Financial Management At Your Fingertips – Darryl Weinberg

Posted on December 5, 2023 by ccpastormike

Mike speaks with Rabbi Darryl Weinberg about Starfish, a new way to manage your finances through an e-wallet that you have complete control over.

Darryl can be contacted at rabbi@alttnmessianic.com for more information.

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Biden Administration Making Lists Of Religious Vaccine Objectors

Posted on January 25, 2022 by ccpastormike

A tiny administrative agency in the District of Columbia announced a new policy Tuesday that will likely serve as a model for a whole-of-government push to assemble lists of Americans who object on religious grounds to a COVID-19 vaccine.

The Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia–a federal independent entity that assists officers in the District of Columbia courts in formulating release recommendations and providing supervision and services to defendants awaiting trial–announced a new records system that will store the names and “personal religious information” of all employees who make “religious accommodation requests for religious exception from the federally mandated vaccination requirement.”

The announcement does not explain why the agency needs to create this list except to say that it will “assist the Agency in the collecting, storing, dissemination, and disposal of employee religious exemption request information collected and maintained by the Agency.” In other words, the list will help the agency make a list.

The announcement also does not say what the agency will do with this information after it has decided an employee’s religious accommodation request.

And neither does the announcement explain why the Biden administration chose to test this policy in an agency with a majority-black staff, who are both more religious and less vaccinated than other groups. So much for the president’s commitment to “racial equity.”

We’re starting to suspect that President Joe Biden is not keeping his promise to have the most transparent administration in history.

What’s really going on with this announcement at this tiny agency? Likely, the Biden administration is using it to stealth test a policy it intends to roll out across the whole government.

Almost nobody has ever heard of the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia, and very few people pay close attention to it or are covered by its policies. Indeed, at of the time of publication of this article, the announcement has been viewed only 16 times.

However, had Biden announced, for example, that the Department of Labor intended to adopt this policy, it would be big news. The Federal Register where announcements like this are made would be flooded with comments that the department would have to address.

That would, of course, delay the policy’s rollout. With the Pretrial Services Agency, Biden likely expected that the policy would land quickly and without a splash. As it is, the notice of a new announcement provides less than 30 days for public comment.

Biden may not be winning points for transparency, but he’s doing his best to win first place in subjecting Americans with sincerely held religious beliefs to differential treatment.

Take the Department of Defense, for example–which has failed to grant a single religious exemption on behalf of any service members requesting one for the federal vaccine mandate. A group of Navy SEALS was recently successful in its federal lawsuit against the Biden administration on claims that its conscience rights under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act were violated.

From the outset of his administration, Biden voiced support for passage of the patently faith-hostile Equality Act–a bill that would gut the Religious Freedom Restoration Act entirely when it intersects with LGBTQ+ protections and entitlements in public accommodations.

The president also swiftly revoked the Mexico City policy that had been reinstated by former President Donald Trump, thereby ensuring that religious Americans would be forced to fund abortions overseas by way of their tax dollars, despite their religious objections to the act.

While employers, employment agencies, or unions with 100 employees or more are prohibited under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from engaging in disparate treatment and from maintaining policies or practices that result in unjustified disparate impact based on religion, this administration doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo.

That, at bottom, is what this policy is about.

Originally published at The Daily Signal by Sarah Perry

AMERICA – YOU KNEW!

Posted on October 3, 2021 by ccpastormike

America – You Knew!

This question should be on the minds of every American who loves this country. “Will America recover? Will we survive the current tsunami of evil?”

We may survive. But if we do, it will be only by the grace of God moved by the mass repentance and heart-rending cry of God’s people all across this land. This is crucial to our survival. Hear me clearly friends – there is no political solution to the murderous death-grip wicked people have on America, if God is not in it. God must be front and center in our efforts to avert the impending disaster.

Today is a good day to set in motion the necessary steps to regain control of America. This begins with the Word of God. I call your attention to two passages of Scripture. I see them as bookends that encompass the possibilities for us as God-loving, fearing, reverencing, men and women. Friends, we have chores to do and the lifting is going to be heavy.

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Southern Baptist ‘Resolution’ A Microcosm of the Problem

Posted on June 15, 2017 by ccpastormike

(Photo: Screengrab/SBC Annual Meeting)

In what can be described as another wildly misguided missive poorly aimed and good only for virtue signaling to a cadre of reality-oblivious followers, William Dwight McKissic, an African-American Texas pastor, drafted a resolution that was considered at the annual Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Phoenix this week. What was misguided about his resolution? Simply this – McKissic sees in the so-called Alt Right, a source of unparalleled evil and hatred such that any rational individual would condemn it.

The Christian Post writer Michael Gryboski states in his write-up about the Resolution that, “The Alt Right is a political movement generally associated with white nationalism and known for launching intense attacks on ideological enemies on social media.” Oh the evil of such individuals who would oppose other people’s viewpoints along ideological lines! Note to Gryboski – this IS political discourse in America today. Social Media IS a political battlefield occupied by people of all ideologies including black supremacists, Hispanic and Latino supremacists, and every other ethnicity who has a grievance to advance.

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ZIONISM: IS IT A GLOBALIST CONSPIRACY? DOES IT CONTROL THE U.S.? – Doug Woodward

Posted on February 18, 2017 by ccpastormike

Optimism for a Renewed Alliance While Suspicion Festers

Today we hear increasingly heated arguments against Zionism. For Christians who care about the state of Israel and its people, its time to perk up our ears and pay attention.

Many contend that Zionism drives the agenda of the Western World and has thoroughly infected the policies of the United States. Even conservative radio personalities are speaking against the nation state of Israel more frequently and casting Zionism as the ultimate monster in leading the world down the primrose path toward an elite-dominated new world order.