Church banned from distributing flyers that are ‘too religious’

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Church banned from distributing flyers that are ‘too religious’

According to First Liberty Institute, a legal religious freedom organisation, Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley has taken part in the Lyon County School District community flyer distribution program for years.

The program allows community organisation to share flyers about various activities including outdoor programs, sports leagues, and Halloween parties.

However, the school district changed its policy in June after a parent complained about the church’s religious speech on the flyers.

It refused to distribute flyers about Calvary Chapel’s Outdoor Excursions program, Harvest Festival, and Youth Nights (which include basketball and air hockey) because they included phrases such as “worship music”, “good news” and “devotional”.

 

It also asked for cross images and a Proverbs quote to me removed from one of its flyers.

 

Stephanie Taub, Counsel for First Liberty, which is defending the church, said the district should end “its discriminatory new policy”.

She added: “The First Amendment requires school districts to be neutral toward religion.

“They may not single out a church’s flyers for censorship, and they may not force a church to scrub the flyers of any religious language. That is hostility toward religion.”

Amber Williams, Associate Attorney with Lipson Neilson, which is also supporting the church said: “Not only is this practice…

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French Christians to recite new version of Lord’s Prayer

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French Christians to recite new version of Lord’s Prayer

A new version has been created so it does not seem like God leads people to commit sins.

For decades the French have prayed “Lead us not into temptation” found in Matthew 6:9-13.

Instead, Catholic priests will ask worshippers to pray “Do not let us enter into temptation”. This way, the responsibility of a person sinning is placed on the person, not God.

The French Conference of Bishops approved the change earlier this year. 

However, Monsignor Guy de Kerimel, the French Catholic Church’s chief liturgist told AFP: “In itself the translation wasn’t wrong, but the interpretation was ambiguous.”

Whether or not a new version was needed was a controversial debate between theologians for almost two decades.

But the national council of evangelicals of France, CNEF, doesn’t agree with the change.

According to AFP, the group acknowledged that the new version does not implicate God in a person sinning, but said “it waters down God’s sovereignty”.

French-language Protestant churches have also approved the change. 

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Pope Francis warns of ‘terrorism of gossip’ as he ends Asian tour

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Pope Francis warns of ‘terrorism of gossip’ as he ends Asian tour

As he has done in similar encounters, Francis told the priests and nuns gathered in Chittagong’s

Holy Rosary Church on Saturday that he was ditching the eight-page speech that he had prepared and would instead speak to them from his heart.

“I don’t know if it will be better or worse, but I promise it will be less boring,” he quipped.

And then for the next 15 minutes, Francis drew laughter from the crowd, mixing paternal advice on how to tend to religious vocations with gentle warnings about the havoc that gossip “bombs” can wreak when lobbed in closed religious life.

“How many religious communities have been destroyed because of a spirit of gossip?” said Francis, adding that he was speaking from personal experience. “Please, bite your tongue.”

History’s first Jesuit pope has frequently lamented the damage gossip can do within the church, where vows of obedience, strict hierarchies and closed communities can breed jealousies and resentment.

It is a message Francis has brought to ordinary parishes riven by divisions and to the top of the Catholic Church leadership. His most famous iteration came in his 2014 Christmas greetings to the Vatican bureaucracy, when he listed the “terrorism of gossip” as one of the 15 maladies his closest collaborators were suffering, alongside “spiritual Alzheimer’s” and a “pathology of power”.

The Bangladeshi edition was far more jovial in tone. It was a humour-filled end to a tense diplomatic trip that saw Francis maintain public…

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Guildford Cathedral dotted with 200 model angels

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Guildford Cathedral dotted with 200 model angels

Forty-seven local schools constructed a range of different-sized angels to flood the building. They are placed all over the Cathedral, from the gallery to the font.

The pupils made them collectively, with some schools giving a model which has a piece of fabric from every student on it.

Others are papier mache, and some children have written prayers on their angels.

 

Jane Whittington, a school officer with the Diocese of Guildford education team, told Premier they were made by reception age group students through to age 16-year-olds.

“The smallest ones are about 30 cm high and they’re perched on windowsill and little ledges the largest one are just under six foot with quite a lot of them at about real-size child height.

“All the way around the Cathedral we’ve dotted angels around; some are hiding, peering down from the gallery, some are in the treasury, peering down from ledges and shelves in there, round behind the font and so on.

“So, when people some to visit they will have to hunt for them,” she said.

 

She added that she hopes the angels will attract non-Christian families to the Cathedral to see their children’s work.

She told Premier: “We’ve always had a school art exhibition at the Cathedral over Christmas and we know that lots of children to bring their families to see their art over Christmas.”

 

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Joyce Meyer’s Daily 2 December 2017 Devotional: Your Three Best Weapons

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Joyce Meyer’s Daily 2 December 2017 Devotional: Your Three Best Weapons
Joyce Meyer's Daily 2 December 2017 Devotional: Your Three Best Weapons

Topic: Your Three Best Weapons [Saturday December 2, 2017]

That is why I would remind you to stir up (rekindle the embers of, fan the flame of, and keep burning) the [gracious] gift of God, [the inner fire] that is in you by means of the laying on of my hands [with those of the elders at your ordination]. — 2 Timothy 1:6

Through careful strategy and cunning deceit, Satan attempts to wage war against you and keep you in a mindset of defeat. But God has given you spiritual weapons to use against him. Here are the three main spiritual weapons you can use to fight off the enemy:

1. God’s Word: Receive it through preaching, teaching, reading and personal Bible study. Continue in the Word until it becomes revelation given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

2. Praise: This defeats the devil faster and more efficiently than any other battle plan, but it must be genuine heart-praise, not just lip service or a religious ritual.

3. Prayer: Prayer is relationship with the God, communicating with Him, asking Him for help or talking with Him about whatever is on your heart. It also includes being quiet in God’s presence, listening to Him speak to your heart. To have an effective prayer life, we must develop an intimate, personal relationship with the Father. Know that He loves you and that He wants to help you.

There is a war going on, but God is fighting on your side and has given you the weapons you need. Use them to send Satan running!

Prayer Starter: Lord, thank You so much for giving me the spiritual weapons I need to fight my enemy. With Your help, I know that I can win the battle today!

From Joyce Meyer’s Ministries


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    RCCG Sunday School Students Manual 3rd December 2017 Lesson 14 — The Fruit Of The Spirit: Love As A Component

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    RCCG Sunday School Students Manual 3rd December 2017 Lesson 14 — The Fruit Of The Spirit: Love As A Component
    RCCG Sunday School Students Manual 3rd December 2017 Lesson 14 — The Fruit Of The Spirit: Love As A Component

    TOPIC — THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT: LOVE AS A COMPONENT [SUNDAY, 3RD DECEMBER 2017]

    MEMORY VERSE: “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” – Galatians 5:25

    BIBLE PASSAGE: Galatians 5:22-23

    INTRODUCTION:

    The fruit of the Holy Spirit is the result of the Holy Spirit’s presence and operation in the life of a Christian. “Fruit” is the natural result of growth. And “of the Spirit” explains exactly Who causes that growth – it is not our striving or straining, but the power of the Holy Spirit. No amount of human toil or gritty determination can produce spiritual fruit, but the Spirit’s influence in a yielded heart can work miracles. The Bible makes it clear that everyone receives the Holy Spirit the moment he or she believes in Jesus Christ (Romans 8:9; 1Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 1:13-14). One of the primary purposes of the Holy Spirit coming into a Christian’s life is to change that life. It is the Holy Spirit’s job to conform us to the image of Christ, making us more like Him. Our sinful flesh produces certain types of fruit that reflect our nature (Galatians 5:19-21), and the Holy Spirit produces types of fruit that reflect His nature.

    LESSON OUTLINES:

    1. Components of the fruit of the Spirit

    2. Love

    COMPONENTS OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

    The fruit of the Spirit is one with many characteristics. Galatians 5:22-23… “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:…”. Ephesians 5:9… “for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth”. James 3:17-18… “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”

    The Christian life is a battle of the sinful flesh against the new nature given by Christ (2Corinthians 5:7). As Christians, we have the Holy Spirit producing His fruit in us and we have the Holy Spirit’s power available to conquer the acts of the sinful nature (Philippians 4:13).

    LOVE

    Love is the first of the characteristics of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The English word love has very broad meaning, but the Greek language is very precise. There are three fundamental categories of love: Eros, Phileo and Agape. The love which the Holy Spirit manifests in believers in agape. This love is not a feeling, but a choice. It is the choice to be kind, to sacrifice and to consider other’s needs greater than one’s own (Philippians 2:3). Agape has a sense of hardness and difficulty in its expression (John 15:13; 1John 3:16; Luke 6:35). It is because of this kind of love that God carried out His plan to save the world (John 3:16). God desire to show His perfect, selfless love to the world that is routinely confused about what true love is (Romans 5:8). God’s children are the conduits of His love, as they are empowered by the Holy Spirit.

    The love Christians are expected to demonstrate as a fruit of the Spirit is based on the two great commandments: love God and love your neighbour (Matthew 22:35-40). Therefore, love can be defined as outgoing concern demonstrated by following the commandments, God has written in the Bible. 1 Corinthians 13:4:8a… “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…”

    CONCLUSION:

    The fruit of the Spirit is what God desires our lives to exhibit and, with the Holy Spirit’s help, it is possible!

    QUESTIONS:

    1. What are the characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit?

    2. Describe love as a characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit


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