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Obama Launches Day of Meetings in Israel
Democratic
presidential contender Barack Obama toured Israel's Holocaust memorial
Wednesday, laying a wreath in memory of the 6 million Jews who died and
saying, "Ultimately, this is a place of hope." Obama toured the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial on a Jerusalem hillside as he moved through a
busy day of meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials, including
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas.
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After 60 Years, Black Officers Rare
Sixty years after President Truman
desegregated the military, senior black officers are still rare,
particularly among the highest ranks. Blacks make up about 17 percent
of the total force, yet just 9 percent of all officers. That fraction
falls to less than 6 percent for general officers with one to four
stars, according to data obtained and analyzed by The Associated Press.
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Sharpton's Lawyers say Feds have Dropped Tax Probe
Al Sharpton's lawyers say a federal probe
of the minister's finances has cleared him of any criminal wrongdoing.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn spent several months looking at
Sharpton's financial dealings and bookkeeping irregularities at his
Harlem-based civil rights group.
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Buy Yvonne Capehart's New Book, The Spirit of Assassination:
Understanding and Preparing for the Enemy’s Attacks Against
God’s Anointed
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Detroit Mayor Accused of Texting Additional Women
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is now
charged with exchanging romantic text messages with additional women in
the scandal that has him fighting allegations that he lied under oath
about an intimate relationship with his former chief of staff. An
investigator's report says the Wayne County prosecutor's office has
determined that Kilpatrick sent and received text messages with
"intimate or romantic content" to several women who were not his wife
or former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty.
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NY Priest Pleads Guilty To Raping 3 Teenage Boys
A
Franciscan priest from New York pleaded guilty to raping three teenage
boys during overnight trips to Boston in the 1970s and 1980s and was
ordered Tuesday to serve time on probation. The Rev. Frank Genevieve
avoided prison time as a Suffolk Superior Court judge sentenced him to
a suspended sentence of eight to 10 years, with five years' probation.
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Second Coming Watch/World: Ahmadinejad Hails US 'positive step'
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on
Wednesday praised US participation in the latest round of nuclear talks
with Teheran, describing it as a "positive step forward." Ahmadinejad
also called it a step toward recognizing Iran's right to acquire
nuclear technology.
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ENTIRE VIDEO--NEW! Sermon of
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The Kingdom
Walk,
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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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What to Do After
you Enter Through the Door
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Be
Encouraged and Be an Encouragement
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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: Lily Ratliff
Lily L.
Ratliff is a teacher by profession who has a passion for writing. She
has taught elementary and middle school English and reading for ten
years. Lily has served in many ministry capacities, from singing in her
local church choir to teaching Sunday school and reading enrichment for
the youth in her community. She has a master’s degree in
reading education and an education specialist degree in educational
leadership. Lily currently resides in Lithonia, Georgia with her
daughter, Asia Denise. E-mail
address: lily.ratliff@thelifeofalily.com.
Visit her online at: www.thelifeofalily.com.
Pastor
of the Week: Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer, Pastor of Faithful Central Bible
Church of Inglewood, CA
Dr. Ulmer serves as
the Senior Pastor-Teacher of Faithful Central Bible Church in
Inglewood, California. Under Dr. Ulmer’s steady leadership,
Faithful Central Bible Church has grown from 350 people to more than
13,000 since he arrived in 1982. Through a series of miraculous events,
the Lord made it possible for Faithful Central to purchase the Great
Western Forum, which has allowed the church to easily accommodate the
incredible growth it has seen. Now, Dr. Ulmer and Faithful Central
Bible Church are ready to go forth as Champions who are ready for
divine deployment. Dr. Ulmer envisions Faithful Central as a conduit of
God’s love and power as it reaches out to Los Angeles and
makes an eternal impact across the globe. In looking back over Dr.
Ulmer’s life, it’s easy to see that he has always
had a passion for realizing and obeying God’s will for his
life – to go along with an inexhaustible thirst for the
knowledge and wisdom of God. In his eyes, though, his greatest success
and satisfaction has come as the husband of his wife, Togetta, and the
father of their three children – daughters RoShaun and
Keniya, and son Kendan. In addition, he has two sons-in-law and five
beautiful granddaughters. Dr. Ulmer and Togetta have been married for
over 30 years and currently reside in Los Angeles, California. E-mail
address: mjohnson@faithfamily.org.
Website: www.faithfulcentral.com.
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Music
Minister of the
Week: Nicole C. Mullen
Much of who
we become is shaped by the people God places in our lives. We are all a
product of the love and wisdom we glean from family and friends who sow
into us. They guide and teach us, leaving an indelible impression not
just on our hearts and minds, but on future generations as well. On her
new Word Records collection, Sharecropper's Seed Vol. 1, Nicole C.
Mullen examines the gift of relationships. Whether saluting her
grandfather in the title track or sharing the tender mother's lullaby
"Babylove," Nicole celebrates the rich tapestry of life. "My granddad
is a man of few words, not a talker like we women in the family are,
but a sweet man," says Nicole. "He taught my mother the love for prayer
and power of prayer. It's amazing to see how God has honored him and
his life, even though he's probably never had more than 30-50 people in
his congregation. But he's been faithful. You can see how God has been
rewarding his faith and not just through me, but through other family
members honoring my granddad's faith. It's a testament to him, and at
the same time, I am encouraged, and want to do the same for those who
come after me. I want to do the same for those who come after me."
Nicole is doing that through her music. "I just aim for the heart and
hopefully that was accomplished on this album," she says. "There are
everyday people that are heroes to me. These are people who keep me
fired up and keep me going. These are the people that I aim toward, and
I want to get it right. Hopefully, at the end of the day, they will not
have just heard pretty music, but somewhere between the lines, pages,
and phrases, they will have heard the whisper of God to the depths of
their hearts." Get her new CD "A Dream to Believe" - available
everywhere July 22nd! E-mail address: ladylikelisa@yahoo.com.
Website: www.nicolecmullen.com.
Christian
Bookstore of the
Week: Shepherd's Corner Christian Bookstore, Columbia, SC
6740 Garners Ferry Rd; Columbia, SC 29209; Ph:
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Inspirations
The
Word of God
for this Week
“Seek
the LORD and his strength, seek his face
continually” —1 Chronicles 16:11
The
Encouraging Word for this Week
"I
would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the
light." —Mary Gardiner Brainard
The
Prayer Motivator for this Week
MOTIVATING
VERSE: “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in
the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say
unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter
into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward
thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen
do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be
not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye
have need of, before ye ask him." —Matthew 6:5-8
PRAYER
QUOTE: "Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude--an attitude
of dependency, dependency upon God" —Arthur W.
Pink
The
Soul-Winning Motivator for this Week
"Jesus
saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me." --John 14:6
SOUL-WINNING
QUOTE: "The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a
command to be obeyed" -- Hudson Taylor
Black
Christian History
John Day - February
18, 1797 -- Birth of John Day, a "free person of color" who emigrated
to Liberia in 1830 as a participant in the American Colonization
Movement. In 1836 he became a missionary for the Triennial Convention
of the American Baptists. When the Southern Baptist Convention was
formed in 1845, its foreign mission board appointed Day as
superintendent of Liberian missions, a post he held until his death in
1859. Day was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence of
Liberia in 1847. In addition to his missionary work, he became
Liberia's second Supreme Court Justice. His brother Thomas was a
well-known cabinet maker in North Carolina.
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