13 April 2016

Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 14:31

This news item was posted in Presbyterians Week category.

“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]

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Free Church of Scotland Moderator Tells U.S. Prosperity Preacher to Stay Home

[2] Textus Receptus Bibles Offers Free Access to Eleven Interlinear Bibles and Parallel Textus Receptus Versions of Each

[3] Calvin Seminary President Decries “Easy Blasphemy” in Politics

[4] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[5] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[6] The Religion of Peace

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[1] Free Church of Scotland Moderator Tells U.S. Prosperity Preacher to Stay Home

A 9 April 2016 The National article by Andrew Learmonth titled “You’re Not Welcome, Free Church Tells American Pastor Creflo Dollar” reports that the Rev. David Robertson, Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland says that the scheduled June 2016 appearance of American pastor Creflo Dollar at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center in Glasgow is “appalling,” and that Dollar’s work is “blasphemous and embarrassing.” Dollar is an American televangelist Prosperity Gospel preacher who in 2015 asked his followers to pay for a US$65 million private jet for himself.

The Free Church moderator said of Dollar’s scheduled visit:

“Creflo Dollar coming here is appalling. He’s a multimillionaire, American, televangelist and we really do not need him here. The church doesn’t need him. It’s embarrassing to have somebody like that come. His prosperity gospel is blasphemous. It’s not what people in Scotland need to hear.

“He’s not welcome. Not with that message. It’s a horrendous message that he brings. It’s not the message of the gospel at all. He can keep his jet and use it to fly elsewhere.”

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

+ Free Church of Scotland, 15 North Bank Street, The Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2LS, 0131-226-5286, Fax: 0131-220-0597, catherine@freechurchofscotland.org.uk

[2] Textus Receptus Bibles Offers Free Access to Eleven Interlinear Bibles and Parallel Textus Receptus Versions of Each

Textus Receptus Bibles offers free access to the following eleven Bibles and a parallel Textus Receptus version of each:

— King James Bible 2016

— King James Bible 1769

— King James Bible 1611

— Darby Bible 1890

— Young’s Literal Translation 1862

— Webster’s Bible 1833

— Bishops Bible 1568

— Geneva Bible 1560

— Coverdale Bible 1535

— Tyndale Bible 1534

— Wycliffe Bible 1382 (Not Textus Receptus based. Included for historic value and comparison.)

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[3] Calvin Seminary President Decries “Easy Blasphemy” in Politics

A 5 April 2016 Michigan Live article by Jim Harger titled “Seminary President Joins Call For End To ‘Easy Blasphemy’ In Politics” reports that Calvin Seminary President Jul Medenblik is a leading signatory of an online petition on the Journal for Preachers website decrying the “easy blasphemy” of today’s political climate.

The petitioners’ “easy blasphemy” by implication includes support of Second Amendment rights, and support of border and immigration security.

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+ Calvin Theological Seminary, 3201 Burton Southeast, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546, 800-388-6034, Fax: 616-957-6101

+ Christian Reformed Church in North America, 2850 Kalamazoo Avenue Southeast, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49560, 616-241-1691, Fax: 616-224-0803 crcna@crcna.org

[4] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

— Stericycle Loses Bid to Stop Campaign Exposing It for Transporting Aborted Babies’ Remains

— John Kasich: I ‘Probably’ Wouldn’t Sign Bill Keeping Men Out of Women’s Restrooms

— Planned Parenthood, ACLU Sue Indiana over Law Banning Abortions of Down Syndrome Babies

— Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Threatens to Veto Bill to Ban Dismemberment Abortions

— More Med Students Are Training to Become Abortionists, Aborting Babies is a “Passionate Belief”

— Colorado Constitutional Amendment Would Allow Euthanasia of Disabled People

— Newly Unveiled Evidence Shows Feds Ordered LaVoy Finicum’s Death