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Editor Note Welcome to the 11th Issue of Christian Times Magazine, Christian Times Magazine Issue 11 designed especially for people who really like News and Political Magazine and consider picking up a News & Political magazine. This is for readers who want to up-to-date with political, Religious and Entertainment News. While as a nation We aim to cut through the confusion and give you clear, sensible and reliable information and News from writers and experts that you can trust. We want it to be entertaining and informative, at times contrary, but above all useful. Inside you’ll find a mixture of news, features and Monthly regular columns/articles on a wide range of Politics and Religion related topics. Issue 11 is specially dedicate to the heroes of the Hurricane Harvey and the people of the texas. I hope you enjoy this Issue 11 | October 2017 and do let us know if there are any article you’d like to see covered in the future.
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CONTENTS pg. 16
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HEROES OF THE HURRICANE HARVEY: AMERICA UNITED IN THE FACE OF HURRICANE HARVEY
IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
By Charles Lingerfelt
By Weston Martinez
pg. 18
pg. 29
TRUMP'S BIG UN SPEECH HAS THE WORLD WATCHING
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS?
pg. 19
pg. 31
FACE IT:THE TRUMP BOOM IS HERE
ARTICLES OF RELIGION OR CONFESSIONS OF FAITH
By Christopher Grahn Howard
By David Clarke
pg. 21 TRUMP CABINET MEMBERS PRAYING, STUDYING THE BIBLE TOGETHER
pg. 33 WHAT LESSONS CAN THE CONSERVATIVES LEARN FROM THIS YEAR’S UK GENERAL ELECTION? By Matthew Snape
pg. 22
pg. 36
PARSONS GREEN ATTACK: LONDON ON TERRORISTS HIT LIST
THE COORDINATED LOSS OF OUR IDENTITY
CTM Report
By Scott Cahill
pg. 25
pg. 37
FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN GERMANY AND A NEW RELATIONSHIP TO USA
THE LOSS OF HUMANITY IN AMERICA
By Claudia Zimmermann
By Raven Youngblood
CONTENTS pg. 38
pg. 43
TO BE A CHRISTIAN NOT BECRIME
ARMY RISING LAUNCHES THE FIRST MISSION TRIP !
By Patrick Sarooj
By Kelly Trayes
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pg. 44
ORIGINS OF HOMOSEXUALITY EXPOSED
THE AHAB GENERATION
By Chris Rose
By JOSHUA D. JONES
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pg. 45
DAVID AND DONALD
CTM READERS REVIEW
REVEREND SUZANNE HOWARD
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CARTOON OF THE MONTH
CARTOON OF THE MONTH By Raven Youngblood Christian Times Magazine
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HEROES OF HURRICANE HARVEY aMERICA UNITEd IN THE FACE OF HURRICANE HARVEY By Charles Lingerfelt
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A recurer moves Pauline Tamrino , 92 , from a boat to truck bed as people evacute from rising waters from Tropical Storm Hurricane Harvey Aug 29, 2017 in Houston. MICHAEL CIAGLO, Houston Chronical via AP
Houston Police SWAT officer Darly Hudeck carries catherine pham and her 13 months old son Aiden after rescuing them from their home surrounding by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey on Aug 27, 2017 in Houston. DAVID J PHILIP AP
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Wilford Martinez, right rescued from his flooded car by Harris County Sheriff's Department Richard Wagner in Houston, Aug 27, 2017. DAVID J PHILIP AP
Residents begin to return their homes in North Houston as floodwaters began to recede following Hurricane Harvey on Aug 30 - 2017 WIN McNAMEE, GETTY IMAGES
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A woman is evacuted on a canoe as people escape flood waters in Lakesside Estate in Houston, Aug 30 - 2017. THOMAS B. SHEA, AFP / GETTY IMAGES
A rescue worker carries an evacuee to dry land after she was rescued from the flooding in Port Authour, TX, JOE RAEDLY, GETTY IMAGES
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Michael Boyed passes his son Skylar over to rescue worker as they are evacuted on an airboat from their appartment complex after it was innudated with water following Hurricane Harvey on Aug 30 - 2017 in Houston. SCOTT OLSON, GETTY IMAGES
Volunteers rescuer workers help a woman from her home that was inundated with flooding of Hurricane Harvey on Aug 30 2017 in Port Arthur, TX . JOE RAEDLY, GETTY IMAGES
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First responders and Volunteers help to evacuate the Gulf Health Care Center, a nursing home in Port Arthur, TX NICK OZA, THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC, VIA USA TODAY NETWORK
Quintin Sanders is carried to dry land by volunteer rescuers after his neighborhood was inundated with flooding of Hurricane Harvey on Aug 30 - 2017 in Beaumont, TX JOE RAEDLY, GETTY IMAGES
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HEROES OF THE HURRICANE HARVEY
heroes of hurricane harvey america united in the face of hurricane harvey By Claudia Zimmermann
By Charles Lingerfelt
Republican Activist, CTM Senior Columnist & Representative in Texas accident in Houston, which paralyzed him from the waist down. He told me that his “relationship with Jesus Christ” was the real motivation for him. I mentioned to him that I had become a follower of Jesus at age 14 when I had received Jesus as savior and Lord. Mr. Abbott was able to point to a specific point in his lifetime where he had received The Lord, and so I knew from within that he was a sincere and devout follower of Jesus without any doubt. I assured him that when he ran for political office, he would surely “have my vote.” Prior to this, Greg Abbott had been a practicing Attorney in Houston for a number of years. He has an established record and is well-known among many people throughout America. Greg Abbott is a man of Integrity and honesty. He is one of the most beloved leaders in the Republican Party of Texas; and he has accomplished much within the framework of our party. He is known, loved and deeply respected throughout Texasat-large – even by those who are not Republicans! Independents and many Democrats have a disciplined love and appreciation for Greg Abbott.
I met Greg Abbott more than 17 years ago at one of our Republican Texas State conventions. It was either in Austin, or San Antonio where we met. I had read of him and heard of him, but never had met him personally. I went up to him at the Convention hotel and introduced myself to him, reaching forth to shake his hand. We exchanged obligatory remarks and kindnesses and I was quite pleased to make the acquaintance of him. He impressed me highly with his warm personality and kind, friendly conversation. He has a remarkable smile and a genuinely affectionate attitude. In my opinion, anyone who meets Greg Abbott will certainly enjoy the friendship of a sincerely great American. I wanted to know more about ‘the Real Greg Abbott,’ so I asked him some questions. I asked him what his motivation was since his
He lost his ability to walk when a large oak tree fell upon him fracturing vertebrae in his spinal cord, leaving him paralyzed forever. At 26 years of age he felt that his future, one that he had “dreamed of,” was gone. He soon learned that our lives are “defined” by how we respond to our challenges. He responded in a positive fashion and overcame his paralytic challenges to become the “longestserving Attorney General” in the state of Texas. While serving as our Attorney General here in Texas, he waged battles against an intrusive federal government which has become “unhinged” from the Constitution. He has led “battles” defending religious liberty, the Second Amendment and the Tenth Amendment. He successfully appeared before the U S Supreme Court to defend the Ten Commandments Monument located on our Texas Capitol grounds in Austin. I personally was extremely proud of him when he “Won” that case before the U S Supreme Court in Washington. In 2014, he was elected the 48th Governor of
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HEROES OF THE HURRICANE HARVEY
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the state of Texas and sworn into Office in January 2015. He was only the second Republican to serve as Attorney General since the Reconstruction. Today, he continues to excel in great leadership qualities as our Governor. When the recent, historic Hurricane Harvey was “barreling down” out in the Gulf of Mexico toward our coastlines of Texas, Governor Abbott was showing forth extreme high-quality leadership with a team around him of many professionals from across the state and around the nation. Many of us watched him perform his duties as a Great governor – with precision and accuracy.
been so very blessed of God these past few decades with some remarkable governors – two of which are Governor Rick Perry and Governor Greg Abbott. Many of the people I know throughout the state are of the same opinion as me: we have one of the finest governors ever, and we can be proud that Texas is in the remarkable and capable hands of Governor Greg Abbott. Our “problems” are not over by ANY stretch of the imagination since ‘Harvey’ slammed into our state – doing horrible and monumental damages. But I am confident that our state is “in good hands” while we have the excellent leadership of Governor Greg Abbott. I have watched him for many years in different political positions, and I have seen his reactions “under pressure.” He is remarkably astute and has a keen insight into what it takes to be ‘a Great leader.’ He functions well under pressure and to me, always seems to be ‘guided by the Hand of The Lord.’ I like that about my governor! Good leaders are very attractive to the people and are easy to follow; great leaders are always destined to further achievements – and tend to make history, because they’re not at all ‘too concerned’ about recognition. They just keep on ‘Doing what needs to be done.’
Win McNamee, Getty Images We all were deeply impressed with his leadership and excellent capabilities. One thing is for sure: Texas has
Governor Greg Abbott is one of those great leaders who just “keeps on doing what needs to be done.” And that is why He is one of my very best heroes. Thank-you, Governor!
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MAKE THE UN GREAT? THE PRESIDENT FIRST SPEECH AT UN
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MAKE THE UN GREAT? THE PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRST SPEECH AT UN
TRUMP'S BIG UN SPEECH HAS THE WORLD WATCHING NEWS SOURCE: HEATHER SELLS CBN NEWS
President Trump makes his debut speech at the United Nations on 18th sept. It's an organization he once belittled, but now he says his message is 'make the United Nations great.' Many U.S. allies are carefully watching President Trump's debut speech at the United Nations today – and so are America's adversaries. North Korea's top diplomat has a front row seat. Mounting tensions with North Korea are expected to dominate conversations in New York during the six day UN meeting. Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls North Korea "the most dangerous crisis we face today." President Trump will address the rogue nation in his address. The president is expected to argue that the nations should rally together when faced with common threats like North Korea. It's a marked change from the campaign trail where he suggested that the UN was not a friend to the US and called it weak and incompetent. In May of 2016 he said, "The United Nations is not a friend of democracy. It's not a friend to freedom. It's not a friend even to the United States of America." Trump is also expected to talk about Iran's nuclear agenda and the chaos in Venezuela and Syria. In
keeping with his campaign comments, he will push for reform at the UN, a point he previewed on Monday when he said "in recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. On one issue, there's no question where the U.S. stands at the UN – taking a strong position in support of Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reinforced that when he met with President Trump on Monday. Sitting next to the president talking with reporters he said, "Under your leadership the alliance between America and Israel has never been stronger, never been deeper." Trump said they're working very hard to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and said he hopes for "significant progress" by the year's end. He's expected to meet later this week with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as well as many other world leaders. Trump will also work to emphasize that his "America First" policy actually works hand-in-hand with international cooperation. His message: All nations should put their own interests first, and they can also work together when faced with common concerns like threats from terrorists and rogue countries like North Korea.
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FACE IT: THE TRUMP BOOM IS HERE
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Face It: The Trump Boom Is Here Anyone noticed through the fog of Russia, Comey, Charlottesville, and now two monster hurricanes that the U.S. economy is booming faster than any time since the late Clinton years? It is undeniable. In the last year of the Obama administration, the economy was DECELERATING with a dismal 1.6 percent growth rate. The economy revved up to a 3 percent growth rate in the April-June 2nd quarter this year, which is a nice bounce but still not a great number. A preliminary sneak peek at the current 3rd quarter GDP by the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank estimates an even brisker 3.4 percent growth. It's easy to read too much into short-term trends. But the new bounce in the step of the economy is confirmed by many other indicators, almost all of which point straight north. The Dow Jones industrial average is up over 3,000 points (starting with the 700-point rally the day after the election), and the net wealth of Americans – mostly through their pension funds - has increased by more than $4 trillion. Last month the University of Michigan, which tracks consumer sentiment, reported that confidence soared to near its highest level in at least a decade. Other surveys by the NFIB and the National Association of Manufacturers also find a flurry of optimism.You hear these same sentiments anecdotally from employers. Everywhere I go I ask CEOs, "How is business?" The answer is almost always one of two words: "good" or "great." Optimism abounds. One construction executive told me recently, "It was like on Election Day a light
switch was flicked on and our business started improving and it hasn't stopped." Just a few months ago many economists were warning that the economy and the stock market were tapped out and that a recession and a stock market correction were overdue. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted that slow growth was "the new normal" for America. The Obama brain trust could only squeeze out 2 percent growth from the American economy even in a good year, so there was no way President Trump could do better. But he has. I was one of the advisors during the campaign who urged Trump to aim for 3 to 4 percent growth. It was obvious that the economy wasn't running out of gas, but just the opposite. The post-Great Recession recovery was running $2 trillion behind an average recovery and $3 trillion below the trend line from the pace of the Reagan expansion. Liberals have taken note of the economic revival and are scrambling to invent plausible explanations without having to - God forbid - assign any credit to Trump. The latest spin is that this is the "Janet Yellen economy" driven by the Fed's low interest rate policies.
But if the Fed's zero interest rate policies of the last eight years (2009-16) are the engine for growth, why is the spurt just happening when Trump arrived on the scene? The Trump presidency has ended what economist Larry Kudlow calls Washington, D.C.'s war against business. The Obama-era regulatory rampage has come to a screeching halt. Some 16 Obama-era regulations have been suspended so far for every new regulation imposed.
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A notable dividend from these policies is the improbable comeback in coal. Coal production is up more than 12 percent this year after being declared a dead industry by liberals last year – which means not just more mining jobs, but added hiring in trucking, steel, and manufacturing as well. That's a microcosm of the Trump effect. Again, these are short-term numbers and an economy and the stock market and business employers are counting on the Trump tax cut especially in the aftermath of the Obamacare repeal whiff. The lower corporate tax rate would mean trillions of dollars of higher stock values. So far, eight months into his presidency, love him or hate him, Trump has shifted the economy and wealth creation into a faster gear. If Republicans – and hopefully pro-business Democrats -- can pass a meaningful tax cut this fall – the Trump boom may just be getting started.
Source: CBN NEWS: By Stephen Moore www.cbnnews.com *Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and served as a senior economic advisor to the Trump campaign. He is an economics contributor to CBN.
Photo Source: The Globe & Mail
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TRUMP CABINET MEMBERS PRAYING, STUDYING THE BIBLE TOGETHER
Trump Cabinet Members Praying, Studying the Bible Together
Members of President Donald Trump's cabinet are gathering for prayer weekly. Vice President Mike Pence and eight cabinet secretaries sponsor the sessions, which occur weekly in Washington. It's led by the founder of Capitol Ministries, Ralph Drollinger, who started working on arranging the Bible study during the Trump team's transition to the White House. Sponsors include Vice President Pence; Secretaries Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, Sonny Perdue, Rick Perry, Tom Price and Jeff Sessions; EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and CIA Director Mike Pompeo. These are some of the most influential people in the U.S. government gathering weekly to grow themselves spiritually. "In terms of a country's health and direction, when its leaders are seeking God, the nation is in a position to be
blessed by God in ways that are 'far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think,'" Drollinger tells Beltway Buzz referring to Ephesians 3:20. Capitol Ministries also hosts weekly Bible studies in the House and Senate. The ministry has started Bible studies in a number of state capitols and is currently working on expanding into international capitols. This has been a wonderful time of prayer and fellowship as I am presently teaching through the Sermon on the Mount, as well as handing out my weekly written Bible study as a homework assignment on a particular topic," Drollinger continued. Leaders of the Bible study say President Donald Trump is always welcome to join them. Prayer has been an evident part of this administration with pastors often praying over Trump throughout the campaign.
News Source: CBN www.cbnnews.com
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PARSONS GREEN ATTACK LONDON ON TERRORISTS HIT LIST
Parsons Green attack
London on Terrorists Hit list Photo Source: AP
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PARSONS GREEN ATTACK LONDON ON TERRORISTS HIT LIST
PARSONS GREEN ATTACK: LONDON ON TERRORISTS HIT LIST The rapidly moving developments came a day after commuters fled in terror after a homemade bomb partially detonated on a District Line train, injuring 29 people. Kent police detained the teenager close to the Port of Dover at 7.50am on suspicion of being a terrorist, describing it as a “significant arrest”. Parsons Green station was reopened in the early hours of Saturday. Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, speaking after a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee, said: "There is no doubt that this was a serious IED, it was good fortune that it did so little damage in fact." Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said police were "chasing down suspects", indicating that a potential network of plotters could have been involved in the Parsons Green attack.
At least 29 people were injured. None of the injured are thought to be in a serious or life-threatening condition, according to the London Ambulance Service, which took 19 of the injured to hospitals. Ten others went to hospitals on their own. Most of the injuries appear to be the result of flash burns, according to local authorities. The terror threat level of "critical" means that another attack is considered to be "imminent." "The public will see more armed police on the transport network and on our streets, providing extra protection. This is a proportionate and sensible step which will provide extra reassurance and protection while the investigation progresses," May said."The threat of terrorism that we face is severe but together, by working together, we will defeat them." The Prime Minister said that people should carry on with their daily lives, but be vigilant. SIS claimed involvement with the explosion saying, via its Amaq news agency that a "detachment" from the group had carried out the attack. When asked about possible ISIS involvement, Rowley told reporters that it is "routine" for the Islamic State to take responsibility for attacks in "these sorts of circumstances," regardless of the group's actual involvement. ISIS provided no evidence to back up its involvement. Armed police raided the home of two respected foster carers in their hunt for the bomb factory used by the Parsons Green bomber today, just hours after arresting an 18-year-old man close to the port of Dover.
“The joint terrorism and analysis center, the independent organization responsible for setting the threat level on the basis of available intelligence, has now decided to raise it from severe to critical,” May announced. May last raised the threat level to “critical” in the wake of the Manchester Arena blast in May at the conclusion of an Ariana Grande pop concert. Source Photo: AP
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PHOTO SOURCE: CBN
PARSONS GREEN ATTACK LONDON ON TERRORISTS HIT LIST
Britain has frequently been the target of terrorist attacks in recent years, including a coordinated assault on London’t transit system. In 2005, suicide bombers attacked three Underground subway trains and a double-decker bus, killing 52 people and injuring more than 700. But experts said this year has been particularly violent, with terrorists using easyto-access items, such as vehicles or knives to carry out attacks. In early June, six people were killed when a van rammed into pedestrians on London Bridge and assailants fled on foot, stabbing people. Later that month, a vehicle plowed into a group of Muslim worshipers in Finsbury Park, killing one person and injuring others.
President Trump went on Twitter a few hours after the incident to condemn the attack, in tweets that also appeared to suggest that British law enforcement officials were aware of who was behind the blast. “Another attack in London by a loser terrorist. These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!” he said in his first tweet. He also renewed his call for a tougher travel ban in the United States. “The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific--but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!”
In May, 22 people were killed at the Manchester concert when a suicide bomber detonated a device as fans were leaving the event. And several weeks before that, in March, six people died when a terrorist drove his car into a group on Westminster Bridge, near the Houses of Parliament. While authorities continue to search for the perpetrators in Friday’s blast, Amaq, an agency affiliated with Islamic State, quoted a source saying that a “security squad” had conducted the attack. Islamic State has repeatedly called on its followers to carry out attacks on trains. Last month, an Islamic State activist offered bomb-making tips on a pro-Islamic State telegram channel, according to the nonprofit Middle East Media Research Institute. Experts said Friday’s attack suggests it took considerable planning.
When questioned about those comments, May responded: "I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation." Mark Rowley, assistant police commissioner for London’s Metropolitan Police, commonly referred to as Scotland Yard, said the public would see a heightened police presence at transport hubs and urged anyone with images of the incident, or knowledge of the attack, to contact authorities. He said the public should remain alert but should not be alarmed.
“This was an attack on London’s transportation infrastructure, and it doesn’t seem to be an opportunity attack — someone had the time to gather resources and build the device,” said Erroll Southers, director of USC’s Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies program. “Trains are open and a vulnerable system. It is a soft target. It is likely to encourage more copycat attacks, and it’s also going to require an extraordinary level of security to deter these things from happening.” Outside a Paris subway station in France on Friday, a man wielding a knife attacked a French soldier. The attacker was arrested and did not cause any injuries to the soldier. French counter-terrorism officials are investigating the incident.
News Report CTM Source: Los Angeles Times, The Telegraph Uk
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FEDERAL ELECTIONS IN GERMANY AND A NEW RELATIONSHIP TO USA
Federal Elections in Germany and a new relationship to USA By Claudia Zimmermann
71 ETO02 V Boycott calls, a letter refuting my words and rejected contributions, that where some of The tactics I faced after I exposed in a dutch talk show my employer, German public broadcaster WDR, for sticking to pro-government narrative on immigrant crisis.I said this in a talk show from dutch radio station L1 „De Stemming“. We were discussing the sexual assaults in Cologne at New Years Eve 2015-2016. These sexual assaults were initially blamed on asylum seekers of North African and Middle Eastern origin. The violent attacks sparked outrage with the German public and opposition, highlighting the growing dismay with the “welcoming” approach, personally propel led by Merkel.”I said like this: „We are a public broadcaster we are paid with tax money and that means we interpret more the government’s view and not that of the opposition “It was expected from WRD to cover Merkel’s immigrant policy“in a more positive way.” In the German media, not only in WDR, Merkel’s immigrant policy received and still receives a very strong backing by journalists. Some journalists, including me, try to offer more critical topics, but they are not approved.”More than one year later a scientific study from Prof. Haller from University of Leipzig fort he Otto Brenner Stiftung proofed, that this was true. He found out that most of the German media where almost only positive about there Refugee policy from Angela Merkel. At this moment we are in the final phase of German elections for the members of the Bundestag and it is almost for sure that the most powerful woman
of the world Angela Merkel, will stay in her job for the next four years. The way Angela Merkel dealt with all of her rivals in her party, the CDU and outside of her party in her political environment is extremely Machiavellian. She gets rid of all of her rivals, enemies or fake friends in a twitch of an eyebrow.”Because of this behaviour German federal elections this year are sort of clear. Angela Merkel's party CDU will be the biggest one, according to the polls. The chancellor avoids debates about the future and her political program is very weak. But even if the criticism of her in Germany is big and her support is shrinking everyday, there is no real alternative. At many different public events where she shows up people protest against her. In TV debates she can not give real answers to people asking questions about how to avoid poverty when you are retired after 45 years of working or healthcare. More and more elderly in Germany are living from welfare and this group is still growing. If you talk with people on the street you listen to their stories you experience that there more and more germans are unhappy and afraid of the future. Since Donald Trump is in office the relationship between Germany and the United States is cooled off. Trump criticised Germany because their trade deficit and their small tribute to Nato. Merkel criticised Trump because stepping out of the climate agreement and his strict refugee policy. For German Mainstream Media The Situation Is Clear. There are the good ones like Merkel and Macron and there are the bad ones – nothing in between. Worldwide populism is growing.For German Media Trump belongs in the same category as Putin, Erdogan and even Kim Jong Un. I remember, the morning after the United States Elections in November 2016 I woke up in a small romantic hotel in Rapallo. Together With Partner I went for a short trip to Italy. Donald Trump was elected as the next president from the United States. Form This was a proof of real democracy. In the USA everybody can be a president. Even if the establishment, intellectuals and media are totally against you, you can still win. I dressed and went down to the reception where a beautiful young woman was sitting behind a big wooden antique table. „So Donald Trump is the president from the USA“ I said to her and she answered: „I am so disappointed. So much disappointed. I can not believe that this happened. „ I smiled and said: „So you do not like Donald Trump ?“ She Answered: „No, it isn't because of Trump, I really like him being president, but I
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am disappointed because the media let us believe until the last minute that he did not have any chance and that Hillary would win. . The Italian Media, the German, the French all our European Media. That's my disappointment about, that they all lied to us.“ In Europe almost nobody believed that this could happen, for sure most oft he journalists they did not believe it. One very well known German journalist from public television posted on his Youtube channel some bad videos about Donald Trump. It was some heavy stuff, meant as an information for the public in German. I was shocked that a journalists could that negative and rude about a president candidate. I had watched the men discussed the with my colleagues and was really angry about this unprofessional behaviour. The day after the election all his negative videos from Youtube were gone. The same journalists wrote now a book about the real truth german media.Why Did he do this ? In Germany the critic about the main stream media is growing more and more. But what do they do ? Instead of listening to the people they report for,they try to stick to their old policy with the result that less and less germans trust the media. A few days before election day on 24. September the polls show that the party „alternative for Germany“ a right wing populist and euros sceptical political party is growing more and more. They are founded only four years ago and it is almost for sure that they will get in to the German bundestag as the third biggest party in Germany. At the moment they are already represented in 13 of the 16 German state parliaments. The party is also criticized as having anti semitic ideas.
Germany's Political parties A right wing party like this getting more and more influence in Germany that is in fact the last thing germans wants. So why is this happening ? More and more journalists stepping out of the main stream media and organizing each other in the alternative media circuit are concerned. . After 12 years of chancellorship Merkel is making more and more mistakes, protests are growing but at the same time you can not get rid of her because there is nobody else. Journalists who are to critic get stopped. Critical questions are not being answered. I got a letter
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from a journalist from Israel. She wanted to do a critical item about one special theme going on in Germany.Her questions for the German government did not got answered, she even did not get a response. She wrote to me „Can you find out why the German government is not answering my questions ? She is not the only one with this experience. I asked critical questions and did not get them answered and many other, German but also foreign journalists made the same experience. In the media many problems German citizens facing are not being reported. Journalists who try to do so can get restrictions like being not any more invited to certain event are not getting certain interviews. Journalists who do their job get presents like exclusive interviews or stories.
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IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
In the Eye of the Storm By Weston Martinez
Member of Republican Party TX & Texas Real Estate Commissioner & Vice President of Business Development Patel Gaines PLLC
Weston Martinez
Photo Source: westonfortexas.com My family and I were visiting relatives in the corn & sunflower fields of Kansas in late August. It was hot and the sunrises and sunsets were glorious! As we began our return home we saw the possibility of this storm named Harvey making its way into the Gulf of Mexico. Little did we know how Harvey would changes the lives of Texans in just a few short days. As we returned to San Antonio, Texas, the clouds became thick and the cloud ceiling became low, then the rain began and unlike other hurricanes that just push on through this one sat and sat for nearly 3 days dropping over 50 inches of rain in some spots. Phone calls began coming in from different friends and contacts I have along the Texas coast, which included organization leaders like Franklin Graham Ministries leaders who were trying to get me in contact with disaster recovery teams affiliated with Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritans Purse, who were already in route to assist and minister to the general public and first responders. Local law firm Patel Gaines, Friendship Church and the Telephone Pioneers of AT&T San Antonio and individuals immediately stepped up to donate to the Dubbed Boots to Bay relief trip. My Pastor, Warren Cook, joined me in the 8-hour round trip drive to Rockport, Texas, that started at noon 2 days after landfall was made. As we got closer and closer the devastation became greater and greater. The first stop
was to an older couple I was directed to who had a tree fall on their home. We arrived and it was far worse. There was boat in the front yard, rooftops ripped off like someone used a can opener and telephone poles suspended in midair. The only sound was the occasional chain saw. You see nearly 65% of the residents rode out the storm, but after the storm, with no electricity or water, many had gone to other cities for a few days. Next, we meet with the disaster response team from Billy Graham Evangelistic Association at the Rockport “Volunteer” fire department where I was asked to bring chainsaw blades and tarps as the primary items. In that meeting we discovered why there were no leaves for about 10 miles, you see 40 tornadoes were spawned as the back of the hurricane's eye made landfall. This was the main culprit of the widespread devastation. On our way out of town we came across Trinity Baptist Church near Sinton, Texas. As we entered the country church, the walls were gone, sunshine showed from one wall the other, and the smell of a feedlot. All that was left noticeably was an old wooden cross, unscathed. Next trip we organized to the area in the format of a 1-day missionary trip. Joined with my wife 5 children, friend from my children’s Pop Warner football team and conservative leader Jonathon Saenz of Texas Values and his children. We started at 2 homes that had items blown around the yard with metal blown everywhere. Next, we went to the home of single mom with 2 kids, who had about 4 huge trees down. For hours upon hours our crew of munchkins and adults worked as hard and as fast as we could. All the while dodging mosquitos that sounded like mini-Black Hawk helicopters buzzing around. At the end of the day this mother mentioned how thankful and blessed and how it was livable and how this will make her son so much happier, that he might not worry about the playground being knocked over by the storm. Knowing we had to act strategically, we secured a rope for the children to use their lower center of gravity to pull the 15 ft. by 20 ft solid wood playground set, while 4 adults got on the other side and lifted the playground. In the video you can see this take place and the excitement and joy of God’s children serving together to those in need. As the word says, blessed are those who give a cup of cold water to those in need. We can always do business deals, but you can’t always save someone’s life by giving them the hope and restoring their faith in God. AMEN
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Photo Source: westonfortexas.com
Weston Martinez Texas Real Estate Commissioner Weston Martinez is a fourth generation Texas conservative grassroots leader with a history of service to the Republican Party and proven results. Martinez has served as an elected member of the State Republican Executive Committee and is a current Texas Real Estate Commissioner, appointed by Governor Perry and now serving under Governor Abbott. He has advised numerous Republican candidates and elected officials at the state, local and national levels. He is a leading conservative voice for Hispanics in the United States and has led the fight against voter fraud to ensure ballot integrity in South Texas. He also delivered a rebuttal to Julian Castro’s DNC national convention speech in 2008. Martinez has been blessed with a diverse professional career including as an oil and gas business development and government affairs strategist. With almost twenty years in the regulated telecommunications industry and now the oil and gas industry, Martinez has a unique pro-business, free market approach and has been successful identifying solutions where others see only problems. Martinez was an NCAA bull rider at Texas A&M Kingsville, and later Wayland Baptist University where he earned a Bachelor’s in Business Administration.
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PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ?
Pursuit of Happiness ? By Christopher Grahn Howard Republican Activists
What is the happiness we are so desperately pursuing? How can America regain its collective happiness? What exactly are we fighting over? All the fighting is about defining the vision of the Shining City on the Hill - the American Dream. Who has a better vision or more competent plan for attaining that vision? What is the American Dream? What is the Pursuit of Happiness? Remember - “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, thatthey are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Our founding fathers gave us some idea of what they intended for our American Dream. We have the inalienable right to pursue happiness not the entitlement to happiness. We have the right to pursue wealth, love, success, faith and, yes, even an alternative lifestyle if you so choose. Americans are to have the Liberty to define their own individual pursuit. Our founding fathers would tell us to stop being spoiled, arrogant and ill prepared to pursue the very things we are striving to achieve. We do have a right to expect our government to maintain a state that will bestow these liberties on the citizenry, create and foster a positive economic environment for commerce and ultimately, to preserve and protect the union. The general welfare is attained by providing the right of ownership to all citizens, so that they may have the ability to produce and enjoy those fruits. As a movie lover, this quote from“The Gladiator” comes to mind concerning the Republic of the United States of America…”There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile”. A reminder, one we often forget,is that we live in a Constitutional Republic not a Democracy. Democracy is nothing more than glorified mob rule. Many mistakenly say we are a democracy.A democracy has been compared to a very large sail boat that is all sails and no rudder. The Democratic method is what we use to elect our representatives in this Republic. I will say this again. The pursuit of happiness is not about feeling good about
yourself or your country, rather the right to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Enjoying the fruits of ones labor, as God intended,is the happiness our founders were referencing. Any taxation, just or unjust, of the people is in fact taking some of that aforementioned happiness. Our founding fathers had a very specific idea in mind concerning the definition of happiness. Jefferson actually debated using the word property and not happiness. Going back again to the tradition of the Magna Carta, the idea of property ownership was essential to real Constitutional liberty and freedom. The founding Fathers believed that God ordained the idea of private ownership of property. God told Adam and Eve to have dominion over the earth and gave Israel definable boundaries for the Promised Land. God told Adam it was good to toil and sweat. Ask any doctor and they will tell most of us we need to sweat a bit more often. While the bible has something to say about this, the reality is that property rights of any kind was a relatively new idea in the social evolution of economies. Essential to the idea of this pursuit is the right to own property. Property rights create the mechanism for every potential development of the American Dream. Your right to own property (land, ideas, etc.) becomes an extension of your life…..your happiness. No other country has a history based on the right of citizens to own. Many have evolved to that point but not founded on that singular issue. Every dream one can think of is based on the idea that the person acting out his or her dream owns that process and the outcome. Make no mistake - Republicans, Democrats, Liberals, Conservatives, pick your pleasure, all want you to achieve your happiness. They all go about it differently. I do not believe that Liberals want to destroy the American Dream. Liberals see the same amazing American apple pie I see as a conservative. Liberals want those with little or no pie to have some. We’ll continue this discussion at a later time. Owning land, ideas, or anything is not enough to produce much of anything. To have land make a profit, it must be worked, labored, have value added to the property in question. An idea is nothing more than a fleeting thought unless it is worked, developed and refined into a work of some sort. This labor, effort, cultivation of property is the pursuit for enjoying the fruits of your labor…your
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constitutional happiness. This is your right granted by God and affirmed and justified in the American Constitution. Just or unjust, needed or wasteful taxes take the fruits of your labor and by doing so will deprive you of some measure of your happiness. Real freedom, real liberty is ultimately about economic freedom. How and why we tax is a complicated business.
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ?
The American People wish to labor at different things.Some will make software, build buildings, sell cars, write books, make music, write software, dance, and sell pie. That is the American Dream! That is the pursuit of American happiness!
In the US, people vote to tax themselves for many reasons (parks, police, roads and even welfare). The key here is that Americans must vote to tax themselves.Either through representatives or direct ballot initiatives. In many cases, they must vote to give up a portion of their own happiness. Legal freedom and liberty is nothing if one does not have the means to enjoy the fruits of their labor. The law, liberty and freedom were built into the Constitution for the purpose of protecting your right to own,in turn creating a Constitutional Liberty/Freedom not that dissimilar from Christian Liberty. The entire motivation behind “Taxation without Representation” as a driver for the revolution and new Constitution was that the People, through elected Representatives, would agree on how much of their happiness the Government should be given and exactly for what purpose. The American Constitution does spell out what the role of government should be and for what taxes should pay for. Look at the preamble to our Constitution: “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”. How political parties define these items are the great debate. The fight is on the how. How will we continue the American dream? Have we gone too far in what we should be willing to be taxed and what the role of government should be?
CHRISTOPHER GRAHN HOWARD
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ARTICLES OF RELIGION OR CONFESSIONS OF FAITH
ARTICLES OF RELIGION OR CONFESSIONS OF FAITH BY DAVID CLARKE
Articles of Religion are used to inform an enquirer what a particular group, church society or individual believes. When a person becomes Christian they will soon be aware that they should be baptised and be a functioning member of the Christian church but with so many professing groups of Christians, and a range of so-called denominations, it becomes an important and difficult choice as to what to do. When I became a Christian I learned gospel truths through reading the bible, discussion with others and reading Christian books. I very soon learned that there were different translations of the bible and each of the various groups believed different things and I notice odd behaviour among some. I learned from a senior member of a church group, which was an Assemblies Of God Pentecostal church that the teaching of the deity of Christ was not safe with the modern versions of the bible and I was encouraged to use the Authorised version. I also learned that the deity of Christ was challenge by Jehovah Witness’s and Mormons, who held competing and differing views and they had beliefs that were not scriptural. It became apparent there was a need to be clear about what one believes and teaches. I soon learned that a major division among Christians was that between Calvinism and Arminianism. The clear distinction that stuck out in my mind was that of the total depravity of human nature. This I knew to be true in my own case. Had I been left to my self I would never have turned from my sin to follow Christ. Calvinism presented itself as far more biblical than Arminianism and the notion of free will. I soon learned that the Reformers from the 16 Century were those who taught rightly the deity of Christ, redemption through his shed blood, the complete fall of Man, Justification by faith, Predestination, Election all things the Armenians seemed avoid. I soon realised that the Doctrines of Grace were those truths taught in the bible and these were those truths that came to us though the reformation. After wandering among the various churches for 6 years, in 1976 I joined the Bierton Particular Baptists church in Bierton, Buckinghamshire, U.K., that was formed, in 1831.
Bierton Baptists Chapel There were only six other members and I was the youngest. This was not without some difficulty. The reason why I sought to join the church was because i had read their original Articles of Religion, that clearly taught the Doctrines of Grace and not Arminianism. The problem that I was faced with was that on making application to join the church I was presented with a set of Articles of religion that were not the same as those that I had read in the trust deed. There were two added articles with no record as to why or how they had been added. The two added articles were: 1 They believed that all children dying in infancy went to heaven. 2 That The Lord had set apart Sunday as the Sabbath, to be kept holy. These articles were not in the original trust deed and I could not in conscience say I believed them. For one, if all children dying in infancy go to heaven then Jesus must have died for them and we know from scripture that Jesus died for the elect, the chosen , the church of God. I could not say that I believed all children dying were chosen in Christ. This belief was a requirement for church membership. Number two. The first day of the week is not the Sabbath given by Moses. If it were then a strict rules of conduct must be adhered too which is not required or recorded in the New Testament. And so could not in conscience say that I believed them to be true and I informed the church of my concern. Thankfully we had a minister, from Luton, a Mr Hill who was a Gospel Standard minister who assisted the church in this matter and he informed the church that my concerns were justifiable and as a result, in 1976, the church admitted me into membership upon my confusion of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and acknowledgement of the original church articles of faith in 1831. From my point of view it was important to me to be clear because I wanted to be true to my conscience and follow the Lord Jesus Christ, as best I could. These articles of religion served to inform me of the beliefs of the church and also educate me. Now whether this is the right use articles of religion is another matter. Now to continue the story. In England there were differences of opinion and doctoral differences between certain Particular Baptists groups in the UK. There were those ,who for want of a better term, called, Fullerites who talked about a sufficiency in death of Christ for all the world but it being only efficient for the elect. There was a minister called RT Kendall, from Westminster Chapel, in London, where Dr Martin Lloyd Jones had been the Minister. He advanced these views, which were against those the Gospel Standard persuasion who denied duty faith and duty repentance. Gospel Standard Baptists rejected the teaching of the Fullerites. Our church at Bierton would side with the Gospel Standard position. The Gospel Standard also acknowledged that the Law of Moses was not the rule of life for the Believer but rather the gospel, a position I was very happy with.There came a time when our Bierton church decided to align them selves with the GospelÂ
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Standard group of churches and in January 1981 we became a gospel standard cause and so adopted the Gospel Standard article of faith and rules and this moved cause some distress to some none church members and visiting preachers as they all did not side with the Gospel Standard rules or traditions. Never the less I was a church member and understood some to the concerns of those not in line with the Gospel Standard way of things and felt it was simply a matter of education to resolve areas of difficulties. I began to think that there was a great deal of ignorance particularly among those brought up in a long standing tradition. For example one church member had a notice above their fireplace saying. A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content and a Sabbath profaned, what er may be gained is a sure forerunner of sorrow. This is neither true not doctrinally correct but reflected a tradition that was not biblical. The question of Articles of religion served to highlight differences of opinion among those of a different opinion and as a result provoked the need to examine the scriptures to see to confirm the truth. And so I began to learn of some of the difficulties that a some people had with our article of religion since we were a Gospel Standard Cause. And I can point these problems out if need be later. In 1982, I was called by the Lord and sent by the church to preach the gospel and within a short space of time I preached in many churched in the UK. It was during this time I realised the need to address some of the issues that our articles of religion had caused concern. On one occasion I had been preaching at a Church in Eaton Bray and a visitor named Mr Royce asked me to explain the meaning of some of the added Articles of the Gospel Standard listed churches. I did my best. I also had others come to me over their differences and objections to these Added articles and stated hey were hyper Calvinistic so I set too and wrote to Mr Royce, doing my best explain their meaning but in the end I conclude theses added articles were very badly written and needed be rewritten and I could well understand a persons difficulty in accepting them as they were. It was in 1984 that I first put pen to paper to address some of those issues and now 32 years later, I was asked by PSSS Christchurch Youhanabad Rahim yar Khan, Pakistan, to assist in forming the first Particular Baptists church in Pakistan and also Bierton Particular Baptists College, And in 2016 we published our articles of religion. Articles that addressed those issues that I had discovered and found wanting in all previous additions of Particular Baptists Articles of religion.
Difficulties Associated with Articles Of Religion
It is in our recent publication, “Difficulties Associated with Articles of Religion Among Particular Baptist”, that we point out some of the unresolved outstanding issues in connection with articles of religion. In this book we have republish and discuss the First London Particular Baptists, 1646, Confession 2nd Edition, and in my opinion the best, Then Second London Baptists Confession of 1689, in which we point out its short comings. Then our Bierton Particular Baptists Articles,1831, which is the simplest confession and then the Gospel Standard Articles of 1878. Finally our Bierton Particular Baptists Pakistan, 2016, Articles that confirm a 6 day creation week with the rest on the 7th day, a universal world flood, the doctrines of grace, and we also give directions on how to rightly divide the word God in respect of eschatology. This is something that our reformers failed address in their day and where all of our previous Particular Particular Baptist and Reformed confessions miss the mark. Watch this space for further information We welcome feedback and if you could critically view our findings we will send you a PDF copy. Contact: www.biertonparticularbaptists.co.uk
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WHAT LESSONS CAN THE CONSERVATIVES LEARN FROM THIS YEAR’S GENERAL ELECTION?
What lessons can the Conservatives learn from this year’s UK general election? BY MATTHEW SNAPE
CTM COLUMNIST /JOURNALIST
A joint survey conducted by Queen’s Mary University and You Gov has unlocked some disturbing findings that should concern senior members of Britain’s Conservative Party. After sampling 1000 members, they found that most of their activists are overwhelmingly old and male, compared with 50 per cent of those who voted during this year’s general election. Only 6 per cent of members are aged 18-25, whereas 44 per cent of the party consists of campaigners aged 65 or over. They account for less than 30 per cent of membership numbers and just 23 per cent of those who voted in the 2017 General Election. Whilst the Labour Party did not triumph at this year’s election, they certainly performed better than most people anticipated. This was the first vote where more students participated than ever before. YouGov sampled over 50,000 adults and found that 57 per cent of 18-19-year-olds voted. 59 per cent of 20-24-year-olds also participated in the general election and 64 per cent of 25-29-year-olds did too. This represents the highest figures of voter turnout in a general election among under-30s in a long time. For all his faults, Jeremy Corbyn has an ability to connect with students. He has come out largely unscathed since he admitted on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he was never going to scrap tuition fees in their entirety. Considering youngsters are overwhelmingly pro-EU, they failed to scrutinise Labour’s manifesto properly this year as it suggested they would pull the United Kingdom out of the European Union in its entirety. This process has been described by many as a ‘hard’ Brexit, which would culminate in Britain leaving the European Union’s Single Market and Customs Union as well as ending the European supremacy over British laws. The Liberal Democrats were the only party at this year’s general election that promised to reverse Brexit in its entirety, or at least offer the British people a second referendum on the final terms of the Government’s deal with the European Union. Yet they failed to attract sufficient numbers of students to vote for them. The irony about Brexit was that the Liberal Democrats finally reestablished themselves following the vote, even if it was on a platform of campaigning against the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the trading bloc. YouGov found that the average percentage of Liberal Democrat voters among 1829-year-olds was 9 per cent, whereas with Labour, it was in the mid-60s
The Coalition years are no doubt still fresh in the minds of many students, whereby the Liberals voted for many of the Conservatives’ austerity measures, which included increasing the rate of Value Added Tax to 20 per cent and tripling tuition fees to £9000 a year. The latter policy hurt the Liberals’ core base of support as students voted for them en masse in the 2010 General Election on the basis that a Liberal Democrat government would scrap tuition fees altogether. The Liberal Democrats improved their representation at this year’s general election from 8 MPs in 2015 to 12. But this is also an incredibly disappointing result considering they intended to reach out to the 48 per cent of voters who opted to remain in the European Union during last year’s referendum. It shows that they have a severe identity crisis still, even though Brexit provided them with the chance to win swathes of votes off both the Conservatives and Labour. This demonstrates that the majority of Remain voters now accept Britain is leaving the European Union and they want the Government to carry on with the job. And it also shows that the FirstPast-The-Post electoral system the United Kingdom uses to elect its governments will always place the Liberal Democrats at a disadvantage. This means Jeremy Corbyn has a charismatic following among students. He is also being advised behind the scenes on how to engage with this base of support. He knows how to galvanise huge rallies, which he did during the general election and at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. He attended this year’s GQ Awards. Whoever is advising him behind the scenes is clearly a staunch supporter of his and knows exactly what they are doing. Mr. Corbyn also played a clever game during the election. He presented jars of his home-grown jam to TV presenters and he called the Prime Minister’s bluff when he originally agreed not to participate in the conclusive TV debate, and then did so. To be fair to Theresa May, she stuck to her guns and decided not to attend the debate, but it also shattered the Conservative Party’s “strong and stable leadership” mantra. Numerous Tory activists complained to me in private that they felt as if they were not canvassing voters on behalf of their local candidate or their party, but for the Prime Minister. They said that the campaign was too presidential, yet Mrs May lacked those qualities. What exposed her fraudulent “strong and stable” slogan was when she refused to
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participate in the final TV debate and sent her Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, instead. . Mrs May was once the Conservatives’ strongest asset when she became leader. She had popularity ratings in the opinion polls any new prime minister could ever dream of. David Cameron’s flaws were being revealed due to his shambolic peerage list and the lack of contingency plans Her Majesty’s Civil Service issued in the possible event Britain voted to leave the European Union on his orders. He took no responsibility to lead the country in preparation for an event he should have anticipated. Instead, Mr. Cameron was too confident Stronger In Europe would triumph. He then resigned as a Member of Parliament altogether after he refused to support the Prime Minister over her plans to reintroduce grammar schools. Whilst Mr. Cameron was being portrayed as a coward, Mrs May was seen to be embracing Brexit and winning by-election victories in constituencies like Copeland, which the Tories have not won since the 1930s. It seemed like the party was onto a good thing with Mrs May leading the helm. And with a lack of a personal mandate to legislate policies like lifting the ban on grammar schools and Brexit generally, she made the right decision to call an election. However, in what should have been a simple election for her to win, her call backfired tremendously. Firstly, it was decided before the boundary reviews were fully implemented. First-PastThe-Post has not favoured the Tories since the 1987 General Election. But with Brexit transforming British politics and healthy opinion poll leads, Mrs May, like Hillary Clinton last year, was too confident she would win. How wrong she was proven. Secondly, because of the final debate and a close result in the Home Secretary’s Hastings and Rye constituency, Amber Rudd has become a hero amongst many Conservative activists. There is now a “Vote for Rudd” Instagram account to engage with youngsters on the social media platform. There were even rumours circulating that she may replace the Prime Minister one day. It seemed Mrs May was no longer the asset the Conservatives needed to win their first landslide since 1987. Mr. Corbyn had led an effective campaign. The secret behind his success at the momentis Momentum, a Labour youth wing dedicated to the current leader who vigorously campaigned for him. In the 2015 General Election, the Conservatives had the “Battle Bus”, which transported dozens of young activists in marginal seats across the nation as part of the Road Trip 2015 initiative. It was a smart move, but one that has sadly been cancelled due to young activist Elliott Johnson’s suicide four months after the surprise 2015 result. It was revealed that Road Trip 2015’s key organiser, Mark Clarke, was behind a series of scandals that caused Elliott to take his life and that linked senior Conservative Future activists to Tory Members of Parliament, particularly former National Conservative
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Future chairman Alexandra Paterson, who was having a secret affair with Robert Halfon MP. Clarke’s closest ally, Sam Armstrong, is awaiting trial for accounts involving rape and the former has been expelled from the Conservative Party for life. At the 2016 Conservative Party Conference, Conservative Future was relaunched at a constituency level, but the party failed to promote that to those who did not attend the event. And many associations are not resurrecting this youth wing. The Independent reported that many of them are refusing new members, particularly young people. This needs to end now. If there is one silver lining from this year’s election, then it is that the Conservatives are in desperate need of a youth movement that can canvass streets and deliver leaflets to places that the oldest activists cannot reach. Activate, an organisation established to combat Momentum, was a monumental failure. Many of its members made racist comments and it was poorly managed. Association chairmen need to take leadership over this issue, and fast. Otherwise many of these local organisations, even in the safest Tory seats, will die out. Conservative Future chairmen must be included on the management teams of all Conservative associations. It is vital that they have a voice at the top of their local parties, otherwise all events will be targeted at older members. Many association annual dinners are expensive, and without a discount for under-25s, they will struggle to attract young members to attend. Many younger activists will also have fresh ideas on how to take their local parties forward too. But what’s more is that these Conservative Future constituency branches should have a plan on how to recruit new members. It is difficult to engage young people in politics, but Labour has a monopoly over the other parties in terms of being able to attract sufficient numbers of participants. Conservative Central Headquarters’ research in 2013 found that the Labour Party had 552,000 members then, compared to the Conservatives, who only had 149,800. Yet the latter still won the general election two years later. But under Mr. Corbyn, Momentum activists are much more motivated. They are campaigning tirelessly in seats which they came close to winning and organising events on social media to oust senior Tory figures like Amber Rudd and Boris Johnson. Here are what Conservative Future chairmen can do to engage with students. Many of them have a series of successful strategies like ensuring every member recruits a new member, active university branches and social media pages. Yet they also need to visit schools with counterparts from other youth parties. They need to engage with sixth formers who are interested in current affairs, but who may not be aware of how to join a party. They need to debate amongst themselves to county-wide audiences to improve their presence in their areas. They need to ensure association
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chairmen are taking leadership over recruiting young members. Association members should be aiding them with recruitment by delivering membership packs to areas where young people are likely to reside, informing them about who their local councillors and Member of Parliament are and what their local association does too. They need to be more visible in their constituencies. These are bold recruitment strategies, but there has never been a time when the party needs to be more radical in ensuring it has a new generation of younger members ready for when the older ones pass away. And of course, the party could do more to promote their policies that appeal to younger people, like freezing fuel duty, shared home ownership and cutting income tax for the lowest earners. The 2017 General Election was a disaster. Yet that does not mean the party cannot learn from this and start establishing a youth movement to combat Mr. Corbyn’s Momentum. Students are crucial to the future of this country and many Conservative policies can appeal to them, if they can be persuaded those measures benefit them in the long-term. Assuming the supply-in-confidence deal with the Democratic Unionists lasts five years, the Conservatives have adequate time to start re-establishing a youth wing that will be motivated to campaign throughout the country and not just in safe seats. If they fail to do this, it is possible Mr. Corbyn will win the 2022 General Election, and youngsters lose either way.
BY MATTHEW SNAPE CTM COLUMNIST / JOURNALIST
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THE COORDINATED LOSS OF OUR IDENTITY
The Coordinated Loss of our Identity By Scott Cahill
Owner: Watershed Services, Cahill Infrastructure, C I Ohio Ltd We have entered a time when it is no longer of value to be a man or, for that matter, to be a woman. Both are gone. It is considered better to be without a sexual identity, changing, perhaps, your identity as male or female at will. Our children are taught the new “normal” in their schools. The new leaders are, perhaps, black transgender males, with pigtails died purple (Evergreen College), or the ever-desirable recovering addict. The man or woman who is straight, clean, and honorable will be given the hardest road to travel. The handouts are for the odd, who are not now odd, but entitled by the suffering of the odd that passed before them. A straight male, who identifies as a male, can expect no help,or even respect, in such a society as that which we are allowing. He is burdened with the challenges set upon the minorities by his forefathers. For a class of people to be preferred, another must lose power. In the case of the United Nations driven experiment of “New World Order,” this will mean that the “different” must subordinate the “same” in an inversion of normality for the world to, at last, be at “peace.” The promised peace is only found in the harmony of slavery. Some may be readying their tongue, or their pen, to document my racism, my homophobia, my lack of compassion. Nothing could be further from truth. I am, and have been, an advocate of the downtrodden, the poor, the neglected. I have been a tolerant protector of those with differing sexual preferences and identities other than their natal sex. I believe in the equality of men. (Men meaning men, women, women who identify as men, men who identify as women, transsexual, transgender, etc.) It is the insane over action that I detest. I do not wish to hurt or to hold down one who is gay or who has a different identity. I wish to see all men as equal. I wish to punish no one for their thinking or for their preference so long as no other is hurt by their actions. I was brought up to be a man. It was a very specific thing when I was a boy. We each fantasized about it, we dreamed for it. We couldn’t wait for it, manhood and all the power and responsibility that came with it. The girls with whom I grew up yearned too, for womanhood. They played with dolls and dreamed of being a mother, a wife, a woman. Never were these ideals for everyone. It is not ours to like or dislike, allow or disallow. It just is – and that is ok. Some little girls have other dreams. Some boys do, too. To wish to love someone of a different sex or someone of the same sex. What your dreams are made of is yours, and the dreams harbored by another are theirs. All good dreams are beautiful. All are acceptable. This article is not written to argue nor discuss the differences in man’s sexuality. It is written to address the coordinated effort to change a long-existing societal norm, with another, which is offered as a cure for the ills of the world, but which is nothing more than a manifestation of the very worst that man can be. To rule the world, one must overpower others. This can be done by being very strong and right, or it can be accomplished through subterfuge, rotting the soul of your foe, until his spine and his conviction is weak, then, he is yours. This is the war that we are fighting now. Europe is being divided, races set against one another, religions set against other religions, men set against other men, and ultimately, against themselves. Eventually, their power stripped, their gumption gone, their honor drained,
the new world order rides in and enslaves the lot. Our fathers were men. They loved women. They respected them. The field of battle belonged to them. Care of the family, the children, the home was the women’s responsibility. It was a good system. It was an honorable system. Furthermore, the families of that time, with a full-time mother and a strong father lived better, were more successful, and the children, so raised, had a better upbringing and life. One day we rejected it all for some promise of prosperity. Where is the prosperity? More work, more money, more time lost, looser and looser families, until the “schools” take over the children. Fathers who barely know their sons, mothers who know little of daughters, a disparity of harmony of thought or belief from generation to generation. The State mandates teaching contrary to the desires of the parents, yet the parents are too busy to see, or perhaps, care. The media controlled, the dialogue prepared, the propaganda machine churning away as, along the dust of the road, lie our honor, our masculinity, our femininity, our very souls. Then, our sons and daughters will become something that we scarcely can imagine, like the Hitler youth, they will march to a different drum, the state shall be their parents, garner their thoughts, command their respect, and we will watch them march in unison. They will raise another flag along with ours, then above, then ours will fall. Our children will be the army which takes the world from the sovereign nations and hands it willingly to the oligarchy. We, who live to see, will look on in disbelief at what they believe. All will fall into totalitarianism, not through cannon or rifle, but through school and church, through failed families displaced by policy. This is how our nation, and all the major sovereign nations, shall again fall to totalitarianism. We will call it a failure of economics, a failure of government, a failure of law. It will be none of that. It will be a failure of family.
Scott Cahill
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THE LOSS OF HUMANITY IN AMERICA
The loss of Humanity in America By Rev. Raven Youngblood
President CACI and MD Public Relation Officer and Legal Advisor Christian Times Magazine
My name is Reverend Raven Youngblood I am the President of The Church of American Christianity International cage code 7Q960 we are currently working operations in Kisii and Nairobi Kenya our pastors Kennedy Nigima and Erastus Wasonga are our Presidential Chapter Leaders in those Regions and we Work with Pakistan Soul Saving Station Christchurch (PSSS Christchurch) in Pakistan as well as Christian operations here in America. I come to you today to ask Americans to unite in peace and equality, in 2017 we are destroying statues and people's lives for political agenda's and false narratives. As Americans we are better than that, we as a people are the strongest throughout the world, we have faced adversity on every level and overcome it, we have faced every threat and overcome it together. But for some reason in 2017 we have lost our way, when your agenda's hurt the innocent and victimize the country at that point you have lost your way and you have forgotten the meaning of being an American. We have to change people we must unite once again to bring stability to our country and our country men. For you who call yourself a color because of your skin tone and then victimise the innocent because of their skin color than you are a racist and have lost your humanity. In 2017 America has no inequalities among its people, American is your color and blood is what you bleed. Every person in this country has had equal opportunity to succeed and to fail we cannot as a society blanket label Americans any longer. Individual Accountability is what we need in America and I challenge you to what I call the American Challenge. Here is how it works for the rest of your life treat everyone by their actions hold them accountable for the good they do and the bad they do. Judge no one until you have tested the merit of their works in life, do not be angry at the blanket narrative of society that asks you to judge by blanket stereotypes to hate the innocent for the crimes of the few. Judge not less thee be judged, that is my challenge hold the individual responsible for their actions and leave the innocent in peace.We all know what we need to change in America as Americans.Do not trade one Racism over another in America we are dominantly racist against whites in the defense of racism against blacks when in reality the systemic racism has been non existent for Â
almost 70 years in America. Politicians and Church leaders of some denominations and other religions preach racism and hate to divide our country. But as Americans we are better than that we should not let society make us racist toward anyone and we have to realize that being racist towards whites does not solve racism for blacks or any other race, racism is racism and if it is not fought equally then we never reach equality we only trade in hatred we trade off one racism and oppression for another racism and oppression and then try to justify the violence. What we accomplish is we lose lives of innocent people who might still be alive if they had not stumbled into the devastation created by the different racism's in America. For what end? For nothing we do it and gain nothing but pain and misery for everyone. We can end it with holding individuals accountable meaning a white man kills a black we hold that one man accountable not an entire race of innocent people, a black man rapes and kills a woman we blame that one individual black man not an entire race of innocent people. a white cop kills a black man we hold that one cop accountible not all cops, a black man and a white man murder a cop we hold those two men accountable but we don't put that blame on an entire nation of innocent people. We don't judge until we see the works of the individual before us and racism and hate will end in America. We must remain a nation of laws or risk losing all freedoms that millions of our brothers and sisters have died and suffered for we must condem evil and allow punishment for the crime to be dealt swiftly and justly if we do not we fall to the dark ages of the evil ways done by evil men. NO ONE in America is a victim of anything but their own actions and their own choices it has been far too long since we as Americans have used Individual Accountability to judge others. Today we must start to change for the better, we owe it to our children and our future generations to come. God Bless be good to one another and Judge not the neighbor you do not know.
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TO BE A CHRISTIAN NOT BE CRIME
To be a ChristianIjaznot be crime Masih Want Justice By Patrick Sarooj
Jesus said Matthew 10:22 “And you will be hated by all on account of My name; but the one having endured to the end, he will be saved. Before the separation of Pakistan and India my forefathers Sawan Dass accept to Jesus Christ as savior, at separation of Pakistan and India my forefathers decide to go to Pakistan but few family member were not came with them. Now my forefathers are buried in Pakistan and I spend my childhood there as well, not only me every Pakistani Christian love his Motherland Pakistan. Since last few years’ religious discrimination and persecution has been increased for Pakistani Christians, burn the Churches, Bibles, Crosse and people alive and force conversion has become routine. We never said that our forefathers took a wrong decision to migrate to Pakistan but many Pakistani Christians left their country for Thailand due to religious discrimination and persecution. They applied for asylum to UNHCR Thailand. UNHCR Thailand was being used by Ahmadis for resettlement to different countries from long time and it was not seemed good to UNHCR Thailand and Ahmadis that Pakistani Christian to be facilitate here. So UNHCR Thailand took much time for their registration, RSD interviews and results almost three to four years and finally rejected to maximum Pakistani Christians and closed their cases, while UNHCR Thailand not worked on their menu only agenda was how to Pakistani Christians Asylum seekers send them back, in this time UNHCR Thailand work fast for Ahmadi community even Pakistani Christians not got RSD interview and Ahmadi community were came with them they have been resettled in different countries.
UNHCR Thailand used Ahmadi Muslim translators maybe against to Pakistani Christians as tool.
(i) you could not explain about your case (ii) you could not provide details and some other objections which were not asked, after 5hrs to 6hrs you have no detail and information about case how is possible you give to them chance after two years and they will ignore the chance, there is very clear Ahmadis translators did mistranslation. This is totally wrong decision to have Ahmadi translators for Pakistani Christians, here should be professional translator for all. UNHCR Thailand should understand Pakistani Christians are in Thailand due to religious persecution, how Pakistani Christians can feel free to explain front of Ahmadi translators, because they are already living under fear they have seen set in fire their houses and their family members as well. I met some families after refusal their case by UNHCR Thailand, they submitted appeal to UNHCR Thailand with CHALLENGE, UNHCR Thailand how to destroy the lives.
Ijaz Masih Want Justice (Ijaz Masih 36 years old and father of three children and he arrested on the 6th June 2016 during a raid at his condo. He was arrested with three other family members as overstay but his wife and children who were out of the home at the time escaped to arrest. Ijaz Masih is just one of many other persecuted Pakistani Christians who have been arrested during a Thai government's crackdown on overstaying their visas. Although Pakistani Christian asylum seekers are registered with UNHCR Thailand and denied bail, the responsibility of UNHCR Thailand is also disputed and in violation of U.N. refugee convention UNHCR Thailand fails to provide legal assistance to detained asylum seekers, or provides medical assistance to sick people who have fled from Pakistan because of persecution.
Main reason of rejections created by UNHCR Thailand was Ahmadi translators; mostly Pakistani Christians were not able to give RSD interview in English Language, UNHCR Thailand already arranged Ahmadi translators and they mistranslate during interties , I already study many rejection letters of Pakistani Christians only these objections are common, Photo Source: Google
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Ijaz Masih was denied refugee status on May 26, 2017 by UNHCR Thailand due to mistranslation by Ahmadi translators. He accused the UNHCR Thailand have Ahmadi translators who mistranslation to Pakistani Christian asylum seekers during interviews, which end in their failure to present true stories and evidence. UNHCR Thailand was refusing to Pakistani Christian Asylum Seekers rapidly; UNHCR Thailand refused refugee status to a Pakistani Christian Asylum Seeker Ijaz Masih on May 27, 2017 and he died in Immigration Detention Center (IDC) from a heart attack. His three children, wife and all Pakistani Christian asylum seekers are waiting for JUSTICE.
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HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF ZEID RA'AD AL HUSSEIN Prince of Jordan Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein born 26 January 1964, he taken up this post in September 2014 as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. After his taken up this post t Pakistani Christian are facing discrimination and persecution but Pakistani Ahmadi communities are well facilitating by UNHCR Thailand. Few days age Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein has criticized to Myanmar Government the ongoing violence in Myanmar. I am also condemning ongoing violence against Muslims in Myanmar. Here is a disputed that raise many questions, UNHCR Thailand have discriminating have unprofessional attitude with Pakistani Christian but Ahmadis well facilitating, Pakistani Christian asylum seekers in Thailand being persecuted by UNHCR under your nose, I want to ask to Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein, You are much worried about ongoing violence in Myanmar. What do you think, To be a Christian is a Crime? Pakistani Christian asylum seekers are waiting for JUSTICE.
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ORIGINS OF HOMOSEXUALITY EXPOSED
Origins of Homosexuality Exposed By Chris Rose
Chairman, Christ Rose Ministries, Newton Lowa
“O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.” “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” Psalms 139: 1-4 & 13-16 For almost four decades I had struggled with identity issues. Was I born homosexual? Am I transgender? Do I have a “gay gene”? Do I have a “gay brain”? At the onset of my life loud voices were raised against me, and a damaging perception was born. My inmost being demanded an identity, and a decision was made. Planted deep inside of me was a seed that would grow an undignified manner bruising the distinguished nature that God had given. God had known me. Forming me in the secret place, the Lord fashioned a beautiful temperament which had been hard wired deep into my soul. God had known my thoughts, this is to say that God knew what I was designed for, designed to do. God had known my substance. Winnowing the chaff had left the grain and God had discerned my value. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” Jeremiah 29:11 KJV Placing me in the care of my mother and father, God had instructed them to raise me up in the way that I should go. Casting aside God’s instruction they both struggled in sin’s oppressive deceit, its fanciful promises of excitement and pleasure. Lost in their riotous living were three little lives who were hungry for lighted paths, narrow roads, and secure byways. Diligently and independently we raced into the safest location looking for the shelters of peace, joy, and happiness, but all of us entered into identities shaped by the world, and we also ignored God’s thoughts. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 KJV Our Heavenly Father demands that mothers and fathers examine His creation to discover their child’s created manner, character, temperament, and hard wired spiritual gifting. Parents are then obligated to raise their offspring within these providential conditions so that the child will ignite in life, living his days fully oriented in God’s thoughts, perfection, plan, and resting in salvation that has been provided through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Male children between the ages of 18
months and 3 years old will decide who they will emulate, either their mother or father. At this time the child understands the difference between male and female and will mimic the opposite gender often for reasons of trauma which is supplied by physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Abandoning the use of their father’s masculine example some boys will begin to display irregular behavior, strongly refusing to conform to their biologically assigned gender.As I did, these children will, at times, or very often carry a purse, wear their mother’s make up, play with dolls, and display mannerisms suited for the female gender. In cases where the child pursues this gender non conformity beyond the point of simple curiosity and general play, concerned parents will seek out help. Attaching their family to extreme, secular, and popular explanation, the father, mother, and child are told to continue in the established behavior and celebrate their child’s difference. Warning them of the dangers ahead if attempts are made at changing the displayed behavior, the child’s perceptions and relationships with the father and mother are never repaired. Now the encouraged lad will fail, as I did, in tasking onto himself his own masculinity, and will later find himself wanting, lusting, and pandering after another man’smasculine attributes. Fully integrated into an identity, tragically indifferent to his biological construct, a transition takes place. Seeing himself opposite to his peers, the young man begins to become sexually attracted to his presumed opposite. The pubescent young man will grow into homosexual behavior, cultivated by pornography and grotesque indoctrination of the secular homosexual advocacy, scientific, and psychological groups. Warning: Secular associations of the scientific, psychological, and advocacy groups, intending to bring me freedom from oppressive religious conjecture, have been found to be my oppressor(s). As the secular scientific community continues to come up empty when explaining the origins of homosexuality, they in advertently assert that God’s hand must play a commanding role in explaining and justifying all homosexual behavior.Without “smoking gun” evidence this community has only produced speculation, filling the hearts and minds of the homosexually identified, assuring them that God is altogether like them. Now armed with powerless, limited, untailored, heretical, and unsubstantiated claims, the secular scientific, psychological, and advocacy groups attempt to disprove God’s providential design. The question they still cannot answer concretely: is the homosexual distinct, fearfully and wonderfully made? The homosexually identified are without affirming biblical representation, and the modern scientist forces them to compare themselves to the unfortunate realities of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia.Also, scientists are assuring the homosexual community that there must be something in the water.Dr. Eric Vilain, a Professor of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, and Urology at UCLAand adored by homosexual advocates,boldly comforts the homosexuallyidentified by the introduction to epigenetics. The science of epigenetics has suggested that anyone can become homosexually oriented if they are in the wrong place at
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the wrong time or as some would boast in the right place at the right time. Environmental factors are now being said to influence the genes’ expression, possibly turning on or off the functionality of genes which can change the “organism's” characteristics. This science attempts to explain the eventual compulsion for a man to lie with another man as he would lie with a woman. But riddled throughout a presentation found on YouTube, “Born This Way: Biological Tales of Sexual Orientation”,Dr. Vilain is heard using phrases such as “we have absolutely no idea”,“nobody knows”, “hard to understand”, and “hard to interpret”. Without scientific certainty and biblical affirmationthe LGBTQ are again alone and without a shepherd. Sadly unrecognized is the weeping of the Christian community. We continue to witnessthe LGBTQ community, our loved ones, enthusiastically following the crooked voice of the uncloaked wolf. Unfolding before our eyes is another grand scale social injustice. But will their story end happily? For some the story has taken an interesting turn. “Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains. Let them give thanks to the Lord for His unfailing love and His wonderful deeds for men, for He breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.” When examining their salvation through the blood of Christ,a group has formed with roots established in ancient biblical times. Unfortunately called “ex-gay”, men and woman from around the worldproclaim a freedom from unwanted samesex-attraction and homosexual orientation. The first “ex-gays”, found in I Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV, confirm that potentially millions have been restored. “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” The reverberating effect of the cross has traveled throughout the last 2017 years. But the secular scientific, psychological, and advocacy groups still refuse to share, consider, and examine the blood of Jesus Christ.Secular watch dogs are currently working to dismantle the testimony of ministries such as Christ Rose Ministries and Janet Boynes Ministries that were founded by former homosexuals. It is believed that these kind of ministries are being targeted because they hold the lynch pin destined to blow the wheels off “peer reviewed” conjecture of unsubstantiated scientific and psychological“wouboulee bouboulee”, which attempts to capture the hearts and minds of the family and shackle their children. Targeting the righteous, the nonprofit organization, Truth Wins Out, founded by Wayne Besen, works to disband organizations that claim former homosexuals live productive and satisfying lives. Large groups of people, who no longer identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, are becoming victims at the hands of brothers, sisters, room-mates, friends, mothers and fathers. They are being assaulted with continued threats and fits
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of intolerance. Sadly these brave men and women are painfully marked as perpetrators of hate.This band of the redeemed continues to march with shouts of victory as we are strengthened by God’s spoken promise,“Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and He will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun”. Psalms 37:5-6 NIV. Jesus with compassionate warning says in Matthew 7:13-14,“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Life is found in Jesus Christ and I am thankful that I have been found in Him. Every day I die to myself, trusting that the Life of Jesus will pull me through any need or trial. These last eight years have been incredible and difficult in pulling off strongholds that once held me captive. Fifteen years in the homosexual community, and forty years struggling with identity, Jesus has set this captive free. Finally I have accepted my own masculinity, and the need to lust and pander after another man has gone. Eyes no longer blinded,my love for God has changed. No longer telling God what He should accept because of His love, but now I understand what His love has created in me. Fearfully and wonderfully made in 1975 on the dusty plains of Wyoming, God intended for me to become a sensitive and relational man who would be blessed with gifts of discernment and mercy. Given as an Evangelist I have been purposed to “go out and feed many”, and with a mission of “Displaying God’s workmanship, His promise of salvation from death to life by the power of the cross.” Temporarily the enemy of my soul detoured my destiny, but my Father who is rich in mercy perceived that one day I would call upon the name of Jesus. He has altered the course of my life, restoring perceptions, and rebuilding a correct identity. I am now living in the way I should go. Be blessed Body of Christ as we are reminded of God’s plan for man’s sinful condition.
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DAVID AND DONALD
DAVID AND DONALD BY REVEREND SUZANNE HOWARD
Last year, during the campaign, I wrote to Donald Trump. It was a letter of encouragement and hope. In it I recalled a word by modern day prophet Kim Clement prophesying that the next president would be a man like the biblical King David. Many scoffed at the idea. Trump is a canvas of good and not so good, of hopes and dreams, of great achievements and dismal failures. His is a canvas of brilliant color, various and subtle shadings; yet there are also the cracks and seams that plague us all. Our president is not a perfect man, but he is the perfect man for the job. The political establishment, “the Old Boy’s Club”, joked about his decision to run, ridiculing him as if he just didn’t know what the job of president was about, and that he was acting like an entitled fool. They were then, and are still now, in a shocked state of disbelief and denial. They have tried and are still trying everything in their power to discredit the president and doing their best to ensure his failure. Do you remember how many times King Saul tried directly or indirectly to remove David? David was always one or two steps ahead of Saul though. Look at I Samuel 18:25-27. Saul told David to get 100 philistine foreskins as a kind of dowry for his daughter Michel. So what did David do? He brought back 200 of them! Trump is doing likewise through some of his executive orders. David prevailed and so will Donald Trump. God loves the sinner. John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” This scripture is a basic tenant of the Christian faith. Strange it seems when those who profess to be Christian will castigate President Trump and say ”all manner of evil against him.” They have forgotten “from whence they came.” Maybe that is the problem. They have not come “from whence.” They have not come to the foot of the cross. Donald Trump has. God seems to take great delight in upsetting the proverbial apple cart with His personal choices in who should do what. He has taken many a man and woman out of the mire of their lives and made them His messengers in one fashion or another. He chose the deceiver Jacob to become Israel who founded a people and nation. He chose David out of the sheep fold to be a king; and King Cyrus, a heathen, to set the children of Israel free to return home after 70 years of exile. Then later on the Lord chose the fierce persecutor of His newly born Church to be knocked off his donkey and to receive a vision that changed his life. Saul, now Paul, preached far and wide, and wrote much of the New Testament, including these words: “If any man be in Christ he is a new creation, old things have passed away, all things become new.” II Corinthians 5:17. During New Testament times the religious establishment enjoyed their lofty positions in society and cushy jobs. Jesus called them “whited sepulchers full of dead men’s bones.” Many of the scions of our society are no different. The priests of Jesus’ day, the Sauls and Absalom's of David’s day, and the politicians of our day share the same malady. They were/are tainted and overwhelmed by the swamp and have profaned their
position with corruption, extortion (pay to play), selfaggrandizement, and egocentricity. One by one our laws, our history, and our very foundations have been eroded or scraped altogether. Moral decay is rampant, aided and abetted by lawmakers who don’t love the law, and liberal judges who contort the law to their own illusions. Our beloved Constitution is being reinterpreted to say things that the founding fathers never meant in the writing of it. The political correctness that was supposed to make us all nicer and more polite has degenerated into a morass of ugliness and deception. But that was the plan all along. It has finally become obvious that the real purpose was to obfuscate* Truth, con the populous, and promote a sordid socialist agenda and culture that is diametrically opposed to the bedrock foundations of our Republic. Donald Trump has left his golden towers to engage in the battles we face. He has not done it for greed or for personal glorification. This red blooded American patriot is fired by his faith and a love of this country which is deeply embedded into the very marrow of his bones. He is very clear about his objectives and equally clear about his Christian faith. It takes a new believer time to grow up into Christ, to become that “telos” man that is a mature believer feasting on the meat of the Word, not just the milk. President Trump is making every effort to do just that. He has invited mature believers to hold Bible studies, and prayer in the Oval Office and the Cabinet room (which is perfectly constitutional). He has accepted the Lord Jesus as his personal savior. He is truly a Christian and is not shy about saying so. That upsets a lot of people. Truth and the strength to declare it out loud always upsets some people. So be it. Our president has vowed to “Make America Great Again!” With our prayers and the anointing of the Holy Spirit and His protection Donald J. Trump will succeed. Goliath is bragging on the field. David, aka President Trump, is choosing his 5** smooth stones. Here is a list of a few of the similarities between David and the Donald. I Samuel 17 David: Fearless in the face of the lion and the bear. vs 34-37 Confident in his abilities vs 32, Able to clearly identify a threat or enemy vs 26 Unafraid to speak boldly vs 26, 45-47 Paid no attention to his detractors, did not back down vs 29, 30 Did not use established methods vs 39, 40 Took successful control of a dangerous situation vs 49, 50 Inspired the populous to chant his praises 18:6,7 Victorious in spite of the establishment trying to destroy him 19:9,10 David prevailed and succeeded to the throne. II Samuel 2:1-4 *The word obfuscate, a verb meaning to make obscure, make unclear, blur, muddle, to throw into shadow. Sounds just like certain governmental persons doesn’t it? I think the better word for some of them is obfuscator. I like it. It certainly fits. **Five is the number so often associated with God’s grace, His unmerited favor and empowerment. The smooth stones are a type and shadow of the Word of God.
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ARMY RISING LAUNCHES THE FIRST MISSION TRIP! BY KELLY TRAYES
This month, Army Rising Ministries took the Gospel to beautiful Estonia! It was the launch of Army Rising Mission Trips as five of us went on an adventure to meet with the lovely Boris & Shannon, who are two of the leaders in Focus Church, Tallinn, Estonia. So not only was this a very personal achievement for me and an overwhelming one in many different ways, including major flight issues with delays and cancellations, however God remained faithful and knew we had to be there to deliver a program and so everything worked out fine in the end! Myself, Dare, Kelly D, Shavina & Andy, faithfully stepped out to arrange the trip back in August to see exactly what God would do. We left with many expectations and plans (plan A & B) and yet God always showed up in the perfect way and did exactly what He knew He needed to do.
The trip consisted of a team of 5, for 5 days and yet at times it felt like I was carrying the world! This trip stretched me as a leader in more ways than one. We had hiccups on the way there with our flights; and of course we all have our own personalities and ways to react to these kind of things but me personally, I like a calm and hassle free approach. Others felt to be very verbal about their disgust and would produce high levels of stress and worry, where others remained silent and almost non-existent in the whole thing. What I realised is spending a few hours a week with someone is not the same as spending days with someone, but I thank God for His grace and mercy and for getting us there safely.
ARMY RISING LAUNCHES THE FIRST MISSION TRIP!
Anyway, it wasn’t a surprise to me that things could get a little tricky and that we would probably face some trials along the way, however everything was rectified in the end. We had a plan and high expectations that God would show up and were excited to see what was really going to happen. We landed in Tallinn, Estonia, which is a quiet, beautiful country, full of culture, history and friendly people. The language barrier was an issue for the older generation who spoke either Estonian or Russian but no English; and at times it was as if we were playing charades to try and get a point across. On those couple of occasions it appeared to have worked. Well, they left smiling either way! During the day time, Shannon was our tour guide, as we ventured out on prayer walks and had the opportunity to speak to some of the locals, despite the language barrier, as we just wanted to be obedient to what Holy Spirit was leading us to do. We attended Focus Church on Sunday morning for both services. It had a real modern, casual and funky vibe to it. It was in a refurbished warehouse, which had everything for the church services, to youth groups and kids club facilities. It was welcoming, homely and full of love for Jesus. It wasn’t too long before Holy Spirit was moving. Shavina had a vision prior to the trip of a particular woman with dark hair, tied back, with a white/cream top on. She looks at me and says “I think that’s the lady I need to speak to over there!” A little bit of fear held her back initially and the lady disappeared after the service ended. Later, I saw her back in the corridor. I call Shavina and tell her “Go! Your lady is back!” Shavina went and delivered the vision and the lady was in tears. It was for her! It meant so much they hugged and blessed each other in prayer. Kelly D, also was receiving words for people and Dare ended up on the worship team for a song or 2 playing the cajon drum, Andy became the barrister on the welcome team and I, also, went to pray for people and offer a word. The plan for this week was to take what we had learnt back here in London to our brothers and sisters in Estonia. Unfortunately the older generation do not have any interest in ‘religion’, so the message that this is about relationship can be challenging for many born again believers. The younger generation seem more open to Jesus and hungry to learn. We had on average 12-15 people attend each evening session. From Sunday to Tuesday, we met every evening and had a set program from the topics like; ‘an introduction to Jesus’ and who He is to us individually; our identity; hearing from the Holy Spirit; and healing (both inner and physical). Every session was just mind blowing. We had tears of joy and emotional release from unforgiveness and things still hidden deep down; we witnessed shocked faces of new revelations; physical healing where someone’s neck was healed, another girls leg grew out, and inner healing/deliverance took place in many others! It was incredible to see Holy Spirit move and shift, seeing the lightbulbs go on as those who didn’t feel they had heard from the Holy Spirit before encountered Him in a new refreshing way. The trouble getting to Estonia, now made sense and made it worth while to see such breakthrough and to plant big seeds of hope. On the way back, we let out a big sigh of relief and praised God for all he had done. It was a shame that this time our luggage got left behind in Norway, but it was all a lesson within a lesson. We definitely learnt how to grow in more patience, wisdom and truly walk like Jesus. Be encouraged. Holy Spirit is active and wants to move even more with every step we take! Don’t be afraid to step out and take risks. It is proving that those who ‘believe’ (and take action) have signs and wonders follow them! (Matt 16 v 17)
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THE AHAB GENERATION
THE AHAB GENERATION BY JOSHUA D. JONES
Once upon a midnight dreary, as churches stumbled weak and weary, and revivals seemed naught but old, forgotten lore. While monks nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a rapping, as if someone firmly hammering, hammering on Wittenberg’s door. Excuse the parody of Poe’s immortal The Raven. The poem is a work of genius and my brutish hands tremble to tamper with it. I only dare do so because the darkness and vexation described in the poem captures well the spiritual gloom of the generation that Martin Luther was born into. Though this poem is only 173 years old, it is now 500 years since Luther hammered his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg to protest the spiritual corruption of his day. In this sense, Luther lived at a time not wholly dissimilar to that of Elijah. He lived at a time when the surrounding social and religious culture had fallen to great depths of perversion: indulgences were sold, priests kept concubines, and Rome was a city flooded with greedy charlatans. Not all cultures are equal. Some are worse than others. And Ahab’s generation contains a culture that is among the most abominable in history. Canaanite worship had been slowly sneaking into Israeli culture for many years before Ahab arrived, but Yahwehism was still present―even if not all Israelis were deeply devoted to their nation’s God. It is now Ahab and Jezebel that shepherd God’s people from the strange fields of religious pluralism to the harsh desert sands of pagan totalitarianism and there may be something we can learn from this transition that’s of relevance to the church in the West today. It isn’t too hard to transition the people. Sadly, what is good in Israel is also weak. Jezebel brings money with her from Tyre. There is food on the table. Plus, the worship of these gods is relaxed compared to the strict ethics of Yahweh. Who cares too much if laws against the worship of Yahweh are being slowly introduced? People have always been willing to trade freedom of worship and expression for security, a good economy, and sexual license. To show how spiritually weak and ready for take over Israel is, the author of Kings gives us an example of the cultural attitude towards God’s word. Joshua, the great general of God’s people, had spoken a curse when he watched Yahweh throw down the walls of the perverse city of Jericho. It was not just his word that Joshua uttered, it was God’s word. The city was simply not to be rebuilt. But Israel is in something akin to a cold war with its southern neighbour of Judah. Ahab’s Ministry of Defence thinks it strategic to have a fortified city there, so they give the contract to Hiel and his company gets to work in the rebuilding of the old, destroyed city. We do not know the details of how his sons die. We simply read that it is connected to the curse God placed on the city. But what we can know from this example is that this generation is one that openly defies God’s word―there is no secret closet about it. What in previous generations was done quietly, now parades itself proudly. There is no more blushing. Guilt is forbidden. Perhaps
when Hiel’s sons died, it momentarily brought about the memory of Joshua’s curse to Ahab’s mind. Perhaps his heart felt the fear of the Lord for a day. But by the next, it was back to business as usual. Open and celebratory defiance of God’s law is the mood in Ahab’s Israel. And this is what makes them ready for a revival. But not a revival of repentance. It is a revival of paganism―a movement fuelled by a horny spirit, not the Holy Spirit. Israel celebrates wickedness because the Fear of Yahweh is now dead in the lives of her people. This lax attitude towards holiness is what prepares the way for Jezebel’s totalitarianism. No one trembles before God’s word any longer. Those left in Israel who still identify as worshippers of Yahweh only do so half-heartedly. They carry a loyalty is largely sentimental. And what of our nation? What of Britain or America? There was a time in Britain when the national, Anglican church was seen as a chaplain that comforted the people and held hands with those in power. But our generation no longer pretends to be Christian in any meaningful sense. Such generations do not need chaplains. They need missionaries whose gospel proclamation will pierce their consciences like a nail piercing the wood of an old university door. And what condition is our church in? Are we a church fit for mission? Among the professed people of God, are there those who glory in sins those previous generations would have been ashamed to talk about? Not those previous generations didn’t struggle with the same temptations of spirit and flesh that we do. They did. But what was their reaction to such struggles? Not a parade. It is the sons of Ahab who make excuses for sin with a theological and moral vocabulary that permits people to live contrary to God’s law without blushing. Like the surrounding culture, we need far more than mere cheery chaplains. We do not need the homiletically equivalent of a cup of warm milk before bed. We need to be awakened to our condition.And in ancient Israel, it is to awaken God’s people to their true condition and to restore holiness that God raises up the witch-Queen’s antithesis: a prophet of fire whose voice will cut through the corrupt atmosphere like a raven’s cry in the desert. This article is an exert from Joshua’s new book ‘Elijah Men Eat Meat’ which can be found on Amazon. Joshua D. Jones is pastor of The field Chapel near Cambridge, England where he speaks, writes, and enjoys the company of his wife, four children, and close friends.
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