Friday Church News, June 22, 2018

Friday Church News, June 22, 2018

VOLUME 19, ISSUE 25 WAY OF LIFE JUNE 22, 2018 FRIDAY CHURCH NEWS NOTES EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF HAPPINESS SELLS FOR $1.6 MILLION Einstein's secrets to happiness are revealed in lost letters Albert Einstein’s theory of happiness sold sold at auction for millions. recently at an auction for $1.6 million. He wrote the “theory” on a piece of paper in 1922 and gave it to a hotel bellboy. It read, “A calm and trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of wisely, he shall be delivered” (Proverbs 28:26). Te success combined with constant restlessness.” Tis, of secret to happiness is to be in right relationship with course, is a simple platitude that most people would the Creator through the salvation that He has recognize as basically true, yet it is also vague and provided through His Son Jesus the Messiah. “Tou therefore nearly meaningless. Einstein was a brilliant wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness man who depended upon his own mind rather than of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for God’s Word and therefore was a foolish man. “He that evermore” (Psalm 16:11). FEWER AMERICANS ARE TITHING TO THEIR CHURCHES According to Barna research, there has been a steady percentage was 3%, down from 8% in 2001 (“Te decrease in the percentage of Americans who give Ancient Rise and Recent Fall of Tithing,” Christian 10% of their income to churches. In 2002, the History, Aug. 2008). Tis is a sad and telling statistic. God’s people should give more than 10% of their income to the Lord’s churches for God’s great business on this earth. “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15). “Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the frstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be flled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine” (Proverbs 3:9-10). PAGE 1! EORUM CLARITATEM VESTIG ATIONES FEBRUARY 26, 2014 DRAG QUEEN CHILDREN TV SHOWS Te following is excerpted from “Drag Queen villains. Get ready, because the SUPER DRAGS are Children TV Shows Coming to America,” Christian going deeper than you think.’ ... Rod Dreher Post, Jun. 11, 2018: “At least two new animated observes, ‘Netfix is turning drag queens into television shows about drag queens, one featuring animated superheroes, and RuPaul’s streaming children characters, are set to debut in America, service is turning drag queens into child drawing high concern from conservative superheroes. You might think--I certainly hope you commentators. World of Wonder released a think--that your child will not be exposed to this trailer in May about ‘Drag flth. Te thing is, your child, Tots!,’ a show about toddler and all of us, have to live in a drag queens coming June world in which this is 28th, featuring transgender normal, and in which the model RuPaul. ‘In a world popular culture thinks that on the brink of chaos, dressing little boys up like where fear is the rule of the sexually provocative women land, the voices of a is not only permissible, but a generation have banded sign of cultural progress.’ together to give our planet Dreher pointed to other what it needs...BABY such efforts, like the ‘Drag D R A G Q U E E N S ! ’ Queen Story Hours’ that proclaims a preview on have been held in libraries YouTube. On May 31, Netfix announced the across America. Tey have been adapted by other animated ‘Super Drags,’ with a teaser preview that countries as well, including the United Kingdom, is yet to be given a release date stating: ‘By night, with activists defending the idea of drag queens they tighten up their corsets and transform into the reading to children.” baddest SUPER DRAGS in town, ready to combat shade and rescue the world’s glitter from the evil KING JAMES BIBLE STILL THE PREFERRED TRANSLATION IN AMERICA Te 2015 Barna State of the Bible survey found 50-68), 43% prefer the KJV; among Gen-Xers that the King James Bible remains the preferred (age 31-49), 41%; but among Millennials (age Bible version among Americans by far. It is the 16-30), it is 28%. Still, the King James Bible is preferred Bible by 39% of those surveyed. Afer the preferred translation among all age groups that is the New International Version (NIV), at over the New International Version, which is the 13%, and the New King James (NKJV), at 10%. next favorite. Tis information is from “State of Tese numbers have remained consistent since the Bible 2015,” www.americanbible.org/ 2012. Tere is a signifcant difference when it uploads/content/ comes to age groups. Among Boomers (age State_of_the_Bible_2015_report.pdf PAGE !2 EORUM CLARITATEM VESTIG ATIONES FEBRUARY 26, 2014 A PASTOR’S TESTIMONY ABOUT THE DANGER OF MEDICAL QUACKERY “Brother Cloud, I am thankful for the current series that particular vitamin. You can imagine the of warnings concerning Quack Diets. Tis also amount of deceit this would take for a doctor to exposes the deceitfulness of those who make a perform this kind of fake and false procedure, living off of gullible and misinformed individuals. ripping off gullible and overly trusting people! Te One particular chiropractor (a charlatan doctor) worst part of all this quackery was when I warned was so persuasive and crafy that he hooked an against the deceitful doctor and exposed him, infuential church family by giving them free the infuential family became offended and care. But it did not stop there! Te family took sides with the doctor to keep up their loved their free care so much that they were free chiropractic care. Tey did not just leave glad to highly promote this man to the rest of the church but eventually caused a church the church, defrauding the brethren. split. Quackery can be used of the devil. It Much of the church began to go to this is dangerous to follow these foolish men man, who claimed that a special diet and women with their lies and false along with his supplements could cure claims. Bro. Cloud, I appreciate your everything. His evaluation began with a Biblical insight and the many warnings belt hooked to a computer that would tell all that you publish. Some folks may turn a your problems in a few moments. He also blind eye, but others will be deterred from falling determined one’s mineral and vitamin defciencies into foolishness!” (For the studies about quack by having the patient hold a bottle of a particular diets, see the book Te Bible and Diet, which is vitamins while he pushed down on the patients available for free reading at www.wayofife.org/ extended arm. If the arm was resistant then you free_ebooks/.) were not defcient. If he easily pushed it down, then the conclusion was that the patient was defcient in BABYLON IN THE BIBLE Babylon is mentioned nearly 300 times in the Bible, over the centuries. Hammurabi was the most famous more than any city other than Jerusalem. Babylon is of Babylon’s ancient kings. (For a pictorial study of many things. First, Babylon is the kingdom established this see Bible Times and Ancient Kingdoms, by Nimrod at the time of the Tower of Babel (Ge. PowerPoint 06 “Hammurabi and His Times,” 10-11). It was here that idolatry was invented, and available from Way of Life Literature.) Fourth, from here it spread to all of mankind. Tis is Babylon is the ancient kingdom of Daniel 2, the head described in Romans 1:21-32. Second, Babylon is the of gold world kingdom founded by Nebuchadnezzar. devil’s world kingdom stemming from the time of the Tis was the Babylon of the prophet Jeremiah’s time. Tower of Babel. It is the kingdom of the “god of this Fifh, Babylon is the Antichrist’s end-time kingdom, world” (2 Co. 4:4). Tird, Babylon was one of the city- called Mystery Babylon (Re. 17-18). Prophecies about states of ancient Mesopotamia that vied with other Babylon are found in Isaiah 13-14; 21:1-10; 47:1-15; city-states (such as Ur and Ebla) for power and Jeremiah 25:11-14; 50-51. wealth, rising and falling in position and prestige PAGE 3! EORUM CLARITATEM VESTIG ATIONES FEBRUARY 26, 2014 MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION AND THE “METHUSELAH GENERATION” Te following is excerpted from Seeing the Non- and exactly where to go and how to get there. It is the existent: Evolution’s Myths and Hoaxes, David Cloud, second, third, or even fourth generation that arrives copyright 2011: “In September and October one back in the northern areas from where their forebears variety of the monarch fies 2,500-3,000 miles from originated! Dr. Andrew McIntosh of the University of Canada and the northern USA east of the Rocky Leeds observes, ‘Tis means that a remarkable system Mountains to locations it has never seen in mountain of information is bound up in the genetic coding of forests in central Mexico. It even fies to the very each butterfy, such that it ‘knows’ at what stage of the same tree where its forebears overwintered! Te exact migrating cycle the group of butterfies is in. Such a hibernation sites were not discovered until 1975 delicate mechanism shouts intelligent design!’ (In Six when Dr.

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