YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — An Ohio judge has set bond at $3 million for a teenager accused of fatally shooting an 80-year-old woman in the head during a robbery as she left church. Municipal Court Judge Robert Milich set the bond Monday for 18-year-old Jamar Houser of Youngstown on charges of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery. He faces another hearing in a week
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$3M bond set in Ohio church parking lot slaying
Luke 2:22-40 Mal 3: 1-4 / Psa 24 / Heb 2:14-18 Lord, as you have promised, you can now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people… (Luke 2:29-30) Like Simeon and Anna, may we see That Jesus Christ is life’s true goal; Lord, please be present
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Encounter in the Temple
Some detractors of left wing noodle twisting liberals seem to think that we don’t read the bible over here on Preludium or in other revisionist hot-spots. To the contrary. I am, as we speak (or write) in the midst of putting together a short Lenten study on doing Justice, using Micah as a baseline
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Back to the Bible: Reading Genesis and gathering the Crumbs.
When the Word of God is preached, something happens. God’s Word, inspired by God’s Spirit, pointing toward God’s Son, spoken by a person empowered by the Spirit of God for their calling from God’s Son, to people prepared by the Spirit of God – it’s a recipe for response! At times we can see that response. We get to see the people moved, the individuals gripped, the lives changed. Sometimes we see something at the moment of preaching, or soon afterwards. Sometimes we only see the response over months and years of ministry. At other times we don’t see the response. We preach our hearts out and are devastated by polite niceties. Or perhaps we don’t see the response we long for. Perhaps we get the response of criticism, or argument, or outright attack. Not quite what we had in mind when we prayed for lives to be changed! Nevertheless, let’s be committed to preach for response, even an apparently negative one, rather than playing safe and settling for nothing other than polite platitudes. Obviously any one of us could abuse this post. We could take it as an excuse to wind people up, to create tensions, to lack sensitivity. We must all answer for our own motivations, and of course, we will answer as preachers for how we have taken the opportunity to present God’s Word (2Tim.4:1-2). Let’s not settle for smooth, let’s rather preach the Word with sensitivity to God and to His people, with a prayer-fuelled passion to see Him prompting response rather than apathy, transformation rather than safety.
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Preaching and Response
A couple that was arrested in Malta should be extradited to France, a magistrate ruled on Monday morning. 49-year-old Frenchman Alain Schmitt, the leader of a religious sect, and his fiancée, 42-year-old Belgian national Laurence Liegeois, were arrested in their Naxxar home on January 7, after a European arrest warrant was issued against them.
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Malta court orders cult leader’s extradition
So a new study on the effectiveness of abstinence education came out and it’s interesting to look at how it’s being covered. First, let’s look at a story from the past about a study that showed that there was no difference in the effectiveness of abstinence programs and their counterparts that instruct teens in how to use birth control: Study Casts Doubt on Abstinence-Only Programs A long-awaited national study has concluded that abstinence-only sex education, a cornerstone of the Bush administration’s social agenda, does not keep teenagers from having sex
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Oh no! Abstinence works?
Last December as part of the holiday displays in the Illinois state capitol building, officials allowed the Freedom From Religion Foundation to put up a sign calling religion a “myth and superstition.” It was placed next to a Christmas tree and near a nativity scene that were also on display. William J
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Suits Charges FFRF Sign In Capitol Violated Establishment Clause
Last year, after a finding of probable cause by the Maryland Commission on Human Relations, the Strathmore Tower Condominiums in Baltimore (MD) modified one of its elevators to accommodate Orthodox Jewish residents. The owner of one of the condos covered the cost of retrofitting it for “Shabbat mode”– each Saturday it stops automatically on each floor so Sabbath observant Jews do not need to press elevator buttons
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Maryland Tells Condo To Stop Removal of Shabbat Elevator Pending Probe
Baptist Press yesterday reported that opposition from Christian conservatives was largely responsible for Friday’s vote in Hawaii’s House of Representatives to postpone consideration indefinitely on HB 444 , a bill that would have authorized same-sex civil unions in the state To the surprise of many, the decision was made by voice vote after a Democratic caucus on the issue. Two weeks ago, some 15,000 religious conservatives rallied in the Hawaiian capital in opposition to the bill.
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Hawaiian House Tables Civil Union Bill Under Pressure From Christian Conservatives
Today is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, when the Catholic Church recalls the day on which Mary and Joseph brought the infant Jesus, to the temple “to present him to the Lord,” in accordance with the scripture that “Every male that opens the womb shall be consecrated to the Lord.” The Gospel reading for today’s Mass contains Luke’s account of the event. We are told that when Mary and Joseph arrive at the temple with Jesus, they are met by Simeon, a “righteous and devout” man, to whom it had been revealed “by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Christ of the Lord.” When Simeon sees Jesus, he takes the child in his arms and prays, “Now, Master, you may let your servant go in peace, according to your word, for my eyes have seen your salvation.” I almost tingle every time I hear this scripture proclaimed. I can feel the joy and the peace Simeon felt when he beheld Jesus
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My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation
Amsterdam – An Amsterdam court is to resume proceedings on Wednesday against Islam critic Geert Wilders to rule on the charges to be heard before the court and the number of witnesses to be called. The trial opened January 20 when the leader of the D…
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PREVIEW: Trial of Islam critic Geert Wilders set to resume (EARTHtimes.org)
A court in Hong Kong has thrown out a feng shui master’s claim to the multi-billion dollar estate of Asia’s richest woman, Nina Wang.
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Hong Kong court awards Nina Wang fortune to family
Geert Wilders , the radical anti-Muslim Dutch politician, will seek to test free speech in Britain next month when he makes a second attempt to visit the House of Lords to screen a controversial film equating Islam to Nazism. Lord Ahmed, a Muslim peer, has promised to mobilise 10,000 Muslims to block Mr Wilders from entering the House of Lords
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Geert Wilders to test British free speech with anti-Muslim film screening
Street preacher Brian David Mitchell is purposely adopting a fake religious persona, does not suffer a mental illness and is competent to stand trial, according to federal prosecutors. In December, a 10-day competency hearing was held for the man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting Elizabeth Smart in 2002.
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Prosecutors say alleged Elizabeth Smart kidnapper competent to stand trial
Recruitment efforts at the churches, which are predominantly white, involve fight night television viewing parties and lecture series that use ultimate fighting to explain how Christ fought for what he believed in.
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More churches promote martial arts to reach young men
London, Feb. 1: Inderdeep Bains, 26-year-old chief reporter on the Royal Borough Observer , a weekly newspaper in Berkshire, has brought new meaning to the expression, “hot off the press”.
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For a cause, hot off press – V-Day dinner with reporter to help Haiti victims
I went on a trip with a friend this weekend and during our time together we each shared our favorite modern versions of the hymn “It Is Well.” (Mine is from Kutless’ new worship album by the same title, and hers is by Jars of Clay. Both are awesome!) Now I’ll be honest, this is not one of my favorite hymns to begin with, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve found something very worshipful in these old songs
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It Is Well
On the one hand, if all theists were liberal, I may never have thought to become active in atheism . I might have thought it’s as benign as believing in Big Foot. But as long as there are conservative theists bent on undermining freedoms …
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Comment of the Week: Liberal Faith Insulating Fundamentalist Faith
The karaoke kid The subject: Jonah Wendell, age 3 The snapshot: Could Jonah be the next “American Idol” – the early years? Put a microphone in his hand, and he loves to sing for his family.
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Snapshots: The karaoke kid
LIFESTYLE We are so caught up with today’s modern lifestyle, the hustle and bustle of our routine livelihood that it is almost excusable for one to forget the purpose of our lives and what we live for.
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Is there death beyond our lifestyle? (Malaysian Mirror)
A DNA test was ordered today for William Rex Fowler, a 58-year-old businessman and founder of an Adams County software company accused of killing his former business partner. Fowler’s wife, Janet, reportedly told investigators that her husband is a Scientologist “and would not have gone without a fight.” [video]
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Scientologist makes court appearance in murder case
The fact that Heather Mills will be ice skating with a glued-in prosthesis is, as it turns out, only the second-biggest item of PETA-related news today. It has been revealed that everyone’s favorite “animal rights organization” will be setting up shop here in Shanghai. In fact, says our sources, a photo shoot boycotting China’s secondary fur trade has already occurred.
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Stir-fried tiger and hidden doggie could land you in jail — oh, and PETA’s now in Shanghai (Shanghaiist)
The Catholic Church warned the government on Monday against banning full-face Muslim veils, saying France must respect the rights of its Muslims if it wanted Muslim countries to do the same for their Christian minorities.
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France: Catholic Church Rejects Ban on Full-Face Veils
One of the members of the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion has resigned from that body. The result is a considerable ramp up of consternation and confusing messages, notably a paper by the Anglican Communion Institute (ACI), a message from Stephen Noll on Anglican Mainstream’s pages, and a wonderful piece by Pluralist Speaks, Adrian Worsfold and of course the pithy words of Jim
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President Bishop Anis bows out of the Standing Committee
TORONTO , Feb. 1 /CNW/ – Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN) (TSX-SAT), Canada’s largest South Asian broadcaster, is pleased to announce that it is now broadcasting live twice daily from the Sri Guru Singh Sabha temple in Mississauga, Ontario, on its two Canadian Punjabi-language television channels.
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ATN broadcasts live from Canadian Sikh Temple
In case you are new to the Gospel, a couple of things: Welcome! Jesus loves you. Muslims aren’t huge fans of the Jews. To the latter, I don’t mean as in not carrying a foam finger reading, “There’s only one Savior for me.” It’s more like, “I have hated your guts for 6,000 years.
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Jesus turned water into wine, but Arabs are turning it into cash
Kinzer’s paper wraps up with a description of Messianic Jewish theology as a protest against the boundary drawn by mainstream Judaism against the deity of Y eshua….Yet, the Nicene Creed set about to deny some things we too, as Messianic Jews, would want to deny: … What will surprise many readers is to know that Judaism, not only in the Second Temple period, but also throughout the Middle Ages, deals with a controversy that i s parallel to that of Nicaea….
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The Nicene Creed and MJ