CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE HOOKS UP WITH THE "IAHR" (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEALING ROOMS)~CONNECTIONS TO JOHN G. LAKE, BILL JOHNSON, JOHN WIMBER & EVEN WAYNE GRUDEM

CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE 

HOOKS UP WITH THE "IAHR" 

(INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION 

OF HEALING ROOMS)

FIRST SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS:

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/01/randy-clark-bill-johnson.html

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2013/01/wayne-grudems-pneumatology-identifies.html

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2014/04/herescope-passion-of-presence-purpose.html

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2014/09/former-mennonites-plunge-into-apostate.html

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2015/02/bill-johnsons-legacy-jesus-culture-next.html

AND ALSO:

http://healingrooms.com/

http://www.spiritual-research-network.com/healingrooms.html

SEE: http://whputnam00.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-christian-and-missionary-alliance.html; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The Christian and Missionary Alliance Hooks Up with the IAHR  (International Association of Healing Rooms)

The Christian and Missionary Alliance headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado now has a  Healing Room Ministry established by Steve Peterson, a technology group employee of the CMA headquarter staff, trained by NAR Apostle Cal Pierce's International Association of Healing Rooms, Spokane, Washington (IAHR).  Meantime, CMA Higher Life Fellowship, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma has an official healing room under the IAHR co-directed by Dr. Paul L. King.
http://healingrooms.com/    http://healingrooms.com/index.php?src=local&l=US1743

Perhaps, you're saying, "Why should this be concerning?  After all, hasn't the Alliance always supported divine healing?"  That indeed is true, however, there is a huge concern because as Pro Veritate Blog points out, and as I have pointed out in several of my blogs, "The Christian and Missionary Alliance has exhibited a worrisome move toward the direction of the New Apostolic
Reformation."

Now, the founder of the Healing Room Movement is none other than John G. Lake, the often venerated faith healer, whose healing room ministry has been resurrected by New Apostolic Reformation Apostle Cal Pierce.  Therefore, to know the roots of the healing room movement is to revisit its past history as well its recent restoration.  And to see the results of that restoration is to look into today's healing room association--the IAHR.

Take a Look at John G. Lake's Healing Room History:

John G. Lake?  Who was he?  Was he the esteemed man of God as his ardent admirers claim, or was he a con and a fraud as history seems to indicate?  There's much to read, and I would admonish one to do so before buying into the healing room mystique and hype!

To peruse most renditions of Lake's life is to read a biased view of  Lake's legendary fame that's been told and retold until Lake appears saint-like, rather than the man he actually was. In light of this, I will attempt to give the reader just a little peek into the rest of the story.
http://healingrooms.com/index.php?page_id=422

Now, a good place to start might be with "John G. Lake" found in Keith Gibson's "Patron Saints of the Prophetic" found in his book Wandering Stars: Contending for the Faith with the New Apostles and Prophets. Gibson gives us a short overview of Lake's life and legacy which, by the way, he says, "... few have actually read him, or even taken a cursory look at his history beyond the claims of the miraculous." (p.282)
http://www.thebereancall.org/content/t-mcmahon-keith-gibson-part-1

Gibson notes that Lake taught that we are "little gods."  Gibson quotes from a Kenneth Copeland publication John G. Lake: His Life, His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith that reads, "The 
power of God, the Holy Ghost, is the Spirit of Dominion. It makes one a god."  Lake also
taught "dominion theology" noting that he wrote, "... that the church will 'take the world' and will crown the Son of God as King of kings and Lord of lords." Lake taught too that one could communicate with the dead as long as one did not call them up from hell!  And that was just the beginning of Lake's falsehoods. (pp.282, 283)

Lake also was a documented fraud, says Gibson, being arrested various times. Gibson details Lake's inability to heal as noted in the Oregonian newspaper.  Gibson observes, "These are not the actions of a man of God but that of a charlatan." (p.286)

Wikipedia tells us Lake was known as a faith healer, missionary, and founder of "healing rooms." Lake also was strongly influenced by one --John Alexander Dowie-- whose own checkered background one should examine as well. The article points out claims Lake made such as his having established newspapers which was patently false, having had lucrative jobs when he was but a carpenter, and having connections with prominent people of his day of which there is no record.  Historian Barry Morton documents much of Lake's questionable activities in two detailed articles: "'The Devil Who Heals" and "John G. Lake's Formative Years."  Scroll down to the bottom of the Wikipedia article, and click onto Morton's articles to read them.
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Lake

Let Us Reason Ministries also has an eye-opening article: "Reviving the Revival of John Lake" which further exposes Lake's life. It is part of a five part series on "John Lake and the Healing Rooms." I recommend you click below to read more of its "reasoned" comments.  For a compilation of this series also read: "John G. Lake and the Healing Rooms: False Teachings and Unbiblical Practices" written and compiled by Chris Lawson.
http://www.letusreason.org/Popteac41.htm  
http://www.spiritual-research-network.com/healingrooms.html

Take a Look at Apostle Cal Pierce's Healing Room Awakening:

Lake died in 1935, and after his death the healing rooms folded.  Almost seventy years later a Bethel Assembly of God (presently Bethel Church, Redding, CA) elder, now turned Apostle Cal Pierce,
moved to Spokane to resurrect Lake's healing rooms.  Pierce told how he'd spent time praying at Lake's grave reminding one of  Benny Hinn praying over Katherine Kuhlman's grave, or of  Bethel's current fascination with "grave sucking," or even of Lake's involvement with calling back the dead.  There's even a tale, as Lake's healing room was being restarted, that an angel appeared in the corner of the very room where Lake had had many amazing healings.  However, it turns out that room, and that building had burned down long ago!
http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/8154

Along with his resurrection of the Spokane, Washington healing room Piece has made this ever expanding ministry just another arm of the NAR.  At present, this ministry has over three thousand healing rooms in seventy-six nations.   Leader Cal Piece, as a true NARite, follows their aberrant teachings as demonstrated by Cal's chapter nine excerpt from the book The Physics of Heaven.  In it Cal has an angelic encounter by his "supposed" angel of thirty years whom he never met until recently.  Cal recounts how upon imbibing of NAR's Tim Sheets' (Dutch Sheets' brother) teaching about "service angels"--angels that run errands Cal met "the energy angel" who according to this tale had been sent to teach Cal about "a water car" --a proposed car of the future.  Why, Cal even took a walk with his energy angel.  As a result of this "angel adventure," shares Cal, he is now into exploring how to produce power with sound!  This is but one beyond wild manifestation that NARites openly share purporting to be true.  Readers, this is exactly why the International Association of Healing Rooms Headquarters with its fire room, portal room, waves of glory room, and more are suspect; for Cal as well as his other NAR cohorts tout so many strange manifestations and prophecies it boggles the mind how people can blindly follow such leaders. http://heavensphysics.com/chapter9/

View video  done by CBN "Reopening the Wells: Legacy of Lake's Healing Rooms" here:  
http://healingrooms.com/index.php?src=videos&category=1&video=3  At 4:10 on the video see the ad for the 2014 July Infusion Conference that was sponsored by the Healing Rooms
with Danny Silk, Graham Cooke, and Shawn Boltz.  Note Pierce's ending challenge. http://healingrooms.com/calendar_popup.php?cid=669
             
Take a Look at CMA Headquarters' Healing Room Ministry:

In the January 2014 Alliance Life article: "The Alliance Inheritance" Steve Peterson, CMA worker, tells how he felt it was time to launch a healing prayer ministry at the National Office.  Steve recounts that his wife's fight with MS catapulted him into becoming focused in on healing prayer.
Soon, he began training and ministering with the IAHR or International Association of Healing Rooms.

Later, after submitting a proposal to establish a healing room to the National Office leadership team, and gaining approval, Steve forged ahead training a team to establish what became a weekly "healing room" in an office chapel.  Once trained the team began using their techniques on others from international workers to new US workers.  In the future Steve envisions these healing prayer techniques being used on General Council to district conference attendees.
http://www.cmalliance.org/alife/the-alliance-inheritance/

Now, it is not Peterson's wanting to pray for the sick that is in question, but where and from whom Peterson received his training that is problematic.  For, as shown above, the Healing Rooms
have a very questionable history, and at present are solidly in the camp of the New Apostolic Reformation or hyper-charismatic movement!

Pro Veritate's  Blog piece "Cal Pierce, the NAR, 'Healing Rooms,' and the Christian and Missionary Alliance" pointed out that Apostle Pierce, founder of the IAHR, is directly connected to the NAR thus supporting false claims to apostleship, and the spread of dominion theology.  Pierce himself, says the article, is a member of the dues paying organization known as the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders.
http://www.proveritate.org/blog/cal-pierce-nar-healing-rooms-cma

Below Peterson's Alliance Life article, Pro Veritate noted, an online commenter mentioned she had met Steve Peterson at a recent Randy Clark Global Awakening conference.  Clark, a NAR super apostle, the person who began the notorious Toronto Blessing with all of its bizarre manifestations and out of order "spiritual drunkenness," is a close friend of Bill Johnson.  That is Bill Johnson of the now famous for fanaticism Bethel Church with its ever changing strange signs and wonders phenomena.  And it is with Clark and Johnson that Dr. Paul L. King is currently connected.

Take a  Look at Dr. Paul L. King's Higher Life Healing Room:

CMA  professor, and historian Dr. Paul L. King pastors a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma CMA church, Higher Life Fellowship, which has the distinction of having its very own IAHR certified Healing Room center which King himself co-directs.  And it was at these Healing Rooms recently, advertised on its Facebook, one might come and partake of "soaking prayer."  "Soaking prayer," by the way, is just another form of contemplative prayer where mesmerizing music lulls those laying on the floor into a trance like state.
http://standupforthetruth.com/2013/10/sid-roth-promotes-soaking-prayer-tutorial-on-wnd/

King, a masterful historian, has written a number of books including Come Up Higher which is endorsed by both Randy Clark, and Bill Johnson.  King is also author of Genuine Gold which is a detailed account of the early history of the CMA and its Pentecostal roots.  In it King quotes just about every early Pentecostal figure from John G. Lake to Charles Parham to A.B. Simpson.  King says of this work that he is cautiously charismatic and that he wants to be a bridge or buffer between charismatics and non-charismatics.  However, from all I've read of King he has thrown caution to the wind, and is now associated with the hyper-charismatics, and not just any of them but with some of the most well-known of the NAR movement.
http://paulkingministries.com/shop/come-up-higher-rediscovering-throne-life-the-highest-christian-life-for-the-21st-century/

Conclusion:

In the end, the CMA's hook up with the International Association of Healing Rooms is very troublesome, for once again they are connecting themselves to hyper-charismatics who are involved in experiential manifestations that supersede the Word with so called signs and wonders that in no way are of the Holy Spirit!  Therefore, I'd encourage you to dig deeper into the NAR as well as the IAHR, so you may be ready to warn others of their deceptions and dangers.  Proverbs 1:5 reminds us: "A wise  man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:."

Learn to Discern Granny Verse:  Matthew 24:24

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

For More Information:

Lighthouse Trails Booklet:  The New Age Propensities of Bethel Church's Bill Johnson by
John Lanagan.  This booklet gives a review of The Physics of Heaven of which Cal Pierce,
NAR IAHR leader, has a chapter. http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=15508

UN: JAIL PARENTS WHO SPANK THEIR CHILDREN~FIRST STATE IN 2012: DELAWARE LAW BANNED PARENTS FROM SPANKING THEIR KIDS

UN: JAIL PARENTS WHO SPANK 

THEIR CHILDREN

SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/un-jail-parents-spank-children/;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

FROM: www.thenewamerican.com

Under the guise of advancing what the United Nationscharacterizes as “human rights,” the UN “Human Rights Committee” released a report urging U.K. authorities to prosecute parents who smack or spank their children — even when used as a disciplinary tool. The UN report continued, advocating that the government launch a tax-funded propaganda campaign against corporal punishment and parents who choose to use it in disciplining their children, highlighting the alleged “harmful effects.” A broad list of other demands — more abortion, more UN agreements, and more censorship, among others — was also provided by the UN’s “human rights” bureaucracy in its report on the United Kingdom.

It was not the first time that UN bureaucrats have claimed that spanking, smacking, and all forms of corporal punishment must be banned worldwide in favor of UN-approved parenting strategies, and it certainly will not be the last. In fact, a similar UN “human rights” report about the United States released last year called on the U.S. government to ignore the Constitution’s limits on federal power and pass legislation banning all corporal punishment of children across America — including mild spankings by parents in the home used as a disciplinary tool. Schools that use corporal punishment are also in the UN’s crosshairs.

Of course, the latest controversial anti-smacking “recommendations” aimed at the United Kingdom were met with widespread ridicule and derision. Even the rabidly pro-UN government in London distanced itself from the outlandish demands. “Our policy on smacking is clear,” a spokesperson for the U.K. government was quoted as saying in media reports. “We do not condone violence towards children. However, we do not wish to criminalize parents for issuing a mild smack.” High-profile commentators joked about “the UN on smack.” Still, analysts said the UN was very serious in its efforts to criminalize traditional parenting while further usurping parental rights — and that this is just the beginning.

In its latest report on the United Kingdom, the UN committee, composed of 18 “experts” who come largely from totalitarian-ruled nations, was very clear about its agenda. “The Committee remains concerned that corporal punishment is still not fully outlawed in the home and certain educational and alternative care facilities in the United Kingdom and in almost all British Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories,” the report stated. “It is further concerned about the lack of explicit prohibition of corporal punishment in the home and the existing legal defenses of ‘reasonable punishment’ in England, Wales and Northern Ireland or ‘justifiable assault’ in Scotland.”

Not to fear, however, as the UN “experts” have the solution, too — or so they imagine. “The State party should take practical steps, including through legislative measures where appropriate, to put an end to corporal punishment in all settings, including the home, throughout United Kingdom and all Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, and repeal all existing legal defenses across the State party’s jurisdiction,” the UN report continued. “It should encourage non-violent forms of discipline as alternatives to corporal punishment, and conduct public information campaigns to raise awareness about its harmful effects.” In other words, launch a massive, tax-funded propaganda campaign to tell parents how the UN wants their children to be raised — and to demonize anyone who disagrees.

Critics, though, were outraged by the UN’s efforts to have the government further usurp authority over parental rights. “There is an important issue of parental freedom at stake here,” explained Andrea Williams, who leads the U.K. non-profit organization Christian Concern. “A blanket ban on smacking would be a damaging invasion of government into family life. The law already prohibits physical injury to children. The absence of discipline is detrimental to children’s wellbeing. We need to strike the right balance. As long as parents operate within the current law, they should be free to discipline their children in the way they believe is in their children’s best interest.”

Also lambasting the UN report was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Louise Bours with the surging liberty-minded U.K. Independence Party. “How dare they try to interfere in our lives in this way? Parents should have the right to discipline their children for the youngsters’ own sake, including a light smack if appropriate, but obviously not beating them, which is and must remain an offence,” Bours said. “But frankly it’s rather rich coming from a panel which has representatives from countries with shocking human rights issues, such as Algeria and Uganda, that still need to do more to tackle Female Genital Mutilation in their countries.”

Bours also lambasted other planks in the UN’s “human rights” assault on the United Kingdom, including a UN attack on British plans for a Bill of Rights. In addition, she slammed the panel’s call for allowing prisoners to vote. “That again is a matter for our own government and not outsiders like the UN or European Court of Human Rights,” Bours continued, echoing widespread concerns heard around the world about the accelerating attacks on national sovereignty and self-government. “Prisoners have broken their contract with society by offending and must forfeit the right to vote.” Similar UN reports have also disparaged the United States and various state governments for stripping convicted criminals of voting privileges.

In the latest U.K. report, the UN also celebrated as “positive” the controversial decision to re-define — or un-define — the institution of marriage to include homosexual “marriages.” The document praised authorities for ratifying various UN agreements purporting to govern everything from family life to people with disabilities, but it demanded that more still be approved and implemented. With breathtaking audacity, the UN committee even directly attacked the rights of U.K. citizens, demanding that UN-approved notions of “human rights” take precedence in an upcoming U.K. Bill of Rights. The committee also called for even more censorship. “The State party [the U.K.] should strengthen its efforts to prevent and eradicate all acts of racism and xenophobia, including in the mass media and on the Internet,” the report said.

The UN “human rights” bureaucrats were also upset about the protections offered to the right to life — at least for children in Northern Ireland. “The Committee is concerned about the highly restricted circumstances in which termination of pregnancy [abortion] is permitted under the law in Northern Ireland, and about the severe criminal sanctions for unlawful abortion,” the report stated. “The State party should, as a matter of priority, amend its legislation on abortion in Northern Ireland with a view to providing for additional exceptions to the legal ban on abortion.” It was not immediately clear when, why, or how snuffing out the lives of innocent unborn children became a “human right” — especially one that trumps the actual right to life — but it is hardly the first time in recent memory that the UN has demanded an end to restrictions on abortion.

The latest furor over UN “human rights” demands against the United Kingdom follows a similar controversy that erupted last year. In early 2014, the bombastically titled “Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the right to non-discrimination in this context” (yes, that is a real UN position), a Brazilian socialist named Raquel Rolnik, issued a report critical of U.K. efforts to control welfare spending as a supposed “human rights” violation. To comply with what she described as “obligations” under “international law,” Rolnik said U.K. authorities and taxpayers would have to provide even bigger free houses with more extra rooms to welfare recipients.

Top British officials were not amused, ridiculing the UN attack as a “Marxist diatribe” and “utterly ridiculous.” “It is disappointing that the United Nations has allowed itself to be associated with a misleading Marxist diatribe,” U.K. Housing Minister Kris Hopkins said at the time, dismissing the findings as the ravings of an unhinged bureaucrat. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, meanwhile, seized on factual errors in the “utterly ridiculous” report, saying it was “biased, poorly researched and contains inaccuracies the author refused to correct even when they were pointed out to her.” The press had a field day ridiculing Rolnik, too — especially after the bureaucrat’s sister told the press that the UN “expert” was involved in witchcraft and had sacrificed an animal to Karl Marx. But her message was clear: National governments must bow to outlandish UN notions of “human rights” on everything, including the bloated welfare state.

None of this is happening in a vacuum. Much of the international assault on parental rights exemplified in the latest U.K. report traces back to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The radical treaty, which has not been ratified by the U.S. Senate, purports to mandate that all decisions be made in the “best interests” of the child. However, “best interests” is to be determined by international organizations, governments, politicians, dictators, and unelected bureaucrats rather than parents, sparking fierce opposition to the scheme in the United States and other nations. As if to illustrate how extreme the UN vision for children actually is, the Scottish government last year, citing the UN agreement, passed a law mandating a specific government overseer with vast powers be assigned to every single child born in Scotland.

Of course, the United Kingdom is hardly the only victim of the UN’s swarms of “human rights experts.” Freer Western nations have long been targeted by the UN for criticism and demands for draconian assaults on liberty under the guise of “human rights.” That is because UN “human rights” are practically the antithesis of traditional Western notions of God-given individual rights (freedom from coercion) that the U.S. government, for example, was created to protect. Under the UN vision, individuals have only revocable privileges that, according to Article 29 of the UN “Universal Declaration on Human Rights,” may in no case be exercised “contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.” American citizens and British subjects who value their liberties should tell the UN dictators club to pound sand.

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2012 Delaware Law Bans Parents 

From Spanking Their Kids

BY  Raven Clabough

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/family/item/13005-delaware-law-bans-parents-from-spanking-their-kids; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Delaware has become the very first state to pass a controversial law that effectively outlaws the corporal discipline of children by their parents. Senate bill 234 was signed into law by Governor Jack Markell on September 12.

Sponsored by Delaware’s Senate Majority Leader Patricia Blevins, the bill redefines child abuse laws to include any act that causes “pain.”

The legislation classifies child abuse as a separate crime in the state and increases penalties in child abuse cases. Prior to the new law, child abuse cases were prosecuted under the same statute dealing with assault by abuse or neglect that applied to adult victims. “Assaults against children are different than assaults against adults,” said Sen. Blevins. “So, it is important to make this a standalone crime.”

The new law creates three levels of child abuse. The first and second degrees are considered felonies and penalties increase if the victim is under four years old and suffers from intellectual or developmental disabilities. Parents who are guilty of committing “physical injury,” or “pain,” to a child under the age of 18 would be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and subjected to a year in prison as a result. One who is charged with causing pain to a child under the age of three would be guilty of a class G felony and subjected to two years imprisonment.

“This bill establishes the offense of Child Abuse,” the legislation states. “These new statutes combine current statutes and redefine physical injury and serious physical injury to reflect the medical realities of pain and impairment suffered by children.” It continues, “The statute also expands the state of mind necessary for certain offenses against children allowing for more effective prosecution of parents who subject their children to abuse by others and fail to protect their children.”

Strangely, the bill also labels the “unlawful termination of a pregnancy without the consent of the pregnant female” as a “serious physical injury.”

Behind the push for this law was state Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. “We know children are three times more likely to be assaulted, hurt or harmed if they have a developmental disability or are under four years old,” said Biden. “We wanted to recognize a very vulnerable victim pool.”

A report from Delaware First Media said that Biden “pointed out that more than three million children are reported to be victims of abuse or neglect in the United States each year, and the U.S. ranks higher in child abuse fatalities than any other industrialized nation in the world.”

“Far too many children are the victims of abuse, neglect and assault and [this bill] will go a long way to better protect the children of this state,” said Biden.

Blevins touts that the bill recognizes special classes of abuse cases, particularly those involving disabilities and very young children. “Thousands of children are abused every day, many of them under the age of three. They are not even verbal. The evidence needs to be collected in other ways than in testimony. These are very difficult crimes and deserve their own category,” said Blevins. “It’s very important to target those victims with development disabilities, because often they cannot testify, or their testimony needs special accommodations.”

And Delaware State Rep. Rebecca Walker, who cosponsored the bill, explains that she feels very strongly about child abuse after she witnessed cases of abuse firsthand while working as a forensic emergency room nurse. “It happens a lot in Delaware, a lot more than people think,” said Walker. “[This bill] can be something that will help our kids be a little bit safer.”

But some skeptics consider the new law to be another example of well-intentioned government overreach.

The controversial new law has drawn criticisms from the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), in addition to the Delaware Home Education Association and the Delaware Family Policy Council. They claim that the law is “a violation of the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, including the long-recognized right to administer reasonable corporal discipline.”

According to the HSLDA, the legislation was unnecessary, as Delaware law had previously permitted parents to use force to punish their child so long as it does not cause physical injury.

LifeSiteNews reports, “By redefining ‘physical injury’ to include the infliction of any pain on a child, even the reasonable use of spanking has become a crime in Delaware punishable by imprisonment.”

Biden insists that the law does not prohibit spanking. “This will not do anything to interfere with a parent’s right or ability to parent as they see fit, but it also makes it clear that if you abuse a child in any way, shape or form, we’re going to have a statute that we’re going to be able to use to protect kids,” he stated.

But even StopSpanking.org interpreted the ordinance to prohibit spanking, reporting on its site, “Delaware is the first state to legislate against hitting children in an effort to stop child abuse. Senate Bill 234 effectively bans hitting of children, including in the home.”

And as noted by Nicole Theis, president of Delaware Family Policy Council, the vague language in the law can easily be used to punish parents that spank their children. “The concern with the bill is that it used the very subjective word ‘pain’ [and hinged legal behavior upon] using ‘reasonable force,’” she outlined. “The fact of the matter is that it’s written into the law and it very much could be interpreted as prohibiting spanking.”

Theis indicates that it is difficult to draft laws dealing with child abuse that properly distinguish between discipline and abuse. “It is a hard balance,” she explained. “We do recognize that Delaware did need child abuse legislation for case workers to work with.… There was a lot of emotion on each side.”

Theis acknowledges that the intent of the lawmakers was not to criminalize spanking, but believes that the language of the ordinance needs to be amended to make that more clear. “While we appreciate that it was not the intent of lawmakers to criminalize spanking, we hope that it bides us a little time to make an amendment to the law,” Theis concluded. “We definitely need some legal firepower to be able to resolve it.”

RHODE ISLANDERS LIVING IN A FAIRYLAND OF LIBERAL SOCIALIST TALKING POINTS~JOINS DELAWARE IN RACE TO WONDERLAND

RHODE ISLAND'S "FAIRY FESTIVAL" COMPETES WITH DELAWARE'S "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" 150 YEAR COMMEMORATION (AT CHURCH)

SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST: 

http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2015/08/faith-baptist-church-delaware-outreach.html

DENIAL IS AS BAD HERE AS IN DELAWARE

VIDEO OF SUPPORTERS OF LIBERAL SOCIALIST/GLOBALISTS 

FOR PRESIDENT AND NEW MANDATORY VACCINES LAW 

FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN

"FOR THE COMMON GOOD", BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD?

DAVID CLOUD'S VISIT TO A CATHOLIC CONVENT IN QUEBEC

QUOTE FROM BELOW: "Let me be plain. What a blasphemous, wicked institution is Roman Catholicism, blinding the eyes of untold millions to the light of the gospel of the free gift of salvation in Christ and His office as the sole Savior, Priest, and Mediator. By its papacy, priesthood, and sacraments, it has illegitimately inserted itself between Christ and man. This is a great evil." 

My Visit to a Convent

by David Cloud of Way of Life

SEE: 

http://www.wayoflife.org/index_files/my_visit_to_a_convent.html;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Updated August 11, 2015 (first published December 8, 1998) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143) 

During a trip to Canada in November 1998, I had an opportunity to visit a cloistered convent. A pastor friend invited me to meet his relative who had been a Catholic nun for 60 years. I have visited Catholic shrines and churches in many parts of the world, including the Vatican, but I had never been inside a convent. 
The nun that we visited was 80 years old and had lived most of her life shut away in a dim monastery. She could converse with us only from behind metal bars. There are even bars across the convent chapel, separating the nuns from the public. The nuns pray in the chapel by shifts around the clock. 

As you enter the chapel, there is a sign which says, "You are entering to adore the Jesus-host." Note how the nuns make a direct connection between Jesus and the Catholic host. The host, of course, is the consecrated wafer of the mass. According to Catholic theology, the wafer, when blessed by the priest, becomes the literal body and blood of Jesus. After the mass, the host is placed inside a little box called a tabernacle, and the people pray to it as if it were Jesus Christ Himself. 

Mother Teresa often spoke of the wafer and testified that her Jesus was the Catholic host. Once there was a fire in one of Mother Teresa's chapels, and she described how thankful the nuns were when someone ran inside the burning building and rescued "Jesus." 

It is this host that the nuns in Quebec are adoring 24 hours a day. 


They also pray to Mary. The convent belongs to the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus-Mary. Each nun carries a Rosary at all times. These are prayer beads which guide the petitioner in prayers to God and Mary. The nun we visited gave me a book which describes the history of her order. The last page contains a prayer to God "through Jesus and Mary." 

The nuns pray for the Catholic priests around the world and for "the unity of all men." I believe these prayers to deceiving spirits will be fulfilled when the events of Revelation 17-18 come to pass during the Great Tribulation. Events are shaping up even now for a one-world government and one-world “church.” 

Let me be plain. What a blasphemous, wicked institution is Roman Catholicism, blinding the eyes of untold millions to the light of the gospel of the free gift of salvation in Christ and His office as the sole Savior, Priest, and Mediator. By its papacy, priesthood, and sacraments, it has illegitimately inserted itself between Christ and man. This is a great evil. 

I remember witnessing to an elderly Catholic woman in Australia many years ago. I asked whether she was saved and knew for sure that she would go to heaven when she died. She replied that she was not sure, but that she had done the best she could all her life and she was trusting in “my church.” That is the best reply that Rome has to offer in its official dogmas.

I remember witnessing to a nun of Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity order. This occurred during a recorded interview my wife and I had with the nun (Sister Ann) in Nepal in the early 1980s. The nun was working with Nepali people who were waiting to die at Nepali’s holiest Hindu site, Pashapati. Following is a snippet from that interview:

CLOUD: Do you believe if they [the Nepali people she was working with] die believing in Shiva or in Ram [Hindu gods] they will go to heaven?

ANN: Yes, that is their faith. My own faith will lead me to my God, no? So if they have believed in their god very strongly, if they have faith, surely they will be saved.

CLOUD: Do you believe that Mary is the mother of God?

ANN: Yes.

CLOUD: And about the pope, what do you believe about him?

ANN: He is the head of the church, the vicar of Christ.

CLOUD: And about the mass, what is your belief about the mass?

ANN: The sacrifice which was once offered at Calvary is renewed in the every day mass at the altar. It is an unbloody sacrifice. That [the cross] was offered in a bloody manner; this [the mass] is an unbloody manner.

CLOUD: So there is a sacrifice in the mass every day, like offering Christ again?

ANN: Yes, again.

CLOUD: [Y]ou do not believe [Hindus] are lost, right?

ANN: No, they are not lost. They are saved according to their faith, you know. If they believe whatever they believe that is their salvation.

CLOUD: When you die--you yourself--what do you believe will happen to you?

ANN: I will not go to hell. Maybe for a few days I may be in purgatory. For we also have our imperfection. Though we are sisters; we are religious; we don't have any outward, big sin, but some sin is there.

CLOUD: And that is the purpose of purgatory?

ANN: That is the purpose of purgatory.

CLOUD: Who do you pray to? Do you ever pray to Mary?

ANN: Yes, she is our mother.

CLOUD: Do you ever pray to other saints?

ANN: We have some saints in whom we have confidence. We can pray to them also. Like my own patron saint is Saint Ann, the mother of our lady, Mary. So I pray to her to guide me on the right path when I do my work.

The late Mother Teresa and her co-workers and other nuns claim to love Jesus and to have faith in Him, and we know they sincerely desire to help people, but, in reality their faith is a mixed faith. It is the Catholic gospel of faith plus sacraments and works, which is cursed according to Galatians 1:6-7.

If nuns had true biblical faith in the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ, they would not attend the Catholic mass, which they freely testify to be the "re-sacrificing of Christ." When Sister Ann called the mass an unbloody sacrifice, she was only the official teaching of her church as declared by the Second Vatican Council and the New Catholic Catechism. 

If they had true biblical faith that the once-for-all sacrifice of Christ takes away all sin and grants eternal life, they would not believe in purgatory. 

If we really love Roman Catholics, we will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, the only gospel whereby we can be saved from eternal destruction. 

We preached the gospel to Sister Ann that day by the banks of Nepal's most holy Hindu river. We opened the Bible to Hebrews and described to her that once-for-all Sacrifice which has been accomplished by the Lamb of God. I have prayed for her since then, and I hope to see her in heaven one day. 

“By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10).

This is the urgent need of all Catholics. 

Those who ignore Rome’s doctrinal errors and affiliate with Roman Catholics as if they were Bible-believing Christians are disobeying the Bible’s command to separate from error (Romans 16:17) and are doing Roman Catholics an eternal injustice by not standing unequivocally for the truth of God’s Word and the faith once delivered to the saints.

“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:6-8).

JEB BUSH'S TIES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD~RUNS IN THE FAMILY BACK TO PRESCOTT BUSH

JEB BUSH'S TIES TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD

RUNS IN THE FAMILY BACK TO PRESCOTT BUSH

Published on Aug 8, 2015

With the first 2016 GOP debate David Knight takes a hard look at what Presidential candidate Jeb Bush had to say about his affiliation with the Bloomberg Group and then goes into how his grandfather himself helped set up Planned Parenthood.
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Bush Family Ties To Planned Parenthood
Run 3 Generations

Published on Aug 10, 2015

David Knight breaks down the deep, multi-generational Bush family ties to Planned Parenthood. Jeb says he was a pro-life governor, but the foundation of which he was a director, gave more than 30x's the amount to Planned Parenthood than his symbolic cuts

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http://www.infowars.com/the-bushes-an...

PRESCOTT BUSH

SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

EXCERPT: "Prescott Bush was politically active on social issues. He was involved with the American Birth Control League as early as 1942, and served as the treasurer of the first national capital campaign of Planned Parenthood in 1947."

LETTER SHOWING PRESCOTT BUSH 

AS THE TREASURER OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD 1947

SEE UPPER RIGHT

GEORGE BUSH'S CONGRATULATORY LETTER 

TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD 1972

TARGET STORES CONTINUE TO PROMOTE PERVERTED AGENDA; NIXES GENDER-BASED SIGNS IN STORES

TARGET CONTINUES TO PROMOTE 

PERVERTED AGENDA; 

NIXES GENDER-BASED SIGNS IN STORES

Target To Use Gender-Neutral Signage For Kids

Published on Aug 10, 2015

Target will start using gender-neutral signage in store aisles that carry kids’ toys, bedding, and books, seeking to quell a social media firestorm ignited this summer when a woman expressed displeasure on Twitter at a sign in one of its stores that referenced “building sets” and “girls’ building sets.”
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SEE: http://the-trumpet-online.com/target-continues-promote-perverted-agenda-nixes-gender-based-signs-stores/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

(CNN) Attention Target shoppers: Say goodbye to “girls’ building sets” and “boys’ bedding.”

The big box retailer announced Friday that it will start phasing out gender-based signage in some departments. The shift comes in response to customer feedback that distinguishing between products for girls and boys is unnecessary and maybe even harmful.

Parents and gender equality advocates welcomed the news as a significant step with potential to inspire other retailers.

“This change is a step towards removing gender limitations in childhood, but when one of the world’s largest retailers does this, the ripple effect will be significant,” author Melissa Atkins Wardy said in her blog, Pigtail Pals & Ballcap Buddies, which promotes gender-neutral toys, apparel and other products for children.

“This change will play a role in shifting the way kids see themselves as consumers and will help to shift the way adults see the role of gender in childhood,” said Wardy, author of “Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween.”

Historically, Target used signs to help customers find products faster, the company said in astatement on its website. In some cases it makes sense, like with apparel, where fit and sizing differences between the sexes come into play, the statement said.

“But shopping preferences and needs change and, as guests have pointed out, in some departments like toys, home or entertainment, suggesting products by gender is unnecessary,” the company said.

“We heard you, and we agree.”

The changes will come over the next few months, the company said. Signs in the kids’ bedding area will no longer feature suggestions for boys or girls. In the toys aisles, references to gender, including the use of pink, blue, yellow or green paper on the walls of shelves, also will be removed.

Barbie is getting more real

A small minority of commenters criticized Target in the online statement for giving into pressure to promote “politically correct fads” and “homogenize the genders.”

Far more people applauded the decision.

“Thank you! I’m so tired of my daughter trying to play with her best friend (a boy) and him not wanting to because whatever she has is a girl toy. Or not wanting to watch the show she suggested because it’s a girls’ show,” one commenter said. “Eliminating these gender typed divisions will help kids learn a toy is a toy, a show is a show, fun is fun.”

Ohio mother Abi Bechtel was one of many Target shoppers in recent months to publicly criticize the store for marketing products based on gender. A picture she tweeted in June was widely shared, sparking debate over who’s to blame for gendered toys – toymakers or consumers.

Bechtel applauded Target for listening to consumers who agreed that “color-coded” marketing is “regressive and harmful.”

“Kids pick up cues about what society thinks of gender from so many places, and I’m glad that the Target toy aisle is no longer going to be one of the places they’re bombarded with ideas about what’s appropriate for kids of any gender to play with,” she said Saturday.

“I’m really pleased that so many people saw the potential for change and joined in asking for things to be better, and that Target listened.”