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ooking across the moral landscape of the last half-century, one issue looms larger than all others -- abortion. Considered from a historical perspective, the intensity and duration of the abortion debate came as something of a surprise. Handing down its infamous Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court declared the abortion question settled and closed. They were wrong. Almost four decades after Roe v. Wade, Americans are still torn over the issue of abortion. Indeed, the intensity of the abortion debate in 2009 exceeds that of 1973. The controversy over abortion is not only unsettled and unresolved -- it is still developing before our eyes. To the great consternation of abortion-rights proponents, Americans have not accepted abortion on demand as a permanent reality. As a nation, we have debated any number of issues beyond abortion in recent years, but abortion remains the controversy that

is most central, unavoidable, and deeply personal. The personal dimension of the abortion controversy came to light this week from two unexpected witnesses. The ﬁrst is Sarah Kliff, a reporter for Newsweek magazine. In a very personal column, Kliff describes her experience visiting Omaha, Nebraska and the abortion clinic of Dr. LeRoy Carhart, now perhaps the nation’s sole specialist in late-trimester abortions. As Kliff writes, her experience covering abortion for the magazine over the past two years has led her into contact and conversation with a range of persons on both sides of the abortion debate. She recognizes that, “both sides feel abortion is an issue worth waging war over.” Given her journalistic experience, Kliff describes herself as “well-versed in abortion policy, the pro-choice and prolife arguments, the latest legislation.” Her next sentence delivers the surprise: “But I’d never actually seen an abortion; I’d never watched the procedure that activists vehemently defend or deplore.” But that is exactly what happened when Kliff went to Omaha to research her article on Dr. Carhart. Even as she anticipated observing the abortion, Kliff confessed to hesitancy and reluctance. She observed a ﬁrst-trimester abortion, even though Dr. Carhart does perform late-term abortions. Why was she so ambivalent? Continued on Page 13

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gypt is expected to ask the US to limit the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to two years, Palestinian sources told Ynet Tuesday night shortly after President Hosni Mubarak met his American counterpart Barack Obama at the White House. Obama told reporters at the White House that he saw encouraging signs of a softening of Israel’s resistance to his call for a freeze on settlement-building in the West Bank. “My hope is that we are going to see not just movement from the Israelis, but also from the Palestinians around issues of incitement and security, from Arab states that show their willingness

to engage Israel,” the US leader said. Obama has been pushing Arab states to make small concessions to Israel to unlock deadlocked peace moves and has called on the Jewish state to halt expansion of settlements. According to the Palestinian sources, for the future negotiations to be successful, all parties must agree that a comprehensive agreement would include a land swap and a return to the pre-1967 borders. An agreement on the permanent borders, said the sources, would help resolve the remaining disputed issues, including the status of Jerusalem and the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Continued on Page 12

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PROPHECY WATCH Continued from last issue of FREEDOM

AMERICA ON THE VERGE OF CHANGE KIM CLEMEMT:

something is being born, a movement is being born, and the un-holiest shall become the holiest. And those that are of much iniquity shall become the saints of the Most High God. Those who have rejected him shall fall on their knees, and they Prophecy given by shall become as the KIM CLEMENT Davids of this day.

This is a word for the United States of America. I’ve been caught up into a spirit world. I cannot move from there now. For God says, there is a sign, there is a sign that is coming from the heavens and you will see it. It is as a woman that holds a child, the child that has been born. And God said, the enemy shall say, “I must spew out of my mouth the waters so that there will be a flood, and so the flood will take this generation and take this child.” But the Spirit of God said, and hear the word of the Lord: the earth shall save the woman, the earth shall save the child, the earth shall swallow up the water and there shall be no flood of evil nor iniquity. There shall be no flood of evil nor iniquity, says the Spirit of God. They shall not take this that is about to be born and cause that to happen that happened in the previous generation and the previous move. There shall not be barrenness, there shall not be any miscarriages, there shall be no dues paid. God said there shall be no divorce, and there shall be no people that shall say it is okay to do these things. For God said this that is about to be born is one of the holiest moves of My Spirit and it shall be done with the most unholy people that are alive today, says the Lord. America, hear the word!

You don’t understand that God said, I will open your eyes with the knowledge that is given tonight. The earth is crying for the manifestation of the sons of God. The earth is crying out for the manifestation of this movement that is about to be born in the United States of America, in New Zealand, in Australia, in Africa, in South Africa. God says, in England, in Scandinavia, in Greece there shall be a very unusual move. In Italy even the Roman Catholics shall say, Abba Father, and they shall say, there is only one Christ, and they shall embrace this thing, says the Lord. For the present Pope that I have given shall be washed in the blood of Christ in a way that they have never seen before, millions and millions of Roman Catholics will cry out and they will speak with a new language with stammering lips, they will prophesy. For a prophetic movement shall come upon the Roman Catholic church and the Protestants shall say, this is not right, but God says, it shall be right, for I will join their hands together and they shall be as one and it shall come to pass. It shall come to pass that the dream of Martin Luther and the dream of those that took on Protestants and their movement, God said, they will see the joining of hands.

I’m seeing all kinds of things, I see a spider web and I see a spider and this thing that the spider has caught, God said, is a necessity. Why? Because the Spirit of God says, this has weaved its web in the palaces, the spider has weaved its web in And God said, it shall then move the palaces, says the Lord, even into Russia, and it shall move in the greatest of royalty in my into Indonesia. It shall move kingdom, the chosen generation. then into China. It shall move, We have found spiders and we God says, into places never have found cobwebs, and God dreamed of, but one place that it said, this has to be removed. shall certain shake shall be the For the Spirit of God says, even Middle East, says the Spirit of as America has prayed and the God. For the Middle shall defy people have called out, this Prophecy given vision that has been caught has been brought to your attention April 4th, 2009 Seattle, WA is so that you will understood Continued in the next issue of FREEDOM

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CHRISTIAN CHARITY: GOOD NEWS IN HARD TIMES

By Ken Connor / Baptist Press

espite some encouraging signs of recovery, many people are still struggling in the wake of the current economic crisis. Unemployment numbers continue to rise, home foreclosures are at record highs, and investment portfolios remain ravaged by a volatile stock market. Relief is needed, and action is required. While economic relief and recovery continues to be the primary focus of our leaders in Washington, there is considerable disagreement over the best way for the government to address our economic woes.

and extent of government’s role in helping those in need, there is one institution that has a clear and nondelegable duty to reach out and help those who are suffering. No new laws or regulations are required for this organization to do its good work and no new bureaucratic apparatus is required to administer it. In order to meet the challenges posed by these current woes, this non-governmental body need only embrace the principles of love, grace and charity that have guided it for the last 2000 years. This great It is apparent that the economic institution is the church. problems of the For Americans hurting now, country -- along with the resulting abstract policy social problems debates and - are being used partisan political warfare do little to as weapons of political warfare change the reality and packaged as on the ground. evidence for or Government against various a s s i s t a n c e agendas, policies programs -and ideologies. designed at the Thus, while macro-level and everyday Americans administered by struggle to keep bureaucrats food on their tables and roofs over - often provide only cold comfort. their heads, politicians and pundits Because of their size and the scope debate the merits of the free market of their responsibilities, government and engage in the blame game. Was agencies are often unable to relate the economic collapse the result of to the recipients of their aid in a too much or too little regulation? Is personal way. Furthermore, they it Bush’s fault, or Barney Franks’? are only equipped to address the To nationalize or not to nationalize? material symptoms of a problem. These are certainly questions worthy The church, on the other hand, is of answers, and as we move forward bound by a moral responsibility to as a nation we would do well to provide material, emotional and analyze how different responses to spiritual care to those in need. the economic crisis today might affect The Bible is full of exhortations America tomorrow. about the need for compassion and charity towards those struggling However, while the Pooh-Bahs on with economic adversity. Jesus the Potomac dither about the nature CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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PROSPERITY AND FREEDOM “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:8 I want you to notice that the Word declares that prosperity and success belong to people who are hearers and doers of His Word. So to make this simple, if we are not hearing the uncompromised Word of God constantly, we cannot possibly be a people who will prosper and succeed. Gods’ main thought here in Joshua 1:8 is compelling us to focus our attention on living our lives according to His Word. He doesn’t want us to live our lives controlled by our problems or our circumstances. He wants us free! If you are not plugged into a local body of believers, who are constantly ministering and encouraging you to meditate on the Word of God, you will never be in a position of experiencing true prosperity and success in your life. There are two definitions to the word “prosperous” here in Joshua 1:8. The first definition of prosperity is to become mentally intelligent, to gain the wisdom of God in any situation. The second definition of the word prosperity means to PUSH FORWARD and to BREAK OUT. The first step in breaking out of your troubled circumstance is getting in a position where you are hearing and meditating on the Word of God. If you are not in a position of hearing Gods Word, or you are in a place where the Word of God is being watered down, you will never get to a place of freedom and prosperity in your life! Romans 10:17 declares faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 1 John 5:4 declares and this is the victory that overcomes the world even our faith. When the Bible makes this phrase: “the world” it is referring to a system of living. In fact the Bible tells us in 2 Cor 4:4 that Satan is the god of this world system, who constantly blinds the minds of them that believe not. His goal is to imprison you, to hold you in darkness. Colossians 1:13 which declares “[The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has trans-

ferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Amp) Colossians 1:13 tells us that we have been delivered from the control and dominion of the darkness Not only that but God has already translated you and I into a place of liberty, a place of Glory, a place of freedom - and that place is His Kingdom! YOU SEE, LIVING BY HIS WORD, IS LIVING IN HIS KINGDOM! LIVING IN HIS KINGDOM, IS LIVING IN FREEDOM! So if you are going to have faith to overcome this worlds system, and begin living in Gods Kingdom, you are going to have to hear His Word constantly. When you continue in His Word, then you will be able to ACT ON, OR DO HIS WORD. In Isaiah 61 the Word prophesied that Jesus has the power to open the prison to them that are bound. That’s exactly what the world system, and religious tradition tries to do. It attempts to keep us imprisioned to its death cycle of negativism, defeatism, and death. John 10:10 tells us plainly that the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but the Lord has come to give us LIFE, and LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY. We must realize that God has provided a way, and Jesus was our example, on how to be FREE from the world’s death cycle of defeat. Jesus did it! He paid the price, and has opened the doors. You can begin living in His Kingdom right now. Once you accept Him as your Lord and Savior, begin seeking out His Word. Discover what He has said, and live your life by it. Begin meditating on the Word of God until you are able to observe to DO that WORD! You see it is by doing or acting on the Word of the Lord, that you and I begin experiencing the PROSPERITY and FREEDOM of living in His Kingdom!

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MIDEAST MISSILE MISHAP

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MISSIONARY TO HOMELESS CALLS FOR ‘CLEMENCY FOR CLUNKERS’ A California homeless shelter is facing a drop in donations because of the government’s “cash for clunkers” program.

people to begin pleading the fact that these cars are still fantastic cars,” he suggests. “There [are] many non-profits across the country, many rescue missions, my colleagues that have auto lots. But For years now, Mission Solano, a ministry for the homeless, has oper- what we’re asking...is, why do we ated a charitable car lot in Fairfield, have to crush these cars?” California. People drop off their used cars at the lot in exchange for Marlette believes the program would be more effective if dealers tax benefits, and the cars are then were allowed to donate the used sold, with proceeds going to the cars to charities. ministry. “It will be a winwin for everyBut the body. These cars, “cash for not only do we clunkers” sell for revenue, program but we use these -- the muchto put our people publicized into a vehicle,” he $4,500 fedadds. “There are eral submany people who sidy given can’t afford a brand new car or even to consumers who trade in their $4,000 or $5,000 for a car.” cars for new energy efficient models -- has already affected Mission Solano’s charitable car Mission Solano is about to open its lot. Ron Marlette is executive di- $11-million Bridge to Life Center, rector of the ministry. a long-term location for those who want to get off the streets for good. “We’re calling for ‘clemency for By Allie Martin - OneNewsNow clunkers’ -- trying to get as many

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“For we walk by faith, not How do you get these promises by sight.” from this heavenly bank? First of all, read God’s Word and to - 2 Corinthians 5:7 ﬁnd out exactly what promises belong to you. Speak these hat is faith? Faith promises out of your mouth. is a simple thing. Thank God for His promise. It means to trust Even though you don’t see it God. It means that you or may not feel it, thank Him know just how much God for it. His "Jesus died loves you and that He will p r o m i s e on the cross take care of you. Whatever is true, He has promised to do, He w h e t h e r and took your will do - no matter what. you feel or sickness so that see it. Your Dad or Mom might you don’t have to have a checking account at This is be sick." your neighborhood bank. A faith Cheri Ekbom checking account is a place t r u s t i n g where they can safely keep God to do what He said He their money and still take it would do. Faith is speaking out whenever they need it God’s promises and knowing by writing a check. A check they belong to you even is a piece of paper in a though you may not see or little booklet which they feel them. Faith “sees” with can use instead of dollar the “eyes” of your spirit man bills when they need to buy inside you (your heart) - not something. with the eyes in your head.

It’s not important for your parents to ‘see’ their money every time they write out a check. They don’t need to see it to know that the money belongs to them. They can spend their money any way they wish. It belongs to them. They trust the bank to keep the money safe for them until they write out a check to use it.

Let’s say that one morning you wake up and your body is sick. You have a temperature and you ache all over. You read in Isaiah 53:5 that Jesus died on the cross and took your sickness so that you don’t have to be sick.

What are you going to do? Your body says you are sick. You don’t feel good. The Bible says you are well. You must make a choice. Do you believe All of God’s promises of what God says or what your healing, joy, love, and body says? forgiveness work the same way as your parent’s Don’t speak about how your checking account. Even body feels. Speak God’s though you may not always Word of healing. Don’t get see or feel the promises, discouraged and give up. they belong to you. Instead Keep speaking God’s Word. of the promises in the Keep trusting God - no matter neighborhood bank, these what. Copyright © 2003 CFAITH All rights reserved. promises are from your bank in heaven.

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Author and historian David Barton is the Founder and President of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization which distributes historical, legal, and statistical information; and helps citizens become active in their local schools and communities. WallBuilders is a name taken from the Bible book of Nehemiah. And just as Nehemiah led a grassroots movement in Jerusalem to rebuild the walls of that city and restore its strength and honor; so, too, WallBuilders seeks to energize the grassroots today to rebuild that which makes America strong—its constitutional, moral, and religious foundations.

dments Displays responsibility of the Signer of the Constitution courts: establish the spirit John Dickinson had and intent of a law before making any ruling about it. explained the importance of this legal principle: [N]othing is more certain than that the forms of liberty may be retained when the substance is gone. In government, as well as in religion, “the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” 2 Cor. 3:6

Actually, the Ten Commandments themselves were the result of God’s demonstration of this principle. When God delivered the Commandments, He told Moses “According to the tenor of those words I have made a covenant with you” (Exodus 34:27). That is, God Himself declared that the Ten Commandments were merely the general theme (the tenor) of what He wanted - that is, “Don’t steal,” “Don’t kill,” “Don’t commit perjury,” etc. were simply the summation of over 600 laws given at or about the same time.

inmates, all of who considered her as their own grandmother. One day, one of the “jail-house-attorney” inmates (a prisoner who has become obsessed with the study of the law) told Esther in amazement: “Mama Esther? Did you realize that there are over onehundred thousand laws that will put you in jail?” To which she promptly replied, “Do you realize that there are Ten that will keep you out?”

Nevertheless, the federal judges refused to consider the general purpose of the Commandments. Instead, they focused on theological minutia about That these laws simply repwhich version of the Ten Comresent the spirit of all civil mandments was on display and criminal laws was made (which they apparently felt clear by an elderly Texas completely competent to adwoman, Esther Armstrong. Despite her advanced years, dress) much in the same way that theologians of former genEsther maintained a minerations vigorously istry in local prisons and jails, frequently visiting the continued in next issue of Freedom

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GOD’S SOLUTION

GOD’S SOLUTION FOR YOUR NEED by Jerry Savelle

e know that God has made promises to His children. The Word tell us this on many occasions. We may not know how or when our promised return will be manifested, but we know it will be. Therefore, we wait on the Lord in quietness of spirit and assurance of heart because we know that He is “faithful who has promised” (Heb. 11:11). We remain in complete calm and tranquility because, like the prophet Isaiah, we know that this is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and that our righteousness is of Him (Isa. 54:17).

Do you remember the incident that took place at the table during the Last Supper? Jesus knew that Judas was making plans to betray Him to the Jews. During the meal, He turned to him and said, “What you must do, do quickly” (John 13:27). The disciples heard this exchange between them, but thought that since Judas kept the money bag, Jesus was instructing him to go and give money to someone in need. Obviously Jesus had a reputation for giving. That is the kind of reputation the Lord wants you and me to have as His children. He has promised that as we remain “in the land,” (in Him and in His Word and will), He will provide for us a multiplied return - a bountiful blessing - if we are faithful and obedient enough to continue to sow in time of famine.

And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that Giving is a Lifestyle, Not an was in the days of Abraham... Experiment And the Lord appeared unto him (Isaac), and said, Go not down When the Lord told the children of into Egypt; dwell in the land which Israel to “prove” Him, to “put Him to I shall tell thee of. Sojourn in this the test” in this area of giving, He land, and I will be with thee, and did not mean that to be a one-time will bless thee; incident. He meant that for unto thee, and "What God is if they were continually unto thy seed, I asking us to do faithful to him in their will give all these tithing and giving, He countries, and I is to make godly would be continually will perform the faithful to them in His oath which I sware giving a lifestyle abundant, overflowing unto Abraham thy - not just an provision for their father. Then Isaac needs. experiment." sowed in that land, What God is asking us and received in - Jerry Savelle to do is to make godly the same year an giving a lifestyle - not hundredfold: and just an experiment. the Lord blessed Many people try this principle for a him.(Genesis 26:1-3,12) few weeks, then if they don’t see Here we see that while many immediate results, they decide it others were seeking refuge from doesn’t work, and give up. the famine by fleeing to Egypt, Isaac was instructed by the Lord When the overflowing blessing to stay in the land and sow in the doesn’t appear instantly, they quit midst of famine. giving. They don’t understand that The result of his obedience was a hundredfold return on what he sowed.

That is God’s solution to ﬁnancial famine. Not to withhold, but to give, to sow in time of adversity. Once again, we see that God is seed-minded, not need-minded. I believe that is the way you and I are going to come out of our ﬁnancial crisis: by remaining in the land of promise and faithfully sowing in time of famine.

this is a lifestyle to be adopted and maintained.

Several years ago I wrote a book entitled “Giving: the Essence of Living.” That title says it all. That’s what living is all about - giving. A lot of people live their whole lives “on the take,” always trying to get something for nothing. That is not the lifestyle Jesus introduced into this world. The Christian lifestyle is one of giving. Jesus told His disciples: Greater love hath no man than this, that a

man lay down his life for his friends (John 15:13). Now the expression “lay down his life,” in this verse, does not always mean to die.

To “lay down your life” for another person means to put the other person’s will, desire, and well-being ahead of your own. To do that, you don’t necessarily have to die physically. You simply have to be willing to dedicate your life to working for that person’s welfare and beneﬁt, rather than for your own. Jesus says that kind of unselﬁsh giving of oneself is the greatest love known to man. It is the lifestyle which He introduced, displayed and modeled for us, and it is the kind of lifestyle He calls us to adopt. That is God’s ultimate solution for need. Source: How God Supplies Your Every Need by Jerry Savelle Excerpt permission granted by Jerry Savelle Ministries International ghts reserved. Used by permission

Dr. Jerry Savelle was an average, bluecollar man who was struggling and needed God’s help. While he considered himself a “nobody,” when he became a believer God told him not to worry about it because He was a master at making champions out of nobodies. God has since taken Dr. Savelle from being a constant quitter to a man who knows how to stand on the Word of God until victory is experienced. Because of the life-changing combination of God’s faithfulness and Dr. Savelle’s “no quit” attitude, his life is totally different than it was thirty-eight years ago. Since 1969, Dr. Savelle has been traveling the world teaching people how to win in life. Dr. Savelle has ministered in more than three thousand churches and in twenty-six nations, and has overseas ofﬁces in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. Dr. Savelle is the author of more than forty books, including his bestsellers, If Satan Can’t Steal Your Joy, He Can’t Keep Your

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Goods and You’re Somebody Special to God. He and his wife Carolyn also serve as founding Pastors of Heritage of Faith Christian Center in Crowley, Texas. For more Information contact www.jsmi.org

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GIVING HIM ALL by Ron Luce.

Excerpt permission granted by Albury Publishing

hat are you willing to do for your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a Him? promise —”That it may go well with you and that you may enjoy Are you willing to sell out? long life on the earth.” (Eph. 6:1If you’ve sold your whole field to 3) buy the treasure, and if you’ve given your whole life in exchange Nothing on this earth can be for the life He gives you, then you’ll compared to the greatness of the eternal life that’s do anything for Him. " Just because inside of you. If you You don’t care what it haven’t given all that is. If He asks you to you are a you are in exchange go to Africa or Asia on teenager for Jesus, the a mission trip, you’ll go. If He asks you to doesn’t mean treasure, right now’s quit cussing or quit you have to be the time to do it. smoking, you’ll do it. rebellious. I want you to pray the None of that really matters, because That is a lie following prayer with me. If you’ve already He’s given you life. from the pit of done this, then do it again. Make You may think, Well, hell!" sure you’ve given I don’t know that the everything to Him. Lord has asked me to do anything specifically. But what about your integrity and your character? Do "Lord Jesus, I give You my all. you often ask yourself, “What Every piece of my heart, every would Jesus do or say in this piece of my life, it all belongs to particular situation?” Or do you You. It doesn’t belong to me. I make decisions based on what give everything in exchange for the new life You give me, because your friends think is cool? I know You gave everything for Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have me. I commit every part of me to walked in my integrity; I have You. It all belongs to You—my [expectantly] trusted in, leaned summers, my days at school, on, and relied on the Lord my time with my parents, my without wavering and I shall not future, my career, my job, my college education, everything slide. (Ps. 26:1 AMP) belongs to You. I submit my life The righteous man is rescued to You, because You’ve given from trouble, and it comes on Your life and put it inside of me. the wicked instead. (Prov. 11:8) In Jesus’ name I pray, amen. " What about being submissive to your mom and dad? Are you so set in your mind as to what you want to do that you don’t even listen to anything your parents tell you? Just because you are a teenager doesn’t mean you have to be rebellious. That is a lie from the pit of hell! How can you expect to hear from God, whom you can’t see, when you don’t listen to your parents, whom you can see? How can God trust you with a position of authority if you don’t submit to and respect those who have been placed in authority over you?

Source: Spiritual Shock Treatment by Ron Luce. Excerpt permission granted by Albury Publishing

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HOW STARBUCKS SAVED ONE MAN’S LIFE By Lorie Johnson

ou’ve heard of people going from rags-to-riches. Well, this is the story of the man who went from riches-to-rags. Michael Gates Gill was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. And when he lost it all, he found true happiness -- with God’s help. Sweeping trash at Starbucks is the last thing the once affluent Mike Gill ever dreamed he’d be doing. But don’t ask him to give it up. “My story is irrefutable evidence that sometimes loss can bring a new found peace and happiness,” Mike said. “Because I’m happier today talking to you right this morning as a barista at Starbucks than I ever was in the big six-figure job with the corner office and a big mansion.” The son of famed New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, Mike partied with Alist celebrities, attended Yale, and worked for decades at the world’s largest ad agency, handling accounts like Ford and Christian Dior. Then it was gone. “I’d been fired from my job, I lost my big house, I was divorced, I was virtually broke, and I’d just been diagnosed with a brain tumor,” Mike said. When Michael hit rock bottom, he found himself brooding over a cup of joe. Well, Starbucks happened to be hiring that day, and when asked if he wanted a job, for some reason, he said yes. And from that point on, after a lifetime of manipulating people, Mike began to realize that joy comes from serving, not from being served. “We’re made to try to find, with God’s help, our own way to help others. Whether taking out the garbage, cleaning the toilet or simply serving someone a cup of coffee and seeing the smile on their face, and giving a little service to people that makes them happy and

increases their joy of the day, really makes me happy,” he said. Mike felt newfound respect for people from different backgrounds, those he used to consider inferior. The surprises kept on coming. You have to fall pretty far down the ladder to go from a 35-bedroom mansion to a one-bedroom attic apartment. But that’s what happened to Mike Gill. But believe it or not, he actually prefers his modest surroundings to this. And that’s a third ﬂoor attic, no elevator, with just a few inexpensive furnishings inside. And Mike wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s like, you know how when you’re going through the airport and you’re carrying too much stuff, rushing to meet a plane? I was doing that. The Bible says you’re possessed by your possessions. And now I don’t have any possessions,” he said. On his way to ﬁnding that peace, Mike wrote a diary, which turned into the bestseller, How Starbucks Saved My Life. Now, Tom Hanks is turning it into a movie starring himself as Mike. “He said he loved that idea that at any time in life, you could discover a whole new kind of life that would make you happier than anything you’ve lived before,” Mike said. So in the wake of losing your home, job, marriage or health, look for blessings.

“When you get external shocks, the best way to react is to take a big breath and go somewhere quiet and open your heart to God,” Mike said. “And He will give you all the love and joy you need to have a happier life than you would have ever imagined.” Continued from page 1

TWO YEAR LIMIT During the White House press conference, Mubarak rejected the notion of a temporary Palestinian state.

“We can reach a solution, because the Arab nation wants peace and a better life, and the Israeli people also want stability in their lives.”

“We need to move to the ﬁnal status solution and level,” Mubarak told reporters as he sat with Obama in the Oval Ofﬁce.

The Palestinian sources continued to say that Egypt would back Arab measures towards the normalization of ties with Israel should they be complimented by an Israeli halt to settlement construction.

“I have contacted the Israelis and they said ‘perhaps we can talk about a temporary solution,’” Mubarak said.

“They key is the amount of pressure the US will exert on Israel,” one source said, “The Arabs have made “But I told them, No, I told them, it clear that, in principle, they accept forget about the temporary solution, the formula of normalization in exforget about temporary borders,” he change for a settlement freeze, and said, referring to debate about the now we must assess Israel’s future shape of a Palestinian state. sincerity.”

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Why was I reluctant to watch? To be fair, I’d never observed a surgery and knew myself to frequently ﬂinch at ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ But abortion isn’t like the complex, bloody operations you see on television: medically speaking, it’s a simple and common procedure. About 1.2 million were performed in 2005, the same, numberwise, as outpatient cancer surgeries. I was nervous, I think, to watch something so controversial; no one protests outside cancer clinics. I didn’t know how I’d react. Would I ﬁnd the surgery repulsive? Encounter women whose choices troubled me? Whom I disagreed with? I was uneasy about coming in such close contact with such substantial decisions.

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of abortion. Her description of “pinkish ﬂuid” ﬂowing through the suction tube is almost impossible to force out of one’s mind. Another unexpected witness this week is actress Kourtney Kardashian. Her recently announced unplanned pregnancy became part of Hollywood’s scandal and publicity circus. But what caught the attention of the media this week was her decision to keep the baby and the straightforward logic behind her decision.

Kardashian has not adopted a prolife position on the abortion question. Indeed, she told People magazine: “I do think every woman should have the right to do what they want, but I don’t think it’s talked through enough.” The actress told of many friends who just assured her that Observing the abortion, Kliff writes abortion was the easy way out. “Like of seeing a woman prepared for it’s not a big deal,” the actress rethe procedure and then of the suc- called. tion tube that was inserted within her. Her report is both chilling and Interestingly, Kardashian’s decision to keep her baby was at least parhonest. “Carhart used a suction tially prompted by her experience of tube to empty the contents of the uterus; it took no longer than three reading the testimonies of women who regretted their abortions. “I minutes. The suction machine looked online, and I was sitting on made a slight rumbling sound, a the bed hysterically crying, reading pinkish fluid flowed through the tube, and, faster than I’d expected, these stories of people who felt so guilty for having an abortion,” she it was over.” explained. As Kliff recounts, she felt no physi“I was just sitting there crying, thinkcal discomfort observing the proing, ‘I can’t do that,’ . . . And I felt in cedure. Nevertheless, she did my body, this is meant to be. God experience a very strong emotional reaction. After describing this emo- does things for a reason, and I just tional reaction and her encounters felt like it was the right thing that was with patients in the abortion clinic, happening in my life.” Kliff tells of returning home only As she thought about her decision, to discover that her friends who Kardashian concluded that “all the supported abortion rights “bristled reasons why I wouldn’t keep the slightly when I told them where I’d baby were so selfish.” She also been and what I’d watched.” received encouragement from her doctor. “My doctor told me there is In a profound statement, Sarah Kliff acknowledges that Americans nothing you will ever regret about having the baby, but he was like, ‘You just do not talk about abortion as may regret not having the baby.’ And they talk about other surgical or medical procedures. “Abortion may I was like: That is so true.” be a simple procedure medically,” The Culture of Death looms as a she explains, “but it is not cancer massive threat, but its foundations surgery.” are crumbling. Unexpected witnesses such as Sarah Kliff and Kourtney Sarah Kliff does not condemn abortion in her article and she does Kardashian help us to see how moral not articulate a pro-life understand- insight can emerge from unexpected experiences, reflections, and witing of the abortion issue. Indeed, she speaks of abortion as involving nesses. Some of the most profound witnesses to the horror of abortion a weighty choice that, “depending on how you view it, involves a and the sanctity of human life do not even know that they are so. The evil life, or the potential for life.” This of abortion cannot be hidden once it is a very weak way of describing the moral question of abortion, but is seen, and a voice for life cannot be forgotten once it is heard. it is at least a start. Sarah Kliff’s honest reflections on her experience of observing an abortion are, perhaps more than she knows or recognizes, a witness to the horror

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reminded His followers that when they fail to care for the “least of these,” they are failing to care for Christ Himself (Matthew 25:45). In the Old Testament, God warned his people of the consequences of hardheartedness towards the needy: “He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.” (Proverbs 17:5). God’s clear affinity for the most vulnerable among His creation reflects His love and mercy. As He was willing to sacrifice His perfect Son to atone for our sin and weakness, so Christians are obligated to pour out this same spirit of love and grace upon our fellow human beings. Christians who turn their backs on the poor and needy are guilty of turning their backs on the Lord himself. In the apt words of Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, “It is ... a denial of the incarnation to go preach the Gospel and ignore the fact that people are hungry and thirsty and naked and homeless. We are to do both.” Providing material resources to those in need is one way of demonstrating brotherly love. Equally important, however, is the need for emotional and spiritual support and encouragement. When the future seems bleak and the walls are closing in, it is easy to succumb to hopelessness and despair. These difficult times provide the perfect opportunity for Christians to demonstrate love for their fellow man by opening their hands to their brothers and by sharing the Good News of the Gospel. This gift of love and hope helps people remain joyful in the face of adversity in ways that a check from Uncle Sam just can’t match. The moral obligations of the Christian faith challenge believers to give selflessly of their time, talent and treasure -- to step out of their comfort zones to share God’s love and succor

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