‘Fixer Upper’ Stars Help Elderly Hurricane Victim Rebuild Her Home

‘Fixer Upper’ Stars Help Elderly Hurricane Victim Rebuild Her Home



Chip and Joanna Gaines, the stars of the popular HGTV show Fixer Upper recently lent their renovating talents to an elderly woman whose home was damaged by Hurricane Harvey.


Eighty-one-year-old Doris Davis has lived in her Houston home since 1999, but when Hurricane Harvey brought massive flooding to the Houston area earlier this fall, Davis was one of many Houston residents whose home suffered damage.


Thankfully, Davis was rescued by her family. According to Faithwire.com, however, she lost nearly all her belongings to the floods and her home sustained significant damage.


Volunteers were helping Davis rebuild her home, but on Sunday they were joined by home renovation superstars Chip and Joanna Gaines.


“Honestly, our hearts go out, you know, to each and every family that’s been affected by this,” said Chip Gaines.


Davis was excited to see the Fixer Upper couple and warmly embraced them.


Joanna Gaines said that she was eager to get out in the community and help people. The Gaineses also make their home in Texas; specifically in Waco, which is about three hours from Houston.


Chip and Joanna have also been in the news recently after they announced that upcoming Season 5 of Fixer Upper will be the last season because they want to focus on their family and other pursuits.

 


 


Photo courtesy: Facebook/Joanna Gaines


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Group nails 95 new theses on 500th anniversary of Reformation

The event at the Round Church is an initiative of the Christian think tank, the Jubilee Centre, with the aim being to publish a set of 95 ways to change the world.

For the past year, people have been invited to contribute their ideas for original theses. Topics have ranged from economics to the environment to supporting marriage.

More than 100 suggested theses were sent in from around the world and 95 were chosen to be nailed to the church door in the re-enactment of Martin Luther’s action five hundred years ago.

 

 

Calum Samuelson from the Jubilee Centre told Premier the aim was to get people thinking about big issues in society and culture that inhibit people from true human flourishing.

He said: “The issues have ranged from things like pornography to the problem of debt to concerns about environmental issues, things surrounding artficial intelligence, robots, really the whole gamut.”

The hope is that society can be taken forward positively as a result of discussions around these new theses.

Listen to Calum Samuelson speaking with Premier’s Paul Hagger here:

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Apple iOS 11.0.3 Continue To Anger Users Two Weeks Later

Apple official websitePromotional picture for iOS 11.

While Apple users continue to wait patiently for the salvation that is iOS 11.1, they still have to contend with iOS 11.0.3 as it continues to cause a lot of headaches. The problem has gotten so bad that even the tech giant’s most passionate fans can no longer deny it.

Longtime Apple news and rumor site Apple Insider recently penned an article on the topic writing that the problems with battery life and instability don’t seem to have a common cause, or are easily rectifiable. This basically says that the current iteration of the iOS as the source of the problem not the wide array of devices it’s currently on.

The article also highlighted several posts in forums as well as Reddit that has since garnered massive following mainly due to users having the same problems. One such post on Apple’s Official Support Communities forum a post reporting multiple problems within iOS 11.0.3 particularly its battery life now has over 1200 endorsements confirming to Apple that “I have this question too.”

Another post, this time in Reddit, describing how the this particular user’s iPhone has taken a “nosedive” following the iOS 11 update has garnered over 400 comments, almost all of which empathize with author. Another thread decrying a slew of performance and stability problems now has 2000 comments, also in support of the author.

Even worse, it appears that users are now slowly getting fed up with updates that only address small number of issues at a time. Affected users are often arguing that this is the end of Apple while unaffected ones…

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Christians fleeing ISIS are discriminated against

Of the 8,136 Syrians given shelter in the UK in 2015-16, 75 were Christians and only 33 Shi’ite Muslims. Sunni Muslims were given the majority of places.

In September 2015-October 2016, only 56 Christians were resettled by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees out of 10,801.

The Barnabus Fund, who help persecuted Christians, said he figures show the Government and the UN are prioritizing other faith groups.

They say Christians made up 10% of Syria’s population but only 1.5% of Syrian refugees resettled in countries such as the US, New Zealand and the UK last year were Christians.

This is despite several national parliaments and the US State department declaring that Christians have been specifically targeted and possibly subject to genocide.

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With Reformation, Martin Luther ‘Gave Us Back the Gospel’

(Screenshot: Ligonier Ministries’ “Reformation 500 Celebration”)Derek W.H. Thomas, senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and Chancellor’s pofessor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, giving remarks at Ligonier Ministries’ Reformation 500 Celebration event at Sanford, Florida, on October 30, 2017.

Augustinian monk Martin Luther “gave us back the Gospel” when he began the Protestant Reformation, according to a Ligonier Ministries scholar.

Derek W.H. Thomas, senior minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, told those gathered at an event celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on Monday evening that Luther was crucial to rediscovering the Gospel.

In a lecture titled “The Importance of Luther,” Thomas referenced Protestant theologian John Calvin, noting that the influential figure said of Luther that “he gave us back the Gospel.”

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(Screenshot: Ligonier Ministries’ “Reformation 500 Celebration”)Derek W.H. Thomas, senior minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and Chancellor’s professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, gives remarks…

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Christian says 31st October has been ‘hijacked’

Damian Stayne started Night of Light around 15 years ago.

He told Premier 31st October should really be about the eve All Saints’ Day.

He said: “All Saints Feast is the celebration of the success of the work of the cross.

“The devil seems to have hidden that message by disguising Halloween into something about darkness and death and witches.

“It’s become a celebration of darkness and things that are very unhealthy.”

Night of Light has received a stamp of approval by the Vatican and celebrations have taken place in small chapels and cathedrals in parish churches, monasteries, schools and homes in several countries.

 

Stayne said: “The kids who come to our Night of Light parties have got to have a better time than all their friends who are doing trick or treating.

“We invite them to come and dress up as Saints their heroes of faith, and we do some kind of teaching, a little tiny short thing, that gives them an aspiration for living in God.”

To set itself apart from traditional Halloween celebrations, the event is decorated with pumpkins that have happy faces carved into them.

Night of Light also encourages people to place a light in their window along with a picture of Jesus as a sign to passers-by that it’s a Christian household and Christ is “their light”.

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