The government is taking measures to half the country’s food waste over the next ten years and has urged major supermarkets, along with members of the hospitality industry, to join them in helping reduce waste.
It is estimated that UK homes chuck away £15 billion worth of food which creates the same level of emissions as one third of cars on the road.
Climate Stewards, a charity working to help people offset their carbon emissions, praised this effort and highlighted the global impact of western consumer habits and the responsibility Christians have to take care of the earth.
Climate Stewards Director, Caroline Pomeroy, told Premier: “It’s not just money that we are wasting, we are wasting water, land and we are causing poverty to other people. So, it’s a huge issue that particularly, as Christians, we have a responsibility to be good stewards.”
She added that Christians have a biblical calling to live sustainably: “Jesus said we should love our neighbour. And if we love our global neighbour, who’s being impacted by climate change which our food waste is contributing to, who’s being impacted by us demanding salad crops which are shipped across the world…then that ultimately will be hurting our poorer global neighbours who are relying on agriculture for their existence.”
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Mike Pence Warns Liberty University Graduates to ‘Be Ready’ for Attacks on Their Christian Faith
In a commencement speech delivered at Liberty University Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence told thousands of students that they should “be ready” for an increase in personal attacks on their faith.
In a bid to encourage and equip young Christians to live out their calling in our modern secular culture, Pence warned that, increasingly, believers will be asked to “tolerate things” that go completely against their personal faith and spiritual convictions.
“You’re going to be asked to bow down to the idols of the popular culture,” he explained, noting that it has become “acceptable and even fashionable to ridicule and discriminate against people of faith.”
Highlighting the absurdity of the secular left and its militant opposition to open Christian expression, Pence referenced the case lodged against the Little Sisters of the Poor by the previous administration.
This case involved a group of Catholic nuns who sought exemption from an Obama-era mandate that would have required them to provide birth control – something that would have infringed on their religious beliefs.
“It wasn’t all that long ago that the last administration brought the full weight of the federal government against the Little Sisters of the Poor merely because that group of nuns refused to provide a health plan that violated their deeply held…
The head of the YMCA’s Be Real campaign, Liam Preston, told Premier: “We are constantly bombarded with images and messages that tell you don’t look good enough.
“When you get this, when you turn over a newspaper, when you get this when you turn on TV or look on social media, they are going to feel pressure, that they aren’t good enough and this will naturally have a knock on effect on their mental health as well.”
Liam told Premier that the Be Real campaign aims to make the general population feel good about the way they look, but also to help young people who are ‘worried that they don’t fit in society.’
The start of Mental Health Awareness Week (13th – 19th May) was also marked on Monday with radio stations across the UK, including Premier, simultaneously broadcasting the Mental Health Minute.
The message included words from Katy Perry, Stephen Fry and Prince William and encouraged people to open up about their own experiences.
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Six More Christians Executed by Terrorists in West African Church Attacks
Another church in Burkina Faso, West Africa was targeted by terrorists this Sunday leaving six dead.
According to Christianity Today, six Christians were killed in a Burkina Faso Catholic church in the town of Dablo after people on motorcycles raided the church, executed five worshippers and the priest and then set the church on fire.
Reportedly, the motorcyclists entered the church during the Sunday morning Mass and opened fire on the churchgoers.
According to the Burkina Information Agency, the attackers “ordered the women and children to clear the scene before executing six men, including the priest.”
According to Reuters, the men also looted several stores in the town, including the pharmacy, before taking off.
This is the second attack in this area since Easter that have had nearly identical M.Os.
As Christian Headlines previously reported, six Christians were executed in a West African Protestant church on April 28, after they refused to convert to Islam.
Several armed motorcyclists opened fire on the Assemblies of God church in a Burkina Faso killing six people, including the church’s long-time pastor Pierre Ouédraogo, after they refuse to deny their Christian faith.
According to the Associated Press, no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in April, though violent Islamist extremism has increasingly become a problem in…
The country will block his entry despite his claim that he’s preaching and ‘soul winning’ in Dublin on 26 May.
It is first time Ireland has used a law introduced 20 years ago which permits banning foreign nationals from entering.
It comes after online petition calling for a ban gained over 14,000 signatures.
Anderson runs Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona but has been accused of openly expressing anti-gay and anti-Semitic views.
Spotlight was put on his church in 2009 when he preached a sermon titled ‘Why I hate Barack Obama’. In it he argued the US would “benefit” from Obama’s death.
Anderson has already been banned from the UK.
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About once a month, I am contacted by a person serving on a church staff voicing a similar concern. The pastor has retired, resigned, or been fired. A new pastor will be coming at some point in the future. Life has changed for the staff member with one announcement by the pastor. As an executive pastor recently asked me, “Where do I go from here?”
The question is legitimate. Many church members do not fully grasp how disruptive a pastor’s departure is to the remaining staff. The staff are left behind, even if it’s not in an eschatological sense. Look at some of the possible consequences for church staff.
The staff member and his or her family’s life is disrupted. This consequence is almost universal. It is not just the staff member. The family is uncertain where the next job, town, school, or income will be.
The staff member may be terminated. It is not that common anymore, but some churches “clean house” so the next pastor can choose the staff. Some ask for a written letter of resignation that can be accepted or rejected by the next pastor.
Those closest to the pastor are most vulnerable. It can be rewarding for a staff member to have a close working relationship with the pastor . . . until the pastor leaves. The closest staff members have their ministry identity tied closely to the exiting pastor. And that can be a threat if the next pastor is uncertain where loyalties lie.
The on-boarding of the new pastor is fraught with tension for the staff members. They, in many aspects,…
In other news, the Times Literary Supplement recently profiled “new fiction for children and young adults on an LGBTQ theme.” One tells the story of a boy who decides he is a mermaid. Another tells the “gay love story” of two aardvarks. Another is much more explicit than I am willing to describe.
For years, the left side of the culture wars has been astute in describing the other side as “anti,” knowing the psychological advantage of such branding. We’re “anti-abortion” rather than “pro-life,” “anti-LGBTQ” rather than “pro-biblical sexuality,” “anti-marriage equality” rather than “pro-traditional marriage,” and so on.
Any time I can describe you as what you’re not more than what you are, I gain a significant rhetorical and persuasive advantage.
How should we respond to a culture that seems so antagonistic to biblical values?
“We are not our own. We belong to him.”
One of the most important lessons I have learned in recent years is this: God wants us to love the world without needing the world to love us in return.
Jesus clearly taught us to love even our enemies and “pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). We are to offer the world the kind of love that “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:7).
But “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15) means…
The attack on Sunday took place in Dablo, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) from the capital, Ouagadougou.
Urbain Kabore, a government spokesman for the West African country’s Sahel region, said the gunmen also set fire to a health centre and destroyed all places serving alcohol.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attacks bore the hallmarks of Islamic extremists who are known to be active in the area. An attack on a Protestant church about two weeks ago left six people dead.
Burkina Faso has been increasingly destabilised by jihadists from across the border in Mali. Attacks have included the kidnapping of foreigners.
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He told an audience in central London the vote to leave the EU had created a “fundamental disagreement” about the Britain people want – between being inward or outward looking.
At the launch of Christian Aid Week at Church House in Westminster on Sunday, Mr Brown said countries have to co-operate to solve the world’s problems such as climate change.
He added: “It raises the question of what it is to be British and this, I think, is at the heart of the debate that’s Brexit.
“It does now raise a fundamental issue and I will be honest, my worry is that the divisions in our country are now so deep and so pervasive that it could take a generation for us to reconcile these differences, bring people together and find a unified vision of our country and a sense of purpose and direction that takes us forward into the modern world.
“It is not just that parliamentary deadlock. There’s a fundamental disagreement about what kind of Britain we are trying to be.”
He said the inward vision misunderstands the “Dunkirk spirit” as meaning the UK is better when it stands “alone, aloof and apart”.
But he said: “That of course is not what Dunkirk was about – Dunkirk was about us being alone out of necessity.
“But there is a second vision of Britain, a Britain that’s open, outward looking, engaged and not disengaged with the rest of the world. A Britain that’s internationalist in its…
Psalm 89:34-35 – “34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.”
Our faith as believers is a function of a love relationship with God which exists within a context which is called a covenant. A covenant is an agreement that is legally binding. Why do we need agreement? An agreement increases the degree of certainty that the terms of a relationship will be met or that promises will be kept.
In Gen 15, Abraham was in this scenario in which he needed some assurance that what God had promised him in Gen 12 would come to pass. Time was passing and nothing was changing except his body and Sarah’s body. God told him to take some animals to cut them into halves. God had to come down to speak human language to Abraham in order to give him the assurance that what He promised would come to pass. In those days, people would cut blood covenants that way. A covenant cut with blood was literally cut with a person’s life. The blood covenant is the highest form of agreement. The two parties would pass through the middle. Those animals died on their behalf indicating that they had ceased to exist the way they were before. When the two parties passed through the middle, it means the old them is dead and there is a new them now and the two parties were fused together and were now one. So Abraham passed through the middle and in the evening, there came a burning lamp and it passed through the middle and God spoke to Abraham that He was going to give that land to his descendants. Abraham came out of that experience with faith exploding in his heart.
The validity of the covenant depends on the integrity of the parties in the covenant. This covenant cannot fail from God’s end because God will never lie. In Hebrews 6:13-20 describes what happened in Genesis 15. There is absolutely no threat to God’s capacity to fulfil His promises. God cannot lie because God cannot die. If He makes a promise to you, He will hang around you till it is fulfilled.
God will not lie because there is no power that can stop Him. God cannot be stopped by the power witchcraft. We were raised on the culture and diet of fear of witchcraft which has shaped our Christianity. Our concept of God and prayer point. If any entity anywhere can leverage supernatural powers to stop god, that god is not the God of the Bible.
In Numbers 23:19-20, Balaam was hired to curse Israel, he proclaimed that God has blessed and he can’t curse them. God cannot lie because whatever He says is created.
Our greatest aspiration in life should be to cultivate a relationship with God. Jesus said in Matt 22:37-38 that loving God was the first and greatest commandment. Unfortunately we have been indoctrinated into a transactional relationship. We recognize God because of what He can do. But love is a celebration of value. Loving God is celebrating His worth and value. Praise is celebrating what He does, Worship is celebrating who He is, His value. Your greatest ecstasy on this planet will be found in a loving a relationship with Him then ultimately you will be able come to the point where like Jesus in John 10:30, you will say “I and my father are one”
Pastor Samuel Adeyemi is the Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, a fast growing, life changing church committed to “raising role models” based in Lagos. He is also the President of Success Power International
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