Showing posts with label Ben Carson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Carson. Show all posts

Monday, March 12, 2018

Unapologetic Christian Ben Carson Says Faith 'Helps Me Serve the Nation Better' - Jennifer Wishon CBN News


Unapologetic Christian Ben Carson Says Faith 'Helps Me Serve the Nation Better'
03-12-2018
CBN News  Jennifer Wishon
WASHINGTON — Leading a Washington bureaucracy and serving as a cabinet secretary isn't how Ben Carson thought he'd spend his retirement, but the famed pediatric neurosurgeon tells CBN News he's starting to see why God placed him in this unlikely position.
"As a pediatric neurosurgeon I spent a lot of time trying to give kids a second chance – operating for hours and hours, sometimes all night," he tells CBN News.
"But then being faced with having to send them back into a horrible environment with mold and lead and vermin – all kind of stuff – it was a horrible feeling for me – now I have a chance to actually do something about that environment," he continued.
One year into the job, he says God is revealed why He placed him there by taking Carson to the Bible.
"There's a verse in the Bible, Proverbs 29:18, that says, 'without a vision the people perish,' and I look around and see a lot of people who just are not thriving," Secretary Carson said.
Connecting Needs With Resources
That verse sparked the birth of EnVision Centers: community hubs connecting people's needs with resources that can help.
They bring together public, private and faith-based groups already providing the services needed.
The centers are designed to lead people to self-sufficiency through education and wellness while offering support along the way.
Ending the Cycle of Dependency
Carson is working to end the cycle of generations who have known nothing but living on government assistance.
"We have to provide a mechanism whereby they can climb the ladder of opportunity," he said.
As secretary, Carson has felt the belt tightening conservatives demand of the Trump administration.
The White House proposes cutting HUD's budget by nearly nine billion dollars next year.
"Would I rather have more money? Yes," he said with a laugh. "I could do more, no question about it."
However, his concerns about the national debt and his desire to make the agency operate more efficiently – like a business – encourage him to rise to the challenge.
"Our new definition of success is not how many people we get in these programs, but how many people we get out of them in a self-sufficient, powerful way so that they become a driving force right here in our own country," he said.
The conservative found himself in an embarrassing situation when he was forced to cancel an order for an expensive dining room suite for his office, once it was revealed it would cost taxpayers $31,000.
In a statement Carson said "no one was more surprised" than him.
He's also caught grief for daring to study the Bible and exercise his Christian faith as a member of President Trump's cabinet.
He attends the weekly cabinet Bible study led by Ralph Drollinger of Capitol Ministries.
No Apologies for His Faith
An atheist group sued HUD to get information about the study and how Carson exercises his faith in public life.
Unapologetic, Carson responded on social media, writing, "It is my faith that helps me serve the nation even better." 
"We have to have a foundation for who we are," he told CBN News. "If you're going to have free exercise of it – it doesn't mean you only get to talk about it in church because sitting in the pews of a church and keeping things contained there is not going to help feed the hungry, clothe the naked or take care of the imprisoned or do any of the things that we actually need to do so your faith has to be a living component of everything that you do," he said.
He also wrote that Americans have to resist attacks on our spirituality at all costs
"We can't allow ourselves to be just marginalized," he said.
 "You know, those who impose the political correctness agenda, you know, they are winning. They're having their way, they're changing our society away from what it used to be and that frightens me," he continued.
He says America needs to do a better job of developing its people and he understands the responsibility he's been given.
"You know, housing is an important foundation for the development of an individual and having that security is so important."
Watch interview here: Ben Carson

Tuesday, January 2, 2018

WATCH: President Trump Asks Ben Carson to Bless the Nation Through Prayer - Charisma News

WATCH: President Trump Asks Ben Carson to Bless the Nation Through Prayer

1/2/2018  Charisma News 
President Donald Trump recently asked former Republican primary candidate Ben Carson to bless the country at a meeting to close out 2017.
Watch the video to see what Dr. Carson asked the Lord for.


Friday, September 1, 2017

The Roots of Racism (Day 2) - Bishop Ron Webb, Dr. Alveda King on The Jim Bakker Show


Watch here: The Roots of Racism (Day 2) - Bishop Ron Webb, Dr. Alveda King on The Jim Bakker Show












Bishop Ron Webb, Dr. Alveda King
Jim Bakker Show 2017 | Show# 3311 | Aired on September 1, 2017
A Morningside Studios Production


Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker welcome Evangelist Alveda King and Bishop Ron Webb as they discuss the keys to destroying the roots of racism in our nation.

Quotes

Praying for those who are in authority means that we may have peaceful lives. -Dr. Alveda King

Work with the good because the good can grow. Evil will finally die regardless, but good can grow. -Dr. Alveda King
Scriptures

Mark 16:9 KJV Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Esther 4:14 NIV For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?

Matthew 25:40 MEV The King will answer, ‘Truly I say to you, as you have done it for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you have done it for Me.’

Mark 3:17 MEV James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, whom he surnamed Boanerges (meaning Sons of Thunder).

Mark 4:39 MEV He rose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!”Then the wind ceased and there was a great calm.

Proverbs 31:8-9 MEV Open your mouth for the speechless in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Exodus 20:13 KJV Thou shalt not kill.

2 Samuel 15:13 MEV A messenger came to David and said, “The hearts of the men of Israel are following Absalom.”

Matthew 24:10 KJV And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

Matthew 24:6-7 KJV And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Proverbs 6:19 MEV A false witness who speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brethren.

Galatians 6:1 KJV Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Isaiah 5:20 MEV Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who exchange darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 58:1 KJV Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.


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Friday, April 21, 2017

Pastor Holds Weekly Bible Studies With Trump's ENTIRE Cabinet - Will Maule HELLO CHRISTIAN

Pastor Holds Weekly Bible Studies With Trump's ENTIRE Cabinet


Apr 21, 2017 by Will Maule  HELLO CHRISTIAN
It has been revealed that cabinet officials attend a weekly Bible study group led by pastor Ralph Drollinger, who has said that he is committed to "making disciples of Christ in the Capitol," according to Fusion.net. The meeting was discovered when Fusion obtained a copy of Energy Secretary Rick Perry's daily schedule. Drollinger has praised the new administration for its power to “change the course of America in ways that are biblical.”
Drollinger, of Capitol Ministries, has also praised now Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who he says “hungers and thirsts for the Scripture," and who defended himself honorably in the senate confirmation hearings. “I’ve had the distinct honor of teaching him on this subject, and many others,” Drollinger said. “There’s nothing more exciting, when you’re a Bible teacher, to see one of the guys you’re working with—to see him or her articulate something you’ve taught them when they’re under the gun.”
Vice President Mike Pence, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, nominee for Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, HHS Secretary Tom Price, and Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, have all sponsored the Cabinet Bible study.
When Trump announced the nomination of so many Capitol Ministries students to Cabinet positions, Drollinger was delighted. “It follows then that the sudden rise of Pence, Sessions, and Pompeo—all men who are disciples of Jesus Christ—serve to vividly illustrate the truth of 1 Timothy 2:1-4!” he said. 
“Suddenly these men who have been discipled by the Church are in prominent positions of authority to change the course of America in ways that are biblical.”

Saturday, February 18, 2017

2 Evangelical Cabinet Nominees Face Votes in the Senate Next Week - BOB ESCHLIMAN CHARISMA NEWS

U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
Senate Democrats and their allies are stalling out the confirmation process on President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks. FRC President Tony Perkins is urging Christians to get on the phone with their senators to encourage them to speed up the process. (Reuters photo)

2 Evangelical Cabinet Nominees Face Votes in the Senate Next Week

BOB ESCHLIMAN  CHARISMA NEWS
Democrats are back to their slow-walking ways as they force every Cabinet nominee to go through the maximum amount of "debate" allowed by the Rules of the Senate.
The latest to be confirmed was EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. He was confirmed by a 52-46 vote. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) broke with their party to vote in favor of the nomination, while Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted against it.
Pruitt, the former Oklahoma attorney general, is an evangelical. Two others are expected to receive confirmation votes next week: former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, nominee to lead the Department of Energy; and Dr. Ben Carson, nominee to lead the Department of Housing & Urban Development.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is urging Christians to get on the phone with their senators and tell them to support each of those nominees. He shared a little bit about why each should be confirmed by the Senate.
Here's what he had to say.
On Perry: Appointee Rick Perry is the longtime Texas governor and a two-time Republican presidential candidate. An Air Force captain and a graduate of Texas A&M University, Perry has served in the Texas House of Representatives, as Texas' Agriculture Commissioner and as Texas' lieutenant governor prior to his election to the post of governor in 2000. Perry has also been a featured speaker at our annual Values Voter Summit. With a long and impressive history in public service, Perry is a nominee who will chart a course toward smarter energy policies designed to strengthen national security and rebuild our economy. This is particularly good news for hard-working families and for business owners who have been hobbled by federal regulations under President Obama.
On Carson: Ben Carson is a neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate. After his youth in impoverished inner-city Detroit, Carson rose to prominence as a pioneer in the field of pediatric neurosurgery, eventually taking over the department for Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Carson is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and founder of the Carson Scholars Fund. Like Perry, Carson has been a featured speaker at our Values Voter Summit. He is a man committed to the sanctity of all life and believes that we the people have an obligation to help lift others out of a welfare environment. From his highly-publicized speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to his recent run for president, Carson has championed polices that will strengthen faith, family and freedom. He is the perfect nominee to oversee fair-housing laws and direct HUD so that it truly serves the American people.
"From IRS' targeting of conservative organizations, to HHS' attempt to force private businesses to violate deeply-held religious beliefs or face crippling fines, the last eight years have shown us just important it is to have good leadership in each area of government," Perkins added. "Now is our opportunity to support good nominees for influential positions that will impact all of us. Make sure your voice is heard!"
The phone number to the Senate office's switchboard is (202) 224-3121. 
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Ben Carson Has Big Ideas About How Trump Could Unlock the Church's Prophetic Voice - JESSILYN JUSTICE CHARISMA NEWS

File picture of Ben Carson listening to a question from a reporter during a campaign stop in Las Vegas
File picture of Ben Carson listening to a question from a reporter during a campaign stop in Las Vegas. (REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus/File Photo)

Ben Carson Has Big Ideas About How Trump Could Unlock the Church's Prophetic Voice

JESSILYN JUSTICE  CHARISMA NEWS
Though once rivals on the Republican circuit, Dr. Ben Carson now serves President-elect Donald Trump as a godly counselor in an unofficial capacity.  
As Trump describes removing the Johnson amendment, Carson told a select group of evangelicals exactly how the move would free pastors to help return America to Judeo-Christian values.  
"If we get the Johnson Amendment rescinded, pastors can have fiery sermons and talk about what's right and what's wrong (again)," Carson said as part of the Salt and Light Lecture conference call.  
Officially, the Johnson Amendment prohibits those with 501(c)(3) tax distinctions like churches and ministries from engaging in political commentary. The amendment is often cited as to why pastors refrain from discussing controversial sins, such as homosexuality, in their pulpits.  
"Now we hear pleasant things and everybody sings "Kumbaya," and it's not an accurate representation of the world we live in," Carson says of today's churches. "If we rescind the Johnson Amendment and people are not afraid of losing their tax (status), then we will see Donald Trump be vigorous," and Judeo-Christian values return to the American forefront. 
Trump isn't the only advocate to rescind the amendment.  
Erik Stanley, senior legal counsel and head of the Pulpit Initiative for the Alliance Defense Fund, writes for the Los Angeles Times: 
The Johnson Amendment allows the government to determine when a pastor's speech becomes too "political." That is an absurdly ridiculous standard. A pastor's speech from the pulpit that talks about candidates from a scriptural point of view is religious speech. That speech doesn't become political any more than a pastor's speech becomes commercial when he gives a Scripture-based assessment of the current financial debacle on Wall Street. Allowing government agents to make that determination is as absurd as asking a first-grader to design and build NASA's next space shuttle.
The Johnson Amendment also allows the government to parse the content of a pastor's sermon to determine whether it violates the law. That is called a content-based restriction on speech, which the (First) Amendment's free-speech clause prohibits unless the government has a compelling reason for censorship.  
Without the amendment, Carson says, America can once again receive conviction from its pastors and become a godly nation once more.  
But churches are, perhaps, not in as much danger as they might expect. 
"The truth is, no church has never lost its tax-exempt status for either endorsing or opposing any political candidate or endorsing or opposing a local, state or federal law," said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. "Voting is both a privilege and a duty. The future of America is at stake every time we face a national election, and this upcoming election is one of the most important elections in recent history. To not vote is to vote. Silence is not an option. I encourage pastors to remove the muzzle that secularists want to put on them and exchange it for a megaphone to speak biblical truths regarding social and moral issues." 
In 2008, a host of pastors made plans to give politically charged sermons to protest the law. 
According to a new Pew Research study, 64 percent of regular churchgoers said they heard sermons on religious freedom, abortion, homosexuality, immigration, environmental issues and more during the election season. 
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Monday, November 21, 2016

Ben Carson: On Second Thought ... BOB ESCHLIMAN CHARISMA NEWS


Dr. Ben Carson retreated somewhat from his position that he would decline an invitation to serve in the Trump administration over the weekend. (Reuters photo)

Ben Carson: On Second Thought ...

BOB ESCHLIMAN  CHARISMA NEWS
During an interview with FOX News Channel over the weekend, Dr. Ben Carson appeared to backtrack on his decision not to serve in the Trump administration, but to rather counsel President-elect Donald Trump as a Washington, D.C., outsider.
He told "The FOX Report" if, after meeting, the Presidential Transition Team decided to offer him a position in the government, he wouldn't turn it down. The retired neurosurgeon later retweeted a CNN reporter's "Breaking News" tweet about the statement.
Much of Carson's interview, however, was focused on his desire to see a change in the way the American media conducts itself. He called on the liberal mainstream media to hold a "national summit" to discuss how to provide more responsible coverage.
"[T]he media is the only business that is protected by our Constitution," he said. "They are supposed to be on the side of the people, they are not supposed to be distorting the information that they give in order to put forth a particular view point or an ideology and that is what they are doing."
Carson said the summit should focus on coming up with some rules they would agree to abide by, and that those rules would then be made public. Most journalists no longer know the rules anymore, he added, which is why "they act the way they do."
He said this is a message he's already been conveying with young journalists he meets, and he would be more than happy to serve as a moderator for the summit.
Meanwhile, his longtime friend and confidant, Armstrong Williams, wrote about the speculation surrounding whether or not Carson would serve in the Trump administration in an opinion piece written for WorldNetDaily. In it, he wrote:
Running an agency of the government is a management challenge that requires incredible organizational skills and expertise. The president entrusts his Cabinet officials with enormous responsibility and looks to them to master the details and muster the men and women who work within their agencies to accomplish the objectives at hand.
I have no doubt that Dr. Carson would have met and exceeded any challenge set before him and done a fantastic job. However, it's important to keep in mind that you can hire management, but not vision. It's a unique attribute that people either possess or not.
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