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Persecution Of Christians Update – April 2002
The Persecution & Prayer Alert The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada http://www.persecution.net Wednesday, April 10, 2002 A summary of news concerning the Persecuted Church and how you can respond. *********************************** Contents: 1. Continuing Violence Against Christians (Colombia) 2. Church Ordered Closed (Azerbaijan) 3. Border Closed to Vietnamese Refugees (Cambodia) 4. Is It Safe? (Editorial) 5. […]
This Is A Religious War [Islam]
October 7, 2001 By ANDREW SULLIVAN [NY Times. Date Unknown]. Perhaps the most admirable part of the response to the conflict that began on Sept. 11 has been a general reluctance to call it a religious war. Officials and commentators have rightly stressed that this is not a battle between the Muslim world and the […]
Middle East And Protestants
Sightings 4/8/02 A Spreading Conflict — Martin E. Marty The escalating belligerence on both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused alliances to shift and solidify. Suicide attacks on Israel bring partisan Jews into at least temporary alliances. Israeli military attacks on Palestinians bring Muslims of many sorts together, and unite Arab Muslims and Arab […]
Characteristics Of Missional Church
Kim Hammond reflects on the characteristics of the Missional Church and the implications upon his own community of faith, ‘The Junction’. Introduction. For the last fifteen hundred years the church has been at the centre of society and involved with the state. Today in a postmodern era there is a new emerging church rising from […]
Did Micky Mantle (1931-95) Go To Heaven?
Mickey Mantle, one of the greatest sluggers in baseball, became a legend as he hit 536 home runs in his American League career. Playing switch-hitter for the New York Yankees, he was named the American League’s most valuable player (MVP) in 1956 when he led the League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted […]
An Old Quote
"What are we to make of Jesus Christ? This is a question which has, in a sense, a frantically comic side. For the real question is not what are we to make of Christ, but what is He to make of us?" –C.S. Lewis Jesus is the joy Living!
The Law In The Heart
Read: Romans 2:12-16 [They] show the work of the law written in their hearts. -Romans 2:15 Marilyn Laszlo dedicated her life to giving the Hauna people of New Guinea the Bible in their own language. As she worked on the translation, she came to the word for “sin.” When Marilyn asked the people what they […]
Distinctive Christian Declaration
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 23:00:47 +1000 (EST) To: From: Subject: CLM 819 Distinctive Christian Declaration Clergy/Leaders' Mail-list No. 819 (Brief) >From Christian Quotation of the Day ——————————— Distinctive Christian Declaration ——————————— >From the very first, the conviction that Jesus had been raised from death has been that by which [the Christians'] very existence has […]
The Gospel
"The Word was made flesh in order to offer up this Body for all, and that we, partaking of His Spirit, might be deified." Saint Athanasius the Apostolic. 298-373 AD.
Ten Mission Myths
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-096 (Missions) TEN MISSION MYTHS by Paul Grant MISSION MYTHS They were not field missionaries. But in the first half of the 20th century two men took on the challenge of World Mission and changed the course of Christian history. In doing so they changed the world. They were John Mott (1865-1955) […]
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