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Kingship or pauper, believers
or g e n tile s , fo o ls o r w ise
people; that is the question for
in te lle c tu a ls and illite ra te s
alike?
Why must Christians act as gen­
tiles act? Christians are no longer
outside the covenant o f God, aliens
without the anointing o f God, if ye
be Christs, you are children of God,
joint heirs with Jesus, the Christ.
Changed, bom again into the family
of God. No longer spiritually dead;
alive in mind, emotions and body.
Jesus suffered these deaths (of mind,
emotions and body) as an incorrupt­
ible sacrifice for the sins o f all people.
He conquered hell and death; there
being no sin in Him for which he
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could be condemned; He arose vic­
torious over deaths and hell, break­
ing the curse of sin brought about by
the disobedience o f Adam, the first
created man. Christ, therefore, being
the first bom from hades, makes
possible the rebirth o f al 1 people who
believe in Him; proclaiming Him­
self Redeemer with all power and
authority over all creation.
Eph Ch. 2= This testament of
Christ Jesus is true, binding; a Cov­
enant, signed in the righteous blood
o f the Son o f God. True Christians
believe in deaths, burial and resur­
rection of Jesus, therefore, are no
longer strangers from the Covenant
o f God, with no hope, without God;
no longer gentiles, aliens to the cov­
enant o f God. Believers are free of
the bonds o f sin, under the protection
What About A Drug Free Zone In
Inner N/NE Portland???
Come, Let 's talk about it!
Inner-City Community Forum
Time:
7 PM
Date:
Tuesday, August 30. 1994
Place:
The Community Room
NE Community Policing Facility
449 NE Emerson
Portland, OR 97211
Agenda:
a) Inspirational/Informational Video: Drug Free Zones...
. ..Taking Action!
b) Guest Speakers
c) Group Discussion
Special Guests: Pastor John Rodgers, Vernon Presbyterian Church
Commander Bruce Prunk, NE Precinct
Imam Mikal H. Shabazz, NE Muslim Community
Officer Kim Ell, Gresham Police Department
Mr. Al Jasper, Marco Polo Restaurant
Ms. Patricia Koft, Vocalist
REFRESHMENTS SERVED
Sponsored By: The inner-City Coalition for a Drug-Free Community
ICDC. Inc. (A Non-Profit Corporation). (503) 335-8305.
Project Neighborhoods Alive!
Promoting Drug-Free Zones...the “Back Bone’ of efficient
neighborhood reclamation.
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o f Jesus, members of His family,
ordained to good works by God;
rich, fruitful and joyous; knowing
(believing) there are always alterna­
tives to better living; this knowledge
making it possible to deny and reject
the plan of satan, which seeks the
destruction o f mankind.
Christians are not alone nor
lonely for God is always there. God
has provided guidelines to salvation
and provides all people with the abil­
ity to choose a better way. Why must
man be without hope, drinking fully
o f the goblet o f sin; liars, cheaters,
neglecters o f duty, users o f other
substance, manipulators, users and
abusers o f children, despises o f
Saints, without honor, full o f guile,
devious, lovers o f self? Guidelines
to the glory o f God, to honor, salva­
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tion and kingship with God are easy
to follow: 1) Believe with the heart
on God, the Father. 2) Stay (choose)
the second birth o f Jesus, your double
portion, your priesthood. 3) Know
(believe) that all people are made in
God’s image, but not all are children
of God. 4) Pray! God direct me into
the/my second birth. 5) Know (be­
lieve) that you have a Redeemer,
Jesus Christ. 6) Know (believe) that
emotions do not connect us with
God. 8) Know that belief, hope, and
love dependence on God causes God
to bless with double portions all/
everything that believers ask of him.
9) Know that He is God, the Father to
the unsaved person; be he is God, my
Father to all who have been bom
again. 10) Know that the ‘will o f
God’ will be done in all the heavens
FAITH TEMPLE CHURCH
4224 S.E. 62nd Avenue
(between Powell & Foster)
Portland, Oregon 97206
SUNDAY
Sunday School 9:30am
Morning Worship 10:45am
Evangelistic Service 7:30pm
Tuesday Pastoral Teaching 7:00pm
FRIDAY
Evangelistic Service 7:00pm
DAILY
Prayer 12:00pm & 6:00pm
(503) 774-5470
PASTORS: Bishop Robert Simpson. Jr • Dr. Ida M. Simpson
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103 NE Morris St., Portland, OR 97212
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Sunday School - 9:30am
Sunday Morning Worship Service - 11:00am
Sunday School Teacher’ s Meeting Tues - 6:30pm
Bible Study Wednesday 6:00pm
Prayer Meeting Wednesday - 7:00pm
Church Phone Number
287-7457
We Invite You To Come And Worship With Us.
The Church Where Everybody is Somebody And Chris! Is All.
Dr. Joe S. Hardie, Pastor
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and the earth.
T here is no need to k ill,
maim , abuse and m isuse others
who like you are m ade in the
im age o f G od, thereby, putting
yourselves in jeo p ard y under the
laws o f God and Man. Sim ply by
believing and trusting in God,
and asking o f Him, all things
your heart desires, and it will be
given unto you. A ccept the alter­
natives for a better life and bet­
ter living o ffered through b elief
in C hrist Jesus.
Only a fool rejects a free gift.
Rebirth from hades is assured through
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Christ, himself has paid the price for
the sins o f all people. Therefore,
there is no condemnation for all who
believe in Him, but a cleansing o f sin
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as if it never happened. Established
programs have not worked to stop
the killings, the abuse, the cheating
and stealing, the distrust, the cults
and all other vile happenings. More
government, state and community
projects and programs are not the
answer, but bandages that keep hid­
den the corruption beneath for awhi le.
The challenge goes out to each indi­
vidual who is hopeless and lost, suf­
fering low self esteem, greedy, un­
loved, fearful and depressed to not
remain fools but accept the plan of
God offered as a free gift o f abun­
dant life through Christ Jesus. There
is much evidence that this plan has
had great success through out his­
tory and it is free. Only a foolish man
uses a broken plow, when a tractor is
available for free.
Debate Over The Origin Of Life
When it com es to exploring
the origins o f life, have most
scientists put the cart before the
horse? Have they prem aturely
a c c e p te d C h a rle s D a r w in ’s
theory as fact and scram bled for
evidence? Have they, in fact,
turned their b elief in Darwinism
into their own religion?
Yes, contends a law p ro fes­
sor from the U niversity o f C ali­
fornia. He will explain his p o si­
tion in a P ortland-area ap p ear­
ance Sept. 22.
Prof. Phillip Johnson will be
the principal presenter at the first
sem inar for the 1994-95 aca­
dem ic year conducted the Insti­
tute o f S cience and C hristian
F aith at W estern E van g elical
Sem inary. The event, free and
open to the public, will be 7 to
10pm in the WES C hapel at
Hampton Plaza, 12753 S.W. 68th
Ave. in Tigard.
The institute was form ed in
1993. It seeks to equip people to
c o m m u n ic a te th e co m m o n
ground o f science and the C h ris­
tian faith, and also provides an
arena for discussion on m atters
o f faith and science, says D irec­
tor Dr. Nate Olson. In addition to
sponsoring sem inars, the in sti­
tute w ill provide courses as part
o fth e WES curriculum , will build
a resource center o f videos and
books, and also plans an even­
tual sum m er program for high
school science teachers.
Olson is a business en trep re­
neur, a form er college professor
and president, and directo r o f
n o n - tr a d itio n a l p ro g ra m s at
WES. Dr. R ichard Parker, the
in stitu te ’s associate director, is
professor em eritus o f m icro b io l­
ogy and form er departm ent chair
at O regon Health S ciences U ni­
versity.
Under a grant from the M.J.
M urdock C haritable T rust, the
institute is sponsoring the sem i­
nar series on science, ethics and
m inistry. Sem inars held earlier
this year looked at the biblical
basis for creation and at the eth i­
cal questions surrounding eutha­
nasia.
Jo h n so n ’s ad d ress will be
Clinton Addresses Crime Bill
President Bill
Clinton attends
Sunday
services at the
Full Gospel
A.M.E. Zion
Church in
Temple Hills,
Md. He urged
passage of his
crime bill for
the sake of
communities
and children.
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President C linton spoke to
2,000 m em bers o f the Full G os­
pel A.M .E. Zion C hurch, Tem ple
H ills, M d., stressing the need to
pass the n a tio n ’s larg est-ev er
crim e bill to save the co u n try ’s
com m unities and children.
T Follow ing the p resid en t’s
Aug. 14 address to the church
m ore than 40 A frican-A m erican
m inisters released a statem ent
supporting the crim e bill. In their
statem ent, the religious leaders
said, “ W hile we do not agree
w ith every provision in the crim e
“The E stablished R eligious P hi­
losophy o f A m erica,” and will
be follow ed by a tim e for d iscus­
sion and audience interaction.
Johnson is a graduate o f Harvard
U niversity and the U niversity o f
C hicago. He was a law clerk for
C h ief Justice Earl W arren o f the
U.S. Suprem e C o u rt, and has
taught for m ore than 20 years at
B erkeley.
He is the au th o r o f Darwin
on T r ia l (S e c o n d e d itio n ,
Intervarsity Press, 1993) and has
w ritten m any papers and lectures
criticizin g D arw inian ev o lu tio n ­
ary theory. He took up extensive
study o f that theory because he
felt that books defending it were
dogm atic and unconvincing. He
looks at the evidence the way a
law yer w ould — with a cold d is­
p a ssio n a te eye for logic and
proof.
A c c o rd in g to J o h n s o n ,
to d a y ’s scien tific orthodoxy is
that all living things evolved by
a gradual, natural process — from
n o n -living m atter to sim ple m i­
croorganism s — leading ev en tu ­
ally to man. But he notes that
m any dissid en ts, some with ad ­
vanced scientific degrees, deny
bill, we do believe and em phati­
cally support the b ill’s goal to
save our com m unities and m ost
im portantly, our ch ild ren .”
The statem ent supported spe­
cific provisions o f the crim e bill
including $8 billion to fund p re­
ventive program s, drug treatm ent
pro g ram s, the ban on assau lt
w e ap o n s and an a d d itio n o f
100,000 w e ll-tra in e d o ffic e rs
for the n atio n ’s police d ep art­
m ents.
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Has moved Sunday services to
Family Life Center, 8725 N.
Chautauqua Blvd., at Willis Blvd.
Worship Services 8:00am & 11:00am,
Church School 9:30 to 10:30am,
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that evolution is a fact and insist
that an intelligent creator caused
all living things to com e into
being.
He acknowledges that much
media attention has been given to
those Christians who follow an ex­
tremely literal interpretation of the
Bible, and who thus insist the Earth
is no more than 10,000 years old and
that its creation occurred in only a
matter of days.
But, he adds, there are also
C hristians who believe the c re ­
ator em ployed a more gradual
process that some m ight even
term evolution — even though
Johnson considers that too im ­
precise a term — but that has
been specifically directed by a
higher, purposeful intelligence.
Joining Johnson on the p ro ­
gram will be John W iester, a g e­
ologist and author who has taught
at W estm ont C ollege in C alifo r­
nia. He will speak about errors
he alleges are in an “ E vidence
for E v o lu tio n ” museum exhibit
p re s e n te d by th e C a lifo rn ia
Academ y o f Sciences.
For m ore inform ation about
the Sept. 22 program or the in sti­
tute. p h o n e (5 0 3 )6 3 9 -0 5 5 9 .
CALL 239-1241 FOR MORE INFORMATION
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Portland, Oregon 97217
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Portland, Oregon 97217
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8101 N. Fiske Avenue • Portland Oregon 97203
Church Phone: 289-0147 • Study Phone: 289-1911
Sunday Service 10:45
Sunday School 9:30
Bible Study 6:00
Evening Service 7:00pm
Pastor, Re. James C.E. Faulkner