The World Council of Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) is set to begin its yearly meeting here on Saturday, Jan. 19th. The meetings will take place over a one week period, it was announced today by Scott & Karen Seaborn and Fr. Tom Ogg, the North American Secretariat Ecclesial Team.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted this powerful Scripture in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. He believed God’s Word. He took his Bible, the one President Obama will place his hand upon next week, very seriously—so seriously that he repeatedly risked his life to proclaim its message of love for God and love for neighbor.
President Obama will take the oath of office with two Bibles that once belonged to a pair of civil rights icons: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2004 astronomers using NASA’s, Spitzer Space Telescope, probed the dusty disks that surround young stars to look for the earliest signs of the formation of planetary systems. What they found coincides with the brief description of planet formation as described in the book of Genesis regarding earth’s own formation.
The Churches Making Movies Christian Film Festival today announced that it is accepting film entries for its festival slated for October 11-13, 2013 in the Rahway Arts District. The film festival, in its inaugural year, is devoted mainly to exhibiting films in all genres made by producing and media ministries, Christian organizations, and pastors. The festival is an extension of the contemporary church film movement that has risen during the last decade.
Long before the recent presidential election was decided, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (Democrat-NY and Chairman of the 2013 Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies) selected The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir to perform its new rendition of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” at the official swearing-in ceremony of the 57th Presidential Inauguration scheduled to take place on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2013 before an expected crowd of a half million people on the National Mall. Attendees will include former Presidents, Senators, Representatives, and Cabinet Officials. The event will be broadcast live around the world.
