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Thursday, March 15, 2012

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Documentary Goes 'In Search of Our Nat'l Treasure'

Christian actor Kirk Cameron, most famous for his role in the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains," believes America has lost its way and fears for the future of the country - a topic he explores in a new film due out his month.

"I think America is in deep weeds," Cameron said. "We're out in the wilderness, and we've thrown away the guide."

"We need to get to the place of blessing," he said. "And the way we do that is by going back to the things that made this nation so prosperous to begin with."

In the faith-based documentary "Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure," Cameron takes a look at how America can get back to the place that once made it so great.

Cameron spent a year and a half traveling across the United States and Europe, retracing the footsteps of the nation's forefathers to see if they left some sort of guide on how to rebuild a great nation.

"What I've learned from studying our forefathers and retracing the escape route of the pilgrims from England to Holland and then to America, is that change and solutions for the problems that we're facing as a nation do not come from the White House," Cameron said. "It comes from your house and my house," he continued. "And the 'land of the free' starts in the homes of the brave where moms and dads at the dinner table teach their kids the meaning of the story of America, and the values and the virtues that gave birth to this kind of freedom that we experience today," he said.

The former teen heartthrob believes America's families are still worth fighting for today but warned the time to act is now if they want to secure the future.

"I believe that we're in an even more critical time now, a monumental moment in history to make the right choices," Cameron said. "History tells us that if we keep going down this road, our country will fall apart, it will implode."

"It will be destroyed from the inside, just like the Roman Empire. Greece and so many other massive powers, have all gone away because they strayed from the eternal truths and the strategy that God has given us in His Word," he added. "And that's what has made America so unique all these years," he said.

Monumental opens in theaters March 27. In a special event opening night, Cameron will address theater audiences in a live broadcast. The 'Monumental' producer will also invite people to stand with him in this monumental moment in history.

"This is the most important journey of my life," Cameron says in the film. "My family is worth fighting for and so is yours."

'Kony 2012' Exposes Lord's Resistance Army Crimes

A grassroots effort across social media platforms to return justice to a country terrorized by a war criminal is taking off like wildfire.

KONY 2012, is a new documentary and a social media campaign from the group Invisible Children, an organization hoping to end Joseph Kony's reign of terror and abduction of children for his army in Uganda. They are seeking to restore peace and prosperity to the affected communities in Central Africa.

On their website, Invisible Children explains they want to inspire young people to help end the longest-running conflict in Africa

Kony is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader and the head of the Lord's Resistance Army, which has terrorized parts of Africa for decades. It has recently launched new attacks in Democratic Republic of Congo this year, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Invisible Children's latest film exposing Kony and the LRA's alleged abuses has gone viral since its posting on YouTube just this week, attracting about 8 million views since March 5.

The film tells the story of a former child soldier called Jacob and how the filmmaker was inspired to get involved to lead a movement for change.

The video has gathered a lot of attention online through it's Facebook and Twitter campaigns at the hastags #stopkony and #kony2012.

It gained even more attention from Twitter followers after being tweeted by celebrities including Juliette Lewis and Zooey Deschanel.

Invisible Children wants to make Kony even more famous in the U.S. by having young people plaster their neighborhoods with posters featuring Kony's picture.

At sundown on Friday, April 20, the organization is urging young people to gather together and work all night putting up posters. They have printed hundreds of thousands of posters in preparation for the event.

The organization believes once people find out more about what Kony has done, then justice will prevail.

California musician Topher Daniels, 29, said he believes this could be the event that marks his generation.

"I've thought of my generation, including myself, as a pretty self-centered generation. This film helped to rekindle the fire I thought had gone out. People DO care and there IS a way we can fight injustice in the world. These are exciting times," he told CBN News.

"I hope that this particular campaign will be a tipping point with my generation. I pray that this is only the beginning, and that after Joseph Kony is arrested, we turn our attention on the next guy and do the same to him," he added.

Questions about Invisible Children

Some critics have raised questions about the group Invisible Children since the KONY 2012 effort went viral.

They contend that the non-profit organization, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., spends most of its money on its administration and filmmaking efforts. Charity Navigator rates the organization 2 out of 4 stars on accountability and transparency.

The KONY 2012 campaign to find and bring Kony to justice after 20 years of torture and murder of thousands of people has lit an intense fire among young people through social media.

However, some of those same young people are questioning the KONY 2012 campaign itself, saying efforts should be focused on Kony rather than on the campaign to find him.

Grant Oyston, a sociology and political science student at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada wrote in his blog:

"Is awareness good? Yes. But these problems are highly complex, not one-dimensional and, frankly, aren't of the nature that can be solved by postering, filmmaking and changing your Facebook profile picture, as hard as that is to swallow," he wrote.

"Do I have a better answer? No, I don't, but that doesn't mean that you should support KONY 2012 just because it's something," he added. "Something isn't always better than nothing. Sometimes it's worse."

Michael Wilkerson, an Oxford student, writing in a blog posted on Foreign Policy.com, noted, "What worries me more is that it's unclear what exactly Invisible Children wants to do, other than raise a lot of money and attention."

Still, others say raising the awareness and inspiring young people to address the issues of injustice is not a bad thing.

"It's good that we are continuing to raise awareness," CBN News Sr. International Reporter Gary Lane, who has covered Kony's atrocities and the LRA for years, said. "This is an important issue."

This is not the organization's first attempt to stop the violence in Africa. Their first film released in 2003 titled "Invisible Children: Rough Cut," exposed the tragic realities of northern Uganda's night commuters and child soldiers to millions of people around the world.

Clooney: Christian Ministries Key to Helping in Sudan

Hollywood actor George Clooney is using his star power to shine the light on human rights abuses in Sudan.

He credits the work of Christian aid groups for providing healing and relief.

Clooney returned from a trip to Sudan this week to document cases of bombing attacks, burned-down villages, and ethnic killings against people living near the border of South Sudan.

He shared some of the victims' stories, including one about a boy who lost both hands during a bombing raid.

He's urging lawmakers on Capitol Hill to increase pressure on the Muslim-dominated north to stop what he calls "war crimes."

In a one-on-one interview, Clooney told CBN News that Christian ministries play a key role in helping those suffering.

"They lead the work a lot of times here," he said. "When we were at the Darfur rally it was ministers. It was a lot of people of faith that had been working very hard on this."

"So in some ways I'm trying to honor whatever part I can in the hard work that they do because I'm a big fan of all of the work that's being done," he added. "And people really put their hearts and souls in it."

Clooney also credited CBN founder Dr. Pat Robertson for speaking out against the Sudanese government.

"When Bono was doing his 'One' campaign, that's when I met Pat Robertson. I said to Bono, 'Who do you have from sort of the Christian world?' And he was like, 'I don't know.' And I said, 'What about Pat Robertson?'" he recalled.

"So I called him (Robertson) up, and I said, 'Listen, we're not going to agree on too many things, but there's no two sides to this issue, and you and I can work together on this. And he said great. And he's been terrific on this," Clooney said.

Meanwhile, Clooney will be meeting Thursday with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to address the humanitarian crisis.

Needing a Breakthrough

. . . may the God of peace . . . produce in you through the power of Christ all that is pleasing to him . . .
–Hebrews 13:20,21 (TLB)

When I was a boy, radio was just coming of age. We would gather around a crude homemade set and twist the three tuning dials in an effort to establish contact with the transmitter. Often, all the sound that came out of the amplifier was the squawk of static; but we knew that somewhere out there was the unseen transmitter, and if contact was established and the dials were in adjustment, we could hear a voice loud and clear. After a long time of laborious tuning, the far distant voice would suddenly break through and a smile of triumph would illuminate the faces of all in the room. At last we were tuned in!

In the revelation that God established between Himself and us, we can find a new life and a new dimension of living, but we must “tune in.” There are higher levels of living to which we have never attained. There is peace, satisfaction, and joy that we have never experienced. God is trying to break through to us. The heavens are calling. God is speaking! Let man hear.

PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Lord, help me to be so attuned to Your will that I will experience all that You so lovingly wish to bestow

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

When Afraid, I Will Trust In God by Carter Conlon

How to use Science in Evangelism #304

"I believe in God and Reincarnation."

The Secret of Happiness

So don’t be anxious about tomorrow. God will take care of your tomorrow too. Live one day at a time.
–Matthew 6:34 (TLB)

King George V wrote on the flyleaf of the Bible of a friend, “The secret of happiness is not to do what you like to do, but to learn to like what you have to do.” Too many think of happiness as some sort of will-o’-the-wisp thing that is discovered by constant and relentless searching. It is not found by seeking. It is not an end in itself. Pots of gold are never found at the end of the rainbow, as we used to think when we were children; gold is mined from the ground or panned laboriously from a mountain stream.

Jesus once told His disciples, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” The “things” He spoke of were the things that make us feel happy and secure—food, drink, clothes, shelter. He told us not to make these the chief goal of our lives but to “seek the kingdom” and these needs would be automatically supplied. There, if we will take it, is the secret of happiness.

PRAYER FOR THE DAY
Forgive me, Father, for the times when I am anxious. You have promised to take care of all my needs.