Above: From The Passion of the Christ, 2004 ————————- From The Passion Reconsidered, an article by Frank Turek posted April 12, 2009. Turek is coauthor of I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist. See more of his work at: CrossExamined.org. Nearly 45 years ago, medical doctor C. Truman Davis felt he […]
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Pakistan is 95 percent Muslim and 2 percent Christian. The Christian minority faces sporadic, but often severe persecution from the Muslim majority. Christians are often not protected by the authorities when persecuted. Offending Muslims are often not prosecuted. Christians suffer under unjust blasphemy laws. Christians have been beaten, murdered, and have had their
As we begin another year, Philip Yancey reminds us: Grace hasn’t vanished. Posted January 15, 2015, at: www.christianitytoday.com After listening to several dark reviews of 2014; recapped news of the beheadings in Iraq, the Ebola epidemic, racial strife, airplanes crashed or missing, ongoing violence in Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and several African countries– it’s
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Christians and Ebola, by Eric Metaxas, October 15, 2014 blog at: http://www.breakpoint.org Between 250 and 270 A.D. a terrible plague, believed to be measles or smallpox, devastated the Roman Empire. At the height of what came to be known as the Plague of Cyprian, after the bishop St. Cyprian who chronicled what
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“I hardly had a drink in years,” said a man from New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. “But right after the hurricane hit, I started drinking again. Now, if I stop drinking, the pain becomes so great it is unbearable. I am scared because I don’t have any identity anymore.” He
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By Tony Campolo, Let Me Tell You a Story, copyright 2000, pages 89-90. The story is told of a young lieutenant in World War II whose unit was ambushed by Nazi soldiers. Almost all of them escaped from the flying bullets by running into an old farmhouse. However, out of the darkness came
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July the 14th, 1861 Washington DC My very dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days– perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more.
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From This Week in Christian History at www.Christianity.com One of the most heroic acts of the twentieth century reached its conclusion seventy-two years ago yesterday, August 14, 1941. That is when the Franciscan friar, Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), lifted up his arm to receive a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Two weeks
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