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Great News

Give thanks to God and keep praying for them as the liar will still try to attack them as they transition from being under such intense persecution to walking free.  Thanks You Jesus for setting her and her babies free.

REJOICE

Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, has been freed, FoxNews.com has confirmed.

Ibrahim, 27, refused to renounce her Christian faith in court in May, prompting a judge to sentence her to hang for apostasy. The case became an international cause, with several U.S. lawmakers and the State Department blasting the decision as barbaric. Sudan's national news service SUNA said the Court of Cassation in Khartoum on Monday canceled the death sentence after defense lawyers presented their case, and that the court ordered her release.

"We have confirmed through her attorney that she has been released from prison today," Tina Ramirez, executive director for the Christian advocacy group Hardwired, told FoxNews.com. Hardwired has worked closely with Ibrahim's family and lawyer.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/23/sudanese-mom-sentenced-to-die-for-christian-faith-freed/

USA - Today?

Jerusalem staggers,
Judah is falling;
their words and deeds are against  the Lord,
defying His glorious presence.
The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves.
Isaiah 3:8-9

A BIG "IF"

IF My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
II Chronicles 7:14

The World or The Word - My Choice

John Kavanaugh

I write this not in anger, but sadness. So, sad of what we have become as Wesleyans and from the movement we once were...
Top Ten Common Arguments for Homosexual Relationships
10. Ignore the Scriptures general witness, especially about ‘original sin,’ for the last almost 2,000 years… because it’s about being a ‘good person!’
9. Ignore the faith & practice of the saints who have gone before you…because you know better!
8. Ignore all reason that shows that God made a man & woman for procreation & to be image of God’s image in the world (Gen.2:23-25; 1:28; Eph. 5:22-33).
7. Ignore experience. Say that you know many “good people” who were born that way, yet ignore those who experience deliverance from the lifestyle instantaneously or gradually.
6. Just redefine Biblical terms like most “cults” do such as “sin,” “faith,” and “love” to fit your needs. So, you parade around talking about “being more loving” yet ignore Jesus’ command that “If you love me you will obey my commandments” (John 14:15). Shucks, you know repentance is not that big of a deal either…we just short of “become Christians” by osmosis!
5. When you can’t win on traditional grounds…change subjects! “Don’t we need to be feeding poor people in Africa!”
4. Bring the argument up every year for over four decades, forming committees, using media, creating “illegal” movements within the church, protesting, and after realizing that your issue is not going to pass…break covenant anyway and do what you want!
3. After the opposing side, calls you back to Biblical repentance and to obey the covenant that you ordained …and you will not turn or repent they realize that their really can be no unity. Note, you also promote many “third way options” that only speed up the split, because you ignore the history recently within the Anglican & Episcopal Churches. Noting Jesus’ teaching (Mark 3:25), the other side makes a plan to move on fearing the end is near and let you go your way. You slander and call them “prideful” & “schismatics!”
2. After your movement has pressed the argument for decades, then claim that we are wasting time arguing and that, “IT’S REALLY TIME TO MAKE DISCIPLES!” & “IT’S ALL ABOUT MAKING DISCIPLES!” You ignore though that your ideology has led the UMC, and other mainline denominations, in perpetual decline, you are continually shrinking budgets, closing churches, your missionary presence has shrank, Cokesbury stores are closing because the average lay person “gave up” on it in the 1980’s, there are many books about the church being lost theologically for decades, and the average age in your church is 57…but if we just came together we could “make disciples” when that theological foundation that you have derived your “world view” from has brought death for generations!
1. Drum roll, PLEASE!!!!...If all else fails…call those you disagree with “bigots!