Hey guys, sorry for being a tad bit late on this. But I'll give you a bonus week with TWO videos...mainly because I had a hard time picking. But hey, whatever works :P. So here are two awesome videos from Tim Hawkins!
You may or may not have heard about an organization by the name of Gospel for Asia. Their founder, K. P. Yohannan, is originally from India and now lives in Texas. They specialize in funding Native Missionaries in Asian countries where it would be hard for a foreigner to adapt to or even come into the country and preach the gospel.
Today's video is a sermon from K.P. in a local church in his area of Texas. I thought it was very good and definitely worth watching. Although it runs a bit long(53minutes if you want to watch it all--but I'd say about 40-45minutes into is all you need to watch to get the core message. The end of the vid is him asking you to sponsor a Native Missionary, so if your interested in that you should definitely keep watching.) Hope you guys enjoy it! Just follow the link below...
http://www.gfa.org/to-live-is-christ
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Hey guys, I couldn't find this weeks video on youtube. So you're going to have to go to nbc's website to watch it. I am for some reason continuing my trend of videos from questionable sources :P. This weeks video is a sketch from Saturday Night Live. Ok, before you freak out: the video is completely clean nothing at all. The video is more economicly inclined and I thought it was really funny. It's actually more in the area of sad funny because if most americans used this principal we wouldn't be where we are today. But alas, we will continue with our trend. Hope you enjoy the video here is the link...
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/dont-buy-stuff/27169/
P.S. if you didn't check out our special edition of the video of the week I would highly encourage you to. It's a video of a 12 year old girl speaking on abortion, and it's quite moving. Thanks, have a great day!
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This special edition of the RVotW is a video of a 12 year old girl giving a speech. Not just any speech, but a speech on abortion. She won a school speech contest with her eloquent presentation of what is wrong with abortion. Whether you agree with her or not I urge you to listen. It is a very well done speech.
Here's a news article on the girl(edited some portions out)...
"Despite facing threats of disqualification, a 12-year-old girl took first place in a speech contest when she eloquently argued for the rights of unborn children – after an offended judge quit.
What made the 12-year-old choose to speak about abortion?
"It was really a family thing," her mother explained on the blog Moral Outcry. "I saw Lou [Engle] speak at a conference several years ago. I came back to my family with the Life Bands, and we all wore them, made our covenant, and prayed the prayer for abortion to end. … We were invited to participate in a 'Life Tape Siege.' Once my kids heard of this invitation, they all agreed: 'We have to do that!' Since then, Lia's passion for seeing abortion end has continued."
Despite Lia's enthusiasm for her topic, her teacher "strongly encouraged" her to select a different one for her class presentation or she would be considered ineligible for an upcoming speech contest.
"[S]everal teachers discouraged her from picking the topic of abortion; she was told it was 'too big,' 'too mature' and 'too controversial,'" her mother wrote. "She was also told that if she went ahead with that topic, she would not be allowed to continue on in the speech competition."
Lia's mother continued, "Initially, I tried helping her find other topics to speak on, but, in the end, she was adamant. She just felt she wanted to continue with the topic of abortion. So she forfeited her chance to compete in order to speak on something she was passionate about."
Lia's teacher was so impressed by the speech that she allowed her student to advance as the winner. Lia presented her speech to judges in front of her entire school on Feb. 10.
The school principal and teachers called Lia's presentation the "obvious winner" – but the judges suddenly disqualified her the following day "because of the topic and her position on abortion," her mother said.
Lia's father later revealed that the judges had a "big disagreement." One was offended by the speech and voluntarily stepped down while the others reversed their earlier decision – declaring her the winner.
Now Lia plans to take her message of life to a regional speech competition, and more than 130,000 visitors have viewed her presentation online."
Link to the original article
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Hey everyone, this weeks video is a music video, Slow Fade by Casting Crowns. A real thought provoker and very well made. Hope you enjoy it!
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Hey all, this video is pretty funny. I honestly debated a bit about posting it, but it made me laugh so hard that I decided I would post it anyways. It's a video of the Ellen DeGeneres show where she calls an 88 year old woman named Gladys Hardy. Enjoy :).
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This should keep us all thinking...
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The Lighthouse official press release. (Like any of you care or not, lol)
This week some exciting new things are happening on The Lighthouse. We have added another whole feature. Yes, Forums! Go ahead and have fun with them. Add as many topics as you want. If it gets too spammy I might clean some of it up, but as of right now we have no rules aside from keeping it a clean and Christian atmosphere. We would love to hear from you on there, hope to see you soon!
Our next new update is the front page has been completely redone. I have added a new widget to process these articles a little better. And take away from some of my work. And then I have added a new section to highlight forum topics! I have removed the Missionary Martyr of the Month and moved the "Album Preview of the Week" (check out this weeks featured album-- Julian Drive's major Label debut!) down a block. And I also have a new Artist of the Month planned for next month, so as much as I know you guys have liked having Code of Ethics around. You'll have to say goodbye to them on the Lighthouse's front page :P.
We also have removed the "Christian Music" section since we now have a place to discuss Christian Music on the Forums. If I need to announce anything Christian Music wise. I will use the forums or possibly the Articles Blog in the future.
And Lastly, I am not always that productive about keeping the articles coming, so I thought I'd introduce a new feature to the Lighthouse to spice it up a bit. The new feature is "Random Video of the Week"! It may be inspirational, funny, informative, or a music video. But hopefully it will keep The Lighthouse a little more active and give us something else to waste--I mean spend our time on :P.
This weeks video is "Always" by Building 429. It's kind of a combination between a music video and a behind the song video. Jason Roy explains the inspiration behind the song and a portion of it is playing. Great story and song, enjoy!
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