From Randy Alcorn’s blog at: Â www.epm.org , August 15, 2014, written by Eternal Perspectives Ministries employee Tami Yeager, who is also a volunteer at Voice of the Martyrs organization. ————————- Â Â Â The Voice of The Martyrs USA ministry office in Bartlesville, Oklahoma has a Martyrs Monument. Â Displayed on that monument are the names of […]
682) An Unnamed Nigerian Martyr Read More »
By John Stonestreet, January 21, 2015, at:  www.breakpoint.org  (Colored letters below will link you to more sites) While the civilized world rightly expressed outrage over the slaughter of 12 cartoonists, the plight of 100 million persecuted Christians is largely ignored.     While in 2014 the days of throwing Christians to wild beasts in the arena
652) The War on Christians Read More »
   Pakistan is 95 percent Muslim and 2 percent Christian.  The Christian minority faces sporadic, but often severe persecution from the Muslim majority.  Christians are often not protected by the authorities when persecuted.  Offending Muslims are often not prosecuted.  Christians suffer under unjust blasphemy laws.  Christians have been beaten, murdered, and have had their
   Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us.  ‘We have all we want’ is a terrible saying when ‘all’ does not include God.  We then find God to be an interruption.  As St Augustine says somewhere, “God wants to give us
558) God Shouting Read More »
   (continued…)  If one looks only on the surface, only at whether or not the people in the story get what they want, then God’s distribution of blessings and afflictions in the Bible and in all of life is indeed strange, and not at all fair.  II Kings 15 tells of the reign of
545) Suffering Builds Character (part two) Read More »
   “I hardly had a drink in years,” said a man from New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.  “But right after the hurricane hit, I started drinking again.  Now, if I stop drinking, the pain becomes so great it is unbearable.  I am scared because I don’t have any identity anymore.”  He
529) Losing Almost Everything Read More »
   Many people have asked me if I think we are living in the end times.  After all, they say, the Bible talks about famine and war and earthquakes, and we certainly have all of that these days.  Sometimes they add, “There is always so much bad news– I don’t think it can get
510) Can It Get Any Worse? Read More »
From The Early Christians: In Their Own Words , (ch. 3, #28);Â Selected and Edited by Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935) —————————— Â Â Â …We do not give up our confession though we be executed by the sword, though we be crucified, thrown to wild beasts, put in chains, and exposed to fire and every other kind of
490) Early Christian Testimonies Read More »
Painting above: Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees, Antoni Ciseri, 1863   ********************** This story from II Maccabees chapter seven comes right after the account of the martyrdom of Eleazer (Meditation #441).  Christians do not have the same prohibitions against eating pork, but that was God’s Old Testament law for the Jews.  In this account Syrian King Antiochus had made the
463) The Martyrdom of a Mother and Her Seven Sons Read More »
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) ———————— We entangle ourselves in business and immerse ourselves in luxury,… until the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.  We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and too often vainly wish that we had not forsaken the ways of
437) Samuel Johnson on Growing Old Read More »
