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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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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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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In 1997 Tony Campolo wrote Following Jesus Without Embarrassing God. In the book, Campolo discusses several areas in which Christians could be better witnesses to their faith in Jesus Christ by thinking clearer and presenting the Gospel in a more responsible way. In this interesting conclusion to the book (pages 271-274), he offers these additional thoughts.
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