In This Month's Report:
* Editorial - "The Ape's on the Horse!"
* December Events - ICA Grapples with Theological Issues
* December Ministry - Impacting the Northeast and beyond
* Tips and Resources -  Blessings Counted
* Products - Three New Resources (see link below)
* Partnership - Invest in God's Program for the Northeast of America
* God Thoughts - A Speedy Lie

INSULTS TO EARTH'S BALANCE

I want you to read this very telling commentary from columnist Kathleen Parker (left), “Toni Vernelli was one of two women recently featured in a London Daily Mail story about environmentalists who take their carbon footprint very, very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that Vernelli aborted a pregnancy and, by age 27, had herself sterilized. Baby-making, she says, is ‘selfish’ and ‘all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet.’ Because Toni and her husband, Ed, are childless and vegan, they say they can justify one long-haul airplane trip per year and still remain carbon neutral.

Sarah Irving is another like-minded nature-nurturer. She and fiancé Mark Hudson decided on him having a vasectomy to prevent the possibility of an inconvenient life interfering with their carbon-perfect ones. Those of us who have managed to see a pregnancy through to birth recognize the irony of these tales. If we’re not saving the planet for our kids, for whom are we saving it? ...Suddenly, the unborn are of no greater importance than the contents of our recycling bin.

Like Weight Watchers dieters substituting carbs for sugars, we trade off future members of the human race to neutralize insults to Earth’s balance in the present. Here’s how the mental calculation goes: Let’s see, if I abort my child, maybe I can travel first-class to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali. Is this the slippery slope that pro-lifers prophesied? Once such utilitarian concerns edge out our humanity — and once human life is deemed to have no greater value than any other life form — how long before we begin tidying up other inconveniences?”

WEATHER CHANNEL FOUNDER DISSES GLOBAL WARMING

Now contrast the above comments with this story from OneNewsNow.com, November 14, 2007. "A prominent meteorologist of 54 years experience is calling global warming an 'outrageous scam' and a 'manufactured crisis.' John Coleman has been a television meteorologist since 1953. His credentials include being the first weather forecaster for the television show, Good Morning America, and founder of the cable-based network, The Weather Channel.

Many years ago, Coleman says he began to hear about supposed 'global warming' and decided to research the subject deeper and to investigate it from a scientific stance in order to educate his viewers. "I'm not talking about reading media accounts. I'm talking about getting down to the basic research papers," he explains. "And the more I read them, the more doubt I had — and eventually the whole case just collapsed. When you really study the documents, it becomes very clear that it was a manufactured crisis."

Coleman claims some scientists wish to strike fear of environmental catastrophe if people do not hold to their radical ideas. He dispels that fear by stating that the earth is not in peril. He states that natural cycles in weather are more responsible for any climate change and that over the next two decades, there is as great a chance for a cooling trend as there is for a warming trend. He also believes that once the dire predictions of global-warming scientists fail to come to pass, people will realize they have been 'duped.'

Consider this! Al Gore's global warming 'religion' is based upon graphs that NASA originally produced, which said 1998 was the hottest year of the millennium. Recently, NASA published corrected data that declares 1934 was the hottest year ever. We are not expecting the former Vice President will return his Nobel Peace Prize won on what turns out to be false information.

PLANET OF THE APES

Comedian Dennis Miller, commenting on today's topsy-turvy world, recently compared himself to Charlton Heston waking up in "Planet of the Apes" and discovering that everything was upside-down. Roles were reversed with him in a cage and the "ape on the horse!"

"...They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!" (Romans 1:25).

In this New Year, let us determine to live by the truth that we see in the Creator and not by the shifting sands of social trends. #
 

Annual Meeting of the International Coalition of Apostles (ICA) Grapples with Theological Issues — ICA is currently the largest professional society of apostles known, with nearly 500 active members. The annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, December 5th-7th, was stimulating, inspiring, and controversial! Various viewpoints of eschatology were presented, ranging from praetorist to dominion to dispensational, and how they all affect the apostolic paradigm.

Presiding apostle Peter Wagner commented, "The feedback I have been getting from our recent ICA meeting has been tremendous. One fairly mature apostle who was attending as a guest said that it was easily the most significant week in his entire life! One thing we all appreciate is how we can openly discuss sensitive issues that are crucial to the Church and to the Kingdom of God, without rancor and with respect for points of view that differ from ours."

What is an apostle? According to the ICA definition: “An apostle is a Christian leader gifted, taught, and commissioned by God with the authority to establish the foundational government of the Church, within an assigned sphere of ministry, by hearing what the Spirit is saying to the churches and by setting things in order accordingly for the extension of the Kingdom of God."

Prophecy Over Jeff and Melva Beacham by Dennis Cramer — Recently, Melva and I were guest speakers at Brian Simmons' "New England Aflame" Conference at Gateway Christian Fellowship, West Haven, CT. Dennis Cramer, known as a powerful and accurate prophet, was also one of the guest speakers. We met him for the first time. On the first evening of the conference, when he was ministering, he began by asking Melva and I to come and sit on two chairs out in the front facing the audience. Without knowing any details about our background, he then began to prophesy over the two of us, and over each of us individually, with the most accurate prophecy I have ever received. If you would like to read a transcription, go to: http://www.firepowerint.com/new_prophecies/DennisCramerwordtoJandM.htm.