Global Government by 2025?

This is troubling. [A pdf copy of the report is available on this article link.]
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Global Government by 2025?
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/45794/

Naughty or Nice? 2009

Naughty or Nice? 2009
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- American Family Association:
AFA's 2009 listing of top retailers and how they recognize Christmas
http://action.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147486887
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- Liberty Counsel
"Friend or Foe" Christmas Campaign
http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=15259

The Compassionate Friends - Worldwide Candle Lighting

Worldwide Candle Lighting Video

Worldwide Candle Lighting

The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting unites family and friends around the globe in lighting candles for one hour to honor and remember children who have died at any age from any cause. As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, creating a virtual wave of light, hundreds of thousands of persons commemorate and honor children in a way that transcends all ethnic, cultural, religious, and political boundaries.

The Compassionate Friends - Home

Even When Steeples Are Falling ...

Lutheran CORE - News And Discussion:
http://commonconfession.blogspot.com/2009/08/even-when-steeples-are-falling.html

http://commonconfession.blogspot.com/2009/08/real-catastrophe.html
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. How the ELCA Left the Great Tradition for Liberal Protestantism
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/septemberweb-only/135-31.0.html

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themastersmilieu/message/1152

World’s most popular Bible to be revised

World’s most popular Bible to be revised
Some gender terms could get makeover in first update in quarter century
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msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 2:52 p.m. ET, Tues., Sept . 1, 2009
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The world's most-popular Bible will undergo its first revision in 25 years, modernizing the language in some sections and promising to reopen a contentious debate about changing gender terms in the sacred text.
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The New International Version, the Bible of choice for conservative evangelicals, will be revised to reflect changes in English usage and advances in Biblical scholarship, it was announced Tuesday. The revision is scheduled to be completed late next year and published in 2011.
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"We want to reach English speakers across the globe with a Bible that is accurate, accessible and that speaks to its readers in a language they can understand," said Keith Danby, global president and CEO of Biblica, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Christian ministry that holds the NIV copyright.
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But past attempts to remake the NIV for contemporary audiences in different editions have been plagued by controversies about gender language that have pitted theological conservatives against each other.
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The changes did not make all men "people" or remove male references to God, but instead involved dropping gender-specific terms when translators judged that the original text didn't intend it. So in some verses, references to "sons of God" became "children of God," for example.
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Supporters say gender-inclusive changes are more accurate and make the Bible more accessible, but critics contend they twist meaning or smack of political correctness.
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Earlier revision fell flat
Acknowledging past missteps, the NIV's overseers are promising that this time, the revision process will be more transparent and that they will actively promote what they describe as a long-held practice of inviting input from scholars and readers.
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The NIV was first published in 1978 and more than 300 million NIV Bibles are in print worldwide; its publishers and distributors say the translation accounts for more than a third of Bibles sold worldwide.
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The Committee on Bible Translation, an independent group of conservative scholars and translators formed in 1965 to create and revise the NIV, will oversee the new revision.
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An effort earlier this decade to create a separate version of the NIV that used more gender-inclusive language in an attempt to reach a younger audience fell flat with groups that felt it crossed the line.
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That edition, Today's New International Version, will cease publication once the new-look NIV is released, said Moe Girkins, president of Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Zondervan, its North American publisher.
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"Whatever its strengths, the TNIV has become an emblem of division in the evangelical Christian world," Girkins said.
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It was the TNIV that ushered in changes from "sons of God" to "children of God," or "brothers" to "brothers and sisters." In Genesis I, God created "human beings" in his own image instead of "man."
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Many prominent pastors and scholars endorsed the changes. But critics said masculine terms in the original should not be tampered with. Some warned that changing singular gender references to plural ones alters what the Bible says about God's relationships with individuals.
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The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution saying the edition "has gone beyond acceptable translation standards."
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"We fell short of the trust that has been placed in us," said Danby, of Biblica. "We failed to make a clear case for the revisions."
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Gender terms
Danby said that freezing the NIV in its 1984 state was also a mistake, however. He emphasized that in the revision, about 90 percent of the NIV will be unchanged.
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Douglas Moo, a professor at Wheaton College and chairman of the Committee on Bible Translation, said the group is committed to "a complete review of every gender related change."
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"I am not sure how it's going to come out," Moo said. "We have a genuine, authentic review process ... Everything is on the table."
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One of the most vocal critics of gender-inclusive translations, Randy Stinson of the Louisville, Ky.-based Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, said the group supports updating the NIV. He credited organizers for their openness.
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"We're still probably going to differ on the way they handle some of the gender language," Stinson said. "But we're open and anxious to see what they come up with and we're really going to be reserving judgment."
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Most changes will have nothing to do with gender inclusivity, Moo said. And the TNIV provides a glimpse of likely changes: In the '84 NIV, Mary is "with child," but in the TNIV she is "pregnant." In the NIV version of Psalm 146:9, "The Lord watches over the alien." The TNIV used "foreigner" instead of "alien."
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Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32644719/ns/us_news-faith/?GT1=43001
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FYI: Site page offers a poll 1/2 way down the page.
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Psalm 146:9 [KJV] The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
http://christiananswers.net/bible/psa146.html
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I think the word in Psalm's says it all I think.

US Evangelical Lutheran Church Approves Homosexual Clergy

US Evangelical Lutheran Church Approves Homosexual Clergy
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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski
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MINNEAPOLIS, August 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Friday, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted in favor of allowing practicing homosexuals, in committed relationships, to hold positions of authority within the sect.
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By a vote of 559 to 451 at last week's national convention, representatives of the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States decided "to open the ministry of the church to gay and lesbian pastors and other professional workers living in committed relationships."
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"The actions here change the church's policy, which previously allowed gays and lesbians into the ordained ministry only if they remained celibate," ELCA information director John Brook told AFP.
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"This is not simply rules and procedures for implementing something new," said Rev. Stanley Olson, executive director of ELCA Vocation and Education. "We have these policies because we are committed to having the kind of leaders who will serve the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who will respect this church and other churches, and who will have the world in view."
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Members of Lutheran CORE (Coalition for Reform), representing over 400 conservative congregations that fought against the homosexualist resolution, renounced the ELCA vote.
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"ELCA has broken faith with its members and Lutherans worldwide," CORE said in a statement released on Friday.
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"Lutheran CORE is continuing in the Christian faith as it has been passed down to us by generations of Christians," Rev. Paul Spring, chairman of Lutheran CORE, said in the statement. "I am saddened that a Lutheran Church that was founded on a firm commitment to the Bible has come to the point that the ELCA would vote to reject the Bible's teaching on marriage and homosexual behavior. It breaks my heart."
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Rev. Spring said CORE will encourage ELCA members and congregations to withdraw financial support from the denomination.
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"Lutheran CORE leaders are inviting faithful Lutheran congregations and individuals to direct funding away from the national church body because of the decisions made this week by the Churchwide Assembly. Lutheran CORE will participate in and support faithful ELCA ministries, but cannot support ELCA ministries that reject the authority of God's Word," the group's statement stated.
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Rev. Richard Mahan, pastor at St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Charleston, W.Va., told AFP that he believed a majority of his congregation would want to now break away from the ELCA.
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"This will cause an ever greater loss in members and finances. I can't believe the church I loved and served for 40 years can condone what God condemns," Mahan said. "Nowhere in Scripture does it say homosexuality and same-sex marriage is acceptable to God. Instead, it says it is immoral and perverted."
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Lutheran CORE announced it will hold a convention in Indianapolis, September 25-26, to plan its further response to the ELCA announcement.
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To contact Lutheran CORE:
Paul Spring,
Chairman State College, PA
Phone: 814-235-9769
Email: pastorspring@pennswoods.net
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To contact the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) with your concern:
Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson
ELCA Churchwide Office (The Lutheran Center)
8765 W. Higgins Road
Chicago, IL 60631
Phone: 773/380-2700
Toll free: 800/638-3522
Fax: 773/380-1465
E-mail: info@elca.org
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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/aug/09082405.html
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Lutheran gay clergy vote tests mainline churches

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