How anyone could still actually believe this man is anything but a False $ profit astounds me!
Jeremiah 14:14:
Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Kim Clement is a man who has brought the office of a prophet off the pages of the bible and into the face of the Church/Body of Christ. Love him or hate him he does not shy away from controversial subjects. Dressing almost medieval he definitely has character and style. Clement schedules several appearances yearly at Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in Hendersonville, TN a suburb of Nashville.
Recently Clement has announced a tribute to Michael Jackson that has met up with a whirlwind of disapproval from a portion of the Christian community.
It is easy to see both sides of the story. The mainstream Christian would rather not glorify the life of someone who never glorified Christ through confession or action, especially someone as famous as Jackson.
But, that does not stop Kim Clement, he is just not mainstream. He cares to look past the sin and mistake of a person to the condition of the soul. Right or wrong Clement says, “I was honored to meet Michael [Jackson] and pray in his studio in 1994, while he was recording the History album. Just recently, it was his desire to make his music more spiritual and he reached out to Andre and Sandra Crouch, who prayed with him.”
Clement goes on to say, “Michael changed the way people sang and how they danced. He changed the way records were produced and engineered. He changed the music video and how music was marketed and sold. He was undoubtedly one of the most recognizable entertainers in the world.”
Many of you will be familiar with the organization Reasons to Believe, headed up by Dr. Hugh Ross. Hugh Ross is known in Christian circles for compromising secular ideas, such as the big bang, billions of years, etc., with the Bible and reinterpreting the clear language of Genesis. He is one of the leading compromisers in the church today—sadly popularizing beliefs that undermine the authority of Scripture.
In the past, the largest Christian television network in the world, TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network), has featured Dr. Ross giving several presentations. Later this month, TBN will air a docu-drama called Dual Revelation. Hugh Ross speaks of dual revelation meaning that one needs to take secular interpretations such as billions of years and the Big Bang and add them to the written revelation, Scripture.
From the trailer, this docu-drama seems to involve (at one stage) a child asking her father a question about dinosaurs. Knowing what Hugh Ross believes about dinosaurs (basically the same as what the secular world teaches, that they died out 65 million years ago and well before the first humans), it is distressing to see how a worldwide television network that purports to be Christian and Bible-upholding will be airing this documentary that appears to be telling people if they don’t tell their children to believe what secular scientists are teaching, the children will walk away from the Christian faith.
However, the opposite is true. Such compromise that comes from Hugh Ross and his organization is what leads young people to walk away from the church. Our research reported on in the book Already Gone makes this very clear indeed. . . . .
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says it’s “heresy” to believe that an individual can be saved through a sinner’s prayer of repentance.
In her opening address to the church’s General Conference in California, Jefferts Schori called that “the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God.”
The presiding bishop said that view is “caricatured in some quarters by insisting that salvation depends on reciting a specific verbal formula about Jesus.”
According to Schori, it is heresy to believe that an individual’s prayer can achieve a saving relationship with God. “That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy.” . . . . .
Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don’t know why this hasn’t been said more often.
Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.
I have been asked because I posted this article and that since Piotr Stanczak was a Roman Catholic does this mean I endorse Roman Catholicism. The answer is no I do not. Roman Catholic Theology is false teaching and idolotrous. Its strucutre and teaching deny and contradict most of Sola Scriptura.
So that begs the question could someone be a member of the Roman Catholic faith and be saved. I would say it is possible but very difficult, and only if they did not adhere to the parts of Roman Catholic teaching that are idolotrous, so in that case someone could be saved DESPITE Roman Catholic teaching but not BECAUSE of it.
This story is well worth reading as it higlights what may become a common event not only in Muslim countries in Asia and the Middle East, but also in western countries in the not too different future. Despite the fact that it is about a Catholic martyr.
No one knows the condition of Piotr Stanczak’s heart when he was killed, that is between him and God. My hope is that he did in fact make peace with God before his murder.
That is a tough question that every Christian should absolutely both ask and answer to themselves. For most, it would be so tempting to take the easy way out, even though it is likely that the terrorists would murder you anyway after the conversion. From No-Pasaran via conservativegrapevine: This is what a Martyr Looks Like.
No, not the corrupted Jihadistnotion of one, the kind that chooses to actively murder others because of who they represent to him, even if the use of the word has infected the rest of the Arab world and now most of the perceptual boundaries of the European left.
Piotr Stanczak did not exhibit the slightest hint of hesitation when the Pakistani Taliban asked him to choose between execution and conversion to Islam.
Whether the Polish geologist acted out of pride or religious conviction, he decided to pay through his blood to save his faith, a choice that bewildered his killers and keep them talking about him with respect after his murder.
Stanczak, 42, was kidnapped September 28 on his way to survey for oil exploration in Attock district, of Pakistan’s eastern province of Punjab. The kidnappers also killed his driver and two guards.
Late Polish engineer Piotr Stanczak isa martyr, a man who died holding on to his convictions, even though dispensing of them would be easy.
The description of a martyr given by the pagan historian Ammianus Marcellinus (XXII, xvii), shows that by the middle of the fourth century the title was everywhere reserved to those who had actually suffered death for their faith.
I don’t think anyone would choose beheading because of pride. It was without question the conviction of his faith. I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here to say that his faith was in Jesus Christ as Poland is almost exclusively Christian. In that case, what a brave man Peter (Piotr is Peter in Polish) was! How absolutely easy would it have been to give up Jesus out of fear of bodily harm and death. Another more famous Peter did the same thing out of fear of far less harm to himself, and he did it not once or twice but thrice! I am amazed that Piotr accepted death “without hesitation.” Had he pondered such a question before going to Pakistan? Had he made up his mind before accepting the trip even? If so, then he was more spiritually mature than most. Sitting behind my keyboard, I wonder what I would have done in such a situation. It would be so easy to say I’d do the same thing, but reality is so different when you’re in the heat of the situation rather than seeing it from the outside as a detached third person. Rest in peace Piotr Stanczak.
Really, how hard is it to find a job? Was June’s horrid numbers, in which 467,000 people lost their jobs compared to 345,000 in May, a one-time fluke? Or does it mean that all those Wall Street economists who believe the economic recovery is starting are dead wrong?
Not to scare you, but the situation is actually worse than it seems. Over the years, the government has changed the way it counts the unemployed. An example of this is the criticized Birth-Death Model which was added in 2000. The model is designed to account for the birth and death of businesses and the resultant lag in survey data. Unfortunately, the model doesn’t work that well during economic contractions (like we have now) and consistently overstates the number of jobs being created each month.
John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics specializes in removing these questionable tweaks to the government’s statistical data to better align current numbers with the methodology used to gather historical data. After reviewing the data, Williams believes that “the June jobs loss likely exceeded 700,000.” David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff notes that the fall in the number of hours worked in June (to a record low of 33 per week) is equivalent to a loss of more than 800,000 jobs.
There are similar issues with the way the unemployment rate is measured. The headline rate only jumped from 9.4% to 9.5% because of a drop in the number of people in the workforce. The more inclusive “U-6″ measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers, jumped from 16.4% to 16.5%. But even this doesn’t adequately capture the situation on the ground: Back in the Clinton Administration, the definition of discouraged worker was changed to only include those that had given up looking for work because there were no jobs to be had within the last year.
By adding these folks back in, William’s SGS-Alternate Unemployment Measure rose to a jaw-dropping 20.6%. Separately, the Center for Labor Market Studies in Boston puts U.S. unemployment at 18.2%. Any way you cut the numbers, the situation is very bad. According to David Rosenberg, one-in-three among the unemployed have been looking for a job for more than six months and still can’t find one.
China, Russia and Brazil will use this week’s G8 summit in Italy to push their view that the world needs to think about a new global reserve currency as an alternative to the dollar, officials said on Tuesday.
As leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations and the major developing powers traveled to Italy for a three-day summit starting on Wednesday, it seemed unlikely the currency debate would get a specific mention in summit documents.
But both G8 member Russia and emerging power Brazil — which like China and India is a member of the “G5″ that joins the second day of the summit on Thursday — echoed China’s calls for the currency debate to be taken up by world leaders.
Top Kremlin economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich said China and Russia would “state their stance that the global currency system needs smooth evolutionary development.”
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva said he was keen to explore “the possibility of new trade relations not dependent on the dollar” [ID:nPAB007772] and India has also said it is open to the debate.
But G8 members Germany, France and Canada played down talk of the summit including a detailed currency discussion. A source at President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office said the G8 was “generally not the forum … for discussing currency exchange rates.”
German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said on Monday the dollar was likely to remain the global reserve currency but the Chinese yuan and the euro would slowly gain in significance.
The debate is highly sensitive in financial markets, which are wary of risks to U.S. asset values. China and other nations promoting the debate take care to avoid undermining the dollar, which Lula said would be vital “for decades” to come.
The case of China, which has up to 70 percent of its $1.95 trillion in official currency reserves in the dollar, underlines the fact that the dollar is still the most important reserve currency.
But China believes over-reliance on the dollar has exacerbated the financial crisis and sees the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDRs), based on a basket of currencies, as a viable alternative for the future.
G8 URGED TO ACT ON POVERTY
Italy’s keenness to avoid a repeat of the riots and police brutality that marred the 2001 G8 in Genoa meant security was tight around the earthquake-stricken mountain town of L’Aquila, where leaders will sleep in an austere police training school.
Police arrested 10 people including five French citizens in L’Aquila found with clubs and sticks in their vehicle. In Rome small groups of student protesters clashed with police.
“We want to demonstrate once again against what the G8 represents,” said a student giving her name as Maria Teresa.
Pope Benedict issued a document to coincide with the G8, urging leaders to impose tough rules on the financial system. . . . . .
On Tuesday, July 14, there will be a public hearing at the Massachusetts State House on the most extensive, oppressive, and far-reaching “transgender rights and hate crimes” bill ever seriously considered in America.
This bill forces the acceptance of “transgenderism”, cross-dressing, and other various “gender expressions” throughout virtually every part of society, under the threat of fines and jail time for even disagreeing in public.
The bill is long and extremely comprehensive, covering a vast range of society, including schools, businesses, restaurants, government, labor unions, apartments, offices, and all public accommodations, including any place “which is open to and accepts or solicits the patronage of the general public,” and any public area. It includes all hiring and firing and employment benefits and insurance coverage.There is no religious exemption.
What can we learn from Michael Jackson’s Life and Death?
1. It teaches us the dangerous power of idolatry.
2. It teaches us the reality that all flesh is like grass.
3. Enormous wealth is poisonous to flesh.
4. It confirms the Biblical Truth that fallen man is given to self-destruction.
5. It was the example of a WASTED LIFE.
6. Shows us that life is a vacuum outside of Jesus Christ.
7. Is a great reminder that it’s been given unto man once to die and then the judgment.
8. It teaches us the vanity of popularity.
9. It reminds us of how short life really is.
10. Teaches us that in the end, he is just another man.
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat. The pope’s call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in new encyclical which touched on a number of social issues but whose main connecting thread was how the current crisis has affected both rich and poor nations. Called “Charity in Truth”, parts of the encyclical appeared bound to upset conservatives because of its underlying rejection of unbridled capitalism and unregulated market forces, which he said had led to “thoroughly destructive” abuse of the system. The pope said every economic decision has a moral consequence and called for “forms of redistribution” of wealth overseen by governments to help those most affected by crises. Benedict said “there is an urgent need of a true world political authority” whose task would be “to manage the global economy;..
“Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ --Jeremiah 6:16
