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Kirk Cameron Launches Latest Children’s Book: ‘Pride Comes Before the Fall’
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Kirk Cameron Launches Latest Children’s Book: ‘Pride Comes Before the Fall’
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Kirk Cameron Launches Latest Children’s Book: ‘Pride Comes Before the Fall’
By: Jeff Johnston
Kirk Cameron launched his newest children’s book, Pride Comes Before the Fall, with public readings at The Billy Graham Library, in North Carolina, and The Seattle Public Library, in Washington.
Coach Joe Kennedy, the Bremerton High School football coach who was fired for kneeling and praying on the field, joined Cameron for the event. Kennedy was reinstated after a 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision which reaffirmed his Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religion. While the Seattle event drew a handful of protestors, more than 400 parents and grandparents attended with their children and grandchildren.
Pride Comes Before the Fall is available from Brave Books on June 1, as part of the company’s Freedom Saga, a series for children ages 4 to 12. The series features animals who live on Freedom Island and learn lessons about Christian values. The books also teach about important cultural issues such as “transgender” ideology — Elephants are Not Birds, the value of life — Little Lives Matter, and capitalism — The Island of Free Ice Cream. They include challenges and questions for families to discuss and work through together.
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Fact Check: That Francis of Assisi Quote on Preaching and Using Words
By: Daily Citizen Staff
Christians use lots of quotes. Pastors use them in their sermons constantly. Writers illustrate their points with them. Nothing wrong with that. They are quite helpful and encouraging in making a point. But what if the famous quote has no basis in fact?
Evangelicals who claim we are committed to truth sure can be good at spreading falsehood, even if unintentionally. We can do better, and we should. One very clever and popular quote we often knock around among ourselves is …
“Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.”
It is always attributed to Francis of Assisi — founder of the Franciscan Order — and is intended to say that proclaiming the Gospel by example is more virtuous than actually proclaiming with voice. It is a problematic quote for two reasons. First, it seems to create a useless dichotomy between speech and action. Besides, the spirit behind it can be a little arrogant, intimating that those who “practice the Gospel” are more faithful to the faith than those who preach it. After all, Scripture tells us clearly about the necessity of speaking the gospel so all can hear it.
“And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? … As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” … So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ” (Romans 10:14-17, ESV).
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What a Pilot’s Remarkable Risk and Recovery Can Teach Us About Living in Today’s Culture
By: Paul Batura
It’s likely you’ve never heard of Major Brian Shul, a retired Air Force fighter pilot who recovered from a near catastrophic crash in the Vietnam War and went on to hold the distinction of flying the world’s fastest jet in a top-secret Cold War operation.
Brian died earlier this month at the age of 75. He was rightly hailed as a war hero and patriot, but his decorated life is also a grand reminder of the power of good parenting, the resiliency and indomitability of the human spirit — and the need for Christians to take risks in this culture.
First, let’s go back to the beginning.
Brian was born in Quantico, Virginia to Blanche and Victor Shul. Victor was a clarinetist and the director of the Marine Corps Band. In an oral history recorded several years ago, Brian said his mom and dad weren’t only great parents, but great people, too.
Speaking of his mother, he said, “She was the greatest mom ever and her mission in life was to raise those three kids and allow us to go our own way and pursue the careers we wanted to.”
Referring to his father, Brian said he was “highly respected” and taught his kids a lot about “taking pride in your work.” He said the older he got the more he admired his father.
Mark Twain once quipped that “The two most important days in your life are the day you were born — and the day you find out why.” For Brian, that second day occurred when he was just nine.
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David Brooks Makes Brilliant Case for Value of Human Vulnerable Life, Intentionally Dodges Pre-Born Babies
By: Daily Citizen Staff
New York Times columnist David Brooks has written a truly brilliant essay in the June issue of The Atlantic on how deeply problematic the liberal idea of physician assisted suicide has become in Canada. He does so by explaining how neo-liberalism and its ideals created this problem. Good for David Brooks. Really.
He contends liberals “savor individual choice, but our individual choices take place within the framework of the gifts we have received, and the responsibility to others that those gifts entail.” He is right. Life requires that we have responsibilities, not just to ourselves, but to others. No human is an island, completely unto him or herself. This is a critical sanctity of life verity. But for some reason, in explaining why inconvenient life is always worth preserving, even in the most troubling instances, he felt the need to go out of his way to say this ethic does not apply to the pre-born. It is a remarkably curious exception that he makes in a piece that argues so strongly and eloquently about our responsibility to care for all life — even life which some claim is burdensome or irrelevant.
Brooks wrote that the committed pro-lifer is a problematic violation of his ideal because he or she “ignores individual circumstances and pays no heed to a social consensus.” This, while he argues so persuasively and resolutely against the individual circumstances that are regularly offered by Canadian officials for their ever-growing effort to end life that seems hopeless and while he contends the growing social consensus behind it is flat wrong.
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Students Sue Professor Who Coerced Funds for Planned Parenthood and Radical Ideology — She’s No Longer in the Classroom
By: Jeff Johnston
Michigan State University students Nathan Barbieri and Nolan Radomski are suing a professor and school officials after being forced to fund “The Rebellion Community,” a leftist organization dedicated to “smashing the patriarchy and building a better, kinder world by unlearning toxic expectations” (their emphasis). The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Barbieri and Radomski by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges the students’ funds were used to finance the professor’s “political advocacy and to support external groups — including Planned Parenthood — that engage in political speech that is antithetical to the Plaintiffs’ deeply held beliefs.” Professor Amy Wisner taught MKT 250, “Business Communication,” a requirement for every student at the University’s Broad College of Business, with about 600 students a semester.
Since the lawsuit was filed, Fox News reported that MSU has removed Wisner from the classroom. She no longer appears in the school directory. Barbieri told Fox that he was upset to find out his money was supporting abortion and political activism he disagreed with: “How can I, ethically, not fight against that, because my money is in the hands of Planned Parenthood. So, that’s why we’re here. We’re fighting to get that back. I hold true to my beliefs. So anybody forcing their beliefs against you, especially coming from a power or the government … it’s not something to take lightly. And for me, as a Christian, it’s our calling. We’re supposed to expose the bad things that happen and not just sit back and … be abused. That’s our job.”
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Kirk Cameron Launches Latest Children’s Book: ‘Pride Comes Before the Fall’
By: Jeff Johnston
Kirk Cameron launched his newest children’s book, Pride Comes Before the Fall, with public readings at The Billy Graham Library, in North Carolina, and The Seattle Public Library, in Washington.
Coach Joe Kennedy, the Bremerton High School football coach who was fired for kneeling and praying on the field, joined Cameron for the event. Kennedy was reinstated after a 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision which reaffirmed his Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religion. While the Seattle event drew a handful of protestors, more than 400 parents and grandparents attended with their children and grandchildren.
Pride Comes Before the Fall is available from Brave Books on June 1, as part of the company’s Freedom Saga, a series for children ages 4 to 12. The series features animals who live on Freedom Island and learn lessons about Christian values. The books also teach about important cultural issues such as “transgender” ideology — Elephants are Not Birds, the value of life — Little Lives Matter, and capitalism — The Island of Free Ice Cream. They include challenges and questions for families to discuss and work through together.
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For more articles, follow The Daily Citizen on
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Facebook,
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Twitter and
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Youtube !
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Fact Check: That Francis of Assisi Quote on Preaching and Using Words
By: Daily Citizen Staff
Christians use lots of quotes. Pastors use them in their sermons constantly. Writers illustrate their points with them. Nothing wrong with that. They are quite helpful and encouraging in making a point. But what if the famous quote has no basis in fact?
Evangelicals who claim we are committed to truth sure can be good at spreading falsehood, even if unintentionally. We can do better, and we should. One very clever and popular quote we often knock around among ourselves is …
“Preach the Gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.”
It is always attributed to Francis of Assisi — founder of the Franciscan Order — and is intended to say that proclaiming the Gospel by example is more virtuous than actually proclaiming with voice. It is a problematic quote for two reasons. First, it seems to create a useless dichotomy between speech and action. Besides, the spirit behind it can be a little arrogant, intimating that those who “practice the Gospel” are more faithful to the faith than those who preach it. After all, Scripture tells us clearly about the necessity of speaking the gospel so all can hear it.
“And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? … As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” … So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ” (Romans 10:14-17, ESV).
[link removed]
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What a Pilot’s Remarkable Risk and Recovery Can Teach Us About Living in Today’s Culture
By: Paul Batura
It’s likely you’ve never heard of Major Brian Shul, a retired Air Force fighter pilot who recovered from a near catastrophic crash in the Vietnam War and went on to hold the distinction of flying the world’s fastest jet in a top-secret Cold War operation.
Brian died earlier this month at the age of 75. He was rightly hailed as a war hero and patriot, but his decorated life is also a grand reminder of the power of good parenting, the resiliency and indomitability of the human spirit — and the need for Christians to take risks in this culture.
First, let’s go back to the beginning.
Brian was born in Quantico, Virginia to Blanche and Victor Shul. Victor was a clarinetist and the director of the Marine Corps Band. In an oral history recorded several years ago, Brian said his mom and dad weren’t only great parents, but great people, too.
Speaking of his mother, he said, “She was the greatest mom ever and her mission in life was to raise those three kids and allow us to go our own way and pursue the careers we wanted to.”
Referring to his father, Brian said he was “highly respected” and taught his kids a lot about “taking pride in your work.” He said the older he got the more he admired his father.
Mark Twain once quipped that “The two most important days in your life are the day you were born — and the day you find out why.” For Brian, that second day occurred when he was just nine.
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David Brooks Makes Brilliant Case for Value of Human Vulnerable Life, Intentionally Dodges Pre-Born Babies
By: Daily Citizen Staff
New York Times columnist David Brooks has written a truly brilliant essay in the June issue of The Atlantic on how deeply problematic the liberal idea of physician assisted suicide has become in Canada. He does so by explaining how neo-liberalism and its ideals created this problem. Good for David Brooks. Really.
He contends liberals “savor individual choice, but our individual choices take place within the framework of the gifts we have received, and the responsibility to others that those gifts entail.” He is right. Life requires that we have responsibilities, not just to ourselves, but to others. No human is an island, completely unto him or herself. This is a critical sanctity of life verity. But for some reason, in explaining why inconvenient life is always worth preserving, even in the most troubling instances, he felt the need to go out of his way to say this ethic does not apply to the pre-born. It is a remarkably curious exception that he makes in a piece that argues so strongly and eloquently about our responsibility to care for all life — even life which some claim is burdensome or irrelevant.
Brooks wrote that the committed pro-lifer is a problematic violation of his ideal because he or she “ignores individual circumstances and pays no heed to a social consensus.” This, while he argues so persuasively and resolutely against the individual circumstances that are regularly offered by Canadian officials for their ever-growing effort to end life that seems hopeless and while he contends the growing social consensus behind it is flat wrong.
[link removed]
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Students Sue Professor Who Coerced Funds for Planned Parenthood and Radical Ideology — She’s No Longer in the Classroom
By: Jeff Johnston
Michigan State University students Nathan Barbieri and Nolan Radomski are suing a professor and school officials after being forced to fund “The Rebellion Community,” a leftist organization dedicated to “smashing the patriarchy and building a better, kinder world by unlearning toxic expectations” (their emphasis). The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Barbieri and Radomski by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), alleges the students’ funds were used to finance the professor’s “political advocacy and to support external groups — including Planned Parenthood — that engage in political speech that is antithetical to the Plaintiffs’ deeply held beliefs.” Professor Amy Wisner taught MKT 250, “Business Communication,” a requirement for every student at the University’s Broad College of Business, with about 600 students a semester.
Since the lawsuit was filed, Fox News reported that MSU has removed Wisner from the classroom. She no longer appears in the school directory. Barbieri told Fox that he was upset to find out his money was supporting abortion and political activism he disagreed with: “How can I, ethically, not fight against that, because my money is in the hands of Planned Parenthood. So, that’s why we’re here. We’re fighting to get that back. I hold true to my beliefs. So anybody forcing their beliefs against you, especially coming from a power or the government … it’s not something to take lightly. And for me, as a Christian, it’s our calling. We’re supposed to expose the bad things that happen and not just sit back and … be abused. That’s our job.”
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