Singer Andy Grammer Blesses Strangers at Restaurant with Act of Kindness

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Singer Andy Grammer Blesses Strangers at Restaurant with Act of Kindness


Singer Andy Grammer Blesses Strangers at Restaurant with Act of Kindness


When singer Andy Grammer paid the bill for a table of five elderly ladies, it’s because he was missing his mom. But then one of the ladies said something to reveal the pop star’s real-life act of kindness was actually a case of divine intervention!


God always has a way of showing up when we need Him the most. We can feel His love through the actions and words of others. And that’s just what happened when singer Andy Grammer felt the urge to do something nice for a table of strangers.


Andy is a record producer, songwriter, and singer. He garnered national attention with upbeat songs like “Honey, I’m Good” and “Keep Your Head Up.”


But regardless of fame, stars are just like us. They have good days and bad.


No matter how old you are, losing a parent is never easy. And even though Andy lost his mom nine years ago, he still finds himself missing her often.


“Today is 9 years since my sweet mother left this world,” Andy wrote on Facebook on the 9-year anniversary of his mother’s passing. “I remember standing at this spot shell-shocked as we lowered her body into the ground. All I knew was I had lost my center, that there was a huge hole in my world and that it could never be filled.”


And as he sat eating breakfast at a restaurant, a table across the way got him thinking about his late mom.


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Theologian Rebukes Pastor Steven Furtick’s Claim That Doubting Bible Is OK, Says ‘Doubt Is Disobedience’

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Theologian Rebukes Pastor Steven Furtick’s Claim That Doubting Bible Is OK, Says ‘Doubt Is Disobedience’

(Screenshot: YouTube)Pastor Steven Furtick and Charlamagne tha God

An author and associate professor of Christian theology has hit back against Elevation Church pastor Steven Furtick’s recent message that it’s not wrong for Christians to have doubts.

“We must take care here. Doubt is not a virtue. Doubt is not part of faith,” Owen Strachan, director of the Center for Theological and Cultural Engagement at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote last week.

“Coming to faith in Christ necessarily means that you do not doubt the gospel of grace. Coming to faith in Christ means that you believe in Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus presented himself as the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). Jesus demands total repentance and total trust in him, and he is right to do so. Jesus rebuked doubting Thomas (John 20:24-29).”

Strachan’s comments were in response to Furtick, who in a recent sermon admitted that he has doubts about some things in the Bible.

“I have my doubts. I read that whom the Son sets free is free indeed but sometimes I feel bound by stuff. I have my doubts. Is that alright? Do you need to find another church now that you know that the dude with the mic has some doubts?” said Furtick, whose fast-growing church meets in over a dozen…

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Open Heavens 23 July 2018 – Remove the Log, Please

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Open Heavens 23 July 2018 – Remove the Log, Please

Topic: Remove the Log, Please [Open Heavens 23 July 2018 Monday Daily Devotional]

Memorise: “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?” – Romans 2:21

Read: Matthew 7:1-5 (KJV)

1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

Bible in One Year: Ezra 7-8, Matthew 6:16-34

Open Heavens 23 July 2018 MESSAGE:

Today, we will be reflecting on the subject of hypocrisy. In general terms, hypocrisy is the habit of pretending to be what one is not. Hypocrites especially pretend to be morally upright but in reality, they are morally bankrupt. Jesus Christ identified the Pharisees as perfect examples of hypocrites, and He exposes some interesting characteristics they possess. Let us consider some of these traits, so that we can guard ourselves against them. Simply put, hypocrites are blind to their own faults (Matthew 7:5), they are ignorant of the current move of God (Luke 12:56), they do not know what is important to God (Luke 13:15-16) and they obsess over the traditions of men (Mark 7:8). Furthermore, they lack knowledge of God’s true expectations of His people (Matthew 23:14-15), and love to make public display of their moral and religious standing, (Matthew 6:2). Hypocrites view themselves as the only godly, virtuous and spiritual people around. Consequently, they are highly judgmental of other people’s mistakes and short comings in public, whereas they themselves may even be guilty of worse sins in secret. A careful consideration of these characteristics may reveal one or two that may be evident in your life. I pray that God will destroy every root of hypocrisy in your life today in Jesus’ Name.

Jesus often called the Pharisees hypocrites because of the conflict between their external actions and their internal state (Matthew 23:27-28). In order not to end up like them, we must thoroughly check ourselves often. Do you seldom preach to yourself as a Christian? Do you find yourself practicing what you preach against? Are you blind to your own faults? Do you have the habit of crucifying others when they fall into error? Are you judgmental of other people’s mistakes? Is your internal state consistent with your external works? Are you in anyway hypocritical in thought or action? May the Lord shine His light into our hearts and deliver His Church from hypocrisy in Jesus’ Name. Jesus compared hypocrites to whitewashed tombs and to dishes that are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside (Matthew 23:25-28). It’s such a scary thing to be viewed as neat and clean outside while the internal space that matters most is in despicable condition. This illustration also speaks to Christians who are deemed to be mature, and yet are secretly involved in shameful things. If you are in such a situation, it is time to remove the log from your eyes and straighten out your life. Your efforts to do away with hypocrisy will receive God’s approval in Jesus’ Name.

Prayer Point: Father, please help me to be honest with myself henceforth in Jesus’ Name.

Also Read: Open Heavens 22 July 2018 Sunday Daily Devotional by Pastor Adeboye — You Need A Partner! Are Few!

Open Heavens 23 July 2018 Hymn 15: Nearer My God To Thee

1. Nearer, my God to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
E’en though it be a cross
That raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be.
Nearer, my God to Thee!
Nearer, my God to Thee!
Nearer to Thee!

2. Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down.
Darkness be over me,
My rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I’d be
Nearer, my God to Thee!
Nearer, my God to Thee!
Nearer to Thee!

3. There let the way appear
Steps unto heaven;
All that Thou send’st to me
In mercy given:
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to Thee!
Nearer, my God to Thee!
Nearer to Thee!

4. Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs
Bethel I’ll raise
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to Thee!
Nearer, my God to Thee!
Nearer to Thee!

Open Heavens 23 July 2018 Monday Daily Devotional 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. The Open Heavens devotional application is available across all mobile platforms and operating systems: iOS, Android, Blackberry, Nokia, Windows Mobile and PC.

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MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional Sunday, 22 July 2018 – Enemies Of Happy Home

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TOPIC: Enemies Of Happy Home (Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries Sunday, 22 July 2018)

FIRE SCRIPTURE: Proverbs 23: 24-26

MEMORY VERSE: “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” – Philippians 2:4

The MESSAGE:

A good marriage is the outcome of prayer, diligence, love and hard work. In the same vein, a bad marriage is caused by prayerlessness, selfishness, laziness and unhealthy attitudes. It takes a lot of effort to experience success and happiness in marriage. The step that one should take is to deal with the hindrance to success in marriage. A marriage is declared a success or a failure due to certain ingredients that are either present or lacking in it. Your home (marriage and family) may be a little heaven on earth or the abode of diabolical spirits. If you really want to enjoy your marriage, you must painstakingly and deliberately deal with the enemies of a happy home.

What are these enemies of a happy home? *Selfishness:* It is totally wrong and unscriptural to continue to think and behave selfishly after getting married. A married man and woman who always talks about “my car, my house, my books, my money” etc does not know what a true Christian marriage is all about. Husbands and wives who are always thinking about what they can get out of marriage rather than what they can give or contribute in order to make their marriages successful, need to know that selfishness hinders the progress of a family. A man or woman who is always eager to seize opportunities and grab advantages but is never willing to make sacrifices, without knowing it, is paving the way for the collapse of his or her home. Another enemy of a happy home in today’s world is *impurity,* that is, unfaithfulness and infidelity in marriage. Many a home has been wrecked by this. Sexual promiscuity and infidelity have ruined many lives and homes.

The third enemy of a happy home is *lack of commitment.* Many marriages have not been fulfilled because the partners are not committed to each other and to their marital vows. If you want your marriage to be healthy, happy and stable, there must be commitment to nurture and preserve it the same way you care and preserve your own life. A fourth harbinger to broken homes and unsuccessful marriages is yielding to societal pressure and ungodly counsel. Sad enough, many are seeking and entering marriage based on pressure and not on biblical counsel and standards. Marriage, after all, is a divine institution that must be approached with utmost care. To deal with the enemies of a happy home, God, the inventor of marriage must be consulted. If your marriage is not what it should be, then invite God, the inventor of marriage into your relationship. He specialises in fixing strained relationships and broken homes. He will heal your marriage and you will experience true peace and joy.

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE:
TRUST AND SACRIFICIAL LOVE ARE KEY INGREDIENTS OF A HAPPY HOME. EMBRACE THEM IN YOUR MARRIAGE.

PROPHETIC WORD:
Every enemy of your home shall be roasted by fire.

PRAYER POINTS:

MORNING
1. Agents of confusion in my home, die by fire, in the name of Jesus.
2. Powers drinking the honey and milk of my marriage, die permanently, in Jesus’ name.
3. Foundational altars, raised against my marriage and family, catch fire and burn to ashes, in the name of Jesus.

EVENING
4. Evil pattern of my father’s house haunting my marriage, die, in the name of Jesus.
5. Ancestral yoke in my foundation, break by fire, in the name of Jesus.
6. Lord Jesus, come and reign in my home, in the name of Jesus.
7. Heavens of my marriage, open by fire, in the name of Jesus Christ.

If you missed yesterday devotional, please click to read MFM Mountain Top Life Daily Devotional HERE

MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE is a daily devotional by Dr. D.K Olukoya (General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracle Ministries, Worldwide)

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Australia Prime Minister says Pope should sack archbishop over cover-up

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Australia Prime Minister says Pope should sack archbishop over cover-up

Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, 67, was sentenced in an Australian court to 12 months in detention after concealing the sexual abuse of two altar boys by a paedophile priest in the 1970s.

Leader Malcolm Turnbull told reporters in Sydney: “He should have resigned and the time has come for the pope to sack him,

 

“There are many leaders that have called on him to resign, it’s clear that he should resign and I think the time has come now for the ultimate authority in the church to take action and sack him,” he added.

Wilson – who denied his charge throughout his trial has said he will appeal the charges, said he would only offer his resignation to Poe Francis if his appeal failed in the New South Wales state District Court.

“I am conscious of calls for me to resign and have taken them very seriously,” Wilson said in a statement earlier this month. 

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Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson arrives for sentencing at Newcastle Local Court in Newcastle, Tuesday, July 3, 2018.

 

“However, at this time, I am entitled to exercise my legal rights and to follow the due process of law. Since that process is not yet complete, I do not intend to resign at this time,” he added.

Mr Turnbull insisted Wilson shouldn’t be allowed to remain in post while appealing his conviction.

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Discovering Hawaii’s Royal Past at Two Historic Churches in Honolulu

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Discovering Hawaii’s Royal Past at Two Historic Churches in Honolulu

(Photo: Dennis Lennox)

Hawaii’s history and culture is among the richest of any of the U.S. states.

And that history and culture awaits your discovery at two historic churches in Honolulu.

Cathedral Church of St. Andrew

Located about 15 minutes from famous Waikiki Beach is the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew.

Today, it is the seat of the Episcopal bishop of Hawaii, though the cathedral dates to the late 1860s when Hawaii’s royals were closely associated with Queen Victoria and the Anglicanism of the Church of Hawaii was the state church.

Designed by London architects William Slater and R. H. Carpenter, it is inspired by the style of 12th century French Gothic. And while the architecture is interesting and well executed, the cathedral is a notable example of prefabricated construction — its stained glass windows, pointed arches and columns were sent piece-by-piece in ships for assembly in Honolulu. This was quite the logistical and architectural feat, as the Panama Canal wouldn’t open until 1914.

Chapel at the Hawaiian Royal Mausoleum State Monument

Designed in the Gothic Revival style by architect Theodore Heuck, the cruciform-shaped chapel on the grounds of the Hawaiian Royal Mausoleum State Monument was built between 1863 and 1865.

It would serve as the mausoleum until 1922, when the remains of royals from Hawaii’s Kalākaua and Kamehameha dynasties were transferred to a new underground tomb.

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New Netflix Series Depicts Jesus Returning to Earth as 12-Year-Old Boy

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New Netflix Series Depicts Jesus Returning to Earth as 12-Year-Old Boy


New Netflix Series Depicts Jesus Returning to Earth as 12-Year-Old Boy


Netflix will be releasing a series about Jesus returning to Earth as a modern day 12-year-old in an adaption called American Jesus.


The show is based on Mark Millar’s comic book, also called American Jesus.


“[It] follows a 12-year-old boy who suddenly discovers he’s returned as Jesus Christ. He can turn water into wine, make the crippled walk, and, perhaps, even raise the dead,” says the show’s description. “How will he deal with the destiny to lead the world in a conflict thousands of years in the making?”


Millar, who is a Catholic, said his comic book, American Jesus, is “reverential.”


“It’s actually very reverential—like if I write a Spider-Man comic, I want Spider-man fans to like that comic … if I write a story starring Jesus, I want Christians to like that comic,” he said in a 2012 interview. “Sometimes you get stories about religion, mainly to attack religion. It’s something that if you’re a Christian, you won’t be happy about. So the American Jesus comic is something Catholics would like.”


Netflix acquired Millar’s company in 2017 and has since developed many projects with him, including publishing Netflix’s first comic book, “The Magic Order.”


Millar’s past work includes series like Kingsman and Kick A**, both of which have been turned into movies. He also created X-Men Wolverine’s “Old Man Logan”…

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So. Baptist Leader Hired as Pastor 2 Months After IMB Investigation Found Sex Abuse Likely

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So. Baptist Leader Hired as Pastor 2 Months After IMB Investigation Found Sex Abuse Likely

(Photo: Facebook)Mark Aderholt at Whitefield Baptist Church in South Carolina.

A former South Carolina Baptist Convention leader, who recently resigned and has been arrested over sex abuse allegations, was given a job as an executive pastor by a Baptist church just two months after resigning from the International Mission Board over an investigation into the claims, a Texas newspaper has found.

The Star-Telegram, which has been reporting on the arrest of Mark Aderholt, the former associate executive director and chief strategist for the South Carolina Baptist Convention, noted that earlier in July he was charged with sexually assaulting a teenager in Arlington over 20 years ago.

Aderholt, who served at the International Mission Board between 2000-2008, was subject to an internal investigation by the missionary arm of the SBC in 2007, which found him “more likely than not” to have engaged in an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with a 16-year-old girl when he was 25 more than two decades ago.

He resigned from the IMB in January 2008, but a web archive search revealed that as early as March 2008, he was employed as executive pastor at Central Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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ISIS Suicide Bomber Kills 20 People in Northern Afghanistan – Urban Christian News

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ISIS Suicide Bomber Kills 20 People in Northern Afghanistan – Urban Christian News

An Islamic State suicide bomber killed 20 people in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, including a Taliban commander, while in southern Helmand province a government commando unit freed 54 people from a Taliban jail, according to officials.

The stepped up activity in Afghanistan comes as Washington considers a Taliban demand for direct talks in hopes of jump-starting a negotiated end to what is now the longest military engagement by U.S. forces.

A Taliban official in the Middle Eastern State of Qatar where the Islamic insurgency maintains an unofficial office told The Associated Press they wanted direct talks and were ready to put troop withdrawal as well as any outstanding concerns the U.S. might have on the table but so far no official request to open negotiations has come from Washington.

Speaking on condition he not be identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media, he said de-listing Taliban leaders from U.S and U.N. watch lists and recognizing their office in Doha, the Qatar capital, would aid progress in talks should they begin.

Meanwhile, in northern Afghanistan’s Sar-i-Pul province, Abdul Qayuom Baqizoi, provincial police chief, said Tuesday’s attack by IS took place as village elders met with Taliban officials. He said 15 of the 20 killed were local elders and five were Taliban, including a Taliban commander.

The Taliban and the Islamic State group have been waging bitter battles in recent days in northern Afghanistan. As many as 100 insurgents from both the Taliban and Islamic State group have perished in recent battles, said Baqizoi.

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Organist in race against time to perform at 12 cathedrals in 12 hours

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Organist in race against time to perform at 12 cathedrals in 12 hours

Elise Crean from Armagh will be playing 12 concerts at all 12 cathedrals in Northern Ireland.

She plans to make it to all the churches in time by travelling on the back of a motorcycle her husband will be driving.

 

“The biggest amount of preparation has been the recitals in each cathedral. So I’ve been spending a lot of time going around the cathedrals and practicing on the organs just to get all of the settings sorted out for the recital,” Crean said.

Crean said she will embark on the 270 mile,14 hour journey to raise £70,000 to fix the organ at her church, First Armagh Presbyterian.

She said: “The organ we have in church is actually a very important organ. It was actually the first organ to be installed in County Armagh way back in 1905 so it’s important to preserve that tradition.

Work is due to begin restoring the instrument in October.

“There’s no way you can buy a new pipe organ for £70,000 so this really is the best option.”

Crean said she expects it to be a tiring day but knows it will be rewarding.

“I expect it to be a long and exhausting day it’s going to be quite a physical challenge travelling around on a motorbike,” she said.

“It’s also going to be a mental challenge to pay all of those different organs in one day. But it’s also once in a lifetime kind of opportunity and experience so I’m excited about the challenge.”

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