Oct 11, 2017
Discrimination for opposing ABORTION? ~ Globe & Mail
Globe editorial: Is it now okay to
discriminate against people who oppose abortion?
OCTOBER 4, 2017
The Liberal government of Justin Trudeau has sent a terrible
message by blocking the election of a Conservative MP to the position of chair
of the House of Commons committee on the status of women solely because of her
opposition to abortion.
Think of it this way: Were Rachael Harder, the Alberta MP in
question, fired from a job in a private company, or from the public service,
for the same reason, she would be the victim of a violation of her Charter
rights. And yet in a committee vote on Tuesday, the Liberals denied Ms.
Harder a position she is fully qualified to hold simply because she refuses to
conform to their view of the world.
Is this something the same Liberals would tolerate outside the
confines of Parliament? Are they telling Canadian women who don't believe in
abortion that their opinion can be used against them by the government?
The only way the Liberals' ouster of Ms. Harder would be
justified would be if there were a clear requirement, either legal or
practical, that the committee chair overtly favour the status quo when it comes
to abortion in Canada. But there is no such requirement.
The job of the chair is to run the committee's meetings, and the
job of the committee is to examine legislation and issues relating to equality
of the sexes and violence against women and girls.
There is not, as Mr. Trudeau has wrongly contended, a
requirement that the chair be "able to stand up and unequivocally defend
women's rights" as they are defined by him and his party.
The committee is there to hear the views of all Canadians, on
all issues, regardless of whether or not their positions align with those of
the Prime Minister or make some people uncomfortable.
One can now only imagine the rude welcome this stacked committee
will give to any witness who dares express a view that is not in line with the
government's. Why would such a person even bother testifying to the committee?
(Maybe that's the point.)
The right to abortion is one we support, but there is a higher
principle at play here – the right to hold beliefs, and to act on them legally,
without interference from the government, and without being discriminated
against by society.
The Liberal government's shameful actions this week send a
contrary message – that it is perfectly acceptable in Canada to discriminate
against people who oppose abortion.
Jehovah Elohim
Ed's Note: Jehovah Elohim (or 'The Lord is Creator' ~ Genesis 1:1) is one of the compound redemptive names of Jehovah-God. God is and becomes the answer to whatever your needs are.
...my Righteousness, my Provider, my Everpresent Help, my Creator, my Sufficiency, my Healer, my Banner (he even goes ahead of me), my Peace, my Owner, my Master, my Judge, my Lord of All, my Shepherd...
Related Posts:
He is my Everything ~ The Compound Redemptive Names of God and
"I AM WHO I AM".
...my Righteousness, my Provider, my Everpresent Help, my Creator, my Sufficiency, my Healer, my Banner (he even goes ahead of me), my Peace, my Owner, my Master, my Judge, my Lord of All, my Shepherd...
Related Posts:
He is my Everything ~ The Compound Redemptive Names of God and
"I AM WHO I AM".
Oct 4, 2017
Nothing Between ~ Charles Tindley
- Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
Naught of this world’s delusive dream;
I have renounced all sinful pleasure;
Jesus is mine, there’s nothing between.- Refrain:
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
So that His blessed face may be seen;
Nothing preventing the least of His favor;
Keep the way clear! Let nothing between.
- Refrain:
- Nothing between, like worldly pleasure;
Habits of life, though harmless they seem,
Must not my heart from Him ever sever;
He is my all, there’s nothing between. - Nothing between, like pride or station;
Self or friends shall not intervene;
Though it may cost me much tribulation,
I am resolved, there’s nothing between. - Nothing between, e’en many hard trials,
Though the whole world against me convene;
Watching with prayer and much self-denial,
I’ll triumph at last, there’s nothing between. - ~Charles Tindley 1905
Crowding God Out ~ St. Mark
My Goldwing has taken up much of my garage space for about 8 years now. A few days ago, I took it apart again this summer for some regular maintenance. It seemed to be running fine, but ever since purchasing it I decided to keep on top of all the maintenance myself as time permits and gradually go through the bike and continually maintain/upgrade it as time permits me. But time doesn't always permit me.
While I was forming my afternoon plan of my "maintenance-attack" and doing some research, I found a "hack" solution to upgrade my bike's sound system to enable a synch-up with my Android phone (and thus it's playlist of tunes and off-line Google nav-maps). My six-cylinder Goldwing was manufactured in 1990 and with the big boxer-type engine, the bike is a sweet-ride. However, it's near 30 year old (1990) radio/entertainment-system technology in many ways seems ancient (Does anybody even remember cassette-tape players?). The hack was to simply solder three wires to the pre-amp in the radio's motherboard, to attach an AUX input via a 3.5mm plug, which then attaches to my phone. That worked fine and I was pleased with this inexpensive hack.
Because of Honda's design, getting inside my Goldwing often requires me to remove many different panels and a variety of plastic and metal fasteners to address the item I want to work on. As I was aware that the air filter was hidden in a compartment just below the radio, I decided since I had gone to the trouble of removing all these panels, I would also go a level deeper and change the hard-to-access air filter while I was working nearby. All good stuff for a backyard mechanic like me.
By the time my disassembly was done, there were motorcycle parts all over the garage and as well the kitchen table was full of radio parts, soldering irons, diagrams and associated tools. However, my surprise came when I opened up the air filter compartment. I was amazed to see ... a pile of rice! It seems a mouse had found the intake opening into the bike and planned to use it for his winter food-lot storage!
Despite it's nearly 30 years old age my bike looked shiny on the outside, but below the surface, there was things going on in there that shouldn't be happening. Because of being too busy, I had literally allowed things to creep into the heart of my bike, while the bike continued to just chug-along, but gradually losing it's volumetric-breathing efficiency (it was "choking").
When I think about it, it's much the same as the question of our sin-tolerance. The world, the flesh and the devil crowd out the things of God; our passion, our service ....our efficiency for Christ through us allowing sin into our lives and making poor decisions in our christian life and testimony. When I leave my bible on the shelf for longer than I should, my spirit is immediately affected and I am spiritually choked and more sin-prone. When I am in regular bible study and prayer, my spirit comes alive and I find complete freedom and peace and worship comes easy.
I was designed to be a worshiper!
This summer I pulled my pickup truck into my driveway and walked towards the house. When I returned to my truck a bit later, I noticed that I had some fluid leaking out from underneath. Further investigating found that I had "lost" all the fluid out of my apparently rotten power steering lines.
The easy part was taking the truck in for repair; the harder part was to clean up the mess in my driveway. I'd never ever before contemplated what power steering fluid actually was! ...and well at first I didn't realize how difficult the cleanup would be, especially as it soon had penetrated and mixed in with the asphalt in a gooey mess. I got the garden hose out, but the fluid stains wouldn't budge. I increased my game to include my pressure-washer. Nope! Next I loaded the pressure water with some powerful liquid soap. Nope! I brought out a pail of hot soapy water and a scrub brush! - Nope! Maybe it will be soluble in some gasoline? -Nope. It seemed that no matter what I thought of, that big stain remained; it was big, black, ugly and in the middle of my driveway. I really thought I had it beat when I dauntless said "yes" to the off-street-vendor, who made his summer rounds to make college money by coating driveways with asphalt sealer. Nope ....despite the $100 that I paid him, the power steering fluid leached back through the coated asphalt in just several weeks. By this time, I really hated that stain, but the analogies weren't lost on me!
The only thing I can do with that stain is struggle with it and get rid of it!
You've probably figured where I'm going with these observations I made in my garage and driveway this summer. Sin is ominous, ugly, black and habit forming. It slowly starts to choke you, it is taxing and will overwhelm you and possibly even take your life! It's effect on your vitality isn't to be trivialized. You have to struggle with it; ...and take action against your sin, and get it out of your life!
In his old hymn, Robert Lowry raised the rhetorical question, "What can wash away my sin?" The clear and resounding answer was,
"Nothing, But the Blood of Jesus!" ...and that's very good theology!
Charles Tindley wrote in 1905. "Nothing Between". ...and that's a great way to live and to prevent sin in the first place!
- Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
Naught of this world’s delusive dream;
I have renounced all sinful pleasure;
Jesus is mine, there’s nothing between.- Refrain:
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
So that His blessed face may be seen;
Nothing preventing the least of His favor;
Keep the way clear! Let nothing between.
- Refrain:
- Nothing between, like worldly pleasure;
Habits of life, though harmless they seem,
Must not my heart from Him ever sever;
He is my all, there’s nothing between. - Nothing between, like pride or station;
Self or friends shall not intervene;
Though it may cost me much tribulation,
I am resolved, there’s nothing between. - Nothing between, e’en many hard trials,
Though the whole world against me convene;
Watching with prayer and much self-denial,
I’ll triumph at last, there’s nothing between.
~ St Mark
Israel's Legal Founding - Allan Dershowitz, (Harvard) featured on Prager University
Editor's Note:
In 2009, Dennis Prager started a website, Prager University, offering five-minute videos on various subjects such as the Ten Commandments, the minimum wage, the Middle East, Global warming, and happiness with a conservative perspective. To be very clear, Mr. Prager is NOT a Christian, but has his roots as an Orthodox Jew, thus his videos do not necessarily view scripture exactly as Christians view scripture, nonetheless there are many general parallels between.
When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, it was done so with the approval of the United Nations. But today, Israel's enemies routinely challenge the legitimacy of its very existence. So, under international law, who's right? Israel? Or its enemies?
What you didn't know about Hugh Hefner & Alfred Kinsey
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The fixture behind 100 Huntley Street, Canadian televangelist David Mainse dead at 81 ~ The National Post
The gift of Mainse,
who died Monday at 81, was his ability to present deeply religious programming
that did not come across as fire-and-brimstone preaching
David Mainse on air in 1978, the early days of 100 Huntley Street.Courtesy Crossroads
Graeme Hamilton
September 26, 2017
David Mainse was a
Pentecostal pastor in the Ottawa Valley in the early 1960s when he noticed TV
aerials popping up on people’s roofs. He approached the owner of the TV station
in Pembroke, Ont., about a weekly show, a way of entering the homes of people
who weren’t filling the pews Sunday morning.
The owner was not a
Christian, but he was intrigued by the promise of musical performances by
Mainse’s wife, Norma-Jean, and her brothers, a popular local act. In 1962 he
gave Mainse a 15-minute slot Saturday nights between the news and the
late-night movie, laying down one rule: no preaching.
From those unlikely
circumstances a television ministry — which in 1977 would become 100 Huntley
Street — was born. The show would span decades and become a fixture on the dial
for Canadians, whether they were seeking out the good word or simply flipping
channels.
The gift of Mainse, who
died from leukemia Monday at the age of 81, was his ability to present deeply
religious programming that did not come across as the fire-and-brimstone
preaching dreaded by the Pembroke station owner.
David Mainse’s style was not to beat people over the head with a
Bible but to speak the truth in love his son says. Courtesy Crossroads
“Dad always said it’s
amazing how much of the gospel you can pack into the introduction to a song,”
his son, Ron, said in an interview Tuesday.
“It was a kind of a
music and interview variety show, and not a preaching show.” His style was not
“to beat people over the head with a Bible” but to “speak the truth in love,”
Ron Mainse said.
While some American
televangelists were purporting to heal the lame and appealing for donations
that they would use to pad their bank accounts, 100 Huntley Street offered a decidedly
Canadian take on religious programming.
Mainse was born in 1936
in Campbell’s Bay, Que., and was raised outside Ottawa by his missionary
parents. When his mother died when he was just 12, he turned away from church,
but at age 16 he experienced a religious conversion. He studied theology and
was ordained, serving as a pastor in the Ontario communities of Brighton, Deep
River, Sudbury and Hamilton.
But it was on television
that Mainse shone. “He had an amazing kind of magic with the lens,” said George
McEachern, who worked alongside Mainse on 100 Huntley Street for 25 years. “He
was a tremendous communicator.”
Lorna Dueck, who was a
co-host with Mainse on 100 Huntley Street and is now CEO of the not-for-profit
parent corporation Crossroads Christian Communications Inc., said he had an
ability to connect with viewers. “When he looked into the camera, hundreds of
people phoned in for prayer,” she said. The show’s 24-hour prayer line receives
1,200 calls a day from people seeking spiritual help, she said.
When scandal felled
American televangelists Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart in the 1980s, the image
of the whole business suffered. Crossroads saw a steep drop in the donations
that paid to keep 100 Huntley Street on the air.
In 1992, as Mainse dealt
with a financial crisis that forced him to lay off more than a quarter of
Crossroads employees, he told the Ottawa Citizen the U.S. scandals had made
people suspicious. He said he began carrying around his T4 income tax slip
showing his annual income of $48,000 to prove he was not in the business for
the money.
“I don’t need to make
more. The Lord promised to supply our needs, not our greeds,” he said at the
time.
“The televangelist
scandal of the ’80s deeply affected David,” Dueck said, noting that he was
called in to help set the PTL Club back on course after host Jim Bakker was
charged with fraud. “He knew the players who had fallen, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim
Bakker,” she said. “He knew them personally, and it deeply troubled and grieved
David.”
She said his integrity
was apparent, and it allowed him to weather the storm. In 2008 the Christian
Council of Canadian Charities honoured Mainse and Billy Graham for their
“lifetimes of integrity.”
David Mainse prays with Billy Graham and Canadian evangelist John
Wesley White. Courtesy Crossroads
Mainse waded into
political debates, most recently coming out against the legalization of gay
marriage. In 2003, as he announced his plan to retire as host of 100 Huntley
Street, he said he wanted to devote more time to preserving the traditional
definition of marriage “as meaning a man and a woman.”
Dueck said he told her
that he felt like the champion of losing social causes, having unsuccessfully
opposed euthanasia, abortion, and gay marriage. But she said he felt the
primary cause of his life was a winner: “Get right with Jesus and love people.”
Despite having created
Canada’s longest running daily TV show, which producers say reaches 1.3 million
viewers a week, Mainse never aspired to be a celebrity. And the country’s elite
did not see him as one. Dueck said his name was put forward several times for
the Order of Canada but he was never selected.
“I don’t think the
official power structures knew what to do with David Mainse,” she said. “We
don’t understand why in some people’s minds he remains a minor player. To the
millions of people who know his broadcast work, he remains a hero of love of
the highest degree.”
Mainse leaves behind his
wife of 59 years, Norma-Jean, daughters Elaine and Ellen and sons Reynold and
Ron.
• Email: ghamilton@nationalpost.com
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