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What The Bible Says Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

What The Bible Says Good Samaritan's Penny Pulpit by Pastor Ed Rice

Every New Year IBCA allows our men and young men an opportunity to preach God's Word for 10-15 minutes over the first few Sunday evenings. 0:15 Bob Seitz ...

Every New Year IBCA allows our men and young men an opportunity to preach God's Word for 10-15 minutes over the first few Sunday evenings. 0:15 Boaz ...

Every New Year IBCA allows our men and young men an opportunity to preach God's Word for 10-15 minutes over the first few Sunday evenings. 0:15 Michael ...

Every New Year IBCA allows our men and young men an opportunity to preach God's Word for 10-15 minutes over the first few Sunday evenings. 0:15 Lennon ...

Freedom Baptist Church Newton, NC 2016 Christmas Play.

Today's category: Church SignsChurch Bloopers 5� � � � � � 1) The eighth graders will be presenting Shakespeare's "Hamlet": in the church basement on Friday at 7 p.m. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.� � � � � � 2) The 1991 Spring Council Retreat will be hell May 10 and 11.� � � � � � 3) Pastor is on vacation. Massages can be given to church secretary.� � � � � � 4) Please join us as we show our support for Amy and Alan in preparing for the girth of their first child.� � � � � � 5) Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.� � � � � � 6) The associate minister unveiled the church's new giving campaign slogan last Sunday: "I Upped My Pledge--Up Yours."� � � � � � 7) The cost for attending the Prayer and Fasting conference includes meals.� � � � � � 8) The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.� � � � � � 9) Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.� � � � � � 10) Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person(s) you want remembered.� � � � � � 11) Attend and you will hear an excellent speaker and heave a healthy lunch.� � � � � � 12) Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for testes.View hundreds more jokes online.Email this joke to a friend

Protons and antiprotons appear identical according to a new high-accuracy test. The "antimatter problem" is the big bang theory's need to see a difference.The post Antimatter Problem Fails Another Test appeared first on CEH.

Case represents a new tactic in challenging abortion regulations.

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he was sending an experienced DOJ attorney to prosecute the murder of a transgendered individual in Iowa, while at the same time announcing that the DOJ would properly interpret Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination as not including “gender identity” or any other category, progressive activists and some media outlets were confused.Slate called this “a move that surprised some familiar with his record on LGBTQ rights,” and The New York Times observed, “[i]n taking th[is] step, Mr. Sessions, a staunch conservative, is sending a signal that he has made a priority of fighting violence against transgender people individually, even as he has rolled back legal protections for them collectively.”Yet the real story here is how media and activists are puzzled by the supposed “contradiction” in these steps—a contradiction which only exists if one is looking at law as an activist does—as a means to an end. All AG Sessions is doing in both of these situations is simply enforcing the laws on the books.The reason for the confusion in some quarters is that the modern progressive activist, who looks at law as nothing more than a tool to accomplish policy preferences, cannot conceive of the idea of an attorney general and DOJ that would actually fairly and faithfully apply the laws that currently exist—even if such application cuts across the usual social and political dividing lines. They can’t conceive of those in power actually looking at their job objectively and simply enforcing the law, regardless of whether they agree with it as a policy matter. Yet a constitutional conservative, who understands the Constitution as the Framers did, looks at this as the only right approach.The fact that these two decisions by AG Sessions cut across social and political lines thus causes confusion in the activist’s mind.Regardless of one’s policy position on transgenderism, federal criminal law does currently consider murders of individuals which the perpetrator allegedly targets because of their perceived or actual gender identity to be a separate criminal offense. Regardless of Jeff Sessions’ personal views on gender identity, he is bound to enforce that law. That’s what he is doing in this case.Meanwhile, regardless of one’s policy position on transgenderism, federal employment law does currently consider sex discrimination to be prohibited—and only sex discrimination. Unlike the federal criminal law, Title VII does not list “gender identity” as a separate class. Thus AG Sessions will enforce the law as written—prohibiting sex discrimination—and nothing more.This is in stark contrast to the previous administration’s approach, which cherry-picked which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore based on their political ideology. Under AG Holder, the Obama administration unilaterally decided to include gender identity in sex discrimination protections. Now, all AG Sessions is doing is returning us to the status quo.This is only remarkable if one views everything—including the law—through an ideological lens out of which one must achieve uniform policy results. The rule of law itself has no value, and makes no sense, to such a person.But AG Sessions’ actions make perfect sense if law is to be followed, not twisted to serve a purpose. Until and if Congress changes the law, the DOJ will enforce what is currently written. This is a welcome change for all who want to live under the rule of law.

October 2017 marks the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in Wittenberg, Germany, perpetually impacting church history. In honor of this momentous occasion, Blue Letter Bible has added two of Luther's treatises, Concerning Christian Liberty and A Treatise on Good Works, and a dozen of his most noted […]