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+ At WAR
> Mt 24:9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.
+ Family News In Focus - sound bite - Washington Post Endorsements
CNSNews - Cybercast News Service
Day after day, night after night, the news media question, denounce, or just plain ignore the good news. They want higher taxes to fund massive new federal spending for more liberal experiments
They want America -- and the world -- to see our military as corrupt and barbaric -- and failing. And they’ll denounce anyone or anything that stands in the way of that message."
Brent Bozell (founder and president of the Media Research Center,) surveyed 18,000 nightly news shows broadcast by ABC, CBS, NBC, the Cable News Networks and the Public Broadcasting Service, but found only 212 stories that focused on religion. That amounts to 1 percent of coverage although 52 percent of Americans say they attend church and more than 90 percent say that they pray regularly.
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X - ACLU - Cartoon
> ACLU fight for the free speech and expression "rights" of Pornographers, Witches, Abortionists, Homosexuals, Convicted Criminals, Child Molesters, Occultists, Communists, Lesbians, Nazis, Illegal Aliens, Aids Patients, and Satanists, they have resolutely attempted to deny those same privileges to Christians.
+ Recently, the ACLU have sought to:
> Halt the singing of Christmas carols like "Silent Night" and "Away in a Manger" in public facilities;
* Deny the tax-exempt status of all churches--yet maintaining it for themselves as well as for various occult groups;
> Disallow prayer--not just in the public school classrooms, but in locker rooms, sports arenas, graduation exercises, and legislative assemblies;
> Terminate all military and prison chaplains;
> Deny Christian school children access to publicly funded services;
> Eliminate nativity scenes, crosses, and other Christian symbols from public property;
> Repeal all blue law statutes;
* Prohibit voluntary Bible reading in public schools--even during free time or after classes;
> Remove the words In God We Trust from our coins;
> Deny accreditation to science departments at Bible-believing Christian Universities;
> Prevent the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms;
* Terminate all voucher programs and tuition tax credits;
* Prohibit census questions about religious affiliation;
* Purge the words under God from the Pledge of Allegiance.
From ACLU Policy Guide, 159-190.
+ War At Work
>(WorldNetDaily) A Christian employee of Hewlet Packard was fired for posting Bible verses condemning homosexual behavior on his desk in response to posters displayed during a company campaign to promote a diverse work force.
+ CNN founder Ted Turner asked employees who had ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday if they were "a bunch of Jesus freaks?"
+ War On Students
>A teacher confiscated book covers that contained the Ten Commandments and threw them in the trash saying the Commandments were "hate speech" that might offend other students.
+ War On Words
>U.S. District Court Samuel B. Kent of the Southern District of Texas decreed that any student uttering the word "Jesus" would be arrested and tossed in the pokey for six months.
+ War In Courts
> Nov 2003 - Alabama judge Roy Moore was roundly denounced by the big media for erecting and refusing to remove Ten Commandments stone tablets from his courthouse. The media hated him so they bashed him out of office.
+War On Marriage
>Two mayors
– one in San Francisco and one in New Paltz, New York. The media describe the San Francisco mayor has young, handsome and Catholic. Everything they write about him is positive. It is the same with the mayor of new Paltz, New York.
> Both mayors are breaking state law by performing same-sex marriages.
+ War On Eternal Life
- Christians, are often subjected to scorn and ridicule and denied their religious freedoms Often are called "Bible-thumping idiots."
> Dec 2002 - MSNBC talk-show host Phil Donahue "Do You Have to Be a Christian to Get into Heaven?" Jerry Falwell quotes Jn 14:6
> Many in the audience applauded the Rev. Falwell’s statement,
> Donahue expressed disdain for their reaction
> They were characterized as bigoted, ignorant, hateful and unenlightened
+ War On Christianity
Rosie O’Donnell & Elizabeth Hasselbeck,
Rosie statement 9/12/06 "radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."
One British writter saw them as overbearing lesbians and fundamentalist right-wing bubbleheads furiously howling at each other
+ Kidnapping
> The kidnap-murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had 86 references to Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in the nation’s newspaper over 2 months. Killed February 2002
> Martin and Gracia Burnham June 2002 - New Tribes Mission
Just 21 references to the Burnhams’ plight for 9 months
- Is it possible that apathy, if not outright antagonism, toward committed religious evangelists helps explain the difference in coverage between Pearl and the Burnhams? (Pearl was Jewish - but it was his central identity as a journalist, and not as a Jew, that garnered overwhelming media attention when he was kidnapped.)
+ July 23/07
Sympathy has been tempered by anger over their decision to travel to such a dangerous region
- 23 South Korean Christians has been held hostage by Taliban thugs in Afghanistan. This is the largest group of foreign hostages taken in Afghanistan since Operation Enduring Freedom began in 2001. What was their offense? Were they smuggling arms into the country? No. Inciting violence? No. They were peaceful believers in Christ on short-term medical and humanitarian missions. Seventeen of the 23 hostages are females. Most of them are nurses in their 20s & 30s who provide social services and relief at hospitals & schools not to spread Christianity
- Bae Hyung-kyu (Bay Yung Q) shot 10 times on his 42 birthday and his body is dumped leaving behind his wife and young daughter. He was youth pastor and assistant pastor at Church in Bundang, just south of the South Korean capital Seoul..
- Organized the trip to Afghanistan to provide free medical care to the people there
- His fellow church members called him “Mr. Smiles” because he seemed to radiate joy
Bae gave because he knew Jesus
Taliban acted they way they did because they do not know Jesus
+ War On Values
> 68% of Americans say the media have damaged moral values in America, according to a report released Wednesday by the Culture and Media Institute
> 1 Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
- It is the gospel alone that saves those who believe it.
- Nothing else will save.
- Therefore we must preach the gospel.
- Paul 1 Cor. 9:16“Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel”
+ What Is it to Preach the Gospel?
> To exalt Jesus Christ.
> To preach Christ in His fulness
> Crucified, Buried, Resurrected
+ It is to Preach Christ
> Christ in His fulness
>His attributes
> His relations to men
> His life as the pattern to live by
> His blood atonement as Christian doctrine
> His resurrection as the source of Christian assurance
> His coming again as the fountain of hope and joy.
+ Peter
> Ac 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
> Acts 4:1 - Priests, Captain of the temple, Sadducees
> Ac 4:2-3 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.
> RESULTS Ac 4:18-20 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
+ Steven
> Ac 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
> Ac 7:57-58 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
> Ac 8:3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
+ Media’s War Is To Silence Christians
> Deny Our Christian Roots
> Convince People that Christians violate 1st Amendment
> Intimidate Christians
> The names "radical right," "far right," "extreme right"and > "Christian right" are also part of the effort to marginalize and demoralize those with traditional views.
+ Believers Are Called:
> Judgmental:
> People say, "You criticize our way - you don’t think we’re good enough for God!"
> (Romans 3:23-24)
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> Arrogant:
> "You think you’re better than us - that you have found the only way to eternal life!"
(John 14:6)
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> Narrow-minded:
> "You think you have the only handle on truth.
> If you practiced the love you preach, you would see all people as worthy of salvation"
(1 Timothy 4:1-2)
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> Ignorant:
> "You simply don’t know the other paths to enlightenment"
(2 Timothy 4:3-4)
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> Old-Fashioned:
"You cling to obsolete myths"
(Hebrews 13:8)
+ Chained to Darkness
> Pr 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
