GLENN BECK ON COLLECTIVIST MELISSA HARRIS PERRY RELATIVE TO THE ROMEIKE HOMESCHOOL FAMILY DENIED ASYLUM

MUST SEE VIDEO:

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TOLD PRO-LIFE GROUPS NOT TO PICKET PLANNED PARENTHOOD; MUSLIM TAX EXEMPT APPLICATIONS SWIFTLY EXPEDITED

According to the following sources, the IRS denied tax exempt status and restricted the activities of pro-life groups to benefit and protect Planned Parenthood:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/report-irs-denied-tax-exempt-status-to-pro-lifers-on-behalf-of-planned-parenthood/article/2529750.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/05/15/reports-irs-spared-liberal-groups-as-tea-party-languished-more-conservative-orgs-targeted-than-first-thought-n1596864.
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/irs-told-pro-life-group-not-to-picket-planned-parenthood.html.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/2013/05/15/broadening-irs-victims-include-pro-life-advocates-as-congress-investigates/.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/2011/04/12/christian-voices-for-life/.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/2009/08/04/iowa/.

Muslim organizations' applications to IRS were swiftly expedited as reported here:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/obama-irs-refused-tax-exempt-status-to-christian-and-pro-life-groups-but-granted-nonprofit-status-to-muslim-groups-video/.

Obama scapegoats IRS commissioner Miller by firing him; deflects blame to others:

Obama's Half-Brother Ran Shifty Org & Obama's Brother Approved In 1 Month:

Lois Lerner, the head of the "Tax Exempt Division" of the IRS is reported to have made nine (9) lies:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/348428/nine-lies-lois-lerner-kevin-williamson.
and states in this video that "I'm not good at math", when pressed to clarify statistics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soX2gLjoOxU, 
and her desire to "communicate" with applicants, via the "Strategic Planning Working Group" which offers "guidance" and "outreach" to taxpayers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m0IfrBt2Ug.

U.S. APPEALS COURT DENIES ASYLUM TO ROMEIKE HOMESCHOOL FAMILY; HSLDA WILL APPEAL THIS DECISION

Just released from the New American is the decision to deny asylum to the homeschooling Romeike family:
http://thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/15419-u-s-appeals-court-denies-asylum-to-german-homeschool-family.

PETER LABARBERA DELIVERS POWERFUL DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE SPEECH OUTSIDE OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVE JIM DURKIN OF ILLINOIS

Published on May 13, 2013

On May 11, 2013, supporters of traditional marriage rallied outside of Rep. Jim Durkin's district office in Western Springs. Rep. Durkin is currently undecided on the issue of gay marriage. Peter LaBarbera is the president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.
Note: Midway through the speech a counter protester interrupted the speech and the police had to intervene.

SECOND AMENDED LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST SOVEREIGN GRACE MINISTRIES, NAMING 11 PLAINTIFFS

Brent Detwiler has announced:

"The Second Amended Lawsuit was filed today (May 14, 2013) in the Montgomery County Circuit Court, Maryland.  It is available on this website by clicking on “SGM Lawsuit / Class Action Lawsuit.”  A link is provided at www.brentdetwiler.com, (in PDF format here: http://abrentdetwiler.squarespace.com/storage/documents/second%20amended%20sgm%20lawsuit.pdf.

"The original Class Action Lawsuit was filed on Oct 17, 2012.  It named three plaintiffs and nine defendants.  The First Amended Lawsuit was filed on Jan 11, 2013.  It named eight plaintiffs and 14 defendants.  The Second Amended Lawsuit names 11 plaintiffs and the defendants remain at 14.  Some of the pseudonymous plaintiffs are now using their proper names."

CHRISTIANS SHOULD AVOID BUDDHIST MINDFULNESS & MINDFUL EATING SINCE IT DIVERTS FOCUS AWAY FROM GOD AND JESUS CHRIST TO PAGAN DEITIES

Hebrews 13:9- "Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them."

From Rappler.com of the Phillipines, which has 45 articles on mindfulness http://www.rappler.com/?option=com_rappler&task=search&q=mindfulness, "mindful eating" is clearly described as Buddhist and focusing on the creation instead of the Creator in this one article among the lot. Apparently, in the heavily "Catholic" Phillipines which has had the benefits and influence of American culture since World War II, a mixture of paganism, Buddhism and Catholicism is still the norm. Here is the article:
http://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/29068-mindful-eating, with excerpts below. Bold emphasis ours:
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MANILA, Philippines - How do you eat? Do you shove food into your mouth in huge spoonfuls, chew a bit, then swallow? Do you nibble at small portions, picking your way through the food on your plate? Or do you eat mindlessly, talking, texting, watching TV, or reading while “eating”?

Venerable Miao Jing, head abbess at Mabuhay Temple (Fo Guang Shan Philippines), talked about eating meditation in "Food for Thought, Thought for Food: Eating as a Meditative Experience." The event was part of FGS Philippines’ Buddhist Lecture Series 2013 and also featured a simple tea ceremony to demonstrate the sacred ritual of preparing and sipping tea.

The head abbess emphasized the importance of using all of our senses to experience, appreciate, and contemplate the food that we eat. Due to our attachment to habit, she says, we fail to do these things and we continue to survive to eat, and not eat to survive.

“We need a new perspective to eating,” says Venerable Miao Jing.

The 5 contemplations

Written by Thich Nhat Hanh, this is a version of the grace said before meals. “The practice of reciting these contemplations before eating is a way to foster mindful eating, and helps promote inner peace through food.”

(Comment: Inner peace is NOT promoted through food, but through salvation in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and Savior).

1. "This food is a gift from the earth, the sky, the universe, numerous living beings, and much hard work." 

(Comment: non-Christian worship of the creation instead of the Creator).

2. "May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive it." (Comment: Gratitude to whom?)

3. "May we transform our unwholesome mental formations, especially our greed, and learn to eat with moderation." 

(Comment: As Christians, we believe we can NOT transform our sin nature and/or redeem our minds, hearts and souls by our own efforts).

4. "May we keep our compassion alive by eating in such a way that we reduce the suffering of all beings, preserve our planet, and reverse the process of global warming." 

(Comment: This is a globalist, liberal, ecumenical, Christ-denying one world religion)

5. "We accept this food so we can nurture our brotherhood and sisterhood, strengthen our community, and nourish our ideal of serving all beings." 

(Comment: Eating mindfully does nothing to save people from their sins like Jesus Christ would, but has a collectivist goal).

Eating as meditation: Venerable Miao Jing in her talk mentioned that “eating is meditative training.” When there is silence during meals, eating can become a more meaningful experience. 

(Comment: This is contemplative mysticism whether practiced in the East or the West, and has no place in the life of a true Christian believer).

1. Go beyond the taste. If you are mindful, the head abbess says, everything will taste the same. 

(Comment: If everything tastes the same, then why eat mindfully? All the God-given enjoyment of savoring foods is lost!).

2. Don’t take too much of the food that we like. And don’t ignore the food that we don’t like.

(Comment: Romans 12:2- "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God."

3. When preparing food, do so with sincere thoughts. Fill the food with positive vibrations and love. These will be served to others as you share the dishes you made. 

(Comment: This is totally devoid of prayerful thanksgiving to the one true God of the Christian faith through Jesus Christ, our one high priest and mediator with the Father God).

4. When you are 70% full, stop eating. If you fill your tummy a hundred percent when you eat, your metabolism will slow down and all your energy will be used in digestion. This is why we feel sleepy after a heavy meal.

(Comment: How does one measure when one is 70% full?).

5. When you are full, don’t meditate. The stomach should be only 30 percent full when meditating.

(Comment: Again, how does one know when one is 30% full?).

6. Eat only the right amount of food at the scheduled time of meals.

(Comment: How much is right?).

7. Don’t be angry if you get too much or too little food.

(Comment: If one is being silent and mindful, then how does anger enter into the mix? Must be a failure associated with mindfulness or the person then).

8. Always be grateful for the food given to you, even if you are not happy with the taste.

(Comment: If everything tastes the same as a result of mindfulness, then you might have reason not to be happy with the taste! Yes, thank the host and/or the preparer, but also be grateful to God in all things, even if the taste is all the same or not to your liking).

9. Whatever it is you’re doing — not only while eating — contemplate and appreciate. Be mindful.

(Comment: Christians contemplate on, and are mindful of, the Word of God in the Bible and appreciate what He has done to save us from our sins by sending Jesus Christ to atone for us. Acts 14:17- "Nevertheless He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good, gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.")

10. Do not waste food. Finish whatever you have on your plate. It has been said that one grain of rice is equal to one bead of a farmer’s sweat. So clean up your plate!

(Comment: Luke 12:23- "Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing." As a Christian, you take only as much as you can finish, being guided in all things by the Holy Spirit and eating in moderation. Buddhism is worried about offending a farmer's efforts, but Christianity is concerned with the salvation of sinful people. John 6:27- "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him." 1 Corinthians 8:8- "But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we do not eat are we the worse."

Related topics you can follow (on Rappler.com):

Buddha•Buddhist•Buddhist Lecture Series 2013•Fo Guang Shan Philippines•Food for Thought•Mabuhay Temple•Spirituality•Thich Nhat Hanh•Thought for Food: Eating as a Meditative Experience•Venerable Miao Jing•Wellbeing•Wellness•Meditation

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INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE HARASSES & AUDITS CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATIONS

    Culture News reports that IRS gave homosexualists private information of Christians:
http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2013/05/irs-gave-homosexualists-private-info-of.html.
    Quote from National Organization for Marriage: 

“There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law.”
-- Brian Brown, President, National Organization for Marriage

Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association fires off complaint letter to Obama about the IRS retaliatory audits they were subjected to for supporting biblically oriented political candidates. 

See: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/franklin-graham-irs-targeting-91362.html?hp=l6.

The Abuse of Power by singling out Conservative and Christian organizations:

"AARP" NOW USES MEMBERSHIP DUES TO ADVANCE LGBTQ AGENDA

 
AARP's gay sympathetic propaganda video, 
"70 Years of the Gay Rights Movement", is described as:
    "Through four personal stories and archival footage, Voices of an Era chronicles more than 70 years of defining moments in the gay rights movement. A 90-year-old WWII veteran describes receiving a dishonorable discharge. An activist remembers the Stonewall Riots, while another recounts the horror of being diagnosed with HIV in the early 1980s. And a soldier, who is openly serving today, fights for her same-sex spouse to receive military benefits.":

The AARP "Pride" page can be found under "Home and Family"/ "Family and Friends"/ "AARP Pride" at:
http://www.aarp.org/relationships/friends-family/aarp-pride.html.
The AARP position on LGBTQ issues is at: http://www.aarp.org/relationships/family/info-04-2011/where-aarp-stands-lgbt.html.

American Family Association reports on this and requests you oppose AARP's LGBTQ advocacy here:
http://secure.afa.net/afa/activism/TakeAction.asp?id=401.

SCHOOLCHILDREN BEING TAUGHT BUDDHIST NEW AGE MINDFULNESS MEDITATION

Lighthouse Trails Research has excerpted part of a new report from Berit Kjos titled 

"How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception"

which they are offering for sale. Excerpt as LT reported:

"Unbeknownst to most parents, America’s public schools are teaching their children to use mindfulness meditation (Eastern-style meditation or TM). In a New York Times article titled “In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind,” elementary children in an Oakland, California school are promised peace and loving-kindness if they will learn to meditate. An eleven-year-old explains, “I was losing at baseball, and I was about to throw a bat . . . The mindfulness really helped.”1 While that may sound like a great thing to a lot of teachers, the article acknowledges where this comes from:

As summer looms, students at dozens of schools across the country are trying hard to be in the present moment. This is what is known as mindfulness training, in which stress-reducing techniques drawn from Buddhist meditation are wedged between reading and spelling tests.2 (Emphasis added.)

A whole new generation of children is being drawn into New Age/New Spirituality, and it is happening right under their parents’ noses. While some of us grieve the real-world consequences of this cultural revolution, a rising chorus of voices are now demanding acceptance of today’s paradigm shift. Their positive spin inspires visions of an evolved humanity that is bursting out of the old shackles of Christian morality, traditional guidelines, and parental restraints. This new civilization reminds me of Isaiah’s ancient warning: “And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly [insolently] against the ancient [the elder], and the base against the honourable” (Isaiah 3:5).
The promise from the New Age is world peace, but it’s not God’s kind of peace; thus, it is not a true and lasting peace! As enticing counterfeits develop, they will surely widen divisions among those who call themselves by the name of Christ. While the world calls for unity at any cost (a whatever it takes approach), His people can’t conform to its ways, visions, hopes, or dreams. “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matthew 10:34).
On the other hand, our Lord has promised peace, strength, and eternal hope to all who know, trust, and follow Him:

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27)

But those who heed counterfeit promises and seek spiritual favors from occult sources become blind to His grace. Deceptions will multiply, and sadly, children are deception’s biggest targets. In this precarious situation in which we find ourselves, we should remember the Bible’s warnings:

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Colossians 2:8)

(This has been an excerpt from Berit Kjos' upcoming release (May 25th, 2013), How To Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception.)
Notes:
1. Patricia Leigh Brown, “In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind” (The New York Times, June 16, 2007).
2. Ibid.
(From Berit's new book, How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception - May 25, 2013)

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This is a summary of this book:

"TEMPTING VOICES BECKON to children everywhere. Schools, movies, music, and books all sound the call: "Come, dream, trust Self, you are divine, create your own reality, build a new world. Anything goes, for sin and guilt exist only in the minds of the antiquated 'religious.'"

"Unlearning the old ways" is key to this global transformation. Today's assault on biblical Christianity is fast undermining God's moral and spiritual boundaries. It invites chaos rather than unity - coercion instead of freedom - war and violence instead of peace - and ultimately overtakes today's children with the plan to turn them into "progressive" transformation leaders of tomorrow.

How can we equip our children so they do not become spiritually deceived and fall into this world-wide agenda? And how can we teach them to have the courage to say no to seductive enticements? There is an answer! We can teach our children to know Truth, so they will discern the counterfeit. And we can teach them how to spot the New Age/New Spirituality and to understand the serious implications that occur when it is embraced."

LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS RESEARCH MAKES PDF AVAILABLE TO GIVE TO PASTORS, ELDERS & DEACONS

In connection with the recent research and refutation of Jodi Detrick, representing the position of the Assemblies of God on contemplative proponent Ruth Haley Barton, who has been invited to an upcoming conference, Lighthouse Trails Research has made a printable PDF of that same refutation. This is their statement:


"Yesterday, we sent you a special report regarding the issue of Ruth Haley Barton being a featured speaker at the General Council conference of the Assemblies of God this summer. We are greatful that we heard from several of our readers who expressed their own concerns about what is taking place within the church today.
We realize that we send out a tremendous amount of information week after week, month after month, and year after year. We know it must often feel overwhelming and insurmountable. But we have a deep concern that our report yesterday will slip into the background and soon be forgotten. We want to do our part to help this not happen because we believe that report is one of the most important we have ever written.
As we stated yesterday, this issue is not just about one denomination (Assemblies of God). On the contrary, as we have documented for eleven years now, just about every evangelical/Protestant denomination has been affected by contemplative/emerging spirituality: Nazarene, Mennonite, Southern Baptist, Wesleyan, Calvary Chapel, Reformed, Calvinist, Free Evangelical, and so forth.
If you know a pastor, church leader, or teacher, (or some one in ministry) who is attracted to Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative spirituality), please print a copy of our report and give it to him or her. In order to make that a little easier, we have created a printable PDF document of the report.
What's so important about this report is that it irrefutably shows that contemplative prayer is, in fact, the equivalent to Eastern mysticism and is of an occult nature.
PDF of Report (printable)
Sincerely,
The Editors at Lighthouse Trails
P.S. We are soon going to make a booklet out of the report, which will be revised for the evangelical/Protestant church at large."
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