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A ministry opportunity from Life and Liberty Ministries This is the schedule for LLM's upcoming annual tour. The Face The Truth Virginia Campus Tour will run through the week of September 26 - 30, 2005. Universities, High Schools, and other busy areas are our target locations. If you are a born-again Christian with a heart for the murdered preborn and a desire to share God's Word with the lost, consider joining with us on this short-term mission. The cities and towns that will be visited are listed below but the exact locations can be obtained by contacting LLM at 804-492-9216...

British citizens, who happen to be Muslim, murdered over 50 people, including themselves. Or, was it Islamists, who happen to be British, killed innocent people? It makes a difference. Brits today, Americans tomorrow, must know who their domestic enemies are and what kind of war they are fighting to win. Assuming Brits or Americans have the will to win. This World War is between a totalitarian ideology, born of a relatively barbaric culture, against all humankind. Domestic Islamists, acting as terrorists in the country of their birth, can be defeated. The Liberal Secular Humanist majority in the U.K., like their...

IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS after the horror in London on July 7, media in Britain and abroad focused considerable attention on "Londonistan"--the local zoo of Islamist agitators, almost entirely Arab, who have made headlines for years with their extremist preaching. Analytical lines, many of them useful, were drawn to al Qaeda and Iraq, but almost nobody looked at domestic Muslim extremism in the United Kingdom. Close observers of the British Islamic community, however, few of whom seem to have been consulted by reporters or the government, had been discussing for months a dramatic increase in radical agitation by Pakistani...

Many who have read thus far may well feel that they do not recognize the gospel with which they are familiar in what has been said. It is my contention that there is a real and basic difference between the biblical gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and the prevailing manmade substitute. To substantiate this claim, I must examine the modern gospel and compare it with Scripture, for our final authority must be Scripture alone, where we find many warnings against false gospels (for example Gal. 1:6—9, 1 Tim. 6:3, 20, 2 Tim. 1:13—14). If we are to be true...

AMSTERDAM — Immigration and Integration Minister Rita Verdonk has ordered three imams accused of being a threat to public order and national security to get out of the Netherlands. The trio have been accused of preaching a militant anti-western message at Al Fourkaan mosque in Eindhoven and allowing young people to be recruited for Jihad. They will be expelled if they do not leave the country voluntarily, Verdonk has vowed. She has given them a month in which they can challenge her order but they cannot stay in the Netherlands pending the outcome of any appeal. Lawyer Marq Wijngaarden is...

GOVERNOR RENDELL TO UNVEIL MARKER HONORING THOSE WHO COMMIT ACTS OF SODOMY AT NATIONAL CELEBRATION April 28, 2005 Our Nation is in a downward spiral. Good is called evil and evil is called good. My eldest son Caleb and I have traveled to Philadelphia to speak up for righteousness during a celebration of sin hosted by Equality Forum. Please pray for the outreaches that will be taking place during this week and ask that the Father will draw the lost to Himself. Below are several excerpts from a recent press release from Equality Forum. This sinful nation is begging the...

the new Issues, Etc. Journal - Vol. 1, No. 3 The Gospel in the Background Does Seeker-Oriented Evangelism Make the Most of Every Opportunity? by Todd WilkenFrom 1925 to 1976 filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock made 53 films. Hitchcock’s films are considered groundbreaking classics. The name "Hitchcock" brings to mind title after title— "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Lifeboat," "Rope," "Vertigo" and "Psycho." Hitchcock’s films featured stars like Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Claude Rains, and Jimmy Stewart. Alfred Hitchcock was also famous for making cameo appearances in no less than 37 of his films. He never appeared for...

Sriyanka Walpola for The New York Times A member of Antioch Community Church in Texas playing with Sri Lankan children at a relief camp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORAKETIYA, Sri Lanka, Jan. 19 -A dozen Americans walked into a relief camp here, showering bereft parents and traumatized children with gifts, attention and affection. They also quietly offered camp residents something else: Jesus. The Americans, who all come from one church in Texas, have staged plays detailing the life of Jesus and had children draw pictures of him, camp residents said. They have told parents who lost children that they should still believe...

JERUSALEM - Without committing mass murder against the Jews, the Muslims will never see their “day of resurrection,” a respected Islamic academic taught on official Palestinian Authority television this week. The message of Dr. Hassan Khater, founder of the Al Quds Encyclopedia, was replayed on PA TV Monday after originally being broadcast on July 13, 2003. In the televised lecture, Khater explains that according to Islamic myth, “the Hour [Day of Resurrection] will not arrive until you fight the Jews.” Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch says Khater’s repeat performance is part of the PA’s attempt to tone down “religious...

Philly Court Orders Four Christians to Trial December 15, 2004 Philly Court Orders Four Christians to Trial; Emergency Appeal Likely Attorney Contends Reading Scripture in Public Landed Them in Jail By Allie Martin December 15, 2004 (AgapePress) - An attorney with a pro-family ministry says a judge's decision on Tuesday, ordering four Christians in Philadelphia to stand trial for witnessing at a homosexual pride event, is comparable to the atmosphere of the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. In October, 11 Christians were arrested as they were praying and reading scripture during the annual "gay pride" event known...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

What Are Churches For? or A Social Versus Church Phenomenon An issue from two opposite sides, or two age-old issues pulling to opposing ideals? There is a social versus church phenomenon surrounding pastors, pushing and pulling them whether or not they've recognized it. It is troubling. The two issues are: One - Churches becoming provider stations for needs social and spiritual, versus: Two - Churches holding old-time preaching as their central mission. For instance, most evangelical and some fundamentalist churches are becoming or have become "provider stations" churches. They provide activities and entertainment including Christian dance, physical exercise programs, social...

When Incrementalism Really Means Compromise I was a mere high school student when I attended my first "contemporary" church service during the "Jesus Freak" movement of the early 1970's in Costa Mesa, California.  Up to that point in my life, I was exposed to more formal type church services only.  Nevertheless, this new kind of church service shocked me very little, because I was made aware (many times, until the point was driven home), of the "logic" behind this modern type worship. The example I heard most promoting the positive aspects of this new movement was, "we are building bridges to...

In Canada, there is growing concern that preaching against homosexuality may soon be considered a crime. Many Americans have been keeping a close eye on political developments in Canada over the last few years as homosexual rights are increasingly being written into law. Now the director of the International Bible Society (IBS) in Canada is predicting that the federal government could soon add homosexuals to the list of groups protected by laws against so-called "hate propaganda." Donald Brooker of IBS says the bill could permit Canadian officials to ban parts of the Bible as hate literature. If the bill becomes...

May God be restored to the British Isles By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Even when I lived in Oxford between 1988 and 1999, the Church of England was rapidly becoming a rotting corpse. Church attendance was at such an all-time low that one survey claimed less than 5 percent of congregants were regularly in attendance. An embarrassingly high number of Church of England vicars were saying in surveys that they questioned the existence of God. I recall how one Sunday morning I was the guest on a religious TV show debating the existence of the devil. Accompanying me...

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A minister crossed the line of constitutionally protected free speech in a confrontation with a woman who had gone to a southern Wisconsin beach that allows nude sunbathing, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 3rd District Court of Appeals upheld Ralph Ovadal's disorderly conduct conviction and $1,000 fine in the 2001 incident near the Mazomanie nude beach on the Wisconsin River. Ovadal, pastor of Christ the King Church in Monroe, has protested nudity at the beach since 1998 by handing out written Bible verses, holding placards and preaching. He and a small group of protesters were at a parking...

TONIGHT'S FOCUS: The first of a two-part series following three young men as they make their way towards the finals of the National Evangelistic Preaching competition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll be the first to admit that we don't do enough coverage of religion in this country. We pay a lot of attention to religion overseas, especially Islam. We cover the "religious right" in this country, but mostly, actually almost entirely, as a political force. But we haven't spent a lot of time looking at the evangelical community just as people. A new poll says that a little over thirty percent of adults...

THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB 1984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME Islam is being pictured today as a "religion of peace." Granted, religion can be complicated. Therefore, one must be careful when stating that Islam is not a religion of peace. But in fact it is not. Nevertheless, taking religion complications seriously, it is true that some Muslims believe that their religion is one of peace. Confused? You are not alone. So, backing up to the start, let's get some basics understood: Secular Muslims accept Islam as a religion of peace because...

UP WITH PREACHING The church is in grave danger of losing its pulpit. It will not be yanked away by the atheists. It will simply side off the sanctuary platform because of lack of proper use. What has been happening to the preached Word of late? It has been giving way to entertainment. Over-head projectors, singing groups, gospel film showings, drama, choreographed prayers, children's ditties, mimes and the like have clogged up too many worship hours. This has meant that there has been little time for a substantive message from the Word. Of course, the laity rarely complain because they...