25 March 2015

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Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Reformed Presbyterian Minister and Operation Rescue President to Lead a Sit-in Demonstration to Protest Delay in U.S. House of Representatives Promised Vote on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act at Speaker Boehner’s Office in Washington DC

[2] PCUSA Church Ordains First Married Lesbian Couple as Ministers, Days after Denomination’s Marriage Definition Change Amendment Approved

[3] Presbyterian Church in America and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, in response to PCUSA Marriage Definition Change, Reaffirm Commitment to Biblical Marriage

[4] Church of Scotland Holds Conference to Promote Gaelic Language

[5] Crown and Covenant Posts on Website for Reading or Download Four of J. G. Vos’s Westminster Theological Journal Articles

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Reformed Presbyterian Minister and Christian Defense Coalition Chairman Pat Mahoney and Operation Rescue President Troy Newman on Wednesday 25 March 2015 at 11:00 a.m. EST will lead a sit-in protest at U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner’s Capitol Hill office to protest the delay in a promised vote on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. This legislation would ban horrific late-term abortions in every state after twenty weeks of gestation.

Last week, Mahoney, pro-life speaker , blogger and former Registered Nurse Jill Stanek, and Newman sent a letter to Speaker Boehner expressing disappointment that a promised a vote on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act did not take place on 22 January 2015 as previously planned. Assurances were given that the legislation would be slightly revised and a vote rescheduled “immediately.”

Now, two months later, there is still no scheduled vote on this landmark law that will protect women from traumatic late-term abortions and save the lives of thousands of babies each year from a barbaric and painful death.

Stanek noted her reasons for risking arrest to force this late-term abortion ban to a speedy vote; “My entry into the pro-life movement was prompted by the fact I held a twenty-one-week abortion survivor until he died. He would have been saved by this twenty-week ban. I have determined now is a fitting time to leverage my experience – to refocus attention on the baby and to continue to memorialize his senseless death the best I know how.”

Pat Mahoney states, “We are coming to Speaker Boehner’s office to be a voice for the innocent children who die every day in America from the violence of abortion and call upon him to schedule a vote on banning ALL abortions after twenty weeks. As we pray and peacefully risk arrest, we are saying that Republican leadership should cease all business in the House until this legislation has been passed.”

Troy Newman agrees. “With the vast majority of Americans in opposition to late-term abortions, it is the duty of Congress to act immediately to protect these innocent human beings from a tortuous and grisly death. It is time to relegate all abortions to the ash heap of history along with other forms of human rights abuses such as slavery and human sacrifice. Banning late-term abortions performed on babies that can feel pain is a good place to start. It is a barbaric, outdated practice that has no place in civilized society.”

+ Christian Defense Coalition, Post Office Box 77168, Washington DC 20013, 202-547-1735, ChristianDefense@gmail.com

+ Operation Rescue, Post Office Box 782888, Wichita, Kansas 67278, 800-705-1175, Fax: 916-244-2636, info@operationrescue.org

+ U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC 20515, 202- 224-3121, Contact Page

[2] PCUSA Church Ordains First Married Lesbian Couple as Ministers, Five Days after Denomination’s Marriage Definition Change Amendment Approved

A 22 March 2015 The Christian Post article by Anugrah Kumar titled “PCUSA Church Ordains First Married Lesbian Couple as Ministers, Days after Denomination’s Marriage Amendment” reports that just five days after a majority of Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) presbyteries voted to change the PCUSA Constitution’s definition of marriage to include homosexual marriage, Kaci Clark-Porter and Holly, a lesbian couple who “married” three years ago, on 22 March 2015 became the first homosexual couple to be jointly ordained as ministers for respectively the First and Central Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Big Gay Church which operates at First and Central.

While in seminary in their twenties, the women “came out” and divorced their husbands.

+ The Christian Post, National Press Building, 529 14th Street Northwest, Suite 420, Washington DC 20045, 202-347-7734, info@christianpost.com

+ Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, 888-728-7228, Fax: 502-569-8005

[3] Presbyterian Church in America and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, in response to PCUSA Marriage Definition Change, Reaffirm Commitment to Biblical Marriage

In response to the 17 May 2015 ratification by a majority of Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) presbyteries to a redefinition of marriage that allows homosexual weddings, both the Presbyterian Church in America and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church reaffirmed their commitment to biblical marriage.

+ Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 100 Witherspoon Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, 888-728-7228, Fax: 502-569-8005

+ Presbyterian Church in America, 1700 North Brown Road, Suite 105, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 678-825-1000, Fax: 678-825-1001, ac@pcanet.org

+ Evangelical Presbyterian Church, 17197 North Laurel Park Drive Suite 567, Livonia, Michigan 48152, 734-742-2020, Fax: 734-742-2033, webmaster@epc.org

[4] Church of Scotland Holds Conference to Promote Gaelic Language

A 21 March 2015 The Herald article titled “Church of Scotland Holds Conference to Promote Gaelic Language” reports that the Church of Scotland recently held a conference at St. Georges Tron Church in Glasgow to discuss how the Kirk can do more to promote the Gaelic language. Presentations focused on such topics as developments in Gaelic broadcasting, worship, and resources.

The Kirk’s future moderator the Rev Dr. Angus Morrison (who will be installed in May 2015) stated:

“We believe the time is now opportune to encourage new initiatives in promoting the use of Gaelic both in the context of traditional worship services and in imaginative ways that take account of the developing needs of the Gaelic-speaking, and Gaelic-learning, community in Scotland.”

+ The Herald, 200 Renfield Street, Glasgow, Scotland G2 3QB, 0141- 302-7000, Fax: 0141-302-7117, On-lineEditor@theherald.co.uk

+ Church of Scotland, 121 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4YN, Scotland, 0131-225-5722

[5] Crown & Covenant Posts on Website for Reading or Download Four of J. G. Vos’s Westminster Theological Journal Articles

— Christian Missions and the Civil Magistrate in the Far East

http://bluebanner.org/assets/pdfs/CHRISTIAN_MISSIONS_AND_THE_CIVIL_MAGISTRATE_IN_THE_FAR_EAST.pdf.zip

— The Ethical Problem of the Imprecatory Psalms

http://bluebanner.org/assets/pdfs/THE_ETHICAL_PROBLEM_OF_THE_IMPRECATORY_PSALMS.pdf.zip

— The Social and Economic Responsibility of the Visible Church

http://bluebanner.org/assets/pdfs/THE_SOCIAL_AND_ECONOMIC_RESPONSIBILITY_OF_THE_VISIBLE_CHURCH.pdf.zip

— The Visible Church: Its Nature Unity and Witness

http://bluebanner.org/assets/pdfs/THE_VISIBLE_CHURCH_ITS_NATURE_UNITY_AND_WITNESS.pdf.zip

Additionally, two other articles by J. G. Vos are available for reading or download: