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A Jew Responds To An Atheist

On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:18:54 +1100, Barry OGrady wrote: >Dear Dr. Laura, > >Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. >I have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge >with as many people as I can. >When someone tries to defend the homosexual […]

The Teachings Of Islam

Mohammed on Women: WOMEN Women are deficient in mind and religion. Mohammed asked some women, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half that of a man?” The women said, “yes,” He said, “This is because of the deficiency of the woman’s mind. ” Vol. 3:826 Mohammed to women: “I have not seen any […]

Why Are Jews Persecuted?

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:45:17 +1100, A ‘Net friend wrote: >What is about the Jewish people that attracts this kind of persecution? I have often pondered >this question. Being a specially chosen race by God in days of old perhaps. Having the oracles of God committed to thier care as well. Agnst between Christianity […]

Islam: Worshipping The Same God?

Across the Western world it is often stated that we all worship the same God. Is this true? Do the Muslims also believe this? The peaceful face of Islam in the West masks the reality of how women, Christian converts and others are brutalized in Islamic home territory. In his 56 page booklet, “Islam Unveiled”, […]

Missiology: Reading List

RESOURCES Theological Cross Cultural Recommended in the current issue of The Cry The Children, Sebastiao Salgado. Aperture Foundation, Inc.; New York, NY: 2000. The Children consists of nearly one hundred portraits of migrant, refugee, and displaced children under the age of fifteen around the world-in Mozambique, Rwanda, Croatia, Burundi, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Brazil, […]

Origins Of Islamic Terror

by *David D. Perlmutter TNA News with Commentary Weekend 3-4 November 2001 On Sunday in St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in Behawalpur, Pakistan, parishioners and visiting Protestants just finished singing “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace,” when Kalashnikov-toting young men described as wearing “bin Laden beards” rambled in, started firing, then ran away. […]

Messiah: Jewish Understanding

On Mon, 05 Nov 2001 08:39:20 GMT, an Orthodox friend wrote: >First, about your taking severe exception to my statement. I am sorry >if this appears offensive or is offensive, my intention was not to >offend you -but- state what I believe to be a historical fact. That >being, that since Judaism rejects Jesus as the Messiah, […]

The Day Of The Mission Field Has Come

Eleven years ago Kennon Callahan stated in his book Effective Church Leadership (Harper and Row, 1990) that “The day of the unchurched culture is over. The day of the mission field has come.” He was right then and he’s even more right now. The culture in which we live in the west is less and […]

Rethinking Evangelism

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-198 (Evangelism) RETHINKING EVANGELISM with Ross Langmead I’ve taken Christian newspapers into pubs to evangelise the drinkers. I’ve served in Christian coffee shops searching for the conversational opening which would allow me to tell wind-burnt surfers that Jesus loved them. I feel like Paul trumpeting how Jewish he had been when I […]

Indonesia: Laskar Jihad Ravage Sulawesi (December 2001)

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 146 – Wed 05 Dec 2001 INDONESIA: LASKAR JIHAD RAVAGE SULAWESI At least 1,000 people have been killed in sectarian strife in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, since religious violence erupted in 1998. The deployment of security forces led to the situation being relatively calm for most of this year. However, […]