|  TX HOSPITAL ENDS LIFE SUPPORT FOR MARLISE AND BABY A Texas hospital said Sunday that it would remove life support from a pregnant, brain-dead woman following a judge's order that it was misapplying state law to disregard her family's wishes.
J.R. Labbe, a spokeswoman for John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, issued a statement Sunday that says the hospital "will follow the court order" issued Friday in the case of Marlise Muñoz.
Life support was terminated at 11:29 a.m. Sunday, and she has died, family members told News 8. While Christians grieve and pray, two facts stand out. First, "the hospital argued it was bound by Texas law that says life-sustaining treatment cannot be withdrawn from a pregnant patient...." Second, "Judge R.H. Wallace had given the Fort Worth hospital until 5 p.m. Monday to comply with his ruling to remove Muñoz from life support...." Thus, the hospital's pro-life legal position was overruled by a judge's decision. Result? The baby died. This is all too familiar. Pray that righteous law will supersede the death sentence currently on millions of babies in the womb. The Supreme Court has been wrong before. Let us keep on praying. "God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things." (Acts 17:24-25) "And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." (Gal. 6:9) |
 SC GIVES NUNS A COMPROMISE ON HEALTH CARE The Supreme Court on Friday offered a short-term compromise that would continue to exempt a group of Denver nuns that operates charity nursing homes from the birth control mandate of the nation's health care law if they declare their objections in writing.
The nuns will take the court up on its offer and provide a written notice, officials said.
Intercessors have learned not to trust any human court to uphold Biblical values, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Our trust is only and always in God, as we pray for His continued mercy and sovereign wisdom to move on the justices for righteous majority opinions. Give thanks that this ruling does suggest a sympathetic view toward religious freedom with regard to the onerous demands of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) on "The Little Sisters" and similar groups. "It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes." (Psalm 118:9) "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." (Proverbs 14:34) 
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|  HOUSE TO OFFER BROAD IMMIGRATION PLAN House Republicans are preparing to unveil their own broad template for overhauling the nation's immigration system this week, potentially offering a small opening for President Obama and congressional Democrats to pass bipartisan legislation before the end of the year.
Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio and other Republican leaders are expected to release a one-page statement of immigration principles this week at their annual retreat in Cambridge, Md., according to aides with knowledge of the plan. The document is expected to call for border security and enforcement measures, as well as providing a path to legal status - but not citizenship - for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, the aides said. Our nation is thoroughly divided on so many issues! In earlier years, U.S. presidents and leaders sought God's wisdom, declaring national days of prayer and repentance. Can we hope and pray for such mercy again? Might strong intercessory prayer stoke the fires of revival? "Come, Lord, and rescue our beloved country. Give us righteous leaders who will call upon Your name. By faith, let strong intercession by Your Church lead the way. May timidity, fear, and weakness be cast away." "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways." (James 1:5-7) "The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit." (James 5:16b-18) |
|  CASUALTIES OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION 50 years of 'liberation' has devastated our society.
It is somewhat ironic that as Washington lawmakers and the Beltway media look back on the 50-year war on poverty, they overlook another equally significant 50-year anniversary that has actually limited the success of this effort: the sexual permissiveness of the 1960s cultural revolution.
That revolution championed a culture in which rules, responsibility and the traditional family were disposable. Building strong families is inexorably tied to eradicating poverty. Unfortunately, the revolution of the '60s has more effectively shaped our culture than the war on poverty. The "sexual revolution" is not a stand-alone sin, and nothing will restore individual and family purity from the widespread abuse and perversion of this most sacred of God's gifts to mankind until hearts are changed by the Gospel and Jesus Christ becomes Lord in lives so affected. Pray for those victimized by the forsaking of God's laws. Let us reach out with compassion wherever possible. "Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.... Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself un-spotted from the world." (James 1:21, 27) "For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like [those] who do not know God...." (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5) |
|  MARIJUANA AND BANKING IN COLORADO Those following national news know that when state laws conflict with federal law, head-on collisions will occur. When Texas took a stand against late abortions, a federal judge struck it down. Oklahoma voted for "one man-one woman" marriage, and a judge said no. Now Colorado and Washington have voted to allow legal marijuana sales, and federal law prohibits such, so banks are wary. But the attorney general is working to create "wiggle room" for banks to handle the cash. And so it goes. "A nation divided against itself . . . ." Pray accordingly. "But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: 'Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.'" (Matthew 12:25) "Woe to those who devise iniquity, and work out evil on their beds! At morning light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand." (Micah 2:1) |
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SUPER BOWL WIN MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT JESUS With the 2014 Super Bowl right around the corner and the Seattle Seahawks on a remarkable playoff run, Pastor Mark Driscoll sat down with players and staff from the team. The players deliver an amazing testimony talking about their faith in Jesus Christ and how it intersects with life on and off the football field.
Russell Okung, Chris Maragos, coach Rocky Seto, and Russell Wilson answered the question: "Who is Jesus?"
When coach Seto is asked about Jesus, he testifies clearly, "Jesus is better than the Super Bowl." Watch the amazing testimonies: <Click Here to Watch> Give thanks for players on either Super Bowl team and throughout the NFL who share their Christian witness openly and are not ashamed of the Gospel. Pray that athletes who enjoy celebrity status will use their influence wisely. Pray they offer a clear testimony that it is Jesus Christ who rules and regulates their lives, not football; that they live for the eternal, not temporary fame. Pray they have moral strength to reflect purity in social habits and fidelity in marriage. "Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified."
(1 Corinthians 9:24-27) "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: ... or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness." (Romans 12:6-8) |
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