Federal Appeals Court rules for Manchester, Mo funeral protest ban
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Westboro Baptist Church dealt setback as court upholds funeral protest ban
Ruling in favor of Manchester, Mo., 11 members of 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the city’s ordinance barring protests at funerals met constitutional muster because it was narrowly written and offered picketers ample opportunities to express their views in other ways.
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Dinesh D’Souza married to one woman...engaged to another
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"Global warming" stopped 16 years ago
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“New global temperature trend data released by the Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) in Britain find essentially no upward trend in global average temperatures since 1997.”
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Felix Baumgartner: "if you're standing in His Son's arm, you know, nothing can go wrong at that moment"
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YouTube: Red Bull Stratos Post Jump Press Conference with Felix Baumgartner
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Question: What went through your head at that moment before you jumped?
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“Marriage is either ‘something in particular’ or ‘nothing in particular’”
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People of God: Flock and Fold
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At the Exodus, Jehovah made Israel a nation, i.e., a self-aware social unit, bound by a common language and culture, sharing descent from a common ancestor. More than that, Jehovah made Israel a people of God. He made them a nation devoted to the worship of the one, true, and living God, called by His name and ruled by His precepts.
Even in the Old Testament, God disclosed that His plan included many peoples. Eventually both Egypt and Assyria would become peoples of God (Isa. 19:19-25). Indeed, the poets and prophets regularly called upon all the peoples of the earth to acknowledge Jehovah as the true and living God and to worship Him (Ps. 67; Ps. 148:11). In eternity future, God will be served by many peoples (Rev. 21:3, 24, 26; 22:2).
In the meanwhile, God has created the church and called it to be His people. In 1 Peter 2:9-10, some of the same language is applied to the church that was applied to Israel. For this language to work, the church must somehow be very like Israel. Nevertheless, the church is not only distinct from Israel, it is actually a different kind of people, constituted by the Holy Spirit who, in a unique sense, places saints in Christ by uniting them to His body.
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