Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top 5 articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share.
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Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top five articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share with your friends and church families.
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** 1. daily wire: video shows dem ag candidate hugging convicted sex offender after receiving lgbtq award
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“Tami Fitzgerald, the executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition, argued that Jackson would certainly have known who Turner was. She says it’s 'common knowledge.' 'This was common knowledge at the legislature, where Jackson served and carried water for Turner’s issues,' Fitzgerald told The Daily Wire. 'It was also common knowledge and received widespread media attention in Jackson and Turner’s hometown of Charlotte. It is inconceivable that Jeff Jackson did not know.' Turner, the sex offender, has gone by a number of other names, including Chad Sevearance-Turner and Chad Eugene Sevealance."
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** 2. news & observer: nc gov. cooper signs $273 million helene relief bill into law.
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“North Carolina’s lawmakers moved quickly to rush the first round of Hurricane Helene relief to the western part of the state devastated by flooding caused by the storm. The General Assembly convened Wednesday to take up a $273 million bill that leaders describe as a ‘first step.’”
Back in Raleigh for a one-day session, Republicans, who control the legislature, released the bill Wednesday. It received unanimous approval within hours, with a 47-0 vote in the state Senate and a 113-0 vote in the House, sending it to the desk of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.”
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** 3. washington times: john amanchukwu recounts battle with school boards over ‘pornographic’ books in ‘22 words’ film
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"'The thing is, if you can’t say it at a school board meeting, why are we giving kids access to the same content?' Mr. Amanchukwu said. 'Why can kids read it and see it? It really makes no sense.'
He chronicles his journey in '22 Words: Exposing the Loss of Decency in American Education,' a documentary scheduled for release [last] Thursday that follows Mr. Amanchukwu as he seeks to raise national awareness about leftist ideology and graphic sexual content in public education.
The film, which also features allies such as Christian actor Kirk Cameron and Brave Books CEO Trent Talbot, is available on the 22wordsfilm.com website."
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** 4. watch: candidate for lt. gov hal weatherman’s pro-life ad
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"Every Pro-Abortion candidate in this election had a mother who chose life."
Check out this great pro-life ad from our friend Hal Weatherman.
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** 5. you’re invited: free food and family fun event
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You’re invited to join us and special guests for a get-out-the-vote event we’re having with Restoration of America on October 19th and the 21st. We encourage you to vote at your local early voting site, and join us for some free food and fun at Factory 633 in Rocky Mount on October 19th, and the Cabarrus Arena & Events Center in Concord on October 21st. See the flyers above or the links below for more info.
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** weekly prayer: family
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LORD, we cry out to you as Father. You are a model of the love, mercy, and authority of the perfect parent. We thank you for modeling for us what every parent should strive for, and for creating this wonderful institution called family.
LORD, we thank you for creating us with a basic nature designed to not be alone. You made us to desire the intimacy of relationships, and it is here where we experience joys indescribable: the joys of marriage, the joys of having children; the joys of seeing our children have children. What a blessing and mercy you gave us in the family! In it we find our first teachers, our first guardians, and our first authorities.
LORD, we recognize how deeply you love your children, and how deeply it pains you when they go astray. Alongside our adoration and thanksgiving, we pray in confession—as individuals and as members of larger communities—over any sins we may have committed that undermine your beloved institution. Forgive us when we endanger your institution through selfishness and arrogance. Forgive our communities and nation for attempting to redefine some of the most basic and deepest parts of being human—being made male and female, having lifelong marriage vows and responsibilities, and having parental rights over educating one’s children.
“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” (Colossians 3:12-17)
Amen
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