24 December 2014
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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
[1] PCA Chicago Metro Presbytery to Welcome Five Formerly RCA Churches into Presbytery
[2] ARP Church Calls for Prayer for the People of Peshawar, Pakistan
[3] A Letter from the Erskine College and Theological Seminary Board Chairman
[4] “What Is Truth?” by Gordon H. Clark Published in the Latest Trinity Review
[5] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
[6] Headlines from The Christian Institute
[8] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
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[1] PCA Chicago Metro Presbytery to Welcome Five Formerly RCA Churches into Presbytery
Five Reformed Church in America (RCA) churches have voted to leave the RCA and join the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). The PCA’s Chicago Metro Presbytery (CMP) has met with, examined, and approved the pastors and elders of these churches during 2014.
On 15 October 2014, the churches were officially approved by the CMP to join the PCA. On 1 February 2015 at 3:00 p.m., the pastors and elders will be installed at a celebration event at First Reformed Church in Lansing, Illinois.
All are welcome to come celebrate these five churches meeting together and joining the PCA.
The five churches are:
Crete Church | Rev. David Smith
24755 South Country Lane
Crete, Illinois 60417
Office: 708-672-5400
Grace Reformed Church | Without Pastor
2740 Indiana Avenue
Lansing, Illinois 60438
Office: 708-474-0180
leroychildress@gracechurchlansing.org
First Reformed | Rev. Ben Kappers
3134 Ridge Road
Lansing, Illinois 60438
Office: 708-474-9610
Peace Community Church | Rev. Kurt Kruger
21300 South LaGrange Road
Frankfort, Illinois 60423
Office: 815-469-2868
kurtkruger@peaceinfrankfort.org
www.peaceinfrankfort.org
Missio Dei | Rev. Paul Vroom
123 West Wood Street
New Lenox, Illinois 60451
Office: 815-717-8006
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+ Presbyterian Church in America, 1700 North Brown Road, Suite 105, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 678-825-1000, Fax: 678-825-1001, ac@pcanet.org
+ Chicago Metro Presbytery, 943 Sanctuary Lane, Naperville, Illinois 60540, chicagometropres@gmail.com
+ Reformed Church in America, 4500 60th Street Southeast, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49512, 800-968-6065, questions@rca.org
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[2] ARP Church Calls for Prayer for the People of Peshawar, Pakistan
From the 18 December 2014 ARP News Update:
All are grieved at the massacre of schoolchildren and staff in Peshawar, Pakistan. We are extremely thankful to God that our schools in and around Sahiwal are not directly affected. But all in Pakistan, and around the world, are suffering from this tragic and devastating act of violence. Some schools will be temporarily closed for security, while observing a nationwide 3-day period of mourning. Let us continue to pray for God’s grace and mercy to prevail even in this tragedy.
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+ Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1 Cleveland Street Suite 110, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601, 864-232-8297, Fax: 864-271-3729
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[3] A Letter from the Erskine College and Theological Seminary Board Chairman
December 17, 2014
Dear Erskine Family:
The Erskine Board of Trustees held a special meeting on Tuesday, December 16th to hear a report from Dr. Kooistra and get an update on the progress of the financial stability plan.
We as trustees understand this plan to ensure Erskine’s long-term financial stability has a significant impact on the campus community, and we continue to lift them up in prayer. We would further like to express our appreciation and gratitude to those who continue to serve Erskine sacrificially, especially the faculty and staff.
The Board recognizes the cuts and changes that have been made are painful. Yet amid the challenges in Dr. Kooistra’s report, we heard several things that cause us to celebrate God’s blessings on Erskine:
— Erskine continues to be accredited and to pursue its mission.
— Erskine was cleared by its accreditors on all 19 recommendations from 2012 dealing with institutional efficiencies in the college (one item remains pending for the seminary).
— The accreditors were complimentary and optimistic about the plans Dr. Kooistra has set in motion to keep Erskine on solid financial ground.
— The four students most directly affected by the department closure will be able to complete their majors over the next two years.
— Erskine has more than twice the number of annual donors thus far compared to last year.
— Contributions to the annual fund to date are nearly double that of last year, putting us on a good trajectory toward our goal of $1.6 million.
— Enrollment numbers for 2015-16 are on pace with the past two near-record years to welcome more than 220 new students.
— Retention of current students remains steady.
The Board commends Dr. Kooistra and his team in the college and seminary. These are challenging days and difficult decisions. We remain committed to Dr. Kooistra and stand in solidarity with him. We appreciate his heart in all of these matters and his faith and trust in God. The Board also appreciates the faculty in both the college and the seminary for their support of Dr. Kooistra and his plan.
Finally, the trustees wish to express thanks to the students, faculty, staff, families, alumni, and the ARP Church for your support of Erskine. May God bless you all this Holy Season and may Immanuel be the hope within your heart.
In His Grip,
Bill S. Cain
Chair, Erskine Board of Trustees
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+ Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 1 Cleveland Street Suite 110, Greenville, South Carolina, 29601, 864-232-8297, Fax: 864-271-3729
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[4] “What Is Truth?” by Gordon H. Clark Published in the Latest Trinity Review
The newest Trinity Review has been posted. “What Is Truth?” by Gordon H. Clark was first published in 1980 in the Fall 1980 issue of Presbuterion, the journal of Covenant Theological Seminary, and later published with other essays in the 1987 and subsequent editions of God’s Hammer:
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+ The Trinity Foundation, Post Office Box 68, Unicoi, Tennessee 37692, 423-743-0199, Fax: 423-743-2005, tjtrinityfound@aol.com
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[5] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
— U.S. Food and Drug Administration Intends to Allow Sodomites to Donate Blood
— Proposed Rule Would Allow Secret Abortion Surcharge in Obamacare
— U.K. Supreme Court Rules Health Care Workers Must Refer for Abortion
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+ LifeNews.com, Post Office Box 270841, Fort Collins, Colorado 80527, news@lifenews.com
+ LifeSiteNews.com, Incorporated, 4 Family Life Lane, Front Royal, Virginia 22630, 888-678-6008, Contact Page
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[6] Headlines from The Christian Institute
Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:
— Sex Ed in Scotland: ‘Parents Sidelined in Favour of Named Persons’
— U.K. Rules for Three and Four-Parent Babies Released
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+ The Christian Institute, Wilberforce House, 4 Park Road, Gosforth Business Park, Newcastle upon Tyne NE12 8DG, England, 44-0-191-281-5664, Fax: 44-0-191-281-4272, info@christian.org.uk
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“You can truly grieve for every officer who’s been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.” Jon Stewart
— Two Cops Killed in Las Vegas, Nevada ‘Ambush’; Three Others Dead
— ‘War on Cops,’ Effort to ‘Nationalize’ Local Police Underway
— Northern Ohio Black Street Gang ‘Heartless Felons’ Issues Order to Murder All White Cops
— After Killing of Two Officers, NYPD Union Declares Itself a “Wartime” Police Department
— Al Sharpton’s Anti-Police Race Rioting Protesters Shut Down New York City
— New Yorkers Explode in Anger at Race Baiters Sharpton, De Blasio and Obama for Cops Deaths
— Buffalo, New York Cop Stops Fellow Cop from Choking a Handcuffed Man, She Was Then Beaten and Fired
— California Highway Patrol Describes Itself as a “Paramilitary Organization”
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[8] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
— India Hindu Leaders Turn Up ‘Reconversion’ Rhetoric
— EPA Hits Coal Industry with a Massive Regulation Right before Christmas
— Chrislam’s Rick Warren Partnering with Mosques to Teach That God and Allah Are the Same
— Gun Control Cultist Calls for Children to Steal Parents’ Firearms, Bring Them to Schools
— Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder Declares Being Transgendered to Be a ‘Civil Right’
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+ The Daily Caller, 1050 17th Street Northwest # 900, Washington DC 20036, 202-466-3004, media@dailycaller.com
+ Patriot Outdoor News, Contact Page
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Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
— The New Holocaust Has Started and the Doors of Europe and United States Are Closing
— Wife Beating Rules for Muslims
— Boko Haram Releases Video of Mass Execution of Non-Muslims in Nigeria
— Yazidi Girls Killing Themselves to Escape Rape and Imprisonment By Militants
— NYPD Cop Killer Worked for Hamas-Linked Islamic Society of North America
— Nigeria: Islamic Jihadists Bomb Bus Station, Murder at Least Twenty People
— Pakistan: Eleven Christians, Including a Pastor, Accused of Blasphemy
— U.S. Government Offers US$5 Million Bounty for Islamic Terrorist It Released
— Walmart Selling Islamic Crescent Moon and Star Ornament for Tops of Christmas Trees
— Obama May Have Just Given ISIS the Capability to Manufacture Nuclear Arms
— Child Sex Slaves Resort to Killing Each Other to Escape Horrors of ISIS
— Islamic State Is Turning Churches into Torture Chambers in Iraq and Syria
— Obama Has Blood of School Children Massacred by Pakistan Taliban on His Hands
— Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights Claims ISIS Executes Scores of Women for Refusing to Marry Militants
— Islamic State Is Reportedly Executing Its Own Foreign Volunteers Who Just Want to Go Home
— Nigeria: Islamic Jihadists Take Elderly People to Schools, Open Fire, Murder Fifty
— Obama Releases Four More Jihadis from Guantanamo, Returns Them to Afghanistan
— Yemen: Islamic Jihadists Murder Fifteen Children in Car Bomb Attacks
— Military Spokesman on Taliban Pakistani School Massacre: “Their Sole Purpose Was to Kill Those Kids”
— Boko Haram Muslims in Nigeria Massacre Thirty-Three People and Kidnap 200 Men, Women and Children
— U.N.: More Reports of Children Crucified, Beheaded and Stoned to Death by IS
— Pakistan: Jihadis Burn Teacher Alive In Front Of Students, Behead Children
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