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  • John Stevens: Expository Thoughts: Acts 22-24 - The Measure Of Success In Evangelism Is Faithfulness Not Frutifulness
    December 12th, 2016

    One of the greatest discouragements to evangelism is the relatively sparse response we experience even when we preach the gospel faithfully. This causes us either to question ourselves, or more dangerously to question the truth and power of the gospel itself. Our discouragement is not helped when we compare our experiences with hagiographic records of other times in church history, or with the way that God is at work in other places in the world.

    Our natural tendency to discouragement is one of the reasons why the book of Acts is such an encouragement. Acts is not so much a manual for evangelism but rather a record of the way in which the gospel message advanced to penetrate the various cultures of the Roman Empire, whether Jewish, Greek or Roman. As we read the book we see the same fundamental gospel message of Jesus the resurrected Lord and messiah, being contextualised and preached to different cultures in different ways, with the same call to repent and trust in Jesus as Lord before he returns in judgement.

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  • Right to Life: 'Just Say Oui' (To An Informed Debate About Emergency Contraception)
    December 12th, 2016

    BPAS has launched a new campaign, Just Say Non, which seeks to attempt to lower the cost of levonorgestrel, an ‘emergency’ contraceptive colloquially known as the ‘morning after pill’ (MAP). The reason for the ‘Non’ is that their fairly well-produced campaign video tries to argue that the £30 it costs to buy this pill at the counter is the same as a very cheap trip to France, where one can buy the MAP for €7, allegedly with change to spare.

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  • talkRADIO: 'Teaching different genders at school is a form of child abuse', says director at Christian Concern
    December 12th, 2016

    Teaching young children to identify with a different gender will cause confusion and is a form of child abuse, according to a director at Christian Concern.

    Schools across the country are being sent a guidebook which suggests the term boys and girls should not be used. This is to ensure the children don't discriminate against transgender peers.

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  • Australian Christian Lobby: Down Syndrome Children Speak Out Against Termination Efforts by Wendy Francis
    December 12th, 2016

    France is hiding smiling children, and Australia may well be too.

    I recently wrote a piece for Online Opinion about how France is banning smiling babies.

    Recently, Lateline aired the below story about Aussie Mums being pressured to abort their Down Syndrome children.

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  • Telegraph: Experienced nurse fired from job after offering to pray for patients waiting for surgery
    December 12th, 2016

    A nurse with 15 years’ experience who offered to pray for patients waiting for surgery has been sacked from her job for gross misconduct.

    Sister Sarah Kuteh was accused of holding “unwanted discussions” which allegedly upset patients and ignoring conduct guidelines on discussing personal beliefs.

    She is now suing Darent Valley hospital in Dartford, Kent for unfair dismissal, reports the Daily Mail.

  • Bloomberg: Three Challenges Aim to Give Rights to Fetuses
    December 11th, 2016

    Last week, the Ohio legislature passed a law banning abortion after the first fetal heartbeat can be heard. Texas enacted rules requiring that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated. And in Louisiana, a private trust purporting to act on behalf of 5-day-old frozen embryos sued the actress Sofia Vergara demanding that they be implanted in a uterus so they could be born. All three developments are legally questionable, to say the least. The Ohio bill is clearly unconstitutional, the Texas law may be, and the Louisiana lawsuit would cause upheaval in the assisted reproduction community should it succeed. Yet all three signal the durability of the idea that the unborn have legal rights -- a position the U.S. Supreme Court has never adopted.

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  • NY Times: Attack on Coptic Cathedral in Cairo Kills Dozens
    December 11th, 2016

    A bomb ripped through a section reserved for women at Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral during Sunday morning Mass, killing at least 25 people and wounding 49, mostly women and children, Egyptian state media said.

    The attack was the deadliest against Egypt’s Christian minority in years. Video from the blast site circulating on social media showed blood-smeared floors and shattered pews among the marble pillars at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the seat of Egypt’s Orthodox Christian Church, where the blast occurred in a chapel adjacent to the main building.

    As security officials arrived to secure the site, angry churchgoers gathered outside and hurled insults, accusing them of negligence.

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  • 9Marks: Churches in Great Britain: Living with the Legacy
    December 11th, 2016

    A brief summary of the state of churches in Britain is rather like asking about the state of the music scene in Britain. The “church” spreads across not only many denominations, but also many different networks of broadly likeminded churches.

    Ever since Richard Hooker published “Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie” in 1597, English gospel-preaching churches have prided themselves on (i) being careful with the gospel, and (ii) insisting on the freedom that exists on “secondary issues.” This latter emphasis has often precluded giving serious thought to those secondary issues, like what the Bible might actually teach about church polity and practice.

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  • Mail: Nurse sacked for offering to pray with her patients
    December 11th, 2016

    A nurse with 15 years’ experience has been sacked after discussing Christianity and offering to pray with patients before operations.

    Sister Sarah Kuteh was dismissed for breaching guidelines, even though her job involved asking people preparing for surgery about their religion.

    The mother-of-three, who is now suing the hospital for unfair dismissal, said she was offering solace to patients she believed were happy to chat about their beliefs, and described her sacking as ‘disproportionate and punitive’. 

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  • BBC: Nigeria Uyo: Scores dead in church collapse
    December 11th, 2016

    At least 100 bodies have been recovered from a church that collapsed in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Uyo.

    Some reports put the number even higher. The roof of the church caved in on worshippers who had gathered for the ordination of a bishop on Saturday.

    Those inside the Reigners Bible Church included Akwa Ibom state governor Udom Emmanuel, who survived the disaster.

    The church was still under construction and workers had rushed to complete it for the ordination, witnesses said.

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