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We Can Trust Him
I know very little about persecution. My physical well-being has never been threatened because of what I believe or what I say. What little I “know” about the subject comes from what I hear and read. But that is not true for many of our brothers and sisters around the world. Some of them live in danger every day simply because they love Jesus and want others to know Him too.
Why Would A Good God Allow Suffering?
Everything in life happens for a reason, even though you may not always understand it. In this booklet, author Kurt De Haan helps you discover how to put suffering to work for you. Gain a better understanding of how the pain in your life can help you recognize attacks from the enemy, seek God in faith and hope, be
Change: Following God Through Life’s Crossroads
No matter how you view change, it’s an inevitable part of life—you can’t experience anything new without it. In Change: Following God through Life’s Crossroads, Bill Crowder examines the life of the apostle Paul and offers insights to help you overcome fears, doubts, and resistance to change. Discover how you can draw closer to God and experience His peace, follow His lead and move into a new season of purpose, and impact the world around you for His glory.
Living Testament
Watchman Nee was arrested for his faith in Christ in 1952, and he spent the rest of his life in prison. He died in his jail cell on May 30, 1972. When his niece came to collect his few possessions, she was given a scrap of paper that a guard had found by his bed. On it was written his life’s testimony:
Paul’s Prison Epistles
This course offers an analysis of four of the epistles that Paul wrote from prison (Colossians, Ephesians, Philemon, and Philippians). As Christians we face many challenges to our faith. False teachings and worldviews assault our loyalty to Christ. Suffering tempts us to think that God is not in control, or that He does have our best interests at heart. And our relationships with other believers are often strained to the point that we doubt the value of the church. But Paul responded to these types of difficulties in his letters from prison. This course is a study of these epistles, based on…
Spiritual Sight
A prisoner who survived 14 years in a Cuban jail told how he kept his spirits up and his hope alive: “I had no window in my cell, and so I mentally constructed one on the door. I ‘saw’ in my mind a beautiful scene from the mountains, with water tumbling down a ravine over rocks. It became so real to me that I would visualize it without effort every time I looked at the cell door.”
Ironically, some of the most hopeful books of the Bible—Philippians, Colossians, and Ephesians—come out of Paul’s house arrest in Rome. The letter to the Ephesians gives a hint as to what the apostle Paul saw when he thought about life beyond his place of confinement.
At Risk For The Savior
During basic training, Desmond Doss irritated his drill instructor and fellow soldiers. A pacifist by conviction, he refused to carry a weapon into battle, and this made his peers doubt his courage. Trained as a medic, the young Christian had no qualms about facing combat. But his goal was to save lives.
Do you need some hope to cling to in the midst of a trial?
Thursday, October 4, 2012, Part 3
“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:9-10).
IDEA: We pray that God’s will may be done on earth as it is in heaven because God’s will is not being done on earth now.
PURPOSE: To help listeners pray the Lord’s Prayer with understanding.
The important role that followers of God play in bringing good to the world
Monday, October 1, 2012
“In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come” (Matthew 6:9).
IDEA: To think of the implication of the kingdom of heaven in our lives, it might help to think of life without it.
Understanding the persecution that ordinary Christians face every day
When we hear the word persecution we often correlate it to the early church martyrs who lived centuries ago. It’s foreign, and far removed from our world today.
Story of Two Spiritual Shepherds, Part I
Mart and Jimmy speak with two men who have never met. One is of Arab descent, the other is Jewish. They are divided by many miles of hotly disputed territory and by centuries of ethnic strife between their peoples. Yet these two men are very much alike. Nizar Touma is the Christian pastor of an Arab congregation in Nazareth in the north of Israel. Meno Kalisher is the Christian pastor of a predominantly Jewish congregation in Jerusalem. Both face the challenge of shepherding their flocks in what some might describe as dangerous pastures.
Runtime: 26 minutes
Story of Two Spiritual Shepherds, Part II
Mart and Jimmy speak with two men who have never met. One is of Arab descent, the other is Jewish. They are divided by many miles of hotly disputed territory and by centuries of ethnic strife between their peoples. Yet these two men are very much alike. Nizar Touma is the Christian pastor of an Arab congregation in Nazareth in the north of Israel. Meno Kalisher is the Christian pastor of a predominantly Jewish congregation in Jerusalem. Both face the challenge of shepherding their flocks in what some might describe as dangerous pastures.
Runtime: 26 minutes
Story of Two Spiritual Shepherds, Part III
Mart and Jimmy speak with two men who have never met. One is of Arab descent, the other is Jewish. They are divided by many miles of hotly disputed territory and by centuries of ethnic strife between their peoples. Yet these two men are very much alike. Nizar Touma is the Christian pastor of an Arab congregation in Nazareth in the north of Israel. Meno Kalisher is the Christian pastor of a predominantly Jewish congregation in Jerusalem. Both face the challenge of shepherding their flocks in what some might describe as dangerous pastures.
Runtime: 26 minutes
Be Who You Are
While awaiting a routine medical procedure in a local hospital, I noticed a wall plaque showing Christ on a cross. Later, a nurse asked me several administrative questions, in-cluding, “Do you have any spiritual needs you’d like to discuss with a chaplain?” I said that I appreciated her asking that question, which I found unusual in today’s world.
Stuck In The Mire
Jeremiah has been called “the weeping prophet.” He may have had a sensitive and melancholic disposition that was compounded by his heartbreak over God’s judgment on disobedient Israel. His capacity for sorrow is amazing: “Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night!” (Jer. 9:1).
