Two Christians Critically Wounded at Wedding in Pakistan
“One of the green-turban-wearing Muslims peremptorily told us to recite the Islamic holy Kalima [profession of faith] or face direct bullets and the lethal consequences,” said Khushi Masih.
Both Christians said that they joyfully refused, and instead they began reciting Psalm 91.
“Our decision infuriated them,” Imran Masih said, [...]
courtesy of Ree Drummond, A Pioneer Woman Cooks
prep time: 30 Minutes
cook time: 30 Minutes
difficulty: Easy
servings: 6
1 stick Butter
½ whole Onion, Finely Diced
1 whole Carrot Finely Diced
1 stalk Celery, Finely Diced
1 whole (to 2 Whole) Cauliflower Heads (roughly Chopped)
2 Tablespoons Fresh Or Dried Parsley (chopped)
2 quarts Low-sodium Chicken Broth Or Stock
6 Tablespoons All-purpose Flour
2 cups Whole [...]
In a wonderful crossfire conversation over on Twitter, I picked up that Will Adair was trying to get a global reading group to go through Calvin’s Institutes of Christian Religion in one year and discuss along the way.
If you are interested, come join us over at Bound with Christ. Read the three posts, get registered [...]
To order a steak ‘well-done’, culinarily speaking, is the equivalent to ask for your red meat to be burnt. Chemically, this makes sense but in the restaurant kitchen, the results are even worse:
1. Since you’ve just ordered your steak to be burnt, there is no way you care whether or not you get a [...]
Note: To those who think Jesus is girlie and sweet and fairy-like, skipping through the hills, sprinkling happy dust for all the good girls and boys, to those I contend, not bloody likely:
“Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted outside the gates of the city. It was the common place of death. [...]
Reading Ed Stetzer’s Biggest Changes in Christianity in the Last Decade, I have sat and dwell over this one statement for most of the day:
“A widespread abandonment of Christian doctrinal commitment — even doctrinal knowledge. Forget the rising number of people with no religious identity; the news to me is the vast number of self-identified [...]
courtesy of Lulu Bell Johnson
2 cups sugar
1 stick butter
½ cup cooking oil
5 egg yolks
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup coconut
5 egg whites
1 cup pecans, chopped fine
Preheat oven at 325°F
Prepare 3 cake pans (grease and flour).
Blend sugar with butter and oil. Add egg yolks. Mix. Combine flour with the [...]
Ten Years Ago
I was a pornographer. I was the creator and the evangelist for all things pornography.
I used to take women, expose them sexually, to strip them of any dignity they had. I used to make sure that content would fuel my wanton lusts and lustful desires of millions of others.
I was not ashamed in [...]