CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR PASTOR SAEED'S RELEASE, - 2/16 (latest at info@action.aclj.org) ;"American Pastor Saeed (who just started an 8 year sentence for helping the underground churches in Iran) continues to undergo mental torment – fed lies by Iranian prison guards. He's been cut off from speaking to his wife and children, and when his Iranian family visited him, he questioned if anyone was still working for his freedom. His wife, Naghmeh, shared, "When I heard this from my husband, I cried. It broke my heart. Behind those walls he feels helpless and relies on us to be his voice. . . . Please help me make sure he is never forgotten." Hundreds of thousands have spoken out and now 84 Members of Congress signed a bipartisan letter urging Secretary of State Kerry's direct action on Pastor Saeed's behalf. Keep the momentum going. Sign the petition and read these new updates on the work of the ACLJ. They need 90,000 more signatures in less than 20 days to present this petition to the U.N. Sign and share it with your friends today. If you have not already, please join over 270,000 (was recently130,000) who have SIGNed THE PETITION for Pastor Saeed's release and tell your friends about it. http://aclj.org/iran/save-american-pastor-from-iranian-prison-sentence
PLEASE PRAY: "Libya Arrests Suspected Christian Missionaries ," February 16, 2013"Four foreigners were arrested in Libya on suspicion of distributing books about Christianity and proselytizing, a Libyan police spokesman said on Saturday. Spreading Christianity is a crime in the predominantly Muslim North African county. The four were arrested in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday and are under investigation for printing and distributing books that proselytize Christianity. Police said they found 45,000 books in their possession and that another 25,000 have already been distributed. The suspects are from South Africa, Egypt, South Korea, and one holds both Swedish and U.S. Nationality. The U.S. Embassy in Libya has declined comment. "(Sources: CBS News, USA Today, Associated Press) [So much for the so-called "Arab Spring." - Stan]
As the Lord leads, PLEASE PRAY:
- For the timely release of the arrested missionaries.
- For all who share God’s loving salvation in Muslim countries.
PLEASE PRAY: "Libya Arrests Suspected Christian Missionaries ," February 16, 2013"Four foreigners were arrested in Libya on suspicion of distributing books about Christianity and proselytizing, a Libyan police spokesman said on Saturday. Spreading Christianity is a crime in the predominantly Muslim North African county. The four were arrested in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday and are under investigation for printing and distributing books that proselytize Christianity. Police said they found 45,000 books in their possession and that another 25,000 have already been distributed. The suspects are from South Africa, Egypt, South Korea, and one holds both Swedish and U.S. Nationality. The U.S. Embassy in Libya has declined comment. "(Sources: CBS News, USA Today, Associated Press) [So much for the so-called "Arab Spring." - Stan]
As the Lord leads, PLEASE PRAY:
- For the timely release of the arrested missionaries.
- For all who share God’s loving salvation in Muslim countries.
DECLARE YOUR SUPPORT FOR TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE. Please SIGN THE PETITION BELOW to declare your support for the traditional definition of marriage and in support of an amicus brief to go to the Supreme Court as it considers the redefinition of marriage on March 26th. Their decision on whether to uphold the Definition of Marriage Act passed by Congress in 1996 could be as piviotal to marriage in America as Roe v. Wade was to the definition of the sancity of human life in America. MOST IMPORTANTLY, please keep the upcoming Supreme Court review of this case and their final decision in your PRAYERS.
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REMINDER: Don't miss this week's broadacast of "Truth That Transforms" (in Central Florida, 5 pm, ch. 55.1; Mon., 7 pm, ch. 52.2; also at www.truthinaction.org) It features a video about the intolerance in the academic world.)
"The New Tolerance - Intolerance!,"
[Note: Go to the web link above and watch the video of the following message by the late Dr. Kennedy.]
I think it’s important to look around once in a while and find out what’s going on. For example, look at what is being taught to our children. If there is one thing that is being taught to our children from kindergarten through graduate school, it’s tolerance! From history to literature to mathematics, the children are learning tolerance.
You say, “Well, that’s wonderful. We’re all in favor of tolerance.” Yes, but tolerance, as it was originally defined, means we are willing to bear with those whose views or lifestyles are different from ours without agreeing with them. And every Christian should be tolerant in the correct and historical meaning of that word. It’s what the Bible means in 1 Corinthians 13, which says love “bears all things.”
But that’s not what’s being taught in our schools. What’s being taught is the “new tolerance,” and it’s vitally important that we understand what that is.
All of this begins with the idea that there is no absolute truth. Everything is relative; therefore, one kind of lifestyle is as good as another kind of lifestyle.
Furthermore, there is a concept of “feeling” that is involved. The Modernist said, “Faith has failed. We must be rational.” Post-Modernism says, “Rationalism has failed. We must resort to feeling.” We even have a new civil right that my feelings are not to be hurt. A high school girl sued when a song was sung that had some religious words in it, and her feelings were hurt. The courts moved into action: “We cannot have anybody’s feelings hurt.”
Another part of Post-Modernism is the “Universal Individual.” We don’t have countries. There is no human race. There is just the individual and his feelings, and they must not be offended.
“I have repeatedly said that tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon … tolerance for their immorality. And they will not have you condemning what they do as being wrong. They are no longer the evil person—you are. So they call evil good and good evil—and that’s just the beginning.”
Christianity is the most loving religion in the world. God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son. Jesus Christ gave His life. God gives to us eternal life. God forgives us, and He urges us to love others—even our enemies. But Christianity is also an absolute religion. Christ says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6 nkjv).It is Christianity against which all of this is aimed. I urge you to be faithful to the Great Commission of sharing the Gospel with a needy world. It’s time that we stood up for Jesus Christ and showed some backbone, while we still have a place to stand.
*From a sermon delivered by Dr. D. James Kennedy on February 28, 1999, at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [bold, italics, and underline emphasis mine]
NOTE: If you go to www.truthinaction.org and make a donation of any amount, you can receive your choice of two excellent new resources to help you understand and to know how to respond to the new tolerance; esp. great for youth.
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