We hear much today about the hostility of unbelievers towards Christians: don’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’ take down those Nativity Scenes from public places, make sure the children don’t sing any Christmas carols at the ‘Winter Program,’ etc. Just yesterday I read about some customers at a restaurant who were offended by the Christmas music that […]
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Above: The ‘Backyard Bible Club’ ——- By Joshua Rogers, November 15, 2016 blog at: www.joshuarogers.com My old friend Dawn emailed me with unbelievable news last week: She accidentally found Amanda. The last time either of us saw her was 17 years ago. The summer of 1999, our church hosted Backyard Bible Clubs in neighborhoods throughout
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By William Willimon (source lost) In Matthew 4:19 Jesus called some fishermen, ordinary folks like you and like me, to be his disciples. He said to them, “Follow me and I will send you out to fish for people.” Jesus has promised that those who follow him shall work with him in ‘catching
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New Glory in the Ancient City: Muslim Refugees Turning to Jesus, by David Crabb; posted October 25, 2016 at: http://www.desiringgod.org . ————————— ATHENS, Greece — The spirit of Athens today lies at the crossroads between old and new. Everywhere you look are reminders of the epic grandeur this city once enjoyed. Even if
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By Virginia Prodan, on the ‘My Testimony’ page of the September 23, 2016 issue of Christianity Today magazine. Prodan is an international human rights attorney, and an Allied Attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. She is the author of Saving My Assassin (Tyndale). ——————————— Like most people, I was born with a hunger for
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Pictured above: The Sinking of the Titanic, Willy Stower, 1912 —————————- From The One Year Christian History, by E. Michael and Sharon Rusten, pages 212-3, Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. John Harper was born in Scotland in 1872 to a Christian family. When he was presented with the message of John 3:16 at the
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(…continued) There are many other times this sort of thing happens. In Numbers 10 Moses is leading the Jews out of slavery into the promised land. In the desert they meet Hobab, a Midianite. Moses said to him, “Come along with us, Hobab; we’ll do you good. The Lord has promised good things
By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, October 16, 2015, at: http://www.Christianitytoday.com The two men share a last name but otherwise come from different worlds: Raju Parivar (pictured above), a popular folk singer in Nepal, and Bishnu Parivar, a Christian pastor who runs a children’s ministry and orphanage in the tourist city of Bharatpur in the Himalayan country.
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Above: Moody (with beard) and the boys of the Chicago streets (1860’s). ———————- Dwight L. Moody (1837 – 1899) was the most influential evangelist of the nineteenth century. His work became the benchmark for all revivalists who followed him. He has been called the father of modern campaign evangelism. This pushy shoe salesman
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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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