This ministry has closed its doors.
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Independent Baptist local churches joining together in the Truth to become Friends in an effort to carry out World Evangelism.
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We are a welcoming Independent Baptist Church which was established in 1992.
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The server did go down for several hours last night.
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(Not Down here at this time, but my other VPS server is down.
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In the uncanny valley of the shadow of data, we should fear no evil—and prepare for a very different future.This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here.In the past several weeks, two events occurred that are going to change our futures. One of them was the launching of OpenAI’s new artificial intelligence program, GPT-4o, just ahead of several competitors who will do the same in a matter of weeks. The other was the defrocking of a robot priest for teaching that baptisms could be done with Gatorade. I’m afraid the church is not ready for either.The more talked-about happening was the OpenAI announcement, complete with videos of the AI program laughing, seeming to blush, telling jokes, seeing and describing things in real time, and even singing songs made up on the spot (to whatever degree of emotion and enthusiasm was demanded).Far less culturally noticed was the fact that just a few weeks before, the Roman Catholic apologetics platform Catholic Answers reined in an AI chatbot called “Father Justin,” which was designed to help people through questions of doctrine and practice.People started to get upset when Father Justin started claiming to be an actual priest, capable of hearing confession and offering sacraments, and when it started giving unorthodox answers to questions, such as whether baptizing a baby with Gatorade would be all right in an emergency (the magisterium says no).Now Father Justin is just “Justin,” a “lay theologian.” Catholic Answers acknowledged to critics that they are pioneering a new technological landscape and learning—as the whole world will—just how difficult it is to keep an artificial intelligence orthodox. If my Catholic friends thought Martin Luther was bad, wait until the robots start posting theses to the ...Continue reading...
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A federal Justice Department attorney expressed concerns to a Michigan judge about conservative media coverage suggesting that President Joe Biden's administration is persecuting Christians and pro-lifers for their beliefs. The discussion took place during a March pre-trial conference in USA v. Zastrow, in which the federal government brought Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) […]The post Biden Lawyer Tried to Get Judge to Silence Attorney Defending Persecuted Pro-Life Americans appeared first on LifeNews.com.
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The University of California at San Diego and Planned Parenthood operated an “exchange” partnership involving aborted fetal body parts and scientific research, according to newly released documents obtained by a pro-life watchdog organization. The Center for Medical Progress believes the evidence uncovered through its open records requests may be “incriminating.” Founder David Daleiden told? The College […]The post Planned Parenthood Traded Aborted Baby Parts to University in Exchange for Intellectual Property appeared first on LifeNews.com.
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On Tuesday, Louisiana Right to Life was informed by YouTube that our channel, established approximately in 2013, had been deactivated without warning. They? claimed? they found “severe or repeated violations of [their] harmful and dangerous policy” on our page after we uploaded a? video? exposing the online abortion-pill crisis. Louisiana Right to Life immediately appealed their decision. Then, on […]The post YouTube Deletes Pro-Life Group's Channel Over Abortion Video, Denies Appeal appeared first on LifeNews.com.
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House Republicans have warned the World Health Organization (WHO) that the U.S. may “withhold all funding to the organization” if it goes forward with plans to grant special partnership status to a global abortion lobbying group. WHO? proposed? furnishing enhanced “official relations” on the? Center for Reproductive Rights? (CRR) — a well-funded, U.S.-based non-governmental organization that attempts to override […]The post Republicans May Defund WHO if It Partners With Radical Abortion Group appeared first on LifeNews.com.
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