The Evangelical Alliance claims that it 'acts as an evangelical voice to the state, society and the wider church'. However, someone unfamiliar with the muddled state of Evangelicalism in the UK might well be very puzzled when comparing the Evangelical Alliance website with those of two other evangelical organisations which address the public arena, the Christian Institute and Christian Concern.
Read moreThe group's message said that all Christian "centres, organisations, and bodies" had become legitimate targets for the mujahadeen (holy warriors). AFP reported that the statement said: "Let these idolaters, and at their forefront, the hallucinating tryant of the Vatican, know that the killing sword will not be lifted from the necks of their followers until they declare their innocence from what the dog of the Egyptian Church is doing."
Read moreObama has learned nothing from what he acknowledges was a "shellacking."
Almost 90 new Republicans have been elected to Congress, but will not be seated until January. The new Congress would never vote to allow openly gay men to serve, a step opposed by the heads of every branch of the military (though it is supported by the Secretary of Defense).
Read moreThe most recent episode involves a Christian couple in a court case about fostering children. Eunice and Owen Johns of Derby are deemed to be unqualified to foster children. Why? Are they pedophiles? Child molesters? Wicked perverts? Evil sadists?
Read moreMeanwhile, four thousand miles away in Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave a speech in which she said that multiculturalism as it has been practiced in Germany over the past several decades had "utterly failed." Foreign workers hired to labor in Germany had neither returned home after a few years as many believed they would, nor had they adapted to German culture and mores. Echoes of non-adaptive Muslims in France and Holland came to mind.
Read moreIslamist extremists responded by accusing the church of imprisoning two Christian women who had converted to Islam. One was Wafaa Constantine, wife of a Coptic priest, who disappeared in 2004 but then returned to the church. The other was Camilia Shehata, also a priest's wife, who disappeared on July 19, 2010. Copts believed that she was abducted by Muslim extremists, and asked, without success, for the security services to investigate.
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Rowland Crocher explained that the main issue for the church in the West and for mainline churches was 'losing customers'. People are now not going to church. In 2003 the 'George Barna Research' revealed that more committed Christians were not attending church than those who were on most Sundays. This was the first time in history this statistic has become a reality.
Read moreThe result of that is that there is nothing to protect the vulnerable among us, the unborn, the old, the unfit, and the useless. Therefore, he expects, unless something is done about it, Western Civilization will continue to erode, arriving at a condition, not unlike that of Nazi Germany, where certain races and groups are exterminated. This is Schaeffer's primary conclusion and it makes a great deal of sense with one caveat which will be given later.
Read moreThen he went on to declare God a liar, in so many words. That would be the God who Obama professes to worship. The Bible makes it clear that sex is only for marriage and that homosexuality, like other sex acts outside marriage, is a sin.
For example, quoting Genesis 2:25, Jesus reminded the Pharisees of God's standard:
Read more"In addition, according to a Penn State study, couples who marry after living together are 61% more likely to divorce than couples who remained apart until the wedding.
"Half of cohabiting couples said they were 'testing' the relationship or were in a 'trial marriage.'" However, that's a myth. Cohabitation is more like a trial divorce, in which nine out of ten relationships fail. They will either break up in a premarital divorce or in a real one.
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