Down syndrome child is Gerber’s “Spokesbaby of the year”

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Down syndrome child is Gerber’s “Spokesbaby of the year”

Congress voted early this morning to reopen the federal government by passing a $400 billion budget deal. Meanwhile, the Winter Olympics opening ceremony began in South Korea just a few minutes ago.

These events are leading the news, but I want to focus on a completely different story.

Lucas Warren is eighteen months old and lives in Dalton, Georgia. He was chosen this week to be Gerber’s new “Spokesbaby of the year.” Lucas was selected from more than 140,000 entries in the company’s photo search contest.

He is the first child with Down syndrome to be chosen.

As Nick Pitts notes, Lucas would probably have been aborted if his parents lived in the Netherlands. Their termination rate for babies with Downs is between 74 percent and 94 percent.

In Denmark, the abortion rate for Down syndrome babies is 98 percent. As much as 80 percent of the Danish population is irreligious. Here’s my question: Should not such a secular culture be especially committed to the value of this life since they don’t believe in the life to come?

My son Ryan and I were discussing this subject and he asked the converse question, “Why would we mourn death if we don’t value life?” If life has no intrinsic meaning, why would death matter?

Ryan noted that Christians don’t fear death because we value the life to come. We know that death is not the end of life but the beginning of its next stage. That’s why Scripture teaches, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints” (Psalm 116:15).

“Make me know my end”

Genesis 3 records the banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden after their sin. The Lord sent Adam from the garden “lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever” (v. 22).

Being barred from the tree of life was not an act of punishment; God’s purpose was to keep humans from living forever in our fallen bodies and broken world. Would you want to spend eternity in your body as it…

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More Snowfall in Sahara Desert—Sign of End-Times Messianic Era? .

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Snow in the Sahara desert has been a rare phenomenon, yet the Algerian town of Ain Sefra experienced on Tuesday its second snowfall of this winter. Although statistically, still a rare occurrence, the overall rate of snowfall appears to be picking up drastically.

Ain Safra is a small town on the edge of one of the largest and hottest deserts in the world, earning it the moniker of the “Gateway to the Desert.” It snowed 40 years ago, but the locals were able to pack away their…

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Christian ‘ex-gay’ film goes ahead despite cancelled booking

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Christian ‘ex-gay’ film goes ahead despite cancelled booking

Producers were offered a conference room at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster to unveil ‘Voices of the Silenced’, after the Vue Piccadilly cinema scrapped a reservation.

The film, which tells the stories of 15 people “emerging out of homosexual lifestyles”, was made by the Core Issues Trust, a Christian group.

 

Speaking with Premier at the rearranged screening, the head of the Trust, Dr Mike Davidson said debate about sexuality is sometimes being shut down.

He said: “[People] talk about sexual fluidity and it’s fine to speak of that in a transgender context, but we’re not allowed to talk about someone who wants to leave [a] gay [lifestyle].”

Dr Mike Davidson

 

Meanwhile, dozens of people demonstrated outside the Vue Piccadilly on Thursday evening against the cancellation of the movie’s screening.

Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, a group which has been supporting the film, told Premier about the protest: “It was [peaceful], as we said it would be because we’re peaceful people.

“It was a protest and we were there to make the point that we’re not going away.

Dr Mike Davidson

 

Referring to efforts to secure a venue for the ‘Voices of the Silenced’ premiere, Mrs Williams added: “There is a sense in which it has been exhausting in the past couple of days.

“What we were trying to build here was a community…

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Five Reasons Pastors and Worship Leaders Should Meet Weekly

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Podcast Episode #405

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The relationship between pastor and worship leader is one of the most important church staff relationships there is. Today, we discuss a post by Sam Rainer on why it’s critical for the two to meet weekly.

Some highlights from today’s episode include:

  • The preaching and music in a corporate worship service should complement one another.
  • Church members can tell if there is a healthy relationship or not between a pastor and worship leader.
  • A divided church staff can often lead to a divided church.
  • Worship is more than just music.
  • Pastors, how much better could your corporate worship be if you had a better relationship with your worship leader?
  • A church benefits when the church staff is close.

The five reasons we cover are:

  1. Music and preaching are complementary, not separate.
  2. Separating the sermon and music separates the church.
  3. Churches can sense the healthiness of staff relationships.
  4. A regular rhythm in worship fosters discipleship.
  5. Pastors need to know what drives each other.

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Lost Tribe of Israel Returns to Jerusalem to Intercede at Western Wall .

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Abortion Facility Remains Under Criminal Review for Suspected Trafficking of Baby Organs .

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Texas Home Church Meeting Ends With 4 Stabbed, Including Pastor .

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Four people were stabbed at a Texas house church.
Four people were stabbed at a Texas house church. (Unsplash/Jacob Morch)

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During a home church service in Corpus Christi, Texas, a man stabbed four people, including the church pastor.

Police arrived to find the pastor stabbed multiple times in the stomach and one of the band members stabbed in the neck. Both were taken to the hospital for life-threatening injuries, with…

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North Korean Human Rights Atrocities ‘on Par with Nazi Germany’ .

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American university student Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in North Korea for attempted theft in 2016. He fell into a coma and died in 2017. (Kyodo/Reuters )

Vice President Mike Pence plans to attend the 2018 Winter Olympics, which start this week in South Korea. But his goal isn’t just to see the games and watch the athletes compete.

Pence will arrive with Fred Warmbier by his side. He is the father of Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old who died after 15 months of imprisonment…

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DCLM Daily Manna 9 February, 2018 by Pastor Kumuyi – His Latter Rain

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DCLM Daily Manna 9 February, 2018 by Pastor Kumuyi – His Latter Rain

Topic: His Latter Rain [DCLM Daily Manna Friday February 9th, 2018]

Text: Joel 2:28-32 (KJV)

Key Verse: “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions” (Joel 2:28).

MESSAGE:

“Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without the wind, branches without sap, and like coals without fire, we are useless” – Charles Spurgeon.

The passage before us talks about the outpouring of the Spirit of God upon all flesh. Prophet Joel had spoken about a need for national repentance in Israel. Israel had been in Babylonian captivity for seventy years and this brought great reproach upon them. Joel recommended that the prayers for the restoration of Israel and the removal of her reproach be accompanied by fasting and weeping. He believed that the outcome would involve an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the restored Israel at a future date. This passage, which is now referred to as the promise of the Father, was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. The Holy Ghost, like cloven tongues of fire, fell on the one hundred and twenty believers in the Upper Room, who waited on God in prayers, after the resurrection and ascension of Christ.

There is very little the Church can do today without the outpouring of the Spirit. The world in which we live has become so corrupt that sermons without the backing of the Holy Ghost power can produce little or no effect. The anointing and gifts that come through the Holy Spirit are irresistible.

The vessels to be used in the revival promised by Joel will involve both old and young men, with the servants and handmaidens, all saved children of God. The Holy Ghost came upon ‘all flesh’ who were in one accord, saved and sanctified in the Upper Room, and not on everyone in the world. Further preparation for the Spirit’s baptism will include consecration and submission to the will of God.

Thought For The Day: It takes changed men to change the world.

Bible Reading in a Year: Exodus 30-32.

Flatimes’ Notice Board: Please do not prolong your salvation if you have not repented. Many are going home daily and tomorrow maybe too late.

DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.


Teens’ Open Heavens 9 February 2018 by Pastor Adeboye – On Motion

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Teens’ Open Heavens 9 February 2018 by Pastor Adeboye – On Motion

Topic: On Motion [Teens’ Open Heavens Friday 9th, February 2018]

Memorise: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. – Isaiah 40:31

Read: Isaiah 40:28-31

28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Bible In One Year: Leviticus 7-9, Matthew 25:31-46

MESSAGE:

There are seven categories of motion. The first is the total stagnation which indicates a state of no motion. In Mark 2:1-12, we read of a paralyzed man who could not do anything for himself except someone else helped him. He was in a state of total stagnation. This is the worst state of motion. Some people are in that state of motion and no matter how much effort they make, the situation remains the same. In other words, it appears there is nothing they can do to change their situation. If you are in this state, the Lord will reach out to you in Jesus’ name.

Crawling is the next category of motion after stagnancy. At this stage, there is motion, but it is very limited and slow. Are you experiencing slow progress? If you study so hard, but your grades remain low, then you are crawling. If what takes others one year to achieve takes you two years, then you are crawling. I speak forth divine speed into your motion. You shall make quick progress henceforth in Jesus’ name.

Prayer Point: Every evil tie to my negative past hindering my progress, be broken in Jesus’ name

Hymn 5:

1. Onward, Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!
Christ, the Royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See His banners go!

Chorus
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!

2. At the Sign of triumph
Satan’s host doth flee;
On, then, Christian soldiers,
On to victory!
Hell’s foundations quiver
At the shout of praise;
Brothers, lift your voices,
Loud your anthems raise!

3. Like a mighty army
Moves the Church of God;
Brothers, we are treading
Where the saints have trod;
We are not divided;
All one body we
One in hope and doctrine,
One in charity.

4. Onward, then, ye people,
Join our happy throng,
Blend with ours your voices
In the triumph song;
Glory, praise and honour,
Unto Christ the King;
This, thro’ countless ages
Men and angels sing.

Daily Devotional for Teen’s guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ the Redeemer’s Ministries.


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