Fwd: 10/20/13 ITS HOMECOMING 4CALVIN STUDENTS!

10/20/13 ITS HOMECOMING 4CALVIN STUDENTS! (I always loved homecoming @ calvin college...where I spent a significant part of my life from '85 -89 & from '92-94 & from '96-97 as well as pre-college years living in grand rapids...my dad made sure we attended calvin basketball games...he himself being a former calvin bball star...& having a lot of "knight pride"...but it was my original undergrad years when I was living in the dorms (beets) that I really caught calvin pride..and enjoyed the homecoming events...including throwing our R.A. (resident administrator? ) in the seminary pond (an annual tradition...do they still do that?) but I don't recall dutch pole vault...nonetheless we had a lot of good fun with a lot of good kids....yes we were/are a "Christian college" but not fundamentalist..)
search:calvin college,knights,grand rapids,crc,christian reformed ,*read more at
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/10/calvin_homecoming_weekend_to_f.html
"...Students will also be partaking in an
event known as fierljeppen, a Dutch
version of pole vaulting. Participants will
run down a hill, up a ramp, and use a 15
foot pole to vault to a 9-foot wide
trampoline raft floating in the pond.
Those who miss the raft will be
eliminated from the competition...."
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/10/calvin_homecoming_weekend_to_f.html
"The Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the
voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in
Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever."1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
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Fwd: 10/4/13 SHOULD CALVIN SEMINARY ACCEPT GRANT $ FROM "LILLY ENDOWMENT"

10/4/13 SHOULD CALVIN SEMINARY ACCEPT GRANT $ FROM "LILLY ENDOWMENT" ( a few years ago I noticed fuller seminary accepted grant $ from the Lilly Endowment, & had concerns then, & now calvin seminary is doing likewise. My concern is that because the Lilly Endowment is indirectly connected to the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical giant, there may be some subtle  pressure to "speak well" of Eli Lilly & the use of medication in general rather than the pure gospel. Don't get me wrong. I think the proper use of medication is fine, but am concerned when society puts pills on the highest pedestal & potential solution to almost all problems. Certainly, some preachers will think twice about criticizing pharmaceuticals when they realize that their class at seminary was paid for by a pharmaceutical company. So I ask, IS THERE A HIDDEN AGENDA by LILLY? search:center for excellence in preaching,
http://www.crcna.org/news-and-views/seminary-receives-lilly-grant-preaching?utm_source=CRC+News&utm_campaign=9b95d8b05f-CRC+News+%7C+October+2%2C+2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_468bc4c3c9-9b95d8b05f-52230661
"...Lilly Endowment has awarded Calvin
Theological Seminary a $500,000, three-
year grant to help improve the preaching
skills of seminary students as well as of
preachers who are already working at
churches.
The grant to the seminary, via its Center
for Excellence in Preaching, is part of Lilly's
initiative to improve the quality of
preaching and preaching education in North
America...."
http://www.crcna.org/news-and-views/seminary-receives-lilly-grant-preaching?utm_source=CRC+News&utm_campaign=9b95d8b05f-CRC+News+%7C+October+2%2C+2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_468bc4c3c9-9b95d8b05f-52230661
"I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you... that Christ died
for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according Scriptures."1 Corinthians 15:1-4,posted by vk
*DefendRealMarriage("TraditionalMarriage")
(DRuMTiMe)
*ProtectUnbornLife (Adoption!) (pula)
*Read the Bible Daily & Connect w/ Believers
(RoBDaCoB)
*Pray 4Chapels in the Public Schools (p4cps)
*Stop Violence v Women! (svw)
--Say NO to ALL Abusive Relationships (snaar)
*Be a Suicide Stopper! (bass)Give Hope!
*Fight4Kindness, (f4k)
--Commit Kindness Actions (CoKA)
*LoveOneAnother (aLOhA)
*Please Support Christian Missionaries!
*I baptize you in the name of the Father-Son-&-Holy Spirit ! (Re Matt 28:18-20) (I'veBeeNFiSHing)
*Father-Son-&-Holy-Spirit,Thy Will be Done (FiSHeS,TWilaBD)