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See inside culture stoby Todd Starrnes m back cover! The culture war may be lost and religious liberty might not be that far behind, according to a new survey from LifeWay Research. Protecting your Seventy percent of senior pastors of Protestant churches say religious liberty is on the decline in the phone privacy United States and 59 percent of Christians believe they are losing the culture war. Eleven percent consider that war already lost. The survey results are staggering– indicating grave concerns about the moral direction of the nation from both the pulpit and the pew. "Ten years ago we were talking about who would win the culture war and now we're talking about how will Christian rights be protected after the culture war," Ed Retailers increasingly Stetzer, the president of LifeWay Research said. "We've spying on shoppers lost our home field advantage. There are going to be some things that are different." by Kim Komando Stetzer said it's a big shift. “And it's a shift I would not have guessed," he told You already know that advertisers are me. Over the past few years, I've documented hundreds tracking where you go online, even on of instances of religious persecution in the United your smartphone or tablet. But did you States. And the targets have been exclusively Christians. know that retailers like grocery stores, city The military labeled evangelical Christians and governments, airports and other com - mercial locations are literally tracking n Please see CULTURE STORM page 23 where you walk? You might be surprised but here’s just a few retailers peeking into your phone or smart device: National retailers like Walmart, Family Changes in store Dollar, Cabela’s, Verizon, Gordman’s, Easter Parade and Fun Fair to be held in Gage Park Nordstrom and Home Depot work with PARADE WILL BE THE FIRST OF ITS KIND at the Metro Voice companies like Euclid Analytics and have Metro Voice Newspaper recently devised a method for tracking shoppers in What better time than Easter to celebrate and have a relaunched its website, found at their stores. The service identifies shop - parade? pers' smartphones by requests the devices The city of Topeka is about to have its first ever Easter www.metrovoicenews.com, after make for Wi-Fi, even if they aren't con - Parade in Gage Park. The Topeka Easter Parade & Family major revisions. necting to the store's network. Fun Fair will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2014. A Family Though this was "I think it's outrageous," John Soma, Fun Fair will be held in conjunction with the parade, and will done with little executive director of the University of blend in with the other regular activities at Gage Park, such public fanfare, Denver Privacy Foundation, told Denver's as the Zoo, the Carousel and the Mini-Train. Churches, non- apparently people ABC7. "What are they going to do with profits and local businesses will be taking part in the parade, have noticed – the that data? Are they going to keep it forev - as well as setting up booths and games at the Fun Fair. Bands number of visitors er? Are they going to aggregate it? Are they playing at the Amphitheatre will be part of the festivities as to the site is grow - going to sell it to 'affiliates?' We just don't well. ing exponentially. know. That's what's so troubling to me." The Fun Fair will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Visitors to the John Fu, Euclid’s director of marketing, and the Parade itself will start about 10:30am. Numerous site will notice told Texas-based news outlet CBS DFW churches, non-profit organizations, schools and local busi - more variety of content and greater that the company's client list includes a user-friendlyness, especially those nesses are expected to enter floats and marching bands, etc., Other cities across the nation have Easter Parades with floats such as this n Please see PHONE PRIVACY page 23 n Please see EASTER page 2 one. This year’s Easter Parade in Gage Park will be Topeka’s first. n Please see CHANGES page 3

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Topeka Youth for Christ Reveals New Logo GAGE CENTER B O W L G E T S U PGRADE Topeka Youth for Christ has played a ing employees, the first of whom was Billy pivotal, catalytic role in youth evangelism Graham. “It seems like just yesterday that, Gage Center Bowl, the bowling Neeww Masking Unit Design center that has kept Topeka rollin’ in the greater Topeka area since 1955. A in fear and trembling, I spoke at my first since 1960, has announced a Floor to chapter of Youth for Christ USA, Topeka Youth for Christ rally in Chicago in 1944,” Ceiling (and even the Roof) renova - YFC is committed to being “geared for the said Graham. “I’m praying that this 70th times,” joining with Youth for Christ anniversary of the organization will launch tion project. From new lanes, carpet USA to fully incorporate the new mis - Youth for Christ into a deeper understand - and floor covering all the way up to sion-centric logo and message. ing of what it means to authentically share new Flat Panel LCD’s hanging from The rebrand effort the ceiling, it all adds up to a includes a new suite of $700,000 renovation. logos for YFC’s various There will be something new for ministry models, and a just about everyone. For the serious Updated Bnall Returns Glow Lanusges w/ C tom Lightin tŽƌůĚ͛ƐĞƐƚ >ĂŶĞƐ new tagline, “Give Life players, the project includes to Your Story." The ProLane, the world’s finest playing rebranding effort includes a freshly the transformational message of Christ surface, according to owner Rex designed national website experience, and and His Kingdom, and to do so with Haney, and new and improved new local websites supported by changes renewed vision, passion, boldness and underground ball returns. to the color palette and design aesthetic. courage to a generation of young people For our casual and family enter - Since 1944, Youth for Christ’s USA’s who are desperate to hear words of life and unchanging mission has been to “reach truth.” tainment customers the renovation larger and brighter LED Flat Panel everyone. includes computer controlled lights young people everywhere, working togeth - Topeka Youth for Christ in partnership scoring displays, masking units, new The work begins in early March er with the local church and other like- with Youth for Christ USA is one of over framing each lane and glow–in-the- carpet and floor covering are and should be completed by the first minded partners to raise up lifelong fol - 100 chartered nations of Youth for Christ dark lanes and approaches. New upgrades that will be enjoyed by of June, Haney said. lowers of Jesus who lead by their godliness International. In the US, the organization in lifestyle, devotion to the Word of God spans nearly 2,000 ministry sites in local and prayer, passion for sharing the love of communities, led by 1,800 employees and EASTER Christ and commitment to social involve - 20,000 volunteers. Their national ministry Prayer breakfast speaker uses continued from page 1 ment.” models continue to reach teens in High Advocating the new branding, School and Middle School Campus Life personal pain to inspire others President of Youth for Christ USA, Dan Clubs, while also serving teens in tough sit - The 53rd installment of the Kansas Kansas City Metro and the Missouri Wolgemuth stated, “A united, mobilized, uations including unplanned pregnancy, Prayer Breakfast will feature a former State chapter of The Fellowship of and committed organization deserved a juvenile detention, and poverty. Currently, major league baseball player whose Christian Athletes, Character that visual identity that reflected what we 300,000 young people are connected to US family has suffered personal loss and Counts, and Keepers of the Sandlot. esteemed most. In the very center of this programs, with nearly two-thirds of those overcome great adversity. Brian Additionally, he supports Young Life, renewed focus we discovered the heartbeat kids involved in an ongoing, intentional of the mission. God’s unrelenting and pur - relationship with a Youth for Christ leader. Holman, who played for the Montreal Pro Athletes Outreach, Children’s suing love giving life to young people in Today, the organization is celebrating Expos, Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Hospital, The Leukemia & Lymphoma every and any context.” renewed growth, having launched 600 new Reds, uses his life experiences to Society and The National Christian Youth for Christ’s rich history lends ministry sites in the last three years and encourage and inspire his audiences. Foundation. itself to the organization’s forward-think - continuing at that rate. His inspirational messages combined The Kansas Prayer Breakfast, spon - with stories from his professional play - sored by Topeka Fellowship, Inc. will be ing days have had a tremendous impact held Friday, March 28th at the Ramada on audiences across the country. Inn in downtown Topeka. Statewide Holman was forced to retire in 1994 leaders in government, business, edu - in the parade. Several local and state due to an arm injury. He began his cation and industry will be on hand as celebrities have been invited to take part as business career in 1995, and now usual as the program begins at about well. focuses the majority of his attention on 6:45 a.m. Buffet lines open for serving The Family Fun Fair will consist of his motivational speaking. He also at 6:00 a.m. Tickets for the breakfast activities geared toward children and fam - remains heavily involved in youth base - are $18.00 per person or $180.00 for a ilies, as well as booths, exhibits, bands, etc. COUNSELING ball where he conducts private pitching reserved table of ten. For reservations Activities will include children’s games, egg hunts, facepainting, and similar other YOU CAN TRUST lessons, camps and clinics. call 234-6204 or email Areas of expertise: Involved with many charitable [email protected]. More informa - activities in and around Westlake Shelter, the Amphitheatre, the Carousel Room, organizations, Holman currently serves tion can be found at kansasprayer - • Marriage & Relationships Childrens Party House, and the tennis on the board of directors for the breakfast.net. • Depression • Addictions court area. • Anxiety • Grief-Loss The event • Adoption • Foster Care is being coor - dinated and sponsored by Capital City Christian Chamber of Commerce (C5), along with Metro Voice Newspaper. A third major sponsor is Nusound Hearing Center, 5950 SW 28th St., owned From Heart to Home by the Gonzales family: Sam, Belinda and Infant Adoption Program Marissa. For more information about NuSound Hearing Center, go to nusoundhearing.com or call 783-8121. An adoption agency you can trust. For more information about becoming SL’s 120 year history, a sponsor, entering the parade or having a booth at the Fun Fair, email bbeen a core service.i [email protected]. 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877-581-5437 z www.kcsl.org Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 3 Lawmakers urged to pass ‘foster parents' bill of rights’ Former state senator testifies in support mining when a child should be returned Complaints of that sort, she said, to a parent or family member’s care; would warrant case-by-case investiga - Dave Ranney | KHI News Service directors, the worker arranged to have • Can know what happens to a child tion by DCF. her monthly payment reduced by $300. after being removed from their care; Most of the state’s foster care servic - Nichole Hulaether has been a foster “She did it without talking to me, • Receive 30 days advance notice es, she said, are provided by two non- parent for 17 years. She’s cared for without telling me she when a child is to be profit contractors: KVC Behavioral dozens of children. was going to do it,” she removed from their Health and St. Francis Community “I consider myself to be a fierce said. “Keep in mind, “I consider myself to be a home, except in Services. Both agencies, she said, rely on advocate for the children in my care,” this was for a child that fierce advocate for the emergency; and several sub-contractors. the 41-year-old Topeka woman told a I was paying a tutor • Receive Armstrong said DCF was neutral on panel of legislators. “That’s my role; $35 an hour for children in my care.” “appropriate prefer - the bill. that’s my job.” because when I got ential considera - Representatives of KVC and St. Hulaether, who spent a year in foster him, he couldn’t read or write.” The tion” for being allowed to adopt children Francis attended the hearing but did not care herself when she was 12, told mem - child, she said, was 8 years old. who’ve been in their care. testify. bers of the Senate Judiciary Committee Many foster parents, she said, fear The bill also would create an eight- Shared frustration that the state’s foster care system is bro - similar punishment. to 10-member board for advising DCF Barbara Allen, a former legislator ken. “I had 30 foster parents that were on foster care and adoption issues. who became a foster parent four years “Was it in our foster baby’s best interest Foster parents, she said, are “treated supposed to be here today,” Hulaether “This bill is designed to give foster ago, said she shared Hulaether’s frustra - to be moved to a relative placement? I like babysitters,” allowed to have little or said. “And almost none of them showed parents a voice,” said Lori Ross, executive tion with the system. don’t know, because I don’t know any - no say in what happens to a child in up because they said they were afraid of director at the Midwest Foster Care and Allen, an attorney whose husband is thing about the placement.” their care and are told keep quiet about what would happen if they spoke out. Adoption Association, a group that rep - a district court judge in Johnson Allen said she felt like she and her the system’s shortcomings. There’s this constant fear of retaliation” resents more than 400 foster and adop - County, said she was being denied infor - husband had been taken for granted by Foster parents who complain about from the state’s foster care contractors or tive parents in Kansas and Missouri. mation on the whereabouts of a baby the system. being left out of the decision-making, subcontractors. Kansas privatized most of its foster girl who had been in her care for about “I’m an attorney, my husband is a she said, are punished for speaking out. Hulaether testified in favor of Senate care system in 1996. three months. judge,” she said. “If we feel this way, I “I have a boy in my home now that Bill 394, which she and other supporters Kathy Armstrong, DCF staff attor - The child, she said, was moved to an don’t know that any of us can say we’re has had four case managers in nine called the foster parents’ bill of rights. ney in charge of prevention and protec - unidentified relative’s home recently. surprised when foster parents who’ve months,” she told KHI News Service Included in the bill are provisions tion services, said most of proposed “I have no idea where she is or with been doing this awhile decide they don’t later. “I won’t say anything about the lat - for ensuring that foster parents: “rights” in the proposed legislation whom she’s been placed,” Allen said. want to do it anymore.”` est (case manager) because he’s new, but • Have access to “all pertinent infor - already are spelled out in DCF policy. the other three were worthless.” mation” about a child placed in their “We value and appreciate the role Hulaether said when she complained care; that foster parents play in the lives of to the third worker’s supervisors and • Are allowed to participate in deter - kids who, for various reasons, have been removed from their homes,” she said. Armstrong said she wasn’t aware Every child deserves a loving, caring home. A family they can call their own. that some foster parents were afraid to A place where they belong. With people who will be there for them always. challenge caseworkers’ decisions. CHANGES continued from page 1

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Facebook.com/metrovoicenews 4 • March 2014 ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______Topeka Metro Voice Christians for Life volunteers honored Chaplain’s Corner Heavenly Father, a big splash. The officers and members of the board Concerning the issue of abortion, often I am not God, but I am somebody. I cannot raise the dead, but I can sure for Christians for Life, Inc., gathered on people realize an error took place in that raise cane. Saturday, February 22, at Perkins decision, and there is repentance, accept - Uncommon I cannot do things God can do, but I can Restaurant to honor Charles and Rujira ance and healing. Christians for Life, Inc., do something. I cannot make wicked people good, but Rightmeier for over ten years volunteer offers a Bible study to help people come to Prayers I can introduce service as Property Manager for the Heart a place of healing. For more information I cannot use my voice to create, but I of America Memorial Wall for the call 785 267-5777 or email baker - Fred S. can use it to persuade. Them to the God who can. Unborn. Charles organized the work that [email protected]. Hollomon I cannot heal the sick, but I pray can I cannot do all that God can do, but I was necessary to clean out the overgrowth can do something. of weeds and honeysuckle trees along with Charles and Rujira Rightmeier Chaplain Emeritus pray for them. clearing out 600 tires and tons of debris. Kansas Senate Help me, O God, to do it! He and Rujira oversaw the landscaping, I cannot feed 5000 like Jesus did, but I lighting and the planting of beautiful flow - Prayers like this may be found in my Book of Uncommon can share my lunch like the little boy did. I Pray in the Name of Jesus Christ Prayers at Book Boutique at the Library, Wolfe’s Camera ers. Charles was the first treasurer for the I cannot walk on water, but I can make AMEN group and did much to make others aware Shop, the State Capital, and my Web site, fsh-kschap.org of the need for such a garden. The Heart of America Memorial Wall for the Unborn is a place where people Alternative lifestyle youth pastor wins Olympic gold who have babies in heaven because of mis - “ ” by Jim Denison carriage, stillbirth or abortion can place the 6:12). When last did you name of their baby to remember. spend an hour with your David Wise is the most unusual "black Father? sheep" in the Olympic Games. The New Two: When Christians Building a more successful you is topic of York Times calls skiers "models of branded serve Jesus, others take note. dishevelment marketed as easygoing and David says, "Even after I won C5 Christian Chamber luncheon speaker athletic slackers, usually longhaired and the X Games the first time, clothed in flannel, like guitarists from a jam they said: 'We don't know Learning to project the best version of 11:30am-1pm, at Brickyard Barn Inn, band enjoying a day in the snow." what to do with this guy. He's yourself will increase your bottom line. 4020 NW 25th St. Cost: $10 for C5 By contrast, Wise is a 23-year-old hus - different.'" How does he Become the person people want to meet! members & first-time guests who RSVP, band and father whom his competitors call respond? "My rebuttal to that Learn what draws us to some people and $12 at the door; $15 for non-members & "vanilla." The Times describes him as is: Why do you want some - repels us from others. Discover how to other guests. The featured speaker is "countercul - thing that has been done put your best foot forward in social situ - Cory Walker of Thrive – “Strategic ture to the before? It's the people who ations. Coaching for a Successful Life!” Open to countercul - are different who end up These ideas will be discussed at the the public. For reservations and more ture. He is the shaping the culture." As I Because he walks with Jesus and serves C5Alive luncheon on March 13, information, email [email protected]. undude." He often say, the darker the room, the more him, David Wise can say, "life's a grand agrees: "People obvious the light (Matthew 5:14-16). adventure." Do you agree? kind of look at me as the black sheep. I don't neces - sarily live the lifestyle that goes along with skiing." He also happens to be the best in the world at what he does. In the freeski pipe, where athletes perform incredible aerial acrobatics while skiing up and down a snow-covered U-shaped arena, Wise has won back-to-back X Games titles and a world championship. One of his "tricks" involves spinning 3½ times in the air before landing on his skis and continuing his run. His signature trick helped him win gold at the Sochi Olympics. What does he think of his success? "I think being a good husband and father is more important than to be a great skier. So I kind of focus on that, and the pressure is off." He believes that "there's a lot more to life than skiing. We're just flipping and ski - ing in the halfpipe. It's not an eternally last - ing thing." What is? His relationship with Jesus. David met his future wife at a church camp. He proposed marriage when he was 20 and she was 19, kneeling under a full moon and presenting to her a poem he had written in glow-in-the-dark ink. Both are now youth ministers; he may become a pastor in the future. Reading his story reminds me of two important things. One: We must stay con - nected to Jesus if we would serve him. David admits, "If I'm not spiritually in tune, then the rest of me is not going to be in tune either." So what does he do? "I always try to wake up and spend some quiet time, try and center myself and really feel connected to God and what He's try - ing to say or speak into my life. As long as I have that, it becomes easier for me to just go out and enjoy what I do." He's following the example of Jesus, who met with his Father early (Mark 1:35), late (Matthew 14:23), and sometimes all night (Luke Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 5 WHEN WE CAN’T SEE THE SUN Teachers join parents in opposing Common Core by Jessica S. Hosman As this picture I sit looking out the window and see a was painted in my Kansas and Missouri Legislators Looking to Limit or Stop Implementation dark, cloudy sky. The melting snow has mind, I could easi - turned everything beneath it into a soggy ly see the contrast by Kharissa Forte | Metro Voice and muddy mess. The cold air leaks in between it and our Jessica Hosman through my old windows, causing a faint lives at times. There are days when it just The idea that it takes a village to blow of the curtains and chill to my bones. seems like everything goes wrong and we raise a child continues to be a pop - Soon, rain will come followed by more wonder if life could become any worse. ular stance among parents and darkness, whirling winds, crackling thun - We become consumed by the darkness teachers concerning the education - der and the occasional burst of lightning that surrounds us and seem to only feel al progress of today’s youth. This is which will streak through the sky. To me, the effects of the whirlwinds and storms. the same mentality the it is dreary and frightening; but there Often, it feels as though we will never Department of Education claims remains a hope within me of a brighter escape, never receive a break, and never to have concerning the implemen - tomorrow. feel the warmth of contentment and peace tation of the new Common Core Many years ago, as turmoil raged with - ever again. However, as with any storm in State Standards. in and around my life, God turned my the natural, no storm in life can last forev - “We have never invested as much Supporters of a bill that would sever Kansas from the Common Core vision towards a fierce storm outdoors. er… regardless of how hopeless and dark in public education as we should With the exception of the bolts of light - it might seem. have because we’ve always had a gather outside a Kansas House Education Committee hearing in Topeka. ning shocking the earth, everything was As I look out my window, I can’t see the kind of private notion of children,” Rep. Casey Guernsey filed a bill to of the same fight to stop CCSS. pitch black. The rains mixed with hail sun – but I know it’s still there. I am confi - said MSNBC host Melissa Harris- “return FERPA-like protection to “I and others are still fighting to stones were heavy and fierce, plummeting dent that one day the clouds will part and Perry. “We have to break through student data gathered in the state get rid of Common Core,” said to the earth and creating craters in the it will once again pierce through the cold - this private idea of Missouri.” Kansas Rep. Pete DeGraaf in an e- ground. Winds whirled, collecting every - ness, dry up the wet ground and bring that kids belong to “We have to break The Federal mail to local residents. “The thing in their path. Thunder bellowed and brilliant and bold light. their parents or to Education Rights Chairman of the House Education echoed in every direction. I watched with I can’t see God’s Son – but I know He’s their families and through this private and Privacy Act Committee is with us, but we are intensity as the storm raged and raged. still there. If I will turn my eyes upward recognize that kids now covers the data still dealing with basically the same Then, in an instant, God showed me and allow them to rise above the clouds, I belong to whole idea that kids belong point expansion as make up on the House Education something else. will see He’s never left and never will. No communities. Once well as which agen - Committee and the House at He lifted my head and eyes to the dark matter what darkness surrounds us in life, we realize it’s to their parents.” cies have access to large.” clouds, then caused my vision to extend it won’t rain forever and God’s Son will everybody’s –MSNBC Host Melissa Harris-Perry them, including On Thursday, Mar. 13, a pro - above them. As I began to see above the indeed shine. responsibility, we educationally mar - gram titled “Is Our Children’s clouds, I saw beauty, solace and light. start making better investments.” keted vendors. Right to Privacy Being Infringed Though the chaos was brewing below, the The news and information One of the largest groups of crit - Joining the efforts of Rep. Upon?” will be held in Mound sun was shining brightly above, complete - ics of the Common Core State Guernsey, Missouri Rep. Kurt Bahr City, Kan. to inform participants ly unaffected by the darkness just below you want...on-line. Standards, however, is teachers. developed document HB1490 on how the Common Core State the clouds. Caught up in the peace now The complaint is that CCSS forces which “forbids the governor [Jay Standards could affect their chil - consuming my vision, I knew it was just a metrovoicenews.com & a micromanaged environment Nixon] and state employees from dren. matter of time before the clouds would where the agenda of true learning adopting Common Core and More information and registra - begin to dissipate and once again reveal is replaced by a host of standard - reverses what they have already tion can be found at the sun that never did stop shining. Facebook.com/metrovoicenews ized tests. Teacher evaluation and inappropriately done.” www.kansansagains tcommon - ultimately job security is tangent Across the river, Kansas is a part core.com. upon student performance on these tests. “In instituting this unpiloted CCSS, I realize that my classroom has become one high-stakes exper - iment,” local teacher Mercedes Schneider posted on her blog. “My goal is to walk the CCSS tightrope as best I can out of respect for administration while continuing to guard and exercise my professional judgment.” While forty-five states have accepted the new regimen, Missouri and Kansas are among the remaining five fighting against the CCSS. According to Missouri Coalition Against Common Core (www.moagainstcommoncore.org ), “a critical element of the CCSS is the development of a national lon - gitudinal database that will track 350 data points on each child enrolled in the public school sys - tem.” Missouri children are already susceptible to 61 data points in adherence of state and federal stan - dards. In addition to academic progress, collection of data such as combined household income, insurance coverage, oral soft tissue health and other information will begin being collected at birth. The Department of Education will have access to these data points, as will the Department of Labor, Department of Corrections and the Department of Health and Human Services. Earlier last month, Missouri

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It was normal against Christians who take the Bible offers a number of insightful and helpful many witnesses entrust to reliable people Phil Boatwright, Marie Asner, Dwight seriously. solutions to reverse the trends facing the who will also be qualified to teach Widaman, Jessica Hosman, Lee Hartman for a man to marry a woman and a fami - ly to consist of a father, a mother and their ▪ The cultural debates and theological evangelicals in America, I have summa - others.”II Timothy 2:2 LAYOUT & DESIGN children and to live together under one differences among the church that rized his recommendations into a single Please join us in this urgent and vital Joe Boothe, Lee Hartman, Dwight Widaman roof. It was normal in my childhood to remains are splintering and splitting the call to action: God’s leaders are needed cause to be the salt and light needed in the witness people weeping in church as they church. now. world right now. 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Like Patrick, may Jesus revisionism as time God that he must Ireland in Patrick’s day was an evil be your hope for today. passes for significant return to the land of and dangerous place. Knowing this in events. You know, every year the fish his slavery and spread the good news advance, Patrick recounted in his writ - –Clint Decker is President & story becomes more amazing. This is of Christ. He boarded a boat that took ings, The Confession saying, "I am Evangelist with Great Awakenings, Inc. the case with St. Patrick’s Day. It was him to the shores of Ireland for a sec - ready to be murdered, betrayed, greatawakenings.org Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 7 The FCC Wades Into the Newsroom thrust the federal government into news - gets critical information. AJIT rooms across the country. With its "Multi- The FCC also wants to wade into office Market Study of Critical Information politics. One question for reporters is: PAI Needs," or CIN, the agency plans to send "Have you ever suggested coverage of what FCC researchers to grill reporters, editors and you consider a story with critical informa - Commissioner station owners about how they decide tion for your customers that was rejected which stories to run. by management?" A field test in Columbia, S.C., is sched - Follow-up questions ask for specifics uled to begin this spring. about how editorial discretion is exercised, view point The purpose of the CIN, according to as well as the reasoning behind the deci - CNN, Fox News, ABC and other media outlets are crying foul at the the FCC, is to ferret out information from sions. government’s intimidation of First Amendment rights. News organizations often disagree television and radio broadcasters about Participation in the Critical Why is the agency "the process by which stories are selected" Information Needs study is voluntary—in bly aimed to increase the diversity of eliminating barriers to entry for entrepre - asking about coverage and how often stations cover "critical theory. Unlike the opinion surveys that thought on the airwaves, many stations neurs and small businesses in the commu - information needs," along with "perceived Americans see on a daily basis and either simply chose to ignore controversial topics nications industry. choices? station bias" and "perceived responsiveness answer or not, as they wish, the FCC's altogether, rather than air unwanted con - This claim is peculiar. How can the to underserved queries may be tent that might cause listeners to change news judgments made by editors and sta - about what Americans need to know. populations." “But everyone should agree hard for the broad - the channel. tion managers impede small businesses MSNBC, for example, apparently believes How does the casters to ignore. The Fairness Doctrine was controversial from entering the broadcast industry? And that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of FCC plan to dig up on this: The government has They would be out and led to lawsuits throughout the 1960s why does the CIN study include newspa - our time. Fox News, on the other hand, all that informa - of business without and '70s that argued it infringed upon the pers when the FCC has no authority to chooses to cover the September 2012 tion? no place pressuring media an FCC license, freedom of the press. The FCC finally regulate print media? attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound First, the agency which must be stopped enforcing the policy in 1987, Should all stations follow MSNBC's in Benghazi more heavily than other net - selected eight cate - organizations into covering renewed every acknowledging that it did not serve the example and cut away from a discussion works. The American people, for their gories of "critical eight years. public interest. with a former congresswoman about the part, disagree about what they want to information" such certain stories.” This is not the In 2011 the agency officially took it off National Security Agency's collection of watch. as the "environ - first time the the books. But the demise of the Fairness phone records to offer live coverage of But everyone should agree on this: The ment" and "economic opportunities," that agency has meddled in news coverage. Doctrine has not deterred proponents of Justin Bieber's bond hearing? As a con - government has no place pressuring media it believes local newscasters should cover. Before Critical Information Needs, there newsroom policing, and the CIN study is a sumer of news, I have an opinion. But my organizations into covering certain stories. It plans to ask station managers, news was the FCC's now-defunct Fairness first step down the same dangerous path. opinion shouldn't matter more than any - Unfortunately, the Federal directors, journalists, television anchors Doctrine, which began in 1949 and The FCC says the study is merely an one else's merely because I happen to work Communications Commission, where I and on-air reporters to tell the government required equal time for contrasting view - objective fact-finding mission. The results at the FCC. am a commissioner, does not agree. Last about their "news philosophy" and how points on controversial issues. will inform a report that the FCC must Mr. Pai is a commissioner of the Federal May the FCC proposed an initiative to the station ensures that the community Though the Fairness Doctrine ostensi - submit to Congress every three years on Communications Commission.

they don't approve of, because we also have the freedom to NOT participate. LEE Rof Kaensalnsi wganti Roeliguiouss Li befrtyr preo - ed• 6o4% mof Kan,sa nsm woulda surpporrt "ia baill gtheose waho nare dcalli ngh Charistitanes hateful Do not expect Christians to approve of HARTMAN tected. that protects a Kansas employee or busi - and bigots. You know, we do have freedom or endorse a lifestyle that goes against Highlights of the poll include the fol - ness owner in the wedding industry from of religion in this country. To expect their beliefs. And Christians should not Managing Editor lowing: being forced to assist in a same-sex mar - someone who believes homosexuality is a expect non-Christians to live life as they • 90% of Kansans agree that "Kansas riage - either by photographing, catering sin to participate in a homosexual wed - think they should. But we should all lawmakers should fully protect religious or providing some related service - if that ding would be wrong. Is that so hard to treat each other respectfully. freedom" meant violating their faith." understand? I know there are some who call them - edito r’ sblog • 70% of Kansans polled disagree that The House Religious Liberty Bill 2453 True Christians don't ha te homosexu - selves Christian who also spout hateful From everything you hear in the main - "it is okay to have to forfeit some of their did not allow discrimination to refuse als or anyone else, even though they may speech – they are certainly not speaking stream news media about the recent reli - religious civil rights and liberties for service for same-sex couples in general for believe they are living an ungodly the truth in love. gious freedom bill, you would think that same-sex marriage to be recognized anything as many claimed. Its focus was lifestyle, because of the Bible on which Bottom line is: Not everyone who dis - the supporters of the bill hate homosexu - under Kansas law." narrow in that it protected the religious their religion is based. No one is forced agrees with you hates you. Geez, get a grip, als and are trying to treat them like sec - • The survey found strong support for liberty of people or institutions of faith to believe in the Bible or not, we all have people. ond-class citizens. And you might con - protections for churches and religious who could be approached to service their the freedom to believe as we wish. Christians are called to speak the truth clude also that most folks don’t really care institutions when it came to their objec - same-sex wedding or celebration of such. Homosexuals in this country have the in love. Nowhere does the Bible say to about religious freedom anymore. tions on issues such as performing mar - freedom to live the lifestyle they desire, speak hate, or to not speak the truth at all. But a poll sponsored by the Kansas riages, providing facilities and providing Who are the haters? as do Christians. No one should be able Don’t be afraid to speak up for the Family Policy Institute showed that 90% adoption and social services. I'm hearing a lot of hateful speech from to force anyone else to endorse a lifestyle truth, and don’t be a hater.

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by Dave Trabert that if one only considers certain lege-ready. states, Kansas has the second highest I went to the February Board of Readers are well aware that Kansas score in the nation. Education meeting and expressed has a two-tiered education system. Now here are the facts from ACT. concern over the contents of their About half of students are doing well Kansas’ White students’ composite mailer in the public comment forum. but the other half – those considered score of 22.6 is the 21st highest score Their reaction: “meh” low income based on eligibility for among states. Hispanic students’ By the way, Kansas has 34,778 free or reduced lunch – are several composite score of 19.3 is the 24th teachers according to the Kansas years’ worth of learning behind. highest score among states. Black stu - Department of Education...not Honest reviews of national rankings dents’ composite score of 17.5 is the 101,578 as claimed on the Board of show that Kansas’ scores are about 19th highest score among states. Education postcard. average. The gap between White students Pretending to have high achieve - But citizens are told that student and those of color has gotten wider ment is another sad example of insti - achievement is very high in Kansas – over the last ten years. To put that in tutional interests taking priority over and that false sense of high achieve - perspective, ACT reports that 35 per - student needs. It doesn’t matter how ment is a tremendous barrier to get - cent of Kansas’ White students scored the ‘state’ or a ‘district’ is doing; what ting students the help they need. well enough to be considered college- matters is how every student is doing. So it was particularly disturbing to ready in English, Reading, Math and And a lot of them aren't doing very see a postcard from the Kansas Board Science – but only 14 percent of well. of Education painting a distorted Hispanic students and only 7 percent Boy, do we need a cultural shift in view of ACT scores. Basically, they say of African American students are col - Kansas. 8 • March 2014 ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______Topeka Metro Voice

DOWNSIZING FOR THE GOLDEN YEARS By Phyllis Lansford, Brewster Place Marketing Consultant Are you considering downsizing My own downsizing story involved take with you your life to move into a retirement moving out of a four-bedroom, • Discard things you can do with - community or perhaps an apart - three-bath house with a double out ment? You may be feeling over - garage to a two-bedroom condo with whelmed by the process and deci - one bath and a carport. That was a Ask yourself, “How much room sions that need to be made. What to drastic change. We got rid of lots of will I have?” keep? What to give away? What to “stuff” at that time. • Measure your new home. throw away? Once you’ve decided to simplify • Find out what’s furnished (appli - In my fifteen years of helping sen - your life and downsize, it is never too ances, draperies, carpeting, etc.). iors find new homes for their golden early to start. You have a collection of • Measure your furniture. years, I’ve helped many of them make a lifetime to go through, review and What should you keep? tough decisions about how to down - decide on what to take with you, what • FURNITURE—Identify the size from larger homes into a much to give away and what to throw away. smaller items that will fit into your more efficient apartment or town - • Go through your home from attic new home. How often will you need home. In fact, my husband and I have to basement that dining room table that seats 16 personally downsized twice, and I’ve • Make an inventory people? Tips for Talking with Aging also had to help both my mother-in- • Set aside things you cannot part • CLOTHES – Closet space will be law and my mother through the with more limited than in your larger Parents about their Future downsizing process. • Label things you would like to home, so get rid of everything except (StatePoint) Sometimes the versational mistakes to avoid that your favorite pieces. most important family conversa - could leave your parent feeling • HOUSEHOLD ITEMS – tions can be the most uncomfort - defensive -- from nagging and lec - Consider your new lifestyle, and ask if able to initiate, especially those turing to making promises you you need large pots and pans or sev - concerning the health and well- may not be able to keep. eral sets of china? being of an aging loved one. But “There are few more effective • FAMILY PHOTOS – Choose the such discussions shouldn’t wait, ways of blocking any further con - ones you must keep: identify the peo - say experts. versation than by making decisions ple in each and the date it was taken. “Ignoring the inevitable will and presenting them as a master Offer the remainder to family mem - only leave you unprepared for the plan to a parent,” says Morris. bers. Discard what is left. • HEIRLOOMS – Write down their future,” says Virginia Morris, elder - Additionally, don’t arrive armed source and history and offer to fami - care expert and author of the new with paperwork. Pages of legal ly members those you can part with. book, “How to Care for Aging documents and brochures about • BOOKS AND MAGAZINES – Parents.” “Remember, talking retirement homes will likely over - Keep only those you will definitely about the worst-case scenarios whelm your parent. use, remembering the library and the won’t make them come true, and internet have unlimited resources for refusing to talk about them won’t Get Specific you. make them go away.” Talk -- really talk -- to your par - • JEWELRY AND COL - In Morris’ new book, she offers a ents about their medical states and LECTIBLES – This is a good time to one-stop resource to those caring wishes concerning aggressive med - have them appraised. Ask yourself, for an older-loved one, with advice ical care. Get them to sign a living “Will I wear the piece”? If not, sell or on medical, financial, housing and will and health care proxy, but real - give to someone in your family. emotional issues. Here are some of ize that these documents are just a • TOOLS – A screwdriver, hammer her tips for broaching these crucial starting point. and pliers are likely all you’ll need, as subjects: Don’t accept vague comments anything major is just a maintenance phone call away. like “don’t drag it out.” Push the • FINANCIAL RECORDS AND Listen conversation further. It may not be PERSONAL PAPERS – Check with However you launch the conver - pleasant to discuss end-of-life sce - your lawyer and your accountant sation, start by listening, even narios, but knowing your parent’s about what records to keep. when you have specific issues you wishes could help save your family • PLANTS – Get new ones. want to discuss or firm convictions from future untold agony and about what should be done. Don’t grief. SCALING BACK interrupt. Acknowledge that you’ve More information and resources There are clearly going to be those heard what he or she has said. about this and other similar topics treasures you don’t need but can’t Your parent likely has previously can be found online at part with. Recall the cherished mem - ories of each article, laugh, cry, sigh, unvoiced fears and hopes that you www.CareForAgingParents.com. and enjoy these moments…then haven’t even considered. If you lis - If you are oncerned about an pack those items in a box, list the con - ten first, you will probably learn aging loved one, opening up the tents on the outside, and entrust the something, and your parent will be lines of communication with them boxes of treasures to a family member more likely to listen to your views. is the first step toward preparing or friend (or rent a storage unit). for his or her future. So don’t For those items you can do with - Things to Avoid sweep difficult conversations out, sell them, give them away (which There are several common con - under the rug. could be tax deductible if you donate them to a charity), or throw them away. contained the remote control. furniture. 2. If you are packing on your Downsizing can be a long and dis - ORGANIZING WHAT’S LEFT own, choose small boxes. Label the couraging process, so ask family or 1. Always pack and open the box with a list of its contents and friends to give you a hand if you high priority box first, with bed which room they are to go. Keep out become discouraged. Once you reach linens, dishes, favorite reading mate - small appliances such as heating pads, the other size of the project, though, rials, coffeepot, coffee and mugs. In clock radios, etc. so that the movers you will likely feel like a giant weight our moving times, this box always can plug them in behind the heavy has been lifted off your shoulders! Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 9 senior news briefs Industry and non-profits join forces Tax talk offered Would you like to make the most of your tax options this spring? Ttheo N atisonapl Inestiteutesd of Hvealath, litadrgeat catn ireosultn in f aiolurefs l atde ini thse eeaase sto vealid atte abiorloggicale tartgests that Robbie Arney, a tax advisor with H&R Block, will present a Tax Time semi - 10 biopharmaceutical companies and development process, costing time, play key roles in disease progression, nar at Legend Assisted Living Center, 1931 SW Arvonia Place, on Tuesday, several nonprofit organizations today money, and ultimately, lives. Currently, and increase understanding of molec - March 4th at 6 p.m. Topics covered will include new tax laws, new healthcare launched an unprecedented partner - developing a drug from early discovery ular networks involved in the disease, laws, tips for deductions and changes in Kansas laws. ship to transform the current model through U.S. Food and Drug to identify new potential therapeutic Time will be allowed for questions and answers, and refreshments will be for identifying and validating the most Administration approval takes well targets. served. To RSVP, call 272-9400. promising biological targets of disease over a decade and has a failure rate of for new diagnostics and drug develop - more than 95 percent. As a conse - Type 2 diabetes Two part educational program offered ment. quence, each success costs more than • Build a knowledge portal of DNA The Alzheimer's Association Heart of America Chapter in Topeka will be The Accelerating Medicines $1 billion. sequence, functional genomic and presenting a two part family/caregiver educational program titled the ABC's of Partnership (AMP) aims to distin - “The AMP rallies scientific key play - epigenomic information, and clinical Alzheimer's disease. Session 1 takes place March 24 from 5:30 to 8 p.m., and will guish biological targets of disease most ers of the innovation ecosystem in a data from studies on type 2 diabetes include information on disease overview, communication, behaviors and com - likely to respond to new therapies and more unified way to address one of the and its heart and kidney complica - munity resources. Session 2 is March 31 from 5:30 to 8 p.m., and will be a legal characterize biological indicators of key challenges to Biopharma drug dis - tions. The portal will include existing workshop on Durable Power of Attorney, guardianship and division of assets. disease, known as biomarkers. covery and development,” said Mikael data and new data from studies involv - Both sessions will be held at Midland Care Connection Education Center, Through the Foundation for the NIH Dolsten, M.D., Ph.D., President of ing 100,000–150,000 individuals. The 200 SW Frazier Circle. Pre-registration is requested by calling the Alzheimer's (FNIH), AMP partners will invest Worldwide Research and rich collection of curated and collated Association at 785-271-1844 or emailing [email protected]. more than $230 million over five years Development at Pfizer. “This type of information in this portal will provide in the first projects, which focus on novel collaboration will leverage the an opportunity to identify the most Alzheimer’s disease, type 2 diabetes, strengths of both industry and NIH to promising therapeutic targets for dia - SOCIAL SECURITY ANNOUNCES FASTER and the autoimmune disorders betes from the growing mountain of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic potentially relevant data. DISABILITY PROCESS FOR VETERANS lupus erythematosus (lupus). • Focus on DNA regions that might Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting this new service for America’s vets.” A critical and groundbreaking ele - be critical for the development or pro - Commissioner of Social Security, has In order to receive the expedited ment of the partnership is the agree - gression of type 2 diabetes and search unveiled a new initiative to expedite service, veterans must tell Social ment that the data and analyses gener - for natural variations in targeted pop - disability claims by veterans with a Security they have a VA disability ated will be made publicly available to ulations that might predict the likeli - Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) compensation rating of 100% P&T the broad biomedical community. The hood of success of drug development disability compensation rating of and show proof of their disability three- to five-year, milestone-driven aimed at these targets. pilot projects in these disease areas 100% Permanent & Total (P&T). rating with their VA Notification Rheumatoid arthritis and lupus Under the new process, Social Letter. could set the stage for broadening AMP to other diseases and conditions. • Collect and analyze tissue and Security will treat these veterans’ The VA rating only expedites Social blood samples from people with applications as high priority and issue Security disability claims processing “Patients and their caregivers are relying on science to find better and rheumatoid arthritis and lupus to pin - expedited decisions, similar to the way and does not guarantee an approval point biological changes at the single the agency currently handles disability for Social Security disability benefits. faster ways to detect and treat disease ensure we expedite translation of sci - and improve their quality of life,” said entific knowledge into next generation cell level, to allow comparisons across claims from Wounded Warriors. These veterans must still meet the the diseases and provide insights into “Our veterans have sacrificed so strict eligibility requirements for a dis - NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., therapies to address the urgent needs Ph.D. “Currently, we are investing a of Alzheimer’s, diabetes and RA/lupus key aspects of the disease process. much for our country and it is only ability allowance. • Identify differences between right that we ensure they have timely Social Security plans to launch the great deal of money and time in patients.” avenues with high failure rates, while AMP has been more than two years rheumatoid arthritis patients who access to the disability benefits they expedited process in mid-March. For respond to current therapies and those may be eligible for and deserve,” said information about this service, please patients and their families wait. All sec - in the making, with intense interac - who do not, and provide a better sys - Colvin. “Social Security worked with visit www.socialsecurity.gov/pgm/dis - tors of the biomedical enterprise agree tions between scientists in the public Veterans Affairs to identify those vet - ability-pt.htm. For more about Social that new approaches are sorely need - and private sectors, progressive refine - tems-level understanding of disease erans with disabilities who have a high Security’s handling of Wounded ed.” ment of the goals, strategy develop - mechanisms in RA and lupus. probability of also meeting our defini - Warrior’s disability claims, please visit “The good news is that recent dra - ment support from the Boston Highly collaborative steering com - tion of disability. I am proud of our www.socialsecurity.gov/wounded - matic advances in basic research are Consulting Group, and scientific proj - mittees with representation from pub - collaboration and happy to announce warriors. opening new windows of opportunity ect and partnership management by lic- and private-sector partners will be for therapeutics,” continued Dr. the FNIH. Through this effort, AMP established for each disease area to Collins. “But this challenge is beyond partners have developed research oversee the research plans. 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(WNS)--Fewer than half of American 17 year-olds are being raised by both biological parents in an intact family, the most devastating casualty in the marriage battle raging in America today, according to Patrick Fagan, senior fellow and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute. Fagan discussed the state of the American family and rel eased the States can strengthen marriages about fighting for the family, couples Fourth Index of Family Belonging in through policy-making, offering tem - themselves must choose to stay a webcast hosted by the Family porary assistance to families in need together, Fagan said. and promoting marriage resources to The battle for marriage it is not Dale and Alice Rockey of Research Council. The study calcu - help couples enter about going to war, it is about love. The 2014 state winners of the annu - and weekend. lated the percentage “When the family is and sustain healthy Teenage boys need to realize their al Longest Married Couple Project, Winners of the project are automati - of 17 year olds in the weakened, all of marriages, Marshall children need fathers married to sponsored by Worldwide Marriage cally made members of the Worldwide United States raised said. mothers for the rest of their lives. Encounter (WWME), have been Marriage Encounter Longest Married by both biological society suffers.” Although the pan - “The people who will win this bat - announced Couple Project Alumni group. parents in an intact elists who spoke last tle are those who will love,” Fagan The Kansas winners are Dale and Couples cannot succeed themselves family since birth. The regional index month pointed to policies and talked said. Alice Rockey, who have been married each year as either national or state win - ranged from a high of 50 percent in 80 years and live in Olathe. ners, thus giving an opportunity to The 2014 longest married couple in honor other longest married couples the Northeast to a low of 42 percent the United States, based on the nomi - across the country. in the South. The Asian community nations submitted, is Harold and Edna Officials also pointed out that the had the most teens living in intact Owings of Burbank, Calif. They are project is based on nominations families, 65 percent, while African- married over 82 years having made received from October 15 the previous Americans had the fewest, 17 percent. their marriage vows on Nov. 24, 1931. year to January 10th of the current year. Marriage is the foundational piece As in previous years of the four-year- "We realize there could be couples mar - for every other aspect of society, old project, individual state winners ried longer, but we did not receive their Fagan said. Strong, healthy marriages were recognized and honored by cou - nominations from friends or family produce strong, healthy families. ples involved with Worldwide Marriage during the nominating period," they Strong families produce healthy Encounter over the Valentine's week said. churches and strong schools. A well-educated population mani - fests a strong economy, and only a strong economy can support a strong government and nation. When the family is weakened, all of society suf - fers. The war on the family is no acci - dent, Fagan said. A battle against mar - riage has been going on for at least 100 years. The Marxists who came to the United States when Hitler came to power in Germany brought their belief that marriage was an opponent to be destroyed. Now, Fagan said, some American cultural and thought leaders are devoted to the destruction of marriage. And they’ve succeeded, to a certain extent. Since the women’s liberation movement and the sexual revolution, the path to marriage is a lot more complex, said Jennifer Marshall, director of domestic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation. When the culture does not have a high view of marriage, young couples are left to devise their own standards. Marriage skills are more caught than taught. When more than half of all adoles - cents grow up without an intact fam - ily, they are less likely to catch mar - riage skills because they are never modeled. While the problem can only be solved on an individual basis, the community and even the state can help strengthen the family, Marshall said. 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People worse with marriage, a mortgage, and Define entrepreneur of entrepreneurship, I want to do will ask all sorts of questions about how children. We thought our earned money something BIG.” The little things much to give, what to give to, and was ours to do with as we pleased. We whether to give off of the gross or the net, couldn’t have been more wrong. It wasn’t To exercise your entrepreneur lead to the big things. Think about the story of the boy just to steer away from the heart of the until we participated in a Bible study muscle, let’s look at three ways you LINDA matter – why give at all? called Crown Ministries, that we learned can begin to bring solutions to the who’s lunch of five loaves and two FIELDS small fish was multiplied by Jesus to When we, as ministry leaders, pour it was God’s money to begin with, and table by revisiting the definition of ourselves out in every other way, why that giving was an act of worship. Our an entrepreneur and a familiar Bible Director of The feed a crowd of 5,000 hungry people story. Joseph Company on a mountainside. It must have The term entrepreneur normally seemed ridiculous to mention the refers to bringing new products or boy’s lunch, but Andrew did. Read services to market assuming a finan - faith works! the story for yourself in John 6:1-14 cial risk. Let’s expand that defini - 1. When you identify a large need tion. need—and fill it. It’s a primordial begin with what you have on hand. According to Dictionary.com, urge, independent of product, serv - In this case, it was a boy’s lunch. In entrepreneurs, in the purest sense, ice, industry or market. your case, what is the large need? are those who identify a need—any Notice the needs around you that What do you have? Next, Jesus and his disciples “Think about the story of the boy whose lunch of five loaves and two small fish was multiplied by Jesus and fed 5,000

hungry people on a can’t we hang on to the little money we giving became about pleasing God. mountain side.” have? Giving is not a financial decision, Financial Decision or Spiritual it’s a spiritual decision. Few things will Decision? brought order to the crowd and had hold us back in our spiritual growth more The world tells us to take care of our - them sit down in groups. than holding on too tightly to worldly selves, our family, and our future first, and wealth. 2. Refuse to panic before the n Please see GIVE page 17 answer is evident. Calm the situa - Growing up, giving was something we tion. If you’re fretting because you do not see a solution yet, calm yourself and rely on God for next steps. 3. Be thankful in the moment for what you have and what God is about to do; then press on with your solution. As the food was distributed, it was multiplied and all were fed, with food left over. Watch for a practical way to bring a solution to the table, at work, at church, at home, or in the com - munity. Now you can get down to busi - ness. Linda Fields is Director of The Joseph Company. Learn more through The Joseph Company events. Ihopkc.org/josephcompany 12 • March 2014 ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______Topeka Metro Voice

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Guest speaker Brian Holman. $18. For info and RSVP: [email protected] or 234- 6204 SIXTH ANNUAL TULIP TIME – Apr. 4-20. Old Prairie Town at Historic Ward-Meade Site, 124 NW Fillmore. For info: [email protected] or 291-2617 CAIR PARAVEL LATIN SCHOOL GOLF TOURNAMENT – Apr. 5, 8am. Lake Shawnee Golf Course. $125. To regis - ter: cpls.org or [email protected]. KANSAS KOYOTES FOOTBALL – Apr. 5, KS Expocentre, vs Omaha Beef. For info: 383-4965 SIXTH ANNUAL HERITAGE CHRISTIAN 5K RUN/WALK AND PANCAKE FEED – Apr. 12, Shawnee Lake Shelter House #2. Registration 8-8:45, 5k at 9, Fun Run at 9:10. Registration includes t-shirt and pancake feed ticket. Prizes for top three runners. $5 donation TOPEKA EASTER PARADE & FUN FAIR – Apr. 19, 9am- 3:30pm, Gage Park. Topeka’s first parade of its kind will move around inside Gage Park at 10:30am. Fun Fair 14 • March 2014 ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______Topeka Metro Voice Merchant. For info: artsconnecttopeka.org. – “Strategic Coaching for a Successful Life!” Open to logs, a guest and join in the fun! - No fees to join. Go to MACHINE EMBROIDERY CLUB – 1st Wed., the Ramada Inn, 420 E 6th Street. Call 230-4441 or "ART WALK AT THE T.V. UP/DOWN GALLERY!" – First the public – come find out more about Capital City Events Page at INGTopeka.com to register 9am–2:30pm, Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 2021 SW email topekaaglow@hotmail for dates/times. Friday of every month, TV Up Down Gallery, 909 ½ S. Christian Chamber of Commerce (C5) and network/fel - BIBLE STUDY ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER - 6pm Sunday 29th Street (south doors). To teach each other, enjoy KINGDOM ADVISORS TOPEKA AREA STUDY GROUP Kansas Ave. "Art, Music, and More!" lowship with others. For RSVPs & info: evenings, Cornerstone Community Church, 7620 SW fellowship & complete projects. Call Anne 271-1567. MEETING – 3rd Thu., 11:30am, Northland Christian [email protected]. BEACH MUSEUM OF ART – 701 Beach Lane, Kansas 21st. For info: 478-2929 SAFE STREETS MEETING – 1st Wed., 11:45am, Golf Church, 3102 NW Topeka Blvd. Christian financial pro - State University, Manhattan. For info: 532-7718. WOMEN’S CONNECTION SPRING STYLE SHOW LUNCH - DEAF WORSHIP SERVICE – 3rd Sun., 3pm, Faith Park Blvd, 2 blocks west of Adams. Info: 266-4606. fessionals: Financial Planners, Accountants, Attorney’s EON – Mar. 13, 11:30am, Capitol Plaza Hotel Emerald & Insurance Agents invited to attend. For info: kingdo - BEAUCHAMP’S ART GALLERY – 3113 SW Huntoon. For Lutheran Church, 17th & Gage. Also, every Sun. 9:30am STUDENT IMPACT – Every Wed., 6–8pm, First Southern Rm., 1717 SW Topeka Blvd. Entertainment includes service is interpreted. Baptist, 1912 SW Gage Blvd. Youth games, teaching, madvisors.org or Jim Hanna, info: Bob Swain, 233-0300 or [email protected]. music, style show by Christopher Banks, Inspirational [email protected] or 357-6278, ext.19. FAMILY EXPERIENCE (FX) – Every Sun., 6:01pm, worship, small groups. For info: 272-0443. THE ECLECTIVE: ECLECTIC ART SHOWROOM & STU - message. $14.50 including lunch. RSVP by Mar. 10: TOPEKA (Downtown) OPTIMIST CLUB – Every Fri., noon, DIOS – 900 N. Kansas in the NOTO Arts District. Ann at 266-1522 or Jeanie at 233-1387. Fairlawn Church of Nazarene, 730 Fairlawn Rd. A time TGIW: “TEACHING GOD’S INFINITE WISDOM” MEN’S of high intensity, action packed, skit mania, worship STUDY – Every Wed., 6:15am, Backyard Burgers in Top of the Tower. Serving the youth of Topeka. Anyone MULVANE ART MUSEUM – at Washburn University. Free SATURDAY WOMEN’S CONNECTION “SPRING music all centered around the word of God for 45 min - Lawrence. Affiliated with CharacterCounts.com. David welcome. 272-1099 or [email protected]. admission, open to the public. For info: 670-1124. BRUNCH” – Mar. 15, 10am, T&SC Public Library, 1515 utes. A free family worship event. For info: Emily Moore, Scheib, 865-5258 or [email protected]. VIP LUNCHEON FOR SENIORS – Every Fri., Noon, North MANHATTAN ARTS CENTER – 1520 Poyntz Ave., SW 10th Ave. Event Cost including meal: $13. RSVPs: 272-6322 or [email protected]. Topeka Baptist Church, 123 NW Gordon. FREE lunch Arlene, 233-0701 or email: [email protected]. Music BIBLE STUDY - every Thur. 1pm-3pm in the Prayer Rm Manhattan. 785-537-4420. Gallery Hours: M - F10am- LADIES' SMALL GROUP – Every Sun., 6pm, Bethel at Faith Family Life Centre, 3710 NW Topeka Blvd. with Christian fellowship, devotions & entertainment 5pm, Sat 1-4pm. & Feature: Pastor Kip Mickelson, will share his much provided by Topeka North Outreach. For Info: 286-1370. loved hobby & interest in folk music, telling how it is Baptist Church, 4011 N. Kansas Ave. Studying the book CHRISTIAN CHALLENGE – Every Thurs. 7–9pm, First SIGNS OF LIFE GALLERY – 722 Massachusetts St., passed down from one generation to the next & the of Esther, using the DVD series "It's Tough Being a Southern Baptist, 1912 SW Gage Blvd. Worship for col - A GOOD YARN CLUB – 2nd & 4th Sat., 9-11am, Lawrence. 830-8030 or SignsofLifeGallery.com. influence it has had on our lives, imaginations, and Woman" by Beth Moore. All welcome. Info: 286-0467. lege students. Wanamaker Rd Baptist Church, 2700 SW Wanamaker. Doing Good for Others: Knitting & Crocheting for Local SOUTHWIND GALLERY – 3074 SW 29th Street, Topeka. spirituality. Speaker: “Tending the garden of eat’n” CHRISTIANS FOR LIFE – Next quarterly meeting is Apr. LIFE FEST – 1st Thurs., 10am-12:30pm, Covenant Kansas 150 Art Exhibit – 150 original paintings and fine Christine Lahti, Bella Vista, AR, shares that life is like a 14 at Heart of America Wall for the Unborn, 1216 SE Charities, free yarn, needles, hooks & patterns. All are Baptist Church, 5440 SW 37th St. Celebrate Senior Life. welcome. Info: Debby, 215-4889, [email protected] art photography. KTWU Lights-Camera Auction garden with changing of seasons and always proving Republican. A pro-life educational ministry. 286-3432 For info: 273-2811. Reception, featuring “Master’s Paintings.” 273-5994 there can be a good harvest! THE FORCE (Students Taking Action) – 1st Mon. & 3rd BIBLE QUIZZING – 1st Sat. Learn God's Word & have OPERATION BACKPACK – 1st Thurs., 6pm, Lyman fun doing it with area Christian youth ages 9-19. New STRECKER-NELSON GALLERY – 406 1/2 Poyntz, INNOVATIVE NETWORKING GROUP OF TOPEKA - every Tue., 6:30-8pm, Safe Streets, 2209 SW 29th St. A group Learning Center, Lyman and N. Kansas Ave. Volunteers Manhattan. For info: 537-2099. other Wed. 11:20am - 12:30pm. www.INGTopeka.com that's committed to being alcohol & drug free. teams forming now for this year's season of quizzing. gather to assemble Weekend Snack Sacks for low- YFC/YEA style quizzing & rules. For info: 913-593-6427 go to Event page to see future meetings, locations and Associate with like-minded peers, plan activities & get income students. Sponsored by Topeka North Outreach. THE UPSTAGE GALLERY – 720 SW Jackson (Historic register to attend. If you do not like a whole lot of rules or biblequizzer.org. Jayhawk Theatre). Open for 1st Fri. Artwalk 5-8pm. involved in the community. All youth ages 12-18 are For info: 286-1370. and costs, this group is for you! invited. For info: 266-4606. MONTHLY SCORE MEETING – 1st Sat., 8-9:30am, TOPEKA ART GUILD & GALLERY – Wed.-Sat., 11am- iMOM – 1st & 3rd Thurs., 9-11:30am, Topeka Bible CAPITAL CITY NETWORKING GROUP - every Thur, HEARTLAND HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS – 2nd Mon., Comfort Suites, 6213 SW 10th. Small business owners 5pm, Fairlawn Plaza. 273-7646 or topekaartguild.org. Church Fellowship Hall, 1135 SW College. For all moms, are invited to attend monthly Breakfast Roundtable 7:30am, Jayhawk Tower - www.ccng-online.com. 11:45am-1pm. Promoting neighborhood well-being by helping them to be intentional! For info: 234-5545. Membership cost $37.50 a quarter. This is a great mobilizing people, ideas & resources. 233-1365. discussions with members of SCORE (Service Corps of SINGLES BIBLE STUDY – 2nd & 4th Thurs., 7pm, Retired Executives). For info: 234-3049. MEETINGS & CLASSES morning group, with some very friendly, innovative POINT MAN AND HOME FRONT OF SHAWNEE CO - 1st, members. Heartland Worship Center Church of God, 1401 NW FREE ENGLISH CLASSES – Every Sat. 9-10:30am, C5Alive POWER LUNCHEON – Mar. 13, 11:30am-1pm, 3rd & 5th Tues. of each month, 6-8pm, Topeka Bible Harrison. For info: 232-5503. TIBA NETWORKING GROUP - 2nd Tues, 11:30a.m.-1 Church, 1101 SW Mulvane, Potluck dinner begins at 6:10 Central Congregational Church, 1248 SW Buchannan. at Brickyard Barn Inn, 4020 NW 25th St. . Cost: $10 for For info: 235-2376. C5 members & first-time guests who RSVP, $12 at the p.m. MUST RSVP: [email protected]. Lunch is PM. A Bible study and support group for military & vet - FULL GOSPEL BUSINESSMEN’S FELLOWSHIP – 3rd door; $15 for non-members & other guests. Put POWER $10. www.topekatiba.org erans and their wives, moms and sisters. Interested in Thurs., 6pm meal, 7pm meeting, Coyote Canyon, RUSSIAN HOUSE OF PRAYER – Every Sat., 4pm, Huntoon & Wanamaker. Kirk Nystrom, 235-6977. you’re your life with great food, great speakers and I.N.G. WOMAN'S CHAPTER NETWORKING GROUP - joining or volunteering? Contact David or Jacque Williamstown Assembly of God, 1225 Oak St., great company! Featured Speaker: Cory Walker of Thrive every 2nd Sat., 11am. Bring your business cards, cata - Ankenman at 249-8359 or 221-1739. BIBLES AND BOOTS : Chapter of Cowboys for Christ Perry/Williamstown. For info: 597-5228. TOPEKA LINCOLN CLUB – 1st Tue. of month, 7pm, Fellowship – 3rd Thurs., 7:30pm, Wamego. Call for SINGLES PLAY CARDS – 1st Sat., 6pm, St. Peter’s Topeka Public Library. Discussing our greatest location. All welcome, no membership dues, livestock UMC, NW 35th & Hwy 75; 3rd Sat., 6pm, Countryside President, Abraham Lincoln, and his times. The public ownership not required. Fellowship & fun! Doug Palmer, UMC, 3221 SW Burlingame Rd. Christian singles 18 & is welcome. For info, contact Kirk Nystrom 235-6977. Pres. 410-9097, or Dave Boyd, V.P. 364-2779. over. Bring a snack or 2-liter soda & join the fun. CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA (CWA) – 3rd Tue., NAMI WASHBURN – 4th Thurs., 6-8pm, Spirit Building UPPER ROOM COMMUNITY – held at the Capitol 10am-12noon, Northland Christian Church, 3102 NW Room, University United Methodist Church, 1621 SW Building every second Saturday of the month at 10am. Topeka Blvd. 224-7126 or [email protected]. College Ave. NAMI is a student-run, student-led organi - zation that provides mental health support, education, NAMI TOPEKA – Every 2nd Tue., 6:45pm, lower level of & advocacy in the Washburn University setting. A sup - SUPPORT GROUPS Valeo, 330 SW Oakley. If door is locked, call 608-1317 to port group is also available during this time. get in. The 1st hour is often a discussion of an impor - MIDLAND CARE GRIEF SUPPORT Groups: Building A, tant topic or video. The 2nd hour is usually a support TOPEKA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY – 4th Thurs., 7pm, 200 SW Frazier Circle talk time, with separate consumer & family groups. For Topeka Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Every Mon ., 4-5pm: 12 Week Adult Group for Recent info: 608-1317. St. No program in Nov. or Dec. Promotes & stimulates Loss the education, knowledge & interest of the membership OUR LADY OF THE FAITHFUL – Every 1st Tues., 6:30pm & the public in family history, genealogical records & 1st and 3rd Thu. , 10:30am & 5:30pm—Ongoing Adult Mass followed by Dinner, Most Pure Heart of Mary research. For info: 233-5762 or tgstopeka.org. Group Catholic Church. A Catholic group for those in their 20- AGLOW INTERNATIONAL TOPEKA – A Kingdom focused 1st and 3rd Thu. , 5:30pm: Ongoing Young Adult Group 30s. For info: Michelle Ann 580-3071 or ourladyofthe - (4-18 years of age) [email protected]. All events are also posted on ministry for men & women. Meeting once a month at Facebook at "Ourladyof theFaithful." SUNRISE OPTIMIST CLUB – Every Tue., 6:30am, Sunrise Optimist Complex, 720 NW 50th St. Info: 246-1291. O.W.L.S. (Older Wise Loving Saints) - meets the second Tuesday of the month. Location varies and can be found at www.faithfamilylife.com S.W.A.G. (Spiritual Warriors Anointed by God) youth group - Wed at 7:00 p.m. 3710 NW Topeka Blvd. AWANA – Every Wed., 6-8pm, First Southern Baptist Church, 1912 SW Gage Blvd. Bible based program for children & youth ages 3-HS. For info: 272-0443. AWANA – Every Wed., 6:30pm, Bethel Baptist Church, 4011 N. Kansas Ave. Bible based program for children & youth ages 3-HS. For info: 286-0467. AWANA – Every Wed., 6:30-8pm, Auburn Christian Church. Bible based program for children & youth ages 3-HS. For info: 256-2515.

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Join for support, infor - students, teachers, staff, administrators & board up to NICOTINE ANONYMOUS – Every Fri., 6:30pm, Town & Restoring Joy recovery journey for women. Providing [email protected]. mation, etc. For info: Sharla, 286-2329; Jennie the Lord. For info: 357-0369. Country Christian Church Renaissance Room, 4925 SW services for women & men who suffer from Post- GRIEF SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES – Sponsored by (English/Spanish) 231-0763. DIVORCECARE PROGRAMS – locations and times: 29th St., use west door cross red foot bridge. A fellow - Abortion Syndrome. For info: Kay Lyn, 272-6212. Heartland Hospice for those dealing with death or THE GREATER TOPEKA MULTIPLE MYELOMA – 3rd Tue., TUE. – 7-8:30pm, Covenant Baptist Church, 5440 SW ship of men & women helping each other to live free of AL-ANON FAMILY GROUPS – for friends & families of major loss: 7-8:30pm, Faith Lutheran Church, 17th St. & Gage 37th St. Cost $15. Scholarships available. Choose from nicotine. No dues or fees. The only requirement for alcoholics. For info: 785-409-3072 or topekaalanon.org 1st Mon., 5:30-7:30pm, Individual appointments; other Blvd. Oen to Multiple Myeloma patients, their family DivorceCare, Single & Parenting, or DivorceCare for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine. For info: times are available. Call Terry Frizzell directly at members & friends. Share support, information,& Kids. For info: 273-2811. John, 402-321-486 or [email protected]. PURSUIT FOR SEXUAL PURITY – Men struggling with CALENDAR CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 pornography & sexual addiction. This bible (785)230-6730. friendship. For info: Donna, 903-918-9553. WED. – 6:30pm, Topeka Bible Church, 1101 SW CELEBRATE RECOVERY – Every Fri., 6pm, 1912 Gage n study/accountability group uses the Pure Desire book by 3rd Thurs., 11am, Lunch After Loss, Paisano’s "HEALING AFTER THE SUICIDE OF A LOVED ONE" Mulvane. Cost: $15. Child care provided. For info: 379- Blvd. A Christ centered program, based on 8 principles Ted Roberts. For info: Hunter Ruch, Topeka Bible Ristorante, Fleming Place, SW 10th & Gage Blvd,. Dutch ("HEAL") – or Survivors of Suicide" (SOS). 1st & 3rd 0505 or www.divorcecare.org. found in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Applying these Church, 234-5545 or [email protected]. treat luncheon to meet new friends who have sat where Tue., 7-8:30pm, Pozez Education Center of Stormont Biblical principles, become free from addictive & dys - WED. – 6:45 – 8:45pm, Walnut View Christian Church, functional behaviors. 272-7980 or crtopeka.org. ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT GROUPS – Monthly support you are sitting. For reservations or info call (785)271- Vail Hospital, 1505 SW 8th St. Serving anyone who has 3634 SE 37th St. (just East of 37th & Croco). Cost: group meetings for caregivers of individuals with 6500. lost a loved one by suicide. $10 registration (scholarships available). The video COVENANT KEEPERS – 3rd Sat. Group for people who Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. For info: OVEREATERS / UNDEREATERS ANONYMOUS: PRISON OUTREACH MINISTRY – Every Tue., 7-9pm, seminar series featuring some of the nation’s foremost want to see their marriage saved when their spouse wants out. For info: 816-453-0884 or 816-966-0927. Alzheimer’s Association, Heart of America Chapter, MON., 7pm – Westminister Presbyterian, south door, Topeka Women’s Prison, 815 Rice Rd. Reaching out to experts on divorce and recovery topics, combined with 271-1844 or email [email protected]. upstairs in Library; 233-6724. those who can’t come in, finding freedom behind bars, support group discussion of the materials. WIDOWED PERSONS SERVICE : monthly brunches – 3rd "BETRAYED HEART" support group/Bible study – For inspiring inmates to seek salvation during a difficult Complimentary child care children up to the fifth grade. Sat., 11am-12:30pm, First UMC. Bring a covered dish, WED., 7pm – St. Francis Hospital meeting room 6, 2nd time. Providing support & guidance through the Holy For info: 266-7550 or [email protected]. Website: rolls, salad, dessert, fruit or cheese. 357-7290. women whose husbands struggle with pornography floor; 234-8020. addictions or have had affairs. Videos & workbook will Spirit to offer strength. Director: Don Garner. 286-0489 divorcecare.org. Contact: Tony Thornton, Pastor. give you hope for your marriage & emotional healing. SAT. - 9am – St. Francis Hospital meeting room 8, 2nd or [email protected]. For info: Jane Goble, 478-9605. floor; 862-2326. GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS – Every Wed, 7pm, St. Francis BIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE – NE Kansas Chapter For info: 357-8774; sunflowerintergroup.oa.org. Hospital, meeting room #8. facebook.com/ (B.A.C.A.) 3rd Sun., 4 pm American Legion, 3800 SE CHRIST-CENTERED SUPPORT GROUP – “Strong Tower” JAYHAWK AREA AGENCY ON AGING – 4th Wed., 1pm, ind us on Michigan. Open to the public. For info: 817-5801. 12 step recovery program – Tue., 7pm, 1331 SW Rosehill Place Clubhouse. Monthly support group for metro voice news FRIENDS WITH M.S. – 3rd Mon., 6:30pm, Our Savior's Harrison. Currently discussing the book “Living Free in caregivers of seniors. For info: 235-1367 ext.30. acebook Lutheran Church, 2021 SW 29th St. (Enter East door). A Multiple Sclerosis support group. Donna, 266-7383. BOUNCE BACK SELF-HELP – 3rd Mon., 6:30pm, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 2021 SW 29th St. For those living with multiple sclerosis. For info: 273-0799. INCARCERATED PERSONS & FAMILIES – 1st Mon., 6:30–7:30pm, YMCA, 421 Van Buren. 286-2329. THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS BEREAVED PARENTS SUPPORT GROUP – . Most Pure Heart of Mary, 17th & Stone. Memorial Candle Lighting, candles provided, please bring framed picture of memorial item of your child. Fellowship and refreshments following. 272-4895

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SON OF GOD EARNS CRITICAL ACCLAIM Hyped on Hyper-Grace Diogo Morgado reprises movie review his role as Jesus Why it’s one of the most important by Edwin L. Carpenter books you’ll read in 2014

The best on-screen Joseph Prince, Brown never resorts biblical account of the to painting with broad strokes, Larry bashing or name-calling. Time after life of Jesus time, you will see him go out of his Sparks way to celebrate some of the won - "Son of God" is lovingly made from derful contributions these leaders start to finish. It is a warm and moving have made or are making to the picture of the life of Jesus from the begin - body of Christ. ning to the resurrection. Producer Mark It will not take much research for Burnett said they could not possibly film you to discover which Christian everything that happened in the gospels, and His betrayal with careful detail. Jesus nook rTheis aprodjecte har s intrigued me leaders (and their perspectives on so he selected certain highlights that con - praying in the Garden of Gethsemane film 411 since I began following Dr. Michael grace) this book addresses. If these veyed the character and nature of Jesus as and his capture through to the crucifix - SON OF GOD Brown’s discussion of the topic are people you admire and are con - the true Son of God. This film is filled ion are indelible reminders of His suffer - hyper-grace. The reason this book cerned that Brown’s perspective with compelling cinematography and ing and sacrifice for mankind. Of course STARS: Fraser Ayres, Rick Bacon, is so important is because will ruin your image of them, closeups that draw the audience right no story of the Son of God would be Hami Belal, Said Bey, Paul it helps you hang in there with me. into the midst of each scene. complete without His resurrection. Brightwell, Andrew Brooke, Anas rightly divide After reading Hyper-Grace "Son Of God" opens with a declara - I found myself spiritually stirred as I Chenin, Joe Coen the Word of I am all the more intention - tion from the book of John, "In the watched this movie. The brutality of the WRITER: Richard Bedser & God in the sea of al at evaluating what I hear beginning was the Word, and the Word crucifixion reminded me of what Christ Christopher Spencer many Jesus-exalt - from any Christian leader was with God and the Word was God". willingly endured to redeem the lost. It DIRECTOR: Christopher Spencer ing, God-glorify - by the eternal standard of The film reinforces that pronouncement renewed me. The movie was filmed in PRODUCER: Mark Burnett & Roma ing voices. And yet Scripture. with various events, including Adam Morocco with realistic scenes, including Downey the best voices can Throughout Hyper- being created from the dirt, scenes of incredible views of the temple in RUNTIME : 138 minutes still fall prey to error Grace, Brown exposes Noah and Moses leading up to the even - Jerusalem. It is one of those rare pictures RATING: PG13 and even deception. readers to challenging tual telling of the story of Jesus. His birth that features stirring music, a great story, This is why we must topics concerning in Bethlehem and His baptism by John and a superb cast. The viewer will feel graphically violent moments including know how to clearly grace, such as: Do we the Baptist were clearly portrayed. Other Mary's pain as Roma Downey does a scenes of Roman soldiers attacking the identify what God’s need still to repent for our sins— moving scenes include Jesus teaching the remarkable job portraying the mother of crowds and Jesus' suffering and crucifix - grace is, what it does and how we even after we are saved? Does the Beatitudes, walking on the water, the Jesus witnessing her son cruelly tortured ion. This is a movie with a message. It are biblically called to respond. Holy Spirit still convict us of sin, or feeding of the multitude, and raising and crucified. Diogo Morgado is a strong willl take you on a powerful, compelling I will cut right to the chase. is He okay with us living any old Lazarus from the dead. The film treats and convincing Jesus. and, in the end, spiritual journey. While I do not agree with every sin - way we choose (and still claim a Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem We recommend "Son of God" and “Son of God” is playing at area theaters gle word in the book, I agree with Christian label)? Are the words of on a donkey followed by the Last Supper award it our Faith Based Seal. There are including Hollywood Stadium 14. enough of it to offer my highest Jesus Christ, as presented in recommendation. I thought about Gospels, still relevant for us today? removing this bit from the review, (It's terrifying that some are even but honestly, it should be kept. questioning this.) Is sanctification a Out in the Regardless of where you stand on lifelong process or is it simply part COUNTRY matters concerning God’s grace, of what we receive at conversion? salvation, holiness, the Law, Old And finally, what place does the Law of God and the Old Testament by Scott Perkins Testament relevancy and eternal security, this is a very important have in a believer’s life in the 21st book for you to read. Why? It will century? This is not an exhaustive get you thinking—and in the best topic listing but merely a selection possible ways. of what you will discover in the Right up front, Brown presents book. the facts with precision, love and In the end, Dr. Brown makes respect. Between reading both his readers aware that there are the dif - Have you heard of inspirational Hyper-Grace and Authentic Fire ferent levels of hypergrace decep - country music? It does exist! Hello books, I have been amazed at how tion, with some leaders mildly friends, I’m Scott Perkins. In this col - well a Christian leader such as entertaining error while others skirt umn, I will introduce you to the artists Brown can call out deception (and, dangerous heresy that actually dis - that play and sing in this country yes, name names) while maintain - torts Scripture. This book is a vital genre. As host of The Country Parson Greg McDougal moved to ness as a carpenter. ing such a strong witness of tool to help Christians navigate the and PerkUP Country radio programs, Nashville, TN to be singer/songwriter After hearing Ricky Skaggs share his Christian character and even hon - various messages and viewpoints I been involved in the country music in the country music business in 1992. faith in Christ on TV, McDougal gave oring those he does not agree with. when it comes to one of Scripture’s industry for almost 20 years. This new In 1997, Atlantic Records recording his heart to Jesus. Soon, God had Whether it is John MacArthur or most glorious realities: grace. column will deliver news and reviews. artist, John Michael Montgomery placed a desire in McDougal’s heart to For the past 10 years, as the unoffi - recorded one of McDougal’s written record a special CD. This project cial chaplain at Country Stampede songs. McDougal also toured with the became life changing and award win - (countrystampede.com) in group Blackhawk as a guitar tech. He ning. It was entitled, “The Work of a today that house is almost complete. McDougal has won awards from the Manhattan, Kan., I have had the was living the dream! But God had a Carpenter.” Because of this project, Greg McDougal will be The ICM Award show for Music Evangelist opportunity to schedule and host the different plan. lives across the country changed. The Country Parson’s guest at Country and Musician of the Year! first concert on the Sunday ticket. In 1998, the McDougal’s delivered impact of this project also spoke to Stampede. And the four children can Be encouraged! Over the past eight years, we have seen their first of four children. Today, McDougal. He knew he needed to also sing! This past year at the Scott and Diane Perkins host The around 2,400 people raise their hand three of the four siblings have cystic provide a special “allergen-free” house Inspirational Country Music Award Country Parson and PerkUP Country for salvation! Since the Country fibrosis. Certainly life became compli - for his family. A new website went up show, they won the award for Youth in which can be heard every Sunday Stampede is about four months away, I cated. McDougal walked away from called, “ahouseformykids.com” that Music. They are stunning! And hope - morning from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on thought for my first article that I’d the music industry and spent the next told the McDougal family’s need. fully they will be well enough to join their home station of 94.5 fm in introduce this years’ guest artist. seven years in the homeirepair busi - Through concerts and donations, dad in Manhattan. In the past, Topeka, KS. Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 17 the inspired CD, SON OF GOD: Music Inspired by the Epic Motion Picture. The JARS OF CLAY OFFERS FREE ALBUM artists are currently on tour with Casting Crowns. Speaking of which, For King and Country and Casting Crowns will be per - D.C. forming at the Independence Events Center on April 3. For more information, Jeanes please visit Metro Voice www.forkingandcountry.com/shows. Music Critic In other concert news, David Phelps (known both for his work with the Gaither Vocal Band as well as a successful solo career) will be performing at music scene Graceway Church in Kansas City on For a limited time (I assume), Jars of March 7. Doors will open at 7 pm. There Clay has an E.P. available for free at is also a great interview with Phelps in this For King and Country is Noisetrade.com! Eastside Manor Sessions issue of the Metro Voice! For more infor - comprised of brothers EP was presented as a sort of sampler of mation on the tour and tickets, please visit Joel and Luke Smallbone the JoC’s new release, Inland. much. www.visitgraceway.org. Presented with stripped-down ver - The newest movie Audio Adrenaline will includes early entry (5:30pm), VIP lan - and Kim Collingsworth, along with their sions of a few new songs, there are also about the life of Jesus, perform in Sedalia, on yard, Meet & Greet, Up Front Seating, four children, bring a sense of family cel - live renditions of songs the band has “Son of God,” has a trail - March 30, at the autograph session, and “Audio A” band ebration and worship. With a history that become known for (“Dead Man (Carry er showcasing For King Mathewson Exhibition photo and CD. For more information, dates back to 1986, The Collingsworth Me),” for one). They also have a few other and Country’s song Center in the Missouri please visit Facebook page "Change A Family have performed natonally and offerings on there, including a sort-of best “Crave.” Selected as the State Fair Grounds. Life Tour - Sedalia, Missouri." internationally. For uplifting music, an of collection, called Gather and Build. If “New Artist of the Year,” General admission, in Last, the Collingsworth Family will be inspirational message, and some great you are technologically savvy and enjoy For King and Country advance will be $20, and performing Evening of Family Worship voices, this would be the show to see in some good, alternative music, this would will also have their song $25 at the door. The VIP and Praise concert at the Cowen April. For more information, please visit be one way to go without spending too “Baby Boy” included on package will be $45, and Memorial Auditorium, on April 10. Phil www.thecollingsworthfamily.com.

stretches what we have to meet our GIVE needs - after we’ve given to Him first. continued from page 11 The example we see in Scripture is IF there is any left, give it away. We were they gave first to the Lord. When some - looking at things from the wrong per - one gives to God “off of the top,” before spective. We needed to begin with any other bill is paid, somehow things truth, that giving is a spiritual decision work out. based on the fact that God is the owner Grow in Your Giving of it all and we are His managers. God We check ourselves to see if we are reoriented us to His perspective, and we growing in our devotional life, our continue to give even when it’s very prayer life, etc. When was the last time hard. you checked to see if you were growing Time versus Money in your giving? Only you and the Lord It’s so easy to ask God to let our time know how much you should give. If you More important than living in KANSAS is be our offering. If time were a biblical find yourself in a difficult situation, where you will live forever. Just as you would caused by poor judgment or circum - look at a map of KANSAS to find your way, so substitute for money, a family in min - you must look at the Bible to find your way to istry would be among the biggest givers. stances out of your control, don’t let heaven. The Bible says, “Narrow is the way, However, God instructs all of His peo - that stop you from giving; start with which leadeth unto life, and few there be that ple to be faithful stewards with worldly something, regardless of the amount. find it.” (Matt. 7:14). Jesus said, “I am the way, wealth. The idea of substituting time God will bless whatever the amount is the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the and you will be blessed for your obedi - Father, but by me.” (Jn. 14:6). Jesus is the for money is so common and yet so only way to Heaven and He gave these direc - wrong. Money is addressed in Scripture ence. tions on getting there. more often than any other subject; the We have wonderful godly people in 1. Realize you are a sinner. Everyone practical God we serve knew it would our lives whose expenses began to starts the same place spiritually. “For all have be a struggle. Financial giving is the first decrease although their income didn’t. sinned and come short of the glory of god.” They kept what they needed and gave (Rom. 3:23). Sin’s penalty keeps you out of step toward loosening the grip of mate - Heaven and condemns you to Hell, separat - rialism in our lives. ALL the rest away. That’s a spiritual goal ing you from God. Romans 6:23 says, “The Give Off the Top to which we aspire. Don’t miss out on wages of sin is death.” Sin brings both physi - If you are waiting for just the right the joy of giving to the Lord. cal & spiritual death. “And death and hell were time to give, don’t. We would like every - Remember, it is a spiritual decision. cast into the lake of fire. This is the second Money is simply worldly wealth. Hold it death.” (Rev. 20:14). thing to add up on paper, but somehow 2. Realize Jesus paid the penalty. Jesus it never does. This is especially hard for loosely, give it generously, and worship Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection provid - Mike, who likes to cross his T’s and dot God fully. ed a way for you to go to heaven and restore his I’s, when it comes to the budget and For a biblical approach to giving see your relationship with God. “But God com - the bills. Even when we can’t, God www.generousgiving.org mendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom. 5:8). Since Jesus, God’s Son, was the only One who could pay for our sin, He is the only Way to Heaven. 3. Repent of your sin and receive Jesus as your Savior. In order to go to Heaven from KANSAS, or anywhere else, you must accept Christ by calling on Him in prayer. He tells us in Romans 10:13, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” Use the following prayer, or one similar to it, to receive Him now: Dear Lord Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I believe that you died and rose again for me. Please forgive me of my sin, become Lord of my life, and take me to heaven when I die. I am trusting you completely, and in nothing I can do. Thank you Jesus! Amen.

ind us on acebook 18 • March 2014 ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______Topeka Metro Voice Rescue Mission expanding TO NORTH to meet growing needs TOPEKA! The Topeka Rescue Mission began needs in the years ahead. forging ahead with expansion planning Welcome... EXPANDED SHELTER SPACE approximately two years ago to address “… I was a stranger and you invited the growing needs of homelessness and Me in” (Matthew 25:35). hunger within our community. Since that time, new developments have taken place For years, the Topeka Rescue Mission which have allowed for an expansion plan has operated under a variance to the code re-design which more cost-effectively and from the City of Topeka which has efficiently addresses current needs. The allowed us to operate at above capacity. following outlines current endeavors. Because of a lack of available bed space, More details will follow in upcoming there are nightly men, women and/or months. “Thank you for your patience children sleeping on cots in common and confidence in us,” shares Executive areas of either shelter program. New shel - Director, Barry Feaker. “We are so hon - ter initiatives will create new beds for ored to be a part of a community that men, women and children that will genuinely cares about the needs of broth - address current overflow concerns. ers and sisters who are struggling in life.” Hope Center for Women and Families: NOTO Community Arts Center As the needs within our community Currently the Hope Center serves as 935 N Kansas Ave, Topeka, KS continue to expand, the Mission recog - shelter space for women and families Ed Popkess Register for classes at notoartsdistrict.com experiencing homelessness, regardless of For information: 785.608.6738 or email nizes the Lord’s leading for us to do the [email protected] same. The following highlights how the their length of stay. Once additional shel - Mission will help meet the increased ter space is developed, the Hope Center will transition into a program-based shel - ter for women and families participating in long-term sustainability program - ming. Intake Shelter for Women and Families: A new shelter will be developed on property east of the current main Mission building. A portion of this building will be secured for women and families initial - ly seeking shelter. This will be the first place that they temporarily reside while meeting with advocates and determining if long-term programming is the best option. When entering into long-term programming, they will move to current Hope Center facilities. This area will be secured and separate from the men’s shel - ters also located in the building. Intake Shelter for Men: Another portion of the new building being developed east of the main Mission building will be secured for men initially seeking shelter. As with the women and families, this will be the first place that men temporarily reside while meeting Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 19 with advocates and determining if long- will receive of the transforming love of restroom facilities. An outdoor play area large enough to efficiently accommodate term programming is the best option. Jesus Christ and be helped to recognize will also be developed. Medical Clinic: and provide this large amount of ever- When entering into long-term program - their self-worth at an early age. This will The Mission currently houses a med - increasing meals. While we have had Children’s Center Phase II: ming, guests will move to the Men’s help to later assist in breaking the cycle of ical clinic in the Main Mission building minor updates over the years, most of the Expansion to the building will take Program Shelter located in the same homelessness within their families as true through the coordination of volunteer structural and equipment with our place which includes a large gymnasium building. value and identity is received. Parenting nurses and doctors. In order to more kitchen are out of date. This coincides (doubling as a storm shelter) and space to classes, resource library, family events and effectively treat and provide medical care with our inability to permanently keep up Men’s Program Shelter: accommodate summer and afterschool other activities centered on assisting par - to individuals and families residing at the with the increases we are encountering. A program-based shelter for men par - programming for children in grades K-10 ents in becoming positive role models for Mission, this space will be expanded and Based on predictions that hunger is likely ticipating in long-term sustainability pro - residing at the Topeka Rescue Mission. children and equipping them to give their renovated to include at minimum two to continue increasing on national, state gramming will be located in the new This will include a minimum of six class - children the love they deserve will also be exam rooms, office, waiting area and rest - and local levels, we know that we will not building being constructed east of the rooms and additional restroom facilities made available. room. see a decrease in the number of meals main Mission building. This space will as needed. The outdoor play area will also served anytime soon. 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FLY-OFF shelter space expands LEVEE and our population grows, even more space will be needed for strong emphasis on the homeless children seating. acquired building located west of the equipment for children over the age of “Feed My sheep” (John 21:17). who come through our shelter programs. Hope Center will be renovated to include five. A potential increase in space for Pre- A children’s center will be created which For the past three years, there have A new kitchen and expanded dining space for the following at minimum: five 0200'50' 100' K programming may also be included. area will be developed north of the main provides a safe, Christ-centered, educa - classrooms, chapel, library, indoor play been times when the Mission has served Mission building. Current dining facilities tional atmosphere for children to receive area, three (small) offices, one teacher’s EMPOWERMENT AND TRANS- over 1,000 meals in one day through our VICINITY PLAN will be utilized for education/training care and love while residing at the Topeka lounge and the appropriate number of FORMATION CENTER dining area. Current kitchen and dining Rescue Mission. At the Center, children “… Be transformed by the renewing of facilities, which date back to 1991, are not space and chapel. your mind” (Romans 12:2). Classes and Programming: Once shelter space expands, the cur - rent main Mission building will become the Empowerment and Transformation Center. Here, homeless individuals will be offered classes and programming focused on permanently overcoming homeless - ness and moving on to independence in the community. With more program shelter space available, a greater focus will be placed upon the equipping of home - less individuals who come through our doors. Numerous classes in the area of life skills, vocation and educational training will be offered. Worship Area: Hidden behind the faces of individuals from all walks of life are fears, doubts, confusion, chaos and hopelessness. When life seems overwhelming, a worship area located in the main Mission building will serve as a place of solitude where anyone can come to seek God and rest in His Presence while worship music steadily plays. 20 • March 2014 ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______Topeka Metro Voice DO YOU HAVE A STORY IDEA FOR METRO VOICE SPORTS? E-mail us at [email protected] with your questions & suggestions!

My story: Why I stick with the Koyotes Baumgartner dedicated 10 percent of, by Darcy Childs not the profits but, the revenue of the The twelfth season of Koyotes indoor Koyotes to the Topeka Rescue Mission. professional football will kickoff this This year Baumgartner developed the month in Topeka, Kansas. I was there in Koyotes KARE program which is benefit - the beginning and I am still with the ting the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boy’s team over a decade later. My name is and Girls Clubs, Safe Families and many Darcy Childs. I helped Ralph Adams church organizations already, and he is With an eight point victory over the Let’s look at Wichita State for start the Kansas Koyotes in the beginning looking to help more. Ralph Adams, as Oklahoma Sooners on the 24th of instance. If they run the table in the and I am currently helping Nick far as I saw, never turned down any February, the Kansas Jayhawks have Missouri Valley and the conference bought the Koyotes before the start of the Baumgartner with the game operations organizations request for his help, Junior assured themselves of another Big 12 tournament, but they lose in the second 2013 season. When Nick took over he and communications for the team. Achievement, Kansas Children’s Service championship. That’s ten in a row for round, will we consider it a bad season? injected the team with a fresh new ener - those of you counting at home. Not at all. To lose just one game would In the course of the past decade I have League and TARC to name just a few. gy that had been lacking for the past cou - There have only been two other be totally awesome. It would be done everything you can do for a minor The players freely give of themselves to ple of years. Many people jumped on the schools to have longer Conference title extremely disappointing, but not a league sports franchise…on the market - help out with any endeavor we have Koyotes bandwagon and the 2013 season streaks. The UCLA Bruins won 13 in a waste. Unfortunately, they will be com - ing, management and public relations asked of them. They help by serving was successful. But, even with the success row from 1969-1973 and pared to last year’s team, but side of the business. (I leave the football meals at the mission, works with of last season the old question has Gonazaga won 11 in a row that’s not too bad either operations to much smarter men than I.) Doorsteps’ soup line and Meals on cropped up. “Are you going to be here from 2001-2011. because last year’s team was I am not looking for any pat on the back Wheels. Also, watch the way they interact next year?” Yes. The Koyotes are going to Connecticut won 10 in a pretty good as well. As a or anything at all for myself…except clar - with the children of this community after play in 2014. But, it has been back to row from 1951-1960 and matter of fact, they were the ity. As I reflect on the past 12 years of the a game is over. Or, witness the guys read - UNLV won 10 in a row from only team to play Louisville square one again. Koyotes I have to ask myself. Am I just a ing to young children whenever a school 1983-1992. So the Jayhawks close in the entire tourna - I guess that answers one question. Yes. glutton for punishment? Do I have some has invited us to visit. are really in rarefied air. ment. I am a glutton for punishment. And it is defect in my mental process? Or, is this When a tornado devastated the little Throw in the fact that Kansas plays in What about Kansas State? They are obvious I have a defective thought my penance for some wrong I commit - town of Greensburg, Kansas back on the Big 12 Conference, one of the currently 18-9 overall and 8-6 in the process because I keep doing this year ted in my youth? To be honest, all may be May 4, 2007 I made an announcement toughest year in and year out, and their tournament and will more than likely after year, but what about my penance for true. from the field that night at one of our accomplishment is that much more be in the big tournament. That’s a good past sins? Indulge me for a moment as I journey home games. The fans filled up the impressive. year. I know they shared the Over the past 12 years I have witnessed through my experience of the Kansas buckets we had set out for disaster relief It’s amazing to me to see Big 12 crown last year, but the generosity of spirit of both owners, a school have such contin - making the tournament Koyotes. and we made a large donation to the Adams and Baumgartner, the coaches ued success during these and winning 20 games is a The beginning was rough. Only two RED CROSS the next day. (Ollie Guidry, Warren Seitz, Jim Green, times of college basketball. good year. (They will most people thought the Kansas Koyotes My penance has been to work hard Troy Biladeau and Carlos Kelly), the play - Players leave early for the likely have 20 wins by sea - would play a single game; Ralph Adams and help facilitate these not so random ers, the sponsors, and many of the fans draft, they transfer from son end). and me. Even our families were unsure if acts of kindness. I could fill up the all the also. school to school so much it’s almost like I guess it all depends on what the we could make this team happen. What pages of this paper with things I have While both owners have wanted to free-agency in baseball. fan base expects out of the team which is unknown to most people is that there seen over the past 12 seasons. The Kansas make their living from the football team, Unfortunately, most people only determines whether it was a good year was a large investor group who had Koyotes is a lot of hard work for little tan - I have seen both men give their time, remember what happens in the tourna - or not. It’s sad to say, but I think there is agreed to help us get the team off the gible reward, but I guess it is the intangi - money and selves to help young men ment and they base their some truth in that state - ground. Ralph had put together this bles that keep me coming back year after ideas of what a “good” sea - ment. continue their dream of playing profes - group to support us in this endeavor, but year. son is on that. If Kansas loses Well, in my eyes, sional football, to advance the causes they they all backed out after we announced I recommend this for all of you too. in the Sweet 16, did they all three teams have had have championed, to become a force for the team and had set everything in Please get involved with the Kansas have a bad season? successful seasons and I good in this community, and to provide motion. Koyotes in one way or another. Whether Absolutely not. Maybe a dis - expect all three to make NE Kansas with good, clean, family This was a devastating blow, but it was you volunteer to help on game day, buy appointing end, but we need deep runs into the tourna - entertainment. not a knockout blow. season tickets, sponsor the team, or just to look at the whole body of work, not ment. Unfortunately, only one team will I cannot think of any charitable group Topeka had seen minor league fran - attend a couple of games each year. It all just one game. not be disappointed at season’s end. in the area that the Koyotes have not chises come and go (i.e. Sizzlers, Knights, goes to help the Kansas Koyotes be a force touched in one way or another. Nick Scarecrows, Capitals, etc.). It was not for GOOD in this community. easy to convince civic leaders, business owners and others that we would be any different. Most people said they wanted to wait to see if we would last before they threw us their support. (We even had to take over the management of the league in order to put the season together, but that is another story.) But, due to those few wonderful first year sponsors (many who still support the team like Six Motors), our first team of coaches and players and the few staff and volunteers we had, the Koyotes kicked off their first ball in the spring of 2003. And what did people say after that Herculean effort to put together that sea - son. “Are you going to be back next year?” Every year we faced the same task as before; convince a skeptical communi - ty that the Koyotes were here to stay. It did get easier each year that we played but it was literally not until after our seventh season that we were not plagued with that question anymore…until last sea - son. Ralph Adams owned the team for ten years, and then Nick Baumgartner Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 21 son's hair, touching my wife's body, call - take! ing my daughter "sweetie," and my chil - There had been a mistake, but it was Don’s story: How he came to watch another man raise his children dren can't seem to get enough of him. too late to do anything about it now. Don | Man in the Mirror resolved in his mind that it was a one- might work. Patrick Morley Meanwhile, it's like they didn't even see was going to watch another man love his time tryst and that he was going to change Four years after Don took Evelyn to be me come in. There must be some mis - wife and raise his children. Mary divorced Don because he was a number of his ways. Unfortunately, that his unlawful mistress, Sid took Mary to be unfaithful, but she had never been thought came several years too late. Don his lawful wife. unpleasant about it. If anything she killed was addicted, and he couldn't walk away It took another year or so to work out him with kindness, which only made him from his lusty habits. the details of shared parenting. feel even more rotten. Evelyn, his correspondent, was equally Eventually, the children each had two Don was not a scoundrel. He didn't set flustered by the affair but she was single. toothbrushes, two beds – two of every - out to fail. He didn't wake up one day and She was also highly attracted to Don, and thing. The children spent every other think, "Well, I wonder what I can do to that fed his ego. Less than two weeks later weekend with Don and he could attend ruin my life today." Rather, his fall fol - Don found himself at Evelyn's apartment all their contests and concerts, which he lowed on the heels of thousands of small, during lunch. For the next three months faithfully did. One Saturday morning, he daily choices he made in his private that became their regular rendezvous two arrived a few minutes early to pick up the thoughts over several years. or three times a week. kids for the weekend. Don's children – It all started the day after he and Mary Meanwhile, Mary had been frustrated ages 14, 12, and 9 – were sitting at the moved into their first home, when he several times because she had been unable breakfast table when he knocked on the fixed the blinds just right so he could to reach Don during lunch. Meanwhile, it kitchen door. watch the woman next door sunning in didn't take long for Evelyn's and Don's Mary and new-husband Sid were scur - her backyard. What began as a single act co-workers to add things up. Several of rying around the kitchen fetching more of curiosity snowballed into a regular the women in the office felt scandalized. milk and cooking scrambled eggs. Mary habit of lust. He was also a little too One day Mary called and reached Susan, went to the door, swung it open, smiled a huggy-kissy around the office where he one of the scandalized women. She asked, genuinely friendly smile, and invited Don led in sales year after year. Don was no "Is my husband there?" Susan, who could to come in for a cup of coffee while the Brad Pitt but he could tell women found be vicious as a cornered cat, shot back in kids finished breakfast. him attractive. This flattered his ego, espe - a villain's voice, "No, and you may want Don came in and, feeling quite awk - cially since girls had not noticed him at all look into it a little further." ward – this was their first time all togeth - in high school. He tended to let his eyes fix Mary sat with the phone hanging limp er in the same room – sat down at one a moment too long on his female associ - in her hand. The next day Mary followed end of the kitchen table. The kids were at ates. Often Don found himself engaging Don's car from the office at lunch. When the other end of the table, with a couple of in sexual fantasies as drove home after she saw him go into an apartment she empty chairs between him and them. The work. didn't want to see any more. She sped kids didn't greet him right away because Evelyn was an ambitious young away sobbing hysterically. they were arguing about who should get woman also in the sales department. She After the children were in bed that the last piece of toast. He felt like he was - was bright, a quick learner, and was night, Mary asked Don into the den and n't really even there – like he was a ghost, already earning more commissions than shut the door. She began trembling and and he felt like a giant horrible, smelly most of the men in the office. By her tears streamed along the creases of her toad. ambition she was eager to learn from face. Don knew he had been caught Mary intervened and calmed the toast Don, and by her upbringing she was lone - before Mary said a word. The guilt had storm. Sid said, "Thanks, honey," gave her ly for love. She had not been hugged been eating away at him. He started cry - a soft kiss on the cheek, then served the enough by her daddy. There was a natural ing too. He made it easy for her by asking, kids their eggs and asked if they wanted sexual attraction between Don and "How did you find out?" For the next two more milk. Sid tousled Tommy's hair, and Evelyn. But for Don this was no more hours they covered every angle. Don, a Tommy smiled that toothy grin that than most men felt toward a physically former altar boy, was defrocked. He con - always melted Don. But today he was sensuous woman, which Evelyn certainly fessed how it all got started, and hundreds flashing it at Sid. Don was melting any - was--she had "the look." Neither of them of little sins that led up to the big one. way, but for a different reason. Then Sid ever overtly acted on the physical attrac - Mary heard more than she thought she turned to get the milk bottle and brushed tion by flirting, but the chemistry was could bear. That night Mary set her his arm across Mary's back and gave her a there. course and she never wavered from it love pat. He poured the milk into Anna's One of the company's biggest cus - once. She was a woman of faith, but she glass and she said, "Thank you." Sid said, tomers was interested in getting a quote would not be married to an unfaithful "You're welcome, sweetie." Sid turned for a privately labeled product. If the husband. toward Don and exhorted the children, numbers worked, it could be one of the The divorce took six months. The "Okay now, kids, your dad's here. Aren't biggest sales in the history of their compa - awful pain didn't begin to recede for two you going to say hello?" ny. Four top sales people were assigned to years. Then she met Sid. Sid was a lot like I cannot believe this is happening to work out the details, including Evelyn and Don. After all, she had never found any - me, Don thought as he turned numb. Don. About two weeks into the project thing wrong with Don's personality, just Here is "another man" doing what I am the four of them needed to travel to the his character. At the end of twelve months supposed to do. Here is "another man" customer's home office. of dinners and picnics with Mary's three calling my wife "honey," kissing her face, After checking in at their hotel two of children, they both started thinking, This cooking for my children, tousling my them wanted to hit the downtown enter - tainment district that night, but Don and Evelyn both declined. Don and Evelyn waved goodbye as their associates' cab pulled away from the curb. As they walked inside, Don's senses were alert. There was a sense of danger in the air, and he welcomed it. He said, "I'm going to get something to eat. Would you like to join me?" She simply nodded and the maitre d' seated them in a booth near the back of the restaurant. Don had already made his first mistake, but his biggest mistake was mixing wine with dinner. But his real mis - take had been made thousands of choices earlier. The wine lowered both of their inhibitions, which led to exploratory questions. The questions became more and more provocative. Each successive answer signaled interest in going further. By the time Don signed the check he had pulled the noose tight around his own neck. They walked to the elevator, went up to her room, and Don became an adulterer. Don woke up the next morning laden with guilt, remorse, and shame. He 22 • March 2014 ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______Topeka Metro Voice Wanamaker Road Baptist Church New Resident Church Guide 5. FAIRLAWN CHURCH OF THE 10. 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Keep 35% commission on any ads placed. Call 235-3340 or email [email protected] Topeka Metro Voice ______MetroVoiceNews.com ______Facebook/MetroVoiceNews ______March 2014 • 23 a "very high respect for the historical Judeo-Christian "As a local pastor, my goal is to keep encouraging my CULTURE STORM ethic." church to seek to raise the bar and not lower it when continued from page 1 "Every one of my son's community college football it comes to confronting culture. "Stetzer said he Catholics as religious extremists. Christian organiza - games around the state last season began with a hopes the survey will spark a "fruitful national con - tions like Family Research Council and American prayer on the loud speaker – in Jesus' name," he told versation about religious liberty concerns." Family Association were labeled by the military as me. "Will that eventually be challenged? I suspect so "The perception was that the culture war was once domestic hate groups. Bibles were briefly banned at some point." a winnable war," Stetzer said. "But it's switched from from Walter Reed Medical Center. But right now he said, "pockets of religious an offensive battle to a defensive battle." The Internal Revenue Service targeted Christian boldness still exist. "Phillips said national trends, Pastor Jeffress urged Christians to stand their ministries engaged in pro-life activities. The govern - though, are disturbing. ground. ment demanded to know the content of one group's "Christians have slowly given away their impact on "We ought to do everything we can to push back prayers. A Wyoming church was ordered by govern - culture by becoming more and ment officials to turn over their membership roles. A worldlier instead of confronting Baptist newspaper in North Carolina was audited as the culture to become more and was America's evangelist, Billy Graham. more godly," he said. The list of attacks on Christians goes on and on – So who is to blame for the from students ordered to stop praying in front of the loss? Phillips blames Christians. Supreme Court to chaplains being told he could no "Sadly, Christians have often longer pray in the name of Jesus. wimped out and grown silent In recent months, the battleground has pitted gay instead of being bolder for the rights groups against Christian-owned businesses Gospel," he said. "Christians get who cater to the wedding industry. Christian bakers, subdued into thinking they're florists and photographers have been hauled into ture wars is that pastors are AWOL when it comes to not supposed to rise up." court and brought up on state discrimination informing and energizing their congregations," Jeffress agreed with that charges for declining to participate in same-sex wed - Jeffress told me. assessment and said the church dings. Unless Christians stand up and engage the politi - must involve itself in the politi - And in every single instance – lower courts have cal process, Jeffress said he fears there may come a day cal process. ruled that gay rights trump religious rights. when religious liberty is extremely curtailed. "There are 50 to 80 million evangelicals in against this encroachment on religious liberty and So perhaps it should not be a surprise that 70 per - "A religious leader once said, 'my successor will see America," he said. "Only half are registered to vote protect our right to spread the Gospel," he said. cent of pastors and 54 percent of Americans believe the tax exempt status removed from churches and his and only half of those voted in the last election." Billy Graham was never afraid to confront culture religious liberty is on the decline. Scott McConnell, successor will go to jail," Jeffress Jeffress said it's imperative for with truth but I'm reminded of a quote by President vice president of LifeWay Research, said the concern said. "That is probably on the people of faith to engage the Ronald Reagan. is widespread. horizon." “Half of Americans say culture. "Every time we go to "If we ever forget that we are one nation under "Half of Americans say that religious liberty is on But there are some pockets of that religious liberty is on the voting booth we are casting God, then we will be a nation gone under," Reagan the decline," he said. resistance – like the town of a vote for righteousness or once said. "That's a lot of people." Greenwood in the Mississippi the decline...” unrighteousness," he said. A few years ago, A New York public school teacher Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Church Delta. Pastor Phillips also urged his was ordered to remove that quote from her class - of Dallas, Texas, conceded that Christians are losing Jim Phillips is the senior pas - SCOTT M CCONNELL fellow pastors to step up to the room wall. She was told that it violated the U.S. the culture war and they are losing ground every day. tor of North Greenwood plate. Constitution. "The primary reason Christians are losing the cul - Baptist Church. He told me that Greenwood still has "My calling is to keep leading the charge," he said. I'm afraid we may be “gone under.”

PHONE PRIVACY side note else going on in the seconds surrounding a cars already include a black box. In fact, person buys. continued from page 1 n crash. they’ve been in use by some manufacturers Imagine what else they can figure out wide variety of establishments, from Investigators will know exactly what hap - since the early ’90s. If your car has one, it about your politics, beliefs, health, relation - "mom & pop stores and coffee shops to pened rather than trying to figure it out will say somewhere in the owner’s manual. ships and more. Scary stuff. large department stores." Who is based on witness testimony. That might not 2. Your favorite stores: Whenever you Target isn’t the only store doing this, of It’s called Mobile Location Analytics, keeping be such a bad thing – if you’re in the right. swipe a loyalty card such as at Price course. Any business loves to have an inside and it uses Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and your Of course, the big worry is that the black Chopper or Hy-Vee, enter your phone number edge on its customers so it can time promo - gadget’s unique MAC address (name tabs? box might eventually go beyond that. Paired or use the same credit card at a store, your tions for the most impact. unrelated to Apple Mac) to know your With public concern over the NSA and its with a GPS, a black box could easily record purchases go into a database profile. Based Of course, imagine if the government got locaton. That way, for example, an airport extensive spying programs on foreign your entire driving history. In many countries on what you buy, stores know way more hold of that information (assuming it hasn’t knows how much time you spent in cer - nationals AND ordinary Americans like you around the world, such as Jordan, other about you than you think. already) or your health-insurance provider. tain shops, waiting in security or at the and me, it’s important to remember that it Middle Eastern countries and some auto - Back in 2012, the New York Times Even worse, what about identity thieves and baggage claim. A store knows when you doesn’t have a monopoly on tracking what cratic regimes in southeast Asia, govern - Magazine reported a shocking story. A father scammers? Think what they could do with move from one department to another or you do. Other organizations and technology ment us phones and black boxes to track was shocked while shopping in a Target with invaluable information into your habits. linger in front of a certain product. Then keep tabs on you as well. the movements of law-abiding citizens. his daughter when the store sent his 16- Given the major data breaches happen - there’s the possibility that, in the future, I’m not just talking about online advertis - Insurance companies might eventually year-old daughter coupons for baby supplies. ing lately, with Target coincidentally having they would use this information when ers. In fact, you might be surprised at some use the data to set your premiums. Some What was Target doing sending pregnancy the worst data breach in retail history, it you return to the store based on your of the things spying on you. states, such as California, are already talk - promotions to a minor? isn’t a stretch to think this information MAC address. 1. Your car: You may or may not have ing about including GPS to tax drivers based Well, it turns out the daughter really was might get out as well. Now, an important thing to note is that heard that beginning September 1, 2014, on how many miles they drive. What hap - pregnant. Target had a team that, crunching And, aside from using fake information – MLA doesn’t include any other informa - every new car is required to have a black box pens if hackers get hold of the data? data from millions of consumers, were eerily which some people do – and paying cash, or tion about you. So, it doesn’t know your installed. This will record information about “Well,” you might say, “I’m not going to accurate at such predictions. Target can tell shopping at the farmer’s market, there isn’t name, email or phone number. At this your speed, direction, braking, whether buy a car made after 2013.” I have some how far along a pregnancy is and estimate a anything you can do about it. point, advertisers and stores can’t match you’re wearing a seat belt and everything bad news for you. Around 96 percent of new fairly accurate due date based on what a Welcome to George Orwell’s world! your gadget’s MAC address to your face and name. However, I can think of a few ways they cellular data plan by using Wi-Fi, that will under Wi-Fi Address and Bluetooth. If oth>>Accessibility and look under WLAN MAC heading. could do so in the future. They might use be tough. Fortunately, there’s another you don’t see an address, you should turn Address. Bluetooth needs to be on for the On Blackberry gadgets running OS 5 or facial recognition with security camera option. on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and then check address to show up. earlier, go to Options>>Status and look footage – they’re already using cameras The Future of Privacy Forum has set up again. BLACKBERRY: For Wi-Fi, go to under WLAN MAC. For Bluetooth, go to for traffic analysis. They could tie your a site called Smart Store Privacy. Visit it at ANDROID: For Android gadgets, every Setup>>Options>>Device>>Device and Connections>>Bluetooth>>Properties gadget to a loyalty card during checkout – www.smartstoreprivacy.org. You can put phone manufacturer has things set up a Status Information, and look under the to find the MAC address. you won’t believe what your purchases in your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth MAC little differently. First, make sure Wi-Fi and can tell them about you. addresses and it will tell participating Bluetooth are turned on. Then go to If law enforcement was doing an inves - tracking companies that you don’t want to Settings>>About Phone or tigation and got your gadget, they could be tracked. Right now, there are 11 com - Settings>>About Tablet. technically subpoena records for the gad - panies signed on. It might be under Hardware get’s MAC address and learn your move - Finding your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Information or Status. If you can’t find it ments. Or if the MAC address records MAC addresses is a little tricky depending check your gadget’s manual for the precise were lost in a data breach, I’m sure hack - on your gadget. Here are some general location. ers could find some use for them. instructions. WINDOWS PHONE: For Wi-Fi, go to So, what can you do? Well, the simplest Note: You’re looking for a 12-digit Start>>Settings>>Connections>>Wirele way to stop it is to turn off your Wi-Fi or number like 91:17:7B:82:C2:A5 or 91-17- ss LAN>>Advanced. Look in the MAC Bluetooth when you’re out and about. 7B-82-C2-A5. It should be clearly labeled. field. Wi-Fi needs to be on for this to work. Of course, if you’re using a Bluetooth APPLE: For Apple gadgets, go to For Bluetooth, go to headset or you’re trying to conserve your Settings>>General>>About and look Start>>Settings>>Connections>>Blueto