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The
Candidates on Faith
JOHN
MCCAIN: A Light Amid the Darkness: My mother has recounted to me how
when I was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, she sometimes overheard my
father praying for me. He was in charge of U.S. forces in the Pacific
at the time and suffered from the burden of commanding a war in a
country where his son was imprisoned. As my mother recalled, she could
hear my father in his study, on his knees, beseeching God to "show
Johnny mercy."
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(VIDEO)
2nd Day in Court: Victoria Osteen's Lawyer Accuses Witness of Playing
'Race Card'
Allegations of racism
surfaced Thursday in
the civil trial of Victoria Osteen, co-pastor of Lakewood Church, who
is accused of assaulting a black Continental Airlines flight attendant
in 2005. The accusations came in the afternoon of the first day of
testimony against Osteen, the wife of evangelist and author Joel
Osteen. The attorney for flight attendant Sharon Brown said the
allegations will be a continuing theme. Brown is expected to testify
today.
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The
Color of Evangelicalism
Just
who
are America's evangelicals? Conventional wisdom says that evangelical
Protestantism is a white-bread, white people's religion. The movement's
leading voices in public affairs discourse--Focus on the Family's James
Dobson, Sojourners' Jim Wallis, megachurch pastors Bill Hybels and Rick
Warren and essayist Lauren Winner--all are quite white. Recent polls by
the Pew Forum underscore this general impression. More than eighty
percent of those polled who are members of evangelical Protestant
denominations or independent churches are Caucasians.
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Exciting
New Novel by Essence Bestselling
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POPS THE DEVIL is
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If
You Desire to Get Married, Here Is How to Get a Good Man
Dear Daughters & YBW: As I have said to you many
times, if I
were a woman, I wouldn’t be bothered with getting married. I
would get my education, pursue my purpose in life, do missionary work,
travel, and just have myself a grand old time. However, I am not a
woman. What women see in men, I have no clue, but that is how God has
wired us. He made men to be attracted to women, and women to be
attracted to men. (Even though today, we have many men and women who
are getting it all twisted — if you know what I mean.)
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Faith's
Real Riches (The Truth about the Prosperity Gospel) by Michael Gerson
In
a recent investigative profile, the Associated Press tells the
depressingly familiar story of televangelist Kenneth Copeland. His
ministry's private jet and lakeside mansion. The complex web of
ranching, oil and media interests that benefits his extended family. In
this case, there is no taint of hypocrisy. Copeland practices what he
preaches -- a doctrine that God wants his followers to prosper in very
material ways.
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Evangelicals, Catholics
and Abortion
Ed
Kilgore asks a good question: Why are evangelicals more pro-life than
Catholics? There are variable measurements of this phenomenon,
but
no real doubt about the basics. A September 2007 Pew survey
showed white evangelical Protestants agreeing that abortion should be
illegal in all or most cases by a 65-31 magin; Catholics favored
keeping abortion legal in all or most cases by a 51-44 margin (with no
appreciable difference between Hispanic and non-Hispanic Catholics) ...
Moreover, the evangelical-Catholic gap on abortion looks likely to
increase in the future.
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(VIDEO)
Florida Man Arrested on Charge of Threatening to Assassinate Obama
A
man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in
his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he
threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama. Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, was arrested by the Secret Service on
Saturday in Miami and was ordered held at Miami's downtown detention
center without bail Thursday by a federal magistrate.
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Obama
Pledges 'Total Equality' for Same-Sex Marriages
Sen.
Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who has studiously avoided coming out in full
support of same-sex marriage, may have finally tipped his hand on how
he really feels. In recent letters written to homosexual activist
groups, the presumed Democratic nominee said he supports homosexual
couples adopting babies. Further, he said, he wants to repeal the
federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as being
between one man and one woman - and forbids states from being forced to
accept any other definition of marriage under the U.S. Constitution's
Full Faith and Credit Clause.
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Homosexual
Activist Admits There is no 'Gay Gene'
One
of
the untouchable dogmas of the homosexualist movement is the assertion
of the existence of a "gay gene" -- or a genetic marker that causes
same-sex attraction. The assertion of a genetic factor in homosexual
preference has never been demonstrated by scientists, and now at least
one prominent campaigner in the British homosexual movement has
admitted this fact.
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Author
Discusses Obama's Shortfalls
Author
and investigative journalist Dr. Jerome Corsi says the extreme leftism
of a Barack Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened,
diminished, and divided. Dr. Corsi's newest book is called The Obama
Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. He has done
wide-ranging research on Obama's extensive connections with Islam and
radical communist politics, as well as his far-left domestic policy.
The key theme to the book, according to Corsi, is in the subtitle The
Cult of Personality.
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Obama's
'Star' Status Not Enough for Values Voters
A Christian pro-family
group readily
acknowledged Sen. Barack Obama’s star status, but pointed out
that the
Democratic presidential candidate is still not that far ahead of
Republican John McCain in election polls. “Let’s
face it. Barack Obama
has the election to win or lose. He is the rock star of presidential
candidates, by all rights he should be way ahead of John
McCain,” said
Tom Minnery, Focus on the Family Action’s senior vice
president of
government and public policy, in a special webcast on Wednesday.
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(VIDEO)
Christians Protesting in Beijing
After
Tibet, the theme of religious freedom is once again at the centre of a
fresh protest in Beijing 48 hours before the Olympic opening ceremony
is to get underway. Three US Christian activists, two men and a woman,
have put on a protest on the edge of Tiananmen Square against religious
repression and the abortionist policy limiting couple to a single
child.
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(VIDEO)
Chinese Islamic group issues new Olympic threat
A
Chinese Islamic group that has threatened to attack the Beijing
Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to avoid being on planes,
trains and buses with Chinese at the games, a U.S. group that monitors
militant organizations said Thursday. The video was purportedly made by
the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China's
western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said. The
militants are believed to be based in Pakistan, where security experts
say core members have received training from al-Qaida.
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Christian
Couple Dies from Brutal Police Attack
An Iranian Christian
couple in their 60s died last week from injuries sustained when secret
police raided a house church service hosted at their house and severely
beat them, a source told Compass. Less than a week after Abbas
Amiri’s funeral, his wife died from similar injuries and
stress from her husband’s death, according to Farsi Christian
News Network (FCNN).
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House
Church Leader Arrested as Chinese Believers Ready to Welcome President
Bush
Three days before the
opening of the
Olympic Games in Beijing, China Aid Association (CAA) has learned that
House Church Alliance President, Zhang Mingxuan, together with his wife
, has been detained by Chinese Authorities. The two, along with a
fellow pastor, are being held in an undisclosed location in Henan
Province.The arrest comes on the eve of President George Bush's visit
to China for the Beijing Olympic Games.
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Southern
California Hot Spot Hits 812 Degrees, Baffles Experts
The ground is so hot in
one part of
Southern California it can melt the shoes right off your feet. An
unexplained "thermal anomaly" caused a patch of land in Ventura County,
just north of Los Angeles, to reach a temperature of over 800 degrees
on Friday, baffling experts who have been monitoring the area for
weeks. The anomaly was discovered after the land got so hot that it
started a brush fire and burned three acres last month.
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48%
say they're tired of hearing about Obama
Barack Obama may be the
fresh face in this
year's presidential election, but nearly half say they're already tired
of hearing about him, a poll says. With Election Day still three months
away, 48 percent said they're hearing too much about the Democratic
candidate, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan
Pew Research Center. Just 26 percent said the same about his Republican
rival, John McCain.
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China
Detains White House Press Plane
A
charter
airplane carrying the White House press corps was detained for nearly
three hours Friday at Beijing's international airport not long after
President Bush arrived to attend the Olympic Games. The flight crew of
the Northwest Airlines 747 had been expecting to park at a VIP
terminal, but after landing was instead directed by the control tower
to a normal international gate.
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McCain
seeks to define himself and Obama
John
McCain's efforts to define Barack Obama have been well cataloged in
recent days, from the substantive (calling Obama a tax raiser slow to
offer an energy plan) to the silly (comparing the Illinois senator to
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.) What's less apparent are McCain's
efforts to define himself. The GOP presidential hopeful has adopted a
new campaign slogan, "Country First," a paean to his years in the
military and decades in Congress. He's begun speaking more openly about
his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
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4
GREAT READS FOR YOUNG WOMEN: Letters
to Young Black Women (Expanded Edition), by Daniel Whyte
III, with Meriqua & Daniella Whyte; 7 Things Young Black Women Do to
Mess up Their Lives: And How to Avoid Them, by Daniel
Whyte III, with Meriqua Whyte; The
Virtuous Girl, by Danita Evangeline Whyte; and The Girl God Wants,
by Daniella Whyte
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White supremacists hope Obama win prompts backlash
They're
not exactly rooting for Barack Obama, but prominent white supremacists
anticipate a boost to their cause if he becomes the first black
president. His election, they say, would trigger a backlash —
whites rising up, a revolution of sorts — that they think is
long
overdue. He'd be a "visual aid," says former Ku Klux Klan leader David
Duke, in trying to bring others around to their view that whites have
lost control of America. Obama's election, says another, would jar
whites into action, writing letters, handing out pamphlets rather than
sitting around complaining.
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Why
Fatty Fish Is Good For Your Brain
Looking
to boost your memory and concentration? You're better off eating oily
fish twice a week than popping expensive herbal pills or fish oil
supplements, according to a consumer survey. Australian consumer group
Choice tested several supplements and found that two weekly servings of
fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids, such as sardines and salmon, can
boost brain function as much as or more than pills containing ginkgo
biloba, brahmi and fish oil.
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old fashioned marriage: Keeping it Together, by Joseph C. Phillips
Fourteen
years of marriage! Even when I really take the time to study
it,
I have no clear answer as to how we made it this far. I have
asked
my wife and frankly, I don’t care for the way she laughs
before
answering me. After all is said and done, she is no clearer on how or
why we are approaching our ivory anniversary than I am. How odd that I
seem preoccupied with discovering the source of our longevity. Perhaps
I should stop asking questions and thank my maker; the less I know the
better.
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Thank
You Tiger Woods, George Bush, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice for Making Barack Obama Possible, by
Alonzo Brooklyn
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Your
Brain On Exercise: How Working Out Makes You Smarter
Athletes
and people who exercise not only have better bods -- they have better
brains too, a host of studies have now firmly established. A review of
studies published earlier this month, in fact, found that a balanced
diet and regular exercise can protect the brain and ward off mental
disorders. Other research has focused just on the effects of exercise.
The bottom line: Exercisers learn faster, remember more, think clearer
and bounce back more easily from brain injuries such as a stroke. They
are also less prone to depression and age-related cognitive decline.
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McCain
and Obama make reparations a campaign taboo, by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Presumptive
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his Republican rival
John McCain don't agree on much. But there's one thing that they not
only agree on, but have made a campaign taboo, and that's reparations.
Obama flatly opposes reparations, and has repeated his position every
time he is asked about compensation for slavery. McCain doesn't even
bother taking a public position on reparations. It's such a foregone
conclusion that he would oppose it that no one has even bothered to ask
him about it on the campaign trail.
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Second Coming Watch/World:
Israel Warns Russia: 'We'll neutralize S-300 if sold to Iran'
If
Russia goes through with the sale of its most advanced anti-aircraft
missile system to Iran, Israel will use an electronic warfare device
now under development to neutralize it and as a result present Russia
as vulnerable to air infiltrations, a top defense official has told The
Jerusalem Post.
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On "Being Saved"
in Black America
While growing up in a very
religious and church-going family, I often heard the phrase "Being
Saved." Now to me and my peers, "Being Saved" was a rather spooky and
mystical thing, and only the real holy folk could be such —
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Be
Encouraged and Be an Encouragement
Be
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be an encouragement by buying their books, sermon tapes, or music from
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Christian
Author of the
Week: Frank Chase, Jr.
Frank Chase, Jr., is
a native
of Baltimore, Maryland. As a graduate of Washington State University,
he earned a B.A. degree in Communications and a minor in Sociology.
Frank has also earned a B.A. Degree in Biblical Studies and a Master's
Degree in Theology from North Carolina College of Theology. He served
in the United States Army and is a minister at Emmanuel Church
International in Decatur, Alabama. As a lay minister, Frank has served
as a teacher, counselor, mentor and leader in various men's ministries.
He has authored and published numerous religious and relationship
articles for newspapers, online magazines, and print media, and has
appeared as a recurring guest on many television and radio programs. As
a conference speaker who travels across the country, Frank delivers a
valuable message of hope that inspires and edifies. Frank and his wife,
Teresa, live in Alabama. Frank is the father of six children. He is
also the author of False Roads
to Manhood: What Women Need to Know What Men Need to Understand. E-mail
address: fchase@fcpublishing.com.
Visit her online at: www.PositiveJourney.com.
Pastor
of the Week: Dr. Anthony T. Evans, Pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship
of Dallas, TX
Dr. Evans
is founder and serves as Senior Pastor of the over 7,000 member Oak
Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas. He is also founder and
president of The Urban Alternative, a national organization that seeks
to bring about spiritual renewal in urban America through the church.
The Urban Alternative radio broadcast, "The Alternative with Dr. Tony
Evans," can be heard over 500 stations daily throughout the U.S. and in
over 40 countries worldwide. He is a speaker on the Promise Keepers'
platform, as well as speaking regularly in crusades and Bible
conferences in the United States and abroad. Dr.
Evans has written many books, booklets, videos and articles,
as
well as the monthly devotional Today's Alternative and the monthly
newsletter The Alternative View. Dr. Evans
is married
to Lois, and is the father of four children: Chrystal, Priscilla,
Anthony, Jr., and Jonathan, and six grandchildren. E-mail
address: sstewart@ocbfchurch.org.
Website: www.tonyevans.org.
(If
you want to submit information about your pastor to be reviewed for
possible inclusion in this section, please send that information
to: churchnews@blackchristiannews.com.)
Music
Minister of the
Week: Dorinda Clark Cole
She’s
been called “the Rose of Gospel,” “the
church
girl,” and “evangelist” but more than
anything else,
three time Grammy award winner Dorinda Clark Cole is a fired up sister
for Christ and one of the most gifted vocalists in the music world
today. Carrying on the legacy of her mother, mass choir director
pioneer, the late Mattie Moss Clark, along with her award winning
contemporary gospel pioneering sisters who have influenced a generation
of singers, Dorinda Clark Cole boldly comes forth with her third solo
album, TAKE IT BACK. She utilizes her famous vocal runs and preaching
on the jazz infused “Faithful,” which gives the
message
that if you are faithful over a few things God will make you ruler over
many, if you remain faithful through your trials. The soul stirring
ballad “Yesterday,” showcases Dorinda’s
multi-octave
vocal range and will fill you with a calming message of peace and hope
that comes after the storms of life have passed. It
let’s
you know that although the situation might seem bad, it will be over
tomorrow. “If I Were,” the praise ballad sends a
message of
gratitude unto the Lord that will usher in a spirit of praise. With
songs that inspire, encourage and uplift, TAKE IT BACK is another
landmark project from the Clark dynasty. So what is her hope
for
this shining release? She simply says, “I want it to reach
avenues that we feel that it cannot to go, I want people to not give up
and know they can get through it.” I want it to reach those
who
are strung out on drugs. I want them to be able to hand it
over
to other drug abusers and say listen to it and have it bless their
lives.” E-mail: fks130@gmail.com.
Website: www.dorindaclarkcole.net.
Christian
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Black Bookstore
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Week: The Schomburg Center for Research Into Black Culture, New York, NY
515 Malcolm X Boulevard; New York, NY 10037-1801; Phone:
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Inspirations
The
Word of God
for this Week
"These
things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the
world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome
the world." —
John 16:33
The
Encouraging Word for this Week
"No
matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with
you." —Helen
Steiner Rice
The
Prayer Motivator for this Week
MOTIVATING
VERSE: “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer
and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto
God." —Philippians 4:6
PRAYER
QUOTE: "Prayer releases the power and wisdom of God into a
situation." —Unknown
The
Soul-Winning Motivator for this Week
"And
the lord
said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel
them to come in, that my house may be filled." —Luke 14:23
SOUL-WINNING
QUOTE: "If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to
hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep
silent the cure from the eternal wages of sin." —Dave
Davidson
Black
Christian History
Elizabeth A. Coles was
born in Liberia, the daughter of missionaries. Her family returned to
Virginia in 1893. After high school, Coles wanted to be a missionary,
but as there was no support for unmarried female missionaries, she
prepared for a career as a teacher. One day she received a letter from
Edward H. Bouey, also a child of missionaries. At their first meeting,
he proposed to her, and they soon married. The couple went to Liberia,
where they continued her parents’ work, ran a school, and
began a
hospital. In 1929 they returned to Richmond with their children and an
adopted African youth. Bouey became a public school teacher but found
time to study theology at Virginia Union University and to earn a
master’s degree in education from Columbia University.
Knowing of
the lack of training available for ministers’ wives, Bouey
proposed a national association for them. Her idea was well received in
the region, and the first chapter of the National Association of
Ministers’ Wives was founded in Richmond in 1939. During the
next
year, Bouey organized other chapters in Virginia and corresponded with
ministers’ wives throughout the United States. The first
national
conference took place in Richmond in 1941, and Bouey was elected
president, a post she held until her death. Over the next sixteen
years, Bouey oversaw members from more than thirty states and from West
Africa; the establishment of the organization’s journal,
Ministers’ Wives Herald; and the purchase of a building in
Richmond. Since Bouey’s death the NAMW has become the
International Association of Ministers’ Wives and
Ministers’ Widows, with more than 40,000 members.
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