Brazilian President Calls For New World Order

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on the 17th June in Kazakhstan that the global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order

“I want to say that before the crisis, there were many countries which had greater significance than others, and some countries which had no significance at all,” he said through a translator.

“After the crisis, everyone has become similar. We have the possibility to create a new world order and together we should improve our relations.”

He and the Kazakh President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, then said the United Nations should open up the UN Security Council to developing nations in an effort to bolster global security.

(Source here)

Thought for The Day

An author says atheists reject the gospel as it’s too radical for them: http://bit.ly/SsMqj  - I disagree, I think it’s more because the modern (false) gospel isn’t radical enough.

Domionist Prophet Thomas Manton IV Arrested For Trafficking Porn

Article from here, June 24 2009

“Nairobi – Kenyan police has arrested an American preacher who faces charges of trafficking pornographic material, police said on Wednesday. Thomas Manton IV, a self-styled prophet, was detained late on Tuesday following a complaint by a woman who said he posted pornographic pictures of her on a website. “He will be charged for trafficking pornographic material and being in Kenya illegally,” a police officer said on condition of anonymity. The country’s top police spokesperson, Eric Kiraithe, and the criminal investigation department chief, Festus Malinge, confirmed the preacher was in custody but refused to elaborate. Thomas Manton IV used to hold weekly religious services in a central Nairobi hotel and describes himself on his website as “God’s voice to the nations”.

His biography boasts that he has healed the lame, the deaf and the dumb and that his countless prophecies included the September 11 terror attacks and “the Western Bank/Gaza conflicts (sic)”.

Among the best-selling DVDs listed on his online store are “Kill the Middleman”, “God’s Path to Promotion” and “How to Become Devil Proof”. – AFP”

Endtimespropheticwords comments  – I had never heard of this guy before. However a quick trip to his website tells us all we need to know to see whether he’s of God. I think it says much that Manton wants me to pay to hear a word allegedly from GOD. That says it all. Here’s a foretaste from a prophetic DVD  -

“PROPHECIES FOR 2009

1.    2009 Will Be A Year Of Love.
2.    2009 Will Be A Year Of Holiness & Integrity.
3.    2009 Will Be A Year To Build The Church.
4.    2009 Will Be A Year To See The Glory of God.
5.    2009 Will Be A Year To Receive Greater Revelation Of Our Royalty.
6.    2009 Will Be A Year To Receive Greater Revelation Of Our Prosperity.
7.    2009 Will Be A Year For All To Live & Walk In Truth.
8.    2009 Will Be A Year Of Exhibited & Manifested Righteousness.
9.    2009 Will Be A Year To Forget The Past; And Receive The Significance Of Manasseh’s Name Sake.
10.    2009 Will Be A Year To Strongly Walk In The Spirit Of Discernment In Every Situation That Is Around         Us.
11.    2009 Will Be A Year To Break-Through Obstacles In Mass-Proportions.
12.    2009 Will Be A Year To Walk In Greater Manifestations Of The Holy Spirit.
13.    2009 Will Be A Year Of Quick Answers To Prayer.
14.    2009 Will Be A Season For Single Saints To Find Their True God-Ordained Spouses.
15.    2009 Will Be A Season To Solidify Your Environment To Pro-Create The God-Product Out From Your Life.
16.    2009 Will Be The Time To Shake Off Every Recurring-Hindrance.
17.    2009 Will Be A Year Of Tremendous Provision For God’s Purposes.
18.    2009 Will Be A Year Of The Return Of The Lost-Sheep.
19.    2009 Will Be A Year Of The Exoduses Of God’s People Out From Places Of Darkness And Bondage Into         His Blessed- Habitations.
20.    2009 Will Be A Year To Know A True-Prophet And True-Deliverer.
21.    2009 Will Be A Year To Know That *When God Is With You; You Will Always Outwit Your Enemies.
22.    2009 Will Be A Year To Build-Up And Use Our Faith.
23.    2009 Will Be A Year To Gain A Dominion-Mentality.
24.    2009 Will Be A Year For Psalm 35:27 To Come To Pass.
25.    2009 Will Be A Year Of Divine-Health.
26.    2009 Will Be A Year Of ‘Dominion’ For Us; And We Will Possess Many Possessions.
27.    2009 Will Be A Year Of The Pro-Creation Of The Miraculous.
28.    2009 Will Be A Year Of Receiving And Releasing God’s Wisdom.
29.    2009 Will Be A Year That We Will Win Souls As Jesus Christ Told Us To Do In His Great Commission.
30.    2009 Will Be A Year That We Will Understand And Take Severe Action In Our God-Given Right and Power To Transform Nations.

Ear-tickling in other words, a mix of dominionism and word of faith.

Then there’s Manton’s call for money elsewhere: “Financial Partnering with this ministry will enable you to experience mighty blessings from the Lord.” he says. Uh huh. And if you don’t pay you can get stuffed?

‘Prophetic Leadership Circle’ Donors:

The Prophetic Leadership Circle member gives an initial donation of $300 @ once; and a cumulative gift of $1,000 or more annually.

The Prophetic Leadership Circle members and the Thomas Manton IV / Dominion International Ministry Partners help ‘fuel’ the Ministry to release the Word of the Lord to the nations! Multitudes of lost and hurting people in the world will be saved, healed and delivered from our global release of God’s precious anointing throughout the world. Our mandate and commission from God to ‘Shake the Nations’ will be fulfilled. And YOU will be rewarded for partnering with this Ministry!

Benefits for you!

As an *International Covenant Ministry Partner with Thomas Manton IV & Dominion International -or- as a *Prophetic Leadership Circle Member, you have dynamic benefits available to you! The first is our Lord’s promise: “Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom…At the same measure that you mete out, the same it shall be given back to you…” (Luke 6:38) Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

As a Prophetic Leadership Circle member, you will receive personal prophetic attention from Thomas Manton IV and his staff to help steer you into the fulfillment of your God-given vision! The Mantle upon this dynamic Prophetic Ministry has been a mighty blessing to many Pastors and Business Leaders around the world. Many have seen tremendous breakthroughs and blessings in their churches, ministries and businesses. The Ministry and Business Leaders that have connected at high levels of partnership with God’s Prophet have been severely blessed! (You can see more details on our Testimonies Page)

*By Joining the Prophetic Leadership Circle and remaining an active member, you will receive:
1. A personal prophetic telephone call from Thomas Manton IV at least twice a year!
2. A monthly letter from Thomas Manton IV, containing profound prophetic revelations from God sharing his heart, along with photos and testimonies and updating you on how God is changing lives through our many outreaches around the world!
3. Periodic ministry gift items specially selected to thank our partners for their monthly or periodic financial seeds!
4. Our consistent prophetic prayer and intercession for God’s ultimate divine success and blessings upon the lives of each of our Ministry Partners!”

Brothers and sisters in Africa, stay well clear of this man unless it is to warn or rebuke him!

Stop Preaching, You’re Offending People!

The silencing of Britain continues. Shhh!

Article from here  

“Police officers told an open-air preacher in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, it is a criminal offence to identify homosexuality as a sin. They said this to Andy Robertson, even though he had not mentioned homosexuality in his preaching.

He was recording his preaching because the local council had been making allegations about the content of his message. The conversation with police officers was caught on tape.”

Robert Schuller taps his daughter to lead ministry’s grand comeback

Article by Dana Parsons, June 23 2009 La Times

“Sheila Schuller Coleman, the eldest child of Crystal Cathedral founder Robert Schuller, has directed the church’s Family Ministries for years. She says she looks forward to speaking from the pulpit about once every four to six weeks.

Sheila Schuller Coleman, who has worked in the church for decades, will deliver occasional sermons and be the driving force behind Crystal Cathedral operations, including the ‘Hour of Power’ TV show.

She remembers being about 4 and, as her father worked in his study that doubled as a bedroom, hearing a knock on the front door. She answered and a tearful woman said, “Is the pastor here?”

It was one of Sheila Schuller’s first realizations that their small house in Garden Grove was also a sanctuary. In the years that followed, long before Robert Schuller would become an iconic religious figure with a worldwide audience, she came to see her father as “just the local pastor down the street,” someone whose job it was to preach on Sundays and help ease people’s problems.

The little girl is now 58, married and the mother of four. Her father is 82, white-haired and slowed, but mounting a comeback.

And in ways that she never imagined until recently, Sheila Schuller Coleman — not her younger brother and former heir apparent — will be the one “to help my dad finish strong.”

Earlier this month, Schuller anointed his eldest daughter as the church’s co-leader and the person who would carry the Crystal Cathedral’s banner into the future. The announcement capped a tumultuous year for the Schullers and their admirers, as a father-son split over “a lack of shared vision” led the younger Robert Schuller to surrender his senior pastor status and leave the church after his father stripped him of his role in the TV ministry.

The elder Schuller is among the most influential American preachers of the last half-century, having written bestselling books and converted a small, local ministry into one that broadcasts the “Hour of Power” worldwide from the gleaming Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove.

But the ministry has fallen on hard times. Hurt by the economy and, perhaps, changing viewer tastes, church attendance and TV viewership have declined. Schuller, who handed his son the reins in 2006, told the congregation this month that he will return to a prominent role and put in two more years. But in the future, he said, it will be his daughter “who’s making this church, not the preacher.”

That may sound daunting, but Coleman does not feel overmatched. “I guess it should be a scary time. Call it naivete, but I don’t feel it. I actually have a strong sense of anticipation. I’m very excited about what we can do.”

Details on her new role are yet to come, but it’s clear the church’s board believes it needs Schuller back at the helm — at least for now when fundraising is suffering. He remains the storied, titanic figure behind the church, which traces its inception to a drive-in theater lot in 1955.

If those were carefree days, these are not. Shadowing everything at the cathedral, spoken or not, is a family squabble that would rival that of any prime-time TV series.

“The mistake I felt we made as a family — and it was done out of love — was that we tried to pour all our seeds into one bucket,” Coleman says of her brother’s ascension. “God wanted the seeds to be disseminated and scattered so the kingdom could grow.”

She says the entire family laments the internal friction, which is primarily between father and son. “My dad was very hurt, and Robert was very hurt. The healing will take time. I see signs it’s beginning to happen. The thing that was so hard for me and the family is that so many people in the church and our viewers and the public who saw us as the model family, said, ‘Wow, oh no.’ For some reason, they didn’t think it would happen to us.”

Robert was the only son among Robert and Arvella Schuller’s five children. He and a business partner recently announced that their company has bought AmericanLife TV Network and hopes to make the station “the destination for family values.”

Through a spokeswoman, the younger Schuller said his schedule didn’t allow time to be interviewed, but in a written statement he wished his sister well. “I have great respect for the work she does at the ministry and as an educator and believe she will add tremendous value in her new position.”

Coleman has a doctorate in educational administration and leadership. She’s been on the church staff since 1973, except for a four-year stint as a public school teacher in Fullerton. She has been directing the church’s Family Ministries, and now will also serve as an occasional preacher.

“I know it’s going to sound very different,” she says, “but I believe my role is to mother this ministry. Which means to nurture the congregation, the staff.”

She’s looking forward to speaking from the pulpit (maybe once every four to six weeks) but says her sermons won’t sound like those of a preacher. “My messages will be very light on Scripture. They’ll be stories, primarily, with lessons. They’ll be biblical concepts, but my platform on the ‘Hour of Power’ and the cathedral on Sunday mornings is as an outreach to the unchurched.”

Poised to become the public face of the ministry, Coleman laughs easily and acknowledges having had a bout with religious skepticism as a college student. The doubt is behind her, but she still says that faith is fraught with illogic.

“I tried to make it logical,” she said of that period. “When you’re a science major, everything is why, why, why? And every time I’d ask why, I could come up with a logical explanation but then I’d right away come up with another why. Finally, I realized I just needed to take a leap of faith. I know it sounds trite, but it’s just a leap of faith. I just said, ‘Lord, I don’t know that I can understand this, I can’t explain it all, but I’m choosing to believe in you.’ The minute I did that, everything fell into place.”

“I’ve always had a very close relationship with Jesus Christ, since I was a little girl,” Coleman says. That faith “has deepened over the years, and in the last year or so I can’t even describe to you how amazing it’s been.”

The church’s leaders need faith these days. TV ratings are down 50% from their heyday and the church is selling properties to pay a $50-million debt.

Coleman chuckles at the notion that the cathedral’s time has passed. “Faith is believing in something even though you can’t see it, even though it goes against reason,” she says. “That’s my faith, and I do believe we have our best days yet to come.”

It may have been the fates as much as family dynamics that lined up against the younger Schuller, says the head of an association of religious researchers. As with any organization that relies on donations, the economic downturn has made the cathedral vulnerable, says William Swatos Jr., executive officer of the Religious Research Assn. and editor of the “Encyclopedia of Religion and Society.”

“Passing the torch in these situations is often difficult,” Swatos says, “because when you look at these movements — religious among them — there isn’t necessarily an inheritance factor that operates strongly. In many cases the footsteps . . . may be harder to follow when you’re the son than when you’re an outsider because people are expecting almost a duplication. If you brought in someone everyone knows isn’t the son, you begin with a kind of clean slate.”

Coleman agrees, saying her brother may have been in a no-win situation.

While the family tries to heal, the Crystal Cathedral must ramp up its efforts, Coleman says. The plan is to hire an evangelist to lure non-churchgoers and to improve marketing of the “Hour of Power.”

In a way that’s both simple and far-reaching, the Crystal Cathedral is going back to basics.

“I believe in a big God who’s not done with this ministry and not done with my father,” Coleman says. “Dad still has amazing dreams and visions. He’s still the visionary of this church, and he will be as long as he draws breath.”

Radio blocks Foul Mouthed Mark Driscoll Mid-show

Warning! This news article here contains explicit language concerning sexuality.

Debate About The Third Temple

The third temple has been in the news of late, with talks of sharing the Temple Mount gaining more prominence. The interfaithers seem to be getting on the band-waggon. What think you on this whole subject?

New Todd Bentley Book On Signs and Wonders

(Illustration courtesy of this website here)

Todd Bentley Cashes In His Dividends

Article by Rick Hiebert from here

“Back on the sawdust trail

Readers who have been following my series of posts about Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley may be interested to know that he is back on the job.

This morning, despite the concerns of many Christians who looked askance at the collapse of Mr. Bentley’s Florida revival and his marriage, Mr. Bentley announced the launching of his new website. It has print and video teachings, an internet store and a page where you can ask him to minister at your church. So, he’s back on the job.

I may have indepth analysis of this later, once I have had time to read and listen, but I wanted Shotgun readers to be the first on the ‘net to learn this which, according to Google, is apparently the case.

{I do have one passing, tongue-in-cheek observation though. The typeface for Mr. Bentley’s ministry logo is apparently borrowed from the original TV series of Star Trek. Any idea in your mind that Mr. Bentley is so spiritually adept that he can “go where no man has gone before” was probably put there by accident.)”

Endtimespropheticwords comments:   I’ve not taken an extensive look around Todd Bentley’s new site yet but couldn’t help notice the ironic heading ‘the restorative dividends of the presense of God’  – this pulpit pimp keeps betraying himself as we know what kind of “dividends” he’s after restoring.

George Tiller, late term abortionist, shot inside his church

I don’t condone this action – not at all – but how come the media don’t mention all the children George Tiller murdered? There is NO justification for abortion of a child at a late stage of pregnancy, where if born, it can live independently of its mother.

And this guy was an usher in church, and his wife sang in the choir? Unbelievable. Bloodmoney built that church!

Article by Monica Davey and Joe Stumpe from here, May 31 2009

“WICHITA, Kan. — Authorities said they had a suspect in custody Sunday afternoon in the shooting death of George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was one of the few doctors in the nation to perform late-term abortions.

Dr. Tiller, who had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion and had survived a shooting more than a decade ago, was shot inside his church here on Sunday morning, the authorities said. Dr. Tiller, 67, was shot with a handgun inside the lobby of his longtime church, Reformation Lutheran Church on the city’s East Side, just after 10 a.m. (Central Time). The service had started minutes earlier

Dr. Tiller, who had performed abortions since the 1970s, had long been a lightning rod for controversy over the issue of abortion, particularly in Kansas, where abortion opponents regularly protested outside his clinic and sometimes his home and church. In 1993, he was shot in both arms by an abortion opponent but recovered.

Dr. Tiller had also been the subject of many efforts at prosecution, including a citizen-initiated grand jury investigation. In the latest such effort, in March, Dr. Tiller was acquitted of charges that he had performed late-term abortions that violated state law.

Shortly after Sunday’s shooting, police said they were searching for a man who had fled in a powder blue Taurus. By mid-afternoon, they said someone had been taken into custody, but offered no additional details.

“This is going to be a larger search than maybe just Wichita,” said Brent Allred, a police captain, who said that the FBI and state police had been called to the scene. Few parishioners remained at the church, a modern, red brick facility that seats about 500 people. Police cars surrounded the building.

Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, an anti-abortion group that has led opposition to Dr. Tiller’s methods, denounced the killing on Sunday, as did other national groups opposed to abortion. “Our prayers go out to his family and the thousands of people this will impact,” Mr. Newman said in a telephone interview from his home in Wichita.

“Operation Rescue has worked tirelessly on peaceful, non-violent measures to bring him to justice through the legal system, the legislative system,” Mr. Newman said. “I’m a tireless advocate and spokesman for the pre-born children who are dying in clinics everyday. Mr. Tiller was an abortionist. But this wasn’t personal. We are pro life, and this act was antithetical to what we believe.”

Leaders of national abortion rights organizations, meanwhile, expressed outrage. Some described Dr. Tiller as one of the only doctors in the nation who performed third-trimester abortions when the life or health of a mother was at stake, and said that his death would make it even harder for women in such circumstances to end their pregnancies.

“Dr. Tiller was a fearless, passionate defender of women’s reproductive health and rights,” said Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, based in New York, which had worked on a legal case related to Dr. Tiller. “It’s time that this nation stop demonizing these doctors, and start honoring them.”

At St. George Orthodox Christian Church, next door to Dr. Tiller’s church, members said they had often been concerned about being so close to a church that often was the scene of protests because of Dr. Tiller’s presence. Dr. Tiller had attended the church for a long time, they said, and had contributed significantly to construction of the current facility, which was built in about 1996.

“This is a God-fearing community,” said Mickey Cohlmia, who was at services at the neighboring church on Sunday morning and said she was horrified that such a thing had happened in Wichita, a city of about 358,000 in southern Kansas. “How does this scar everybody in his church?”