Posted on September 30th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Matt Redman tackles the subject of worship, “facedown”, with a new CD, video, and book.
(AgapePress) – A contemporary Christian recording artist is challenging believers to go to a lower level in their worship of God—that is, to the floor level, on their faces.
Matt Redman has written some of today’s most popular modern worship songs, including [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
The Christian vote and the November elections.
(Ventura, CA) – In May of this year, the presidential contest between George W. Bush and John Kerry was a toss-up. Surveys by The Barna Group in May 2004 indicated that among registered voters the race was a 43%-43% dead heat. At that time President Bush held a significant [...]
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Filed under: Politics
Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
And the law prevails…but hey… why does the “family” video store rent porn?
FRANKFORT, Ind.—The city’s Family Video store is no longer renting adult movies after residents complained that the tapes and DVDs violated a state law that prohibits displaying harmful material within 500 feet of a church.
The company plans to challenge the constitutionality of the [...]
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Filed under: Law
Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
House of Representatives may vote on Same-Sex Amendment. A measure so that House members may be on record prior to the November elections.
U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay says he doesn’t expect the House to pass a constitutional amendment Thursday defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
But the Texas Republican [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
This story has been reported by several news sources in the past 24 hours. It’s an intriguing scandal about a remote Pacific island, inhabited by 47 people, and their choice between pedophilia and survival.
Personally in my arrogance and ignorance, I say drop the tradition, close the island, charge the men according to British law, [...]
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Filed under: Society and Culture
Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
With safeguards in place, a Mississippi school allows the Gideons to distrbute bibles. Sorf of…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. The school board in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is allowing a Nashville-based Christian organization to make Bibles available to fifth graders and teachers at an elementary school but only if the students want them.
The school board voted this [...]
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Filed under: Church and State
Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
An interesting editoral on the RNC’s mass mailings to West Virginia and Arkansas suggesting that Democrats, if elected would ban the Bible.
Honestly, I am neither a good Republican nor a good Democrat. Talking of banning the Bible, however, does incite fear in the faithful and will prompt them to some sort of [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
This year’s planners contained Bible verses and were recalled from the students to be returned to the vendor.
Julian Middle School’s purchase of 850 student plan books will be collected from students and returned to the publisher after school officials learned they contain references to the Bible.
Principal Victoria Sharts said school staff had no idea last [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Charlotte’s MorningStar plans center there
Fort Mill developer Earl Coulston paid $4 million Tuesday for 160 acres in northeast York County, according to paperwork filed Tuesday.
The property once was the heart of the Heritage USA operations of former televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, who ran the PTL ministry.
Also Tuesday, Coulston sold 52 of those acres [...]
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Filed under: Ministries
Posted on September 28th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Reviewing the upcoming release of Jakes’ movie, “Woman, Thou Art Loosed.”
DALLAS - Bishop T.D. Jakes isn’t easily intimidated.
He is, after all, a best-selling author of 29 books, a Grammy-winning gospel singer, a nationally renowned preacher and the subject of a 2001 Time magazine cover story that asked: “Is This Man The Next Billy Graham?”
Yet here [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Do we REALLY know who Jesus would vote for? One politician seems to know the answer. Tells his opponent, “Jesus would not vote for you.”
(CBS/AP) In the latest in a series of controversial remarks, Illinois GOP Senate candidate Alan Keyes said Jesus Christ would not vote for his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, because [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Growth of Christian and Muslim population over the last decade concerns Hindu leadership in India.
BANGALORE, India—The leader of India’s Hindu-nationalist opposition on Tuesday voiced concern over the growth rate among minority Muslims and Christians, urging them to practice family planning to preserve the nation’s “unity and integrity.”
Federal officials on Monday released the results of the [...]
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Filed under: Missions
Posted on September 9th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Man reads bible and attempts circumcision on 8-year-old son. Man arrested, boy treated at hospital
VANCOUVER, Wash. A father who allegedly tried to circumcise his 8-year-old son in the bathroom after reading selections from the Bible has been charged with first-degree assault of a child.
Edwin Bruce Baxter, 33, was charged yesterday in Clark [...]
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Filed under: Law
Posted on September 8th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
“Born again Christians have the same likelihood of divorce as do non-Christians”
(Ventura, CA) – Recent legislation, lawsuits and public demonstrations over the legality of gay marriage are just one battlefront regarding the institution of marriage. A new study released by The Barna Group, of Ventura, California, shows that the likelihood of married adults getting divorced [...]
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Filed under: Marriage and Family
Posted on September 7th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Two years of depression and plagiarism lead to a Charlotte pastor’s resigning. Our prayers are with Rev. Wagner and his struggle with depression.
With Americanized Christianity, we tend to “shoot our wounded” instead of following the biblical example of Galatians 6:1-5 (Amplified):
Gal 6:1 BRETHREN, IF any person is overtaken in misconduct {or} sin of any [...]
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Filed under: Ministries
Posted on September 6th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
“Woman, Thou Art Loosed” from bible study, to conference series, to book, and now to the silver screen.
ATLANTA, Ga. Bishop T.D. Jakes, pastor of the Potters House in Dallas, is promoting the fall release of his first movie Woman, Thou Art Loosed: The Movie by conducting pre-screenings across the country.
The movie, which Oprah [...]
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Filed under: Music and Movies
Posted on September 6th, 2004 by Anthony K. Valley
Another record for the Passion
Biblical epic The Passion of the Christ sold 4.1 million DVD copies on its first day of release in the US.
Fox Home Entertainment said film, directed by Mel Gibson, was the best-selling R-rated film of all time.
Starring Jim Caviezel, the film made $610m (340m) at the global box office after its [...]
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