25 December 2013
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“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]
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Presbyterians Week Headlines
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[2] Judge Rules Geneva College Does Not Have to Provide Coverage for Contraception
[3] Atlanta, Georgia Inner-City RPCNA Church Plant Sees God’s Providential Blessings
[6] Uzbekistan Presbyterians Ordered to Pay Exorbitant Fines after Arrests for Teaching Children
[7] Houston Grand Jury Won’t Indict Abortionist for Twisting Heads off Babies
[8] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
[10] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
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A core group of saints in Richmond, Virginia with the desire to start a Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) church is meeting every 4th Sunday evening for Psalm-singing.
Anyone in the Richmond area interested in such a work is asked to contact Chris Myers of the Grace & Truth Reformed Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia via the following contact information:
Christopher W. Myers
Post Office Box 2713
Harrisonburg, VA 22801
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+ Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), 7408 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15208, 412-731-1177, Fax: 412-731-8861
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[2] Judge Rules Geneva College Does Not Have to Provide Coverage for Contraception
A 23 December 2013 Pittsburgh Post Gazette article by Rich Lord titled “Judge Rules Geneva College Does Not Have to Provide Coverage for Contraception” reports that U.S. District Judge Joy Flowers Conti ruled 23 December 2013 that Geneva College of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania does not have to provide employees with insurance coverage for contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and other “preventive services” because if the institution has to comply with the Affordable Care Act’s rules’ contraception mandate, it will be compelled to violate its founding tenets.
The judge ruled that if a temporary injunction was not granted, that Geneva College would be “forced to choose between: (a) violating its religious convictions by acquiescing to a government requirement that it facilitate access to abortion-inducing drugs and devices; and (b) violating its religious convictions by cancelling all health care coverage for its employees.”
In June 2013, the judge granted a preliminary injunction so that Geneva College isn’t forced to provide contraception coverage to its students.
As the injunctions are preliminary, the case will continue in the same court, and the court’s eventual decision will likely be appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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+ Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 34 Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15222, 412-263-1100
+ Geneva College, 3200 College Avenue, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania 15010, 724-846-5100, Fax: 724.847.6696, pr@geneva.edu
+ Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), 7408 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15208, 412-731-1177, Fax: 412-731-8861
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[3] Atlanta, Georgia Inner-City RPCNA Church Plant Sees God’s Providential Blessings
Penny Smith, wife of Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) pastor the Rev. Frank J. Smith, Ph.D., D.D., wrote a 21 December 2013 article in The Atlanta Fund: Christian Ministry in Downtown Atlanta blog titled “Changing Venues – Again!”, which reported that the Atlanta Presbyterian Fellowship recently received an unexpected notice that the rental fee for the church where the fellowship met was to be raised by 150 percent.
Please read the blog article to see how God abundantly provided for the fellowship and again demonstrated the promise of Romans 8:28 –
http://theatlantafund.com/2013/12/21/changing-venues-again/
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+ Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), 7408 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania15208, 412-731-1177, Fax: 412-731-8861
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The Covenanter International Holiday Conference 2014 is scheduled for 19-26 July 2014 at the Gartmore House in Gartmore, Scotland. The conference includes Gospel teaching, opportunities for fellowship with fellow conference attendees, and organized activities for children. Opening the Word of God at the morning gatherings will be the Rev. Kenneth Stewart, pastor of the Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church in the west end of Glasgow, Scotland.
For further information, please access:
Combined with the Covenanter International Holiday Conference 2014 is the 2014 Premium Scotland Covenanter Holiday Tour scheduled 12-26 July 2014, which includes pre-conference tours of Glasgow, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and numerous other venues of Covenanter and Scottish history. For more information, please access:
http://www.covenantertour.org/index.html
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+ Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland, 98 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 6AG, Northern Ireland, 44-1232-660-689, Fax: 44-1232-823-794, info@rpc.org
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A 20 December 2013 The Courier article titled “Services to Mark 25th Anniversary of Lockerbie Bombing” reports that the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Lorna Hood, took part in the 21 December 2013 memorial service at Westminster Abbey for the 25th anniversary of the Muslim terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in which 243 passengers, sixteen crew and eleven on the ground were murdered.
Ms. Hood commented:
“It is difficult to believe that twenty-five years have passed since that awful night when so many innocent lives were lost and a town in Scotland would be forever associated with one of the worst terrorist attacks in recent history.
“I remember so clearly the devastation of the town and the grief and sorrow of relatives who journeyed across the Atlantic to see the spot where their loved ones died.
“For weeks after, rescue workers, police, members of the forces and civilians worked tirelessly to recover as much evidence as possible from the wreckage and, to this day, live with difficult memories of that time.
“I know that for many there are unanswered questions and a continuing search for truth, but this is a time to remember the 270 innocent lives cut short and the families here in Scotland and the U.S.A. living with that loss.
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+ Church of Scotland, 121 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4YN, Scotland, 0131-225-5722
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[6] Uzbekistan Presbyterians Ordered to Pay Exorbitant Fines after Arrests for Teaching Children
Forum 18 News Service reported 18 December 2013 that in September or October 2013, two Presbyterian women, Rovza and Marina Sultanova, and six others were arrested for teaching children in a private home. The two women were each fined ninety times the minimum monthly wage, with the other six given lower fines. The police also confiscated Christian materials, which a judge ordered be destroyed.
The average monthly wage in Uzbekistan is approx. equivalent to US$45.
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+ Forum 18 News Service, Postboks 6603, Rodeløkka, N-0502 Oslo, Norway, f18news@editor.forum18.org
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[7] Houston Grand Jury Won’t Indict Abortionist for Twisting Heads off Babies
A Houston grand jury has refused to indict late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen after a months-long investigation into allegations of illegal late-term abortions and the killing of babies born alive at his two abortion clinics.
“The refusal to indict Karpen is a gross miscarriage of justice. The grand jury has essentially freed Karpen to continue to violate Texas laws and take the lives of late-term babies that the law was meant to protect,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “It’s upsetting to know that the kind of brutality shown in the photos taken at his clinic will be allowed continue.”
Operation Rescue alleged that Karpen was murdering babies in in a similar way as convicted Pennsylvania abortion Kermit Gosnell, who was found guilty of three counts of First Degree murder for intentionally killing babies born alive during late-term abortions.
The allegations against Karpen were based on information acquired from four former Karpen employees and on photographs of dead late-term babies taken by some of the workers on their cell phones. The grisly photos showed very large aborted babies that were nearly decapitated.
The informants also told Operation Rescue that Karpen routinely did abortions beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks, which seemed to be supported by the photographs.
“It’s simply unbelievable that a grand jury would not find that Karpen broke the law, just based on the photographic evidence alone,” said Newman. “There’s no way any reasonable person could look at the images of those abortion victims and say that nothing was done wrong. The babies’ throats were cut from ear to ear. That isn’t something that can be done inside the womb.”
Newman continued, “We are not giving up on the Karpen matter. We will continue to seek ways through the legal system to bring him to justice. This isn’t the last anyone will hear of this.”
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+ Operation Rescue, Post Office Box 782888, Wichita, Kansas 67278, 800-705-1175, Fax: 916-244-2636, info@operationrescue.org
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[8] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
— Girl Dies on Dublin, Ireland Sidewalk after Pharmacist Refuses to Give EpiPen without Prescription
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— Garden City, New York Policeman Threatens Ticket for Homeowner Washing Car in Driveway
— Los Angeles Police Department Officers Suspended Who Fired Twenty-Two Shots, Killing Unarmed Driver
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[10] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
— Georgetown Professor: Loving Jesus ‘Interestingly Homoerotic’
— Citing “Same-Sex Marriage,” Federal Judge Overturns Polygamy Ban
— Outrage as U.S. Army Bans Word ‘Christmas’: ‘Treats Pornography Better than It Does Christmas’
— Pope Francis: “All Religions are True”
— New York State Gun Owners Bracing for Governor Cuomo’s Confiscation Scheme
— Saxo Bank’s Jakobsen: Europe Moving toward Totalitarianism
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Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
— Obama, Clinton Charged by Egypt in Muslim Brotherhood Conspiracy
— U.S. Embassy in Kabul Attacked on Christmas Day
— Christmas Day Bombings Target Christians in Iraq, Thirty-Eight Killed
— Terrorists Released Because of John Kerry Unleash Mayhem upon Israel
— Pakistani Muslim Group Threatens Deadly Jihad Attacks on New York and Washington DC
— Jihad in the Congo: Muslim Terrorists Rape and Mutilate Twenty-One in the Congo
— Al Qaeda Apologizes For Blowing Up Yemen Hospital: “We Are Preachers of Sharia and Not Frauds”
— Thailand Rocked by Jihad Bomb Attacks, Injuring over Two Dozen People
— California: McDonald’s to Pay US$50,000 to Muslim Employee in Beard Discrimination Lawsuit
— Harvard University Describes a Quran Verse as One of the Greatest Expressions of Justice
— Syria: Islamic Jihadists Murder Twelve People by Firing Mortar Shells at Church
— Libya: Jihad/Martyrdom Suicide Bomber Murders Thirteen People at Army Checkpoint outside Benghazi
— Central African Republic: Muslims Murder Nearly 1000 Christians over Two-Day Period
— U.K.: Marks & Spencer Tells Muslim Staff They Can Refuse to Serve Customers Buying Alcohol or Pork
— Report: Up to 11,000 Muslim Fighters from Seventy Nations Are in Syria
— U.S. Imam: Muslims Can Take the Property of Christians and Jews
— Amnesty International Admits Links to Activist Accused of Funding Al Qaeda
— Qur’an-Approved: Saudi Pedophiles Buy Syrian Refugee Girls for Sex, Some as Young as Thirteen
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