Before baptizing someone, a native missionary in Nepal asks the above seven questions. They consider the cost. ***************************    (…continued) Jesus comes to different people in different ways at different stages in their lives. In Luke 14:31-33 Jesus told the people there gathered to “consider the cost” before becoming his disciple. They were perhaps […]
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Pictured above: Ayub Masih ———-– Luke 14:28-33 — (Jesus said), “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and consider the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it
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“The Bully Becomes the Beaten” from the January 2020 issue of The Voice of the Martyrs, the monthly publication of the organization ‘Voice of the Martyrs,’ which serves persecuted Christians around the world. You may learn more about their work at: http://www.persecution.com ————————————     Paulus had no idea that the words of the man he
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“The Staggering Rise of the Church in Iran” By Afshin Ziafa, lead pastor of Providence Church in Frisco, Texas, where he lives with his wife and three children. ——————————    For many years, Iran was one of the most difficult regions of the world to reach with the gospel. A significant development occurred in
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Adapted from the February 8 Standing Strong Through the Storm daily blog at: http://www.opendoorsusa.org —————————————- Micah 7:7-9 — But as for me, I keep watch for the Lord, I wait in hope for God my Savior; my God will hear me. Do not gloat over me my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise.Â
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By Jayson Casper, January 13, 2020, at: http://www.christianitytoday.com    A hostage video released last week by Boko Haram did far more than issue another plea for rescue from a Nigerian Christian. It revealed a modern-day Shadrach (see Scripture verses from Daniel 3 below), proclaiming his faith in God who is able to deliver him
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   Aunty Esther was a diminutive elderly Chinese medical doctor with a soft, kind voice that masks the many years of suffering through which she has passed.    “During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976),” she says, “I was called in by my superior one day. At that time I was in charge of eight
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Posted December 7, 2019 at: http://www.opendoors/usa.org “Open Doors colleague, Ron Boyd-MacMillan, shares the following insight from his teaching, “Why I Need to Encounter the Persecuted Church.” ————————————–    There is a famous book called The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. It is Becker’s contention that the whole of the Western world is really
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By Ron Boyd-MacMillan in “Why I Need to Encounter the Persecuted Church”    The Persecuted Church teaches us that everyone is either an agent of God’s will, or an instrument of God’s will. Everyone in this world has only two choices: they can choose to do God’s will by co-operating with God, or they can choose
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From an October 2012 Standing Strong Through the Storm daily devotional at : http://www.opendoors-usa.org ————————— Pastor Samuel Lamb (1924-2013) —————-    Pastor Samuel Lamb from southern China celebrated his 88th birthday in October, 2012. A quarter of his life was spent imprisoned for his faith. He still preaches several times on Sunday in his
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