Billy Graham’s Daughter Warns America: Judgment is Coming

The second daughter of evangelist Billy Graham, Anne Graham-Lotz, is blowing the trumpet and sounding the alarm, following in the footsteps of her father and with the impassioned spirit of the prophet Joel.

“Blow the trumpet…sound the alarm…for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand – Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God” (Joel 2:1,13)

Due to declining health of her husband, Dr. Dan Lotz, Anne has limited her speaking engagements and has been spending more time at their home in Montreat, North Carolina, caring for him. In December, 2012, Dr. Lotz was hospitalized and overcame a serious bout with a MRSA staph infection.

“As a result, I have had time to be quiet and listen more to the whispers of the Spirit,” she wrote in a letter dated June 20^th to Pat Robertson. “He has revealed things to me in the stillness that I’m not sure I would have heard in my former busyness.” Anne believes we are racing toward a dramatic conclusion to world events. “One of the things He has impressed on me is that we are living at the end of human history as we know it,” she writes, based on her careful study of the Bible.

Last month, she was the honorary chair for the National Day of Prayer. She delivered a sobering message from Joel 1: “The Day of the Lord is at hand.”

Anne with her father

 “It was a message warning that judgment is coming,” she writes.

Now she is calling people to pray, an assignment she says came indirectly from a Syrian pastor who attended the National Day of Prayer.

“In obedience, I am blowing the trumpet…sounding the alarm…issuing a national prayer initiative entitled “7 7 7: An Urgent Call to Prayer.”

“The Call is for God’s people to pray for each of the first seven days in the seventh month — July 1-7. Then on the 7th day, July 7, we are to pray and fast for 7 hours. The purpose is…

1. For God the Father to restrain, protect, and deliver His people from the evil that has come into our world.

2. For God the Son to be exalted, magnified, and glorified in His church, in our nation, and in our lives.

3. For God the Holy Spirit to fall on us in a fresh way, compelling the church to repent of sin and our nation to return to faith in the living God, resulting in a great national spiritual awakening.

Anne asks for many like-minded people to partner with her, by going to her website.

“I will provide a prayer I have written for each of the seven days to help unite us in one spirit and one voice as we cry out to God. Please be assured there is no other agenda in this initiative. This is not about promoting anything or anyone. This is all about calling God’s people together to pray, before it’s too late, and judgment falls on our nation.”

Source

Apostasy Rising: 4 Denominations In Less Than a Week Defy God's Word

The United Church of Christ (UCC) bills itself as "the church where God is still speaking." Apparently, God's Word is falling on deaf ears of the leadership.

The UCC, which considers itself a mainline Protestant denomination—claiming over 1 million members and about 5,200 congregations in the U.S.—proudly announced it will serve as a major sponsor of the Gay Games. The UCC will now go down in Christian history as the first major denomination to sponsor the homosexual Olympics when the games roll into Cleveland, Ohio, in August.

I guess my jaw shouldn't have dropped when I read the news, considering the UCC in April filed a gay marriage rights lawsuit in North Carolina. But not only did my jaw drop, I'm shaking my head. J. Bennett Guess, one of the UCC's national officers and its first openly gay church executive, calls it a social justice issue and says the denomination prides itself on "being a bold voice for progressive Christianity."

In case you aren't familiar with what the term "progressive Christianity" really means, let's take a moment to define it. Progressive Christianity has a strong focus on social justice and environmentalism. Progressive Christianity focuses on concepts like "collective salvation"—where entire cultures and societies, rather than just individuals with faith in Christ, are redeemed—and bends toward a Marxist economic philosophy. And Progressive Christianity does not subscribe to the biblical doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture.

See more, here

Claim: Military Bans Bibles on Bases but Forces Soldiers to Adhere to Islamic Practices During Ramadan

The US Air Force kicked Christian Gideon’s volunteers off base in March.
The Bibles were too offensive and violated the separation of church and state rule.

But US military personnel are expected to adhere to Islamic practices during Ramadan.

MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. personnel accustomed to drinking their coffee on the drive to work will have to put that habit on hold for about a month. It’s one of a few lifestyle changes Americans will have to make during the holy month of Ramadan.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Officials expect Ramadan to begin at sunrise on Saturday, depending on when the new moon is sighted. The holy month lasts for approximately 30 days — until about July 28. For Muslims around the world, Ramadan is a month of fasting and devotion to God. Most Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, when families gather for Iftar — the meal that breaks the fast.

See more here.

Muslim Militants Post Grisly Images of Mass Killing in Iraq

 BAGHDAD – As the Iraqi government bolstered
Baghdad’s defenses Sunday, the Islamic militant group that captured two
major cities last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show its
fighters massacring dozens of captured Iraqi soldiers.

The pictures on a militant website appear to show masked fighters of
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, loading the captives onto
flatbed trucks before forcing them to lie face-down in a shallow ditch
with their arms tied behind their backs. The final images show the
bodies of the captives soaked in blood after being shot.

They’re not the only images showing how ISIS, also known as the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, punishes captured Iraqi
soldiers. CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward reports from Baghdad that
a video appears to show Iraqi special forces soldiers being
interrogated by Sunni militants.

Muslim Militants Post Grisly Images of Mass Killing in Iraq | Christian News Network

Hipster Hillsong ‘Pastor’ Drawing Concern for Concealing Beliefs on Homosexuality

NEW YORK – Progressive ‘pastor’ Carl Lentz of New York City
draws thousands of followers—including Justin Bieber—to concert-like services
each week, but many Christians are concerned that he seems to be
concealing his stances on moral issues, including homosexuality.

Hillsong New York City is a popular Pentecostal congregation, which
meets each week in nightclubs, theaters, and other venues across New York City.
Trendy concert-like music, strobe lights, and Lentz’s unconventional messages
draw thousands of attendees every Sunday.

Lentz, who sports tattoos, leather jackets, body piercings, and even a Mohawk
hairdo, says his weekly assembly is “awesome.” (Continued)

 Hipster Hillsong ‘Pastor’ Drawing Concern for Concealing Beliefs on Homosexuality

Irish Pastor Under ‘Hate Crime’ Investigation for Sunday Sermon Against Islam

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – A 75-year-old Irish preacher was subjected to a police probe after he condemned Islam in a sermon and was accused of ‘hate mongering.’
James McConnell, pastor of the Whitewell Metropolitan Church in North Belfast, Ireland, discussed the religion of Islam during an evening sermon on Sunday, May 18th. During the sermon, McConnell denounced Islam and said the contrast between it and Christianity is stark.


“The God we worship and serve this evening is not Allah,” he proclaimed, according to a video of his sermon. “The Muslim god—Allah—is a heathen deity. Allah is a cruel deity. Allah is a demon deity.”
McConnell then criticized the “foolish” British government for attempting to appease Muslims financially, saying Islam is “a doctrine spawned in hell.” He also noted that Christians around the world are persecuted for their faith by the “fanatical worshipers” of Allah.

Irish Pastor Under ‘Hate Crime’ Investigation for Sunday Sermon Against Islam | Christian News Network