 Author's
Spotlight
Barbara
Smith is a
Licensed Minister under the pastorate of Pastor Marvin L. Winans of
Perfecting Church in Detroit. She is an instructor in the
Academy
to Perfection, which is the church's Sunday School
Department.
Min. Barbara is the Founder and Executive Director of Hidden Jewels
International; a growing ministry dedicated to empowering and
instructing women in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. In
addition,
she has been a Registered Nurse for nearly 20 years and has
incorporated her medical knowledge with scripture to provide an
in-depth explanation of biblical principles.
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BREAKING NEWS:
Name-calling,
bomb-threats, vandalism alarm Obama foot soldiers
 Danielle Ross was alone in an
empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a
cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was
stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue
Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before
Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while
canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to
occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State
University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.
Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of
Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at
malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran
into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black
sentiment that none of them had anticipated. [Read More] |
| African-American |
'Evangelical
Manifesto' excludes black Christians
More concerns are being raised about the document
"An Evangelical Manifesto" that was released last week. Conservative
black pastor and political activist Dean Nelson says he's troubled by
the document that purports to reclaim what it means to be an
evangelical Christian. Signers of "An
Evangelical Manifesto" say evangelicals need to expand their concern
"beyond single-issue politics such as abortion and marriage." They
argue that the term evangelical is weighed down by "cultural and
political baggage" from the "religious right" and "religious left."[Read More]
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Many
Students Leaving Oral Roberts University After Money and Sexual Scandals
 As Oral Roberts University
prepares to hand out diplomas to its Class of 2008, Anna Siebring, a
junior, will be mailing out applications to transfer to another school.
Siebring, a government major, is among many students having second
thoughts about staying at Oral Roberts after six months of scandal at
the evangelical Christian university. She and others fear the furor
will reduce the value of any degree they earn there. Some graduates
worry that they will have to try twice as hard to market themselves to
potential employers after Saturday's commencement. [Read More] |
| National |
Conservative Rupert Murdoch Behind Obama?
 Ultra conservative Rupert
Murdoch and his wife, Windi, not only attended an unabashedly liberal
party for Arianna Huffington, but he was reportedly overheard at the
function praising Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. While
mingling at Huffington's fete for her book "Right Is Wrong: How the
Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us
All Less Safe," Murdoch approached the author and started chatting
enthusiastically about Obama's strong showing in the Indiana and North
Carolina primaries. [Read More] |
| African-American |
New
Reports Document Black-White Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs
Earlier this week, Human Rights Watch and the
Sentencing Project both released reports strongly indicating that
antidrug law enforcement targets African Americans to an astonishing
degree.The larger and more shocking of the two, Human Rights Watch's
Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States,
reports that (among other things): Despite decades of data indicating
that between 65% and 70% of drug users are white, African Americans are
10.1 times as likely as whites to face prison time on drug-related
charges. [Read More]
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| Christian |
Michigan
Court Rules in Favor of Marriage
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled against giving
domestic partnership benefits for homosexual couples working in state
university and government agencies. In a 5-2 ruling this past week,
state Supreme Court justices overruled a decision by a lower appeals
court to give same-sex couples health benefits, citing the passage of
the state’s 2004 Marriage Protection Amendment as the basis
of its decision. [Read More]
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Somali
Christian Killed by Muslim Militants
David Abdulwahab Mohamed Ali (29), a convert to
Christianity from Islam, was killed by Muslim militants on April 22 at
approximately 4:30 p.m. in the Somali town of Baidawa, according to an
April 29 report from International Christian Concern
(www.persecution.org). A cousin of Ali and two members of Al-Shabab, a
militant Islamic organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda, were reportedly
responsible for the murder. Ali, an evangelist who had helped to lead
many to Christ, had been living in Ethiopia since 2000 and was in
Somalia to visit family members. [Read More]
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Proposed
porn ban on military bases applauded
Conservative military watchdog Elaine Donnelly
supports a bill introduced by a Georgia congressman that would ban the
sale of certain men's magazine's on U.S. military bases around the
world. Representative Paul Broun (R-Georgia) has introduced
legislation (HR 5821) designed to close a loophole in the current law
that allows certain magazines like Playboy and Penthouse to be sold on
military posts. That loophole was created when last year a Defense
Department committee that reviews materials sold on bases ruled that
the magazines in question are not pornographic. [Read More]
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Bob Barr
announces his bid for presidency
 Bob Barr, a onetime Republican
congressman from Georgia, on Monday announced his plan to run for
president as a Libertarian, promising to rein in federal spending and
limit military involvement abroad. "The government has run amok
fiscally," Barr said at a news conference. During the first quarter of
this year, he said, the private sector lost millions of jobs while the
federal government was "hiring with enthusiasm." [Read More] |
| Entertainment |
Narnia
is even more magical in Prince Caspian
(Watch Trailer)
 Prince Caspian, the sequel to
'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' is darker, grittier - and more
epic. Its director tells John Hiscock how he topped the first
installment. The question facing director Andrew Adamson after the
success of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe was how to make a sequel that would appeal to fans of the
original film and draw in new audiences, too. His answer was to make it
bigger and more complex in scope and story. "We had to start epic and
then get more epic," he says. [Read More] |
| Christian |
Gospel
singer Dottie Rambo dies in tour bus wreck in Missouri
 Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, an
influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her
tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. She was 74.
Seven other people on the bus were injured in the wreck about two miles
east of Mount Vernon on Interstate 44, the Missouri Highway Patrol
said. They were hospitalized in Springfield with moderate to severe
injuries, according to the patrol. It was unclear whether the crash was
related to the severe storms and tornadoes that hit the region on
Saturday. Storms also swept through the area later in the night,
according to the National Weather Service. [Read More] |
| Entertainment |
Marvin
Sapp's "Never Would Have Made It" becomes longest #1 radio single
across all genres
(Listen)
 An intensely pure and
impassioned refrain
expressing how God’s grace helped Marvin Sapp through one of
the most difficult times of his life has become a triumphant anthem
that has taken radio by storm. This week, after spending 32 weeks as
the #1 song at gospel radio, Marvin Sapp’s “Never
Would Have Made It” becomes the longest running #1 radio
single across all formats in the history of the BDS chart and surpasses
former record-shattering hits that have topped the Adult Contemporary,
Rock, Hot AC and Regional Mexican charts for 25 weeks or more. Gaining
a new and growing audience at urban mainstream, “Never Would
Have Made It” is currently the #10 most played and #3 most
increased airplay single on the Urban AC Chart. [Read More] |
| Entertainment |
Regina
Belle Releases Debut Gospel Album
(Listen)
 Four-time GRAMMY®
Award-winning artist
REGINA BELLE will release her debut Gospel album LOVE FOREVER SHINES
(300208500) in-stores May 13 on the re-launch of Ruben Rodriguez'
Pendulum Records, in association with Walker Davis Entertainment,
distributed by Fontana. The CD is executive produced by Ruben
Rodriguez, Ray J. Davis and Chris Walker. Belle is currently
on a multi-city Church and Gospel Brunch Tour, presented by
RushmoreDrive.com. The church visits kicked-off in Dallas,
continuing on with stops in Oakland and Philadelphia.
Additional dates are scheduled in Charlotte, Detroit, Houston and
Indianapolis. [Read More] |
| Business |
Media
Transformation in the Making, Says Media Expert
 The online community of
communicators is changing and the traditional worlds of journalism and
public relations need to catch up, declares a Detroit-based marketing
and communications expert. "If you're not on Google, the world thinks
you don't exist," says Pam Perry, chief visionary of Ministry Marketing
Solutions who counsels media and marketing operatives to "amp up" their
online activity as social media such as blogs and podcasts strengthen
their domination of these sectors. [Read More] |
| World |
Tragic
earthquake hits China: Frightening Raw Video
"And
ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled:
for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and
there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes,
in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
(Matthew
24:6-8)
A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools
and a chemical plant Monday in central China, killing more than 8,700
people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and
earth in the worst quake in three decades. The 7.9-magnitude quake
devastated a region of small cities and towns set amid steep hills
north of Sichuan’s provincial capital of Chengdu. Striking in
midafternoon, it emptied office buildings across the country in Beijing
and could be felt as far away as Vietnam. [Read More and Watch Raw Video of Earthquake]
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Christians
Worldwide Mark 4th Global Day of Prayer
Millions of
Christians across the world are uniting in prayer Sunday to mark the
fourth annual Global Day of Prayer and to commemorate the descent of
the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and the other followers of Christ as
described in the Book of Acts. Last year, millions of Christians from
204 nations participated in the Global Day of Prayer, seeking God in
repentance and prayer for the transformation of their communities and
nations. Driven by Habakkuk 2:14 – which states
“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory
of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea" – the goal of GDOP
has been to mobilize Christians from every single nation in the world
to participate in the united prayer effort over the next few years
before 2010. [Read More]
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'Lost'
Christians Greatest Crisis in American Church, says Author
The inability
of the church to discuss a topic that has become taboo among many
Christians is one of the root causes why millions of Americans are
leaving the church and never to return, says one author. There are
"Christians who have experientially lost their faith" but have no one
to turn to since church culture shuns the topic, Dave Samford said
Thursday. It's not that these Christians lost their salvation, but that
they have lost their faith in the Bible, the church and Christian
beliefs, said the author, who was addressing attendants at the annual
convention of the Evangelical Press Association in Portland, Ore. [Read More]
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"A
leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people
where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
--Rosalynn Carter
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MOTIVATING VERSE:
"And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God."
--Mark 11:22
PRAYER QUOTE:
"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words
than your words without heart."
--John Bunyan
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MOTIVATING
VERSE:
"Go
ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe
all thingswhatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."
--Matthew 28:19-20
SOUL-WINNING QUOTE
Reckon
then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through
mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are
going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the
floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot
work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor
man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.
--Charles Spurgeon
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