(…continued) Two messages from this amazing story. First of all, this is an extraordinary story of forgiveness. Every day the news is dominated by accounts of death and destruction in the Middle East, where centuries old disputes go on and on and on with revenge upon revenge. Without forgiveness, the cycle of violence […]
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Above: Nathan Saint on the sand bar where he was killed later that same day. *************************** Anthropologists have called the Waorani tribe of Ecuador one of the most violent groups of people ever discovered. A magazine article one time called them ‘the worst people on earth.’ This tribe, which only recently began to emerge from the
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Above: Adamou, one of Abraham’s spiritual descendants, now ‘as numerous as the stars in the sky.’ ——————————————– (…continued) Thirty years ago, the congregation I was serving sent money to help in the construction of a church building for a congregation in the African nation of Cameroon. Two years later, I met Adamou, the
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Above: “Your descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and all the nations on earth will be blessed through you.” —————————————– Genesis 12:1-3…6 — The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you
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Adapted from the June 10, 2015 Breakpoint blog at http://www.breakpoint.org, The Growth of Christianity in the Muslim World, by Eric Metaxas Even while the West turns its back on the faith, Christianity is growing by leaps and bounds. A Washington Post article tells the story of a tiny Baptist church near
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If only we could go back in time and share some wisdom with our younger selves. Today’s meditation is about one little girl who wrote some advice to her older self to be read ten years in the future. —————— On April 13, 2013 twelve-year old Taylor Scout Smith (2001-2014) wrote herself
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From Randy Alcorn’s blog at: 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. ————————- The Voice of The Martyrs USA ministry office in Bartlesville, Oklahoma has a Martyrs Monument. Displayed on that monument are the names of
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John Stonestreet blog at < http://www.breakpoint.org > February 3, 2014, “The Truth About Missionaries” Photo above: Missionary teaching African children to read, 1964 ——————————— For the last several generations, missionaries have gotten a lot of bad press. They’re called cultural imperialists or tools of colonial oppression, and in the pages of books such
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By John Stonestreet, January 15, 2015, for www.breakpoint.org G.K. Chesterton once said, “It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” Well, if that is indeed the test, then recent events in Paris prove that radical Islam fails miserably. The horrific attacks in France were sparked
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By William Law (1686-1761); adapted from A Practical Treatise Upon Christian Perfection (1726), adapted *************************************** Clemens has his head full of imaginary goodness. He is often proposing to himself what he would do if he had a great fortune. He would outdo all charitable men that have gone before him, he would withdraw
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