially Closed on April 8th, 2012.</u></b></span><br />
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<i>The Lord gives and the Lord takes away; Blessed be the name of the Lord. ~Job 1:21</i></div>
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Please direct all correspondence or inquiries to the Session at Zion: zionsession@gmail.com or to the Presbytery of the RPCUS: www.RPCUS.org<br />
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For more information please visit:<br />
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The Reformed Presbyterian Church in the Untied States at: <a href="http://www.rpcus.com/">http://www.rpcus.com/</a>
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Zion Presbyterian Church in Macon, GA at: <a href="http://www.zionpresbyterian.org/">http://www.zionpresbyterian.org/</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-88412177788485125362012-05-02T10:00:00.000-05:002012-05-02T10:01:34.884-05:00The Seven Churches in the Book of RevelationHere is a series of Sermons that have just been fantastic for our Mission Work to hear as the Church has come to a close and we hope they will bless you also.<br />
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Blessings,<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Seven Churches in Revelation </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">by Pastor Jess Stanfield</span></b></div>
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We hope these messages from Revelation have been a blessing to you as they were to us. For more on the series in Revelation by Pastor Jess Stanfield please go to <a href="http://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?currpage=1&keyword=Jess%5EStanfield&SpeakerOnly=true&currSection=sermonsspeaker&AudioOnly=false&sortby=added">Sermon Audio</a> or to Zion's Web Page at: <a href="http://www.zionpresbyterian.org/">http://www.zionpresbyterian.org/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-76715885947305372442012-04-17T18:15:00.000-05:002012-04-17T18:15:00.881-05:00Westminster Has Closed: Items for SELL<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Westminster Mission Work <br />
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Black Metal Frame w/ Gray Cloth backs. <b>$35.00 each</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(4) 6’ Folding Tables, <b>$40.00 each</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Casio WK-200 Keyboard, <b>$200.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> (1) GE freestanding Hot/Cold Water Dispenser, <b>$139.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(30, approximately) Sets of Flatware, <b>$30.00 total</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Panosonic Microwave, <b>$50.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Whirlpool Refrigerator, 10’ cubic foot, <b>$100.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Brass Communion Serving tray set, <b>$150.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Table Tennis Table, <b>$150.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Graco Pack N’ Play, <b>$40.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(3) Center-pull Hand Towel Dispensers, <b>$15.00 each</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(30, approximately) Sets of White Melamine Restaurant grade dishes, <b>$200.00 total</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Magnavox DVD Player, <b>$20.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(1) Bissell Bagless Vacuum, <b>$20.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(4) Blue cloth curtains, <b>$70.00 total</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> (1) Microwave Stand with drawer, <b>$80.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Total of all listed items<b>: $3,254.00</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">A <b>10% discount</b> will be applied if all items are purchased together, for a savings of: <b>$325.40.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Please Note: If you or someone you know is interested in any or all of these items please contact us for more information, to schedule an appointment to view the item(s), or to make an offer at:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">WestminsterChurchCC@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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The Daily Mall and others are reporting on Said (or Sayed) Musa. Earlier I had posted a link to his letter from prison describing sexual and physical abuse. Here’s the new report:<br />
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An Afghan physiotherapist will be executed within three days for converting to Christianity.<br />
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Said Musa, 45, has been held for eight months in a Kabul prison were he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by inmates and guards.<br />
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Mr Musa, who lost his left leg in a landmine explosion in the 1990s, has worked for the Red Cross for 15 years and helps to treat fellow amputees.<br />
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He was arrested in May last year as he attempted to seek asylum at the German embassy following a crackdown on Christians within Afghanistan.<br />
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He claims he was visited by a judge who told him he would be hanged within days unless he converted back to Islam.<br />
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But he remains defiant and said he would be willing to die for his faith.<br />
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He told the Sunday Times: ‘My body is theirs to do what they want with.’<br />
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You can also read the Compass Direct News report, which begins:<br />
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An Afghani amputee in prison for his Christian faith since May will face a judge this Sunday (Nov. 21) without legal representation or knowledge of the charges against him, according to local sources.<br />
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Denny Burk suggests that if you have Twitter, you post one of the following:<br />
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Mr. President, speak wisely and boldly, in private if necessary, for Said Musa, imprisoned in Kabul. http://dsr.gd/ezR3jW @BarackObama<br />
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Mr. President, please persuade the Afghan govt. not to execute our brother Said Musa. http://bit.ly/bQ5RLQ @BarackObama Prov. 24:10-12<br />
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Update: A valid point by Paul Marshall:<br />
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If the actions of a Florida pastor who threatened to destroy a book holy to Muslims deserved public and presidential attention, then the actions of the Afghan government, ostensibly a ‘democratic’ ally, to destroy something holy to Christians, a human being made in the image of God, also deserve public and presidential attention.<br />
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Link to original article:<br />
<a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/02/19/pray-for-sayed-musa-afghan-christian-set-to-be-hanged-within-days/">http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2011/02/19/pray-for-sayed-musa-afghan-christian-set-to-be-hanged-within-days/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-7168425643831375432010-11-19T16:22:00.000-06:002010-11-19T16:22:00.633-06:00What to do - When your life is falling apart!<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=FALSE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=2110783657"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button--><br />
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A Great Sermon by Andrew Quigley in ScotlandUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-79929932755125727492010-04-22T12:21:00.000-05:002010-04-22T12:21:21.814-05:00From AlbertMohler.com<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #363636; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
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font-family: LeagueGothicRegular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></h1><h1 class="post-title" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: LeagueGothicRegular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 48px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The Year of Our Lord” — Diploma Trouble in Texas</h1><div class="post-excerpt" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #717171; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The controversy at Trinity University tells us so much about the loss of Christian conviction in colleges and universities, the insanity of secular revisionism, and the contradictions of Muslim students who are offended by the words “the year of our Lord,” but seem perfectly happy to have the name “Trinity University” printed in bold on their diplomas.</div></div><div class="post-date" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wednesday, April 21, 2010</div><div class="post-content" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 24px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/files/2010/04/86796382.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #eb7b02; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-16732" height="300" src="http://www.albertmohler.com/files/2010/04/86796382-300x300.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></a>A group of students at Trinity University in San Antonio is petitioning the administration to remove the words “in the year of our Lord” from the school’s diplomas. Senior Sidra Qureshi said she started the petition in order to assure the school’s commitment to diversity. A Muslim student who presides over the “Trinity Diversity Connection,” Miss Qureshi told the media: “A diploma is a very personal item, and people want to proudly display it in their offices and homes. . . . By having the phrase ‘in the year of our Lord,’ it is directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not everyone believes in Jesus Christ.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to some accounts, the issue was first raised by Issac Medina, a convert to Islam who graduated in December of 2009. He told the <em>San Antonio Express-News</em> that he was offended by the language he found on his diploma, calling himself “a victim of a bait and switch” because he had been assured that the school no longer held to a Christian identity.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">The school’s administration has sent mixed signals of its intention, but a decision by the university’s president and Board of Trustees is expected soon. Sharon Jones Schweitzer, assistant vice president for university communications told <em>The Washington Times</em> that the school will probably remove the phrase from all diplomas. The university’s president, Dennis Ahlburg, defended the wording as “unobtrusive.”</div><div class="section related-blogs" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e6e6e6; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(215, 215, 215); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(215, 215, 215); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(215, 215, 215); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(215, 215, 215); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 248px;"><h2 class="section-title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 3px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: LeagueGothicRegular, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">RELATED POSTS</h2><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(54, 54, 54); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2006/11/10/jesus-christ-is-our-vehicle-to-the-divine-the-episcopal-church-is-in-big-trouble/" rel="bookmark" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #363636; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permanent Link: Jesus Christ is “Our Vehicle to the Divine?” The Episcopal Church is in Big Trouble">Jesus Christ is “Our Vehicle to the Divine?” The Episcopal Church is in Big Trouble</a></li>
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</ul></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many of the school’s alumni have protested the proposal, but momentum toward the change appears to be growing on the campus.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="more-16729" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are at least two significant dimensions of this controversy. The first has to do with what this reveals about the loss of Christian conviction and identity among so many church related schools. Trinity University was established in 1869 by Cumberland Presbyterians. The original faculty of five professors taught an inaugural class of seven students. Trustees first located the school in rural Tehuacana, Texas, hoping to put the students far away from the vices and temptations of larger cities.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">The university’s published historical narrative explains: “Although religion played a prominent role in a Trinity education, the ethos was broadly Christian and no students were excluded because of religious affiliation.” In 1906 the school affiliated with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">The decision to move the school to San Antonio came in 1941. In 1969, the school “modified” its relationship to the church by eliminating legal ties to the Presbyterian denomination. The new agreement between the school and the denomination “affirmed historical connections and pledged mutual support.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the language of disengagement and secularization. Gary Luhr, executive director of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities, told <em>The Washington Times</em> that Trinity University is moving towards a relationship that is little more than a reference to the fact that the origins of the school “involved religion.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">As James Tunstead Burtchaell has documented and explained, “Countless colleges and universities in the history of the United States were founded under some sort of Christian patronage, but many which still survive do not claim any relationship with a church or denomination. Even on most of the campuses which are still listed by churches as their affiliates, there is usually some concern expressed today about how authentic or how enduring that tie really is; and often wistful thinking is all that remains.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">These schools have been effectively secularized, moving from identity as Christian colleges with clear Christian convictions, to church-related schools with ambiguous convictions, to schools with some historic tie to Christianity, but no Christian convictions at all. At this last stage, Christianity is more of an embarrassment than anything else. It seems that all parties related to the controversy at Trinity University are agreed that Christianity plays no official role in the life and work of the school in the present.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">No one is claiming that the words “in the year of our Lord” mean anything theological in this context. The school holds to an essentially secular worldview — despite the language of the diploma, the Christian name of the school, and the image of the Bible on the school’s seal.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">The second important dimension of the controversy is the insanity of thinking that the removal of the words “in the year of our Lord” will accomplish anything. Sidra Qureshi complains that the words are “directly referencing Jesus Christ, and not everyone believes in Jesus Christ.” Well, if those words offend anyone, how can they not be offended by the name of the university itself? Some have tried to explain the name in terms of the fact that the school had three predecessor institutions and was located in three Texas locations, but no one is denying the central fact that the word “Trinity” is a direct reference to the central Christian belief about God — and about Jesus Christ.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">And what would the removal of the words “the year of our Lord” accomplish? That system of calendar dating can be traced back to Dionysius Exiguus, an abbot who in the year 525 constructed a new chart of Easter tables, changing the numbering of the years from the year one starting in 284, the year that Emperor Diocletian ascended to the throne, to what Dionysius calculated to be the year of Christ’s birth. Dionysius referred to the years after the birth of Christ as <em>anni Domini nostri Jesu Christi</em> (the years of our Lord Jesus Christ).</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, even when modern secularists try to change the language and dating customs from “A.D.” to “C.E.,” for “common era,” the date itself remains fixed with reference to the birth of Jesus Christ. Instead of “B.C.” for “before Christ,” these new agents of “tolerance” prefer “B.C.E.,” for “before common era.” But, once again, this does nothing to remove the fact that the number of the year points directly to the assumed date of the birth of Christ.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">In other words, the only way to fully secularize the dating system is to renumber all the years with some other point of historical reference. Perhaps they would prefer we start with the year of Charles Darwin’s birth, then renumber the years as “B.C,” for “before Charles,” and “A.D.,” for “after Darwin.”</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">The controversy at Trinity University tells us so much about the loss of Christian conviction in colleges and universities, the insanity of secular revisionism, and the contradictions of Muslim students who are offended by the words “the year of our Lord,” but seem perfectly happy to have the name “Trinity University” printed in bold on their diplomas.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 21px; vertical-align: baseline;">One thing is clear — the university will have to decide quickly what to do in this situation, and they will make their decision in — you guessed it — the year of our Lord, the two thousand and tenth.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-65601973357579683092010-04-21T11:05:00.000-05:002010-04-21T11:05:08.837-05:00Wednesday Night Bible Study ReminderQuick Reminder: Tonight is week two of the 'Why We Believe the Bible' series by John Piper. The Bible Study will be lead by Christopher Marks and held in Corpus Christi at 7pm. For more information or directions please contact Christopher Marks at 229-1693. Hope to see you all there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-76047757699190488302010-04-21T10:53:00.000-05:002010-04-21T10:53:39.327-05:00Hymns & Psalms for This Coming Sunday<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Our congregation is provide with the song selection for each coming Sunday at the beginning of the week in the hopes that they might review and practice the Hymns and Psalms with their family and/or personally so that we all might learn these great songs of praises to our King.</span><br />
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<b>Morning Service:</b><br />
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Trinity Hymnal: 249</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #888888;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Trinity Hymnal: 573</div>Psalm 119F<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 533<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 503<br />
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<b>Afternoon Service:</b><br />
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Trinity Hymnal: 168<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 280 -1st Tune<br />
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<a href="http://www.opc.org/hymn.html?list_type=numerical" style="color: #223344;">Click Here for the Trinity Hymnal</a> This link will provide you with the words and a mdi file to listen to the music or have it play along while you sing. <a href="http://www.opc.org/hymn.html?hymn_id=841" style="color: #223344;">Click Here</a> to see an example of Hymn 132...the music file will be at the bottom of the page.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.lifefebc.com/resources/midipsalter.htm" style="color: #223344;">Click Here for the Psalter</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">NOTE: These links are also permanently listed to the right side of this Blog under Church Links: Trinity Hymnal and Other Resources.</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-66145666549205998992010-04-16T11:02:00.000-05:002010-04-16T11:02:39.863-05:00RPCUS-Family Bible Conference in Bluefield, Virginia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's that time of year again folks, time to register for the Family Bible Conference in Bluefield, Virginia. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This year's conference is on:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Follow <a href="http://reformedfamilybibleconference.com/">this link</a> for more information and registration. The conference is June 22-26, 2010. Hope you can come!!!<br />
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RPCUS- Family Bible Conference <a href="http://reformedfamilybibleconference.com/">http://reformedfamilybibleconference.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-54570396230724144192010-04-16T10:29:00.001-05:002010-04-16T10:49:56.232-05:00Joe Morecraft's Tea Party Speech 1/15/2010Here's a great message by Joe Morecraft, <a href="http://vimeo.com/10970036">click here</a> to hear the speech he delivered yesterday.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/10970036">Joe Morecraft speaking at Carroll County TEA Party</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3146444">Aubrey Boles</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Blessings,<br />
Actual Link: <a href="http://vimeo.com/10970036">http://vimeo.com/10970036</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-46201365268518010152010-04-14T09:38:00.000-05:002010-04-14T09:38:35.884-05:00Hymns & Psalms for This Coming Sunday<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our congregation is provide with the song selection for each coming Sunday at the beginning of the week in the hopes that they might review and practice the Hymns and Psalms with their family and/or personally so that we all might learn these great songs of praises to our King.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<b>Morning Service:</b><br />
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Trinity Hymnal: 35<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Trinity Hymnal: 174</div>Psalm 119E<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 383<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 628<br />
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<b>Afternoon Service:</b><br />
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Trinity Hymnal: 32<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 502<br />
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<a href="http://www.opc.org/hymn.html?list_type=numerical">Click Here for the Trinity Hymnal</a> This link will provide you with the words and a mdi file to listen to the music or have it play along while you sing. <a href="http://www.opc.org/hymn.html?hymn_id=841" style="color: #223344;">Click Here</a> to see an example of Hymn 132...the music file will be at the bottom of the page.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.lifefebc.com/resources/midipsalter.htm" style="color: #223344;">Click Here for the Psalter</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">NOTE: These links are also permanently listed to the right side of this Blog under Church Links: Trinity Hymnal and Other Resources.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-87119937142907347922010-04-08T10:58:00.000-05:002010-04-08T10:58:13.495-05:00Remember to Keep Praying for Bowe Bergdahl<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;">Taliban release video of captured US soldier</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Original Article can be found <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100408/D9EUOI4G0.html">here</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">WASHINGTON (AP) - The Taliban released a video Wednesday of a man identified as an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last June, showing him pleading for his freedom and to be returned home.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">In the video, Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl says he wants to return to his family in Idaho and that the war in Afghanistan is not worth the number of lives that have been lost or wasted in prison. It is the first he has been seen since the Taliban released a video of him on Christmas.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">The seven-minute video of Bergdahl shows him sporting a beard and doing a few push-ups to demonstrate he's in good physical condition. There was no way to verify when the footage was taken or if he is still alive.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, an Army spokesman, said he could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the video.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"Our thoughts, prayers, and support remain with the Bergdahl family during this difficult time," Garver said.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Bergdahl disappeared June 30 while based in eastern Afghanistan and is the only known American serviceman in captivity. The Taliban claimed his capture in a video released in mid-July that showed the young soldier appearing downcast and frightened.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">In the sometimes choppy video issued Wednesday, Bergdahl talks about his love for his family, his friends, motorcycles and sailing.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"I'm a prisoner. I want to go home," he says in the video, which was made available by Washington-based Site Intelligence Group, which monitors militant Web sites. "This war isn't worth the waste of human life that has cost both Afghanistan and the U.S. It's not worth the amount of lives that have been wasted in prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Bagram, all those places where we are keeping prisoners."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">At times speaking haltingly, as if holding back emotions, Bergdahl - clad in what appeared to be an Army shirt and fatigues - clasped his hands together and pleaded: "The pain in my heart to see my family again doesn't get any smaller. Release me. Please, I'm begging you, bring me home."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">He added that he is strong and is "given the freedom to exercise" and to be a human being, even though he is a prisoner.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Lt. Col. Tim Marsano of the Idaho National Guard said Wednesday that Bergdahl's family was not aware of the new video. But he said the community of Hailey has reminders all over town of Bergdahl's capture, including signs wishing for his safe return and yellow ribbons.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">"The community has definitely not forgotten Bowe Bergdahl, and the family continues to appreciate the support," said Marsano. "It's been a difficult nine months. With the support of family, friends and community members, they are doing as well as anyone could expect in this kind of situation."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">U.S. officials have said that there were indications as recently as late January that Bergdahl was still alive.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">At the end of the video, a speaker, reportedly Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, demands the release of a limited number of prisoners in exchange for the American.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Military officials had notice prior to the first video of Bergdahl released by the Taliban last summer, giving them time to alert his family before its public release. It was unclear Wednesday whether military officials knew this new video was coming.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px;">Bergdahl, who was serving with a unit based in Fort Richardson, Alaska, was 23 when he vanished just five months after arriving in Afghanistan. He was serving at a base in Paktika province near the border with Pakistan in an area known to be a Taliban stronghold.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-14590644456567661362010-03-23T12:49:00.000-05:002010-03-23T12:49:17.263-05:00Hymns & Psalms for This Coming Sunday<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our congregation is provide with the song selection for each coming Sunday at the beginning of the week in the hopes that they might review and practice the Hymns and Psalms with their family and/or personally so that we all might learn the great songs of praises to our King.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
<b>Morning Service:</b><br />
<b><br />
</b><br />
Trinity Hymnal: 678<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Trinity Hymnal: 454</div>Psalm 119B<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 626<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 132 <br />
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<b>Afternoon Service:</b><br />
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Trinity Hymnal: 487<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 488<br />
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<a href="http://www.opc.org/hymn.html?list_type=numerical">Click Here for the Trinity Hymnal</a> This link will provide you with the words and a mdi file to listen to the music or have it play along while you sing. <a href="http://www.opc.org/hymn.html?hymn_id=841">Click Here</a> to see an example of Hymn 132...the music file will be at the bottom of the page.<br />
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<a href="http://www.lifefebc.com/resources/midipsalter.htm">Click Here for the Psalter</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-16900564427352295732010-03-23T11:56:00.001-05:002010-03-23T11:59:16.385-05:00Evangelist Vist #2 ~ February 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were very blessed to have <a href="http://www.zionpresbyterian.org/">Pastor Stanfield</a> come down from Georgia this past February to teach, visit, instruct, and induct a new member into the Church body. Welcome Kenneth (Ken) B.!!! It was a great time of blessing and fellowship and we look forward to being able to host Pastor Stanfield down in Texas again soon!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gathered around the table for food and conversation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Left to right: Sue M., <a href="http://www.zionpresbyterian.org/">Pastor Jess Stanfield</a>, Kristen D., & JR W.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Welcome Ken B. <i>Officially</i> to the body of Westminster Reformed Presbyterian Church!!! We are blessed to have you!</div><div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-89562999254459420972010-03-21T20:07:00.001-05:002010-03-21T20:26:43.748-05:00Remember to Pray Against the Health Care Bill...Being voted on today!This video is so sad...as professed Pro-lifers compromise...<br />
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Trinity Hymnal: 34<br />
Psalm 119A<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 460 (2nd)<br />
Trinity Hymnal: 449<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Trinity Hymnal: 542</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-79543330079988949452010-03-16T09:24:00.000-05:002010-03-16T09:24:22.038-05:00Article by Albert Mohler: This is LIFE We're Talking About~Abortion and the Health Care Bill<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><br />
<a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/files/2010/03/95556925.jpg" style="color: #003366;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-13392" height="240" src="http://www.albertmohler.com/files/2010/03/95556925-300x240.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;" width="300" /></a>Ground Zero for the sanctity of human life is now the U.S. House of Representatives, where the Democratic leadership is pulling all the levers to come up with the 216 votes necessary to pass the Obama health care bill. While most of the nation seems preoccupied with the politics of the issue and the political machinations of the frenzied legislative process, the preeminent issue is abortion and the sanctity of human life.<br />
While President Barack Obama and Democratic congressional leaders have insisted that the current bill is "abortion neutral," it is not. As Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for LIfe argues, the bill represents "the single greatest expansion of abortion since the 1973<em>Roe v. Wade </em>decision."<br />
Some background information is in order. Federal funding for abortion is prevented by the Hyde Amendment, passed by Congress in 1976 in order to prevent taxpayer funds from paying for abortions. The concept behind the Hyde Amendment is simple and important. Abortion is a highly divisive issue, and the federal government should not require American citizens to violate their consciences by subsidizing abortions. Just a few months ago, the House of Representatives adopted language similar to the Hyde Amendment in the form of what became known as the Stupak Amendment, named for Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, who introduced the legislation.<br />
The bill currently before Congress does not include the Stupak Amendment, not anything like the Hyde Amendment. When the President and congressional leaders insist that the current bill does not subsidize abortions, they mislead the American public.<br />
The bill requires all Americans to purchase health insurance through qualified government-approved policies. The current version, based on the bill passed by the Senate, would require qualified plans to cover abortion only through a separate policy, paid for with a separate check or payroll deduction. Yet, as Dr. Yoest argues, this leaves plenty of room for American citizens to be coerced into financial involvement with abortion.<br />
At the first level, this is true because the entire health care insurance system, complete with mandates to individual American citizens, would effectively reset the economy of scale, meaning that we will all, in effect, be subsidizing abortion services in an indirect subsidy. More directly, employees of companies that choose a policy with abortion coverage will be coerced into a direct subsidy -- required to pay what would amount to a abortion tax.<br />
There is also the issue of mandated coverage through action of the federal courts. The Hyde Amendment became necessary because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in 1996 that abortion must be covered by Medicaid as a "mandatory" category of medical care. The Hyde Amendment is all that stands between that ruling and taxpayer funding of abortion.<br />
The creeping coverage of abortions is what Dr. Yoest has in mind when she writes: "Without specific language prohibiting the practice, history has shown that the courts or administrative agencies end up directing government dollars to pay for abortions."<br />
Beyond all this, the current bill lacks the conscience protections necessary to prevent medical personnel from being required to participate in abortions.<br />
Why are the Democratic leaders so determined to exclude the Stupak Amendment from the bill? The most stunning and revealing explanation comes from Rep. Stupak himself. <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzU0MDYxMWEyOTdiNGU1OGU3ZjYzYmE3Y2ZlZDQ5NTY=" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">Consider this</a>:<br />
<em>What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is </em>life<em> we’re talking about.”</em><br />
<em>If Obamacare passes, Stupak says, it could signal the end of any meaningful role for pro-life Democrats within their own party. “It would be very, very hard for someone who is a right-to-life Democrat to run for office,” he says. “I won’t leave the party. I’m more comfortable here and still believe in a role within it for the right-to-life cause, but this bill will make being a pro-life Democrat much more difficult. They don’t even want to debate this issue</em>.<br />
This language is nothing less than horrifying. "If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more."<br />
As James Taranto of <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> insists, this is nothing less than a call for eugenics. Where does this logic lead?<br />
<a href="http://http//online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909804575123590196012672.html" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">He writes</a>: "In order to be effective, a policy of using abortion as a cost-cutting measure would have to aim at preventing the birth of babies with such pre-existing conditions. The goal would be not a reduction in the number of babies, but an "improvement" in the "quality" (narrowly defined in economic terms) of the babies who are born."<br />
Americans may disagree on virtually every dimension of this health care bill, but there is now about far more than health care. As Rep. Stupak asserts, "This is<em> life </em>we're talking about." Unless adequate protections for the unborn are added to this bill, we are indeed witnessing a radical turn in this nation's moral character. Time is running out. The adoption of adequate protections for the unborn should be beyond debate.<br />
Rep. Stupak's words bear repeating, over and over again. "This is <em>life</em> we're talking about."<br />
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I have refrained from extended comment on the health care reform bills -- not because I do not have multiple concerns about the bills, but because I recognize that committed Christians can and will disagree over the political and policy issues involved. The trip-wire for me is the issue of human life. The current bill spells disaster when it comes to abortion. I cannot remain silent in this crucial moment where the sanctity of human life is at stake.<br />
I am always glad to hear from readers. Write me at mail@albertmohler.com. Follow regular updates on Twitter at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/AlbertMohler" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/AlbertMohler</a>.<br />
Charmaine Yoest, "<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703862704575100091815276712.html?KEYWORDS=yoest" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">Abortion and the Health Bill</a>," <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, Thursday, March 4, 2010.<br />
James Taranto, "<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909804575123590196012672.html" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">ObamaCare and Eugenics</a>," <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, Monday, March 15, 2010.<br />
Robert Costa, "<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzU0MDYxMWEyOTdiNGU1OGU3ZjYzYmE3Y2ZlZDQ5NTY=" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">They Just Want This Over</a>," <em>National Review</em>, "The Corner," Friday, March 12, 2010.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/3829682">Typography</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/ronniebruce">Ronnie Bruce</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-17907634174298106802010-03-11T09:26:00.002-06:002010-03-11T09:26:59.234-06:00The Scandal of Gendercide — War on Baby Girls By Albert Mohler<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"></span><br />
<a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/files/2010/03/gendercidecurrentcoverus.jpg" style="color: #003366;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-12105" height="277" src="http://www.albertmohler.com/files/2010/03/gendercidecurrentcoverus.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0px;" width="211" /></a>The reality has been known for years now, though the Western media have generally resisted any direct coverage of the horror. That changed this week when <em>The Economist</em>published its stunning cover story -- "Gendercide -- What Happened to 100 Million Baby Girls?"<br />
In many nations of the world, there is an all-out war on baby girls. In 1990, economist Amartya Sen estimated that 100 million baby girls were missing -- sacrificed by parents who desired a son. Two decades later, multiple millions of missing baby girls must be added to that total, victims of abortion, infanticide, or fatal neglect.<br />
The murder of girls is especially common in China and northern India, where a preference for sons produces a situation that is nothing less than critical for baby girls. In these regions, there are 120 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls. As The Economist explains, "Nature dictates that slightly more males are born than females to offset boys' greater susceptibility to infant disease. But nothing on this scale."<br />
In its lead editorial, the magazine gets right to the essential point: "It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide. Women are missing in their millions--aborted, killed, neglected to death."<br />
In its detailed and extensive investigative report, the magazine opens its article with chilling force. A baby girl is born in China's Shandong province. Chinese writer Xinran Xue, present for the birth, then hears a man's voice respond to the sight of the newborn baby girl. "Useless thing," he cried in disappointment. The witness then heard a plop in the slops pail. "To my absolute horror, I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail. The midwife must have dropped that tiny baby alive into the slops pail!" When she tried to intervene she was restrained by police. An older woman simply explained to her, "Doing a baby girl is not a big thing around here."<br />
The numbers of dead and missing baby girls is astounding. In some Chinese provinces, there are more than 130 baby boys for every 100 baby girls. The culture places a premium value on sons, and girls are considerd an economic drain. A Hindu saying conveys this prejudice: "Raising a daughter is like watering your neighbors garden."<br />
Midwives even charge more for the birth of a baby boy. But the preference for a boy rises with both economic power and the number of children born to a couple. The imbalance of boys to girls is no accident -- it reflects a prejudice that runs throughout the societies where the abortion and killing of baby girls is considered both understandable and routine.<br />
Add to this the widespread availability of ultrasound imaging services. Even though the governments of China and India have officially declared sex-selection abortions to be illegal, they persist by the millions. (And, interestingly, the magazine notes that Sweden actually legalized sex-selection abortions in 2009.)<br />
This sentence from the investigative report is particularly horrifying: "In one hospital in Punjab, in northern India, the only girls born after a round of ultrasound scans had been mistakenly identified as boys, or else had a male twin."<br />
In other words, even as the spread of ultrasound technology has greatly aided the pro-life movement by making the humanity of the unborn baby visible and undeniable, among those determined to give birth only to baby boys, in millions of cases the same technology has meant a death warrant for a baby girl in the womb.<br />
There are multiple factors that lead to the preference for boys over girls. In China, the government's draconian "one child only" policy has led to both forced abortions and an effective death sentence for baby girls when a couple is determined that, if their children are to be so drastically limited, they will insist on having a son. As the magazine explains, "For millions of couples, the answer is: abort the daughter, try for a son."<br />
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<em>In fact the destruction of baby girls is a product of three forces: the ancient preference for sons; a modern desire for smaller families; and ultrasound scanning and other technologies that identify the sex of a fetus. In societies where four or six children were common, a boy would almost certainly come along eventually; son preference did not need to exist at the expense of daughters. But now couples want two children—or, as in China, are allowed only one—they will sacrifice unborn daughters to their pursuit of a son. That is why sex ratios are most distorted in the modern, open parts of China and India. It is also why ratios are more skewed after the first child: parents may accept a daughter first time round but will do anything to ensure their next—and probably last—child is a boy. The boy-girl ratio is above 200 for a third child in some places</em>.<br />
The social consequences of this imbalance are vast and uncorrectable. China and India now face the reality of millions of young men and boys who have absolutely no hope of a wife and family. In China, these young men are called <em>guanggun</em> or "broken branches." Just consider this -- the 30 to 40 million "broken branches" in China are about equal in number to the <em>total</em> number of all boys and young men in the United States.<br />
These young men represent a a looming disaster on the societal level. Young males commit the greatest number of criminal acts and acts of violence. Marriage has been the great taming institution for the social development of young males. Without prospect for marriage and a normal sex and family life, these multiple millions of unmarried young men are becoming a significant social challenge in China and India. Some observers even argue that this may lead to an increased militarism in the region.<br />
Of course, the greatest disaster is personal for the young men and boys who face the future as "broken branches." The parents who insist on having boys are dooming their own sons to lives of brokenness, frustration, and grief.<br />
And the future looks even more ominous for baby girls. Nick Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute points to "the fatal collision between overweening son preference, the use of rapidly spreading prenatal sex-determination technology and declining fertility." As the magazine adds, "Over the next generation, many of the problems associated with sex selection will get worse. The social consequences will become more evident because the boys born in large numbers over the past decade will reach maturity then. Meanwhile, the practice of sex selection itself may spread because fertility rates are continuing to fall and ultrasound scanners reach throughout the developing world."<br />
While imbalances such as now found in China and India are unknown in the West, the practice of sex-selection abortion is found here as well. Indeed, there is no current law against the practice in the United States, where abortion is legal for any reason, at least in earlier stages of pregnancy. In reality, sex selection abortions happen here, too. After all, proponents of abortion in the United States infamously insist on a woman's unrestricted right to an abortion "for any reason, or for no reason."<br />
<em>The Economist</em> is right to call this tragedy gendercide -- the targeting of baby girls for death and destruction simply because of their gender. The magazine deserves appreciation for its no-holds-barred report on this tragedy, and for forcing the issue to be faced. Furthermore, <em>The Economist</em>ends its editorial with the right message, "The world needs to do more to prevent a gendercide that will have the sky crashing down."<br />
Will reports like this awaken the conscience of the world to the unspeakable crime and global tragedy of gendercide? If not, what will it take? The blood of millions of murdered and missing baby girls cries out to the world's conscience. Will we hear?<br />
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"<a href="http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15606229&source=most_commented" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">Gendercide</a>," <em>The Economist</em>, March 6, 2010.<br />
"<a href="http://www.economist.com/" style="color: #003366;" target="_blank">Gendercide -- The Worldwide War on Baby Girls</a>," <em>The Economist</em>, March 6, 2010. The extensive investigative report is available in the magazine's print editions but is available online only to subscribers.<br />
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To see the original article <a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2010/03/11/the-scandal-of-gendercide-war-on-baby-girls/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AlbertMohlersBlog+(Albert+Mohler's+Blog)">click here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-81321915191347431372010-03-09T08:33:00.000-06:002010-03-09T08:33:27.360-06:00Pray for the Christians in Nigeria<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Over 500 Christians were murdered in Muslim machete attacks on Sunday in Nigeria. </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100308/wl_afp/nigeriaunrest"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Click Here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"> to view to full article from Yahoo.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – UN chief <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_0">Ban Ki-moon</span> and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; cursor: pointer;">Nigeria</span>, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Funerals took place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence on Sunday in three <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_2">Christian</span> villages close to the northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">While troops were deployed to the villages to prevent new attacks, security forces detained 95 suspects but faced bitter criticism over how the killers were able to go on the rampage at a time when a curfew was meant to be in force.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Media reported that Muslim residents of the villages in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_3" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer;">Plateau state</span>had been warned by phone text message, two days prior to the attack, so they could make good their escape before the exit points were sealed off.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Survivors said the attackers were able to separate the Fulanis from members of the rival Berom group by chanting 'nagge', the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_4" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer;">Fulani</span> word for cattle. Those who failed to respond in the same language were hacked to death.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">One local paper said the gangs shouted Allah Akhbar (God is Great) before breaking into homes and setting them alight in the early hours of Sunday. Churches were among the buildings that were burned down.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Vatican led a wave of outrage with spokesman <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_5">Federico Lombardi</span>expressing the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_6">Roman Catholic Church</span>'s "sadness" at the "<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_7">horrible acts of violence</span>".</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The UN chief told reporters he was "deeply concerned".</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I appeal to all concerned to exercise maximum restraint," he said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Nigeria's political and religious leaders should work together to address the underlying causes and to achieve a permanent solution to the crisis in Jos."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged "all parties to exercise restraint", but also called on the Nigerian government to "make sure the perpetrators are brought to justice."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The Nigerian government should ensure that the perpetrators of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_8">acts of violence</span> are brought to justice under the rule of law and that human rights are respected as order is restored," the chief US diplomat said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The death toll was initially put at a little over 100 but then shot up. The information ministry said pregnant women were among those killed and around 200 people were being treated in hospital.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We have over 500 killed in three villages and the survivors are busy burying their dead," said state information commissioner Gregory Yenlong.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"People were attacked with axes, daggers and cutlasses -- many of them children, the aged and pregnant women."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Survivors wail as children, women buried in Nigeria</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Much of the violence was centred around the village of Dogo Nahawa, where gangs set fire to straw-thatched mud huts as they went on their rampage.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The explosion of violence is the latest between rival ethnic and religious groups. In January 326 people died in clashes in and around Jos, according to police although rights activists put the overall toll at more than 550.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"The attack is yet another <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_9">jihad</span> and provocation," the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_10">Plateau State</span> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_11">Christian</span> Elders Consulatative Forum (PSCEF) said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">However the archbishop of the capital <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_12">Abuja</span>, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_13" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 102, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer;">John Onaiyekan</span>, told <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_14">Vatican Radio</span> that the violence was rooted not in religion but in social, economic and tribal differences.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"It is a classic conflict between pastoralists and farmers, except that all the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_15">Fulani</span> are Muslims and all the Berom are Christians," he said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fulani are mainly nomadic cattle rearers while Beroms are traditionally farmers.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A curfew imposed after January's unrest is supposed to be still in place but Christian leaders said the authorities did nothing to prevent the bloodshed.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The PSCEF said it took the army two hours to react from the time a distress call was put through and "the attackers had finished their job and left".</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Witnesses said armed gangs had scared people out of their homes by firing into the air but most of the killings were the result of machete attacks.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We were caught unawares ... and as we tried to escape, the Fulani who were already waiting, slaughtered many of us," said Dayop Gyang, of Dogo Nahawa. </div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gbong Gwon Jos, a Muslim resident of Dogo Nahawa, told <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; cursor: pointer;">The Nation</span> daily he received advanced warnings of the attacks.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I got a text message about movement of the people."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rights activists said the slaughter appeared to be revenge for the January attacks in which mainly Muslims were killed.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Locals said that the attacks on Sunday were the result of a feud which had been first ignited by a theft of cattle and then fuelled by deadly reprisals.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1268102933_17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; cursor: pointer;">Acting President Goodluck Jonathan</span> placed security services in Plateau and nearby states on red alert to contain the violence before he sacked his chief security advisor.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-605721093316138202010-03-04T10:17:00.001-06:002010-03-04T10:17:40.657-06:00A Great Hymn of Faith<span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">"The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the hear; the commandments of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes." Psalm 19:8</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
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This is a beautiful and powerful hymn on the nature of God's perfect law, our standing to it, and how Christ alone kept it, and how through faith in Him we have eternal life! May this great hymn of faith be a blessing to you all!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336666;"> The Law of God is good and wise </span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And sets His will before our eyes,</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> Shows us the way of Righteousness,</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And dooms to death when we transgress.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336666;"> Its light of holiness imparts</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> The knowledge of our sinful hearts</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> That we may see our lost estate</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And seek deliverance ere too late.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336666;"> To those who help in Christ have found</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And would in works of love abound</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> it shows what deeds are His delight</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And should be done as good and right.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336666;"> When men the offered help disdain</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And willfully in sin remain,</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> Its terror in their ear resounds </span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And keeps their wickedness in bounds.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336666;"> The law is good; but since the fall</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> Its holiness condemns us all;</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> It dooms us for our sin to die</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And has no power to justify.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336666;"> To Jesus we for refuge flee, </span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> Who from the curse has set us free,</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> And humbly worship at his throne,</span><br />
<span style="color: #336666;"> Saved by His grace through faith a lone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #336666;"> Amen!</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-23750681505746084852010-03-04T09:27:00.000-06:002010-03-04T09:27:02.731-06:00A Gloriously Particular Redemption by Keven DeYoung<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #40464b; font-family: Georgia, 'Trebuchet MS', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignright" height="220" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_lgNarkHA6lY/SwyUWeLZDFI/AAAAAAAANAo/8YUi3t7sPVM/s1600/lucky_HA_Vermischte_254696c.jpg" style="display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="Sheep" width="330" />An excerpt from chapter 15 of<a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0802458408/" style="color: #961402; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">The Good News We Almost Forgot:</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">*****</div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The doctrine of particular redemption is worth talking about because it gets to the heart of the gospel. Should we say “Christ died so that sinners might come to him”? Or, “Christ died for sinners”? There’s a big difference. Did Christ’s work on the cross make it possible for sinners to come to God? Or did Christ’s work on the cross actually reconcile sinners to God? In other words, does the death of Jesus Christ make us save-able or does it make us saved? If the atonement is not particularly and only for the sheep, then either we have universalism–Christ died in everyone’s place and therefore everyone is saved–or we have something less than full substitution. If Jesus died for every person on the planet then we no longer mean that he died in place of sinners, taking upon himself our shame, our sins, and our rebellion so that we have the death of death in the death of Christ. Rather, we mean that when Jesus died he made it <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">possible</em> to come to him if we will do our part and come to him. But this is only half a gospel. Certainly, we need to come to Christ in faith. But faith is not the last work that finally makes us saved. Faith is trusting that Jesus has in fact died in our place and bore the curse for us—effectually, particularly, and perfectly.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reformed people talk of “limited” atonement not because they have an interest in limiting power of the cross, but in order to safeguard the central affirmation of the gospel that Christ is a Redeemer who really redeems. “We are often told that we limit the atonement of Christ,” Spurgeon observed, “because we say that Christ has not made a satisfaction for all men, or all men would be saved.” But, Spurgeon argues, it is the view of the atonement which says no one in particular was saved at the cross that actually limits Christ’s death. “We say Christ so died that he infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ’s death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I belabor this point not to belittle Arminian brothers and sisters, but to give Jesus Christ his full glory. Christ does not come to us merely saying, “I’ve done my part. I laid down my life for everyone because I have saving love for everyone in the whole world. Now, if you would only believe and come to me I can save you.” Instead he says to us, “I was pierced for your transgressions. I was crushed for your iniquities (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/esv/Isa.%2053.5" style="color: #961402; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Isa. 53:5</a>). I have purchased with my blood men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/esv/Rev.%205.9" style="color: #961402; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Rev. 5:9</a>). I myself bore your sins in my body on the tree, so that you might infallibly die to sins and assuredly live for righteousness. For my wounds did not merely make healing available. They healed you (<a class="lbsBibleRef" href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/esv/1%20Peter%202.24" style="color: #961402; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">1 Peter 2:24</a>).”</div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“Amazing love!” a great Arminian once wrote. “How can it be that you, my Lord, should die for me?!” Praise be to our Good Shepherd who didn’t just make our salvation possible, but sustained the anger of God in body and soul, shouldered the curse, and laid down his life for the sheep.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Taken From: <a href="http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2010/03/04/a-gloriously-particular-redemption/comment-page-1/#comment-4138">DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-26074089700764199432010-03-02T09:02:00.001-06:002010-03-02T09:08:59.554-06:00Iron Sharpens Iron Radio Show<div class="ii gt" id=":cv"><div><div><div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Here is a plug for a very interesting Reformed Radio Show hosted out of New York. It is worth listening to.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Listen to this LIVE, call-in radio/Internet broadcast</span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">MONDAY</span></strong><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">, </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">MARCH 1st</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> at</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">OUR NEW TIME: </span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">6-7PM</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> EST</span></span></strong></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">on </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">WNYG-1440AM</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> in New York & Connecticut </span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">or listen </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">WORLDWIDE</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> via </span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">live-streaming at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://www.rcnam.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">www.rcnam.com</span></strong></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Then You Must Click on</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">:</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"Long Island</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">1440AM"</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">when it appears on the screen with 3 other station options</span></span></strong></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(If you tune in or log in early you will hear </span></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Spanish programming before "Iron Sharpens Iron"</span></u></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">)</span></span></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">CALL IN</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span></u></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">WITH YOUR OWN QUESTIONS</span></u></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">at our New Number:</span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(631)482-8300</span></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">(For those who missed the other End Times presentations all last week on "Iron Sharpens Iron" they are now archived on Free, Downloadable MP3 at </span><a href="http://www.sharpens.org/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">www.sharpens.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">)</span></span></div></div><div></div><div><h2><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Monday, March 1, 2010</span></span></span></h2><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5889720422928673448&postID=2607408970076419943" name="12716769b80d6d22_491339219959791041"></a> </span><br />
<h3><a href="http://sharpens.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post_22.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Theonomic Postmillennialism Defended</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> </span></span></h3><div></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Guest: Martin G. Selbrede</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">, Vice President of the Chalcedon Foundation (see </span><a href="http://www.chalcedon.edu/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">www.chalcedon.edu</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">).</span></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">P.S.: The guest originally scheduled for this broadcast, </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Willard Ramsey</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">, author of </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"Zion's Glad Morning"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"> (see </span><a href="http://www.armageddonbooks.com/pmill.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">http://www.armageddonbooks.<wbr></wbr>com/pmill.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">), agreed not to participate in our "End Times Series" after he concluded that his Postmillennial position (unlike that of his replacement, Martin G. Selbrede), is essentially the same as the position already presented by Dr. John Jefferson Davis, author of </span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"</span></strong><a href="http://www.solid-ground-books.com/search.asp?searchtext=John+Jefferson+Davis" target="_blank"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Christ's Victorious Kingdom: Postmillennialism Reconsidered</span></strong></a><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">"</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">, on last Tuesday's broadcast. Pastor Ramsey will be invited back on the program in the near future.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-61819823578303380602010-02-25T08:48:00.000-06:002010-02-25T08:48:50.373-06:00Hymns & Psalms for This Coming Sunday<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Greetings,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here is the list of hymns and psalms we shall be singing during worship this coming Lord's day. If you would like to review them with your family or learn the tunes you can find links to the Trinity Hymnal to the right of this post.</span><br />
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Hymn 2<br />
Psalter 100A<br />
Hymn 367<br />
Hymn 319<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Afternoon Service:</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
Hymn 270<br />
Hymn 285 (1st tune)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hope everyone's week is blessed and we look forward to seeing you this coming Lord's Day.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blessings!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889720422928673448.post-76408234079065863322010-02-24T09:15:00.000-06:002010-02-24T09:15:14.442-06:00A Divine Remedy for Depression ~ Psalm 13This is a very powerful sermon by Pastor Joe Morecraft, III and is a must for all Christians.<br />
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"But no rift appeared in the artist's black sky of sorrow; <i><b>she had not yet learned that, in drawing near the hand that holds the rod, the blow is lightened</b></i>..." ~Augusta Jane Evans in Macaria quoted by Pastor MorecraftUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0