Salt Shakers
Journal
Summary March 2007
Editorial (in full below)
“The science is clear: people cause
climate change” was the editorial headline in The Age on 3 February 2007.
“Scientists agree that global warming results from human activity”, was the next
line. But what does this really mean? Which scientists, how many of them and how
much ‘heat’ does human activity cause?
Slave Trading Abolished? Don’t Count on it!
Dr Murray Adamthwaite examines the
slave trading issue 200 years after slavery was abolished in
Britain
. He
examines the campaign that lead to the victory and also shows where we are now.
Amazing Grace
The new film Amazing Grace tells the story of the
life of William Wilberforce and his fight to end slavery in the
British Empire . John Newton is also featured and the film
carries the name of his famous hymn.
News and Action
Euthanasia: Senator Brown’s Bill;
South Australia
: Euthanasia;
Homosexual adoption; SA: Vilification law.
Child Abuse Statistics
The latest Report on child abuse in
Australia
has
just been released by federal government agency, the Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare. The 104 page Report is called Child Protection Australia
2005 - 2006.
Civil Partnerships and Relationships Registers
The Stanhope ALP
government launched its revised relationships Bill in December 2006, called the
Civil Partnerships Bill. Melbourne City Council (MCC) is also planning to
establish a Relationships Register for same-sex AND heterosexual couples.
Resistance Thinking
Update
It has been almost four months since Dave and Emma started
Resistance Thinking. They have been busy getting the website prepared and
planning a strategy for the coming year.
Can you help? Biscuits for
prison fellowship
Prison Fellowship Victoria is giving biscuits to
prisoners this Easter, along with a card explaining the Easter message. They
need 45,000 biscuits (firm biscuits such as Anzacs, chocolate, shortbread).
Climate Change? Global Warming?
And GOD
Jenny Stokes looks at global warming and adds a voice of reason
to the debate, examining the evidence and the media treatment of the issue.
Click here to read this
article.
Solemn Assembly
A nationwide prayer gathering to repent and call on God for forgiveness and
healing for our nation has been called by prayer groups across
Australia.
God or Ceasar? Prayer or
Politics?
John Tary argues the importance of praying for our elected
politicians.
Midsumma Festival in
Melbourne
The Bracks Labor government promised to give $160,000 over 3 years to
‘Midsumma’ -
Melbourne’s homosexual festival - prior to the state election in
November 2006!
Sydney Mardi Gras- going
down!
On 10 Feb 2004: “Around 10,000 people packed into
Sydney’s Hyde Park on Friday night for the launch of the
Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
Festival. In 2007: “About 1,000 people enthusiastically welcomed the 2007 season
at a back-to-basics event at Circular Quay.”
UK Sexual orientation (anti-discrimination)
Regulations
Last year the
UKgovernment passed the “Equality Act 2006”. This
Act contains many new regulations. The “Sexual Orientation Regulations”, or
SORs, are extremely dangerous because they ban ‘sexual orientation’
discrimination in the provision of goods, facilities and services.
Should the church be seeking
exemptions from bad law?
We believe
NOT.
A bad law, such as Victoria’s R & RT Act or anti-discrimination
laws like the one above, are simply BAD laws - they are BAD laws for everyone,
not just for ‘religious’ people. They take away freedom of thought and religion
and deny free speech.
World News
South Africa :
Marriage;
Russia : Pride March;
Switzerland : Euthanasia;
USA
: Family
values is ‘hate speech'.
Editorial
“The science is clear: people cause climate
change” was the editorial headline in The Age on 3 February 2007. “Scientists
agree that global warming results from human activity”,
was the next line.
But what does this really mean? Which scientists, how many of them and how
much ‘heat’ does human activity cause?
It appears to us that these are the questions the headlines are designed to
conceal; definitive headlines that make you think there can be no doubt about
the issue.
What is clear today is that dissenting voices, however ‘expert’, are
intimidated and silenced by such headlines.
This is the same tactic used by various advocates: evolution - despite
growing evidence that evolution is a myth; ‘overpopulation’ - despite declining
birth rates world-wide and even ‘homosexuality’ - despite no evidence for their
claims.
There is little doubt that headlining ‘theories’ as though they are facts is
a political tool, an attempt by ‘man’ to be ‘in control’.
They are all based on the godless theory of ‘secular humanism’. They are
saying “there is no God, we evolved and now we cause whatever happens and only
we can change the present and redirect the future.
Yet, as Christians we know that the facts clearly show that there is design.
We know, in fact, that we are created in God’s image and that He holds the globe
in His hand (figuratively speaking).
We also know that while our sinful nature and refusal to follow God’s laws
and values can cause God to stop the rain or send the locusts or the fire, we
have little control over the climate or how long the world will remain in the
state it is today. We also know that nothing can happen to this world that GOD
does not allow to happen.
Ask yourself how much damaging toxic and carbon gases one large volcano spews
out in a few days. Some have affected the world for years but the doom and gloom
eventually surrendered to the light of the sun.
Ask yourself how we caused a year’s rain to fall in a little over ONE day in
Northern Queensland in
late January - filling dams and immediately removing the need for water
restrictions.
Take the population issue – has it ever occurred to you how incredible it is
that most countries populations are made up of almost exactly 50% male and 50%
female (give or take 1%) until man steps in and demands a one child policy or
until a culture decides it is better to have male children rather than female
and they abort the girls.
When a country starts artificially ‘adjusting’ the figures things soon get
out of whack.
But that does NOT happen when we leave it in God’s hands.
How could random chance balance the population in such an amazing way?
We
recently watched a couple of nature programs on TV, about salmon and king
penguins. There were regular comments about ‘evolution’ and yet there was a
recurring theme of how well ordered things were. How they find their way back to
where they were born from thousands of miles away; how they knew what time to be
there and how other animals also knew exactly what time they would arrive. One
indication after another of a totally ordered environment.
Yes, we need to be responsible and care for our environment, but if we think
we are in control, we need to seriously think again.
Yours in HIS Service
Peter & Jenny Stokes
Author: Jenny Stokes | Modified: 10 July 2007 |
