• Dr. Dobson will be our special guest-speaker at two events this coming Thursday, May 26th – first, our Pastor's Luncheon at the Universal Hilton that's free to all church staff and their wives; and second, our big listener event at Lake Avenue at 7pm. They're both free, but please pre-register at kkla.com.
• This is the last week for KKLA Listeners to enter to WIN a FREE IPad 2! Just go to KKLA.com and click on the "WIN a FREE IPad 2 Banner" and complete a short survey for your chance to WIN!
400-408 – Hugh Ross, founder and president of Reasons to Believe (reasons.org, their new app is ready), is both an astrophysicist (Ph.D. Astronomy, University of Toronto, and post-doc research at Cal Tech), and a pastor at Sierra Madre Congregational Church. The author of over a dozen books, including his latest, now in paperback, Why The Universe Is The Way It Is. Today we talk about how Christians should respond to Harold Camping's false Judgment Day prophecy.
• (2:42) Gunther Von Harringa 6 on the Michael Medved Show today, 5/20/2011. Is the Antichrist here already? The Antichrist is Satan himself. Satan is in the "Temple" as of May 21, 1988, the date of the beginning of the 23-year Great Tribulation that concludes tomorrow with the Rapture. Thus, for the past 23 years, Satan has had dominion over every church and every denomination in the world.
• Will Kane (SF Chronicle, 5/23/2011) Harold Camping 'flabbergasted'; rapture a no-show.
• Christian Post (5/23/2011) Evangelist Dispels Doubts About Second Coming of Christ.
• Accuweather (5/23/2011) Joplin in for More Severe Weather, Possible Tornadoes.
City officials announced Monday afternoon that the death toll has risen to 116 and even more are injured after tornadoes tore though parts of the Midwest on Sunday. Through Monday afternoon, there have been 51 tornado reports from Sunday's storms according to the Storm Prediction Center.
At least 116 people were killed in Joplin, Mo., which received the worst of the severe weather.
Since the toll has exceeded 115, it is now one of the ten deadliest tornadoes of all time, none of which have occurred since 1953, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
413-423 – Hugh Ross,
• Hugh Ross (6/8/2009) RESPONSE TO 2012 PROPHECIES. What's going on with the Mayan Calendar stuff?
428-438 – Hugh Ross,
443-452 – Hugh Ross,
warning signs of a cult – 1) Do they believe their group is the only true church, the leader the only true prophet, and their book the only true revelation? 2) Do they encourage you to change your occupation or class load so you can work more hours for the group? 3) Do they require you to raise money and recruit new members? 4) Is their budget a secret? 5) Do the leaders take an unusual interest in you that requires an increased demand on your time and increased commitment to their group? 6) Do they discourage you from associating with family, friends, other Christian groups and authors? 7) Does the leader expect blind obedience and absolute compliance? 8) Do they seem to overemphasize submission? 9) Do they discourage independent thinking as a sign of weak faith? 10) Do they receive a lot of criticism from outside the group and treat it as an attack from Satan? 11) Do they have legalistic rules? 12) Do they attempt to control your dating, occupation, major, social time? 13) Do they control people with fear and shame? 14) Do they have discipline meetings where members are confronted, humiliated, and forced to confess and repent? 15) Do they disfellowship ex-members?
458-508 – Theresa Flores, is the Director of Awareness and Training at the Grace Haven House in Ohio (gracehavenhouse.org), a long-term faith-based care facility for girls under 18 once trapped in sex trafficking. Theresa writes about her own experience as a 15-year-old sex slave for two years while still living at home in an affluent Detroit suburb back in 1981 in her book The Slave Across the Street. Her website is traffickfree.com. She's also started the SOAP project (Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution), in which the little bars of soap in hotels will ask "Are you being forced to do something against your will?" with the National Human Trafficking Hotline (888) 3737-888. They distributed 10,000 bars of soap and rescued 60 girls!!
From her traffickfree.com,
• Human Exploitation is not reserved to distant countries outside the U.S.
• One university study estimated up to 300,000 children in the U.S. are victimized by CSE-Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
• The average age of an underage sex worker is 14 years old, but the FBI states children as young as 9 have been rescued. In the US, the average age of entry into sexual exploitation is 12 years old.
*Pimps are Traffickers
*Johns who buy sex from girls under 18 years of age are Pedophiles
*Teen and Child Prostitutes are victims and should NEVER be arrested (though many times are, while the John and Pimp go free)
*Media should NEVER use the words Teen or Child Prostitutes. It should ALWAYS be referred to as Human Sex Trafficking Victim or Commercial Sexual Exploitation of a Child (CSEC).
HUMAN TRAFFICKING: (layman's definition) – forcing someone, tricking, coercing, threatening or blackmailing them to perform a commercial sex act (including stripping, porn, etc) or to work while benefiting financially from it. Even offering a teen a happy meal or a bed to sleep in in exchange for having sex is human trafficking.
512-523 – Theresa Flores,
528-539 – Theresa Flores,
(2:00) Paul Karpf, Founder and CEO of Financial Recovery USA (financialrecoveryusa.com, 800-385-0745), has an "A" rating with the BBB, and is one of just ten companies in America certified by the Attorney General as a "Certified Foreclosure Consultant." • And if you call before 8pm tonight to schedule a "face to face," Paul will have you meet personally and confidentially with one of his counselors for free! Offices in Orange and Woodland Hills.
544-554 – Theresa Flores.
558-608 – Betsy Meenk is the U.S. Regional Director for Zoe International (zoechildren.org), an organization that provides group homes and education to children who have been victims of child trafficking in Thailand. A critical difference between Zoe and other organizations is the fact that to date 100% of the kids they have rescued have come to accept Christ as their Savior.
612-623 – Betsy Meenk
628-639 – Bob Hamer, is a real-life Jack Bauer, a veteran FBI agent who's spent 26 years infiltrating and working undercover in the Russian mob, the Iraqi syndicate, the Crips, La Costa Nostra, and his last undercover, infiltrating NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association. A Marine, a law school graduate, a recipient of the FBI Director's Award for Distinguished Service, but most importantly, a husband and father. Next week, Bob's second Matt Hogan book comes out, following last year's hit Enemies Among Us, and this new one is entitled Targets Down – and it's already being adapted for the big screen!
644-655 – Bob Hamer,
• LAT (5/23/2011) Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates. The 5-4 decision represents one of the largest prison release orders in U.S. history. The court majority says overcrowding has caused 'suffering and death.' In a sharp dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia warns 'terrible things are sure to happen.' Between 38,000 and 46,000 inmates will be released. The four conservatives were in dissent, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts.
