My thought for the day…..
True riches don’t have anything to do with something that can be seen, smelled, tasted or touched. Jesus said His Kingdom was NOT of this world…..God’s economy is not based on money (the god Mammon ….. see picture) but on faith!
1 Tim 6:9 “People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many …foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.”
Scientologists are in the news again…. this time in a murder investigation:
Victim Accused Software Firm Founder Of Diverting $200,000 To Unidentified ‘Church’
ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — Among the mysteries in software firm founder William Rex Fowler’s alleged killing of ex-partner Thomas Ciancio is whether Fowler’s self-professed devotion to the Church of Scientology played a role in the workplace shooting.
The 58-year-old Fowler was charged last week with premeditated, first-degree murder in the Dec. 30 shooting of Ciancio, who had gone to Fowler Software Design to receive a $9,900 severance payment, according to a statement by an Adams County sheriff’s detective supporting Fowler’s arrest.
Employees told investigators that Ciancio quit the firm in November because he was upset that Fowler had allegedly taken $200,000 from the company “without permission and gave it to a church or some type of charity,” the arrest warrant affidavit said.
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Investigators initially believed that Fowler was the shooting “victim,” because he had staggered bleeding from the office building with a gunshot wound to the head.
The 42-year-old Ciancio, described by colleagues and family members as a friendly, upbeat father of four, was mistakenly called the “suspect,” because his body was found in the shooting scene near a 9mm Glock handgun.
But investigators reversed their suspicions after an autopsy showed that Ciancio, Fowler Software’s former chief operating officer, had been shot three times in the head as he apparently sat at a table near Fowler’s personal office, the arrest warrant affidavit stated.
Here’s an interesting story from the Washington Post which should be a warning for all Christians…. Pray frist, then go to the doctor! Going to the doctor is not a sign of a lack of faith.
By WILLIAM McCALL
The Associated Press
Wednesday, February 3, 2010; 3:13 AM
OREGON CITY, Ore. — An Oregon couple who practice faith healing testified they did everything they could for their 16-year-old son before he died, but a jury decided it was not enough, especially just months after the death of their granddaughter.
Jeff and Marci Beagley were convicted of criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday after prosecutors argued they failed in their duty to get medical help for their son, Neil, in June 2008.
The teenager died of complications from a congenital urinary tract blockage that doctors testified could have been treated up until the day he died.
The Beagleys’ 15-month-old granddaughter, Ava Worthington, died in March 2008 of pneumonia and a blood infection that also could have been treated.
Instead, Neil and Ava were anointed with oil while the family prayed and laid on hands
Three additional states have taken up the “personhood” cause in a push to guarantee the constitutional rights of the preborn.
Iowa, Virginia and Kansas are now among more than 30 states pursuing personhood amendments – a move pro-lifers view as their best chance of ending abortion in the U.S.
“Personhood is a revolution of the pro-life movement,” said Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA, in a statement. “It challenges what’s been done in the past, stimulates the movement’s present, and eradicates the need for pro-life efforts in the future. Personhood is the best hope to end abortion in America.”
In Kansas, a new pro-life organization – Personhood Kansas – is currently collecting petition signatures to push the state legislature to pass a personhood amendment. The petition is being passed around and promoted among Christians and other pro-lifers across the state.
“As a movement, we know what our goal is: to have all children in the womb protected by love and by law,” states Personhood Kansas. “It is important that we learn the lessons of history and rely on the moral clarity of our God-given moral law to guide our efforts not on demoralizing legal and moral subterfuge.”
Language in each state amendment differs slightly but they generally state that personhood applies to all human beings from the beginning of their biological development and provide that persons, including unborn children, enjoy the right to life as guaranteed by the federal and state constitutions.
Thomas More Law Center attorney Robert Muise says pro-lifers should make personhood their main strategy. Whatever efforts went in to passing the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act should be doubled for the personhood movement, Muise said at a recent Washington, D.C., conference, held around the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Though the 2003 ban was praiseworthy, partial-birth abortions – performed after the 18th week of pregnancy – account for only a small portion of total abortions. Muise pointed out that nearly 90 percent of all abortions occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Some religious and pro-life groups have opposed recent efforts to move forward with personhood amendments, saying the time isn’t right or that such measures could prompt a “super abortion right,” Muise noted.
But Muise says the time is now to push their efforts.
Pro-lifers can’t wait on a pro-life administration in the White House or Congress. They’ve already “been there, done that” with George W. Bush. Despite his pro-life agenda, abortions were ongoing.
Also, the current makeup of the Supreme Court is leaning in favor of the pro-life movement, Muise noted. If they wait any longer, more justices appointed by President Obama who will likely be pro-abortion will be seated on the high court.
“It is always the right time to do the right thing,” Muise maintained.
Excellent article over at BeneDiction’s blog on Todd Friel’s review of Jessa Bentley’s dream of Oral Roberts and the elephant by Rick Hiebert.
“Evangelist Todd Bentley, who already bans people from his Twitter feed, must wish that he could ban Christian apologist and teacher Todd Friel from the entire Internet. Mr. Friel has a radio program that you can hear on the Internet, and on Tuesday (January 26) he had the preacher and Jessa Bentley in his sights.”
Everyone is feeling the pinch!!
“Southern California’s famed Crystal Cathedral is making “cuts to the heart of our ministry” following a 27 percent drop in revenue – from $30 million in 2008 to $22 million in 2009 – and with a drop in this year’s revenue anticipated. Related Popular TV Ministry Drops Schuller Branding Crystal Cathedral Lays Off Staff, Sells Land Schuller Taps Daughter to Co-Lead Crystal Cathedral In an announcement Friday, the Garden Grove, Calif.-based megachurch announced that its San Juan Capistrano location would shut down its operations following a decision by Crystal Cathedral Ministries’ International Board of Trustees. That same day, the church said it was canceling its annual “Glory of Easter” pageant, the renowned live stage production that the church has presented every year for nearly three decades. The church’s founder, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, said it was “with great sadness that the Board of Directors of the Crystal Cathedral Ministries announces that after long prayer and deliberation, the Ministry through the 2010 Glory of Easter production will not be held due to severe economic downturn.” “We ask that the entire church be united in prayer as we, the Crystal Cathedral congregation, share the triumphant message of Easter with those who regularly come to the campus and to our worship services,” added Schuller.”
Some good news in the midst of tragedy!
“Amid countless piles of rubble and the stench of death permeating Haiti, Christians throughout the devastated country are still able to find something to sing about. “Our missionaries tell us in Port-au-Prince [people] still put on their best clothes and walked to church this past Sunday,” Assemblies of God General Superintendent Dr. George O. Wood said in a recent Haiti update. “
Read more: Haitians keep churches alive amid tragedy.
“Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
There is a great difference between prayer and the life of prayer. Almost everyone prays, but very few pray without ceasing. This is the habit of devotion. This is the altar of incense ever burning in the Holy Place. This is the fragrance of a heart that lives in the presence of the Holy One, and breathes the very life of God. This is the deep undertone of a sanctified life. It is from this that the sweetness, the gladness, the holiness, and the helpfulness come. Lord, teach us the habit of prayer, the prayer that springs spontaneously from the heart, and which neither secular duty, satanic temptation, nor the waves of sorrow, can interrupt, but which is only stimulated by the things that try us, until every experience becomes transformed into an occasion for communion and fellowship with God.
–A. B. Simpson
A Littleleaven.com just posted a good article on Purpose-Driven Roman Catholic Monastic Mysticism that is worth the read……
“ Roman Catholic Monastic Mysticism is becoming all the rage among innovative post-modern purpose-driven pastors. Practices developed by Roman Catholic Monks such as the Lectio Divina, The Practice of the Presence of God and the Prayer Examen which was created by on of the arch enemies of the Protestant Reformation, Ignatius Loyola are openly being promoted by an alarming number of seeker-driven / Purpose-Driven pastors. These so-called ’spiritual disciplines’ are being featured at Willow Creek, Saddleback, and Mars Hill to name just a few.”
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