VOM Canada’s Glenn Penner passes on to glory
After a seven year struggle with cancer, Glenn Penner of The Voice of the Martyrs Canada went home to be with the Lord on the evening of January 26, 2010 at the age of 48.
Glenn first joined VOM-Canada in 1997. Klaas Brobbel, the Director of the mission at the time, recalls, “Looking back to August 1997 when we interviewed Glenn for the position of Development Director for The Voice of the Martyrs, I marvel at God’s goodness and timing to send Glenn our way. The mission was floundering and we needed help. Little could we have known the great work that Glenn would be able to pack into the nearly 12½ years of service to the Persecuted Church.”
Barely five years after joining VOM-Canada, Glenn was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. After undergoing chemotherapy, radiation treatment and a stem cell transplant, Glenn, his wife Denita, and their family decided not to pursue further treatment when the cancer returned. With confidence in God’s provision, Glenn bravely continued to serve the Persecuted Church and strove to utilize the time God gave him to its fullest potential.
Merv Knight, Ambassador-at-Large with International Christian Association, of which VOM-Canada is an affiliate, reflected, “It is my privilege to have had a close association with VOM-Canada from its formative days. I have seen it move through various stages of change and growth. One of those positive changes came with the appointment in 2007 of Glenn Penner as C.E.O. Glenn was God’s man for the time.”
Glenn had a particular passion for helping suffering believers to understand the biblical basis for their trials. His book, In the Shadow of the Cross, is an intensive study of the theology of persecution and discipleship which continues to be an invaluable resource to Christians worldwide who are suffering for Christ’s sake. A gifted teacher, Glenn was blessed to be able to share his study with Christian leaders in religiously restricted and hostile nations in South America, Africa and Asia, as well as in seminaries and colleges in Europe and North America.
In January 2010, Glenn stepped down from the position of C.E.O. to allow him to serve more in line with the limitations and challenges of his condition. Corey Odden, who served for 10 years with VOM-USA, assumed the role of C.E.O. while Glenn became VOMC’s Scholar-in-Residence/Executive Advisor.
Glenn’s faithful dedication has inspired many – his family, the staff and supporters of VOM-Canada, international partners, and the many suffering Christians worldwide who have been touched by his service to them. As the mission moves forward into a new chapter, the staff is profoundly thankful to God for Glenn’s example.
Greg Musselman, VOM-Canada’s Chief Communications Officer, said, “I’ve known Glenn for the past 10 years and we worked together at VOM-Canada for seven. We travelled together overseas several times and worked on many video projects and newsletter articles about the Persecuted Church. I learned so much from him in the area of theology and church history and for that I will always be grateful. The rest of the team and I at VOM-Canada will strive to carry on his legacy as we serve the Persecuted Church.”
VOM-Canada’s Chief Operations Officer, Floyd Brobbel, added, “Words can never completely convey what Glenn meant to me and over the years ahead I will cherish the memories of my time with Glenn. The meetings, the travel, the laughter, the tears, the heated discussions, the planning, the practical jokes, and the list goes on to form a wonderful tapestry Glenn wove into my life. I would not change a thing because it all narrows to one word for me, and that is ‘friend.’”
Friends and family of Glenn Penner are invited to celebrate his life and express condolences to his loved ones on Friday, January 29 at City Centre Baptist Church. The viewing will be held, the Lord willing, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., with the funeral beginning at 1:00 p.m. City Centre Baptist Church is located at 1075 Eglinton Avenue West in Mississauga, Ontario. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, February 6 at 1:00 p.m. at the Zion Evangelical Missionary Church in Didsbury, Alberta. Directions are available at www.zemc.org. For more information, please phone 1.888.298.6423.
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Election spending
David Warren:
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In a split but efficacious decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech, trumps the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act of 2002, and any other attempt to restrict election spending by “corporate persons” (in the broad sense that includes unions and any other formal organization). As Justice Anthony Kennedy explained in the majority decision, “The government may regulate corporate speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether.”
The majority also homed in on this crucial point: that bureaucratic regulation of speech constitutes a de facto prior restraint, due to the time and expense involved in administrative proceedings. This is a point we have made up here, against “human rights” commissions and the like: that their very existence is antipathetic to an open society.
There are many and huge ramifications, but the chief one is that the decision attacks the contemporary lobbying system. In effect, those advancing special interests are condemned to lobbying the entire electorate, instead of just lobbying the politicians behind closed doors. This directly undermines the political class. It goes to the heart of their ability to broker deals not in the public interest, and pass them into law without public debate.
And that in turn is why the response to the decision from the political class has been unfriendly to the edge of berserk. They correctly understand that “politics as usual” is now under review, actually and not rhetorically.
A Mathematician Looks at Darwin’s Theory and Discovers It Doesn’t Add Up
ENV:
“Darwin’s attempt to explain the origins of all the magnificent species in the living world in terms of the struggle for survival is easily the dumbest idea ever taken seriously by science,” writes Dr. Granville Sewell in his new book In the Beginning and Other Essays on Intelligent Design published by Discovery Institute Press.
What do you get when you add together the big bang, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics and the evolution of life? Definitely not a materialistic theory of origins, answers Sewell, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas El Paso.
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Sewell concludes that while there is much in the history of life that seems to suggest natural causes, there is little evidence to support Charles Darwin’s idea that natural selection of random variations can explain major evolutionary advances.
In the book, he explains why evolution is a fundamentally different and much more difficult problem than others solved by science and why increasing numbers of scientists are now recognizing what has long been obvious to the layman: there is no explanation possible without design.
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Faber: Obama’s Meddling Makes Bush Look Like Genius
By: Gene Koprowski:
The Obama administration’s meddling in the market will not solve problems, but will foster uncertainty and harmful, unintended consequences, Marc Faber, author and publisher of the “Gloom, Boom & Doom Report,” said.
Faber, known as “Dr. Doom” for his persistently pessimistic outlook, commented on President Barack Obama’s proposed new limits on the size and trading customs of big banks.
Obama wants to prevent “excessive” risk-taking on Wall Street.
“I don’t have a very high opinion of Mr. Obama,” Faber told CNBC.
“I was negative of Mr. Bush but I think Mr. Obama makes him look like a genius. Basically I think everybody will agree that in an economic system, the market solves problems best.”
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What the MSM Got Wrong About the March for Life: Most Everything Important
Posted by Jill Stanek, BG:
Five hours before the January 22 March for Life rally even began, Newsweek blogger Krista Gesaman posted a highly misleading piece on the March’s age demographics as well as the route itself.
In a piece entitled, “Who’s missing at the Roe v. Wade anniversary demonstrations? Young women,” Gesaman wrote:
Today is the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case legalizing abortion, and droves of women are prepared to face rainy weather to support their positions during the annual Washington, D.C., demonstrations. But there will be one major difference with the demonstration route this year—it’s shorter.
The organizers are getting older, and it’s more difficult for them to walk a long distance,” says Stanley Radzilowski, an officer in the planning unit for the Washington, D.C., police department. A majority of the participants are in their 60s and were the original pioneers either for or against the case, he says.
So this raises the question: where are the young, vibrant women supporting their pro-life or pro-choice positions? Likely, they’re at home.
First, whoever Stanley Radzilowski is, he got his facts way wrong on the March for Life’s route. It was the same this year as it has been for several years:March for Life 2007:
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Can Climate Forecasts Still Be Trusted?
By Gerald Traufetter, SPIEGEL:
First, it was a series of e-mails that led many to begin doubting the veracity of climate scientists. Then, the United Nations climate body itself had to reverse dire predictions about the melting of glaciers in the Himalayan Mountains. Other claims have raised doubts as well.
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Tolerance for Terror
by Jamie Glazov, FrontPage:
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Howard Rotberg, an author of several books who has just released his latest book, Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed (Mantua Books). He blogs at secondgenerationradical.blogmatrix.com. He has previously been interviewed by Frontpage (Fatwa on a Book) about the fate of his 2003 novel about a Jewish professor’s worry about Iran developing nuclear weapons and the professor’s problems with political correctness.
FP: Howard Rotberg, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Rotberg: Thank you for having me
What inspired you to write this book?
Rotberg: Basically, I began to understand that, in a world that was treating Islamist terrorism with tolerance and submission, as opposed to a due recognition of the war declared upon us, much of our “intelligentsia” was prisoner of a certain ideology that inhibited an appropriate response to the threats to our freedoms and lives.
As a result of my novel, The Second Catastrophe, being, essentially, banned in Canada because of the objections of some 18 year old Islamists, I was becoming aware that the very people who proclaimed their tolerance were in fact the least tolerant of all when it came to listening to, and debating, contrary opinions.
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The Anti-Israel Revelation
by Mark D. Tooley, FrontPage:
“Emergent Church” guru Brian McLaren is a key figure on the Evangelical Left who is trying shift Evangelicals, who are America’s most pro-Israel demographic, into a more neutralist stance. Currently, he is leading a delegation through Israel and “Palestine” to broadcast the sins of Israeli oppression against Palestinians by “listening, learning, thinking, observing, reflecting.” His blog is providing daily updates of his discoveries, all of which confirm his previously often declared bias against Israel.
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The ‘Emergent Church’ is a festering sore on the Body of Christ. Followers of Christ would be well advised to get out of these divergent churches before their faith is shipwrecked.
Global Warming Dogma Melts in Glaciergate
by Rich Trzupek, FrontPage:
Recent history has been unkind to those who maintain that human activity is leading to catastrophic climate change.
Two months ago, we had “Climategate,” the scandal that revealed how the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit had conspired to manipulate data and to bully scientific publications in order to silence scholarship that failed to affirm the global warming gospel. Last month, the failure the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to reach any kind of meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dealt another hammer blow to the cause. The latest setback came last week, when the world was presented with a new climate scandal: Glaciergate.
In the latest case, it turns out that the IPCC employed shockingly sloppy science to suggest that, as a consequence of global warming, Himalayan glaciers were on the verge of destruction.
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SEIU Calls Senators ‘Terrorists’
by Bret Jacobson, BG:
Wow, this is beyond the pale. Andy Stern has called two Senators “terrorists” for not going along with the plan to socialize the nation’s medical system. Analysis from TheTruthAboutEFCA.com:
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A worldwide disgrace
Chicago Tribune:
Around this time last year, U.N. leaders decided that the best way to cut rampant corruption in its ranks was to aggressively … stop looking for it.
They yanked funding for a special anti-corruption task force that the U.N. created in 2006 after the infamous oil-for-food scandal. They promised that they were just consolidating the task force into an existing U.N. division, not killing its investigations.
Move along, folks! Nothing to see here!
But we suspected the U.N. task force had been too successful, that it had mightily embarrassed U.N. leaders and member countries.
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Obama gives pro-abortion, anti-Catholic nominee a second chance
Ann Kane, AT:
What does President Obama have against the Catholic Church? After all, a majority of Catholic voters helped put him in office. Notre Dame University welcomed him with open arms, and inexplicably, is still holding 88 pro-life protestors hostage by refraining from asking prosecutors to drop the charges against them.
You would think he’d be grateful for the church’s support. On the contrary, he’s a brazen opportunist, and abortion sympathizer.
Last year, Obama nominated Dawn Johnsen to head the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice; the Senate returned Obama’s nomination in December because she was so unpopular.
But now, she’s back on the 2010 confirmation list thanks to Obama’s persistence.
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Intel officials knew about lawyering up underwear bomber
Bill Weckesser, AT:
President Obama may soon feel as much heat as Detroit’s now famous underwear bomber. With senators such as Joe Lieberman demanding that Mr. Abdulmutallab be tried in military courts rather than federal ones, there’s an out break of “finger pointing” as to how and why he was lawyered up like a party store robber in the first place.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: pieces of a puzzle
Julian Kossoff, Telegraph [UK]:
- Remembering genocides is not a numbers game.
- Do Jews ask for special sympathy regarding the Holocaust? Believe me, we wish we didn’t have to.
- Did God die at Auschwitz?
- Let me try and explain (without denying any of the transgression against the Palestinians) why the birth of the State of Israel, for the majority of Jews, represents the Phoenix rising from the fire. Three years after being slaughtered like lambs we were reborn as lions of Judah. The yin had its yang, and the pain became bearable.
- Recently, my cousin was sitting with an old family friend, a gentlewoman of Tel Aviv, in her garden. Suddenly, an air raid siren started to blare – no drill had been announced. “What shall we do?” asked my cousin. “Well,” said the Israeli, “would you rather die in the house or in the garden.”
- Stop hijacking the Holocaust: anti-Zionists who use Holocaust imagery to further their cause are cruel liars and are just asking to be discounted with the ‘A’ word.
- Stop cheapening the Holocaust: right wing Zionists and religious zealots who ritually denounce their critics (including other Jews) as ‘Nazis’ shamefully drain the word of any meaning.
- Stop denying the Holocaust (one for you Nick Griffin, BNP duce and would be MP): only a twisted mind and a blackened soul could indulge in such a sadistic perversion of history.
- “The anti-Semites cannot forgive the Jews for the fact that they have ’spirit’.” German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (you may be surprised to hear).
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Ottawa strikes blow against reinforcing failure in Middle East
Jonathon Narvey, NP:
We learned this week that Canada is the first Western nation to pull the plug on UNRWA, the United Nations-run relief operation for Palestinian refugees of the West Bank and Gaza. The government has been quick to clarify that relief is still on the way. It will now be dedicated to specific projects like food aid; hopefully with enough oversight to prevent mismanagement and inadvertent support to a terrorist organization.
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About time.
Credibility storm brewing
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
Revelations about how the United Nations and its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have manipulated scientific data to support their contention that man-made carbon emissions are altering the world’s climate are now flying out like bees from a wet hive — fast and furious.
First, of course, there were the thousands of emails and computer files leaked last November that show many of the world’s leading climate scientists manipulating their own climate data to overstate the case for global warming; conspiring to hide their “tricks” even from government access to information requests and then bullying scientific journals not to publish the work of scientists whose work cast doubts on the theory.
Then came evidence last week that the IPCC had passed off pure speculation on the rate of glacier melt as ironclad scientific fact.
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The sooner a stake is driven through the heart of this idiotic beast the better. AGW is a crock.
Meet President Obama 2.0.
WSJ:
Meet President Obama 2.0. Unlike the 2009 version, this 2010 update isn’t the spender who has sent the federal deficit to levels unseen since World War II. This new fellow is a fiscal conservative, and Americans will see this major new talent perform tonight as he delivers his State of the Union address.
Whether or not Americans choose to believe him, there’s no denying the fiscal reality created by the rollout version of President Obama last year, as detailed in the Congressional Budget Office report released yesterday. For the second year in a row, fiscal 2010 will see a trillion-dollar deficit—an estimated $1.35 trillion, or 9.2% of GDP, which is down slightly from last year’s post-World War II record of 9.9%.
Mr. Obama did inherit a recession, which is partly responsible for this ocean of red ink. The slow pace of economic recovery has contributed to a collapse in revenues, down to 14.8% of GDP in 2009 and an estimated 14.9% this year. That’s well below the modern historical average of about 18.1%, and it is a reminder that economic growth is the most important contributor to smaller deficits. Had last year’s “stimulus” worked half as well as the White House advertised, these deficits wouldn’t be as large.
But as the nearby chart shows, Mr. Obama’s major contribution to deficits has been a record spending spree.
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