The World Behind Me Cross Before Me
Yesterday I made a hard decision. If you know me, you know I can easily get snared up in the appealing online communities our world has put before us. I decided, as I was convicted by a preacher whom God has used to re-awaken me to the cross of Christ, clinging to it, binding my hands and feet to it, to get rid of my facebook, youtube, and forum accounts. They so easily trap me in a vicious cycle of having to check them daily if not hours on end. In addition, the imagery on those sites would cause my mind to wander. It’s so decieving, it’s so cunning. I had to get away from them.
Some of you may or may not know, but I’ve been praying about going to Alabama for a season as I’ve felt prompted by God to leave the things of the world for a time and pour myself out in another country (as Heartcry Missionary Society, in Alabama, has a missions program). I feel as though I am wandering in the wilderness not knowing what to do. I think I will take up George Mueller’s example and pray, have faith, and believe that God is in control.
The world behind me, the cross before me.
The world behind me, the cross before me.
The world behind me, the cross before me.
no. turning. back. no. turning. back.
Add comment March 10, 2009
The California Constitution Requires That Proposition 8 Stands
UC Berkeley Department of Public Science Chairman Emeritus Eugene C. Lee: ‘Specific changes to the California constitution may be proposed by amendment. Substantial changes may be proposed by a constitutional convention or by the legislature as constitutional revisions.’
SACRAMENTO, California, November 17 | With their vote under attack by liberal county governments, homosexual activists and the ACLU, many Californians are wondering whether they’ve lost the right to amend the constitution. The answer is no, according to the constitution itself and the legislative and legal history regarding the difference between an “amendment” and a “revision.”
”An amendment is when the voters make changes to one or more of the provisions of the constitution,” said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, a leading California pro-family organization. “In contrast, a revision is when the legislature and the voters both agree to make numerous, sophisticated changes to the entire constitution. If the constitution were a house, a revision would be an extensive remodel where you knock down all the inside walls and repaint everything; an amendment would be a minor change, like replacing a lamp or a chair in the family room.”
Proposition 8, approved by the voters, added Article 1, Section 7.5 to the California Constitution, reading, “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
The City of San Francisco alleges Prop. 8 was a constitutional revision requiring two-thirds legislative approval. Yet in July, the California Supreme Court refused to hear these same arguments when the City of San Francisco urged the court to strip Prop. 8 from the ballot. “This summer, the Supreme Court unanimously refused to hear the claim that Proposition 8 was a revision,” said Thomasson, who is seeking to intervene in the Prop. 8 lawsuits on behalf of the voters. “The Court disagreed that Prop. 8 is ‘a substantial alteration of the entire constitution.’”
”The Supreme Court knows the difference between a single-subject, voter-initiated amendment and a multi-issue, legislature-initiated, whole-scale revision that alters many sections of the state constitution,” said Thomasson.
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Contact: Agency Contact, 877-405-4005, Campaign for Children and Families
CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (CCF) is a leading West Coast nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing children and families. CCF stands for marriage and family, parental rights, the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, financial freedom, and back-to-basics education.
Add comment November 17, 2008
Infanticide Continues
HIALEAH, FL, Nov. 10 | In the wake of her long-anticipated funeral, inflammatory comments by President-elect Barack Obama have renewed calls for charges to be filed in the death of Baby Shanice Denise Osbourne, who was born alive after a failed abortion at a Hialeah, Florida, abortion clinic, shoved into a plastic bag, and tossed on the roof of the abortion building to die in July, 2006.
Rev. O’Neal Dozier, of the World Wide Christian Center where Baby Shanice’s funeral took place last month, used the opportunity to expose Obama for opposing legislation in Illinois that would have provided protection for babies like Shanice.
In startling response to the media, an Obama spokesperson accused Rev. Dozier of engaging in “the most disgusting and manipulative kind of hate politics around.”
“In trying to defend the indefensible, all Obama and his henchmen can do is demonize those who are telling the truth about his voting record,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “No smear tactic can erase the fact that Obama clearly voted to deny protections for babies like Shanice. In spite of opposition from Obama, there are clear laws protecting live babies from being murdered in cold blood.”
The Obama camp’s inflammatory remarks only served to call attention to the lack of enforcement of laws that are designed to protect babies who die during failed abortions, and have renewed demands for prosecutors to end the delay in charging unlicensed abortion worker Belkis Gonzalez with Baby Shanice’s murder.
It was Gonzalez, according to a clinic worker who secretly reported the incident to the police, who cut the baby’s umbilical cord and, while the little girl was still moving as gasping for air, swept her into a biohazard bag filled with chemicals, and tossed her on the roof of the abortion clinic in order to conceal her body from discovery. Police later recovered Baby Shanice’s body and an autopsy proved that Shanice’s lungs had breathed air.
After over two years of prosecutorial stalling, Operation Rescue is renewing its demand that authorities arrest and charge Gonzalez.
“In the interest of justice, we need an immediate arrest and prosecution of those responsible for this innocent baby’s murder,” said Newman. “We urge the public to contact the local prosecutor and demand that this case to move forward.”
Contact:
Prosecutor David Waksman
(305) 547-0430
1 comment November 17, 2008
Live Birth Abortion
This is a very sad time for America. I can’t believe we can support such horrific murders as these.
Add comment November 17, 2008
Religious Leaders and the Protect Marriage Coalition Leadership Unite Against Vicious Attacks by Prop 8 Opponents
Contact: Protect Marriage, 949-461-9700
SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 14 | Today, leaders representing the broad coalition of Californians who supported Proposition 8 called on leaders of the No on Proposition 8 campaign, in addition to Senator Diane Feinstein and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, to denounce the attacks against citizens who supported the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
“Amidst all this lawlessness, harassment, trampling of civil rights and now domestic terrorism, one thing stands out: the deafening silence of our elected officials. Not a single elected leader has spoken out against what is happening. Where is Governor Arnold Schwarzenengger while churches are being attacked? And where is Senator Dianne Feinstein while people are losing their jobs and grandmothers are being bullied by an angry mob?” said Campaign Co-Manager Frank Schubert.
The statement was made at the first press conference of the Protect Marriage coalition since election night when Proposition 8 was passed by California voters with 52.5% of the vote. In the past ten days, hostility has increased against people whose only offense was to exercise their right to participate in the political process.
Some of the outrageous activities include:
• In Sacramento, a musical theater director was forced to resign after he was blacklisted for contributing $1000 to the initiative;
• A Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles has been boycotted after a relative of the owner donated to the coalition;
• Numerous churches have had their property defaced;
• And an unknown white powder was mailed to several LDS temples and the National Headquarters of the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic organization that supported the campaign.
The leadership of the ProtectMarriage.com coalition, a group of interfaith religious leaders, community leaders from a wide range of ethnic groups, and approximately 500 supporters of Yes on Proposition 8 gathered in Santa Ana to voice their opposition to the increasing attacks and harassment against supporters of traditional marriage.
Speaking on behalf of the African American community, Pastor Ed Smith of the Zoe Christian Fellowship of Whittier said: “Marriage is important to members of all faiths and all communities, but an election was held, the outcome was fair and people throughout California should honor it.”
“For 14 months, we have been called bigots and hatemongers and we have not retaliated against these unprecedented attacks,” Pastor Jim Garlow said. “But we will not be silenced.”
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Add comment November 17, 2008
Exposing the True Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance in Today’s Culture
DALLAS, November 17 | The last few decades have produced some dramatic changes in the national discourse about all things sexual. With elementary school children being introduced to “family diversity” curriculum, reports of promiscuity in homes for the aged, the raging debate over gay marriage, and the mainstreaming of pornography through advertising and entertainment, there seems to be virtually no part of the culture that is not dealing with sexuality in one way or another—and often with significant controversy. In this age of moral relativism, the politically correct opinion states that what happens between consenting adults is nobody’s business but theirs.
What do the mainstreaming of pornography, the homosexual agenda, and the philosophy of sexual liberation have in common? Implicit in each is an attack on the institution of heterosexual marriage. According to Dr. Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, when the traditional plan for marriage is attacked, an entire civilization may pay the price. Dr. Mohler’s latest book, Desire and Deceit: The Real Cost of the New Sexual Tolerance, examines many of today’s most controversial and troubling issues concerning sexuality.
“Today, we face a cultural crisis that actually threatens to reverse civilization and to embrace barbarism,” Dr. Mohler states. “Civilization is based upon order, respect, habit, custom, and institution—all of which are rejected outright by the age of moral relativism and the lack of sexual restraint. Can civilization survive under these circumstances? I would have to argue that it cannot. There is no example in the history of humankind of a civilization enduring for long under these conditions.”
A major portion of the book is devoted to exposing and analyzing the tactics used by the homosexual movement which have taken homosexuality from “the love that dare not speak its name” to the center of America’s public life in only a few short decades. Tracing the current movement back to its roots, Dr. Mohler brings to light the well crafted and stunningly successful public relations efforts that have repackaged the homosexual image and sought to revise the church’s teaching on homosexuality. Dr. Mohler handily demonstrates the logical fallacies of these revisionist attempts, while bringing the crucial issue to the fore.
Add comment November 17, 2008
Day of ‘intolerance’ Planned for California
This is the time that Christians must not lose heart and must not fear man. We are the salt, the light and are to bring the gospel to the nations making a visible difference from the way this world operates. Despite anything that may happen tomorrow here, God is still God and we are still His people in which we must still show the truth of God’s word with all boldness as Stephen the Martyr yet preach that truth with love and humility knowing that these people are like we were, sinners, lost, and in need of a Savior.
Activist homosexual leaders are planning a day of protest this Saturday over losing the traditional marriage battles in three states.
The homosexual movement for special rights has become louder, and in some cases violent, in the aftermath of losses at the ballot box in Florida, Arizona, and California. Florida Family Association notes the increased intensity in rhetoric from the self-proclaimed “champions of tolerance” and diversity. The National Day of Protest’s logo is a clenched fighting fist and features phrases such as “Fight the H8″ (Fight the Hate) and “Ready to Rumble.”
Add comment November 14, 2008
Disallowing homosexual marriage is forcing our moral views on homosexuals?
First off, I am not ragging on homosexuals, just making an observation.
One argument made by the pro-homosexuals (and in fact many secular humanists on various sundry issues) is that we [especially Christians] should not force our morality on others. That argument obviously presupposes there is such a thing as neutrality when it comes to moral issues, when there isn’t. Absolute neutrality by the state would logically lead to anarchy, since the state is not supposed to intervene in any moral dispute (including punishing anyone for any crime since that presupposes some form of morality) for by doing so it would cease to be neutral. With regards to the issue of homosexual “marriage”, the key question is this: If disallowing homosexuality is the equivalent of “forcing” Christian morality on the homosexuals, then isn’t allowing homosexual marriage “forcing” immorality on non-homosexuals?
Add comment November 13, 2008
Angry No on 8 Supporters
When I first saw this, it was another jaw-dropping moment. It’s in these moments that I have to calm myself and reassure my heat that God is in control and that nothing I do or say or no matter how frustrated I get, that reality will never change. Christians, despite what is witnessed in this video are still called to be an example. I believe this little old lady shows just that. She was loving, she had a cross only to have it ripped from her hand and stomped on by angry protesters.
Add comment November 12, 2008
