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Kwame
Kilpatrick Should Quit, his Ex-pastor, Rev. Edgar Vann, says
One
thing that may get lost in the endless stream of information about the
mayoral scandal is this: Six years ago, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his
family attended the same church as veteran police officer Gary Brown,
whose lawsuit became the mayor's Achilles' heel. And the Rev. Edgar
Vann ministered to both. Vann helped get Kilpatrick elected as
Detroit's youngest mayor, and the mayor stood next to Vann as the
pastor built dozens of homes near his sanctuary, Second Ebenezer, ran
successful youth programs and nurtured a booming congregation.
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Marriage
Separation may End Evangelist Bentley's Lakeland Revival Ministry
Todd
Bentley, the evangelist who has led the Florida Outpouring revival here
in Lakeland since April 2, has filed for separation from his wife and
might not return to the revival, according to his former local
spokesperson, Lynne Breidenbach. She said Bentley made the announcement
to his staff this afternoon. Bentley and his wife, Shonnah, have two
daughters and a son and are Canadian citizens. Under Canadian law,
separation is a first step in divorce proceedings and takes nine
months. Bentley and his wife have been in marriage counseling for
several months, Breidenbach said.
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Students Received "No-good" Degrees from Eddie Long's New Birth Church
Campus
Long's
Lithonia megachurch earned bachelor's degrees that are not recognized
by the school's accrediting agency. A school spokeswoman said 39 other
students were in the program earlier this year when it was shut down.
Long and the school, in Durham, started the satellite campus four years
ago. They closed it in June after the Southern Association of Colleges
and Schools learned of it, reviewed the program and refused to sanction
it.
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Hell:
Some Believe it Exists, Others Fear it, Many Do Not
There
is a locked room up there with an iron door that can't be opened. / It
has all your bad dreams in it. It is hell. / Some say the devil locks
the door from the inside. / Some say the angels lock it from the
outside. (from "Locked Doors" by Anne Sexton). Ernie Long believes he
has been to hell. He can even narrow it down to a particular moment.
His mother was dying of cancer. As she lay on her death bed, he swiped
her last $5 and the car keys from her purse, went out and got high.
When he returned, she was dead.
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Is
Religion Playing a Greater Role in Public Life?
Is
religion playing a greater role in public life? Rice University
sociologist D. Michael Lindsay answers this question with a patiently
researched and carefully nuanced yes. From 2003 through 2006, he
conducted interviews with 360 evangelicals who work in culturally
prominent fields. These informants affirm the unique authority of the
Bible, have a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ" and "take a
transforming, activist approach to faith." Slightly more than 200 of
them work in secular institutions or fields; nearly 160 of them work in
religious organizations. Their ascent to positions of power since 1976,
Lindsay writes, "is the result of the efforts of a select group of
leaders seeking to implement their vision of moral leadership" by using
what he refers to as "convening power" to gather like-minded
evangelicals in networks of support and action.
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Social
Initiatives on State Ballots Could Draw Attention to Presidential Race
Divisive
social issues will be on the ballot in several states in November,
including constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage in
Arizona, California and Florida, and limitations on abortion in
California, Colorado and South Dakota. Although research indicates that
ballot measures do not drastically alter voter turnout, they have begun
attracting the attention of both presidential campaigns. Unlike 2004,
when same-sex marriage bans were considered in 11 states, no single
issue will dominate statewide ballots.
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McCain
Takes Step of Faith Towards Conservative Groups, by David Brody
The
Brody File is interrupting vacation to bring you an exclusive news
story. We have in our possession a document that's being sent out by
the McCain campaign to conservative, grassroots groups across the
country today. It highlights John McCain's faith. To look at the
document that's being sent out, click here. Read part of what it says
below: Dear Friends,
Many of you have asked about John McCain's faith. John McCain is a
strong Christian, but he believes that, in the context of the campaign,
his faith is a personal issue. Excerpts directly from John McCain's
family memoir entitled, Faith of My Fathers, best explain the shaping
and content of John McCain's faith.
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The
Race for the Religious Center
John
McCain and Barack Obama both realize that when it comes to faith and
the American voter, the sweet spot is right down the middle. To read
the popular press these days, one would think that the world of
religion was divided quite comfortably into two camps: The religious
right and the insurgent religious left. For those Americans -- most, in
fact -- standing squarely in the middle, the perception has never quite
fit reality.
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Former
Muslim, Emir Caner, to lead Truett-McConnell Baptist College
Emir
Caner, founding dean of The College at Southwestern in Fort Worth,
Texas, was elected as the eighth president of Truett-McConnell College
on Aug. 8. Caner, 37, who was raised in a Sunni Muslim family in Ohio
and converted to Christianity as a teenager in 1982, will become the
youngest president ever to lead Truett-McConnell, a four-year college
affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention. He will begin his new
duties Aug. 18. Caner has led The College at Southwestern -- the
undergraduate program at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary --
since 2005.
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Website
Helps Athletes Spread the Gospel
A
group of
Olympians are sharing their personal testimonies with fans through the
worldwide web. BeyondTheUltimate.org is a website that has been
unveiled by the ministry Athletes in Action. The site features stories
and videos of current and past U.S. Olympic athletes, and spokesman Tim
Pitcher believes the website will reach out to visitors from around the
world.
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California
School Nixes Bible Club
An
Anaheim,
California, public high school is facing a day in federal court after
refusing to allow a Christian Bible club to meet after school. The
Esperanza High School official responsible for after-school groups told
the students that their group was being denied permission to meet
because their topic was not related to the school curriculum. Attorney
Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) in
Sacramento, is not buying that excuse.
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VIDEO:
'Bible's Buried Secrets' Trailer Hits YouTube
Weeks
after news broke of the upcoming PBS program "The Bible's Buried
Secrets," the trailer for the two-hour television special made its
YouTube debut Sunday, adding more fuel to a controversy that has
already generated a flurry of intense and sometimes heated debates. "In
1896, near the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt, one of the most
important discoveries in biblical archaeology is unearthed," begins the
three-and-a-half-minute trailer.
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Bush
Warns Russia to pull back in Georgia
President
Bush on Monday demanded that Russia end a "dramatic and brutal
escalation" of violence in Georgia, agree to an immediate cease-fire
and accept international mediation to end the crisis in the former
Soviet republic. Almost immediately after his return from the Olympics
in China, Bush warned Russia in his strongest comments since the
fighting erupted over Georgia's separatist South Ossetia region last
week to "reverse the course it appears to be on" and abandon any
attempt it may have to topple Georgia's pro-western government.
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Russia's
Medvedev Orders Halt to Military Action in Georgia; Says Georgian
President Must Go
Russian President
Dmitri Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia Tuesday,
saying it had punished Georgia and restored security for civilians and
Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia. In a nationally televised speech
he ordered the military to defend itself and quash any aggressive
action and armed resistance from Georgian forces.
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Obama's 'No Income Taxes
on Seniors' Draws Critics
If you're a senior citizen and make less than $50,000 a year, Barack
Obama has a deal for you: the rest of your life free of federal income
tax. Sounds appealing, right? Maybe to many seniors. But tax policy
experts in Washington are giving it bad reviews. They see it as another
subsidy for senior citizens, who already get federal help through
Social Security and Medicare and often have economic advantages over
other demographic groups.
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Dr.
Yvonne Capehart, in her newest book, The Spirit of Assassination,
Answers the Thought-Provoking Question: What's Going on in the Lives of
our Christian Leaders?
The Spirit of
Assassination,
by Dr. Yvonne Capehart, is an eye-opener as to why Christian leaders
are engaging in sinful activities, losing their testimony for Christ,
and falling by the wayside. Jesus Christ, before His death shared with
His disciples that the "prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing
in me" (John 14:30). Jesus, Who knows better than anyone, the
destruction that satan purposes to cause to Christians tells us in His
last discourse to His disciples: "I pray not that thou shouldest take
them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil"
(John 17:15). Dr. Capehart asks this question: "What's going on?"
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More
McCain
and Obama: By their Offices ye shall Know Them
By their offices ye
shall know them. The personalities and personal histories of John
McCain and Barack Obama are as evident in the artwork, books and
mementoes in their Senate offices as in any words they may utter.
McCain's office oozes comfy clutter and informality: random piles of
books, a fortune-cookie message taped to the desk, an abundance of
tchotchkes and bric-a-brac.
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More
Left
or Right, Obama Books are Hot
Whether they like him
or oppose him, readers want to hear more about Barack Obama. "The Obama
Nation," an anti-Obama book written by Jerome V. Corsi, will debut at
No. 1 come Sunday on The New York Times' hardcover nonfiction
best-seller list. Corsi was co-author of "Unfit for Command," an
influential 2004 best-seller that condemned the Vietnam War record of
then Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
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More
Most
Companies in US Avoid Federal Income Taxes
Two-thirds of U.S.
corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005,
according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government
Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68
percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided
corporate taxes over the same period. Collectively, the companies
reported trillions of dollars in sales, according to GAO's estimate.
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More
Novels
by Dorinda D. E. Nusum, the Hottest New Name in Christian Fiction -- Afflicted, Sins and Sacrifices,
and The Victory
available at Amazon.com,
BarnesandNoble.com,
or from your local bookstore. Visit: www.DorindaNusum.com
for more information.
Second Coming Watch/World: Israel
Fears Russian-Syrian Arms Pact
Syrian
President
Bashar Assad is scheduled to visit Moscow next week, the Russian News
Agency RIA Novosti reported Monday. Assad last visited Moscow in
December 2006, and Israeli officials Monday dismissed the notion that
this visit was in any way linked to Israel's sales of weapons to
Georgia. Although there was some concern in Jerusalem that if Israel
did not dramatically reduce weapons shipments to Tbilisi, Russia would
sell more advanced weaponry to Syria and Iran, Israeli officials
estimated that the visit was a Russian effort to get more involved in
the indirect Israeli-Syrian track.
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The
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Expository Preaching Conference; FBFA Conference; Tony Evans'
Conference; T.D. Jakes' Conference, and more.
ENTIRE VIDEO--NEW! Sermon of
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Rediscovering
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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 —
whatever it was.
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Be
Encouraged and Be an Encouragement
Be
an
encouragement by sending a "holla" to the following people! Also
be an encouragement by buying their books, sermon tapes, or music from
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Christian
Author of the
Week: General Jerry Curry
Jerry Curry has
had several
careers. The first began when he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Private
during the Korean War. Serendipitously, this led to a 34-year military
career during which he worked his way up through the infantry ranks to
retire as a Major General. Next came a career in the private sector,
which included standing as a candidate for the U.S. Congress. This was
followed by three years as the administrator of the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Today, in addition to his
business consulting work, he pursues an operatic career. Jerry is a
decorated combat veteran, Army Aviator, Paratrooper, and Ranger, who
for nearly forty years has served his country both in the military and
as a Presidential political appointee. During the Viet Nam War, he was
a U.S. Advisor to a South Vietnamese infantry regiment and flew
helicopters and reconnaissance planes. Along the way he earned three
college degrees. Jerry and his wife, Charlene, both of whom are tennis
players, live high up on a mountain ridge in Northern Virginia. They
are active in the local Episcopal Church and have four children, seven
grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He is also the author of From Private
to General: An African-American Soldier Rises through the Ranks. E-mail
address: chateauantioch@mindspring.com.
Visit her online at: www.CurryforAmerica.com.
Pastor
of the Week: Dr. A. R. Bernard, Pastor of Christian Cultural Center of
Brooklyn, NY
A. R. Bernard
is the President of the Council of Churches of the City of New York
representing 1.5 million Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox
Christians. He is also the Founding Pastor and CEO of the
Christian Cultural Center (CCC), a 29,000 member Church that sits on an
11-acre campus in Brooklyn, New York. Bernard has been
recognized
as the most influential New York clergyman (NY Daily News, February 6,
2008), one of the most influential African American New Yorkers (NY
Post, February 19, 2008), and voted one of New York’s most
influential (NY Magazine, 2006). He was honored with a lifetime
achievement award by the Consulate General of Israel in New York, the
Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish National Fund. In
1993, Bernard also founded the Brooklyn Preparatory School (BPS), a
premiere early education institution. He continues to
revitalize
communities; recently announcing a partnership with Common Ground to
develop affordable housing in the East New York/Canarsie section of
Brooklyn. His television shows - Faith In Practice and A. R. Bernard -
air nationally on TBN, TV One and the FamilyNet Networks and in New
York on WWOR and WRNN. Bernard's compelling radio broadcasts
can
be heard nationwide on Salem Communication stations and locally within
New York’s tri-state area on WMCA, WLIB and WBLS. His
book, Happiness
Is… Simple Steps To a Life of Joy, published by
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster is now available nationwide
wherever books are sold. E-mail
address: C3@cccinfo.org.
Website: www.cccinfo.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: Marvin Sapp
Trademarked
by the simple yet memorable quote, “I am a preacher who
happens
to sing,” MARVIN SAPP undeniably brings together the heart of
a
preacher and the anointing of a psalmist on his latest project,
“DIARY OF A PSALMIST,” which released on July 1,
2003.
“There was a psalmist by the name of David who wrote and
played
melodies directed only to God,” explained Sapp. “So
I
choose the title of the album as a both chronicle for people to learn
how to worship and praise God based on my own personal experiences, as
well as I wanted people to see me in a different light … I
wanted people to understand who I am and who God called me to be, and I
think the music reflects a change in my life and in my music
ministry.” E-mail: joyamgmt@aol.com.
Website: www.marvinsapp.com.
Christian
Bookstore of the
Week: Berean Christian Bookstore, Atlanta, GA
441 Cleveland Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30315. Phone:
404.767.7514. Website: www.berean.com.
E-mail address: gross@berean.com.
Black Bookstore
of the
Week: Lushena Books, Bensenville, IL
607 Country Club Drive, Unit E, Bensenville, IL
60106.
Phone:
630-238-8708. Fax: 630-238-8824. Toll-free: 800-785-1545. Website: www.lushenabks.com.
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Inspirations
The
Word of God
for this Week
"For I know
the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts
of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected
end.” — Jeremiah 29:11
The
Encouraging Word for this Week
"A
man can no
more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough
today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient
air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come.
We are permitted to draw upon God's store of grace from day to day as
we need it." —D. L. Moody
The
Prayer Motivator for this Week
MOTIVATING
VERSE: “Let us therefore come boldly unto the
throne of
grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of
need." —Hebrews 4:16
PRAYER
QUOTE: "I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer
before I am able to do it." --John Wesley
The
Soul-Winning Motivator for this Week
"And
daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and
preach Jesus Christ." -Acts 5:42
SOUL-WINNING
QUOTE: "I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn
it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with
light."
-- John Keith Falconer
Black
Christian History
General Robert E. Lee
- One Sunday morning shortly after the close of the Civil War, a lone
black man entered a church in Richmond, Virginia, to worship God. It
was communion Sunday. The black men knelt at the altar to receive the
emblems of Christ's blood and broken body. Lingering vestiges of racial
hatred vanished when a distinguished layman walked erectly down the
aisle and knelt beside the black man. Who was that layman? General
Robert E. Lee. When we love God with all our hearts, we have unfeigned
love for all mankind--people of all climes,colors, and conditions:
"Keep yourselves in the love of God" (Jude 21).
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