Month: February 2019
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Ilhan Omar’s District Is ‘Terrorist Recruitment Capital Of The US,’ Report Says VIDEO
Ilhan Omar’s District Is ‘Terrorist Recruitment Capital Of The US,’ Report Says (VIDEO)
February 18 2019
Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, represented by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D), is the terrorist recruitment capitol of the United States, according to FBI statistics.
FOX News reports that “more men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.”
“FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined,” Fox News continued. “And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS. Both numbers are far higher than those of alleged terrorist wannabes who left or attempted to leave the country from other areas in the country where Muslim refugees have been resettled.”
As FOX notes, “the insular ethnic community in Minnesota offers a rich recruiting ground” for Islamic terrorism as the Somali population in the Minneapolis community — which is located in Omar’s district — is nearly 100,000.
“We are very conscious that there may still be fertile ground for that, and that is could re-start at any time,” one federal official told Fox News. “Based on historical experience, we had (an uptick) in 2007 and 2008 going for al-Shabab, then a lull. Then, as ISIS came back, we saw a whole bunch of people no longer headed for Somalia. They were headed for Iraq and Syria. That really caught us off-guard, we didn’t see that coming. It didn’t make sense to us. We understood why kids were going back to Somalia, but going to Syria was another issue.”
Robin Simcox, a terrorism and national security expert at The Heritage Foundation, told FOX News that “Islamist terror groups have been able to recruit from Minnesota” because Minnesota has a large Muslim population compared to other parts of the U.S.”
“However, it is also because there have been small segments of the Somali community there that have struggled to integrate into the U.S. Al-Shabaab and ISIS have exploited this – upon religious, political cultural and identity issues to offer a compelling alternative to Western democracy,” Simcox added.
In 2013, Omar blamed America’s “involvement in other people’s affairs” for an al-Shabab terrorist attack on a Kenyan shopping mall that year which resulted in nearly 70 deaths and 200 wounded. During that interview, Omar laughed and joked as she talked about Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.
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Omar, who is a known anti-Semite, has faced recent scrutiny over her past advocacy for a group of men who were accused of trying to join ISIS. In a letter to the judge presiding over the case, Omar wrote:
Honorable Judge Davis,
As you undoubtedly deliberate with great caution the sentencing of nine recently convicted Somali-American men, I bring to your attention the ramifications of sentencing young men who made a consequential mistake to decades in federal prison. Incarcerating 20-year-old men for 30 or 40 years is essentially a life sentence. Society will have no expectations of the to be 50 or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion. Such punitive measures not only lack efficacy, they inevitably create an environment in which extremism can flourish, aligning with the presupposition of terrorist recruitment: “Americans do not accept you and continue to trivialize your value. Instead of being a nobody, be a martyr.”
The best deterrent to fanaticism is a system of compassion. We must alter our attitude and approach; if we truly want to affect change, we should refocus our efforts on inclusion and rehabilitation. A long-term prison sentence for one who chose violence to combat direct marginalization is a statement that our justice system misunderstands the guilty. A restorative approach to justice assesses the lure of criminality and addresses it.
The desire to commit violence is not inherent to people — it is the consequences of systematic alienation; people seek violent solutions when the process established for enacting change is inaccessible to them. Fueled by disaffection turned to malice, if the guilty were willing to kill and be killed fighting perceived injustice, imagine the consequence of them hearing, “I believe you can be rehabilitated. I want you to become part of my community, and together we will thrive.” We use this form of distributive justice for patients with chemical dependencies; treatment and societal reintegration. The most effective penance is making these men ambassadors of reform.
The restorative approach provides a long-term solution – though the self-declared Islamic State may soon suffer defeat, their radical approach to change-making will continue as it has throughout history – by criminalizing the undergirding construct rather than its predisposed victims. Therein, this ruling can set a precedent and has the potential to be a landmark case in addressing extremism.
Thank you for your careful attention,
Ilhan Omar
State Representative-Elect – MN 60B
Omar has recently come under fire for promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, which has resulted in President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence calling on her to either resign or step down from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Reported by: Ryan Saavedra – The Dailywire
By Prophecy in the News|February 18th, 2019|Tags: al-Shabab, anti-Semite, Bible Prophecy, Christian News, Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS, ISIS, Islamic Terrorism, Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, Prophecy News, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Somali American community in Minneapolis, Somalia-based Islamic insurgency, terrorist recruitment capitol, The Heritage Foundation
Warning Labels Now Come With MAGA Hats
A.F. Branco Cartoon – Hard Hat
A.F. Branco on February 25, 2019 at 8:40 am
Caution; according to the latest reports, wearing a Red MAGA hat can be hazardous to your health, and you are more likely to be falsely accused of racism and hate crimes. Political Cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019
Remember when politics did not divide, and we respected people who had opposing points of view? It seems like a time and place far far away. Blessings, Pastor Steve <><
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The following video at the end of the article is filled with profanity and hatred, revealing how the radical left accuses others of what they are guilty of:
A Conservative Got Punched in the Face for Protesting Hate Crime Hoaxes
“Encouraging violence”
Robby Soave|Feb. 22, 2019 10:30 am
A Conservative Got Punched in the Face for Protesting Hate Crime Hoaxes
“Encouraging violence”
Robby Soave|
A stranger punched a conservative activist in the face after becoming enraged at his posters, which said “Hate crime hoaxes hurt real victims” and “this is MAGA country.” The altercation took place at the University of California-Berkeley.*
The University of California Police Department is attempting to identify the attacker, and a spokesperson for the university said it would take action if he turns out to be a student.
“Let me state in no uncertain terms that this university strongly condemns violence and harassment of any sort, for any reason,” Dan Moguluf, assistant vice chancellor for communications, tells Campus Reform. “That sort of behavior is reprehensible and intolerable. We have, in recent years, spent millions of dollars to ensure that students from across the ideological/political spectrum can safely and successfully promote and discuss their beliefs. Our commitment to freedom of expression and belief is unwavering.”
The student, Hayden Williams, is a field representative for the Leadership Institute, and he was helping with recruitment for Turning Point USA. Both organizations promote conservatism on college campuses.
The altercation, which was captured on video, took place at a public square near Williams’ recruitment table. The video clearly shows a young man in a black shirt punching Williams directly in the face. Williams’ only crimes, it seems, were promoting a conservative cause and attempting to record his interactions with students on his phone.
The video shows another person attempting to knock Williams’ phone out of his hands and accusing Williams of “fucking encouraging violence” just before the man in the black shirt attacks him. I gather that this person believed Williams’ provocative signs—which allude to the allegedly fake Jussie Smollett hate incident—were not mere speech but actually a kind of assault on marginalized communities.
The idea that words are themselves violence is regrettably popular among student activists. If words are violence, then punching somebody who says something offensive isn’t wrong; it’s just self-defense. The idea’s results are on display in the video:
United Methodists Likely to Fully Affirm Sodomy this Weekend
Quite frankly, I thought the UMC already affirmed this abomination. Once again we can see that apostasy is alive and well on the planet earth. If you have not already done so, find a good Bible believing, Christ exalting church to worship and serve in. In His Service, Pastor Steve <><
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by News Division · Published February 22, 2019 · Updated February 22, 2019
There are more than 12 million United Methodists worldwide and more than 4 thousand are meeting in Saint Louis from Saturday to Monday. Of these, more than 800 are voting delegates who will ultimately decide where the United Methodist Church stands on the topic of homosexuality.
Many might have assumed that the United Methodist Church already affirms sodomy because so many of its ministers have acted contrary to the UMC Book of Discipline and are outspoken proponents of the LGBT agenda. In actuality, however, the UMC has not yet affirmed disgusting same-sex desires and behavior. While homosexuals may serve as UMC clergy, they must remain celibate (much like famous Anglican homosexual priest promoted by The Gospel Coalition, Sam Allberry). Likewise, UMC clergy are not technically supposed to officiate gay weddings, although many have and continue to, sometimes with and sometimes without denominational sanction.
The Special Sessions of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church will decide whether or not this line should be stricken from the denomination’s Book of Discipline, The practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.
Matt Miofsky, who is pastor of The Gathering, one of the largest and quickly growing UMC congregations in the United States, wrote an open letter encouraging the full inclusion of sodomites into the denomination. He wrote:
We are called to be passionate about Jesus, committed to the whole of Scripture, eager to share life in Christ with all people. We are also called to a robust, bold and unapologetic invitation to queer people to be fully active at all levels in our churches. These two are not contradictory, they are not mutually exclusive, and they do not represent a compromise of any strong belief in God, Scripture or Christ.
A group of 93 United Methodist educational institutions, schools, colleges, and seminaries has officially lobbied for full inclusion of sodomites into the denomination, as reported by P&P on January 11.
A task force called A Way Forward was to investigate where United Methodists stood on the issue. There was not a task force called to determine where the Bible stands on the issue.
It is expected by denominational insiders that the voting delegates at the special session will either fully affirm sodomy or give each church the right to decide the matter for themselves.
The odds of the denomination standing by their original condemnation of sodomy is infinitesimally small.
Why Brokenness Is Better Than Giftedness in Ministry
December 3, 2018 Sharon McCutcheon photo | Pexels
Better Than Giftedness in Ministry
December 3, 2018
Sharon McCutcheon photo | Pexels
By Bryan Loritts
Imagine there was a mandatory seminary or Bible college class formatted like a reality TV show. Students would interact with church members who go out of their way to criticize them.
The storyline includes a termination from a church or two, rebellious children, and—for good measure—a long debilitating struggle with some sort of health crisis that inflicts you, your spouse, or your children.
This class would be taught in the practical theology section.
The redemptively broken person is the one who leans into the grace of God to grapple with the wounds in their life.
I’m not kidding; I needed this course more than I needed Greek and Hebrew syntax.
I preached my first sermon at the age of 17. Because I’m the son of a popular and proficient preacher, invitations cascaded my way from all across the country.
At 19, I served as an interim pastor in Philadelphia, where, among my other duties, I counseled marriages on the brink.
At 22, I was second in command of a 13,000-person church, preaching regularly and having people report to me who could’ve been my grandparents.
At 25, I became the first African-American pastor at a historic white church in Southern California.
Along the way I was plagued by an eerie sense that my platform was a lot larger than my character infrastructure could support. Or to say it in football language: I was out-punting my coverage.
I was gifted.
But I was also tragically unbroken, and the symptoms of this disorder manifested itself in the following ways:
An inability to connect with those who were afflicted and beaten down by life.
A nauseating arrogance seen in the judgmental spirit I nurtured towards those who made mistakes. I would often find myself thinking: What a loser. Why can’t they get it together?
Intense isolation. Because my ministerial paradigm made no room for those who had been wounded or defeated, I had to become my own personal PR management firm. The truth is we all have wounds and struggles, but no one could see mine.
In life and in ministry you’ll have trouble. You’ll deal with ungrateful parishioners. You’ll have leaders within your church who have one agenda—to get you out.
People will gossip about you, and even betray you.
I had these wounds; I just wasn’t broken. There’s a difference between the two.
Wounds are painful things that happen to us. Brokenness is the redemptive, Christ-exalting response to those wounds.
In 2 Corinthians 12, Paul—in painfully autobiographical terms—pulls us into his journey of wounds, describing his “thorn in the flesh”. While we can make good guesses as to what it was (probably some lingering health issues from his stoning in Lystra), at the end of the day they are exactly that—guesses.
What we do know is that it was painful, shameful, and constant. Paul prayed several times for God to take it away, and God responded by saying in so many words—no. More accurately, God tells Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you.”
The best pastors I know aren’t necessarily the most gifted, but the most wounded. The most dangerous are the gifted ones who can’t empathize.
The word “sufficient” in 2 Corinthians 12 is a poignant one, because it speaks of grace in both quality and quantity. God will give Paul not just general grace, but a specific measure of grace to get through the wounds in his life in a way that gives God glory and blesses His people.
And herein lies the difference between woundedness and brokenness: The redemptively broken person is the one who leans into the grace of God to grapple with the wounds in their life.
Or as Dan Allender says, it’s the person who walks with a limp.
A leader’s response to brokenness
What was the result of Paul leaning into God’s grace and experiencing Christ-exalting brokenness?
He was able to connect in a tender way with those who were hurting. Writing to the Thessalonians he says, “But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children” (Thessalonians 2:7).
He possessed a deep-seated humility seen in his repeated refrain of being the least among the disciples, or the chief of sinners.
He was transparent about his weakness. We know those who have not just been wounded, but redemptively broken. They’re people on public record when it comes to their weaknesses. This is Paul: “If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness” (2 Corinthians 11:30).
Pastoring in a secular environment like Silicon Valley, I’ve discovered people are drawn to weakness. But this is nothing new. Paul knew that authentically reveling in our brokenness possessed a rare power: “Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
The best pastors I know aren’t necessarily the most gifted, but the most wounded. The most dangerous are the gifted ones who can’t empathize—the ones who lack compassion and the ability to connect with the sheep.
Brokenness is a greater friend to the pastor than giftedness.
BRYAN LORITTS (@bcloritts) is lead pastor of Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Mountain View, California, and the author of six books including Saving the Saved: How Jesus Saves us from Try-harder Christianity into Performance-Free Love.
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Who’s Driving The Purpose Driven Church? ~ James Sundquist
Power point lecture slideshow presentation for Parts One and Two of Who’s Driving The Purpose Driven Church?
Key the following links to read Parts One and Two of the first book written by James Sundquist. This book exposes many of the fallacies and false teachings within the Purpose Driven movement:
Part 1
https://studylib.net/doc/5320579/who-s-driving-the-purpose-driven-church-power-point-prese
or
Part 2
The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Smith, Editor ~ December 28, 2018
Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
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Amen Corner
The ministry of many a man today is lifeless and dead because the Lord has departed from him, though he, like Samson, may not know it. And the Gospel we preach too often has a barren womb…; sons and daughters are not brought forth into the kingdom of God and the starving saints are not fed! Oh, for fire from Heaven! -John R. Rice
Families must continue to be the foundation of our nation. Families – not government programs – are the best way to make sure our children are properly nurtured, our elderly cared for, our cultural and spiritual heritages perpetuated, our laws observed and our values preserved. Thus it is imperative that our government’s programs, actions, officials and social welfare institutions never be allowed to jeopardize the family. -Ronald Reagan
Jesus! ‘Tis a pearl dissolved; ’tis a sonnet rolled into a word; ’tis a great oratorio in five letters; ’tis the essence of music condensed into two syllables. -Charles Spurgeon
Morality without religion is a tree without roots, a stream without any spring to feed it, a house built on the sand, a pleasant place to live in till the heavens grow dark and the storm begins to beat. -James Boylan Shaw
The wise of the world who have not learned to worship are but demimen, unformed and rudimentary. Their further development awaits the life-giving touch of Christ to wake them to spiritual birth and life eternal. -A. W. Tozer
People with a short memory commit the same offense twice. Everything is new to people who do not pay attention to history. -Wil Rice
The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God. -Daniel Webster
Resolved: when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom and of Hell. -Jonathan Edwards
Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life (John 17:3), and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of Him (Proverbs 2:3). -Standards for Harvard University (1642)
A financially astute Christian understands that if his outgo continually exceeds his income, then his upkeep will quickly become his downfall.
Resolved
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but I this day resolved that I would be an uncommon Christian. -David Livingstone, from his diary
America’s First Muslim City Council Gradually Begins Implementing Sharia Law (VIDEO)
I am glad that I am now a senior citizen as I see our nation slowly plummeting and unraveling; yet I feel remorse for the younger people, as I sense what is coming down the pike. If the Lord tarries, Sharia Law will continue to make great strides in America, due simply to huge shifts in demographics and population. Our populace needs 2.3 people per family in order to maintain our country. We are not even close. Muslims have huge families, hence they have already claimed the entire West. Unless the Lord intercedes, our fate as a nation seems sealed, just like Europe. Our hope? Revival of course.
Blessings, Pastor Steve <><
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America’s First Muslim City Council Gradually Begins Implementing Sharia Law (VIDEO)
February 20, 2019
America’s First Muslim City Council Gradually Begins Implementing Sharia Law (VIDEO)
February 20, 2019
Hamtramck, Michigan recently became the first town in America with a Muslim-majority city council, and their actions are causing concern among the town’s non-Muslims.
[Mayor] Majewski, whose family emigrated from Poland in the early 20th century, admitted to a few concerns of her own. Business owners within 500 feet of one of Hamtramck’s four mosques can’t obtain a liquor license, she complained, a notable development in a place that flouted Prohibition-era laws by openly operating bars. The restrictions could thwart efforts to create an entertainment hub downtown, said the pro-commerce mayor.
And while Majewski advocated allowing mosques to issue calls to prayer, she understands why some longtime residents are struggling to adjust to the sound that echos through the city’s streets five times each day.
“There’s definitely a strong feeling that Muslims are the other,” she said. “It’s about culture, what kind of place Hamtramck will become. There’s definitely a fear, and to some degree, I share it.”
Saad Almasmari, a 28-year-old from Yemen who became the fourth Muslim elected to the six-member city council this month, doesn’t understand that fear.
Almasmari, the owner of an ice cream company who campaigned on building Hamtramck’s struggling economy and improving the public schools, said he is frustrated that so many residents expect the council’s Muslim members to be biased. He spent months campaigning everywhere in town, knocking on the doors of mosques and churches alike, he said.
“I don’t know why people keep putting religion into politics,” said Almasmari, who received the highest percentage of votes
(22 percent) of any candidate. “When we asked for votes, we didn’t ask what their religion was.”
They may not have asked for the religious views of their voters, but their actions as legislators make their religion more than clear. They’re taking the first steps to solidify their Muslim belief into local law, and no one has the power to stop them.
Reported by: The Washington Post
By Prophecy in the News|February 20th, 2019|Tags: Bible Prophecy, Christian News, first town in America with a Muslim-majority city council, Hamtramck, Mayor Majewski, Michigan, Prophecy News
Pray For Revival In America!
BREAKING: SEBTS Student Whistleblower Tells All About Social Justice Take-Over at Baptist Seminary
All denominations and seminaries seem to be involved in the apostasy going on in our time. Jon Harris gives us an update of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), and how they are leaning towards becoming a “social justice school” rather than the mission and doctrinal school they have always been in the past. Blessings, Pastor Steve <><
BREAKING: SEBTS Student Whistleblower Tells All About Social Justice Take-Over at Baptist Seminary
by News Division · Published January 12, 2019 · Updated January 12, 2019
Jon Harris is a recent graduate of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. After a break from on-campus studies for several years, Harris reports that the social justice take-over of the seminary in just a few short years was overwhelming.
To be very clear, Harris alleges that the institution has taken a “left turn” and that the institution has gone from being known as the “mission school” to the “social justice school.”
Calling it a “Downgrade,” a term that harkens back to Spurgeon’s stance against the doctrinal dumbing-down of the Baptist Union, Harris begins by quoting Scripture and urging viewers not to be taken captive by heresies and false teachings.
Harris claims that because he’s chosen not to affiliate with the SBC, he is free to speak out about their newly ‘woke’ social justice movement – a detriment to the Gospel in his estimation – unlike many other students or professors who rely on the SBC for income and are silenced.
As he begins his recalling of the social justice coup at SEBTS, it is clear that Harris is Scripturally well-informed (as a graduate, he should be) and takes his doctrine seriously. He makes the accusation that The Gospel Coalition, Together for the Gospel, Desiring God, SEBTS and others are “evangelical leftists.”
Harris claimed (at the 10.30 mark) that there are a lot of professors at the school who are against social justice supplanting the gospel, but are afraid to say anything. We reported this last June in our post, Danny Akin, SEBTS, Threaten to Fire Non-Woke Faculty.
Harris claims that at least three professors believe in evolution (and one professor called Ken Ham a “charlatan”), that speakers are sometimes chosen because they give money to the institution, several professors advocate Molinism, and includes other problematic doctrinal stances.
But then, Harris got to the crux of his complaint. Over time, he noticed that speakers seemed to be chosen in chapel because of the color of their skin, even though they held to aberrant doctrines or doctrines not believed by Southern Baptists. Harris tried to explain that he went to seminary to learn about doctrine, not to hear speakers talk about “the black experience” over and over again.
All the while SEBTS became more concerned about poverty and race relations, they became less and less concerned about doctrine or issues like abortion. This seems to have been orchestrated by SEBTS leadership.
The first real moment of concern for Harris was when an adjunct professor of SEBTS prayed a prayer accusing the police in the Michael Brown case of “targeting” African Americans and very clearly took the side of the violent, police-assaulting thug instead. After this, Jon decided to leave campus.
Upon his return, Harris saw that the seminary had gone all-in on the topic of social justice. From entire chapel services dedicated to condemning the Confederate flag to Akin’s promotion of the Openly Secular atheist campaign, Harris gives a case-by-case analysis of SEBTS’ downgrade. According to Harris, “It’s more grievous to [SEBTS] have a president who has cabinet members who are ‘alt-right’ than it is to have a president that pushes for transgender bathrooms and abortion rights.”
Harris points out that he did not vote for Trump, but noticed the one-sidedness of SEBTS politics which seems to always lean left instead of right.
Harris went on to discuss the Department of Kingdom Diversity at SEBTS and the director’s tacit endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the last election.
This is an hour and thirty-seven minute expose’ – with first-hand details from the perspective of a recent SEBTS graduate – of how SEBTS was completely taken over for the purpose of social justice and is experiencing, as Harris calls it, “mission drift” away from the Gospel.
And yes, he accuses them of Neo-Marxism.
Watch below.
Was Noah’s Flood Global? (VIDEO)
Following is a tremendous video revealing a plethora of scientific evidence of a global flood. Blessings, Pastor Steve <><
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