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The False “Church System” Deception American megachurches use stagecraft, sensory pageantry, charismatic leadership and an upbeat, unchallenging vision of Christianity to provide their congregants with a powerful emotional religious experience, according to research from the University of Washington. The real question is one of obedience. Does this church look like the church of the New Testament? Are we carrying out what Christ has given us to do? That is non-negotiable, but size is never made a part of the command… “We’re not told to get to a certain size and split, nor are we told that a small church is ineffective. We’re told to be faithful, specifically to the Great Commission.” “I don’t think that you can say that a church is more biblical because it’s small, or more biblical because it’s large. I don’t think either model is unbiblical……

Abortion: Hillsong Church NYC mega-pastor Carl Lentz had a platform from which to speak in their defense while a guest on “The View.”

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HNewsWire-UTAH COUNTY, Utah, Detectives have charged a suspect with 22 additional felonies after they executed a search warrant on his cell phone. On Feb. 12, undercover detectives established social media contact with that suspect, identified as Richard Michael Martin, 29, of Riverton, the Utah County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Martin believed he was talking to a woman who was the mother of 12- and 6-year-old girls. Martin described wanting to engage in sexual intercourse and oral sex with the 12-year-old and oral sex and digital penetration with the 6-year-old. Martin also said to the undercover detective he wanted the 12- and 6-year-old to perform oral sex on him. As part of that investigation, detectives took Martin’s cellphone and after a search warrant was obtained, detectives reportedly discovered “numerous items of child pornography, including videos and photographs.” According…

Second Amendment To The United States Constitution

By Editorial Opinions | February 26, 2019

Common Interpretation The Second Amendment THE SECOND AMENDMENT HNewsWire-Modern debates about the Second Amendment have focused on whether it protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms, or a right that can be exercised only through militia organizations like the National Guard. This question, however, was not even raised until long after the Bill of Rights was adopted. Many in the Founding generation believed that governments are prone to use soldiers to oppress the people. English history suggested that this risk could be controlled by permitting the government to raise armies (consisting of full-time paid troops) only when needed to fight foreign adversaries. For other purposes, such as responding to sudden invasions or other emergencies, the government could rely on a militia that consisted of ordinary civilians who supplied their own weapons and received some part-time, unpaid…

Help Combat Child Trafficking

By StevieRay Hansen | February 25, 2019

HNewsWire-Child sexual abuse is a worldwide public issue. Child abuse, particularly child sexual abuse, is reprehensible…. Human Trafficking Has Millions of Victims The International Labour Organization estimates that forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry worldwide involving 20.9 million victims. Of those victims: In 2016, an estimated one in every six runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was likely a victim of child sex trafficking. Eighty-six percent were in foster care or with a social services agency when they ran away. HNewsWire-60+% of sex, human trafficking victims once involved in foster care system How Victims Are Lured into Human Trafficking and Why They Stay Human traffickers commonly recruit their victims through false promises. Victims are promised relocation to where there are good jobs and better living conditions. But once they arrive at a new location, they are told they will…

Man kidnapped girl in foster care and advertised her for sex, feds say

By StevieRay Hansen | February 24, 2019

HNewsWire-The kids in foster care are not safe in this environment, sick perverted men with access to foster care children, folks please wake up. An East Texas man was indicted Friday after he was accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old Keller girl, sexually assaulting her and sending recordings of the abuse to men online. Bobby Wayne Pearce, 50, was charged with aggravated kidnapping in Tarrant County and production of child pornography in federal court. He admitted to authorities that he had sent the videos to other men online to advertise the girl for sex, officials said. Officials tracked him down in October when a 14-year-old girl did not return from school to the privately run Keller children’s center where she lived. The girl was not a ward of the state, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales said. The staff at the home…

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HNewsWire-In the wake of a recent attack by celebrity, Ellen Page against Christ Pratt, an attendee of Hillsong Church, who called Pratt’s church “infamously anti-LGBTQ,” Hillsong released a statement denying this. Of course, Hillsong isn’t anti-LGBTQ — “we are an inclusive Christian church that loves, values and welcomes all people, regardless of their background, ethnicity, beliefs, values, or personal identity” — says the church who allowed open homosexuals to lead their choir. Not only does Hillsong now openly affirm homosexuals, they also hold Roman Catholic masses, have sleazy renditions of Silent Night during Christmas, pose a nearly naked man on stage at a women’s conference, cover-up pedophile pastors, defend abortion, complain about the death penalty, and the reason celebrities love them is because they “don’t teach that book with Moses and stuff,” The statement released Thursday reads, Hillsong Church loves…

The Broken US Foster Care System

By StevieRay Hansen | February 19, 2019

HNewsWire-The foster care system is broken. Children go from house to house never knowing what home really means. They are taught that it’s best not to make friends because within a short period of time they’ll leave your life forever. Children have trust issues because of this broken system; they are torn from whatever family they have left; they are given the feeling that they are not important or wanted or loved. The foster care system is broken. Children spend years going from one foster home to another, being traded between social workers like a game of hot potato. The foster care system is broken, it was made in a different time and now needs to be modernized and fixed to today’s issues. The overpopulation is the lack of personal attention received. Speaking on a strictly psychological basis, it is…

Pedophile American priest arrested

By StevieRay Hansen | February 19, 2019

HNewsWire Authorities arrested an American Catholic priest wanted for various sexual offenses, including cases involving minor altar boys, both in his country and in the Philippines.Metro Manila police director Guillermo Eleazar on Tuesday presented to members of the media the suspect Fr. Kenneth Pius Hendricks who was arrested also by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by Stephanie Bowman, US magistrate judge of the US District Court in Ohio on Nov. 11, 2018,Hendricks was charged with “engaging in illicit sex with a minor in a foreign country, punishable by fines and/or up to 30 years in prison.Eleazar said he personally served another five arrest warrants against Hendricks now detained in Camp Bagong Diwa, Bicutan in Taguig City.He added the five warrant of arrests came from the Eight Judicial Region Trial Court Branch 16 Naval, Biliran issued by Judge Constantino…

Three children’s books with transgender characters will remain in the children’s section of the Andover Library.

By StevieRay Hansen | February 17, 2019

HNewsWire-your children are not safe in public libraries, your children are at risk in public schools, our elected officials for the most part have bought into the transgender sin virus, be warned!… The titles include “George,” “Lily and Dunkin” and “I am Jazz.” Back in July, Marci Laffen asked that the books be removed. A hearing was held and a vote of 4 to 1 deemed they could stay. Laffen appealed the decision, but she also amended her complaint and asked that the books at least be moved to the adult section. Tuesday night, each of the board members said they read the books before the meeting. They said it’s their policy to remain neutral and provide a variety of viewpoints to their public, even for children. “As librarians, we believe it is the parents’ responsibility and right to determine…

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the Lord.

Vice President Mike Pence told a crowd of graduates from the Christian-based Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, that they ought to be ready for ridicule because this secular world is about as intolerant of those of the faith as can be.

There is no doubt that persecution is a stark reality of living the Christian life. Christian persecution is to be expected: the apostle Paul warned that “everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). Jesus said that, if they persecuted Him, they will also persecute His followers (John 15:20). Jesus made it clear that those of the world will hate Christians because the world hates Christ. If Christians were like the world—vain, earthly, sensual, and given to pleasure, wealth, and ambition—the world would not oppose us. But Christians do not belong to the world, which is why the world engages in Christian persecution (see John 15:18–19). Christians are influenced by different principles from those of the world. We are motivated by the love of God and holiness, while the world is driven by the love of sin. It is our very separation from the world that arouses the world’s animosity (1 Peter 4:3–4).

Christians must learn to recognize the value of persecution and even to rejoice in it, not in an ostentatious way but quietly and humbly because persecution has great spiritual value. First, the persecution of Christians allows them to share in a unique fellowship with the Lord. Paul outlined a number of things he had surrendered for the cause of Christ. Such losses, however, he viewed as “rubbish” (Philippians 3:8) or “dung” (KJV) that he might share in the “fellowship of [Christ’s] sufferings” (Philippians 3:10). The noble apostle even counted his chains as a grace (favor) that God had bestowed upon him (Philippians 1:7).

Second, in all truth, Christian persecution is good for believers. James argues that trials test the Christian’s faith, develop endurance in his life, and help develop maturity (James 1:2–4). As steel is tempered in the forge, trials and persecution serve to strengthen the character of believers. A Christian yielding graciously to persecution demonstrates that he is of superior quality as compared to his adversaries (see Hebrews 11:38). It’s easy to be hateful, but Christlikeness produces kindness and blessing in the face of evil opposition. Peter says of Jesus, “When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats. Instead, He entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly” (1 Peter 2:23).

Third, Christian persecution enables believers to better value the support of true friends. Conflict can bring faithful children of God together in an encouraging and supportive way they might not have known otherwise. Hardship can stimulate the Lord’s people toward a greater resolve to love and comfort one another and lift one another to the throne of grace in prayer. There’s nothing like an unpleasant incident to help us reach a greater level of brotherly love.

Even in the face of Christian persecution, we can press on. We can thank God for His grace and patience with us. We can express gratitude for those whom we love in the Lord and who stand with us in times of distress. And we can pray for those who would accuse, misuse, or abuse us (2 Corinthians 11:24Romans 10:1).

A working definition of hate speech is "speech that is intended to insult, intimidate, or cause prejudice against a person or people based on their race, gender, age, sexual orientation, political affiliation, occupation, disability, or physical appearance." If that is the accepted definition, a Christian should never participate in hate speech. However, the problem is that the definition of hate speech is broadening over time. Proclaiming that a certain belief is wrong or that a certain activity is sinful, based on biblical principles, is increasingly being included in the definition of hate speech.

Ephesians 4:15 refers to "speaking the truth in love." First Peter 3:15 instructs Christians to defend their faith, but to do so "with gentleness and respect." Colossians 4:6 proclaims, "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt." Sadly, some Christians fail to follow these biblical instructions. Some Christians (or at least people who claim to be Christians) speak the truth but speak it in such a way that it is very hateful. One prominent example would be Westboro Baptist Church and its "God hates fags" slogan. Westboro Baptist Church is correct in declaring the Bible's teaching that homosexuality is sinful, but they are declaring this truth in such a way that it is intended to be incendiary, offensive, and hurtful. Needless to say, the Bible does not support such methods.

It is likely that in the near future, governments will begin declaring more speech as hate speech, thereby making it illegal. In some parts of the world, it is illegal to say that homosexuality is a sin. In some countries, it is illegal to declare one religion right and other religions wrong. This steady broadening of what qualifies as hate speech could eventually lead to any effort to evangelize being declared hate speech since it would be "hateful" to tell a person that what he/she currently believes is incorrect.

What the perpetrators of this expanded hate speech definition fail to realize (or admit) is that to tell someone the truth is an act of love, not hate. Is it hateful for a teacher to tell a student that his/her answer is wrong? Is it hateful for a building inspector to tell a construction company that they are building on a faulty foundation? Of course, the answer to these questions is no. However, that is precisely the illogic that is being applied to current hate speech legislation. Telling someone that his/her religious views are wrong is somehow hateful. Telling someone that his/her lifestyle is immoral is somehow hateful. The logic is not, in any sense, consistent with how truth is determined in other areas of society.

Our goal is to speak the truth in love. We do not hate Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Catholics, Mormons, or Jehovah's Witnesses. Rather, we simply believe that these groups are making some serious theological and biblical errors. We do not hate homosexuals, adulterers, pornographers, transsexuals, or fornicators. Rather, we simply believe that those who commit such acts are making immoral and ungodly decisions. Telling someone that he/she is in the wrong is not hateful. In reality, refusing to tell someone the truth is what is truly hateful. Declaring the speaking of truth, presented respectfully, to be hate speech, is, in fact, the ultimate demonstration of hate.Source

StevieRay Hansen

Editor, HNewsWire.com

It is impossible to find anyone in the Bible who was a power for God who did not have enemies and was not hated.

Like Joseph and Daniel of the Old Testament who served secular kings, we are called to serve everyone and help them fulfill their divine destiny. Jesus made it clear that people who want to lead or be great must be the servants of all. Serving is the way of leadership in the kingdom.

Forcing our way onto the world is not great leadership. Some accuse us of doing this very thing because we speak up on moral issues. It is important that we speak up on issues, but it's also equally important that we love everyone no matter their persuasions.

Someday Jesus will rule the world; in the meantime, we should just serve well and let our good works speak of our Father who loves everyone.

Evil Exists So Spiritual Warfare Becomes Necessary!

MY MISSION IS NOT TO CONVINCE YOU, ONLY TO INFORM…

Evil men don’t understand the importance of justice, but those who follow the Lord are much concerned about it. ~ Proverbs 28:5

Jesus come quick, there is nothing left in society that’s sacred….

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2 Comments

  1. Mark Herbert on November 6, 2022 at 12:29 am

    God’s Love does not persecute, discriminate , hate, abolish, torture, kill, arm, buy guns, judge to determine intention for persecution, go blind, block HOLY Spirit, so help stop religious hate and persecution through dismanteling wicked assemblys of misinformed folks

  2. Patrick Galasso on May 17, 2019 at 11:35 am

    Romans 8:34, “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”

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