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Friend,
Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top five
articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share with your
friends and church families.
1. YOU’RE INVITED: March for LifeThe right to life is a human right. Our defense of that right is
a joyful witness to the beauty and dignity of every human
person.
The March for Life event is an inspiring, peaceful, vibrant, and
joy-filled rally of women, men, young people, and children from all
across the state and across the country. Every year, tens of thousands
of pro-lifers converge on the National Mall and march on Capitol Hill
on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling
which legalized abortion in all 50 states. It’s the largest annual
human rights demonstration in the world. But this is not just a
protest...
 2. YOU’RE INVITED: Biblical Citizenship in Modern AmericaWe want to invite you to sign up for a
free online course from our friends, entitled: Biblical Citizenship In
Modern America.
Now more than ever, our nation is in
need of Biblical citizens who grasp the dynamic unity of being
citizens of the Kingdom of God living as citizens of our great
nation.
The course is offered by our friends at the Patriot Academy, and
it serves as a quick-start guide to studying the longest standing
Constitution in history. You will learn how the Founders relied on
their Christian moorings and Biblical worldview to secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. You will also be
treated to encouraging historical facts and inspirational true stories
that are not taught in our educational institutions today.
Patriot Academy's Biblical Citizenship
Course 2022 begins this Tuesday, Jan 18th. To make sure you're
registered for the free course or to learn more, click here.
  3. THE DAILY SIGNAL: Unpacking Supreme Court Justices’ Reasoning in Vaccine Mandate Decisions"For nearly 100 million American workers waiting breathlessly for an answer, a Thursday Supreme Court decision delivered good news for many, although not all. In a rare late-day release of opinions, the Supreme Court issued its rulings in a pair of federal vaccine mandate cases that went to the court on an emergency basis. In the first case—anticipated to have applied to approximately 84 million employees—and by a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business v. OSHA stayed the implementation of the vaccination mandate that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration had issued in November 2021, requiring all businesses with 100 or more employees (with very limited exceptions) to direct their employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or wear a mask at work and provide weekly negative tests for the disease."
4. CAROLINA JOURNAL: Report: N.C. school choice programs save taxpayers up to $154.3 million"Two of the Tar Heel State’s school choice programs have saved
taxpayers between $74.1 million and $154.3 million through fiscal
2018, according to an updated analysis from the school choice advocacy
organization EdChoice.
Those figures translate to between $3,373 and $7,022 in local and
state taxpayer savings for each student enrolled in these
programs."
5. NEWS & OBSERVER: ‘American Idol’ star Clay Aiken will run for an NC seat in Congress"Clay Aiken, the “American Idol” star and a Raleigh
native, wants to represent North Carolina in Congress. Aiken, a
Democrat who previously ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in
2014, announced Monday that he’s planning to run this year in the
Durham-centric House district that’s now open. The 6th Congressional
District also includes Chapel Hill and other Orange County
communities, plus Apex, Morrisville, most of Cary and a sliver of
Raleigh. But its shape is subject to change in ongoing court
challenges to the maps."
 WEEKLY PRAYER: FAMILYLORD, we cry out to you as Father. You are a model of the love, mercy, and authority of the perfect parent. We thank you for modeling for us what every parent should strive for, and for creating this wonderful institution called family. LORD, we thank you for creating us with a basic nature designed to not be alone. You made us to desire the intimacy of relationships, and it is here where we experience joys indescribable: the joys of marriage, the joys of having children; the joys of seeing our children have children. What a blessing and mercy you gave us in the family! In it we find our first teachers, our first guardians, and our first authorities. LORD, we recognize how deeply you love your children, and how deeply it pains you when they go astray. Alongside our adoration and thanksgiving, we pray in confession—as individuals and as members of larger communities—over any sins we may have committed that undermine your beloved institution. Forgive us when we endanger your institution through selfishness and arrogance. Forgive our communities and nation for attempting to redefine some of the most basic and deepest parts of being human—being made male and female, having lifelong marriage vows and responsibilities, and having parental rights over educating one's children. "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." (Colossians 3:12-17) Amen
Sincerely, North Carolina Values Coalition
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