2 January 2013
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Presbyterians Week Headlines
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[2] Bulletin: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to Filibuster for Prayer as We Approach the Fiscal Cliff
[4] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
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A glance at the websites of America’s largest churches reveal no mention of ending abortion or listing abortion with other social justice and pressing human rights issues.
Issues like; providing clean water, human trafficking, fighting poverty, urban ministry, affordable housing and mentoring are mentioned, but working to end abortion is never addressed.
With 55,000,000 innocent lives lost and the lives of women diminished and bruised through abortion, it is shameful and disturbing that the most influential evangelical churches in America are not publicly addressing the greatest human rights and social justice issue of our time.
The failure of America’s mega churches to prophetically confront the violence of abortion in a public way does not bode well for ending abortion in our nation.
Reformed Presbyterian minister and Director of the Christian Defense Coalition the Rev. Patrick Mahoney states:
“Over the past thirty-six years of ordained ministry, I have worked tirelessly on issues of human rights and social justice. Whether that has been; establishing emergency shelters for the homeless along with food pantries and soup kitchens, racial reconciliation, affordable housing, shipping medical supplies to emerging nations, establishing medical clinics for impoverished people and establishing homes for women dealing with domestic violence.
“However, without question, the greatest issue of social justice and human rights facing our nation today is that of ending the horror of abortion.
“Therefore, it is extremely troubling and disturbing that America’s mega churches are not publicly and prophetically confronting the violence of abortion, its diminishing of women and the tragic loss of 55,000,000 innocent children from our communities.
“It is inexcusable and shameful to exclude ending abortion from other social justice and human rights issues such as providing clean drinking water, fighting poverty, homelessness and human trafficking.
“Sadly, the silence of America’s largest churches on the issue of abortion will add years to the struggle toward providing a society which treats every person with dignity and respect and bringing an end to the violence of abortion.
“My hope and prayer is that as our nation marks the 40th Memorial of Roe v. Wade, America’s mega churches will embrace the heart of Christ for justice and human rights and speak up with passion and purpose about ending this senseless violence against our children.
“Simply stated, living with integrity and purpose and standing against violence and injustice is far more important that large buildings, programs and attendance.”
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[2] Bulletin: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to Filibuster for Prayer as We Approach the Fiscal Cliff
By Michael Anthony Milton, Ph.D., Chancellor/CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary
Oh if only there were a Jimmy Stewart, a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” congressman who would interrupt the “Fiscal Cliff” negotiations and cry out with the passion of an unadulterated patriotism. The cynics called it political naïveté; but the Washington power-brokers could not kill the dreams of a young Senator. He could not be bought.
What would happen if a Mr. Smith came to Washington today?
[Enter the Senate; read the following words as if you were in the balcony; read the words of a Mr. Smith if he came back, read with your mind’s eye seeing a young Jimmy Stewart, and your mind’s ear listening to his Western Pennsylvania, down-home accent and stuttering passion articulating the power of nobility robed in simplicity]
“Mr. President I, I, …I want to speak. No, I, …well, I,…I have to speak! I’m not much of one either. But I got one question, one question: have we forgotten how we got here? I mean have we forgotten that these blessings we have enjoyed come from, well, from God? Yes from God. God gave them to us. Well, Sir, I move we ‘stand down’ for prayer; maybe, just read from the Psalm appointed for this Sunday after Christmas: [flips through Bible nervously, points at the passage with his index finger of one hand as he holds the floppy, black, old Bible with the other]; just hold on, wait a minute, I’ll find it…here it is:
‘Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.’—Psalm 20:7.’
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Did you hear that? Now where is our trust? I think we give the answer on our money and now we need that trust more than ever, FOR our money. Now if we pause to pray and humble ourselves before God, throw ourselves face-down on these hallowed floors, I’m sure the Lord is bound to hear us. ‘Lord knows that would be a sight to see! But it’s time to see it! Okay—I hear your snickering. Go ‘head. Well, I’m not as naive as some of you back-room-deal-cutting-art-of-compromise-lifelong politicians think I am. I know your games! Well, this is not a game, ladies and gentlemen. No Sir-ee! This is our country. Good, honest folks have sent us here to do the business of the People. And we’ve come to this—what do they call it?—a ‘Fiscal Cliff?’ Well America has been to the precipice of such cliffs before! This is not the first time we’ve been pinned against the wall. Remember Jamestown? Remember Valley Forge? Remember the dark days when brother fought against brother and we saw no way out? Remember Pearl Harbor? Remember when the world cowered under a Soviet evil that we were told was inevitable? Well Ronald Reagan didn’t buy it. They laughed at him and his view of America. Maybe you’re laughing at me. I just happen to believe that there is a way through this for the good. In fact, I think it is defining! This is about whether we will seek wisdom from outside these halls and seek the throne of …God. Yes, there I said it again! Yes, God! Remember Him? Do you think that maybe our Pilgrim forefathers turned to Him? Or Rangers on D-Day? Do you think Mr. Lincoln prayed over the anguish of sending boys to fight other American boys? They were all living on the cliffs of their day! And they all acknowledged that they didn’t have all the answers. But they had one Answer. And look at what He gave us, and will give again, when we just admit that we have come to the end of our rope. Folks, all we have to do is cry out, ‘Lord, we’ve left you out of this. And we sure have messed things up. But would you have mercy on us Lord? Now more than ever, we need you.’
So, how ’bout it fellas? I’m not leaving this floor until we recess and pray. I call upon the President to do the same… I ain’t leaving here ’till we pray! I just ain’t leaving!”
[Mr. Smith collapses. Blogs send the news around the world in seconds. A YouTube video of Mr. Smith goes viral. Pressure mounts. Congress and the President set aside a day of prayer. A breakthrough comes. A budget is passed. The fiscal cliff becomes a mountaintop of prayer. Other agencies, desperate to deal with the challenges in diplomacy, military, and education, each call for days of prayer. Families are inspired by such leadership. A nation bows on a day ordered by the President to be a day of fasting and prayer. Churches are filled. Revival breaks out—the likes of which have not been seen since the First Great Awakening]
[Cut to reality]
This is a dream, you say. Okay. I admit it. it is. Yet that is how our nation came to be. In the darkest hour, a light breaks through. Winthrops’s shining city on a hill. Reagan’s “City on a Hill.”
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Majority Leader: We tried the rest. Let’s stop for one day and seek God.
Okay. Now, who will play the part of Mr. Smith?
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Michael Anthony Milton (Ph.D., University of Wales) serves as the chancellor/CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary (one of the largest accredited seminaries in the country), a U.S. Army chaplain and the James M. Baird Jr. chair of pastoral theology at RTS/Charlotte. He is an author, songwriter, singer, ordained minister, former pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., and he previously served as the president of RTS/Charlotte. Dr. Milton also hosts a national Bible teaching television program, Faith for Living, broadcast on the NRB Television Network, and a radio program broadcast on several stations in the southeast. For 16 years he served in the business world and has also served as a top-secret Navy linguist.
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On 1 January 2013, Hobby Lobby, a family-owned Christian business, began defying the Obama Administration mandate that employer-provided health insurance include coverage for abortifacient and birth control drugs, thus risking fines of US$1.3 million per day. The following articles from the past week provide further information about this Christian company and their hearkening unto what is right in the site of God:
— Obama Administration: We Can and Will Force Christians to Act against Their Faith
— Attorney for Hobby Lobby Says Corporation Will Not Offer Abortifacient Morning-After Pill
— Hobby Lobby to Defy Obamacare Mandate
— Hobby Lobby: Go Ahead and Fine Us, We Won’t Comply with ‘Morning-After’ Mandate
— Hobby Lobby Will Defy Obama HHS Mandate, Risk Millions in Fines
— Is Hobby Lobby’s Stand Really “Civil Disobedience”?
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[4] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
— Infanticide: 40 Years of Child Murder on the Altar of Sanger
— The Nazi Roots of U.S. Gun-Control Laws
— In Defense of the Second Amendment
— Free Condoms for Students at Twenty-Two Philadelphia, Pennsylvania High Schools
— Indefinite Military Detention of U.S. Citizens to Be Signed into Law by Obama
— Obama Signs Off On Five More Years of Warrantless Wiretapping
— Obama Walks U.S. towards Socialism/Communism
— San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy Pepper Sprays, Detains Man with Down Syndrome
— Report: US$91 Million Spent on Secret NSA Tests Probing Domestic Computer Systems
— Austrian Professor Says Global Warming “Deniers” Should Be Executed
— Census in Nepal Reportedly Labels 2.3 Million Christians as Hindus
— Push for New Pro-Abortion Law in Ireland Built on a Lie
— A Festive Mood in Maine as Same-Sex Marriage Becomes Legal
— Sentimentalizing Serial Murder
— Obama’s Deadly Plan for the Death Tax
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Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
— Obama Commits Treason by Arming Egypt’s Anti-American Dictatorship
— Iran: Pastor Nadarkhani Jailed Again
— 2012: Boko Haram’s Bloodiest Year
— Muslim Extremist Groups Continue to Grow Violent toward Christians in Indonesia
— Gunmen Kill at Least Six Christians in Yobe, Nigeria
— Is Texas’ CSCOPE Curriculum Pro-Islam and Anti-Christian?
— Twelve Christians Killed in Christmas Bloodshed in Nigeria
— Hamas and Hezbollah Freed Morsi from Egyptian Prison and Slaughtered Protestors during Revolution
— ‘Violence against Women Law’ Is Not Islamic Says Afghani Hajj Deputy Minister
— Norwegian Parents Outraged at Islamization of Christmas
— Muslims in Germany Attack Indian Student, Cut Off His Tongue for Refusing to Convert to Islam
— Islamists’ Harsh Justice Is on the Rise in North Mali
— Plight of Syrian Christians Intensifies
— The Sharia Threat to America
— Syrian Jihadist Group Threatens United States
— Extremism on the Rise in Zanzibar
— Minorities, Particularly Christians, Are ‘Deliberately Sidelined in Pakistan’
— Sudan Arrests Coptic Priests for Baptizing Woman Who Left Islam
— Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to Charge Sharia Opponents with Treason
— British Man Detained for ‘Trying to Join [Muslim] Terror Group in Africa’
— Muslims in Libya Bomb Church, Murder Two
— Syrian Jihadists Behead Christian and Feed Him to the Dogs as Fears Grow over Islamist Atrocities
— New Egyptian Constitution Betrays Coptic Christians
— Fifty Christians Temporarily Arrested in Christmas Raid
— Popular and Ailing Pastor Imprisoned in Iran
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