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Sharpton
defends Jackson despite Obama comments
The Rev. Al Sharpton on
Tuesday defended
the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has come under fire for his recent crude
off-air criticism of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
"We have all made mistakes. We have all erred, and we ought not try to
sugar coat when we err," Sharpton told a gathering of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference in this New Orleans suburb. "But we
should not throw away everything when we err, and to say that Rev.
Jackson made a mistake is correct, but to act like Rev. Jesse Jackson
is not pivotal to our movement, our history ... is wrong."
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Rick
Warren to Pastors: "Pastors Shouldn't Endorse Politicians"
Popular megachurch
pastor Rick Warren said
he does not believe pastors should endorse political candidates in a
recent interview held weeks ahead of his highly-anticipated leadership
and compassion forum, which will feature presidential candidates John
McCain and Barack Obama. “I don’t think
it’s right
for pastors to endorse [a political candidate] in the first
place,” Warren said on a recent CNN interview when asked if
he
thinks McCain was right to disavow controversial pastors John Hagee and
Rod Parsley. “I would never endorse a candidate. I would
never
campaign for a candidate,” he added.
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The
Book, The
Faith of Barack Obama, by Stephen Mansfield
hits Stores in two Days, Friday, August 1st. The regular price is
$19.99. Order your copy today for only $17.99 on BlackCBC.com.
Presidential Politics and Media:
Black Radio is to Obama what Limbaugh is to McCain
Warren
Ballentine, one of black talk radio’s new stars, was on a
tear against
Senator John McCain as he broadcast from the Greenbriar Mall here last
week, blithely dismissing Mr. McCain’s kind words about
Senator Barack
Obama at the recent N.A.A.C.P. national convention. “He came
out
talking about how good of a race Barack Obama was running, and how
proud he was of Barack,” Mr. Ballentine said. “You
know he went back
home and said, ‘I can’t believe I spoke in front of
all those Negroes
today!’ ” “He was pandering to
the crowd, talking about how he felt
when Martin Luther King Jr. died,” Mr. Ballentine went on.
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(VIDEO)
Prominent Black Attorney, Willie Gary and his lawyers to file
motion with X-rated DVD
The lawyers for famed
Stuart lawyer Willie
Gary say they will file today what they believe will be the silver
bullet that could have a civil suit accusing him of sex assault
dismissed. The motion includes new information about Gary's former
employee and accuser, Jillian Nedd. West Palm lawyer Michael Pike
included in his filing two X-rated homemade DVDs of Gary's single adult
son, Kenneth, having sex with Nedd. The second DVD, according to Pike,
was filmed a week after Nedd and Gary met in a Stuart Best Western,
where Nedd claims he sexually assaulted her.
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Letters to Young Black Men:
Celebrating 52 Weeks (1 Year) on the Amazon.com Bestsellers List
(African-American Category); now You Can Also Buy Letters to Young Black Men on
Kindle for $6.99 and be Reading it Within One Minute
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(VIDEO)
Funeral Held for Wife and Grandson of Minister and Gospel Singer, Rev.
Timothy Wright: Rev. Wright remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Family
and friends from around the country gathered at a Brooklyn church
Monday to say goodbye to the wife and grandson of the Rev. Timothy
Wright. While the pastor remains in critical condition at a
Pennsylvania hospital, a funeral was held for Betty Wright and grandson
Daniel "D.J." Wright at the Washington Temple Church of God in Christ
in Bedford-Stuyvesant. During the service, a 120-strong choir performed
Rev. Wright's song, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."
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Corrupt
NBA referee gets 15-month sentence
Disgraced
ex-NBA official Tim Donaghy admitted that he'd brought shame on his
profession Tuesday as a federal judge sentenced him to 15 months behind
bars for a gambling scandal that still has the league on the defensive.
U.S. District Judge Carol Amon sentenced Donaghy to prison time plus
three years of supervised release, saying he'd let the sport down by
taking thousands of dollars from a professional gambler in exchange for
inside tips on games — including ones he refereed.
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The
Man Behind the Byline Isn't Behind the Article. So, Who Is? by Jeffrey
Birnbaum
Charles
Steele Jr. is the president of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and a very prominent fellow. Two of his distinguished
predecessors were Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy,
leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. This week,
the SCLC is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a convention in New
Orleans. Steele is upset about something that happened before the
celebration. A handful of Southern newspapers published an op-ed
article under Steele's name on July 18 that his lawyer and the SCLC say
he did not write or authorize.
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View
the Trailer for Oliver Stone's New Movie About George W. Bush, titled,
"W"
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unmarried couples living together
The
number of opposite-sex couples who live together, less than a million
30 years, hit 6.4 million in 2007, show federal data released Monday.
Cohabiting couples now make up almost 10% of all opposite-sex U.S.
couples, married and unmarried. That's up from 2006, when the Census
bureau reported 5 million unmarried, opposite-sex households. But that
figure was based on a question that some respondents might have found
unclear. In the 2007 supplemental survey sample of 100,000 households,
Census asked more directly whether respondents had "a
boyfriend/girlfriend or partner in the household" and found 1.1 million
more couples.
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Let
Sandra Steen Show You how to Uncover the 'Joy-Robbers', Discover the
'Joy-Builders', and Live Your Best Life in her book Who Stole My Joy?
It was Abraham Lincoln
who said, "You're
only as happy as you make up your mind to be." But many of us are
losing our joy and happiness because we are allowing circumstances and
the pressures of life to snuff out our happiness. Author, Sandra Steen,
realizes that life is too short and too precious not to be enjoyed, and
so, through her book, Who Stole My
Joy? she shows you how to get and keep "joy unspeakable."
Just imagine yourself excited about life and full of joy all the time.
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>Christian
Publishers Offer Tales of the Football Turf
Tyndale
House Publishers, a Christian company that was founded in 1962 to print
a more reader-friendly version of the Bible, has had one of its biggest
successes in the last year with a string of books on a slightly less
religious topic: football. Next Sunday Tyndale will have its third
football-related book in a year reach the New York Times best-seller
list, No. 3 on the “advice, how-to and
miscellaneous”
category — unusual for a publisher whose most profitable
non-Bible product until now has been the “Left
Behind”
series of apocalyptic novels.
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Homosexual
sex is a sin, say four in five Protestants
Most
Christians believe gay sex is a sin and that practising gays should not
be ordained. A survey by ComRes of 517 Protestant Christians in Britain
found that only 3 per cent of nonCatholic Christians believe
homosexuality is not a sin, while 81 per cent say it is and 15 per cent
say “it is more complicated than this”. Taking into
account all
Protestant denominations, 81 per cent believe that gay sex is sinful.
The survey also found that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan
Williams, lacks majority support. Only one in three Anglicans said Dr
Williams represented their views.
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Hate
for Liberals and Homosexuals Drove Gunman, Police Say
A
man who
the police say entered a Unitarian Universalist church in Knoxville,
Tenn., on Sunday and shot eight people, killing two, was motivated by a
hatred for liberals and gay people, Chief Sterling P. Owen IV of the
Knoxville Police Department said Monday. “It appears that
what
brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain
a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal
movement,” Chief Owen said of the suspect, Jim D. Adkisson,
58.
“We have recovered a four-page letter in which he describes
his
feelings and the reason that he claims he committed these
offenses.”
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Oppose
Homosexual Bishops and Homosexual Marriage, Anglicans Urged
A
group
of senior Anglican clergy has told the Lambeth Conference that liberal
churches must end the ordination of gay bishops and stop blessing
same-sex relationships if the Communion is to arrest its slide towards
a permanent split. The working party given the task of finding possible
solutions to the rift told the 650 bishops meeting in Canterbury that
traditionalist churches in Africa must also stop setting up parallel
church bodies in the United States as homes for congregations splitting
away from the American Church because of the dispute.
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Obama
says Muslim issue is 'no-win situation'
Sen.
Barack Obama said Sunday that responding to incorrect assertions that
he's a Muslim has put him in a "no-win situation." If he allows the
Internet rumors and other misleading information to go unchallenged,
it's an affront to his Christianity and could cost him support from
voters who don't want a Muslim in the White House. But if he
aggressively confronts the rumors, it could suggest to some that
there's something wrong with being a Muslim. "This is a
classic
example of a no-win situation," Mr. Obama told hundreds of journalists
gathered in Chicago for the UNITY convention for journalists of color.
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Second Coming Watch/World:
Al-Qaida Video Calls to Kill Saudi King
“A new video
posted on an Islamist
website, depicts an al-Qaida leader calling for the assassination of
Saudi Arabia's king because of his leading role in the Madrid
Interfaith Conference. Abu Yahia A-Libi, who escaped from the United
States prison in Bagram, Pakistan, in 2005, blamed King Abdullah for
renouncing Islam by bringing religions together. The Saudi king
sponsored a conference in Madrid earlier this month, which was attended
by representatives of five large faiths: Islam, Christianity, Buddhism,
Hinduism and Judaism.
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The
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Hampton Ministers’ Conference; 9th Annual First Lady
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all 4 National Baptist Conventions; AME Convention; COGIC Convention;
Independent Baptist Conference; COEBA Conference; Full Gospel Baptist
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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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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
Be
an
encouragement by sending a "holla" to the following people! Also
be an encouragement by buying their books, sermon tapes, or music from
their
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Christian
Author of the
Week: Deborah Slappey Pitts
Deborah Slappey Pitts
is the author of I Feel Okay,
a heart-wrenching account of love, loss and inspiration listed in Booking Matters as
a national bestseller. In this sequel, Shadow
Living…Paintings of Grief,
Pitts chronicles her painful journey through despair after her husband
succumbs to the silent killer disease, primary amyloidosis. A native of
Americus, Georgia, Pitts is a graduate of Georgia Southwestern
University in Americus and Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.
Pitts travels the country as an inspirational and motivational speaker
educating others about the devastating effects of amyloidosis diseases
and the psychological and physiological effects of grief. Pitts has two
sons, Clyde Daryl and Alex Keith, and resides in Columbus, Georgia,
with her second husband, Marshall Pitts. E-mail
address: innisfree54@yahoo.com.
Visit her online at: www.DSlappeyPitts.com.
Pastor
of the Week: Dr. Phillip M. Davis, Pastor of Nations Ford Community
Church of Charlotte, NC
Phillip M. Davis is
the current and founding pastor of Nations Ford Community Church of
Charlotte, NC and the Nations Ford Community Church at Rock Hill in
Rock Hill, SC. A graduate of Xavier University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and
of The Carolina University of Theology, Dr. Davis has served in
leadership capacities with the North American Mission Board, SBC, and
the Columbia International University, and is the founder of the Queen
City Bible College of Charlotte, NC. Dr. Davis is the
presiding
Bishop of the Community Church Network, founded to encourage and equip
church planters and church leaders. Dr. Davis has been married to his
wife, Cynthia, for more than 32 years and they have been in ministry
together for over 27 years and are the proud parents of three grown
children and two grandchildren. Dr. Davis is also the author of Father Force:
Changing the World One Life at a Time. Father Force
is available wherever fine books are sold. E-mail
address: rcarter@nationsford.org.
Website: www.nationsford.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: Rev. Timothy Wright, Jr.
Reverend
Timothy Wright is no stranger to gospel music- in fact; he has become
an anchor for gospel choirs across the country. His music is considered
"Sunday Morning Ready" with a diverse array of traditional and
contemporary gospel music. He is also the pastor and founder of the
Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Rev. Wright first
developed his talents at the St. John's Fire Baptized Holiness Church
of God in Brooklyn, N.Y. In his spare time, he wrote poetry and began
to play the piano at age 12. This would soon lead to him composing for
the church's choir. A pivotal moment is his budding career came in 1969
when he began playing the piano for the late Bishop F.D. Washington at
the Washington Temple C.O.G.I.C. in Brooklyn, N.Y.. Through that
association, he was selected as organist for the Rev. Isaac Douglas and
the N.Y. community choir. With the exception of one, all the selections
on Douglas' classic best-selling 1971 album, "Let's Go Higher", were
written by Rev. Wright . This album was a landmark recording in the
early development of contemporary choir sound. In 1976, he founded the
Timothy Wright Concert Choir. Some of the choir's award winning and
best selling releases includes, Who's On The Lord's Side and Do You
Know The Light. He has also recorded with choirs across the county. Of
these recordings, his most memorable hits include: Troubles
Don't Last Always, Master Can You Use Me and Yes I'm A
Believer.
In addition to this, he also recorded a Stellar Award winning project
with Myrna Summers, entitled We're Gonna
Make It. In fact, one of his projects, Come Thou
Almighty King,
which has garned national recognition, was recorded with a 500 voice
choir, made up of New York's best gospel artists. Without question,
Timothy Wright proves once again that he is the "Godfather" of gospel
music. Get Rev. Wright's latest CD "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!"
and please continue to pray for the entire Wright family and the Grace
Tabernacle church family.
Website: www.myspace.com/reverendtimothywright.
Christian
Bookstore of the
Week: Greater Mount Calvary Bookstore, Washington, DC
616 Rhode Island Avenue, NE; Washington, DC 20002; Ph:
202-832-4130; Fax: 202-529-6582; E-mail: gmchcbookstore@gmchc.org.
Website: www.gmcbookstore.com.
Black Bookstore
of the
Week: Hue-Man Bookstore, New York, NY
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd; New York, NY 10027; Phone:
212-665-7400; Fax: 212-665-1071; E-mail: info@hueman-bookstore.com.
Website: www.huemanbookstore.com.
Inspirations
The
Word of God
for this Week
"For
whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his
life for my sake shall find it.” —
Matthew 16:25
The
Encouraging Word for this Week
"Have
you counted the cost if your soul should be lost
Tho' you gain the whole world for your own?
Even now it may be that the line you have crossed
Have you counted, have you counted the cost?"
The
Prayer Motivator for this Week
MOTIVATING
VERSE: “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with
thanksgiving." —Colossians 4:2
PRAYER
QUOTE: "Prayer does not equip us for greater work. Prayer is
the greater work!" --Oswald Chambers
The
Soul-Winning Motivator for this Week
"And
the things
that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou
to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." -2 Timothy
2:2
SOUL-WINNING
QUOTE: "We will never get men truly saved until they realize that they
are truly lost." -- D.L. Moody
Black
Christian History
Reverend William W. Colley - an
African American Baptist missionary to Africa; founder of the Colored
Baptist Missions in Africa. He served in West Africa in 1875 as an
assistant to W.J. David, a white missionary from Mississippi. In 1880,
Colley was instrumental in the formation of the Baptist Foreign Mission
Convention, an African American organization which sponsored and sent
Black missionaries to Africa; in 1883 he returned to Africa under their
direction. This organization merged with two others in 1895 to form the
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc, the first national organization
for African American Baptists. Colley traveled widely, lecturing to
gain support for the African missions. At one of his lectures, a notice
read "Eight years in the Wilds of Africa, where he learned to eat snail
soup and monkey stews...The colored Baptists have supported 13
missionaries in Africa during the last ten years, by whom hundreds of
heathen have been led to Christ."
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