24 April 2013
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Presbyterians Week Headlines
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[1] Christians – Boycott Boy Scouts of America – Because Romans 1 Says Boy Scouts Hate God
[4] Calvin Theological Seminary Launches New Digital Research Center for Reformation Studies
[5] New Online Degree Program Opportunities from Reformed Theological Seminary
[6] U.S. Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conference Scheduled 28-30 May 2013 in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
[7] Even More News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
[8] Headlines from Christian Concern
[9] Headlines from The Christian Institute
[10] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
[11] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
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[1] Christians – Boycott Boy Scouts of America – Because Romans 1 Says Boy Scouts Hate God
“What if someone wouldn’t go to Heaven because of homosexual sin? Would you care? The Boy Scouts are considering a vote to turn against God [that] shows they no longer care for the souls of young men or [that they] fear God. Christians must boycott the Boy Scouts (1 Corinthians 6:9-10),” says Pastor Steven Andrew, president of USA Christian Ministries.
“There are Christian alternatives to the Boy Scouts, such as the Royal Rangers. To a parent your son’s soul is more important than anything else,” he continues. “Do you want your son to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and go to Heaven?”
“How can they talk about letting sin in the camp, when the Boy Scouts oath promises duty to God? They are hypocritical and confuse young men. Leviticus 22:18 says, ‘You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination,’” explains the pastor.
“The Boy Scouts disobeying God results from Barack Obama’s sinful homosexual priorities. God says those who oppose Him are ‘haters of God’ in Romans 1:30. He says to turn away from such people in 2 Timothy 3:5,” he continued.
The Boy Scouts and Barack Obama also overlook homosexual health concerns. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports that one in five homosexuals have HIV, with many unaware they are sick. A study found that the average homosexual dies at 42 years of age and has a higher depression rate, Cameron reports.
The pastor says, “Americans are to follow the Lord, obeying the Holy Bible with all our hearts and souls. Jesus taught the most Christ-like and compassionate response to sinners. Jesus said, ‘Repent, and believe the Gospel.’”
“Obama and the Boy Scouts can follow Satan if they want to. However, Christians are to make disciples of Americans. Are you on the Lord’s side?” he asks.
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+ USA Christian Ministries, 2059 Camden Avenue #280, San Jose, California 95124, Contact Page
+ Boy Scouts of America, 1325 West Walnut Hill Lane, Irving, Texas 75015, 972- 580-2219, Fax: 972-580-7823, cfrench@netbsa.org
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LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual) advocates in the United Church of Christ (UCC) have expressed their displeasure with the soon-to-be-voted-upon proposal by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to allow homosexual boys to become Boy Scouts, but not to allow homosexual men to be Boy Scout leaders.
The 2003 UCC General Synod officially called for the end of the BSA’s ban on homosexual scouts and leaders begun in 1978 and reaffirmed several times since then.
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Benjamin D. Curell, 27, a deacon at Clearnote Church in Bloomington, Indiana, was arrested 11 April 2013 after attacking the property of the Planned Parenthood abortuary in Bloomington with an ax and with red paint.
Bloomington Police Captain Joe Qualters said:
“[Curell] made statements indicating the facility was targeted due to abortions being performed there. He stated his intent was to damage the building because they ‘kill’ and ‘murder’ babies. He attributed his actions to his religious beliefs. Extensive damage had been done to the building and office equipment with the ax. There was also red paint that had been splashed onto the building. Curell was taken into custody without incident.”
On 12 April 2013, the pastors and elders of Clearnote Church issued the following statement:
“Yesterday morning the pastors and elders of Clearnote Church learned that Ben Curell, a deacon of the church, had been arrested for vandalizing Planned Parenthood. No one in the church knew about his plans. We are convinced Ben’s actions were not justifiable civil disobedience. The elders and pastors have met with Ben and admonished him.
“Throughout history faithful Christians have confessed that from conception children bear the image of God. Therefore, we at Clearnote Church have encouraged and will continue to encourage Christians to peacefully and lawfully witness against the great evil of abortion.
“We have counseled Ben to repent and submit to the civil authority that God has placed over us for our good. This authority reflects and points to the judgment of God before Whom we all one day must give an account.”
The Clearnote Church website describes the church as Reformed and Evangelical, specifically proclaiming the Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation.
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+ Clearnote Church, 2401 South Endwright Road, Bloomington, Indiana 47403, (812) 825-2684, churchoffice@shepherdchurch.com
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[4] Calvin Theological Seminary Launches New Digital Research Center for Reformation Studies
Scholars and students have a new research center devoted to developing digital tools, resources, and scholarship focused on the religious reformations of the early modern era, particularly arising out of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research of Calvin Theological Seminary is a natural fit for the seminary community, seminary president Julius Medenblik said. “We’re pleased to see the ongoing efforts of faculty, students, and alumni of the seminary develop into a formal home for projects with exciting possibilities for coming to a better understanding the multi-faceted legacy of the Reformation,” he said.
The institute is conceived as a forum to promote research into the Reformation and post-Reformation periods, covering the 16th to the 18th centuries, through the use of digital tools, skills, and resources. The Junius Institute will house the Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL), an electronic database covering thousands of authors and primary source documents on the development of theology and philosophy in these centuries. With the click of a few buttons, researchers can now download digital files with source material from hundreds of years ago. Before recent large-scale digitization efforts, like those undertaken by Google and many European libraries, access to these kinds of sources had been difficult, costly, or even impossible. In some cases sources were simply lost or unknown.
The PRDL began as a collaborative project to gather a list of digital sources by doctoral students in historical theology in 2008. “It quickly became apparent that there was a great need for a tool to collect and organize the wide array of digital sources available from digitization projects all over the world,” said Todd M. Rester, director of the Junius Institute. A year later the first version of the PRDL website was launched in partnership with the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin College and Seminary. After launching an expanded and upgraded website in 2011 the group behind the PRDL began to focus on realizing a stable institutional environment for creating and catalyzing similar projects.
“We are investigating ways of applying what we’ve learned and gathered in the process of producing the PRDL to create different ways of disseminating and displaying research,” said David S. Sytsma, who serves as research curator of the Junius Institute. He emphasized the need to continue to expand and develop tools like the PRDL as well as to seek out new projects, including digitization of sources, pursuing collaborative partnerships with libraries and research centers, implementing crowdsourcing strategies, and using mapping and GPS technologies to illustrate the dynamic networks of communication and exchange in the early modern period.
“The PRDL began as a labor of love by a group of like-minded researchers,” Rester said, “but we soon found that the scale of the project and the possibilities for other tools demanded some significant investment of time and resources.” The Junius Institute provides a framework for keeping a project like the PRDL up-to-date as well as for connecting the seminary community more closely with broader scholarly trends. Richard A. Muller, the P.J. Zondervan professor of historical theology at CTS, explains: “Academic research has been revolutionized by the recent progress of digital tools and methods. We see this in a variety of fields, from science and medicine to art and literature. The Junius Institute and projects like PRDL represent the latest developments in the realms of intellectual history and the theology of the early modern period.”
For more information:
Jordan J. Ballor
Associate Director
Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research of Calvin Theological Seminary
jordan.ballor@juniusinstitute.org
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[5] New Online Degree Program Opportunities from Reformed Theological Seminary
Until recently, Reformed Theological Seminary (RTS) offered one online degree, the Master of Arts (Religion). Now RTS will offer three, fully online-degrees: the Master of Arts (Biblical Studies), the Master of Arts (Theological Studies), and the Master of Arts (Religion). In addition, RTS will now offer a significant percentage of the Master of Divinity degree online. M.Div. students can now take up to sixty-seven percent of their courses via distance education.
RTS is committed to residential theological education. However, as our world continues to grow and change, RTS is also committed to providing alternative educational models. These more flexible options allow students with work and travel restrictions to experience Reformed graduate theological education. These changes will take place on June 1, 2013.
RTS is responding to the needs of non-residential students worldwide by making some significant changes to its Virtual campus and its operations. The Virtual campus will now become two groups — RTS Global Education (US and International) and RTS Distance Education department. Dr. Andy Peterson, current president of RTS Virtual, will now head up RTS Global which will offer the MABS, MATS, and MAR degree programs to non-residential students. RTS Global President Andy Peterson (pictured above) said, “We pray that these new theological degrees and the increased use of distance learning and local mentoring will be important for the advancement of the global Kingdom. And we are looking for new strategic relationships with churches and Christian schools around the world.”
The new RTS Distance Education department will be headed by Executive Director David John, who has been director of media for RTS Virtual. The Distance Education department will serve both residential and non-residential students taking online courses as part of their degree program.
More information will be forthcoming about these exciting changes.
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[6] U.S. Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conference Scheduled 28-30 May 2013 in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
The 2013 U.S. Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conference is scheduled for 28-30 May 2013 at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. The conference theme is “The Gospel: What It Is and Why It Matters”. Speakers include Ian Hamilton, pastor of Cambridge Presbyterian Church in Cambridge, England; William (Liam) Goligher, Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Paul Wolfe, Associate Pastor of New Hope Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Fairfax, Virginia.
Online registration is available at www.banneroftruth.org.
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[7] Even More News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
— Gosnell Attorney: Baby Moving 20 Minutes after Neck Snipped “Wasn’t Alive”
— Judge Drops Nine Charges (Three Murder Charges) against Kermit Gosnell
— Dropped Gosnell Charge Includes Twenty-Eight-Week Old “Baby Boy B” Found in Freezer
— Dropped Gosnell Charge Was of Newborn Tossed in Shoe Box, Still Breathing
— Staffer Said Baby in Dropped Gosnell Charge Was “Beheaded”
— U.S. President Obama’s Position on Infants Born Alive Mirrors Kermit Gosnell’s
— Obama to Attend Planned Parenthood Gala as Kermit Gosnell on Trial
— Patient Charts at Gosnell Abortion Clinic Were Covered in Blood
— Planned Parenthood Hosts Sold-Out Fundraiser near Gosnell Trial
— Kermit Gosnell Showed No Remorse after Killing Woman in Abortion
— Family of Dead Gosnell Patient Tearfully Testify: Repairman Tells of Drains Clogged with Body Parts
— Witness: In Gosnell’s ‘Filthy’ Abortion Clinic, ‘The Floor Had Dried Up Blood’
— Kermit Gosnell Reused Blades from Abortions, Causing Women Sexually Transmitted Diseases
— Gosnell Employee: I Saw Ten Babies Breathe Before They Were Killed
— Gosnell Trial Witness: Baby Abortion Survivor Was ‘Swimming’ in Toilet ‘Trying to Get Out’
— Gosnell Put Right Foot of Twenty-Two-Week-Old Baby in One Jar, Left Foot in Another
— Toilet in Gosnell Abortion Clinic Needed to Be Lifted to ‘Get the Fetuses Out of the Pipes’
— Botched Abortion Victim: Gosnell “Left an Arm and Leg inside Me”
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[8] Headlines from Christian Concern
Headlines of the past week from Christian Concern:
— U.K. Members of Parliament Urge Government to Track Gender of Aborted Babies
— Paralysed Man Continues Push for “Right to Die”
— New Zealand Parliament Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill
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[9] Headlines from The Christian Institute
Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:
— On-Line Magazine “spiked” Commentator Says People Are Being Forced to Agree with Gay Marriage
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[10] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
Articles from the past week from LifesiteNews.com:
— Boy Scouts of America Propose Motion to Allow Gay Scouts, Maintain Adult Ban
— Former Head of Pro-Abortion Group Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Sex with Twelve-Year-Old
— New Zealand Becomes 13th Country to Legalize Gay ‘Marriage’
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[11] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
— Shocking Footage: Americans in Boston Ordered out Of Homes at Gunpoint by SWAT teams
— Obama Administration Allows Company to Use Aborted Baby Cells for Research
— Jackson, Mississippi Police Won’t Say Why Pastor Arrested for Preaching in Front of Abortion Clinic
— U.S. President Obama’s Plan for a Socialist One Party State
— Duke University Approves Gender Confirmation Surgery Insurance Coverage for Students
— Looters Steal Jackets from Boston Marathon as Victims Lay Injured
— Off Duty DeKalb County Georgia Policeman Pulls Gun on Slowpoke Teen in McDonald’s Drive-Thru
— Kazakhstan: ‘He Needs Local State Permission to Preach’
— U.S. Federal Judge Claims Animal Snuff Films Protected By 1st Amendment
— U.S. Department of Homeland Security Admits They Could Have Cut Costs without Releasing Felons
— “Anti-Bullying” Workshop Directs Red Hook, New York Middle-School Girls to Request Lesbian Kiss
— A Registered Church Is Raided in Kazakhstan, Says Forum 18
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Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
— Iran Planned Boston Bombings for Two Years
— Iran Panics over Boston Bombing Link to Tehran
— U.S. Congressman: Thwarted Terror Plot Targeted Train from Canada to U.S.
— Boston Bomber Could Have Been Deported after 2009 Arrest
— New York Governor Cuomo Says Boston Bombing Part of ‘New Normal’
— Boston Bombers Followers of Iran’s Ayatollah
— Boston Jihad Bombers Were about to Plant MORE Devices to Slaughter Hundreds More
— FBI Detains Two Associates of Boston Jihadi in New Bedford, Massachusetts
— Islamic Rage: Why America Has Earned It
— Obama Has Flooded America with Muslim Immigrants
— Saudi Report: Michelle Obama Visited Boston Bombing ‘Person of Interest’
— City of Boston Gave ‘Subsidy’ to Jihad Bombing Suspects’ Radical Mosque
— Massachusetts Governor Sowed Seeds of Islamic Terrorism in Boston Years Ago
— Morbid Torture of Pastor Saeed Intensifies
— Syrian Opposition to Establish Moderate Form of Islamic Law
— Daughter of Former Iranian President Said Two Christian Women Were in Prison with Her
— Saudi National First Questioned in Boston Bombing Being Deported on “National Security Grounds”
— Victims of U.S. Torture Respond to the New Terror-Detainee Report
— Saudi Arabia’s Clans of Terror
— An Islamic Declaration of War on Christianity
— Syrian President Assad Warns West about Terror Blowback as U.S. Sends More Troops to Jordan
— Islamist Ultimatum to Syrian Christians: Convert, Leave, or Die
— Christians in Syria Believe They Will Die
— Thirty-Five Women Netted by Shariah Police in Indonesia for Straddling Motorcycles
— Pregnant Woman in Jordon Has Throat Slit, Stomach Cut Open in Horrific Sharia Honor Killing
— Syria’s Christian Minority Lives in Fear of Kidnapping and Street Battles
— Palestinians in Gaza Celebrate Boston Marathon Attack
— Muslims Find a Welcoming Home in Famously Catholic Ireland
— Islamic Terror? “Pay No Attention to the Ideology behind the Curtain”
— Busted: Chicago Muslim Man Planned to Join Syrian Jihad
— Islamists Destroy Dozens of World War II Headstones in Bengazi, Libya
— U.S. Teenager Accused of Seeking to Join Al Qaeda-linked Syrian Group
— Egyptian Police Accused of Siding with Cathedral Attackers
— Saudi Students in U.S. up More Than 500 Percent since Sept. 11, 2001
— The Now Free Saudi ‘Person of Interest’ Has Six Saudi ‘Terrorists’ in Family, Five More Are in Gitmo
— Afghan Girls’ School Feared Hit by Poison Gas
— Pregnant Mother in Tanzania Forced Out of Home for Putting Faith in Christ
— Hizbollah ‘at War with the Syrian People’
— Assyrian Church in Aleppo, Syria Issues Statement on Kidnapped Bishop
— Islam’s Collective Punishment of Christians
— Islamist Extremists Want to Drive All Christians Out of Violence-Plagued Iraq
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