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A dramatic 33-minute pro-life film that documents the responses of young adults to questions by evangelist Ray Comfort, which also includes discussions on Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust in Europe, appears to be gathering enough momentum to go viral after being released online Sunday.
Prior to the video’s online release, Comfort told The Christian Post that, in the process of making the film, he asked a question that was “so powerful that it not only changed the people’s minds about abortion, and made them do a 180 (degree turn in viewpoint), but it made them do a 180 when it comes to their own eternal salvation.”
Produced by Comfort’s Living Waters Ministry, the film “180” had 29,831 views on YouTube by 5 p.m. on Monday. Shane Martin, who is managing the social media aspect of the film’s release said the 180 Movie Facebook page was receiving 100 new “Likes” per hour.
“The response has actually been overwhelming,” said Martin, who is a social media expert that is volunteering his services. “We’ve had thousands of views on YouTube today and it’s just the first day that it’s live. The Twitter trending hash tag ‘#180movie’ has increased by leaps and bounds.”
Comfort said he was highly encouraged from the results of the video’s release at 180Movie.com. For him, it was not only about the relatively high number of viewers, but also about how people are reacting to the film.
“With all the glowing high-profile endorsements I was a little concerned that people might be expecting too much, and would be disappointed when they saw it. But from the response it certainly lived up to the buildup,” Comfort said.
“Thanks to social media, every person who sees 180’s potential to save lives becomes a distributer with a click of a ‘Send to a friend’ button,” he said. “Even though next month we are giving away 200,000 DVD’s at 100 top universities (in one day), our big hope is that millions will freely see it via social media.
If the YouTube clip ‘Charlie bit my finger’ can get over 360 million views, we can do just as well if not better, because a video that can save lives is a little more important than a kid having his finger bit by his brother.”
When asked about their reactions to the film on the video’s Facebook page, many people were outspoken.
“Unbelievably brilliant how Ray uses logic and the parallel of the Holocaust to make the point about the butchery of abortion,” commented Patrick Moore. “It truly is an American Holocaust sanctioned by our government.
“Nevertheless, the choice is still made by each individual. NO ONE is being forced to do it. Personal responsibility is stressed, because it is easy to blame the group when in reality the group is made up of each of us. Lord, please forgive our callous indifference,” he added.
“This documentary caused a dialogue of 67 comments worth on my one post alone. If that won’t make you watch it, I don’t know what will,” Andrew Mora commented.
“This video confronts the sin of abortion and presents the hope of the gospel. I believe it will be used to save lives and save souls,” stated Pastor Joe Roof, of Calvary Baptist Church in Albany, NY.
Martin, who manages Facebook and Twitter accounts for several major business clients, said that nothing else he has done previously compares to the work he is doing for Living Waters and its movie.
“Since becoming involved with 180, I would say that I myself have done a 180 in the area of being a Christian that was (previously) passive when speaking up about abortion. I never agreed with it, but didn’t really get involved and since the exposure, my heart has been wrenched and I know that I could never be silent again,” he said.
Prezes PiS Jarosław Kaczyński zaapelował w piątek do premiera Donalda Tuska, aby przekonał przedstawicieli Europejskiej Partii Ludowej (EPP), m.in. kanclerz Niemiec Angelę Merkel, do poparcia wydobycia gazu łupkowego w Polsce.Prezes PiS Jarosław Kaczyński z fragmentem łupka, fot. A. Grygiel /PAP
Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo rozpoczęło akcję “Płomień nadziei”. Jej celem jest zebranie możliwie największej liczby głosów popierających apel do Posłów Parlamentu Europejskiego o niepodejmowanie działań zmierzających do wstrzymania poszukiwań i wydobycia gazu z łupków. Kaczyński powiedział w piątek na konferencji prasowej, że PiS ma już zapewnione poparcie swojej frakcji w Parlamencie Europejskim – Europejskich Konserwatystów i Reformatorów (EKR) – dla wydobycia gazu łupkowego w Polsce.
– Jest wspaniała okazja dla Donalda Tuska – ma dziś w Warszawie kanclerz Niemiec Angelę Merkel, premiera Francji (na szczycie Partnerstwa Wschodniego – PAP) – i jest szansa, żeby Tusk przekonał przedstawicieli Europejskiej Partii Ludowej, żeby uczynili to samo, co EKR, że może jeszcze dzisiaj Tusk będzie mógł powiedzieć, że Europejska Partia Ludowa popiera wydobywanie gazu łupkowego w Polsce – powiedział prezes PiS.
Dodał, że “dziś jest szansa i wyzwanie dla premiera Tuska”. – Liczę, że dziś czy jutro taka deklaracja padnie – powiedział Kaczyński.
“Sing forth the honour of his name, make his praise glorious.” Psalm 66:2
It is not left to our own option whether we shall praise God or not. Praise is God’s most righteous due, and every Christian, as the recipient of his grace, is bound to praise God from day to day. It is true we have no authoritative rubric for daily praise; we have no commandment prescribing certain hours of song and thanksgiving: but the law written upon the heart teaches us that it is right to praise God; and the unwritten mandate comes to us with as much force as if it had been recorded on the tables of stone, or handed to us from the top of thundering Sinai. Yes, it is the Christian’s duty to praise God. It is not only a pleasurable exercise, but it is the absolute obligation of his life. Think not ye who are always mourning, that ye are guiltless in this respect, or imagine that ye can discharge your duty to your God without songs of praise. You are bound by the bonds of his love to bless his name so long as you live, and his praise should continually be in your mouth, for you are blessed, in order that you may bless him; “this people have I formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise”; and if you do not praise God, you are not bringing forth the fruit which he, as the Divine Husbandman, has a right to expect at your hands. Let not your harp then hang upon the willows, but take it down, and strive, with a grateful heart, to bring forth its loudest music. Arise and chant his praise. With every morning’s dawn, lift up your notes of thanksgiving, and let every setting sun be followed with your song. Girdle the earth with your praises; surround it with an atmosphere of melody, and God himself will hearken from heaven and accept your music.
Life is a precious thing, and in its humblest form it is superior to death. This truth is eminently certain in spiritual things. It is better to be the least in the kingdom of heaven than the greatest out of it. The lowest degree of grace is superior to the noblest development of unregenerate nature. Where the Holy Ghost implants divine life in the soul, there is a precious deposit which none of the refinements of education can equal. The thief on the cross excels Caesar on his throne; Lazarus among the dogs is better than Cicero among the senators; and the most unlettered Christian is in the sight of God superior to Plato. Life is the badge of nobility in the realm of spiritual things, and men without it are only coarser or finer specimens of the same lifeless material, needing to be quickened, for they are dead in trespasses and sins.
A living, loving, gospel sermon, however unlearned in matter and uncouth in style, is better than the finest discourse devoid of unction and power. A living dog keeps better watch than a dead lion, and is of more service to his master; and so the poorest spiritual preacher is infinitely to be preferred to the exquisite orator who has no wisdom but that of words, no energy but that of sound. The like holds good of our prayers and other religious exercises; if we are quickened in them by the Holy Spirit, they are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ, though we may think them to be worthless things; while our grand performances in which our hearts were absent, like dead lions, are mere carrion in the sight of the living God. O for living groans, living sighs, living despondencies, rather than lifeless songs and dead calms. Better anything than death. The snarlings of the dog of hell will at least keep us awake, but dead faith and dead profession, what greater curses can a man have? Quicken us, quicken us, O Lord!
A student of Zwingli and a good friend of Grebel, Felix Manz (1498 – 1527) was cofounder of the first congregation of Anabaptist Swiss Brethren. The son of a Catholic cleric, Manz, like Grebel, had a well-rounded sixteenth-century humanist liberal arts education that included Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Like Grebel, he was imprisoned for preaching his new-found faith and for challenging the Zurich city council on the matter of believers’ baptism.
In March of 1526, only months before Grebel’s death of the plague, the Zurich city council had enacted a law making believers’ baptism (rebaptism) a capital offence punishable by drowning. Manz would become the first Anabaptist martyred for this offence. Insisting that he was not seeking to prevent Reformers from baptizing infants, he argued that his only motive was “to bring together those who were willing to accept Christ, obey the Word, and follow in His footsteps, to unite with these by baptism, and to leave the rest in their present conviction.” But Zwingli and the city council were determined to make Manz’s death a deterrent. Just two days before his drowning, Zwingli wrote to a fellow Reformer: “The Anabaptist, who should already have been sent to the devil, disturbs the peace of the pious people. But I believe, the axe will settle it.”
But Manz would not be axed to death. Rather, officials execute him by his own baptismal prescription — immersion of an adult believer. His death is ridiculed as the third baptism: infant, believers, and drowning — “He who dips shall be dipped!” The story is chilling. Bullinger describes the scene: On a bitterly cold Saturday afternoon in January of 1527, “Manz was taken out of the Wellenberg prison and led to the fish market there by the Limmat [River]. There his death sentence was read. He was taken to the butcher shop, and then forced into a boat, in which the executioner and a pastor were standing.” A crowd of onlookers, including his mother and brother, had accompanied him. Offered an opportunity to recant, he publicly proclaims his faith, encouraged by his family and other supporters. He is then rowed some distance from shore, where he is pushed into the icy water, declaring his faith in Christ until the water engulfs him. Among the writings that he leaves behind is a hymn, the first lines offering his own testimony:
With gladness will I now sing;
My heart delights in God,
Who showed me such forbearance
That I from death was saved
Which never hath an end.
I praise Thee, Christ in heaven
Who all my sorrow changed.
In the weeks and months that follow, six more Anabaptists suffer a similar fate.
If you enjoyed the above article, please take a minute to read about the book that it was adapted from:
Parade of Faith: A Biographical History of the Christian Church
by Ruth A. Tucker Buy the book!
The story of Christianity centers on people whose lives have been transformed by the resurrected Lord. Tucker puts this front and center in a lively overview peppered with sidebars; historical “what if?” questions; sections on everyday life; drawings and illustrations; bibliographies for further reading.
Red State isn’t the political jeremiad its title portends…until it is. Writer/director Kevin Smith’s latest film can’t decide what it wants to be — a bare-knuckled thriller, a conventional horror yarn, or a government conspiracy rant. It’s all of the above, a genre mash-up without conviction, purpose, or clarity. It’s the least Kevin Smith-like film [...]
The B.C. and A.D. versus B.C.E. and C.E. debate is heating up. If these abbreviations aren’t ringing a bell (of if they‘re so overwhelming that you can’t quite place them), close your eyes and think back to past history classes you’ve taken.
Dates and timelines will likely find their way back into your consciousness, as you recall that both B.C. and A.D. (which stand for Before Christ and Anno Domini — “Year of our Lord”) have, until now, been the basis of historical time.
But the BBC, joining other progressive institutions, has decided that using these religiously-charged abbreviations is no longer appropriate. Signaling major changes to the way that the news network will deliver radio and television reports, the government-funded media company has decided to stop making these references, replacing them with B.C.E. (Before Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era).
Why, you ask? Well, the BBC claims that this decision is rooted in the media outlet’s commitment to remaining impartial. As Religion News Service points out, the network released an official statement saying that it is, “committed to impartiality.” Additionally, the release said, “it is appropriate that we use terms that do not offend or alienate non-Christians.”
British Christians, of course, have viewed the change as a move aimed at instilling political correctness. As a result, RNS reports that the network has been inundated with calls from listeners and readers who are less than content with the decision. Melanie Phillips, who is not a Christian but who stands opposed to the change, wrote the following on Mail Online:
…I am a Jew, so I am presumably a member of this group that must not be alienated.
It so happens, however, that along with many other Jewish people I sometimes use CE and BCE since the terms BC and AD are not appropriate to me.
But the idea that any of us would be offended by anyone else using BC and AD would be totally ridiculous.
How could we possibly take offence, since these are the commonly used and understood expressions when referring to the calendar?
Phillips continues by claiming that there is no evidence that any groups are offended by the B.C. and A.D. references. Furthermore, she explains that even if some non-Christian groups were, indeed, offended, “it cannot ever be right for minorities to seek to replace fundamental majority cultural expressions or values with their own.”
Retired Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, an evangelical with a prominent voice in Great Britain, also voiced his opposition:
“This amounts to the dumbing down of the Christian basis of our culture, language and history. These changes are unnecessary and they don’t actually achieve what the BBC wants them to achieve. Whether you use Common Era or Anno Domini, the date is still the same and the reference point is still the birth of Jesus Christ.”
One BBC presenter has already pledged that he won’t be making the network-mandated transition and that he plans to continue using B.C. and A.D. Andrew Marr, host of “The Andrew Marr Show,” explains:
“I say AD and BC because that’s what I understand. I don’t know what the Common Era is. Why is it the Common Era in 20AD and it wasn’t the Common Era in 20BC?”
Earlier this month, the Blaze reported on Australia’s decision to remove B.C. and A.D. from new curriculum. As you may recall, Sydney Archbishop Peter Jensen called removing references to the birth of Jesus Christ an “intellectually absurd attempt to write Christ out of human history.”
Youcef Nadarkhani could be executed at any time. An update on this story. “Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death: Nadarkhani Refuses to Convert,” from International Business Times, September 29 (thanks to Kenneth): Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who is facing the death penalty, again refused to convert to Islam to save his…
His name is Mujahid. It looks like he grew into his name. An update on this story. “Birmingham terror arrests: Seventh man faces charges,” from BBC News, September 29: A seventh man is to face charges relating to a recent counter-terrorism operation in Birmingham, the Crown Prosecution Service says. Mujahid…
The Great Libyan Jihadist Garage Sale continues. Of all things, a Human Rights Watch official below is reportedly miffed at Obama’s decision not to put ground troops into Libya, blaming it for allowing this situation to materialize. “Free for all: Up to 20,000 anti-aircraft missiles stolen in Libya,” by Neal…
You’ll never guess why the churches are now constant guard. “Christians dispossessed and silenced in Mindanao,” from Asia News, September 29: Manila (AsiaNews) – In Jolo, Marawi, Basilan and other areas of Mindanao, the Christian minority is suffering harassment and pressure from the Muslim population, AsiaNews’ sources in Mindanao say….
For all his many faults, Assad doesn’t rule strictly by Sharia. Thus Christians, although they do not have equal rights, live better than they do in Sharia regimes. “Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad,” from the New York Times, September 27 (thanks to Roland Shirk): SAYDNAYA, Syria —…
The Nigerian government shouldn’t be negotiating with these mass-murdering jihadist thugs in the first place. But where are all the moderate Muslim spokesmen to explain to Boko Haram that they’re Misunderstanding Islam, and that it’s a Religion of Peace that doesn’t involve waging war against infidels? “Nigerian Islamists reject talks…
There was a jihad murder in Frankfurt last March. The jihadist murderer was inspired by a jihadist rapper in Germany. They’ve seen Islamic honor killing. In response, German authorities are stepping up monitoring of mosques and of Islamic communities in Germany, right? Of course not. Get real. They’re planning surveillance…
Amid the Perry camp’s patent dishonesty over what exactly the content of the curriculum really is, and brusque dismissal and ad hominem attacks against those who dare to raise questions about it, it is good to see former Congressman Tom Tancredo seeing things more clearly and confronting the problem more…
The American Library Association is a foremost bastion of Useful Idiots who talk a good game about censorship and the dangers of book banning, but are led by their political biases into inconsistency in their understanding of what constitutes a “Banned Book.” What they really mean by “Banned Books…
On the eve of the Jewish new year 5772 Israel’s population stands at 7,797,400 people, of whom 5,874,300 are Jewish, 1,600,100 Arabic and 323,000 of other ethnicity (most of which are immigrants from the former USSR who are not registered as being Jewish), a survey released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics showed on Sunday.
The statistics show a growth rate of 1.9% since 2010, like that of the past eight years. There was a similar growth rate in Israel in the 1980′s, during which there was little immigration. In the 1990′s, during the period of high immigration from the former USSR, there was an average yearly growth rate of 3%.
In 2010 the growth rate of the Jewish population was 1.7%, that of the Arabic community was 2.5% and the population of other ethnicities was 1.7%. The growth rate of the Muslim community was 2.7%, that of the Christian community was 0.9% and of the Druze community was 1.8%.
Israel’s young population
According to the Statistical Abstract, Israel’s population is considered young compared to Western countries. In 2010, 28% of Israel’s population was aged between 0-14, compared to 17% in other Western countries, and about 10% were aged above 65%, compared to 15% in Western countries.
The majority live in the country’s center
About 41% of Israel’s population resides in the center of the country, with about 24% in the Central District, and about 17% in the Tel Aviv District. In the Northern District reside about 17% of the population, about 14% live in the Southern District and in each of the Haifa and Jerusalem Districts reside about 12%. An additional 4% live in the West Bank.
Three children per mother
48,997 couples got married in Israel in 2009, of which 37,165 were Jewish couples (76%) and 9,999 were Muslim (20%). On the other hand, 13,233 couples got divorced, of which 10,928 were Jewish (83%) and 1,393 Muslim (11%).
In 2010 there were 166,255 babies born, a 3.2% more than in 2009, and the average number of children per mother was 3.03.
5.4% become newly religious
About 200,000 people aged 20 and over, 5.4% of the population in that age range, defined themselves as “newly religious”, of which 70% were Israeli-born.
5.4% of Jews aged 20 and over (about 790,000 people) reported being more religious now than they were in the past. 14% of Jews reported being less religious than they were in the past.
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