The Federalist reports that the piece of objectionable content was a campaign ad video for Republican Marsha Blackburn, who is running to replace Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker.
In the video, Blackburn states, “I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts. Thank God.”
A representative from Twitter reportedly told Blackburn’s campaign that the statement was “deemed an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction.”
Writing for The Federalist, David Harsanyi points out what is so concerning about Twitter’s censorship of this ad: there seems to be a double standard since pro-Planned Parenthood statements have not been censored.
Harsanyi also notes, however, that Twitter’s banning of Blackburn’s campaign ad will likely help her campaign in the end by drawing more attention to it.
You can watch the ad here and decide for yourself what you think about Blackburn’s statement regarding Planned Parenthood.
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(Photo: Facebook)Pastor Jimmy Hinton of Somerset Church of Christ in Pennsylvania.
Pastor Jimmy Hinton of Somerset Church of Christ in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that he has officially resigned from Church Protect, an organization he founded with veteran clinical therapist Jon Uhler to help churches prevent and report sexual abuse.
“It is with sadness that I announce my resignation with Church Protect. There were some recent events that occurred which I personally felt were not at the heart of the mission of Church Protect and my conscience would not allow me to remain,” Hinton said in a statement on his Facebook page.
According to Church Protect, the organization was launched after Hinton found out that his father, a former minister, is a pedophile.
“God allowed Jimmy’s path to intersect with Jon Uhler and a partnership was born. Jon has over 20 years of counseling experience working as a clinical therapist, has worked extensively with survivors of child sex abuse, and has over 10 years of experience working with sex offenders who are in prison,” the organization said.
Hinton traveled across the country, speaking at churches and other organizations where he trained and equipped church leaders and professionals on detecting and preventing sexual abuse.
Hinton did not get into the specifics of why he resigned but said he and his wife made the decision together.
“I don’t want this to be a time for people to comment, point fingers, name names, or cause any more of the volleying of insults that led to this decision. We are called, in the name of Christ, to care for others, and this is the highest calling that our nation and the rest of the world needs right now. Please use this as a time to breathe, listen, and, most importantly, to love our neighbors who are hurting,” he said. “My love, heart, and calling is to bless others who have survived unspeakable trauma and this fire inside my heart cannot be contained to any four walls. I will continue to bless survivors I come into contact with and will always do my best to respond with kindness and mercy.”
According to Church Protect, more than 90 percent of pedophile say they are religious, which make churches attractive to sexual offenders.
“Pedophilia is at epidemic proportions in the church and, sadly, there are few resources for church leaders to combat this plague. With 42 million survivors of child sex abuse in the United States, it is nearly impossible to find a church that doesn’t have victims of abuse. Sadly, most abuse remains undetected. Worse yet, most alleged cases are not reported by church leaders to the authorities and the majority of allegations are dismissed by leaders who don’t know how to detect abuse,” the organization declares.
Reacting to Hinton’s resignation on Wednesday, Uhler, who is president of Church Protect, posted a copy of the Somerset preacher’s resignation letter.
“My other commitments have become such that I am no longer able to adequately fulfill my requirements of the Board, and would like to afford you opportunity to make room for someone with the proper skills and talents to devote to the job,” Hinton said.
Uhler said he was “grateful” for the work Hinton did with the organization.
“I have appreciated the opportunity to have ministered with Jimmy Hinton. We worked tirelessly together (he and I both volunteered 100% of our time to the ministry of Church Protect), and we are grateful to have been able to help people understand both the nature of those who specifically target churches to prey upon children, and the impact that has upon survivors,” he said. “Prayers are with him, as he continues to seek to minister to those who need to know about the Lord’s love and care.”
You are welcome to another exciting time in God’s presence. Last week, I started a series on Home Breakers and I taught on anger and bitterness as some of the things that can break homes. This week I shall be discussing “Impatience” as one of the home breakers.
Impatience is the inability to deal calmly with a situation or wait for something. It can also mean a state of being in an unusual haste. Today, many families have been ruined because of impatience on the part of either the husband or the wife. Isaiah 28:16 says: …He that believeth shall not make haste. Haste makes waste! A clear example of what impatience can cause was seen in the life of Abraham in Genesis 16:1-6. Abraham, the father of faith, came to a point in life where he exhibited impatience. God had appeared to him several times, assuring him that he would have a son by his darling wife, Sarah. Having waited for what appeared to be too long a time, he readily gave in to Sarah’s suggestion to go into her maid and raise an heir through her.
One would have thought that as great as Abraham was, he would be immune to impatience, but it was so natural for him to give in to it. He must have been complaining and tired of waiting, long before Sarah made that suggestion, such that the moment an opening came he quickly grabbed it. What an irony that the child born by Abraham out of impatience became an enemy of the child of faith! Ishmael and Isaac could not live together.
Many have killed the joy of their would-be miracle because of their impatience. God’s ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts than ours. Even when He appears to be delaying, you must never lose hope, because He makes all things beautiful in His time (2 Peter 3:9). Don’t let the enemy cheat you out of your blessings. God is never slow or late. He is always on time with whatever He promises. God’s time is the right time!
The cure for impatience is patience backed up by faith in the Word of God. James 1:4 says: …But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Perfection will only come, when your patience is in place. Your patience must be backed by a strong faith in God and His Word. For instance, if you are experiencing turbulence in your home, you must discover what God’s Word says is the solution and then step out in obedience. It may not look like the solution, but God is a marriage expert; He instituted the union and knows how best to make it work.
When you are filled with the Word concerning your home, it will not run short of miracles. To keep enjoying God’s blessings for your family, you must keep doing whatever He tells you to do. Not just doing it, but doing it fully, going to the extremes in your obedience. God has not changed, and He will not compromise His standard. God’s Word in Hebrews 10:36 says: For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. Patience is a must! Instead of looking at the problem, challenge or situation, look into God’s Word, confess it to yourself and remind Him of it in prayers.
In case you are given to impatience, the first step to take is to confess Jesus as your Lord and personal Saviour. This is what being born-again is all about. If you would like to accept Jesus Christ into your life, please say this prayer “Dear Lord Jesus, I come to You today acknowledging that I am a sinner who needs Your forgiveness. I believe You died for me and rose again on the third day. Forgive me my sins, wash me with Your Blood and write my name in the Lamb’s Book of life. Thank You Lord for saving me.”
Congratulations, you are now born-again! If you prayed this simple prayer of faith with me, you are now a child of God. He loves you and will never leave you. Read your Bible daily, obey God’s Word and seek Christian fellowship (John 14:21).
With this, you are guaranteed all-round rest and peace in Jesus’ Name! Call or write, and share your testimonies with me through [email protected], 07026385437 OR 08141320204.
For more insight, these books authored by me are available at the Dominion Bookstores in all Living Faith Churches and other leading Christian bookstores: Marriage Covenant, Making Marriage Work, Building A Successful Home and Success in Marriage (Co-Authored).o).
Pastor Faith Oyedepo is the wife of Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a. Winners’ Chapel, and Senior Pastor of Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Nigeria.
A drug user gives a blood sample for an HIV test inside a clinic in Athens November 25, 2013.
Considering the many threats that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes to people’s health, researchers are hard at work in discovering a cure. Given that a suppressor has already been found, the next goal seems to be completely eradicating the virus in order to restore victims to full functionality and health.
Recent reports have revealed that a team of researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan may have just achieved a breakthrough.
According to the study, the compound being used is called L-HIPPO, which captures the HIV-1 protein. In doing so, the compound is able to relocate the virus from the cytoplasm to the plasma membrane.
Termed as the “lock-in and apoptosis” method to eradicating HIV, the use of L-HIPPO lets the virus die a natural death, which is a process known as apoptosis. Although side effects of the compound are yet to be mentioned, the researchers emphasized that this might be a promising step toward making a cure for the deadly syndrome.
“Unfortunately, this approach is not immediately available for people infected with HIV,” said Associate Professor Mikako Fujita of Kumamoto University, one of the leaders of the study, as reported by Medical Express. “First, we have to improve upon the drugs that activate the virus and combine them with L-HIPPO to efficiently target the viral reservoir. This would be a big step towards a complete recovery from HIV. We believe that our research will help to completely eradicate AIDS.”
Researchers also mentioned that the L-HIPPO compound might be available for oral medication. Though it is still undergoing trials and further investigations, this study has been lauded by the medical community.
Considering that research relies heavily on budgets, those who would like to further the cause can find ways to help by looking for fundraiser and charity events. Regardless, the researchers remain hopeful that this is a method that will succeed.
A range of measures to deter activists will now be considered after Ealing councillors voted unanimously on Tuesday night to support a motion calling for action to be taken.
Councillor Binda Rai said she was “thrilled” by the outcome, adding: “This is really a stand for women, and for women’s rights to access healthcare that is legally available to them.”
Pro-choice supporters claimed that vigils staged outside the Marie Stopes Clinic on Mattock Lane were causing intimidation and harassment for patients and local residents.
Richard Bentley, managing director at Marie Stopes UK, said: “This ground-breaking move by Ealing Council sets a national precedent for ending the harassment of women using legal healthcare services.
“We hope that other local authorities will follow this example and act to increase protection for women in their area.”
On Monday, Clare McCullough from the Catholic group said: “We’ve been holding daily vigils there for the last four years. There have never been any incidents there. There have never been any arrests of charges made there against anybody.”
One option to be considered by Ealing Borough Council will be introducing a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO). Previously used to tackle begging and street drinking, it which would force pro-life activists to move.
A public consultation into any proposed action will be held at a later.
Topic: He Doesn’t Diminish [Thursday, 12th October, 2017] If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself. 2 Timothy 2:13
Ever been at a place where a person you look up to spiritually slips in a seemingly small issue. Or you may know someone who has been at that place. It is really devastating. It’s so bad for some people that they go as far as quitting Christianity and moving on. It’s like a huge betrayal from someone you so much trusted to “sin”. Two questions arise. Firstly, why do we get so devastated, and sometimes go as far as stop been a believing in Christ? Secondly, does it mean God is not God and was not able to change the sinful nature of this person? Firstly, the reason we get so devastated is because we focus so much on this person and make them the reason for our faith. But as scripture point over and again, faith is only through Christ, and there is no faith outside of Him. (Acts 3:16, Romans 10:17). When our faith is based on man, and not on Christ, it is so easily wavered that we are tossed to and fro by these turbulences. That is why in 1 Corinthians 2:4-5, Paul noted that he made sure that the people’s faith were not based on man, but on God. And also we are admonished in Hebrews 12:2 to look up to Jesus, the “author and finisher of our faith.”
Secondly, that a man slips and falls does not make God any less God. That a man called of God to preach the gospel commits gross injustice against his fellow man does not mean God does not have the power to change a man. Now, it is trite and established that God’s actions does not conform to man’s actions, neither does He repent of a decision He’s made because a man failed. Scriptures say: “and also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.” (1 Samuel 15:29). And don’t forget, He is all knowing, and He knew that man would fail. It’s all a pointer to the truth that the only one you should look up to is God. And like our anchor scripture says, if we believe or not, He will not deny Himself. He will not be any less God. So look up to Jesus today, and base your faith solely on Him, for unlike man, He never fails nor disappoints.
Keep winning daily. Prayer:
Dear Father, thank You for access to Your truth. Help me to rest my faith on You and not on any man, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. By Esun Tekeme
Christians attending an Evangelical Alliance conference. Increased diversity, and the erosion of near-monopolies of religion by institutional denominations, is good news for forms of religion that lay a large stress on personal choice and decision.
It’s 5.30pm on a Sunday in central Dublin. Just off O’Connell Street, tourists in T-shirts tramp past yet another of Dublin’s fine old churches without giving it a second glance. A typical scene that seems to embody the post-Christian secularity of our capital city.
Then you step inside that old church building, and your perceptions are transformed. Every one of the dark wooden pews is crammed to capacity. The balcony is overflowing. On one side of the ornate pulpit a 50-voice choir – images being projected onto a huge screen at the front – is singing in beautiful harmonies.
Over 700 worshippers, all of them adults, are listening in rapt attention. Downstairs over 200 children are engrossed in Sunday school classes. It’s hard to remember that, just yards away, open-top buses are rumbling past.
You have stumbled into one of the many manifestations of a religious revolution of which tourists, and most Irish people, are completely unaware even though it is taking place right under our noses.
This congregation is just one of dozens of Romanian Evangelical and Pentecostal churches that meet across Ireland. Some are small, but others are fast outgrowing any venue that they can rent. Recently another Romanian church, to the west of the city, was granted planning permission to construct a building to seat over 1,000 worshippers each week.
And it’s not just Romanians that are meeting in this way. The Redeemed Christian Church of God, a denomination founded in Nigeria, has over 100 congregations in the Irish Republic.
You can add to that the many Filipino churches, Indian churches, Brazilian churches, Russian-speaking churches, Korean churches, Chinese churches and hundreds of other congregations that cater predominantly to the “new Irish”.
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SOURCE: The Irish Times Nick Park is executive director of Evangelical Alliance Ireland. He is also pastor of the Solid Rock Church in Drogheda, Co Louth, a congregation comprising worshippers of over 40 nationalities.
Topic: Pursue The Knowledge Of God — Thursday October 12, 2017.
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:” (Ephesians 1:17 KJV)
All power belongs to God. I am not just talking of spiritual power. Economic power, political power or whatever power you can think of, it all belongs to God. Occult power is not power. All these little gods that are all over the place on the continents of Africa, Asia etc. making noise are powerless. Power belongs to God. And the bible says that the gospel we preach is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. That’s why you shouldn’t just assume you know all about this God, simply because you went to church yesterday. Do you know that preaching a good sermon and getting people saved does not mean that the preacher knows God? I hear some people say they go to the university to study God. How dare you think you can study God? You can’t study God! God is a revelation! You know him, when you follow on to know. And the good thing is that the more you know him, the more you know the power you carry. That’s the truth. That is why it is very important that you know God for yourself. When God says we should know and live for him, he’s not trying to prove a point, it is for our benefit. No wonder Paul declares towards the end of his ministry, in spite of everything he had achieved, that his greatest desire is that he may know him, the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his suffering and to be made conformable to his death (Phil. 3:10).
If you are going to amount to anything in these last days, you must understand this God by knowing him. When you know God, then you will know the power you carry. When you know God, you will know that you are not an ordinary person, you are more than a conqueror. You can do all things through Christ that strengthens you. Greater is he that is in you than he than he that is in the world. You are a new creation, old things are passed away, and all things are become new.
Further Reading: Philippians 3:1-14, Ephesians 1:15-22
Written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.
Roy Moore is just one of the types of candidates the Republican Party needs. (Marvin Gentry / Reuters )
It is time to flush the toilet in Washington, D.C., and I am so glad that Steve Bannon has decided to declare “war” on the Republican establishment.
For decades, these globalists have told us what we want to hear during election season, but then once they take office they betray us over and over again. It is time to hold Republican members of Congress responsible for betraying the base, and I am so thankful Bannon is organizing anti-establishment candidates into a cohesive movement. We are going to challenge Republican incumbents all over the nation in 2018, and we are going to win over and over again.
Just look at what happened in Alabama. The Republican establishment spent more than $30 million against Roy Moore, and we still won by a very wide margin.
Now we are going to take that template and repeat it all over the country. During an interview with Sean Hannity on Monday, Steve Bannon boldly declared that his forces are going after every Republican senator who is up for reelection in 2018, except for Ted Cruz.
On Monday’s edition of “Hannity,” Breitbart executive chairman and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon talked about his plan to challenge every Republican senator up for reelection in 2018 in the primary, except Sen. Ted Cruz. Bannon said Republican incumbents have committed “economic hate crimes” against the “forgotten man.”
Bannon said he is declaring “war” on the Republican establishment, and those who don’t back what President Trump ran on. He said there is a “new game in town” and promised to “cut off the oxygen” to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and stop his fundraising for establishment candidates. Bannon said any person running for the Senate in 2018 who wants his support must oppose McConnell as the Republican leader.
On Monday’s edition of “Hannity,” Breitbart executive chairman and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon talked about his plan to challenge every Republican Senator up for re-election in 2018 in the primary, except Sen. Ted Cruz. Bannon said Republican incumbents have committed “economic hate crimes” against the “forgotten man.”
Bannon said he is declaring “war” on the Republican establishment and those that don’t back what President Trump ran on. He said there is a “new game in town” and promised to “cut off the oxygen” to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and stop his fundraising for establishment candidates. Bannon said any person running for the Senate in 2018 that wants his support must oppose McConnell as the Republican Leader.
HANNITY: Is this a fair statement: Is Steve Bannon declaring war on the establishment that are not for the working men and women in this country?
BANNON: 100 percent. We are declaring war on the Republican establishment that does not back the agenda that Donald Trump ran on and the president of the United States, and that’s the agenda we know that backs the working men and women …
Karl Rove, Steven Law, these guys should get the joke. Their donors are coming to us because they are tired of having their money burned up by trying to destroy people like Judge Moore. It’s a new game in town. We are to cut off the oxygen to Mitch McConnell. Mitch McConnell’s biggest asset is the money. We’re going to make it the biggest liability. We’re going after these guys tooth and nail.
This is music to my ears, because my campaign has already been trying to promote anti-establishment candidates here in Idaho and around the nation. But obviously we need coordination at a national level, and Steve Bannon can do that.
And the environment is right for this kind of movement. The Republicans in Congress have an approval rating that is so small that you can barely see it with a microscope, and the base is sick and tired of these so-called “conservatives” governing like Democrats. The following comes from Rush Limbaugh:
“Some people make an argument that there really isn’t a Republican Party left. I mean, there are people who call themselves that, and they go out and raise money, and they raise a lot,” he said. “But whereas the party used to be known for one, two or three very serious things, they’re not anymore,” he said. “When the Republican Party joins the Democratic Party on things like amnesty for illegal immigrants—that’s not the Republican Party.”
Of course, 2018 is just another stage in the war. In order to boot all of the globalists out, it is going to take an extended period of time. In fact, Steve Bannon says that he is ready to go to battle for the next 20 years.
To take your country back—it’s not going to happen in any just one election. This is something you’re going to have to grind out day in and day out for the next five, 10, 15, 20 years.
It took us a long time to get here. There’s no magic wand we can wave and drain the swamp. There’s no magic wand we can wave and blow up this establishment. I hate to tell people, but you’re going to have to work.
But you know what? The grit, determination and courage of the American working men and women—we are going to win.
If you are sick and tired of the Republicans in Congress getting nothing done, then I hope you will join this fight.
Very few members of Congress are actively fighting for the things the conservative base truly wants, and it is time to hold them accountable. Next spring, Republican primaries will be held all over the nation, and the truth is that only a small percentage of the population actually votes in primaries.
If we get active and get mobilized, we can fundamentally transform Republican politics in this country. If you live in Idaho, I would encourage you to get involved in my campaign, and if not, I would encourage you to help the anti-establishment candidates in your particular state.
We are sick and tired of politics as usual, and the status quo is simply not good enough anymore.
Let me leave you with one final quote from Steve Bannon: “Nobody is safe. We are coming after all of them and we’re going to win.”
Michael Snyderis a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book, titled Living a Life That Really Matters, is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.
Michael Snyderis a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.
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Topic: His Authority and Power — Thursday October 12, 2017. Text: Luke 11:14-28
Key Verse: “And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered”(Luke 11:14).
One of the great rewards that God has bestowed upon our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for His suffering on the Cross is that at the name of Jesus, every other name should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, as all power has been given unto Him in heaven and in earth. Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, opened blind eyes, cleansed lepers and freed sinners from the bondage and consequences of sin during His earthly ministry. Here in our text, a dumb victim of Satan had been freed and the devil cast out of him by Jesus. As the dumb spake, hostile and misguided unbelieving elements attributed the healing to the power of Beelzebub which they said Jesus used. The Scriptures make it clear that unpardonable sin consisted in the denial of God’s power through the Holy Spirit in the healing process. And worse still is to attribute such miraculous healing and deliverance to Satan.
How can Satan cast out Satan and thus divide his house and ultimately cause its fall? There is a power stronger than Satan’s: the power in the name and blood of Jesus. Are you one of the doubters of the power of Jesus to heal, deliver and free the vilest of sinners from the consequences of sin? You can be free today only if you can believe, acknowledge your sins, confess them and accept the Lord Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour.
Every believer needs a profound, yet sublime, revelation of that Name to be able to appropriate the fullness of God’s blessings therefrom.
Thought for the day: In Christ alone lies the fullness of God’s redeeming glory.
Bible Reading in one Year: 2 Kings 1-2
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.
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