Beauty for Ashes

 Australia – The Prime Minister at Hillsong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ywDMHuIb4

The West - Is Christianity making a comeback - https://www.theaustralicom.au/inquirer/britons-find-something-to-believe-in/news-story/38c7cbb9f129e19cf1e8f98e5c89e106?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

  Islamaphobia - https://twitter.com/spikedonline/status/1149043870937821184?s=12

The Regressive Power grab in Northern Ireland –

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/07/northern-ireland-gay-marriage-and-the-great-liberal-power-grab/

CBC – Child Drag Queens – https://twitter.com/Jessicae13Eaton/status/1147617805845630978?s=20

Amazon ban books –

https://www.christianpost.com/news/amazon-pulls-books-by-authors-who-once-identified-as-gay-lesbian.html?uid=38b40306c7

Decline in Millionaires - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wealth/millionaires-combined-wealth-fell-in-2018-capgemini-reports/news-story/7d903d9d21b0465ed6e219c7b70508a6?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

 Jeffrey Epstein - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/jeffrey-epstein-charged-multimillionaire-trafficked-young-girls-for-sex/news-story/7cb0c0a482f576b509100780d530b32d?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

Paula White – Holy Ground – maybe use the whole of the video clip

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/07/trump-spiritual-adviser-paula-white-claims-she-made-white-house-holy-ground/?fbclid=IwAR3_GZ8kFvZJl9t1MvpirTvUJ3aDWJFi6CwKi9XpcBNufpHGbC9wmDp_gCU

 10) Egypt legalizes more churches - https://www.christianpost.com/news/egypt-legalizes-127-christian-churches-over-1000-approved-new-govt-committee.html?uid=38b40306c7

11) Greek elections – use the first few (20) seconds of this? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48902766?xtor=ES-208-[23907_News_NLB_ACT_Wk28_Mon_8_Jul]-20190710-[bbcnews_greece_newsworld_election]

12) Denmark – Divorce - https://www.christianpost.com/news/denmark-launches-new-restrictions-on-parental-divorce.html?fbclid=IwAR0rMkabIyyn5DM8iF4-swmKiCM6823IOzIxx_RBZn858Tq7WMoI9ZhRyjU

13) Uk – The end of the naughty step - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/26/end-naughty-step-nurseries-say-no-longer-use-term-due-negative/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

14) Chick Fil-A – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsJHqstPuNo

https://www.christianpost.com/books/how-chick-fil-as-christian-purpose-statement-helped-revitalize-chain-on-brink-of-going-under.html?uid=38b40306c7

Richard Bewes - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-rev-richard-bewes-obituary-j8l3vb9df

The most beautiful writing - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/the-lingering-of-loss?mbid=social_tablet_t

Quote of the Week – "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you"  

Santanta - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5AUm_xaE9A

https://www.gospelherald.com/articles/70705/20170530/rock-guitarist-carlos-santana-talks-christian-faith-saved-seven-suicide.htm?fbclid=IwAR2wrB8UKTDRvpmdxefsrE-8liAZkM2Z3yTqlob-Z1eudwEI8Z0DnbN-w5E#.XReCvVPbXic.facebook

Felix Ngole –  

https://stephenmcalpine.com/if-only-there-were-someone-other-than-izzy/

Mexican State supports marriage - https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/mexican-states-legislature-defends-marriage-as-one-man-and-one-woman-only?utm_content=buffer162d3&utm_medium=WCDM%2BBuffer&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=WCDM&fbclid=IwAR3ydBfDC8ecsj4cOoAeqT9-ymfQxwVi3rYy3fXgqXCY-aW3Zw4Fw1hFjME

Brazilian Evangelicals - https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/brazil-evangelicals-jesus-march-millions?fbclid=IwAR1DwBowDlIRmGvY1q8bac61zB4LT9vDjx5-UP3aR0JoIzPZZvM_iQZkoQE

Pro-Life Democrat – Abortion genocide. https://www.liveaction.org/news/black-female-democrat-abortion-genocide/?fbclid=IwAR2FrEsTe8ggnCO7xzUVHUbOXm2BDM74pkpPGXiP4YLi1nL--cvcai8b3iU

Massacre in Mali - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48579475

Christine Legarde - https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/07/03/this-is-what-eu-democracy-looks-like/

The renaming of women - https://twitter.com/paulembery/status/1144821953506742273?s=12

 Oreos - https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/01/special-lgbt-edition-oreos-indoctrinate-kids-trans-pronouns/

Love is Love –  https://twitter.com/cf_farrow/status/1144632295187525632?s=12

Professor of Compassion – Derby University.

Charities and the Government - https://twitter.com/journostephen/status/1146495338964033537?s=12

Social Credit - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/china-bans-23m-discredited-citizens-from-buying-travel-tickets-social-credit-system

Misquoting the Bible - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/01/churchgoers-misquote-bible-social-media-will-have-comments-deleted/

BBC Scotland interview - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07frcwr

1) Adverts - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000610x

2) Monty Python – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRdur8GLBM 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/06/22/itvs-new-comedy-rules-python-would-cease/

3) Jeremy Hunt – The party of the family – different shapes and sizes https://twitter.com/jeremy_hunt/status/1142554762392592384?s=12

4) Thatcher - Thatcher – A Very British Revolution –  https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0005pt1/thatcher-a-very-british-revolution-series-1-3-enemies

 5) Mark Fields and Kirklees.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/kirklees-grooming-gang-yorkshire-child-sex-abuse-police-arrests-a8968501.html

6) Forced Abortion https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/06/24/forced-abortion-decision-overturned-on-appeal/

Scotland declining birth rate - https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snp-makes-new-demand-for-immigration-to-be-devolved-as-birth-rate-continues-to-fall-1-4945797

7) Boy suspended over two gender row -https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7171195/Teenager-17-insisted-two-genders-suspended-school.html 

 Scouts redo guidelines - https://www.transgendertrend.com/scout-association-new-transgender-guidance-big-step-forward/

8) Toy Story 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmiIUN-7qhE

9) World News Xi Xinping and Kim Jong Un - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/world/asia/kim-xi-summit.html?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=14468&user_id=a8721920a52db1f719078fd52bd2e2a5®i_id=57717561ing-news

10) The Archers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNEawM6vZf4

• Hong Kong –

http://shanghaiist.com/2019/06/16/sing-hallelujah-to-the-lord-has-become-the-unofficial-anthem-of-the-anti-extradition-protest-movement/?fbclid=IwAR1MPPpxLIdA529VmXleD5EfjpeRQ1wfAwyyG4uoGx1bnsAySYNei6Vz1eo

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/world/asia/hong-kong-protests.html?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=14347&user_id=a8721920a52db1f719078fd52bd2e2a5®i_id=57717561ing-news

 London - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48646922

 Slaughter of Christians in Nigeria - https://www.christianpost.com/news/nigerian-genocide-unborn-babies-slaughtered-like-chickens-entire-tribes-left-homeless.html?uid=38b40306c7

 Quilette – Clinat Margrave – lack of forgiveness…

https://quillette.com/2019/05/03/quillette-podcast-31-two-poets-clint-margrave-and-timothy-green-discuss-the-public-shaming-of-fellow-poet-frank-sherlock/

. The Womens World Cup

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/graham-spiers-lets-apply-proper-perspective-to-the-womens-world-cup-q02mvrvk9

Fathers Day – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00060v

 Oxford City Council and the Passion Play - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606054/Council-blocks-performance-Passion-Christ-thinking-live-sex-forcing-organisers-cancel-minute.html

 Another Brick in the Wall – https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/18/another-brick-in-the-wall-the-threat-to-children/?fbclid=IwAR0ACp_uBBe_iM5ZcsmUO6TJ1yz1rqHB3SOx0LmTmgejT4Vh6XGO-ToX6wA

 Black Metal –

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2019/5/13/lords-of-chaos-film-brings-back-norwegian-black-metal

St Silas - https://www.christiantoday.com/article/glasgow-congregation-votes-to-leave-episcopal-church-of-scotland/132638.htm

 The Puritans –

Censorship - 

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613644/youtube-is-deleting-videos-on-nazi-history-as-part-of-its-hate-speech-crackdown/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=twitter

Julia Hartley Brewer -

https://t.co/bCpPR7Kdlf

Dr Who - https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/06/05/transphobia-has-no-place-in-the-whoniverse/ 

Andy Wightman – Green MSP - https://twitter.com/andywightman/status/1137017582425391105?s=12 

Transgender - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-south-yorkshire-45937939/meet-the-99-year-old-transgender-ww2-veteran

 Abortion – a necessary violence – https://twitter.com/mez1972/status/1137713111140655104?s=12

The Vatican - https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/06/10/vatican-document-condemns-gender-theory-as-cultural-and-ideological-revolution/

Kenneth Copeland.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LtF34Mrsf

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094061/Televangelist-Kenneth-Copeland-Inside-Edition-interview-defends-using-THREE-private-jets.html

 Steve Chalke - https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/10/the-lost-message-of-chalke/

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2019/7-june/regulars/podcast/podcast-steve-chalke-on-the-lost-message-of-paul

Keith and  Kristyn Getty – Ps 130

1) D-Day – 

2) The Presidents State Visit –

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/03/donald-trumps-uk-state-visit-us-president-praises-boris-johnson/

 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sadiq-khan-hits-back-over-donald-trumps-stance-on-abortion-a4158186.html

https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/04/debate-night-reflections-trump-and-strathclyde-uni/

 Tiananmen Square. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-42465516

3) Praying for the President. - David Platt –

https://www.mcleanbible.org/prayer-president

4) Hope not Hate - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48488732 -

5) Sudan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-48505400/sudan-crisis-security-forces-attack-protesters

6) Atheists -  

7) Tolkien - https://pjmedia.com/faith/disneys-tolkien-movie-cuts-out-the-christian-faith-that-inspired-his-life-and-work/?fbclid=IwAR273UhqdWbux7e4h48UKD0FJWz3hEKSyG_ZQgVxBWtS4QNSQNbOZQY3Sq8

8) Florence Nightingale -  

9) Cricket – Afghanistan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0005mf7

Liverpool – Kloop - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-juergen-klopp-keeps-smiling-through-triumph-and-disaster-7dw7chd89?fbclid=IwAR2g7twpuSpmxBfwC7Cbpi2F257cy2ekcLvLc561v5I3moVMfBejgyWdgBM

10) A.S.K - https://theweeflea.com/2019/06/05/in-conversation-with-andy-bannister-a-s-k-and-australia/

Quote of the week –

 Stephen Hawking – Heaven is a fairy story for those afraid of the dark

John Lennox – Atheism is a fairy story for those afraid of the light.

Quantum 44…

• Australian Miracle –

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/05/29/boris-didnt-lie-even-did-harassing-brexiteers-courts-outrageous/

• Indian and Israeli elections

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-48454514

• Trans Battle –

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7070773/Vicar-resigns-schools-plan-eight-year-old-pupils-sex-change-secret-parents.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=HQ57zai5Cpk

• Naomi Wolf

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/naomi-wolfs-book-corrected-by-host-in-bbc-interview.html

Virtual Church - 

Todd Coontz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-47675301

 Ancient Churches and the oldest bible manuscript

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/one-of-egypts-oldest-churches-dating-back-to-the-4th-century-found-hidden-behind-ancient-basilica-wall-6086

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/scientists-finally-read-the-oldest-biblical-text-ever-found-a7323296.html?fbclid=IwAR0P6rosOCo3-zV7ZKNlXHv5vaZC2pavRAVNu1-3k-j6L5yIIu5JTxCNbyw

 Chick-Fil- A

https://godtv.com/chick-fil-a-breaks-sunday-rule-to-deliver-to-a-child-with-brain-tumor

“Many persons wish to profit by the name of gentleness, so as to gain the applause and esteem of the world, but at the same time betray truth in a base and shameful manner”  Calvin - Commentary on Isaiah 42:3 

• Joel Osteen

https://www.christianpost.com/news/matt-chandler-warns-church-is-no-longer-about-discipleship-but-being-entertained.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=0fb76e0eb5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_15_04_37&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-0fb76e0eb5-2509241

• Steve Chalke –

https://viamedia.news/2019/05/15/unity-has-it-become-a-golden-calf/

• Sinclair Ferguson –

https://banneroftruth.org/uk/resources/announcements/2019/suffering-is-the-raw-material-for-fruitfulness-in-the-christian-life/ 

• General Assemblies.

https://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news_and_events/news/2019/first_minister_praises_the_kirk_for_enormous_and_highly_valued_contribution_to_scotland 

• Durham Church –

https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Durham-Church-offers-to-cover-crosses-while-hosting-Muslim-Iftar-meal?utm_campaign=e3948b87d2-WN-20190517&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Christian%2BConcern&utm_term=0_9e164371ca-e3948b87d2-127425869

• Millenial `evangelicals

https://www.christianpost.com/news/millennial-evangelicals-more-likely-to-attend-church-weekly-than-older-generations-poll-finds.html?uid=38b40306c7&utm_source=The+Christian+Post+List&utm_campaign=63e2727126-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_05_22_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_dce2601630-63e2727126-2509241

• Lucas Moura

https://www.xtheline.co.uk/exclusive-spurs-lucas-moura/?sfns=mo

• Grace City Alight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCr6Vvj3nRo

Quantum 41 –

1) Prince Archie -

2) Abortion Horror - 

3) Persecuting Christians –

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/02/persecution-driving-christians-out-of-middle-east-report?CMP=share_btn_fb

 https://www.newsweek.com/ayaan-hirsi-alithe-global-war-christians-muslim-world-65817

4) Asia Bibi gone to Canada - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004yc4/prime-ministers-questions-08052019

5) Islam in Australia https://www.facebook.com/groups/AustralianConservativesParty/permalink/2055151857926085?sfns=mo

6) Folau

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/australian-rugby-player-samu-kerevi-responds-to-backlash-over-i-love-you-jesus/132336.htm 

Alan Jones - https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/israel-folau-alan-jones-calls-rugby-australia-ruling-orwellian/news-story/858935453dc5cc6cc4b42854b4530f62?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=TodaySHeadlines

7) FB bans - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/technology/facebook-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-ban.html?emc=edit_na_20190502&nl=breaking-news&nlid=57717561ing-news&ref=cta

Quoting Paul Washer - https://caldronpool.com/all-have-sinned-facebook-remove-christian-sermon-and-suspend-individual-who-shared-it-you-posted-hate-speech/?fbclid=IwAR0-6U1Wx7cVpsMcjYt3sa2npAqtYVhvYC6sCTsNl-5B78fjd34H-ToS5yI (perhaps a wee bit of the sermon in the video?)                    

Brian Soutar banned - https://archbishopcranmer.com/sir-brian-souter-barred-sponsor-turner-prize/

8) Trans Madness - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8992049/primary-school-bans-boys-girls-names-transgender-debate/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tax-expert-fired-for-saying-trans-women-aren-t-women-tpqgnm9vj

9) Extinction - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/climate/biodiversity-extinction-united-nations.html?emc=edit_na_20190506&nl=breaking-news&nlid=57717561ing-news&ref=headline

10) The Death of Rachel Held-Evans - https://www.premierchristianity.com/Blog/Rachel-Held-Evans-1981-2019-The-influential-blogger-who-challenged-the-evangelical-subculture

11) An extraordinary event – Israeli soldiers in Germany –  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zA7ihcXGzQ&feature=youtu.be

…https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/04/25/israeli-soldiers-sing-hatikvah-while-in-germany-for-training-exercise/

12) The Champions League - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykJYYgohSE

                                                                                                                                    Quote of the Week –

Gafcon is a movement “to guard and proclaim the unchanging truth in a changing world.”  As we heard this week, many around the world are being tossed back and forth by waves of confusion, and blown by the wind of the latest, fashionable, false doctrine.  Many are in desperate need of Jesus, who is the only one who can bring salvation. Please lift up his Church daily in your prayers, pray for us as we seek to lead, and join us in proclaiming Christ faithfully to the nations. https://www.gafcon.org/news/a-communique-from-the-gafcon-primates-council