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AND THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD, OR IN HIS HAND. *** REVELATION 14:9
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A well-known Christian hymn written by Elisha A. Hoffman in 1878. Sung in the video by the Antrim Mennonite Choir, from their album 'Amazing Grace.'
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Published: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Updated: Thursday, October 6, 2011 16:10
Carl Wilkins, director of World Outside My Shoes and an Adventist missionary, gave a speech in Bellarmine's Amy Cralle Theater on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Wilkens spoke of his decision to be the only American remaining in Rwanda when the genocide began in April of 1994.
Wilkins' wife, Teresa, described their visit to Rwanda as "initially our easiest assignment," since they had already spent much time in Africa previously. Six months after the couple and their children arrived in Rwanda, however, the war had begun. His family chose to leave Rwanda while Wilkins decided to stay to fight the genocide, a decision that he and his wife both made together.
In Wilkins' speech, he spoke deeply of those he met on his journey in Rwanda. He opened with a story of two women who inspired him to keep fighting. Wilkins emphasized the importance of women's roles in these types of situations, saying there is "potential destruction of a family, community, and country when the women aredestroyed." He described his neighbors who protected him as "courageous, resilient, and compassionate" women. "If you want lasting stability, security, and development, then make sure young woman get an education." Wilkins described this as "the Girl Effect."
Wilkins' audience, made up of mostly college students, was impressed and inspired with his story and his decision to stay in Rwanda. "The speech tonight was especially meaningful to me because of my experience in South Africa," said Bellarmine junior Karen Thomas. "I believe people need to hear stories of despair, but also stories of hope."
Junior Samantha Ortiz was very moved by Wilkins' story. "It's amazing to see the capacity for compassion that people have in their hearts," she said, "We don't see many people like Wilkins, or the inspiring women in Rwanda, in our own society very often."
Wilkins encouraged his audience to take something away from his speech. "I believe that when we engage our mind and our muscles," he said, "it has a huge potential to change the way we think, which changes the way we feel and act."
Wilkins encouraged his audience to read and explore what is happening in Rwanda today. He explained that Rwanda is on the road to recovery now, but help is still needed in the country. He said we can help in many ways, whether it is by reading his book, "I'm Not Leaving" or just posting a link on Facebook with information about Rwanda's situation.
Wilkins stressed the significance of knowing what has happened in Rwanda. "I hope you go out of here with a deeper commitment...with a shift from ‘me' thinking to ‘we' thinking."
| Saint Robert Bellarmine | |
|---|---|
| Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church | |
| Born | 4 October 1542 Montepulciano, Italy |
| Died | 17 September 1621 (aged 78) Rome, Italy |
By the Salina Journal
A Salina church pastor was suspended Friday after being arrested Thursday on sex charges.
Birger Draget, 54, of 503 Claremont, was arrested Thursday on charges that include rape, aggravated indecent liberties and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Draget is pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Salina.
Carson Mansfield, deputy Salina police chief, said authorities began investigating after a teenage girl reported to police that she had suffered years of sexual abuse.
Draget was being held in the Saline County Jail.
Administrative leave
Church officials placed Draget on administrative leave immediately after hearing about the allegations.
Ron Carlson, president of the Kansas-Nebraska Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, said he was "shocked and dismayed."
He said that the church would cooperate with the investigation in any way it could.
"He will have no responsibility for the congregation" until the case is resolved, Carlson said. "We certainly want to provide a safe environment for our young people."
Carlson said Draget had been pastor of the Salina church for more than five years.
Church leaders in Salina were being informed of Draget's suspension Friday evening.
| Abuse Happens, Even in Church |
We must as a people arouse and cleanse the camp of Israel. Licentiousness, unlawful intimacy, and unholy practices are coming in among us in a large degree; and ministers who are handling sacred things are guilty of sin in this respect. They are coveting their neighbors’ wives, and the seventh commandment is broken. We are in danger of becoming a sister to fallen Babylon, of allowing our churches to become corrupted, and filled with every foul spirit, a cage for every unclean and hateful bird; and will we be clear unless we make decided movements to cure the existing evil?
- Letter 51, 9/6/1886
1O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
5The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
6O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
11Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Like Pope Pius XI, who founded Vatican Radio and built the Vatican train station, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs recognized the importance of expanding communication, a Jesuit told Vatican Radio.
Jobs, 56, died Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, the new editor of the influential Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica, told Vatican Radio that Jobs made technology part of the lives of millions and millions of people, not just technicians.
“Steve Jobs had something in common with Pius XI and that is that he understood that communication is the greatest value we have at our disposal today and we must make it bear fruit,” Fr. Spadaro told the radio Oct. 6.
Spadaro said Steve Jobs had a “great ability to believe in dreams, to see life not only in terms of little daily things, but to have a vision in front of him. Basically, Steve Jobs’ most important message was this, ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’ — in other words, maintain the ability to see life in new ways.”
The “stay hungry” quote was from a commencement address Jobs gave at California’s Stanford University in 2005.
On his own blog — www.cyberteologia.it — Spadaro embedded a video of Jobs giving the Stanford commencement address and wrote about how some of his points echoed points made by the Jesuits’ founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola.
Jobs told the new graduates, “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
For Apple’s 1996 "What's On Your Powerbook?" ad campaign, Jesuit Father Don Doll appeared with musician Todd Rundgren to highlight the disparate ways Mac owners used their laptops.
Spadaro said that in his Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius wrote that one way of making an important choice is to examine how one would go about making that decision if he knew he were about to die.
“In the cases of Ignatius and Steve, death isn’t a bogeyman,” but is present as a reminder that in the face of death, the only thing that remains is what is truly important for each person, he wrote.
“I don’t know if Jobs was a believer,” the Jesuit wrote. In the Stanford speech, he said, Jobs was “speaking simply about the interior disposition one must have when making important decisions in life, focusing on what counts. No one, believer or non-believer, can make choices in life if he thinks he’s immortal.”
Here is an overview of September Jobs Report, today's release.











As I contemplate the progression of OccupyWallStreet and watch it spread accross the country; I think back to this article I saw on the web two years ago:
Internment/Resettlement (I/R) Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. I/R Specialists provide rehabilitative, health, welfare, and security to U.S. military prisoners within a confinement or correctional facility; conduct inspections; prepare written reports; and coordinate activities of prisoners/internees and staff personnel.
Some of your duties as an Internment/Resettlement Specialist may include:
Job training for an Internment/Resettlement Specialist requires nine weeks of Basic Training, where you'll learn basic Soldiering skills, and eight weeks of Advanced Individual Training. Part of this time is spent in the classroom and part in a field environment. Some of the skills you'll learn are:
Advanced level Internment/Resettlement Specialist provides guidance, supervises and trains other Soldiers within the same discipline. As an advanced level I/R Specialist, you may be involved in:
The skills you'll learn as an Internment/Resettlement Specialist will help prepare you for a future with federal, state, county or city law enforcement agencies or the federal penal system. You might also be able to pursue a career as a security guard with industrial firms, airports or other businesses and institutions.

Following are the opening comments by Ted Wilson at the 2010 General Conference Sessionregarding a letter which he read to those in attendance.
I have the great privilege of reading a letter, a letter which you will find of great interest. It has at the top of its letterhead, “The White House, Washington.”
Here are excerpts from that letter:
It [faith] also brings us together to feed the hungry, comfort the afflicted,make peace where there is strife, and lift up those who have fallen on hard times.
As we face the challenges and opportunities of this unique moment in history, may faith move us to unite in common cause, to serve our fellow brothers and sisters.
I hope that as you gather on this special occasion, you are reminded of the abiding truth that each of us has the power to create a better world for ourselves and our children when we do God’s work here on earth.
Barack Obama, President of the United States [applause]
[Wilson]: I want to take this opportunity to thank the government of the United States and so many other governments around the world for their defense of religious freedom, freedom of conscience. Thank God for religious liberty. [applause]
Again, what does the Bible say about crying, “Peace”?
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them.
Additionally, while it is good to feed the hungry and comfort the afflicted, the statement that faith “brings us together” and unites us “in common cause” is completely ecumenical. The terms “common good,” “public welfare,” “equality for all,” etc. are used by Roman Catholicism, communism and fascism. The letter focuses on a social gospel (socialism) that stresses community work (“good deeds” that are characteristic of Catholicism) and mixes politics and the liberal Kingdom Now theology (a better world now) which is popular with the Purpose Driven and emerging churchmovements. A better world will only be when this earth is made new again by its Creator, but never before that. Paganism teaches to be “in tune with the earth and nature.” Those who are fooled by this belief will not be a part of the New Earth which God creates.
Wilson thanked the U.S. and world governments for religious liberty. We can appreciate our religious freedoms, however, please notice the following:
The Great Controversy, (1888), p. 564
The pacific [peaceful] tone of Rome in the United States does not imply a change of heart. She is tolerant where she is helpless. Says Bishop O'Connor: “Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world.”
The U.S. Supreme Court currently consists of six Roman Catholics and three Jews. Not only is themajority of the U.S. Supreme Court of the Roman Catholic faith, there are no Protestants. What message does this send?
The Great Controversy (1888), p. 566
Protestants have tampered with and patronized popery; they have made compromises and concessions which papists themselves are surprised to see, and fail to understand. Men are closing their eyes to the real character of Romanism, and the dangers to be apprehended from her supremacy. The people need to be aroused to resist the advances of this most dangerous foe to civil and religious liberty.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after thetradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
2 Peter 3:17
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
Yes, the White House letter is of “great interest,” especially in light of the ecumenical movement and the words of prophecy regarding the image to the beast.
Wilson stated repeatedly to “go forward.” However, we cannot successfully go forward as a Church until we go back to the “old paths,” start over, and then go forward. We are reminded of Jeremiah 6:16 that reads: “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.” The Church needs to go back to “primitive godliness,” to the true worship of the God of heaven, not the false god of this world. The Church needs to go back, not forward, to reassess where it went wrong.
Isaiah 58:12
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Jude 1:3
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
The Faith I Live By, p. 326
It is only as the law of God is restored to its rightful position that there can bea revival of primitive faith and godliness among His professed people.
While God’s faithful can agree with much of Wilson’s General Conference Session sermon of July 3, 2010, will actions follow his words? He counseled that we are to test everything according to God’s Word and the writings of Ellen White, and that we are not to be involved in the megachurch or emerging church movements. He further counseled that we are to rely on “humble pastors, evangelists, Biblical scholars, leaders, and departmental directors who can provide evangelistic methods and programs that are based on solid Biblical principles and ‘The Great Controversy Theme.’ ”
This all sounds good; however, the Church is still in trouble. Those who continue to promote megachurch purpose driven, emerging church ideas are not being disfellowshipped. Those who have been disfellowshipped because they stood for right should be reinstated. The SDA Church likes to talk about those who are “in good and regular standing” with the Church. Yet that “standing” is not necessarily “good and regular” in God’s eyes. Many in the Church say that we should not try to fix the problems but just leave it to God. However, if individuals ignore the problems, they will be held accountable. Where are the humble leaders who are teaching the whole truth?
Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 3, pp. 269-270
The plain, straight testimony must live in the church, or the curse of God will rest upon His people as surely as it did upon ancient Israel because of their sins.God holds His people, as a body, responsible for the sins existing in individuals among them. If the leaders of the church neglect to diligently search out the sins which bring the displeasure of God upon the body, they become responsible for these sins. But to deal with minds is the nicest work in which men ever engaged. All are not fitted to correct the erring. They have not wisdom to deal justly, while loving mercy. They are not inclined to see the necessity of mingling love and tender compassion with faithful reproofs.
Child Guidance, pp. 235-236
Those who have too little courage to reprove wrong, or who through indolence or lack of interest make no earnest effort to purify the family or the church of God, are held accountable for the evil that may result from their neglect of duty. We are just as responsible for evils that we might have checked in others by exercise of parental or pastoral authority, as if the acts had been our own.
There is a great need for strong Church leaders and pastors that will “not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall” (Education, p. 57) and will lead in repentance and reformation through to its completion. We need leaders who will actively work to clean up the churches, book centers, schools, hospitals, etc. It is sad to say that the majority of SDA leaders today cannot be depended on for the whole truth. Each must study and pray individually to know all truth.