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Thursday, May 19, 2016

SOCIALISM: BERNIE SANDERS’ WIFE JANE BANKRUPTS BURLINGTON VERMONT COLLEGE, FORCING ITS CLOSURE

TAKING FROM THE "RICH" 

CAUSES BANKRUPTCY 

Socialism: Bernie Sanders’ Wife Bankrupts College, Forcing Its Closure

SEVERANCE PACKAGE

SOCIALISM: BERNIE SANDERS’ WIFE BANKRUPTS COLLEGE, FORCING ITS CLOSURE

Bernie pushes "free college" while his wife bankrupts school

BY KIT DANIELS
SEE: http://www.infowars.com/socialism-bernie-sanders-wife-bankrupts-college-forcing-its-closure/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Burlington College, which took on heavy debt during the tenure of Bernie Sanders’ wife, is closing down.
The closure of the liberal arts college in Vermont was blamed directly on Jane Sanders, who bankrupted the school as president from 2004 to 2011.
“Founded in 1972 as an informal gathering of students, Burlington College grew into a small, regionally accredited liberal arts college, but financial strain and academic probation created by an ambitious but ill-fated expansion under then-President Jane Sanders onto a new campus on prime waterfront land led to the school’s demise,” the Burlington Free Press reported.
Dean of Operations and Advancement Coralee Holm said it was impossible to pay back the debt from Sanders’ land deal.
“I believe the vision was enrollment would grow, which it did, but not at the level that would have allowed us to manage the financial debt we had incurred,” she said. “So here we are.”
Well, isn’t that hilarious: after Bernie Sanders spends his entire presidential campaign pushing “free college” for everyone by increasing the national debt, his wife bankrupts a college into oblivion through deficit spending.
“When a socialist runs a program, this is what happens when they can no longer steal money from the ‘greedy capitalists’ as they call them,” news commentator E.T. Williams said. “This is what happens when you put socialists in charge, just look at Venezuela.”
“Bernie keeps telling you how wonderful socialism is, but socialism only works if you run it alongside capitalism and steal from capitalists.”
Economics professor William L. Anderson echoed a similar sentiment.
“In Sanders’ world, entrepreneurs are parasites and employers are oppressors who seek to harm their employees, and wealth is defined by how much governments have in their treasuries,” he said. “If I could put the economics of Bernie Sanders into a nutshell, it would be this: Burden private enterprise with one directive after another, and then demonize it when it ultimately falls down under the awful weight of taxes, higher costs, and mandates.”
“While many people believe that instituting the Sanders economic agenda would help turn the USA into another Sweden or Denmark, the more likely outcome would be turning this country into another Venezuela.”
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"Crushing" Debt Forces Closure of College Jane Sanders Used to Head
Published on May 16, 2016
Burlington College, the private liberal arts school formerly led by Jane Sanders, announced Monday that it will be closing its doors by the end of the month due to the “crushing weight of debt” incurred. The current interim president, Carol Moore, said at a press conference Monday the college had recently lost a line of credit. Moore said the loss, combined with heavy debts related to a land purchase made under Sanders’ leadership, left the college with no other option to continue. Under her tenure, the college had purchased a $10 million 33-acre property and began plans to expand its programs.
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TARGET'S CEO IS OFF AMERICA'S RADAR~A LONG RECORD OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS IN THEIR STORES



TARGET'S CEO IS OFF AMERICA'S RADAR
by BRADLEE DEAN
SEE: http://www.newswithviews.com/Bradlee/dean278.htmrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

“And they had the American people believing that they were the victims….”
Have Americans now become so demoralized that they do not even realize the severity of those who are transgressing the law and what it is that they are clearly attempting to promote? (Jeremiah 5:21) They are making our innocent the prey to sexual predators. This is what Target stores are now attracting.
Friends, I have spoken thousands of times, from public high schools to colleges to tea parties, television, and radio across the country. If anyone were to even suggest the things that Target and the President of the United States are attempting to advocate by force, it would not be long before that person was thrown into a prison cell for a long time.
The Obama administration has threatened North Carolina to either accept a “Gender Neutral Bathroom bill” led by a known sodomite pedophile named Chad Severance, or federal funds will be cut from that state. What does that suggest America? Mask off!
In the state of Minnesota, according to Statute 609.342 Subdivision 11, a person in sexual contact with a person under 13 years of age may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 30 years or to a payment of not more than $40,000 or both. How is it that both Target and the Obama administration are advocating that which is clearly illegal? This is not about people using the bathroom. It’s about targeting the innocent.
This should all be called for what it is “The Pedophilia Enabling Act” which is criminal from the beginning to the end.
Michael Swift’s Homosexual Manifesto, which was printed in Gay Community News in February 1987 was also entered into the congressional records. Here’s what he wrote.
“We will unmask the powerful homosexuals who masquerade as heterosexuals. You will be shocked and frightened when you find that your presidents and their sons, your industrialists, your senators, your mayors, your generals, your athletes, your film stars, your television personalities, your civic leaders, your priests are not the safe, familiar, bourgeois, heterosexual figures you assumed them to be. We are everywhere; we have infiltrated your ranks” (Leviticus 18:22; Romans 1:24-27).
America, why is it that the Brian Cornell, the CEO for Target, is not being held accountable for the said crimes that have taken place in Target stores across the country with his companies policies? A little common sense comes into play here. Is he not the one that gave a green light for sexual predators to prey on the innocent? That is what is happening.
Speaking of sexual predators in Target stores, check out these criminals who have been caught committing their crimes.
A Kentucky man has been charged with the sexual assault of an 11- year-old girl at a Target store.
Surveillance camera images of the suspect leading the girl through the store have been broadcast nationally.
Allen D. Coates, 37, of Irvington, Kentucky, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the downtown area of Louisville, where he is being held at the Metro Corrections Facility…
Allen D. Coates, 37, of Irvington, Kentucky, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the downtown area of Louisville, where he is being held at the Metro Corrections Facility…
The girl was assaulted July 12 at knife point after she and her mother separated in the store to do individual shopping, authorities say.
Surveillance video from inside the store shows a man wearing a gray, sleeveless T-shirt, baseball cap and shorts roaming the aisles. Just before the sexual assault, he can be seen holding the girl’s hand and leading her through the store.
Comment: Now he’ll be able to loiter outside bathrooms and fitting rooms and wait for 11-year-olds shopping by themselves to answer a call of nature or try on a blouse.
A Jefferson man arrested on Friday after police said he followed and then touched a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl in separate incidents could face “multiple” child sexual assault charges, a prosecutor said in court Tuesday…
[T]he officer making the stop for speeding recognized Cooper as the suspect from video that was distributed about the incidents at Target and West Towne Mall…
[T]he girl said that a man approached her and a friend in the shoe section of the Target store, then followed them before he “purposefully” veered into the girl and brushed against her upper thigh and lower buttock area.
Comment: Now let’s imagine that the perpetrator does not have to accost her in the shoe section but can follow her without any questions asked into a bathroom or a fitting room. What father in his right mind is going to allow his teenage daughter to shop at Target ever again?
On Tuesday, St. Louis City Police confirmed that they are investigating the sexual assault of a 13-year-old female inside the Target store on Hampton Avenue in south St. Louis Monday night. Police say the suspect walked past the victim, squeezed her buttocks, then walked away. The girl told a relative and police were called. St. Louis Police are not commenting on whether or not their case could be connected to the Alverson or Mehlville cases.
Comment: All this man will have to do now is wait outside a Target bathroom of fitting room until your 13-year-old daughter enters, then follow her right on in.
South Bend police are looking for a man who performed a sexual act Monday afternoon at a Target department store at 1400 E. Ireland Road, according to our news partner ABC57.
A 16-year-old girl was shopping at the department store when a man approached her from behind and performed a sexual act on himself at about 2 p.m., police said. The man got away, and police are still looking for him.
Comment: Now that men can simply follow a 16-year-old into a dressing room, commit the sexual act while the victim is putting her clothes back on, how many more of these incidents are we going to read about?
San Leandro police say they have a person in custody for allegedly assaulting two young girls inside two different stores on Monday night.
Police arrested the suspect, a 20-year-old parking attendant, a couple of hours later at his place of work on the Peninsula.
Investigators are convinced, he is the man shown in the store surveillance videos, first at a Walmart, then at a Target store Monday. It was in those two store where he allegedly groped two young victims within 15 minutes of each other.
“I do know that people in this, from my training and my experience, that these people that have this desire to offend against children, will do so pretty much at all costs,” said McManus.
The suspect has been arrested on two counts of felony lewd and lascivious with a child. Police say he does have a criminal record, but not for any similar offenses.
Comment: If they will offend against young girls “pretty much at all costs,” the last thing they need is for Target to help them by providing private areas where the assaults can occur.
Sandy authorities have arrested the suspect accused of sexually assaulting a girl at a Target store in Sandy.
Sandy Sgt. Dean Carriger said 47-year-old James Scot Fullmer was arrested Wednesday. He turned himself in after he learned police were looking for him. Fullmer is booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on felony forcible sexual abuse charges. Officials said a man approached an underage girl who was shopping with a friend Aug. 7. Sandy officers said the suspect briefly talked to the girl and then sexually assaulted her.
A jogger and Target security officers helped Folsom police track down and arrest a man wanted in connection with sexual battery and an attempted rape Saturday.
Police arrested Timothy Ortiz, 25, at the Target store on Blue Ravine Road after security officers reported he was following women in the store and masturbating.
Comment: Why would a deviant now need to follow women through the store when he can wait for them inside the women’s bathroom or a fitting room where there are no cameras?
Authorities in Hanford say a man has confessed to placing a hidden camera inside a restroom of a local Target store. The suspect was identified as Eugenio Rodriguez, 32, of Hanford.
Hanford police responded to the store on North 12th Avenue on Wednesday after an employee found the camera in the family restroom. They say the camera was concealed with toilet tissue and had a red light illuminating before the employee turned it off. Officers say the camera didn’t record anything but it did stream live video…
A criminal case was sent to the DA’s office charging Rodriguez with using a concealed camera to view a person’s body in a private room.
Comment: You think Target has a problem with video voyeurism now? Just wait until perpetrators have unimpeded access to fitting rooms and restrooms where they can install their hidden cameras in ever more creative and hard to detect ways.
A Six Mile man accused of taking pictures and video of people using the restroom at Target has been arrested, according to Anderson police.
According to the incident report, police were called to the store on Thursday where one victim said the suspect had a cellphone positioned under the stall to capture video of men at the urinals.
Comment: Now that video voyeurs have the same unrestricted access to your daughter’s restroom and fitting room, you’ll be reading about more incidents just like this. It might be best to keep your daughter out of Target altogether.
Athens-Clarke County police have arrested a 26-year-old man for being a peeping Tom in the women’s room at a Target.
Police say Luis Mesqueda Hernandez was caught on security cameras sneaking into the women’s bathroom at the store Sunday afternoon and using his cell phone to take photos of a woman. The store’s security officers detained Hernandez until police arrived.
The woman told police she did not notice Hernandez was in the bathroom.
There are more than two dozen such stories like those above that have occurred in Target.
When the American people long to have their country back and start holding the guilty parties accountable to the laws that have been transgressed and violated, then, and only then, will she begin to understand what liberty is all about. Protest is good America, but justice is better (Proverbs 20:8; Isaiah 26:9; Psalm 97; Jeremiah 9:24).
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Top Twenty Sexual Crimes Committed 

at Target Stores

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

ROBERT SPENCER ON "CAIR'S" OPPOSITION TO COUNTER TERROR EFFORTS

"CAIR" HAS NO RECORD OF SUPPORTING ANY ANTI-TERROR EFFORTS
Published on May 17, 2016
Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer explains how the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) opposes counter-terror efforts, and details how numerous CAIR officials have been convicted of jihad terror activity.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLERS TARGETED BY FRAUDULENT "CHRIST-CENTERED ENERGY HEALING" ORGANIZATION

2 Timothy 3:6-7-"For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
2 Timothy 3:13-"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived."
Galatians 1:6-8-"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."
Acts 20:28-30-"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them."
2 Tim 4:3-4-"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."


TAMMY ANDERSON WARD, 
PRESIDENT OF HOPE HAVEN EVENTS' 
FRAUD FILLED NEW AGE
"CHRIST-CENTERED ENERGY HEALING CONFERENCES"
TARGETING THE SPIRITUAL DESTRUCTION 
OF HOMESCHOOLERS WITH 
NEW AGE TECHNIQUES
SEE: 

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Dr. Bradley Nelson (Author, Teacher, Chiropractor, Medical Intuitive, Energy Healer) and Tammy Ward

THERE'S A FORTUNE TO BE MADE OFF GULLIBLE CHRISTIANS
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CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLERS TARGETED BY "CHRIST-CENTERED ENERGY HEALING" ORGANIZATION 


BY LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2016/newsletter20160516.htmrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

"Are you looking for reliable, Christ-centered information and healing that is safe, affordable and that really does work? Are you sick & tired of being sick & tired? Are you a healer or are you searching for effective healing that is Christ-centered? You have found your tribe."
So says Tammy Anderson Ward, President of Hope Haven Events, who presents the "Christ-Centered Energy Healing Conferences." If Christ-centered energy healing sounds like an oxymoron, that's because it is. And all one needs to do is cruise around on the website to see that the nature of these conferences is blatantly New Age. But we'll get to that in a little bit. The group is reaching out to a broad audience and is being billed as "the world's largest Christ-centered energy healing conference;" but what caught the attention of Lighthouse Trails and author Ray Yungen more than anything is that they are reaching out to homeschool kids and parents, a traditionally conservative segment of the population. It's understandable that Tammy Anderson Ward is trying to reach homeschool families, she is a homeschool mom who has eight children, and we don't doubt that she loves her children very much and seems to be a person of good will. But when you hear what these events are promoting, we think you will agree that this should NOT be called "Christ Centered." In the video below, Tammy Anderson Ward explains how her family got involved with energy healing. (If you cannot view this video below, click here.)
What is energy healing? For those of you reading this who have been reading material from Lighthouse Trails for some time, you know that energy healing is supernatural in nature and is generally connected with an occultic worldview. In Ray Yungen's booklet titled The Truth About Energy Healing, he explains how energy healing is tied in with the chakras, which are said to be "energy centers" or "spinning balls of psychic energy." The chakras are the basis for energy healing. The energy healer places his or her hands on or over (touch is not necessary) the patient, and this energy is transferred from the practitioner to the patient. It is believed by energy healers that the chi energy connects everything together. This may sound like science fiction or something completely surreal, but after years of study and research, Ray Yungen has come to the conclusion that this transferred energy is demonic because of the underlying belief that God is in all things and man is divine. There are many theologians in the church who would agree with his assessment.
Evangelical Christianity has always presented healing in a religious sense (i.e., we pray to God and ask Him to heal with His power, not a power within ourselves that we learn to manipulate and utilize). New Age healing is always presented in a therapeutic context. In other words, it's something you tap into or learn to do (which explains the need for conferences - you have to go there and learn to do it). Some may be thinking right now that perhaps Tammy Anderson Ward is merely calling her techniques energy healing but does not bring chakras into the picture. A study of speakers she invites to her conferences throws that assumption out the window. On the Christ Centered Energy Healing store site, there is a section selling products from past conferences. Here are some of the titles: Chakras and the Armor of GodChakras: Know Your Energy CentersThe Spirit of the ChakrasAre Chi and Chakras for Christians? (no doubt, this speaker says yes), and Energy Healing: Dance to Heal Your Chakras. If you feel like you have just been read a list of New Age titles, we hope this news article we are writing will deeply concern you.
From Christ Centered Energy Healing website; used in accordance with the US Fair Use Act for the purpose of critique and review[/caption] This past March, Hope Haven held a "Christ Centered Energy Healing" conference in Mesa, Arizona. Some of the seminars that were offered were: Creating Health: The New Era, Healing Games to Play With Your Children, Crystal Connections: Another of Heaven's Tools, Group Energy Healing, The Peace & Power of BE-ing Present, and Sailing into the 5th Dimension, Gracefully. By the way, the 5th dimension is referring to the altered state of consciousness reached during deep meditation. Sheena Davis, one of the presenters at March's conference, taught a workshop called Healing Methods for everyone. The website describes the class:
In the following YouTube video, you can learn more about Reiki (one of the more popular forms of energy healing): (If you cannot view this video below, click here.)
Vital Recommended Resources     

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HOPE HAVEN EVENTS PREVIEWS 2016
VIDEOS:
"AURAS & CHAKRAS TALKED ABOUT IN THE BIBLE" ???
NO WAY!
"HINDU YOGA, MOTHER EARTH, WEIGHT LOSS, & ESSENTIAL OILS" TOO!
ALTERNATIVE HEALING THAT IS NOT CHRIST CENTERED




Episode 111-Tammy Ward, Hope Haven Events
BY "THE LUMINOUS MIND"
Published on Nov 2, 2015
Tammy is the Founder and President of Hope Haven Events. Hope Haven Events hosts conferences, retreats, trainings, specialty camps and other events to help "empower the individual, strengthen the family and connect community." She is a homeschooling mother to 8 awesome kids and is a highly sought after, intuitive healer, presenter and mentor. To learn more about Tammy, go to theluminousmind.net


Winter Home School Conference 2015 Indoctrinates Naive Youth Into Apostasy


Winter Homeschool Conference January 30, 2016;
Destructive Anti-Christian Charlatan New Age Practitioners Spreading Anti-Biblical Philosophies


Homeschool Mother & Daughter Retreat 2015
                              
Applied to Teach "Vibrations" at Hope Haven


There are many other manipulative techniques used by false teachers in the Christian Church, here are a few of them:
1- Lying by omission is when you leave out some of the truth to present your truth, this is also known as propaganda.
2- Laying a guilt trip is a favorite tactic used by most professional, yet false teachers in the Christian Church today. The manipulator suggests to the audience, that already is in a state of agreeableness (who typically want to please and be accepted) that they are selfish, do not care, or are spoiled. The result is usually one where the person feels bad or unworthy, leading to self doubt. Ultimately the victim will wind up in a position of submission to the teacher, thus allowing this control to continue.
3- Note that the submission is now towards a man (usually employing these tactics for power and financial control) who does not submit to others.
4- Subtle but effective shaming or put-downs are utilized to intensify the fear of ones actions as not being acceptable; the self doubt continues or grows to the point where there is now a dependency on the teacher. This technique is widely used especially when the leader is questioned on his authority or doctrines, and when money is required. At this point the subject can be led to accept control by other means.
5- Seduction is a favorite tool of the false teachers in the Christian Church, who are professional manipulators. They use their voice, stance, confidence and image to grab the attention of a crowd and keep it. With almost a magical charm they can allure or captivate the audience with a hypnotic like manipulation of the truth. This tool can be very profitable in dealing with inter personal relationships; the seducer becomes like a drug dealer. He has what you think you need. After the magic of charm has taken hold of an individual or group, flattery can be put into practice to lower their defenses. This will usually allow the manipulator to gain trust and possibly even loyalty, which is the goal.
6- The victim mentality method is used for pity, sympathy or concern about himself personally or his organization. False teachers in the Christian Church make claims that the ministry is in trouble, and without immediate financial contributions many will suffer. People do not like to see or hear of sufferings, and if they are made to feel responsible, it is usually fairly easy to get them to cooperate.
7- The ultimate and end game of this manipulation, is one in which the false teachers in the Christian Church are seen as having the role of being God’s ordained teachers, or prophets. Once they have obtained this cult like status, people no longer even think for themselves. As well they sometimes violently protect the belief system and the leader(s) that they unwittingly worship.


LARRY CRABB, SPIRITUAL FORMATION LEADER, PUSHES PSYCHOHERESY, CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM & SOCIALIST COMMUNITARIANISM FOR PROFIT UNDER GUISE OF CHRISTIANITY

THERE'S MONEY TO BE MADE 
OFF GULLIBLE CHRISTIANS

SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST: 

"LARRY CRABB TO JOIN RICHARD FOSTER'S "RENOVARE" CONTEMPLATIVE CONFERENCE":

Renovaré National Conference in Houston, Texas
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QUOTE: "Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet."

Certificate in Spiritual Direction:
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QUOTE: "This certificate will be awarded through NewWay Ministries, intentionally non-accredited by a recognized accrediting agency, and will serve as indication that those receiving the certificate have completed all required training and are prepared not for professional counseling (for therapeutic, psychological work) nor for vocational ministry, (though certificate holders may be equipped for vocational Christian ministry), but rather for organic, relational opportunities to engage in conversations that matter, that further the purposes of God in people's lives."

SoulCare Experience Curriculum

Spiritual Formation Leader, Larry Crabb, Says “The greatest need in modern civilization is the development of communities.”
BY LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2016/newsletter20160516.htmrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

Larry Crabb's recent remarks perfectly illustrate the "fruit" of contemplative spirituality - a move away from the Gospel and personal salvation through Jesus Christ and a move toward an emerging, ecumenical all-paths-lead-to-God kind of mentality. Where did Christ or the disciples ever say man's greatest need in in the development of communities?
The Greatest Need In Modern Civilization | Larry Crabb's New Way Ministries Blog
“The crisis of care in modern culture, especially in the Western church, will not be resolved by training more therapists….It will be worsened by moralists who never reach deeply into the hearts of people in their efforts to impose their standards of behavior on others, even when those standards are biblical.
The greatest need in modern civilization is the development of communities—true communities where the heart of God is home, where the humble and wise learn to shepherd those on the path behind them, where trusting strugglers lock arms with others as together they journey on.” - Dr. Larry Crabb, Connecting, Introduction pg xvi-xvii
Quotes by Larry Crabb:
I’ve practiced centering prayer. I’ve contemplatively prayed. I’ve prayed liturgically . . . I’ve benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you’ll see, elements of each style are still with me.Larry Crabb in The Papa Prayer, p.9
I’m glad that as a conservative evangelical who still believes in biblical inerrancy and penal substitution, I’ve gotten over my Catholic phobia, and I’ve been studying contemplative prayer, practicing lectio divina, valuing monastic retreats, and worshipping through ancient liturgy. I appreciate Bernard of Clairvaux’s provocative insights. I’m drawn to Brother Lawrence’s profoundly simple ways to practice God’s presence. I’m intrigued and enticed by Julian of Norwich’s mysterious appearings of Jesus.—Larry CrabbReal Church, p. 41
Quote by Roger Oakland:
This togetherness/community mindset is the same message that [occultist] Alice Baileyreferred to as “right human relations” and the same one the emerging church hopes to convey to the people of the world. A personal, individual relationship with Christ is considered self-centered,6 because it doesn’t focus on the global, common good. Communal spirituality is seen as the only path to the world’s survival. Listen to today’s new reformation thinkers:
"The church is only an anticipation of the full, promised community of the whole world … the church itself is not a goal of God’s creation."—Walter Brueggemann, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, p. 311.
"The Church, in all its expressions—Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Protestant and many others—has 2.3 billion followers.… Let’s use the grassroots network that is already on the ground. It’s time to lay aside our prejudices and work together"—Rick Warren,“The Power of Parishioners” (Forbes magazine, May 7, 2007, http://www.forbes.com).
"We are emerging into a new era of Christian faith as a “living color” global community. … It is immediately clear that this kind of emergence must lead to a convergence … a kind of relationship that has never before existed."—Brian McLaren, An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, p. 149.
Unfortunately, the “global community” so often spoken of in the emerging church camp is disguised language for a world-wide religious body that incorporates all belief systems. As [New Age leader] Neale Donald Walsch said, it’s a “global movement … which makes no one else wrong for the way in which they are doing it.” (from Faith Undone)
Quote by Lighthouse Trails and Ray Yungen:
Perhaps one of the most sure-tell indicators of where Larry Crabb’s spiritual sympathies lie . . .  can be found in a book Crabb wrote the foreword to. The book, Sacred Companions(written by David Benner), heartily recommends a plethora of contemplative mystics: Thomas Keating, Henri Nouwen, Basil Pennington, Richard Foster, John of the Cross, Gerald May, John Main, Thomas Merton, Richard Rohr, Alan Jones and several others. Many of these are panentheistic (God is in all), universalist (all are saved), and interspiritual (all paths lead to God). Ray Yungen talked about Benner’s book in the first edition of A Time of Departing. Yungen stated: “[C]ontemplative prayer stands on the threshold of exploding worldwide. Dr. Larry Crabb . . . has written the foreword to a book [Spiritual Companions] that expounds on the future of spiritual direction in the evangelical church. . . . It is safe to assume then that we are looking at a contemplative approach. With that in mind, Dr. Crabb predicted [in Sacred Companions]: ‘The spiritual climate is ripe. Jesus seekers across the world are being prepared to abandon the old way of the written code for the new way of the Spirit.’” (ATOD, 1st ed., p. 137)
Christianity Today article, “Got Your Spiritual Director Yet?,” confirmed two things, one that spiritual direction is contemplative, and two that it is on its way to becoming an integral part of evangelical Christianity. The article explains that popular Christian author Larry Crabb changed his views and went from psychology thinking to "spiritual direction."
Related Information:
Trusted Evangelical Leaders Endorse The Papa Prayer by Larry Crabb!
The Moody Church of Chicago Welcomes Contemplative Advocate Larry Crabb As Guest Speaker
Chuck Swindoll’s Book “So You Want to Be Like Christ? (Eight Essential Disciplines to Get Your There)—A Fiasco of No Discernment Pointing to the “Silence”

TIM KELLER STAFF MEMBER SAYS HOMOSEXUALITY ISN'T SIN; PART OF "CHURCH PLANT" BEHIND TRANSGENDER RESTROOM PLAN

Keller Fulgenzi-compressed
"REFORMED" CHRISTIANITY 
SINKS INTO PERVERSION FROM HERESY
TIM KELLER STAFF MEMBER 
SAYS HOMOSEXUALITY ISN'T SIN; 
PART OF "CHURCH PLANT" BEHIND TRANSGENDER RESTROOM PLAN
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/05/16/tim-keller-staff-member-says-homosexuality-isnt-sin-part-church-plant-behind-transgender-restroom-plan/republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

NEW YORK — A staff member at New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church, led by popular megachurch pastor and author Tim Keller, and who handles sermon orders for Keller, identifies as a progressive who doesn’t believe homosexuality is sinful and is part of a so-called church plant whose leader recently made recommendations to do away with male/female-separated restrooms nationwide.
In addition to his leadership of Redeemer Presbyterian, which sees up to 5,000 in attendance each week, Keller is known for his best-selling books “The Reason for God” and “The Prodigal God,” as well as “The Meaning of Marriage” and “Counterfeit Gods.”
He is also the vice president and co-founder of the Gospel Coalition, a network of reformed congregations that “educates current and next-generation Christian leaders by advocating gospel-centered principles and practices that glorify the Savior.”
Additionally, Keller is known for his “City to City” effort, which seeks to plant new churches in cities worldwide. He is credited with helping to establish over 250 congregations over the past decade.
Casey Fulgenzi, formerly of Tennessee, serves as the manager of social media for Redeemer Presbyterian Church, as well as the assistant manager for Keller’s resource site Gospel in Life, where he handles the orders for Keller’s sermons. His name is included on the staff page of the Redeemer website. Fulgenzi has worked for Keller since 2014.
Fulgenzi was first involved with Forefront Church, which has dual locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and remains an active supporter.
The congregation is affiliated with the Convergence Initiative, “a collective of Post-Evangelical, Progressive Evangelical, Non-Denominational and Free-Church tradition churches, organizations, leaders and networks,” as well as the Open Network, both of which are homosexual-affirming and have hosted conferences featuring Rob Bell. Fulgenzi himself had his photo taken with the controversial Bell in 2013 (pictured above).
As previously reported, the Open Network recently posted an article by Forefront Manhattan leader Ryan Phipps, who posted a “solution” to the transgender restroom use debate that would eliminate male and female restrooms altogether and replace them with one “human” multi-stall restroom.
“We have dressing rooms in just about every major clothing store that are not gender segregated. Why can’t we have bathrooms be the very same?” Phipps wrote in regard to the issue. “We mustn’t cling to antiquated ways of reasoning and separation that have long reached their time. We should think, dream, and pray about how we can be more ‘whole’ in our treatment of people.”
Fulgenzi shared Phipp’s article, stating that he was “laying down the truth.”
Fulgenzi’s wife, Lindsey Luff, a secular musician who he describes as a “bada**,” sings with Forefront Brooklyn’s worship leader Ben Grace at various venues throughout the city and beyond.
Fulgenzi is himself supportive of those who identify as homosexual and transgender, posting on his social media pages, for example, Macklemore’s “One Love” video and notating his visit to Big Gay Ice Cream in New York City, as well as other mentions regarding his views on homosexuality—that he understands the Christian objection to the lifestyle, but “I think it’s not accurate.”
“How does homosexuality effect (sic) you and other Christians? I guarantee it doesn’t directly or even indirectly effect Christians as much as greed, gluttony, theft, rape, racism, or even foul language,” he wrote during one discussion. “Yet, for what topic (aside from abortion) do Christians break out the biggest soapbox? Why? Why not focus on all of those other things that actually impact your everyday life and millions of others in a negative way?”
“Who said you had to ‘express your views’ to someone who is gay in the first place? Jesus? Nope. The gay person? Nope. Do you think they’ll listen? Nope. Why should they?” he later contended.
In February, Fulgenzi, who identifies as progressive, wrote that he will “happily vote for either [Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders] when the time comes.” He had shared an article last September on “The Christian Case for Bernie Sanders.”
“He’s Jewish, but his character, words and actions are more Christ like than any of the Christian candidates,” Fulgenzi wrote on April 16 in sharing that he went to hear Sanders speak at a local church. “We deserve that in our next president, whether he or she be Muslim, Atheist, Christian or Jewish.”
Keller himself has raised concerns for some of his comments about homosexuality, such as when he stated during the Veritas Forum at Columbus University, “[H]eterosexuality does not get you to Heaven, I happen to know this, so how in the world can homosexuality send you to Hell?”
“[W]hat sends to Hell is self-righteousness, thinking you can be your own savior and lord. What sends you to Heaven is getting a connection with Christ because you realize that you are a sinner and you need intervention from outside,” he said.
“That’s why it is very misleading even to say homosexuality is a sin because …. yes, of course, homosexuality is a sin, because greed is a sin, because all kinds of things are sins, but what most Christians mean when they say that and certainly what non-Christians think they hear when they hear that, is that if you are gay you are going to Hell for being gay. It is just not true, absolutely not true.”
Keller has also suggested that he supports at least some form of theistic evolution, writing in his essay “Creation, Evolution, and Christian Laypeople” for Biologos, “[I]f ‘evolution’ remains at the level of scientific biological hypothesis, it would seem that there is little reason for conflict between the implications of Christian belief in the Creator and the scientific explorations of the way which—at the level of biology—God has gone about His creating processes.”
Andi Brindley, Keller’s assistant at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, did not return calls for comment, nor could any of the elders be reached.
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