Get prepared to be amazed.  This short little video will fill your eyes with tears and your hearts with awe.  We who are spiritual are called to judge all things (1 Corinthians 2:14).  That is exactly what I did while watching this video and so did everyone else.  Watch closely Jonathan looking to Charlotte before he begins to sing.  She calmed all his fears.

Charlotte is right when she says we should not judge Jonathan by his outward appearance anymore than we should judge a book by its cover.  But when we open the book we must judge it by its content.  When Jonathan opened up, it was only Charlotte that enabled him to do it, we saw and experienced the wonderful gift God had given him.  Now Charlotte will be taking a backseat to this young boy, and Jonathan will be lifted to heights, cash, and fame beyond his wildest imagination.  Will this switch in roles unite them or divide them?

God knows the heart.  If Charlotte and Jonathan do not have Jesus as the focal point of their lives, they will both be destroyed by the world, the flesh, and the devil, but for different reasons.  Jonathan will not be able to handle the fame, acclaim, money, and posse that will follow him, and Charlotte will not be able to handle the loneliness, envy, and bitterness that will overwhelm her soul as Jonathan moves on to greatness or destruction.  This is my judgment and I believe it is from God.  I am called to do this and so are you.

This however is my prayer for both of them.  That they will both come to know Jesus, have their sins forgiven, and live for the praise of God’s glory.  By the way, that is my prayer for you and me also.

Enjoy!  ~ Flip

Here’s the link to the video

Here is a report from our great brother in the Lord, Cal Zastrow.  While working hard in an attempt to get “Personhood” on the ballot in Montana, Cal always finds time to pound on the gates of hell in the magnificent Name of Jesus. ~ Flip

No Tranquility with Child-Killing

March 26, 2012

Cal Zastrow

 

BILLINGS, MONTANA –  Do the adults of Montana have a “right” to remain undisturbed while children are being murdered in their cities?   The babies sure don’t think so, and neither do I.

Eight pro-lifers showed up to peacefully pray and picket outside of the Northern Rockies Surgery Center  (http://www.northernrockiessurgery.com/AboutUs/) for a couple of hours this morning.   No, babies aren’t murdered at this facility, but one of their anesthesiologists, Dr. David Healow, does murder preborn chlidren at Planned Parenthood.  A handful of patients, and many people driving by, thanked us for being there to expose child-sacrifice.  We proclaimed Psalm 2 and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Some of the clinic workers came out to complain about us hurting their business.   I assured them, “Get rid of the abortionist, and we’ll go away.” 

They called the police on us.  Two patrol cars came quickly.   After Officers West and Hageman went inside to hear their story, they came over to the sidewalk to talk to us.   They were not disrespectful, but they did tell us to not “yell” at patients enterning in before surgery.   While talking in a normal voice, we could be heard in the whole parking lot.  I told the officer that we weren’t, and wouldn’t, yell at anybody.
“Well, don’t have any conversations with any patients.”

The order (bluff) didn’t work, and he knew it when I kindly replied that we would continue talking to people.   One officer drove away while the other sat in his car in the parking lot for another half hour, talking on his cell phone.  

A few more patients entered.  I asked them, “Is Dr. David Healow your anesthesiologist today?”

All denied that he was, but I still informed them, “Please don’t let Dr. Healow touch you.  He is an abortionist who murders babies.  Please invite the surgery center to get rid of the abortionist.”

A few patients agreed that they would speak up.

We welcome others to join us in praying for abortionist Dr. David Healow to quit murdering preborn children.  We also invite others to join us in the next picket, until the abortionist is gone from there.

The phone number for the Northern Rockies Surgery Center is: 406-248-7186.

The pro-aborts have served notice to their minions that there is something astir in the heavenlies.  They are right!  Their nasty little child-killing kingdom is coming to an abrupt end and they know it.  RH Reality Check is almost apoplectic about the fact that gentle Christians are moving out of the closet of the church house and into the streets of our culture.  As they are they are having a great impact and the gates of hell are being pushed back.

Enjoy the confused and convoluted argument of RH Reality Check!    ~ Flip

Dear Champion of the Lord and the Preborn,

The same lady, Eleanor Bader, from RH Reality Check that reviewed our first book, The Kingdom leadership Institute Manual, has become aware of the States of Refuge campaign. The RH Reality Check website is one of the hubs promoting the abortion and homosexual agenda defiling our land and invoking God’s wrath upon our nation. Here is her take on our new national campaign. ~ Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas

STOKING FIRE: Extremist Anti-Choice Groups Plan Five-State Assault

The fanatical fundamentalists are at it again. Not to be outdone by Catholic bishops clamoring for ever-increasing fetal protections, Flip Benham’s Operation Save America has teamed up with Go Stand Speak, LifeLink, Jeremiah Cry Ministries, Personhood USA, and Repent America to make five states-Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming-abortion “refuges.”

The five were chosen because each has just one reproductive health clinic. What’s more, the campaign to make these states abortion-free will link grassroots activism-raucous picketing, complete with billboard-sized pictures of bloody body parts–with a media crusade geared to maligning those who support freedom of choice.

According to OSA’s website, the groups will return to Jackson Hole, Wyoming from May 16th to 20th and will visit Little Rock, Arkansas from September 12th to 16th and Jackson, Mississippi from November 7the to 11th. They’ll also be in Charlotte, North Carolina during the Democratic National Convention, July 21st to 28th. As of this writing, both North and South Dakota appear to have been spared a direct appearance from OSA activists (Flip and I just returned from there).

But lest you write off these protests as same-old/same-old, please know that they’re not. OSA’s latest effort comes with a newsworthy difference–scope. The group has not only done outreach to legislators in each targeted state, they’ve also contacted 950 evangelical churches to solicit financial (False, we have not asked for a dime) and on-the-ground support.

Their appeal to largely African-American congregations included a copy of Maafa 21, a 137-minute documentary produced by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics Inc. in 2009. The film presents abortion and birth control as central components of a Caucasian plot to annihilate people of color; it further lambasts Planned Parenthood as a purveyor of racism and hatred of the poor. Predominantly white churches received The Abortion Matrix, a 10-part, 195-minute film, released in 2011, that posits the reproductive justice movement as a satanic cult comprised of witches and goddess worshippers.

While I have no idea who bankrolled this undertaking, the missive that accompanied the DVDs-signed by Benham and OSA Assistant Director Rusty Thomas-is clearly meant to rev up the fire-and-brimstone set. The Civil War took 630,000 lives, it begins, as payback for slavery.

“What do you think the toll will be when God Almighty demands an accounting for all the innocent blood that America has shed since the infamous Roe v. Wade decision,” the letter asks.

Released to coincide with the 39th anniversary of the Roe decision, the letter came at a time of such intense anti-feminist backlash that even the most absurd anti-woman pronouncements seem capable of gaining traction. And rest assured, the just-released Abortion Matrix is nothing if not absurd. The more than three-hour long narrative takes swipes at supposedly anti-Christian lawmakers and leaders, among them Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, and Margaret Sanger-but saves its most shrill condemnation for clinic workers, AKA members of Wiccan religious orders.

“Witchcraft is endemic to the abortion industry,” narrator Eric Holmberg declares. “It is a key component in a vast conspiracy in the tradition of paganism.”

Luminaries of the feminist spirituality movement including Starhawk, Zsuzsanna Budapest, and Ginette Paris are slammed, not only as man-haters, but also as proponents of infanticide. As the film unfolds the kind of music typically heard in campy horror flicks envelops the viewer. Throughout, Holmberg describes a litany of evil. Looking the viewer straight in the eye, it’s as if he wants to share a dastardly secret. Yes, he assures viewers, the goddess Aphrodite demands child sacrifice-or, in today’s parlance, abortion. Close-ups of a Florida clinician’s bumper sticker-In Goddess We Trust-is, he says, proof of this phenomenon.

Abigail Seidman, the daughter of a Midwestern clinic worker turned anti-abortion activist, is trucked out as the star witness. Clinic employees, she rails, are heathens who see abortion as a necessary rite of passage. Among her more inane assertions: Each spring, several staffers at an unnamed health center intentionally become pregnant so that they can have abortions. This, she reports, is meant to appease the blood lust of the female deities these vixens worship.

Yes, that’s really what she says.

Toward the end of The Abortion Matrix a section called Defeating Jezebel reveals the filmmaker’s political intent: Activating the fundamentalist base to stop abortion by whatever means.

“Without out-and-out spiritual warfare, what are our chances for victory where one million children are sacrificed each year?” Holmberg bellows. The imperative to act is boosted by an injunction to “heavenize the world…Deliver blows as hard as we can hit…Nothing but forked-lightening Christians will count,” he concludes.

You can imagine Benham’s glee at seeing The Abortion Matrix. In fact, its presentation of God-fearing Christians battling Godless baby-killers underscores the message he’s been delivering for 35 years. Furthermore, by sending copies to churches and legislators he’s made clear that he sees the film as a useful tool in the campaign to make some states abortion free.

Whether fundamentalists will take Matrix — or, for that matter, Maafa 21– seriously or laugh it off the screen is hard to predict. That said, Vicki Saporta, CEO and President of the National Abortion Federation, believes that Benham’s efforts are a direct violation of his current legal status.

“This effort is obviously meant to intimidate abortion providers so that they will stop providing care to women,” she begins. “It flies in the face of Benham’s 18-month probation which began in August 2011. At that time the judge ordered him to curtail his intimidating behavior.”

NAF is presently investigating this possible infraction. Meanwhile, if anyone knows how to turn antis into frogs, this seems like the perfect moment to cast a spell.

Bruce Garren, a longtime friend of ours and one who has been instrumental in heading up the “Personhood” movement in the state of Kansas, has written a short and concise article articulating the reason why “Personhood” is the only piece of legislation that has God’s imprimatur.  As Bruce unsheathes the Sword of the Spirit in response to those (Pro-lifers) who are attempting to regulate abortion rather than ending it, see if your heart does not pound within you.  ~ Flip

If not personhood, what is the plan to end abortion in Kansas?

by Bruce Garren

I have heard the Rev Flip Benham, Director of Operation Save America, proclaim on several occasions that, “Abortion will end in America when the church of Jesus Christ makes up her mind it will end – and not one second sooner.” This certainly falls under the heading of bold statements. There a many parts of this proclamation that a person could question, such as how could Rev. Benham possibly know this to be true? Why is it that only the church has the power to end abortion, and how can a claim be made without honestly considering the power of the United States government to influence the outcome? All are good questions I’m sure Rev. Benham would be willing, if not eager to respond to, but I want to focus on another aspect of his claim. I want us consider the reality that there could truly be an end to abortion in America.

Like many of you, I have been fighting against abortion for what seems like a long time. Also, like many of you, I have applied myself in a number of different strategies. I have voted pro-life, written editorials, contacted legislators, attended rallies, taught classes, held signs, prayed, and fasted. All of which I have found to be worthwhile efforts, but none have succeeded in themselves to end abortion. Until recently, none of these activities were actually part of a plan to end abortion once and for all. Certainly, everything we have done had as its primary goal the end of abortion in America, and the hope was always be to save as many innocent lives as possible, but none provided a plan to actually end child killing once and for all.

Although reducing the number of unborn children killed can appear to be a worthwhile interim goal for us, it can never ever be what our efforts lead to. We must not lose sight that reducing abortion is not and cannot be our goal! Even one child legally lost to surgical or chemical abortion would bring as much shame on America as the 1.2 million that were killed last year. I believe that’s what Ambassador Alan Keyes means when referring to the compromising the life of even one unborn child: “It’s the devil’s game – Satan would be happy to end all abortion if only he could get all of us to consent to killing one child.”

Our national shame is not from the number of unborn children legally murdered in our hospitals and abortion clinics each day, but it comes from our willingness to permit even one unborn child to be killed without our outrage.

Recently, I was part of a discussion about ending abortion in our state with several high-level government officials. After some time, and after the officials castigated the personhood strategy, I finally relented. I asked a particular gentleman a question that has gone unanswered. “Okay, I understand you don’t like personhood as a way to end abortion in Kansas. So, if not the Kansas Personhood Amendment, what is your plan to end abortion during the Governor’s term of office?” I couldn’t believe what I saw and heard next. He looked stunned and ill prepared for the question. “Well, we are several years away from that still,” he said.

After that discussion, I came to realize that our problem is not the disagreement on the personhood amendment strategy. The issue is that, among the personhood opponents, there is little hope at all of actually ending abortion in a short time frame. They are preparing to battle for the next several decades.

This same outlook is true of many of our leaders. It has been parroted, often from surprising sources. National Right to Life lead attorney, James Bopp, for instance, once charged that “wise leaders recognized from the beginning that one of their foremost tasks was to keep abortion alive as an issue.” And having compared the pro-life movement to the prohibition movement, he claimed that if we were to pass a ban on abortion, “No one would read [our] literature, attend [our] ‘rallies,’ or donate to the cause.”

In his response to Bopp, Robert Muise, Esq. of the Thomas More Law Center wrote: “The obvious problem with keeping abortion alive as an issue, is that keeping abortion alive means killing the unborn. Each day abortion remains an issue—and the law of the land—is a day in which innocent life is destroyed…If succeeding in reversing Roe v. Wade and ending the slaughter of millions of innocent lives each year means “no one would read [NRTL] literature, attend [its] ‘rallies,’ or donate to the cause,’ then that is the price of victory we should be willing to pay.”

If you are like the many Kansans we have talked to across the state who want to see child killing not just reduced, limited, or restricted but ended in Kansas once and for all and you want to be part of a plan, tell everyone you know that you want the decision in your hands. Tell them you want to be able to vote on the single most critical vote of your life. Tell your family, friends, community leaders, church members, and legislators that you want the Personhood Amendment on the statewide ballot.

Do not leave this vote in the hands of anyone else. Don’t trust anyone to represent your position on child killing. The Personhood Amendment provides you a way to end abortion in Kansas and a plan in which to do it.

Rev. Benham is right, and it is long past time for the church of Jesus Christ to speak out boldly about the slaughter of the children. We have a way to end the killing in Kansas and it’s called the Personhood Amendment, but it looks like you will have to insist that it be put on the ballot. If you want to be heard by the powers that be in Kansas, you will have to speak loudly, clearly and persistently! Tell them, “I want to vote on the Personhood Amendment because I want to end the killing, NOW!”

The Department of Justice has dropped all of its charges against Ken Scott.  That’s right!  Every civil charge brought against our great brother in the Lord Ken, has been dismissed.  \

Enjoy!

U.S. Department of Justice Drops ‘FACE’ Lawsuit Against Denver Pro-Lifer

DENVER, March 22, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ — Today, Thomas More Society attorneys secured agreement from the U.S. Attorney General’s office to dismiss all of the civil charges pending against Denver pro-life advocate Kenneth Scott, who had been accused of physically obstructing clients and employees of the Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains abortion facility. The Attorney General’s office filed suit last year in Denver’s federal district court, charging Scott with ten separate violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, asking the court to assess a $10,000 civil fine and an injunction keeping him 25 feet away from the abortion facility.

The agreement to dismiss the charges followed in the wake of a ruling last January by United States District Judge Philip Brimmer, denying the federal government’s bid for a preliminary injunction against Scott. Judge Brimmer ruled that the Attorney General had failed to prove that the government was reasonably likely to prevail at trial.

“This is a monumental vindication of the free speech rights of those who offer assistance at the nation’s abortion clinics,” said Peter Breen, executive director & legal counsel of the Thomas More Society, which represented Scott. “The charges against Scott, like a flurry of other charges the Justice Department recently has brought against pro-lifers all over the country, were fundamentally flawed and repugnant to the United States Constitution. The Government here sought to criminalize leafleting on a public sidewalk, which is clearly protected by the First Amendment, even when that leafleting occurs outside an abortion clinic.”

The Thomas More Society retained Denver attorney Rebecca Messall to assist with the defense of Scott. The agreement resulted after a settlement conference held this afternoon at the Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse in Denver.

A copy of the signed settlement agreement may be viewed here.

More information about the case can be found here.

About the Thomas More Society
Founded in 1997, the Chicago-based Thomas More Society is a national public interest law firm that seeks to restore respect in law for life, marriage, and religious liberty. The Society is a nonprofit organization wholly supported by private donations. For more information or to support the work of Thomas More Society, please visit www.thomasmoresociety.org.

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Pastor Ed Martin and the blessed saints in Jacksonville, Florida, are continuing the battle for the lives of their preborn brothers and sisters.  All over the country this battle is being won in the streets.  “for everyone born of God overcomes the world.  This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.”  1 John 5:4.  Do you believe this?  Me too, and therefore I am greatly encouraged.

Enjoy!    ~ Flip

 

Dear Family for LIFE,

 Today we had our first Pastors Stand for LIFE today. 

 

 

 We had pastors share with 50 – 60 people the evils of abortion and how God expects us to combat it.

 

 

Pastor Tim Nelson, Hope Baptist Church, brought his youth group.

 

 

Anthony Johnson, Jacksonville Jaguars chaplain, told them how much Jesus loved them and what He expected of them.

 

 

Rob Barnaby, their youth pastor read from Matthew 7:13-14 telling them how the gate to destruction is wide, encouraging them to choose the narrow gate to LIFE and follow its straight path.

 

 

This youth group from Hope Baptist comes EVERY Saturday morning.  Some of them stand vigil even when they are on spring break!

 

 

They sacrifice their Saturday mornings getting up at 6:30 a.m. to be the arms and legs and voice of Jesus, because they “Hope in Christ”

 

 

Bianca, standing between her youth pastors, Rob and Ruthie, presented her senior photo essay on why “Abortion should be ILLEGAL” and received an A++!

 

 

Hope Baptist Youth Group is an integral part of our Family for LIFE and they invite other youths to join them as they try to save their peers from the tragedy of abortion.

 

 

By the way, our group this Saturday, representatives from about 10 churches, was so large that we had to straddle the driveway leading to A Woman’s Choice of Jacksonville, the grey building behind the vigilers (on the left of center in the photo below).

 

 

 

Next Saturday, March 31, please join us for two events, our last during the 40 Days for LIFE. 

 

At 8:00 a.m., we will have a Memorial Service for the Unborn on the sidewalk at 4131 University Blvd.

 

Also, at 8:00, there will be the 100+ Man March starting with Mass at Prince of Peace Church followed by a 3.8 mile march for men only (The men want to “carry their weight” in this organized effort to rid Jacksonville of abortion! Ladies, you are welcome to join us on the sidewalk or stay at Prince of Peace Church and pray as your men march for LIFE. )  Their route will encompass the 3 operating abortion facilities in Jacksonville. 

 

If you would like more information about either event, please email me.

 

God bless you! 

Trudy

Friends, Greetings in the Name of Yeshua/Jesus our only God and King!
 
I have included a PowerPoint slide with information to send to your church today. If your church does not use PowerPoint for announcements the invite can still be read from the pulpit.
 
Remember, Word in warfare is more than a “Bible Reading Marathon”, or a simple little group read-a-long. It is 77 hours of non-stop spiritual warfare, praying the Word of God from beginning to end, aloud, in public and inviting everyone and anyone to do so. Intercessors and others can read one chapter and listen while others do the same in one group whether for a few minutes or taking a 2 hour shift day or night; doing it powerfully in the Spirit in front of Mississippi’s one remaining killing center in Jackson.
 
I will be arriving in Jackson, MS Sunday morning, April 1st and would ask you to join me Sunday afternoon at 4 PM at the Wesley Biblical Seminary to to kick off the Operation Save America year long 5 state campaign called the States of Refuge…targeting the 5 states in America with only one abortion mill.
If you are coming to Jackson and have housing needs please notify me immediately as hospitality is still available on a first come first served basis. No single hotel has been contracted for this event though several reasonable hotels are available.
 
Here is the invitation to present to your church via a Powerpoint slide:
 
Chet
(702) 343-4725

Skip and Brenda Spurlock have been great friends of mine for about twenty years. What wonderful friends of this ministry they have been. They are even better friends of Jesus and His precious preborn children. Most of you probably don’t know that Skip and Brenda are the ones who keep up our mailing list in Dallas and keep the latest news flowing into your homes. We first met and got to know each other during our court case in Dallas, Texas, for exposing abortionists to the Gospel of Christ at their offices, churches, and their neighborhoods in 1993. The Rutherford Institute defended us. We were a very high profile court case for some months in Dallas.

We won that case thanks to Charles Bundrin and the wonderful attorneys at Rutherford. They were up against the formidable Wendell Turley, one of Dallas’ most feared and wealthy attorneys. Wendell hated us with a passion. Unfortunately for him he did not recognize that our real lawyer was none other than the Holy Spirit Himself. Skip, Brenda, and I have been friends ever since. We have also been in a lot more trouble since that time, but only because we are following hard after Christ.

I wanted you to see Skip and Brenda and their wonderful family at their 50th wedding anniversary. Thousands of children, more than they will ever know on this side of heaven, are alive today because of their ministry.

Flip

 

It is absolutely amazing what God is doing through the saints in Connecticut as they daily bring the theology of heaven to the gates of hell.

Enjoy! ~ Flip

OSA-CT Street Report – Feb. 2012

55 babies killed in Bridgeport

8 babies saved

3 salvations

2,195 children spared from abortion

400 salvations (since Feb.1990)

“For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother’s womb…My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:13,15,16

     

Here’s Daniel with one of the saved babies we went to visit on Friday, she is now 10 weeks old. We brought her diapers, a swing, a bouncy seat, etc. We could not do this without the support of those that help us with the needs of the families. THANK YOU! This is Brenda and the mother that had her miracle baby girl 5 lbs., 8 oz. on Saturday (2/25/12). During her sixteen hours of induced labor Brenda stood by her side at the hospital. This mother has a very serious kidney infection and might need surgery to have it removed. The baby was sent home with Brenda and the baby’s father is taking care of their 5 boys in a shelter. Aurelia named her baby girl after Brenda, since she has been there for her through thick and thin in the last four years. She knows she can count on Brenda for spiritual and physical support. Please pray for this mother for a speedy recovery, a job for the dad and housing and salvation for their family. We are so proud of Brenda and how God is using her in this ministry. She is a faithful sidewalk counselor and she goes beyond the call.

“Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me.” Matthew 25; 40

This is one of the teen moms with her mother and boyfriend at the baby shower on 2/18/12. She is due 3/28/12 and they are so happy!  The mom (17) and dad (18) will be graduating from high school in June. Please pray for this young couple!

“This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.  Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to His voice, and hold fast to Him.” Deuteronomy 30:19 

 

We were blessed to have our brother John Reyes come visit from Pennsylvania. He lives and works there as a teacher/counselor for Teen Challenge.  He came out on the streets with us and preached his heart out. He brought three of his four adorable children with him to his mom’s house in CT. It was so good to fellowship with him and remember the days back in the early nineties when Anthony first invited John to our church and he was saved and became a part of our pro-life ministry. PTL!

“For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:8

 

The saints from Pastor Burgos’s Church (God’s Victorious Army) have been coming out on the frontlines to save lives and souls for Jesus. Some of them even made their own signs! This is the church OSA-CT visited last month and we are happy to report that they are following through with their commitments to take a public stand for Jesus and the precious babies He created in His image. Welcome to Heather, Jason, Carlos, Yvonne, Margie and Meagan from GVA and Ilka from Milford. Praise the Lord we can use some new fresh warriors out on the streets.

“Stay always within the boundaries where God’s love can reach and bless you. Wait patiently for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you. Try to help those who argue against you. Be merciful to those who doubt. Save some by snatching them as from the very flames of hell itself. And as for others, help them to find the Lord by being kind to them, but be careful that you yourselves aren’t pulled along into their sins. Hate every trace of their sin while being merciful to them as sinners.” Jude 21-23

 

Please do not support those who enable baby killers to stay in business.  This is WB Mason on the left at the Summit in Bridgeport and on the right is Clintonville Oil at Planned Parenthood in New Haven.  Both are delivering to the abortion mills. There is a website you can visit about this called www.coldbloodworker.com

“How long will the wicked, O Lord, how long will the wicked be jubilant?” Psalm 94:3

On Saturday, 2/25/12 we had an ex clinic worker that stopped by Summit to let us know she is now a Christian and was so sorry for all the babies that died when she was there. She was crying in her car. She said her job there was prepping the moms for surgery! She is having her first grandchild this year and now prays for all the babies that are murdered every week at Summit. I encouraged her to come out and share her experience with the moms going in and the workers that are on staff.

“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the words of their testimony; and they loved not  their lives unto death.” (Rev. 12; 11)

Kelly Vazquez invited one of her high school students to church on Sunday and she made a decision that she needed Christ in her life! Kelly noticed this student was having a hard time in school with depression, being withdrawn and never wanting to talk. Kelly kept praying for her and eventually she opened up to Kelly about her abortion she had months ago. She is now going for counseling with Hopeline and started going to a bible study to help her grow in Christ!  Another young student (15 yrs. old) attended church a few week ago and gave her life to the Lord. She is reading her new bible and is excited about going to youth group on Friday nights. Thank you God’s Victorious Army Church for helping!

 

“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first the Jew, then the Gentile.” Romans 1:16

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It is not very often that one gets to witness firsthand the theology of heaven become biography at the gates of hell.  But that is exactly what happened at the Rowan County Commission meeting in North
Carolina on Monday, February 20, 2012.  Hundreds of gentle Christians from churches across Rowan County attended the meeting to encourage their county commissioners to “stand tall” against the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.  The 4th Circuit has ruled that opening prayers in “Jesus’ Name” is unconstitutional. 

The sad thing is that the City of Charlotte, just last month, bowed its knee to the 4th Circuit’s infantile decision and is now kissing the face of Baal. No opening prayers in the “Name of Jesus” in the city of Charlotte.  So, what is a Christian to do?

Exactly what the Rowan County Board of Commissioners did.  They opened their meeting in the magnificent Name of Jesus.  That’s right!  They opened the meeting in the Name that is above every name, and before Whom every knee shall bow and every tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord.  They didn’t blink.  They didn’t shrink in the face of adversity.  They ran to the roar. They cut off the head of the roaring lion that caused the city of Charlotte and several other cities to bow.

Where did these County Commissioners get the courage to stand, and after they had done everything, to stand!  The Church of Jesus Christ in Rowan County supplies the answer.  She showed up and stood with them.  Just view the pictures below.  Click on each one and notice the fire in the hearts of these gentle Christians.  Their chins are set like flint toward Jerusalem (the cross).  Does this remind you of anybody you might know?

I’m sorry I am so late in writing this and bringing it to your attention.  I was there.  I spoke.  I saw the theology of heaven become biography at the meeting.  It was glorious.  I am thankful in Jesus’ wonderful Name.

Enjoy! 

Speakers urge commissioners: Keep praying ‘in Jesus’ name’

By Karissa Minn ~ kminn@salisburypost.com

SALISBURY — Someone walking by the county administration building Monday night could have mistaken what was going on inside for a church revival.

In the lobby, a multitude of people sang hymns and joined in prayer. In the county commissioners’ meeting room upstairs, there was passionate preaching and enthusiastic calls of “amen.”

But Monday’s proceedings were part of a meeting of the Rowan County Board of Commissioners. During the public comment period, about two dozen people stood up to speak about the way they and their commissioners pray.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked the Rowan County board to stop opening its meetings with sectarian prayer, or prayer that is specific to one religion.

The request came a month after the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that Forsyth County commissioners’ opening prayers are unconstitutional because they are overwhelmingly Christian, ending a five-year court battle.

Katy Parker, legal director for the state’s ACLU chapter, said last week that since the Supreme Court declined to hear Forsyth’s appeal, her organization has contacted 25-30 government bodies across the state for which it has received complaints from citizens about prayers. She said most are working with thier attorneys to comply with the 4th Circuit decision, but that Rowan “is the first one out of 25 or 30 saying that they’re going to completely disregard the law.”

Hundreds of people gathered for the meeting Monday, packing the main board room, spilling into an overflow room and filling the lobby. They waited to share their opinions — and to see what the board would do.

Chairman Chad Mitchell started the meeting with a brief invocation addressed to “Father” and made “in Jesus’ name.” Several people raised their voices in agreement with his “amen.”

All but one speaker thanked the commissioners for continuing to pray in the name of Jesus. Many said they’re worried that this is part of a movement to take away, not to protect, individual religious freedom.

“If they tell county commissioners they can’t pray, soon they’re going to be in my church telling me I can’t pray in the name of Jesus,” said Terry Brown, a western Rowan County resident.

Several Bible verses were read, including Colossians 3:16 — “Whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father.”

Stanley Richert Freeborn, an evangelist from Calvary Baptist Tabernacle, said asking a Christian not to call God “Jesus” is like asking him not to call his friend “Steve,” but instead “hey you” or “hey man.”

Freeborn said he actually wants to thank the ACLU.

“I’ve wondered for a long time if we were ever going to really experience revival in our churches and in our nation,” Freeborn said. “I don’t know if the ACLU understands or not, but they’re waking up a sleeping giant.”

Salisbury resident Chris Crowell agreed that Monday night felt like a revival, but said “it’s not supposed to be when public business is being discussed.”

“I think what’s going on right now is a clear example of why we need this law, and why it should be obeyed,”he said.

Crowell, who works for the Salisbury Post in the information technology department, was the only speaker to oppose the commissioners’ method of opening in prayer. He said he thinks there’s been a misunderstanding about what the ACLU wants.

“Nobody’s trying to keep any of you folks from praying,” Crowell said. “I’d be the first in line to lay down my life for your right to believe and pray as you want to. … I ask for the respect to not use public meetings to advance or promote your religion, and that’s what it seems to be.” 

He said prayer by officials before a government meeting — but not during one — would be private, protected speech.

A moment of silence, Crowell said, is another alternative that would provide equality for those who don’t share the commissioners’ beliefs.

The ACLU has said this is a lawful option for the board. Another option is praying in general terms that do not reference a specific deity.

Parker said last week that the organization has received more complaints about Rowan County than any other government in North Carolina.

She said the complaints come from people who, like Crowell, feel like their government shouldn’t endorse a particular religion. And she said some are willing to serve as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the county, if it comes to that.

But others at Monday’s meeting said commissioners should have the right to pray according to their beliefs, and that’s not stopping others from praying — or not praying — according to theirs.

John Bare, of Salisbury, read the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The part having to do with religion says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

“I don’t see the part where you can stop someone from the free expression of their religion just because they are working in a government position,” Bare said. “You cannot be made to practice, but you also cannot be inhibited from practicing.”

He said the commissioners’ prayers are voluntary, and no one is being forced to participate in them, so they do not violate the Constitution.

“The people who are trying to push the freedom of religion out of government are nothing more than people wanting to force others to do as they say and they believe,” Bare said.

His wife, Marina, said she used to live under a system of government that “removed God from people’s lives and replaced it with fear.” She said when she came here, she was pleased to see the freedom and patriotism that people enjoy in America.

Marina Bare held up a red hammer and sickle – a symbol of the former Soviet Union — and warned that America could become the “U.S.S.R., United States of a Screwed up Republic” if people don’t stand up to the government for their freedoms.

The ACLU has said it wants an answer from Rowan commissioners by March 5 — the date of the county board’s next meeting.

So far, four out of the five commissioners have said they don’t intend to change the way they pray, because they believe strongly that as Christians they should pray in Jesus’ name.

Commissioner Raymond Coltrain said last week that he doesn’t mind using different words to convey the same meaning when he prays. He said the important thing is that God knows his intent.

Commissioner Jim Sides has said he will continue to pray in the name of Jesus and will volunteer to go to jail over it. This consequence, along with a fine, may come about if a lawsuit is filed and a judge orders commissioners to stop, Jay Dees, the county’s attorney, said last week.

Some speakers Monday encouraged board members to keep doing what they’re doing, no matter the consequences.

John Melton, a China Grove resident and pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, said he admires those on the board who will pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

“Born-again children of God — that’s what we need running this country,” he said. “It’s time to make up your mind whose side you’re on.”

Contact reporter Karissa Minn at 704-797-4222.