Newsbites 5/18/14
May 18, 2014 at 9:20 pm | Posted in Newslinks | Leave a commentTags: abortion, dragon, Emily Letts, homosexuality, Newsbites, pope, Reverend Gene Robinson, Roman Catholic Church, viking
‘I’m Not Ready to Have Children’: Activist Films Her Own Abortion to Show Women It Can Be a ‘Positive’ Experience
Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor, decided that she would film herself going through an abortion to “show women that there is a such thing as a positive abortion story”. She found out that she was pregnant and decided that she wasn’t ready to have children. The video posted on Youtube mainly focuses on Letts’ face and also includes her thoughts about a month after having the abortion. She says in the video that she is “in awe of the fact that she can make a baby” and that she “can make life”. In an article to Cosmo, Letts gives more reason as to why she did the video: Continue Reading Newsbites 5/18/14…
Sermon Sunday – Charles Spurgeon – A New Creation
January 1, 2012 at 6:30 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, ateasetees, Bible, Charles Spurgeon, Christian, church, compromise, creature, death, evangelism, faith, God, grace, hell, holy, hope, Jesus, judgment, law, love, marriage, mercy, money, murder, new creation, pastor, peace, prayer, repent, salvation, scripture, Sermon Sunday, sin, ten commandments, truth
A New Creation
by
C. H. SPURGEON
1834-1892
“He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new.”–
Revelation 21:5.
Men generally venerate antiquity. It were hard to say which has the stronger power over the human mind–antiquity or novelty. While men will frequently dote upon the old, they are most easily dazzled by the new. Anything new has at least one attraction. Restless spirits consider that the new must be better than the old. Though often disappointed, they are still ready to be caught by the same bait, and, like the Athenians of Mars Hill, spend their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. And as for ourselves, dear friends, mournfully as we sometimes think of the flight of time, we are wont cheerfully to look out upon the new epochs as they begin to dawn upon us. If our calendar suggests some dismal memories in the past, our calculation forestalls some happier prospects in the future. And it will sometimes happen that we leave so much anxiety, adversity, and chastisement behind us, that it is a relief to hope that the tide has turned, and that a course of comfort, prosperity, and mercy lies before us. One weeps over the past and the lost. I suppose the best of men must do so at times. I am sure those of us who are not the best, feel often constrained to pour out some such a lamentation as this:– Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – Charles Spurgeon – A New Creation…
Persecution Fridays – Egypt – Video Sparks Protest
November 4, 2011 at 9:49 am | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, army, ateasetees, beat, Bible, Cairo, Christian, church, compromise, Coptic, death, Egypt, evangelism, extremist, faith, God, gospel, grace, hell, holy, hope, hospital, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, love, marriage, martyr, mercy, money, murder, Muslim, pastor, peace, persecution, prayer, repent, Salafi, salvation, scripture, sin, Sohag, soldier, ten commandments, truth, vehicles, video
For more news on what’s really happening to Christians around the world go to the Voice of the Martyrs website: http://www.persecution.com
Egypt: Video Sparks Protests
A YouTube video of 25 Egyptian soldiers beating Coptic Christian Raef After Faheem prompted a protest by thousands of Coptic Christians on Sunday, Oct. 9.
“[I] would like to let you know that millions of Egyptian Christians will go out to the streets all over Egypt — from all the cities — to demonstrate against the army leaders because of the video,” a VOM contact wrote the day before the protests. “The Muslim group and Salafi movement are threatening the Christians, saying that we do not have any rights in the country. We do not know what could happen tomorrow, but we decided to go out and [use] our voices against persecution.”
The military fired at demonstrators when the protests began Sunday afternoon, and videos posted online show increased violence as military vehicles ran over protestors. According to VOM contacts, the Egyptian military eventually attacked the hospital where injured Christians were being treated and even tried to kill hospital employees. International news agencies report that at least 24 people have been killed, including at least 17 Christians.
The violence began after Muslim extremists attacked a recently rebuilt Christian church in Sohag, near Cairo. The governor of Sohag protected the church’s attackers and said, “If the Muslims did not destroy the church on that day, I would go destroy it myself.” Shocked by the governor’s comment, the Christians held a demonstration at a TV and radio building, and the Egyptian army responded to the demonstrations. A VOM contact said, “They were very [tough] in beating and attacking the Christians instead of restoring their rights. [This] situation is too hard and really unbelievable. We are waiting for the Lord to show mercy on the martyrs’ families. Please keep praying for us, and ask our beloved friends everywhere to pray.”
Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Faith and Assurance
October 23, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, assurance, ateasetees, baby, Bible, blessed, Christian, church, compromise, contrite, council, death, doubt, drink, evangelism, faith, fear, Gallio, God, grace, heart, hell, holy, hope, horses, Jesus, job, joy, Judas, judgment, justified, land, life, love, malice, meat, mercy, minister, money, murder, pardon, pastor, Paul, peace, Peter, prayer, religion, repent, salvation, Satan, saved, scripture, sin, sink, soul, Stephen, ten commandments, truth
FAITH AND ASSURANCE
by
J. C. Ryle
(1816-1900)
If you are a thoughtless, careless man about your soul, you will take no interest in the subject of this sermon. Faith and assurance are mere names and words to you: they are neither land, nor money, nor horses, nor dress, nor meat, nor drink: like Gallio, you care not for them. Alas, poor soul! I mourn over you. The day will come when you will think differently.
Reader, if you really desire to go to heaven, and to go there in the Bible way, you will find the subject of this sermon of the deepest importance. Believe me, your own comfort in religion, and your peace of conscience, depend exceedingly on understanding the matter about which I am going to speak.
I say then, that faith in Christ, and a full assurance of being saved by Christ, are two distinct things. Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Faith and Assurance…
Genesis 18:16-33
October 17, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Bible Study | 1 CommentTags: abortion, Abraham, America, angel, ateasetees, Bible, children, Christian, church, city, compromise, criteria, culture, death, destroy, erase, evangelism, faith, God, Gomorrah, gospel, grace, heir, hell, holy, homosexuality, hope, house, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, lifestyle, Lot, love, marriage, mercy, money, murder, pastor, peace, prayer, repent, righteous, salvation, scripture, sin, Sodom, ten commandments, truth, wicked
Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off. The LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed? “For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.” And the LORD said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave. “I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know.” Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before the LORD. Continue Reading Genesis 18:16-33…
Sermon Sunday – Charles Spurgeon – Job’s Sure Knowledge
October 16, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | Leave a commentTags: abortion, accuser, Advocate, America, ateasetees, avenger, Bible, blood, Boaz, body, bondage, Calvary, certainty, Christian, church, compromise, condition, death, difficult, disease, divine, Eden, evangelism, faith, flesh, glory, God, gospel, grace, grief, hell, holy, Holy Spirit, hope, humble, husband, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jew, job, judgment, just, kinsman, know, knowledge, law, life, love, marriage, mercy, Messiah, money, mourning, murder, New Testament, pain, paradise, passage, pastor, peace, poverty, prayer, prince, rebuke, Redeemer, repent, reputation, sacrifice, salvation, Satan, scripture, seed, serpent, sin, Spirit, sympathy, ten commandments, toil, trial, truth, Vindicator, wife, worms
Job’s Sure Knowledge
September 10th, 1876
by
C. H. SPURGEON
(1834-1892)
“For I know that my Redeemer liveth,”—Job 19:25.
I daresay you know that there are a great many difficulties about the translation of this passage. It is a very complicated piece of Hebrew, partly, I suppose, owing to its great antiquity, being found in what is, probably, one of the oldest Books of the Bible. Besides that, different persons have tried to translate it according to their own varying views. The Jews stiffly fight against the notion of the Messiah and his resurrection being found in this verve, while many Christian commentators see here everything that we can find in the New Testament, and translate the passage as though Job were as well instructed in this matter as we are now that Christ “hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.” Others say that, while there is, no doubt, a reference to the person and the resurrection of Christ, yet it is not so vivid as some seem to think. Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – Charles Spurgeon – Job’s Sure Knowledge…
Persecution Fridays – Iran – Government Takes Child
October 14, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, adopted, America, ateasetees, Bible, child, Christian, church, complaint, compromise, convert, death, emotion, evangelism, faith, God, gospel, government, grace, hell, holy, homosexuality, hope, hostage, intelligence, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, love, marriage, mercy, Mohabat, money, murder, Muslim, pastor, peace, prayer, pressure, prison, repent, salvation, scripture, sin, stress, ten commandments, threat, truth
For more news on what’s really happening to Christians around the world go to the Voice of the Martyrs website: www.persecution.com
Iran: Government Takes Child
Agents of Iran’s intelligence ministry recently took a Christian couple’s adopted child, demanding that the couple file a complaint against other Christians being held in prison, according to Mohabat News. The couple was taken to the hospital because of emotional stress caused by the loss of their child. “This is the first time I have ever seen this tactic — taking a child hostage,” said a VOM contact. “In the past, it is always the parents.”
The Christian couple legally adopted their child after years of waiting, according to Mohabat News. Security officers reportedly took the child as a way to pressure the Christian family and other Christian converts. Mohabat News reports that the security agents threatened the couple, saying, “If you want your child back, you must file a complaint against your fellow Christians in prison.”
Within the past year, Christians have been arrested, falsely charged and imprisoned for extensive periods of time. House and church raids are common occurrences, and the Christian community faces continual threats and pressure. Please pray that this Christian couple will get their child back soon and that they will rely on God during this time of extreme emotional stress.
Design of the Week – Leaves Change
October 12, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Designs of the Week | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, ateasetees, autumn, Bible, change, character, Christian, church, compromise, death, design of the week, eternal, evangelism, faith, Fall, frame, God, gospel, grace, hell, holy, hope, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, leaves, life, love, Malachi, marriage, mercy, money, murder, old, pastor, peace, prayer, repent, salvation, scripture, season, sin, ten commandments, truth
This week’s design is called Leaves Change.
The design shows a photo of fall leaves that fades out from color to black and white to nothing. You’ll also see that the design has an ornate frame and the phrase “I, the Lord, do not change” which is found in Malachi 3:6.
The basis for the design is the idea that everything we know changes. Time continues on and almost nothing stays the same. People get older, days get shorter/longer, and seasons change. In the fall the leaves of deciduous trees all change colors and fall off in preparation for winter. With all of these changes going on, we get used to it. We also take for granted that things change and expect all things to be like that. This can be difficult when we’re facing problems and need something/someone to be consistent.
There are numerous places in the Bible that talk about God’s unchanging character. He always has been and always will be the just, holy, righteous Creator of the universe. He will also always be the forgiving, merciful God that sent His Son to take our place. The fact that God doesn’t change is something that bring solace to all of those who are Christians. Regardless of the trials and tribulations we face, God doesn’t change. He is always there and always will be…
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