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Showing posts with label San Bernardino Massacre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Bernardino Massacre. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
No, Mr. President, the NRA is not to blame: Chris Cox
In response to the Dunce-In-Chief Barack Obama, Chris Cox, the executive director of the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, wrote an op-ed in USA Today.
It begins with:
Just when we think that politics can’t sink any lower, President Obama once again proves us wrong by politicizing the tragedy in San Bernardino before the facts were even known. What we do know is that the American people are heartbroken by these horrific crimes — and despite what the president would have us believe — America’s law-abiding gun owners are heartbroken by these horrific crimes as well. At the same time, we are sick and tired of this president suggesting the men and women of the National Rifle Association are somehow to blame.
The National Rifle Association is not to blame. Neither is our Second Amendment freedom. An act of evil unfolded in California. President Obama used it not as a moment to inform or calm the American people; rather, he exploited it to push his gun control agenda. Policy discussions should be intellectually honest and based on facts, not politics. And the fact remains that California has already adopted President Obama’s gun control wish list: "universal" background checks, registration, waiting periods, gun bans, magazine bans and an expansion of prohibited gun categories. But those laws did nothing to prevent this horrific crime from taking place. Nothing.To read the full op-ed, go here.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
It’s Not the Weapon, It’s the Motive
Source: News Release
PHILADELPHIA—Terrorism has not been ruled out, says the FBI, in yesterday’s deadly shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 people and wounded 17.
Also dead today are the alleged shooters: a married couple, 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook, who has been called a “devout Muslim,” and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik. The pair donned tactical clothing and carried out the attack with assault weapons, according to Fox News. Police also found other explosives in their home.
Some have turned the tragedy into a weak argument for more gun control laws, but Sam Rohrer, president of the American Pastors Network (APN, www.americanpastorsnetwork.net), says the incident reflects the utter failure of the nation’s leadership to acknowledge that terrorism is at our doorstep, and that there may be many more waiting for the right time to strike.
“The degree of adherence to one’s ideology or faith determines their choices and actions,” Rohrer said. “Only people who embrace evil ideologies take pleasure in death and destruction. It is time to understand that the cause of evil is a heart issue and a faith issue—not a gun issue. And a person’s rejection of Jesus Christ and absolute Truth is where it starts. Whether the particular face of evil is in the form of Nazism, Islam, aggressive atheism or other anti-God ideologies, the resultant choices and actions are only a matter of degree. No nation, including the United States of America, that turns its back on God and embraces an ideology that rejects absolute truth, Jesus Christ and the Bible can long endure.
“True moral leaders are duty-bound to focus on the true cause of problems and embrace honest solutions, rather than point to symptoms as an opportunity for political exploitation and the furthering of personal agendas,” Rohrer continued. “To deny that evil and the resultant terrorism that exists places the American people in danger. Instead, to point to an isolated incident of workplace violence or a gun control issue is a ‘green light’ for more actions from people who embrace an ideology of hate and a direct undermining of our national security.”
“People choose to kill people,” Rohrer continued. “It’s stated time and again, but guns and knives do not kill people and inflict violence, but people do—and it’s completely true. We can point to Paris just a few short weeks ago. That nation has some of the world’s strictest gun laws, but yet, violence still rocked the people of France. Gun control is not the issue here—a heart issue is!”
Rohrer discusses breaking headlines on the daily one-hour “Stand in the Gap Today” radio program, which airs on 20 stations in America. Co-hosted along with Gary Dull, APN board member and executive director and vice president of the Pennsylvania Pastors Network (PPN, www.papastors.net), and Dave Kistler, president of the North Carolina Pastors Network (NCPN, www.ncpastors.net), “Stand in the Gap Today” addresses the cultural and moral issues of our time from a constitutional and biblical perspective. For information on all of APN’s radio programming, visit www.standinthegapradio.com.
APN also offers pastors numerous online resources that help clergy choose sermon topics and find information for other church ministries. With some free and some paid resources, topics include abortion, apologetics, creation, the culture war, economics, education, the environment, history, homosexuality, Islam and marriage, along with many others.
The American Pastors Network is the largest, national network of pastors who believe in the authority of scripture; who boldly preach the whole counsel of God with a disciplined application of a biblical worldview to public policy; who are building a permanent infrastructure of biblically faithful pastors and lay leaders; and who are mobilizing congregations to participate in the political process on a non-partisan basis. For more information on APN, visit www.AmericanPastorsNetwork.net, its Facebook page or follow APN’s Twitter feed, @AmericanPastors. Those interested in forming a chapter in their state may contact amy@papastors.net.
The American Pastors Network is a Ministry Program Affiliate of Capstone Legacy Foundation (a 501(c)(3) non-profit Christian Public Community Foundation registered nationwide). APN’s daily short radio feature, “Stand in the Gap,” airs on more than 40 stations, and the American Family Radio Network airs the one-hour “Stand in the Gap Weekend” on 140 additional stations nationwide. A live one-hour program launched in 2015, “Stand in the Gap Today,” airs on several Pennsylvania radio stations.
It’s Not the Weapon, It’s the Motive
American Pastors Network Says It’s Time for Administration
and Government Leaders to Focus on Real Danger at Hand
Also dead today are the alleged shooters: a married couple, 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook, who has been called a “devout Muslim,” and 27-year-old Tashfeen Malik. The pair donned tactical clothing and carried out the attack with assault weapons, according to Fox News. Police also found other explosives in their home.
Some have turned the tragedy into a weak argument for more gun control laws, but Sam Rohrer, president of the American Pastors Network (APN, www.americanpastorsnetwork.net), says the incident reflects the utter failure of the nation’s leadership to acknowledge that terrorism is at our doorstep, and that there may be many more waiting for the right time to strike.
“The degree of adherence to one’s ideology or faith determines their choices and actions,” Rohrer said. “Only people who embrace evil ideologies take pleasure in death and destruction. It is time to understand that the cause of evil is a heart issue and a faith issue—not a gun issue. And a person’s rejection of Jesus Christ and absolute Truth is where it starts. Whether the particular face of evil is in the form of Nazism, Islam, aggressive atheism or other anti-God ideologies, the resultant choices and actions are only a matter of degree. No nation, including the United States of America, that turns its back on God and embraces an ideology that rejects absolute truth, Jesus Christ and the Bible can long endure.
“True moral leaders are duty-bound to focus on the true cause of problems and embrace honest solutions, rather than point to symptoms as an opportunity for political exploitation and the furthering of personal agendas,” Rohrer continued. “To deny that evil and the resultant terrorism that exists places the American people in danger. Instead, to point to an isolated incident of workplace violence or a gun control issue is a ‘green light’ for more actions from people who embrace an ideology of hate and a direct undermining of our national security.”
“People choose to kill people,” Rohrer continued. “It’s stated time and again, but guns and knives do not kill people and inflict violence, but people do—and it’s completely true. We can point to Paris just a few short weeks ago. That nation has some of the world’s strictest gun laws, but yet, violence still rocked the people of France. Gun control is not the issue here—a heart issue is!”
Rohrer discusses breaking headlines on the daily one-hour “Stand in the Gap Today” radio program, which airs on 20 stations in America. Co-hosted along with Gary Dull, APN board member and executive director and vice president of the Pennsylvania Pastors Network (PPN, www.papastors.net), and Dave Kistler, president of the North Carolina Pastors Network (NCPN, www.ncpastors.net), “Stand in the Gap Today” addresses the cultural and moral issues of our time from a constitutional and biblical perspective. For information on all of APN’s radio programming, visit www.standinthegapradio.com.
APN also offers pastors numerous online resources that help clergy choose sermon topics and find information for other church ministries. With some free and some paid resources, topics include abortion, apologetics, creation, the culture war, economics, education, the environment, history, homosexuality, Islam and marriage, along with many others.
The American Pastors Network is the largest, national network of pastors who believe in the authority of scripture; who boldly preach the whole counsel of God with a disciplined application of a biblical worldview to public policy; who are building a permanent infrastructure of biblically faithful pastors and lay leaders; and who are mobilizing congregations to participate in the political process on a non-partisan basis. For more information on APN, visit www.AmericanPastorsNetwork.net, its Facebook page or follow APN’s Twitter feed, @AmericanPastors. Those interested in forming a chapter in their state may contact amy@papastors.net.
The American Pastors Network is a Ministry Program Affiliate of Capstone Legacy Foundation (a 501(c)(3) non-profit Christian Public Community Foundation registered nationwide). APN’s daily short radio feature, “Stand in the Gap,” airs on more than 40 stations, and the American Family Radio Network airs the one-hour “Stand in the Gap Weekend” on 140 additional stations nationwide. A live one-hour program launched in 2015, “Stand in the Gap Today,” airs on several Pennsylvania radio stations.
Response To NY Daily News Attack On GOP
Source: News Release
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—“Christianity cannot be true because of the evil and suffering in our world.” That sentiment seems to be echoed today on the controversial front page of the New York Daily News, which declared about yesterday’s deadly shootings in San Bernardino: “God Isn’t Fixing This.”
Author and worldview and culture expert Dr. Alex McFarland (www.alexmcfarland.com) asks this question in response to that headline: “Well, what do we expect?” McFarland says that God is just and his justice prevails, along with His love and mercy. But God is not weak or soft, and in a nation that has turned its back on Him, suffering will occur as a consequence.
“First, prayer to Almighty God is a serious act,” McFarland says. “And just because we don’t live in a peaceful world doesn’t mean that God isn’t hearing and answering our prayers, and it doesn’t mean that He is not at work. But the truth is that we live in a fallen world, and many want to reap God’s blessings without ever having to deal with His judgment. One myth about Christianity is that if God was real, He wouldn’t allow bad things—like mass shootings, sickness and death—to happen. But the truth that counters that myth is that Christianity offers the best hope and power to deal with suffering.”
That myth is just one explored in McFarland’s newest book, “The God You Thought You Knew: Exposing the 10 Biggest Myths About Christianity.” In it, McFarland dispels the myths and untruths about Christianity and replaces that with the truth of who God really is.
“Secondly, we also need God’s protection,” McFarland added. “This bloodshed on American soil will continue until we genuinely turn back to God. Our leaders must promote morality, natural law and the Ten Commandments. There is the easy way, to follow God’s precepts in our leadership, or the hard way, which is to continue to fight truth and refuse to acknowledge the reality that our world is lost without God. Will we humble our hearts or harden our hearts? The American people and her leadership have accountability in the events that take place on our homeland.”
McFarland and his ministry partner, apologist and founder of Reshift Ministries Jason Jimenez, together address America’s youth on the “Stand Strong” Tour—a series of events around the country that seeks to embolden Christians to stand strong in knowing, believing and proclaiming the truth of Christianity, and to assist churches in the much-needed effort to strengthen the faith of young people and their families.
“That arrogant New York Daily News headline isn’t just an attack on Republican presidential hopefuls, but on all Christians and God Himself,” Jimenez said. “The more our culture becomes anti-God and anti-Christian, the more our culture will succumb to violence. The truth is that we need to return to God, now more than ever, not away from Him. We don’t have a gun problem. We have a God problem.
“Rather than sweeping God under the rug and blaming Him for not ‘fixing’ all of our problems, we need to reinforce biblical truth,” Jimenez continued. “People who are claiming that ‘God isn’t fixing this’ are attacking the God we worship. So as Christians, we need to defend Him. After all, the liberal left is quick to defend radicals, shift the blame and reclassify terrorism as something else or ignore it altogether. This is a hostile way of addressing the issue; it’s hatred.”
McFarland added that, as a Christian leader, he is quick to call out lone gunmen like Robert Lewis Dear, who perpetrated the attack on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility last week, and state that violence is not the answer in the name of any belief. Therefore, he said, Muslim leaders must do the same and denounce violence as well.
“If Islam is really a religion of peace,” he said, “we need Muslims and all clergy to condemn acts of terrorism. Yet, they won’t call out their own.”
McFarland speaks to and works with thousands of young people every year, and communicates to them the hope of Jesus Christ. In “The God You Thought You Knew,” he uncovers 10 myths about Christianity:
McFarland is the author of
numerous other books, including “The 21 Toughest Questions Your Kids Will Ask
about Christianity,” “10 Issues that Divide Christians,” and the “Stand” series
of devotions for teens. McFarland is also an expert in the field of
apologetics—the practice of defending the Christian faith in a world where faith
in Christ is plummeting at alarming rates.
McFarland has spent years working with young people, interacting with nearly 20,000 per year, and takes the questions of the young to heart. He has preached in more than 1,300 churches and has been featured at conferences such as the Billy Graham School of Evangelism, Focus on the Family’s “Big Dig” and California’s “Spirit West Coast,” sharing the platform with Chuck Colson, Eric Metaxas, Josh McDowell and many others.
Part evangelist, part apologist, part educator and part broadcaster, McFarland focuses on communicating the message of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. He co-hosts the daily, live radio program “Exploring the Word” on American Family Radio’s Talk Network, heard on approximately 140 stations across the country, and the weekly television show “Viral Truth,” airing on the National Religious Broadcasters Network.
For more information, visit www.alexmcfarland.com or www.truthforanewgeneration.com, or follow McFarland on Facebook or on Twitter @AlexMcFarland.
‘God Is Not Fixing
This’
Dr. Alex McFarland
Asks: What Do We Expect?
People Expect God’s
Blessings, Not His Judgment – But When God Isn’t Followed, Innocent People
Suffer
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—“Christianity cannot be true because of the evil and suffering in our world.” That sentiment seems to be echoed today on the controversial front page of the New York Daily News, which declared about yesterday’s deadly shootings in San Bernardino: “God Isn’t Fixing This.”
Author and worldview and culture expert Dr. Alex McFarland (www.alexmcfarland.com) asks this question in response to that headline: “Well, what do we expect?” McFarland says that God is just and his justice prevails, along with His love and mercy. But God is not weak or soft, and in a nation that has turned its back on Him, suffering will occur as a consequence.
“First, prayer to Almighty God is a serious act,” McFarland says. “And just because we don’t live in a peaceful world doesn’t mean that God isn’t hearing and answering our prayers, and it doesn’t mean that He is not at work. But the truth is that we live in a fallen world, and many want to reap God’s blessings without ever having to deal with His judgment. One myth about Christianity is that if God was real, He wouldn’t allow bad things—like mass shootings, sickness and death—to happen. But the truth that counters that myth is that Christianity offers the best hope and power to deal with suffering.”
That myth is just one explored in McFarland’s newest book, “The God You Thought You Knew: Exposing the 10 Biggest Myths About Christianity.” In it, McFarland dispels the myths and untruths about Christianity and replaces that with the truth of who God really is.
“Secondly, we also need God’s protection,” McFarland added. “This bloodshed on American soil will continue until we genuinely turn back to God. Our leaders must promote morality, natural law and the Ten Commandments. There is the easy way, to follow God’s precepts in our leadership, or the hard way, which is to continue to fight truth and refuse to acknowledge the reality that our world is lost without God. Will we humble our hearts or harden our hearts? The American people and her leadership have accountability in the events that take place on our homeland.”
McFarland and his ministry partner, apologist and founder of Reshift Ministries Jason Jimenez, together address America’s youth on the “Stand Strong” Tour—a series of events around the country that seeks to embolden Christians to stand strong in knowing, believing and proclaiming the truth of Christianity, and to assist churches in the much-needed effort to strengthen the faith of young people and their families.
“That arrogant New York Daily News headline isn’t just an attack on Republican presidential hopefuls, but on all Christians and God Himself,” Jimenez said. “The more our culture becomes anti-God and anti-Christian, the more our culture will succumb to violence. The truth is that we need to return to God, now more than ever, not away from Him. We don’t have a gun problem. We have a God problem.
“Rather than sweeping God under the rug and blaming Him for not ‘fixing’ all of our problems, we need to reinforce biblical truth,” Jimenez continued. “People who are claiming that ‘God isn’t fixing this’ are attacking the God we worship. So as Christians, we need to defend Him. After all, the liberal left is quick to defend radicals, shift the blame and reclassify terrorism as something else or ignore it altogether. This is a hostile way of addressing the issue; it’s hatred.”
McFarland added that, as a Christian leader, he is quick to call out lone gunmen like Robert Lewis Dear, who perpetrated the attack on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility last week, and state that violence is not the answer in the name of any belief. Therefore, he said, Muslim leaders must do the same and denounce violence as well.
“If Islam is really a religion of peace,” he said, “we need Muslims and all clergy to condemn acts of terrorism. Yet, they won’t call out their own.”
McFarland speaks to and works with thousands of young people every year, and communicates to them the hope of Jesus Christ. In “The God You Thought You Knew,” he uncovers 10 myths about Christianity:
- Myth #1: Christianity is intolerant and judgmental toward others.
Truth: Christianity
teaches to love neighbor as self and to share the love of Jesus with
others.
- Myth #2: Christianity cannot be true because of the evil and suffering in our world.
Truth: Christianity
offers the best hope and power to deal with
suffering.
- Myth #3: Christianity is untrue because it is based on faith instead of facts.
Truth: The claims
of Christianity are based on historical facts that can be
tested.
- Myth #4: Christianity has been disproven by modern science.
Truth: The latest
scientific evidence points to an intelligent designer behind all
creation.
- Myth #5: Christianity is not a religion for the educated.
Truth: Many of the
world’s top past and present scholars are
Christians.
- Myth #6: Christianity is boring and would be a waste of my time.
Truth: Christianity
is the most adventurous life a person can
experience.
- Myth #7: Christianity isn’t real because it didn’t work for me.
Truth: The
Christian faith is difficult, yet also the most rewarding way of
life.
- Myth #8: Christianity is false because it is based on the Bible, which is filled with errors and contradictions.
Truth: The Bible is
the most accurately preserved book in history.
- Myth #9: Christianity can’t be true because it is based on a dead man coming back to life.
Truth: If the best
explanation for the empty tomb of Jesus is the resurrection, then Christianity
can be true.
- Myth #10: Christianity isn’t real because a loving God wouldn’t send anyone to hell.
Truth: God has made
great efforts to make sure many will spend eternity with
him.
McFarland has spent years working with young people, interacting with nearly 20,000 per year, and takes the questions of the young to heart. He has preached in more than 1,300 churches and has been featured at conferences such as the Billy Graham School of Evangelism, Focus on the Family’s “Big Dig” and California’s “Spirit West Coast,” sharing the platform with Chuck Colson, Eric Metaxas, Josh McDowell and many others.
Part evangelist, part apologist, part educator and part broadcaster, McFarland focuses on communicating the message of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. He co-hosts the daily, live radio program “Exploring the Word” on American Family Radio’s Talk Network, heard on approximately 140 stations across the country, and the weekly television show “Viral Truth,” airing on the National Religious Broadcasters Network.
For more information, visit www.alexmcfarland.com or www.truthforanewgeneration.com, or follow McFarland on Facebook or on Twitter @AlexMcFarland.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Contrasts In Statements On San Bernardino Massacre
Here's the contrasting differences between presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in their statements on the San Bernardino Massacre:
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