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Pray for the World 29 June 2011
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 114 | Wed 29 Jun 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month. ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. [. . .] If you then, who are […]
ONLY IN TEXAS ….
Texas Beer Joint Sues Church in MT.Vernon, Texas … Drummond's Bar began construction on an expansion of their building to increase their business. In response, the local Baptist Church started a campaign to block the bar from expanding with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up untli the week before the grand reopening when lightning […]
Empathy makes the world go round
Simon Baron-cohen June 26, 2011 The ability to see through another’s eyes is a crucial human trait; we all suffer in its absence. WHEN I was seven years old, my father told me the Nazis had turned Jews into lampshades. Just one of those comments you hear once and the thought never goes away. I […]
PRAY FOR THE WORLD 28 June 2011
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * HAS THE BATON BEEN PASSED TO THE ASIAN CHURCH? * SUDAN: THOUSANDS FLEE BURNING AND LOOTING BY NORTH SUDAN FORCES * 48 RAPES OCCUR EVERY HOUR IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO * FIRST CONPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF WORLD MUSLIM OPINION * PAKISTAN'S BLASPHEMY LAWS POSE GROWING THREAT * MARRIAGES […]
TO ALL MY INTELLIGENT FRIENDS
¯ » ¿ I am sending this only to my smart friends. I could not figure it out. My first thought was wrong and I had to look at the answer. See if you can figure out what these seven words all have in common. 1. Banana 2. Dresser 3. Grammar 4. Potato 5. Revive 6. Uneven […]
Clean humo[u]r
A boy had reached four without giving up the habit of sucking his thumb, though his mother had tried everything from bribery to reasoning to painting it with lemon juice to discourage the habit. Finally she tried threats, warning her son that, “If you don’t stop sucking your thumb, your stomach is going to blow […]
Uzbek Christians Suffer as Regime Tightens Noose
WEA-RLC Research and Analysis Report June 24, 2011 At least four incidents of Christian persecution were reported from the former Soviet country of Uzbekistan this week. A Christian woman was beaten into concussion, another woman was fined $1,465 by a court for giving the New Testament to a child, a Christian man was threatened with […]
SUDAN: GENOCIDAL REGIME TARGETS NUBA AGAIN
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 113 | Wed 22 Jun 2011 By Elizabeth Kendal North Sudan’s South Kordofan State is defined by the Nuba Mountains. Whilst the plains of South Kordofan are populated by pro-Khartoum Arab Misseriya Baggara nomads, the Nuba Mountains are populated by some 50 non- Arab, predominantly non-Muslim African tribes collectively […]
Why Creatives Leave the Church
by: Brian Orme The church is made up of all kinds of people – businessmen and women, farmers, industrial workers, theologians, teachers, blue collar, white collar, entrepreneurs, servants, and leaders – but there ¢â‚¬â„¢s one group of people that the church is in danger of losing: her creatives. Why is it so hard for creatives to […]
Generation Wandering: Young people and institutions
Sightings <[email protected]> wrote: *Sightings* 6/20/2011 — Martin E. Marty Backlash against the hyper-institutionalism of religious organizations in the 1950s led first to revolt ( ¢â‚¬Å“the sixties ¢â‚¬ ) and the birth of a lifestyle summarized in the mantra, ¢â‚¬Å“I ¢â‚¬â„¢m not religious, but I ¢â‚¬â„¢m spiritual. ¢â‚¬ Today some returnees are nervy enough to lash back with an opposite mantra: ¢â‚¬Å“I ¢â‚¬â„¢m […]
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