Junior High Teen "Suspended" for PRAYER during LUNCH

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Junior High Teen "Suspended" for PRAYER during LUNCH

 

 

JMC Ministries Response:

As Christians there comes a time to stand up.

I do believe that this teen shouldn’t have stood up in a chair due to the fact of causing a bad influence to others. But the root of her reasoning makes sense to me. As for the principal giving such a harsh 2 day suspension I believe that is going to far.

 

This only goes to show that Christians around the world are being persecuted. Even teenage girls in junior high.

 

School has become a battleground for a spiritual battle of light versus dark. From not being allowed to pray to some schools even saying that you can’t wear Christian clothes.

Yes we do still have Fellowship of Christian Athletes and some other groups as well. It is not enough. The 1st amendment says we have freedom of religion and the press. Teenage rights have  been revoked due to the lower standards of society as a whole.

 

The time has come for Christians to unite and let their voice be heard. Teens across the country should take time to pray before school and during lunch. Bring your Bibles to school. Read the Word after your work is done, on the bus and at breakfast and lunch. I challenge you today to be the hands and feet God has called you to be.

 

ROMANS 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth…..

 

MATTHEW 10:22

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

 

ROMANS 12:14

Bless them which persecute you: bless and curse not.

IRS Shows up to Collect 4 cents from one U.S Car Wash Owner

It was every businessperson's nightmare.
Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.
The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff's on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents.
Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35.
Zeff, who also owns local parking lots and is the president of the Midtown Business Association, finds the situation a bit comical.
"It's hilarious," he says, "that two people hopped in a car and came down here for just 4 cents. I think (the IRS) may have a problem with priorities."
Now he's trying to figure out how penalties and interest could climb so high on such a small debt. He says he's never been told he owes any taxes or that he's ever incurred any late-payment penalties in the four years he's owned Harv's.
In fact, he provided us with an Oct. 22, 2009, letter from the IRS that states Harv's "has filed all required returns and addressed any balances due."
IRS spokesman Jesse Weller isn't commenting "due to privacy and disclosure laws."
Zeff says he's as offended as much as anything else by what he considers rude behavior by the IRS guys. While at Harv's, he sniffs, "they didn't even get a car wash."

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U.S Attorney Compares Marxists Doctrine to Obama

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By Kelly O'Connell  Sunday, March 14, 2010 
Having watched Barack Obama’s sole economic recovery strategy of spending hand-over-fist to “heal” our economic malaise and rampant deficits, we must ask if his theory is a cipher for the mythic phoenix? Is Barack a classical Marxist seeking to fix a broken society via torching our economy to ashes, confident it will arise again, healed by socialism and communism? During a turbulently reckless period he seeks a massive government-directed health care bill. Obama now demands wild expenditures on top of record deficits, in the midst of a prolonged recession, against record unemployment. So, what other motivation does such illogical decision making suggest?

Is Barack a mad Ahab chasing the giant, evil specter of Capitalism across the globe, hoping to harpoon and sink it to the bottom of the deep? Even Obama is intelligent enough to know his strange belief that Keynesian “deficit-spending always equals growth” may not work. In fact, it hasn’t so far, a year later. So what is his “Plan B”? Well ,perhaps there is no secondary plan because he only means to ruin the economy. It’s a distinct possibility that Barack actually intends to bankrupt the US into accepting the socialism he touted to Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher. In fact, to engage in such an attack against the world’s greatest capitalist nation would merely make him a superstar acolyte to his Marxist progenitors.
It is essential non leftists understand that just because Marxism has been logically, scientifically and historically disproved, it does not mean it is a spent force. Instead, because of it’s evangelical spirit, it becomes even more dangerous once discarded and ignored, remaining like a zombie faith. Marxism does espouse a “Doctrine of Destruction” that must be implemented by its true followers at every level. It teaches capitalism is theft, and that the rich steal what they have amassed from the poor. So the only just response is to confiscate the stolen wealth and return it to the impoverished workers. There isn’t much more to Marxism than this, but this judgmental and self-righteous conceit is as sacred to a communist as Mecca is to a proper Muslim.

$1 Million Dollars Spent each day for TV ads Promoting Obama's Health Care Reform

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Washington (CNN) - Upwards of $1 million a day is expected to be spent on health care television ads this week, as interest groups work overtime to try to influence Congress before the House votes on President Obama's top domestic priority.
Health care commercials all but vanished from the airwaves in late January after Republicans scored an upset victory in the Massachusetts special election to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Republican Scott Brown's win gave the GOP the crucial 41st vote needed to sustain a filibuster to block passage of the Democratic health care reform bill.
Now, as Democrats try to pass the legislation later this week without Republican support, outside groups are weighing in.
Last year, special interest groups spent a combined $200 million just on TV ads as Congress struggled to agree on how to overhaul the nation's health care system, said Evan Tracey, a CNN consultant and president of Campaign Media Analysis Group.
Ad spending hit a high in 2009 following last August's raucous town hall meetings. "At its peak, advertising levels were exceeding $1 million a day," Tracey said.
Tracey noted that during last week alone, interest groups spent a combined $600,000 on health care ads. The spending increased to about $600,000 by Saturday and very likely will grow to $1 million at the beginning of this week.
Among the many organizations taking to the airwaves: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Future Fund, Americans United for Change and MoveOn.org.
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JMC Ministries Response

Ok Why are these organizations going to spend up to a million dollars a day when they could give that money to families who don't have insurance and it would pay for them to get health insurance for themselves and their families. Or better yet take that money make jobs so those who are out of work and don't have health insurance can get jobs and then will be able to afford insurance for themselves and their families!

When people have jobs that give them health care benefits more than likely they will sign up for them. Why hasn't Mr. Obama figured this out yet?  Yes there are issues with Health Care Insurance Agencies hiking up premiums, and etc. Making it harder for businesses to keep insurance for their employees So why not go after the Insurance companies and punish them! Not the American Public and say that if this Health Care Reform comes through that if you don't get the Govt. Health Insurance you could be fined up to possibly 5,000 dollars!

 

Landlord Give Kidney to Tenant

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MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minneapolis woman feels her landlord gave her a "second chance at life" by donating his kidney to her.
Sherry Hanson, a mother of six suffering from kidney disease, spent three days a week at dialysis during the past few years.  But all of that changed in late February after she got a new kidney from landlord Dan Hunt.
"I can't even say what I could call Dan," Hanson said.  "He just gave me a life again."
For the past four years, Hanson has lived in a south Minneapolis home that is owned by Urban Homeworks, a faith-based housing organization.  Hunt is the housing director there.
After one of Hanson's potential donors had to take her name off the list last summer, Hunt offered to get tested. 
"If I'm a match, you can have my kidney," he said at the time.
After learning he was a match, Hunt didn't hesitate to keep his promise.  The transplant took place last month at Hennepin County Medical Center.
Hanson spent a couple weeks in the hospital and finally left last Monday.
"I'll be out jogging pretty soon," she said with a laugh.
Hunt spend a couple days in the hospital and missed five days of work. 
"It was so easy, honestly, for me that it makes me wonder why more people don't do this," he said.
After such an incredible gift, Hanson said she cannot do enough to thank Hunt. 
"Thank God," she said.  "Thanks, Dan."

Teacher Writes Loser On Students Homework Papers

 

JMC Ministries Response

Written By Miranda Caverley

It is a travesty that this is happening to children in our Schools. When I was in school I experienced the same thing. I had a teacher who asked me to come up to her desk one day. I did and then she told me loud enough for the rest of the class to hear, “Look at your grades,you will amount to NOTHING in life.” The other students snickered and laughed at me. I was humiliated and after she was done saying these horrible things to me I went back to my seat put my head down and cried.

My mom did the same thing as the mother in the video did She went to the school and complained. But the school I attended did nothing to the teacher.  I never received an apology or anything. And when I see that teachers are still treating children this way it just breaks my heart because I know first hand the long term affects this kind of treatment can have on a child.  Though it took that teacher less than a minute to say those words, they stuck with me for many years.

Please Parents listen to your children and when they say something is going on in school and they are upset or showing signs that something is wrong. Help them and protect them from people like this.

U.S. City Forbids Bible Studies In Homes

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By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

The city of Gilbert, Ariz., has ordered a group of seven adults to stop gathering for Bible studies in a private home because such meetings are forbidden by the city's zoning codes.

The issue was brought to a head when city officials wrote a letter to a pastor and his wife informing them they had 10 days to quit having the meetings in their private home.

The ban, however, prompted a response from the Alliance Defense Fund, which filed an appeal with the city as the first step in its campaign to overturn a provision it describes as illegal.

__"The interpretation and enforcement of the town's code is clearly unconstitutional, " said Daniel Blomberg, a member of the litigation team for ADF. "It bans 200,000 Gilbert residents from meeting in their private homes for organized religious purposes – an activity encouraged in the Bible, practiced for thousands of years, and protected by the FirstAmendment."

The appeal was filed on behalf of the members, all seven, of the Oasis of Truth Church.

Pastor Joe Sutherland had been told in a letter from code compliance officer Steve Wallace that the people were not allowed to meet in a home for church activities under the city's Land Development Code.

There had been no complaints about the meetings, which had been rotating among members' homes before the officer wrote the letter and ordered the group to "terminate all religious meetings … regardless of their size, nature or frequency," because he noticed signs about the meetings.

The town interprets its law so that "churches within its borders cannot have any home meetings of any size, including Bible studies, three-person church leadership meetings and potluck dinners," ADF said.

A city letter confirmed, "Given that the church is considered to be religious assembly, and given the LDC provisions prohibiting that use on Local streets without Use Permits and prohibiting it in single family residential structures, it follows that the church meetings cannot be held in the home."

"The assembly activities associated with the church, including Bible studies, church leadership meetings and church fellowship activities are not permitted," wrote Mike Milillo, the city's senior planner.

"This ban is defended based upon traffic, parking, and building safety concerns. However, nothing in its zoning code prevents weekly Cub Scouts meetings, Monday Night Football parties with numerous attendees or large business parties from being held on a regular basis in private homes," the ADF said.

The few adults in the church had met for a few hours weekly in members' homes.

The ADF argues such bans violate the Constitution's free-exercise clause, and even the state's Free Exercise of Religion Act protects such meetings.

Further, the restrictions imposed by the city violate the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, which grants significant authority for churches to pursue their ministry goals.

Finally, Blomberg said, "the First Amendment's free-speech clause prevents the town from stopping the church from holding its meetings on the public sidewalk outside the pastor's home, yet the town won't allow him to hold the same meetings just a few feet away in the privacy of his own living room."

The small church has been forced to halt its regular meetings. It meets now in a local school but only can afford the rental once a week.

A spokeswoman for the city of Gilbert told WND city officials were aware of the concern and planned to address it.

Vice Mayor Linda Abbott told WND the code apparently was adopted years earlier, and there was considerable concern on the city council because of the current issues.

"I'm not in favor of that code. That is something we would want revisited," she said.

WND reported a similar situation in San Diego County. In that case, officials eventually withdrew a warning letter and a cease-and-desist order they had issued against a pastor who had been holding a weekly Bible study in his home.

"I want to offer my apology to you, your wife and your congregation for the unfortunate events of the past several weeks," said the letter from Walter F. Ekard, chief officer of the county. "My review of the situation shows that no administrative citation warning should have been issued and that a major use permit is not required for the Bible study you have in your home."

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JMC Ministries Response

When you read this story of Christians being threatened by authorities for having bible studies in their homes we think we are reading about China, North Korea, Russia, and other Communists/Socialist Countries where Freedom of Religion is illegal. 

But when you read this is happening in the United States it is like a slap in the face really.

Our own U.S Constitution says we have freedom of religion, and freedom of speech. But it seems that States are starting to make their own laws to implement that can take away our Freedoms that our forefathers fought and even died to give us.

Slowly and surely those who do not think we should have these freedoms are trying to take them away from us. We must keep fighting to the end to keep these freedoms and stop those who seek to kill and destroy all so many fought and died for so that we May Live FREE.

1 million people expected to attend Christian Concert Out doing Woodstock

By Drew Zahn
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

A local newspaper ran a two-page article on the concert titled "Calling All Christians," and that's exactly what Jim Plack and the organizers of Jubileefest are doing, seeking to gather 1 million people to a farm outside of tiny Houston, Del., this summer for a praise and prayer event for the nation.

"Every Christian should be there," quipped the Jubileefest website, "but we only have room for a million."

Never mind that Jublieefest is in its inaugural year. Never mind that the crowd Plack is hoping to gather is more than three times larger than any Christian concert event in history and twice as big as 1969's "Three Days of Peace and Music." Plack is trusting God to fulfill the vision he says the Almighty has given him, a vision for a concert that will impact the nation even more than the fabled Woodstock.

"If half a million hippies can gather on farm in New York to do drugs and have sex," Plack told WND, "certainly God can bring a million Christians to a farm in Delaware."

Christian music festivals like Minnesota's four-day-long Sonshine draw tens of thousands of fans every summer across America. Pennsylvania's mega-rally CreationFest draws hundreds of thousands

And while Plack doesn't expect record-setting crowds for all four days of the July 29 - Aug. 1 Jubileefest, he is calling for a million Christians to come on one night, July 31, for a prayer and praise event that will boldly proclaim to the nation's "PC (politically correct) police" that America's faithful are a force to be reckoned with.

"The Christian community hasn't really come together and said, 'Here we are, look at us,'" Plack said. "If we put a million people on a farm, that's something that can't be ignored."

What makes Plack think Jubileefest can draw so many people for one night of prayer and praise?

He told WND that the location – not far from Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and within a two-hour drive of Philadelphia, New York City and major population centers in Virginia and Pennsylvania – should help.

Jubileefest's announced lineup on five stages of continuous activity should be a draw, too, with headliner Christian musicians such as Rebecca St. James, Mercy Me, Newsboys, Sonic Flood and "American Idol" finalist Chris Sligh. Speakers scheduled include Josh McDowell, Lee Strobel, David Jeremiah, Kirk Cameron and comedian Tim Hawkins.

But most importantly, Plack believes this is a God-sized goal that Providence is already working to achieve.

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Movie "Billy: The Early Years" Chonicling Billy Grahams Life Coming to DVD on March 16, 2010

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TORONTO, March 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- For audiences worldwide, no person has delivered the message of God with more power and dedication than Billy Graham. With an undying commitment, Billy Graham has used the Lord's word to help millions accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Billy: The Early Years presents a rare glimpse into the life of the young Graham and how his mission and commitment to God shaped the man who changed the face of modern Evangelism and went on to become one of the world's most influential preachers. Directed by veteran Actor / Director and Golden Globe® nominee Robby Benson (Beast in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Ode To Billy Joe, Ice Castles, The Greatest Story Ever Told).

Armie Hammer (Veronica Mars, Flicka), who plays an incredibly authentic Graham, takes the viewer deep into the heart of the man. From his humble beginnings we join Billy on a journey to spread the word of the lord. Billy: The Early Years includes such Hollywood luminaries as Academy Award®-winner Martin Landau (Ed Wood, "Entourage"), Lindsay Wagner ("The Bionic Woman"), Stefanie Butler ("CSI: NY") and Grammy Award®-nominated country music sensation Josh Turner.

In addition to this inspiring film, the DVD includes an exclusive 2009 sermon recorded by Billy Graham, the behind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the creation of Billy: The Early Years, a photo gallery, theatrical trailer and the DVD trailer.

Awarded The Dove's Family Seal of Approval, making it suitable for all ages, Billy: The Early Years premieres on DVD on March 16, 2010 nationwide for a suggested retail price of $29.99, just in time for Easter.

"Under God" To Stay in Pledge Of Allegiance Voters Say it is Constitutional

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WASHINGTON, March 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that teacher-led recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, including the words "under God," does not violate the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.  "The Pledge is constitutional," concluded the court, dismissing the latest attack by atheist Michael Newdow to remove every reference to God from the public square.
Penny Young Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America (CWA), said, "This is a great victory for all Americans and the rule of law.  There is no question that this nation was founded on the fundamental belief that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.  We are pleased that the Ninth Circuit recognized that and dismissed the misguided efforts to rewrite history and alter the character of our nation through judicial fiat."
Mario Diaz, Esq., CWA's Policy Director for Legal Issues, said, "Even the most activist and most overturned court in the country managed to recognize that there is no basis in history or in law that would require the removal of the words 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance.  The court correctly pointed out that the mere mention of God does not immediately establish a religion.  Newdow and other progressives want the government to be hostile to religion, an idea that has been emphatically rejected by the Supreme Court and actually runs counter to our form of government.  All Americans, including atheists, win with this decision by the Ninth Circuit."
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JMC Ministries Response 

After years of hearing many people say that "Under God" is unconstitutional and fighting to have it removed once and for all from our Pledge Of Allegiance and even our U.S Money. Saying it violates separation of church and state.   We are happy that the finally vote is in and that those who voted on this issue say it IS Constitutional.  

This pledge has been around nearly since the beginning of our Country and why after hundreds of years is it only now being called unconstitutional by some? Our Country was founded on Christian and Jewish Values from the Holy Bible The Ten Commandments were what we founded our laws on.

We commend those who's vote has kept "Under God" Part of Pledge and U.S. history for years to come.