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, [...]
Job 29:21-25
Men listened to me and waited
and kept silence for my counsel.
After I spoke they did not speak again,
and my word dropped upon them.
They waited for me as for the rain,
and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.
I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
and the light of my face they did [...]
I could write a book on this so with that in mind, I will be as brief as I can.
I truly wonder if we would actually, sincerely pray for these things… what would happened.
I know in my past that I didn’t want to go headlong into sin but my prayers and thoughts toward God [...]
Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
This is the glorious day we celebrate and rejoice [...]
or How did Jesus teach, share, engage, serve those of the world?
Per that same conversation with my friend, Ben, in my aforementioned post last Friday, I was challenged with this:
“How would you teach on any given subject: give the information or let the person figure out for themselves?”
My immediate instinct and answer, “Give the information. [...]
Praying and receiving prayer requests this weekend, I dwell on this thought by Mark Driscoll as I loosely quote:
“I had two seminary students come up to me to ask me about working in ministry full time. You know the type: fresh faced, pastel colored knit shirts and full of enthusiasm. They asked, “What’s it like [...]
Four months ago, God kept telling me that I should be leaving Gateway and be involved, somehow, someway with The Village Church.
Four months ago it didn’t make sense so I ignored it.
Yet, God won’t relent until He has it all. Proof of that is the Holy Spirit continued to speak to me with all of [...]
This is a conversation between me and my girlfriend about Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers:
Me: Did you like the book?
Her: Oh I love the book. The main character, Michael, sounds exactly like you.
Me: That would make sense since the Book of Hosea is one of my favorite books in the Bible.
Her: Yep except you have [...]
“One hundred years after Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount, a man approached the great church father Tertullian with a problem — his business interests and Christianity conflicted. He ended by asking, ‘What can I do? I must live!’ Tertullian replied, ‘Must you?’”
R. Kent Hughes, The Sermon on the Mount, page 74.
ht: Christ Is [...]
“May God once again raise up a generation of godly preachers who will declare His Word with all the authority that is inherent in it because of its Author”
Don Kistler, Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching