Above:Â Adamou, one of Abraham’s spiritual descendants, now ‘as numerous as the stars in the sky.’ ——————————————– Â Â Â (…continued) Â 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. Â 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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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
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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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Life is uncertain. Â We begin this new year fully aware that it could be our last. Â Young wife and mother Kara Tippets (pictured above with her family) knows that it will be her last year. Â This month could even be her last month. Â Kara has stage four terminal cancer. Â After a long hospitalization she went
By Chuck Colson (1931-2012), for the Breakpoint radio program, December 25, 1995. Chuck Colson served as special counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969-1973. Â He spent nine months in prison (1974-75) after pleading guilty to charges of obstruction of justice. Â Colson’s life fell apart during the Watergate investigation, and during that time gave his life
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     From Following Jesus Without Embarrassing God, by Tony Campolo, 1997, pages 273-4:    (…continued) Some years ago my wife and I had a stopover in Honolulu on our way home from a preaching mission in Australia.  We had just enough time to take a walk along Waikiki Beach.  On our walk
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