You need & deserve a secular sabbath

New York Daily News

Three texts came in during the last minute, and CNN is blasting out breaking news while updates scroll across the screen. Your boss is calling you on the cell — on Sunday afternoon — and while you’re talking to him, you hear the chime of new e-mails arriving. We all know the feeling: We’re living at the speed of light, more than at the speed of life. And the more our devices accelerate, the harder it is to keep up. Indeed, the more you try to keep up, the further you fall behind.

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A Different Kind of Prayer

Heavenly Father,

Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children.

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man who can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting his student loans for next semester.

Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.

Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together.

Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.

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Government to monitor every child's spirituality

World News Daily

Under a new law in Scotland, parents will be reported to authorities for not giving a child enough “love, hope and spirituality,” according to a government health adviser who is helping craft rules for the law, which is scheduled to go into effect next year.

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Cuba undergoes a religious revival

The Guardian

Raul Castro was a Jesuit schoolboy before turning to communism, and after a lengthy meeting with Pope Francis last month, he told Vatican reporters he was so impressed he was considering a return to the church. They laughed. “I’m serious,” said Castro, 84. If so, he would not be the first Cuban in recent years to find his way back to Jesus.

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Bono: "Listening to Pope Francis Will End Corruption and Hunger"

Aleteia

Bono, the lead singer of the Irish band U2, has launched "a call for a world without hunger." The artist, in a video message broadcast on the Milan Expo during the launch of Terra e Cibo (Land and food) by Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said the powerful of the earth should, "Listen to Papa Francisco, and end the corruption. "

 

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Rick Warren: Government and Church must work together on foreign aid

Rick Warren and Elton John joked together before the Senate appropriations

 subcommittee on funding global health initiatives.

Christian Today

Saving lives through foreign aid makes friends and allies of potential enemies, megachurch pastor Rick Warren told Congress. He said that good distribution of aid could not be done without the help of faith communities but the faith community finds the US government difficult to work with.

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Pope eyes worldwide audience for environment encyclical

Yahoo News

Pope Francis is looking for a global audience for his upcoming encyclical on the environment, saying it's meant for everyone, not just Catholics.

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Amazon selling controversial Ouija board games for children as young as EIGHT - including a pink version aimed at girls

DailyMail.co.uk

Amazon has come under fire for selling Ouija boards aimed at children as young as eight. There is even a pink version of the game to appeal to girls and comes with a planchette and classic Ouija lettered board. The 'spirit-world game', created by toy giant Hasbro, invites players and the friends to pose their questions to the dead.

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Nordstrom Department Stores Selling Satanic Wolf diety with the command to "obey"

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'Killer Wolf' Graphic T-Shirt

Item # 1014056 Link to Nordstrom This item is so popular that it has been sold out! This is a clear indication that America is culturally and morally bankrupt. When Satanism is glorified and marketed to young people, clearly the enemies of God are here in America and faithful Bible-believing Christians are the target. God help us. - Advent Messenger

The United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations and Seventh-day Adventists? Who Is Behind It All?

Editorial | Advent Messenger
  
A few weeks ago Seventh-day Adventist President Ted Wilson met with United Nation Secretary-General Ban Key-moon. This news was reported world-wide through different Seventh-day Adventist media outlets. However, what went completely ignored through the different reports that were circulated was the other fellow in the picture – Joseph Verner Reed, a banker and a member of the infamous Council on Foreign Relations.

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Church of England Group Recommends Letting God Be a 'She' Sometimes

Jezebel.com

A group within the Church of England that successfully advocated for female bishops is now recommending that church liturgy alternate between “He” and “She” when referring to God. A member of the group, Rev. Judy Stowell, tells the Guardian that exclusively referring to God as “He” gives worshippers a “deficient understanding” of the nature of the divine.

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U.S. Rep. wants to force gun owners to 'buy insurance or pay fine'

News World Daily

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., has introduced a bill that would force gun owners to have liability insurance or face fines of up to $10,000.

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Obama Forcing Faith-Based Organizations to Hire Homosexuals and Transsexuals

Charismanews.com

The Obama Administration will soon require faith-based, charitable groups which receive federal grants to hire homosexuals and transsexuals. That disturbing revelation comes straight out from published reports from the Center for Family and Human Rights.

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Modern UK family is two lesbian mums, a gay dad and transsexual nanny, says judge

Express.co.uk

Details have just emerged of the complicated life of the nine-year-old, who was conceived by donor insemination. At age three her two "mothers" split up - with the non-biological mum moving in with a female-to-male transsexual.

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Pope to challenge America's founding principles during US visit

Western Journalism

The plan is quite simple. And it should scare you. Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the “American idea” of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

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