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Saturday, February 24, 2018
Billy Graham and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit - Ron Cantor MESSIAH'S MANDATE
Graham’s Body to Make Journey from Mountains to Charlotte - CBN News
Billy Graham's body will be brought to his hometown of Charlotte on Saturday.
Graham’s Body to Make Journey from Mountains to Charlotte
CBN News 02-24-2018
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. Billy Graham’s body will be brought to his hometown of Charlotte on Saturday as part of a procession expected to draw crowds of well-wishers.
The procession begins late Saturday morning with a ceremonial departure from a mountain chapel at the training center operated by his evangelistic association in Asheville and ends in the afternoon at Graham’s library in Charlotte.
Crowds are expected to watch the procession pass through the town of Black Mountain as it leaves the training center on its way to the interstate for the approximately 130 miles (210 KM) journey. Graham often shopped or caught trains in Black Mountain, next to the community of Montreat where he maintained his home.
Authorities in North Carolina’s largest city, where Graham grew up, are also making preparations with designated viewing areas for well-wishers when the procession ends there.
The procession is part of more than a week of mourning for “America’s Pastor,” culminating with his burial next week at his library in Charlotte.
Graham, who died Wednesday at his home in North Carolina’s mountains at age 99, reached hundreds of millions of listeners around the world with his rallies and his pioneering use of television.
A viewing will be held at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte on Monday and Tuesday.
Graham will also lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda next week, on Feb. 28 and March 1, the first time a private citizen has been accorded such recognition since civil rights hero Rosa Parks in 2005.
He will be laid to rest March 2 at the foot of a cross-shaped walkway at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, buried in a simple prison-made plywood coffin next to his wife, Ruth, who died in 2007. His coffin was built by inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, who typically construct caskets for fellow prisoners who cannot afford one.
The funeral will be held in a tent in the main parking lot of Graham’s library in tribute to the 1949 Los Angeles tent revivals that propelled him to international fame, family spokesman Mark DeMoss said. About 2,000 people are expected at the private, invitation-only funeral.
Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
A Grandmother's Heartbroken Plea to Hollywood - CAROL MCLEOD CHARISMA NEWS
A Spirit-Filled Grandmother's Heartbroken Plea to Hollywood
CAROL MCLEOD CHARISMA NEWS
Dear Hollywood, the Entertainment Industry and Video Game Producers,
I am writing this letter to every producer and director in Hollywood. I am writing this letter to every writer, to every actor and to every actress.
I am writing this missive to TV show producers, to directors and to writers.
I am writing this plea to the gaming industry.
I am writing this humble but passionate request to the sponsors who pay for movies, television shows and games.
Please listen; please read; and please respond.
As a mother, as a grandmother, and as a woman who loves America deeply, my heart is broken by the shootings that happened last week in Parkland, Florida. 17 vibrant and hopeful people lost their lives when a gunman opened fire in their own high school. Teachers were gunned down. Scholars were assassinated. Future leaders were violently killed in America.
I know that this ugly problem is multi-faceted and that there are no "easy" answers; however, I do believe that there are answers that can prevent a mass shooting such as this from happening again.
I have to believe it. I must.
I happen to believe that the true answers America is searching for will never be found in a political candidate.
And believe me, America does need some answers. America desperately needs answers that will never come from an editorial, from Congress or from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Some of the answers to this very confusing and devastating problem are found in the solutions that the mental health community can offer and some can be discovered in the security that needs to be addressed in our public school system.
The breakdown of the family has contributed greatly to this horrific dilemma and then there are the politicians who should humbly but personally take responsibility as well.
Every congressman, every senator and every member of the president's White House staff should visit the grieving parents of these beloved children and hear their pain.
The answers are vast, the questions are numerous, and the blame enormous.
However, as the producers, directors, writers, actors and actresses who create movies—you are not without blame!
America has raised an entire generation of young people in a culture that has taught that when you have a problem, a gun will solve it.
Your movies have sent the message that if you don't like the hand you have been dealt in life, well then, just shoot somebody!
We have modeled by the scripts, by the themes and by the visual images of television series and of award-winning movies that violence is an acceptable and even applauded lifestyle.
Hollywood—stop it! Just stop it!
Take responsibility, all of you in the entertainment industry, and change your message.
Change your message before one more innocent young person is murdered.
Hollywood—directors, producers, actors, actresses, writers—when you look at your hands today, you may just see a drop of blood or two.
I am appealing to the mothers and fathers who are producers and directors in Hollywood. I ask you to never again make another movie that glorifies violence.
I am appealing to the mothers and to the fathers who are actors and actresses in the film industry and in the television industry. I implore you to refuse scripts that tout guns as the answer.
I am begging cameramen and camerawomen who love children to walk off the sets of violent movies.
I am beseeching screenwriters and television writers who have ever felt the sweet arms of a child around their necks to take every act of gratuitous violence out of every script and re-write it.
I am calling to the gaming industry and asking you to take responsibility. Lives are more valuable than money. Stop creating games that recreate violence.
I am adjuring the sponsors of movies, television shows and the gaming industry to stop the flow of money to visual images and themes of violence.
Stop it. Just stop it!
Nothing will change until we all change.
Will you change, Hollywood? Will you take personal responsibility and choose to send a message of hope and honor rather than embracing themes of violence and bloodshed?
Will you change, gaming industry? Will you choose virtue over vice and meaning over money? Will you?
Every producer who has ever produced a violent movie should attend the funeral of the well-loved Alyssa Alhadeff and the courageous Scott Beigel and the sweet Cara Loughran.
Every director who has ever included an assassination or a murder in a movie scene should humbly attend the funeral of the beloved Martin Duque Anguiano and the scholar and athlete Nicholas Dworet and the bubbly Gina Montalto.
Every writer who has written a script that sent a message that carnage is acceptable should attend the funeral of the basketball player Luke Hoyer, the heroic Aaron Feis and the positive and loving Joaquin Oliver.
Every cameraman and camerawoman who served as an accomplice to a crime splashed across a movie screen or a TV screen should attend the funeral of the beautiful Jaime Guttenberg or the brave Christopher Hixon.
Every member of the gaming industry who has made millions of dollars by promoting violence should attend the funeral of the compassionate Alaina Petty, the angelic Meadow Pollack or the friendly Helena Ramsey.
Every actor or actress who has ever appeared in a movie that glorified violence should attend the funeral of the musical Alexander Schachter, the brilliant Carmen Schentrup or the patriotic Peter Wang.
The pain that these families are bearing is inhuman and devastating. Let's save another family from ever enduring this pain again.
Hollywood—writers, directors, producers, actors, actresses, cameramen, camerawomen, gaming industry—how wonderful to know that you can change the world. You can choose the message you send to a vulnerable world.
I ask you with every cell in my broken heart to reevaluate your motivation and your message. Children's lives are at stake. 
Carol McLeod is an author and popular speaker at women's conferences and retreats, where she teaches the Word of God with great joy and enthusiasm. Carol encourages and empowers women with passionate and practical biblical messages mixed with her own special brand of hope and humor. She has written eight books, including, The Rooms of a Woman's Heart, Defiant Joy!, Holy Estrogen!, No More Ordinary, Refined, Joy for All Seasons, Let There Be Joy! and Pass the Joy, Please! which releases on February 1, 2018. Her teaching DVD, The Rooms of a Woman's Heart, won the Telly Award, a prestigious industry award for excellence in religious programming. You can also listen to Carol's "Jolt of Joy" program daily on the Charisma Podcast Network. Connect with Carol or inquire about her speaking to your group at justjoyministries.com.
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Friday, February 23, 2018
BREAKING: New US Embassy in Jerusalem Will Open in May 2018 to Celebrate Israel's 70th Anniversary - CBN.com
New US Embassy in Jerusalem Will Open in May 2018 to Celebrate Israel's 70th Anniversary
02-23-2018
Officials tell the Associated Press that the new US Embassy in Jerusalem will open much earlier than some had predicted.
They're working to make the move by May 2018 in celebration of Israel's 70th anniversary.
Speaking at CPAC Friday, President Trump said, "We officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel."
"Every president campaigned on, 'We're gonna move the embassy,' then they never pulled it off," he continued. "It's the right thing to do."
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Behind-The-Scenes Revival Breaking Out at the Olympics - MADELINE C. MULKEY/RNS CHARISMA NEWS
Behind-The-Scenes Revival Breaking Out at the Olympics
MADELINE C. MULKEY/RNS CHARISMA NEWS
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To those watching on TV, religion may seem absent from the Winter Olympic Games. Away from the spotlight, though, an estimated 3,000 missionaries are on hand.
About 2,000 missionaries — South Korean and international — are working in the city of Gangneung, where the indoor Olympic events are being held. The remaining 1,000 are working in Pyeongchang, site of ski, snowboard and other events.
There is no reliable count of missionaries at Olympics past. But the number of local missionaries here far exceeds previous games, said Marty Youngblood, leader of the Georgia Baptist Convention mission team, who is at his fifth Olympics this year.
South Korea, which is 29 percent Christian, and among whom Protestants predominate, enjoys high levels of religious tolerance. Buddha's birthday and Christmas are both national holidays.
Local churches are taking advantage of an Olympics at their doorstep. Many have set up welcome stations in parking lots, where they give away snacks, coffee and Christian literature.
In addition to its coffee and snack giveaway, Somang Presbyterian Church — located in the shadow of the Olympic venues — is showcasing a live orchestra and church members dressed in traditional costume. It's just one of the 26 local churches in Gangneung with Olympic outreach ministries.
Then there's the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Helping Hands Center, a two-story building on prime real estate across the street from the train station in Gangneung. Working there is Coloradan Chandler Petry, chosen by her church with a small group of other Mormon missionaries already in Korea to serve at the Olympics.
The center's multilingual staff will give athletes, members of the media and any Olympic spectator a warm drink and a place to recharge their phones. But its main goal, according to the church's website, "is for as many as possible to see the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the eyes of the members and missionaries."
The Jehovah's Witnesses have sent about 1,000 missionaries to the Winter Games, far more than to previous Olympics, said Steven Park, public information officer for the Jehovah's Witness Korea branch. He says that the work they do in Gangneung and Pyeongchang is no different from the ministry they do elsewhere and that some missionaries will remain in the area after the Olympics.
One of the most popular tools of ministry for these Olympic missionaries is lapel pin trading.
Myungsu No, a campus minister in Seoul, says his students from the Baptist Student Union use pin trading — a pastime at this and previous Olympics — to spread the gospel. While athletes and spectators trade pins that typically depict a certain country, sport or team, mission groups give away a "More Than Gold" lapel pin, borrowing the slogan a consortium of missionary groups adopted in the 1990s to brand their Olympic outreach.
Psalm 119:127 declares that the commands of God are loved "more than gold." The reference to gold at the Olympics, where athletes' highest reward for their performance is a gold medal, is borrowed by the missionaries to suggest there is a higher reward to be sought through faith.
Veteran missionaries trained in the art of Olympic pin trading are passing down the skill to the new generation. The missionaries make an initial pin trade using a nonreligious pin they have collected — say, that of the USA ski jump team. This often prompts a conversation and a chance for the missionary to offer the trader the "More Than Gold" pin as a gift.
Some missionaries who work elsewhere in Asia have decided to take a break to focus on the Olympics.
American Kathryn Daniel, based in China, says she felt called to evangelize at the Winter Games because of her personal connection with Korea. She spent 12 years of her life in the country with her missionary parents.
Nine months ago, she heard her father was getting a group of other retired missionaries to go to the Olympics, and she thought, "I think this is God telling me to go, 'Kathy, just go.'" Daniel is staying in Korea for a week, working with the group from the Georgia Baptist Convention.
The first weekend of the Olympics, mission groups passed out Christian literature in the Olympic park unimpeded.
Then Olympic park officials posted signs informing visitors that passing out religious material in the park was banned, and any materials found would be confiscated.
Youngblood, of the Georgia Baptist Convention, said he is not concerned. His missionaries are also using the pin trading and only give pamphlets to those who want to learn more.
And A-lim Jang, a recent university graduate and student leader with Baptist Student Union missionaries, said pin trading has allowed her and her colleagues to share the gospel "with many people that God puts in our path."
Madeline C. Mulkey is a senior at the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She is doing a special online documentary and a series of articles on "God at the Game." Her project is funded in part by the Magellan Scholarship Program. © 2018 Religion News Service. All rights reserved.
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