Here’s a quick rundown of the top stories on charismanews.com:
Tragedy Strikes Gospel Music Hall of Fame Quartet
Tragedy struck as three members of the award-winning gospel quartet The Nelons were killed in a plane crash.
The victims included Jason Clark and his wife, Kelly Nelon Clark, along with their daughter, Amber Kistler, and her husband, Nathan Kistler. Also on board were Melodi Hodges, pilot Larry Haynie, and his wife, Melissa. There were no survivors. The group was en route to the Gaither Homecoming Cruise to Alaska when the crash occurred.
US gospel group The Nelons share a vlog of themselves moments before their Pilatus PC-12 breaks up at 26,000 feet over Wyoming, killing all 7 people on board. pic.twitter.com/Vueu67htTa
— Breaking Aviation News & Videos (@aviationbrk) July 27, 2024
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Olympic Opening Ceremony and Celebrating Perversity
For the last 20 years, when it comes to LGBTQ+ people and issues, I have followed this simple directive from the Lord: “Reach out and resist,” meaning, “Reach out to the people with compassion; resist the agenda with courage.” Or, put another way (and now in the title of a forthcoming book), we should have hearts of compassion and backbones of steel.
In keeping with that spirit, I do not demonize those who identify as LGBTQ+, as if all of them were devious sexual predators who gloried in deviant practices and delighted in displays of public perversity.
Why, then, have gay pride events for decades been marked by these very perverse displays? And why were the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games, intended by the planners to draw attention to France’s LGBTQ+ community, marked by such perversity?
Gateway Church Issues Apology to Cindy Clemishire
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Gateway Church has given an apology to Cindy Clemishire about the sexual abuse she endured as a child from former Gateway Church pastor, Robert Morris.
Gateway Elder Tra Willbanks gave the apology to the Clemishire before the start of the July 27 message at the church.
“We felt it was important to address Cindy Clemishire one more time,” Willbanks said. “Cindy, in case you are watching, we want to again apologize to you on behalf of our entire church for the years of pain that you have endured. We are sorry for our initial communication which was clearly incorrect.”
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