Above: Richard Wurmbrand prison photo By Richard Wurmbrand (1909-2001), Tortured for Christ, 1967, pages 11-13. Wurmbrand suffered much for his faith in Christ, first by the Nazi invasion of his homeland Romania, then by the Russians, and then by the Romanian communists. He would spend 13 years in prison for proclaiming Christ, was often tortured, […]
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During our first year as missionaries to a newly opened primitive area of the highlands of New Guinea, we soon became aware of much tension and rivalry among the various tribes, which often resulted in open hostility and warfare. They were then usually rounded up by the local police and herded to the
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The story at the beginning and some of the ideas for this sermon (from several years ago) were found in “Look Up: An Advent Meditation” by William Willimon, Christian Century; November 30, 1983. ———————————— Luke 21:25-28: (Jesus said), “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in
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Ed was a Lutheran missionary to the African nation of Cameroon. His area of expertise was agriculture and he went to the mission field to teach people how to farm more effectively. He had hoped that his love and concern for the people he worked with could bear witness to the love of Jesus Christ
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Less than 25 years after Muslim terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people on 9/11, New York City, home of “ground zero,” just elected a Muslim as its next mayor. Some European cities are already majority Muslim, so what does this mean for America? Speaker and author Abdu Murray (pictured above) takes a closer look at Islam
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The Meeting With Joe, by Gary S. (source lost) One cold winter morning as I looked out my bedroom window at the gray, bleak landscape, I wondered, What is my life worth? Where do I fit into the scheme of things? I felt completely overwhelmed by rejection. I couldn’t see any hope in
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Above photo: Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofia, six weeks before his death. ———————– The story of Leo Tolstoy’s conversion, from the introduction to What I Believe, by Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (1828-1910) —————————— I am fifty-five years old and, with the exception of the fourteen or fifteen years of my childhood, I
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Vincent Damon Furnier, later and better known as Alice Cooper, was born February 4, 1948. His father was a pastor, and his grandfather was the president of a small denomination, “The Church of Jesus Christ.” As a teenager, he was very active in the church, attending worship three times a week and reading
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By John Stonestreet, August 31,2015 Blog at: www.breakpoint.org Standing on the porch of a locked house, rookie homicide investigator J. Warner Wallace peered into the living room. He could see a man on the floor in a pool of blood, gun by his side. Now the question he had to answer: Was this
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Every once in a while, Easter falls on April Fool’s Day (most recently in 2018; next time will be 2029). “That is perfect,” some will say, implying that only a ‘fool’ would believe someone could rise from the dead. Lee Strobel (1952- ) would have been of that opinion when he was a
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