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An Idaho Pastor Landed in ICU with COVID-19. His Church Plans to Reopen This Week.

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An Idaho Pastor Landed in ICU with COVID-19. His Church Plans to Reopen This Week.

(RNS) — An Idaho church plans to reopen in person despite its pastor being hospitalized for COVID-19.

On Monday (Sept. 14), Candlelight Christian Fellowship in Coeur d’Alene posted a notice on the church website with an update on the condition of its pastor, Paul Van Noy, and his wife, Brenda. Both have been recovering from COVID-19.

As of Monday, Pastor Van Noy had spent 11 days in the ICU and was still on oxygen. His wife was recovering at home.

“I am watching in prayer that there are no new cases and we can all be back together — worshipping together as called — very soon,” Van Noy wrote in the update. “Please pray for health and strength for all. We are called to such a time as this — to represent the Lord!”

According to the Candlelight website, the congregation plans to hold two in-person services this coming Sunday. The church had been closed for two weeks and was deep cleaned in preparation for reopening. In addition to their pastor and his wife, five staff members were infected, a church leader told the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane.

“We didn’t want, obviously, to be spreading the virus,” Eric Reade, a church leader, told the Spokesman-Review.

About 60 people from several churches gathered in a parking lot outside Kootenai Health last weekend to sing and pray for Van Noy’s recovery. The parking lot was visible from intensive care,…

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Center for Medical Progress Founder Files Defamation Lawsuit against Planned Parenthood

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Center for Medical Progress Founder Files Defamation Lawsuit against Planned Parenthood

David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress, whose videos allegedly exposed Planned Parenthood’s illegal back channel deals to sell baby parts on a black market, has now filed a defamation claim in the state of New York against Planned Parenthood for lying about the content of his videos.

Daleiden is represented by the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that is “dedicated to restoring respect in law for life, family, and religious liberty.”

The complaint alleges “For over 20 years, Defendant Planned Parenthood Federation of America (“PPFA”), the largest elective abortion provider in the United States, has permitted and even encouraged its abortion clinics to supply aborted human fetuses, fetal organs, and fetal tissues for research experimentation, frequently in exchange for valuable consideration paid to the clinics…

The Videos focused attention both on PPFA’s fetal tissue research programs and on its clinics’ relationships with third-party vendors of human fetal tissue, prompting two comprehensive, year-long Congressional investigations.

Both Congressional investigations issued criminal referrals to the FBI and U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) against PPFA, multiple PPFA regional affiliates, and their business partners for selling fetal tissue against the law.

DOJ then launched a criminal investigation into Planned…

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The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and our unique role in God’s drama of the ages

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The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and our unique role in God’s drama of the ages

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, speaks during the keynote address or the State Bar of New Mexico’s Annual Meeting in Pojoaque, N.M.,Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)

Joan Ruth Bader was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 15, 1933. She met Martin Ginsburg on a blind date when they were undergraduates at Cornell. The couple had a daughter, Jane, and a son, James.

She became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993, serving for twenty-seven years before her death last Friday at the age of eighty-seven.

In days to come, we will discuss some of the biblical aspects of her work on the Court, including her judicial philosophy and her views on cultural issues. For today, I’d like to focus on Justice Ginsburg’s life and influence in the context of one of the most famous chapters in Scripture.

Here we discover a life principle that she illustrates and that our Lord commends to us.

“A Prayer of Moses, the man of God”

Psalm 90 is titled “A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.” It was apparently written as the Jewish people were preparing to enter Canaan together.

Moses led them from Egyptian slavery through the Red Sea and forty years in the wilderness. He gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of the Torah as God’s word and guidance for their lives and nation. He brought them through battles, rebellions, and hardships to the edge of their future in the land God intended for them.

If we had met Moses forty years earlier, however, we would never have imagined that the last paragraph would be possible.

A fugitive from Egyptian justice, he was keeping his father-in-law’s sheep in the wilderness. When God appeared to him and called him to liberate his people, Moses’ reply showed his astonishment: “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11).

But God had a plan for his life that Moses could not imagine at the time.

“Our…

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Petee’s Pie Commandments

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Breaking down the anatomy and aesthetics of a perfect pie with the owner of New York’s favorite late-night pie shop.

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One Weird Letter as an Example of What Pastors Have to Endure (Particularly in a COVID Era)

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I received an email through Church Answers a couple of years ago. A team member sent it to me because she thought it would lighten my day. It was a bit strange after all.

I decided to hold the email for a while and choose a good time to share it with our readers. Our team has noted that the COVID era is a period when all the complaints pastors get seem to be coming at once.

Well, this letter epitomizes this era. I changed some of the verbiage that would identify the writer, the church, and the pastor. Note that the writer is not a member of the church. She decided to do her own investigation based on the complaints of others. She further insisted that Church Answers do its own investigation of this pastor.

The Weird Letter

Hello. My name is Betty and I am writing you a formal complaint against Bill Jones who is the pastor at Community Church in Gravetown. I had heard numerous complaints about his so-called preaching and I decided to make a couple of visits to the church.

In my opinion, he shouldn’t even be a pastor, let alone be the pastor at any church. Here are my reasons why. I think your organization should take time to investigate this matter.

First of all, he calls the church site a campus, and he does not refer to it as the house of God. Secondly, he only reads one Bible verse, and the rest of the time he is either talking about sports and how teams played or not played, or he is talking about his children.

Then it’s all about politics. He said abortion was a sin. I…

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Postcard from Beaufort in coastal North Carolina

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Postcard from Beaufort in coastal North Carolina

By Dennis Lennox, CP Contributor Follow

Front Street in Beaufort, located in coastal North Carolina, is lined with old homes. | Dennis Lennox

Summer is ending, but you wouldn’t know it in the North Carolina town of Beaufort.

Beaufort, located at the southern range of the famed Outer Banks, is a perfect place to visit during the shoulder season. Here the water at Fort Macon State Park and other beaches is warm enough for swimming in October.

Of course, there is much more to do and see than the beaches.

North Carolina’s third-oldest town (population 4,186) has several blocks of old homes — some dating to the mid-1700s. Talk about curb appeal.

Among the oldest houses are those on Front Street facing Beaufort’s harbor, the waters of which were known to Edward Teach (better known as Blackbeard) and other pirates more than a half-century before American independence in 1776. One of the houses belonged to Jacob Henry, a Jew twice-elected to the state legislature at a time when Protestantism was the official state religion.

Across the waterfront is Carrot Island, a barrier island-turned-nature reserve with a herd of wild horses. More wild horses can be found at Shackleford Banks, part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore.

To discover all of the history, visit the North Carolina Maritime Museum. The collection includes around 300 artifacts from Blackbeard’s flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge.

The Old Burying Ground in Beaufort, North Carolina. | Dennis Lennox

Continue exploring the past at the Beaufort Historic Site. The grounds feature several old…

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The First Step Act, Chuck Colson, and the Church’s work of restoration

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The First Step Act, Chuck Colson, and the Church’s work of restoration

By John Stonestreet, Christian Post Guest Columnist Follow

A 19 year old inmate looks out of the window of the Young Offenders Institution attached to Norwich Prison on August 25, 2005 in Norwich, England. | Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

I’m old enough to remember that time, way back in 2018, when Democrats and Republicans worked together. Really, it did happen and resulted in a major, bi-partisan criminal justice reform bill called “The First Step Act,” which sought to reduce the number of people in overcrowded federal prisons and improve conditions for those behind bars.

When he endorsed the bill, President Trump said, “We’re all better off when former inmates can receive and re-enter society as law-abiding, productive citizens.” At last month’s Republican National Convention, Ivanka Trump called the First Step Act “the most significant criminal justice reform of our generation.” That’s not an overstatement.

A major feature of the bill is that it reduces mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders, especially “low-level, nonviolent offenders.” For those already serving time for crack cocaine-related offenses, the reductions were retroactive.

In its first year, the First Step Act has literally changed thousands of lives. According to a recent report from the United States Sentencing Commission, the sentences of more than 7,000 federal prisoners, deemed able to safely return to their communities, were reduced.

As the libertarian publication Reason rightly noted, the First Step Act is a modest, but very real, “first…

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Man whom Tim Tebow prayed over at baseball game is seizure-free after 2 years, praises God

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Man whom Tim Tebow prayed over at baseball game is seizure-free after 2 years, praises God

By Samuel Smith, U.S. Editor

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Tim Tebow signs autographs for fans after his workout at the Mets Minor League Complex. | Reuters/Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports

Thirty-four-year-old Arizona resident Brandon Berry will never forget the day that he had a seizure, passed out in the stands along the third-base line at a baseball game and woke up to find Tim Tebow praying over him.

A couple of hours earlier on Oct. 11, 2016, Berry, who had suffered from epileptic seizures that kept him from being able to drive since 2013, had rededicated his life to Christ. The decision came after he met a man who was talking about God to a reporter in the stands at the Arizona Fall League contest.

“I introduced myself to him and we got to talking and I just told him that I felt like I was saved before but I was losing my faith in God. I felt like God was punishing me and I didn’t know if He took away my salvation because of all this stuff that was happening to me with my epilepsy,” he said.

“He told me that God loves me. We went over Scripture and we prayed and I rededicated my life in the stands that day. A couple of hours later, I started feeling ill and getting a metal taste in my mouth right there on the third baseline. I tried my best to get on the ground or somewhere where I would be safe. The seizure happened and blacked out. I woke up to Tim praying over me.”

The encounter made mainstream news headlines as it was Tebow’s first game with the Scottsdale Scorpions. The Christian athlete shocked the world earlier…

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Calif. pastor moves worship outdoors after county fines church $112K for indoor services

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Calif. pastor moves worship outdoors after county fines church $112K for indoor services

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Follow

North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, California | Google Maps

The pastor of a 3,000-seat California church said he will stop fighting Santa Clara County and hold services in the church parking lot as per local COVID-19 guidelines after fines rose to over $112,000. The county said it will not forgive the fines.

Jack Trieber, the pastor of North Valley Baptist Church in Santa Clara, has chosen to obey the county’s directives banning indoor services, according to ABC7News.

The church was being fined $5,000 for every service it held as well as fines for other violations such as singing.

ABC7News reports that Trieber told his congregation in an outdoor meeting this week that senators told him they had given President Donald Trump the pastor’s personal phone number and if he would be willing to receive a call from the White House. But the pastor said he didn’t want to take that course of action.

Trieber also reportedly said he has put on hold a campaign that was aimed at flooding local government offices with one million emails from supporters. “I don’t wish anything evil to happen with authorities. Tonight was the right decision to move out here,” he was quoted as…

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City drops charges against pastor fined $800 for holding worship services

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City drops charges against pastor fined $800 for holding worship services

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Follow

Logos Baptist Ministries in Niles, Illinois. | Facebook/Logos Baptist Ministries

The city of Niles, Illinois, has dropped all four “disorderly conduct” citations against Romanian Pastor Daniel Chiu who had been asked to pay a fine of $800 for holding morning and evening worship services on two consecutive Sundays.

Announcing the dropping of all charges against Chiu of the Logos Baptist Ministries, Christian legal firm Liberty Counsel said it will now ask the Supreme Court to review the case in the federal lawsuit against Gov. J.B. Pritzker “for his unconstitutional executive orders discriminating against churches.”

“It is beyond belief that a pastor would be charged with ‘disorderly conduct’ for peacefully and safely holding a church service,” Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman Mat Staver said.

“Think about it — a pastor who survived communist Romania is charged with ‘disorderly conduct’ for holding a church service in America — the land of the free,” he added. “This is shameful. The repression against the church under communism failed, and it will not succeed here in America.”

“While Gov. J.B. Pritzker removed all restrictions on churches and…

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