Why is it that so many Christians (many whose writings I usually appreciate) seem to think it’s cool to ignore 1 Corinthians 13:1 while “proclaiming the truth” (as if love equals weakness). Truth is paramount; however, humility and love must undergird all of our words. And the good of the hearer to the glory of…
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Modern Christianity is the best inheritance local Christians in Kenya and the rest of the African countries have inherited from the early missionaries, John Cardinal Njue said on Saturday, August 14. The Cardinal, who was presiding over a Mass in Nairobi to mark the Family Day for the metropolitan archdiocese of Nairobi urged Christians to…
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A perimeter wall had been toppled. The main gate was smashed. Men were pouring through it. Behind them came a roaring bulldozer, then an excavator. As Wang stared in disbelief, he was clubbed over the head and trampled to the ground, his face streaming with blood. Then someone hurled a brick at him, fracturing his…
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An attack on a Christian aid group in Afghanistan that left 10 medical workers dead a week ago underscores the perils of faith-based organizations that operate in Muslim nations and the perception that they are promoting a Western agenda. Six Americans, two Afghans, a German and a Briton working for the International Assistance Mission were…
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Tracking the downfall of modern youth ministry is regularly in the news today, and even mainstream news outlets seem to think that it is big enough news to report on it. Today, the Wall Street Journal helps to chronicle the unbiblical morass that characterizes much of modern
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On Sunday evening as members of an international fellowship in Kabul gathered to remember and celebrate the lives of 10 humanitarian aid workers killed during a medical mission to Afghanistan’s northern province of Badakhshan, details of their lives and events leading up to their deaths continued to emerge.
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The ten bodies recovered Friday in a remote area of Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan are “likely” those of ten medical team members, reported the head of a Kabul-based Christian charity on Saturday.
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Logistics intimidate me. Had I been present at the sermon which preceded the feeding of the five thousand I wouldn’t have heard a word. My mind would have been rather occupied with that one burning question- how are we ever going to feed all these people? There I would have been, failing to hear the…
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When six Chinese security officials arrived at Yu Jie’s front door in the Chaoyang District on July 5, the dissident writer was editing an article with a lengthy but provocative title: “Terminating the State Security Bureau is the First Step Toward a Lasting Good Social Order.”
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The history of Christianity in the last two decades in Europe reveals a new pattern in persecutions of faithful Christians by pagan authorities. In the past, Christians were persecuted on the basis of laws or whims of rulers that specifically forbade Christian worship or gatherings. Such was the case in the Roman Empire. Such was…
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