Have you seen the latest Christian message film-“Do You Believe?” I highly recommend you see this good film. It will make you proud to be a Christ-Follower in today’s post-modern world. I find it very encouraging that media is being used effectively to break the “Sound of Silence” coming out of the Evangelical church. In a day when Christians are being attacked from all
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The Indigenous
Does the word “indigenous” mean anything to you? It doesn’t to most people. The basic meaning in Webster’s dictionary is “native, or inborn.” Last year I came across the “Indigenous” people of Chiapas Mexico. This people group are what we tourists know as Mayan Indians. However, the locals call themselves the “indigenous.” The reason being that they wish to distinguish themselves from the rest
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I am often asked why we work mostly in poor rural areas instead of urban centers. My answer is – both are important, but there are real needs in rural villages that are less evident in cities. Witchcraft abounds in uneducated areas where there is no church to counter the darkness. The dismembered body of a one year-old albino boy was recently found in
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I am so conflicted, my emotions running from righteous anger to a deep sadness over the state of our world today. My sadness is that there is so much BAD news in the headlines about religion in our world. We seldom hear much about the good that religion does to make our societies safe and whole. Religion used to be the glue that held
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Do you get discouraged watching the daily news of terror, shootings, ISIS, murder and such? Well,welcome to the club! With so much information about how bad things are, we become overwhelmed with it all. A friend said to me recently, “Armageddon is coming, we’d better get ready!” Now, it may be true that human history is heading toward the big conflict, but I am not
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As the World Explodes Around Us
Don’t panic, the world is not coming to an end! At least not real soon. So many of my friends are intimidated by the Muslim extremist and their barbarous acts of murder, mayhem and malice towards the West. They see it as bringing us to the end of the world. However, even as the Jihadists randomly attack infidels (as they see us) around the
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Vows are promises we make with the full intention of keeping them-most of the time. I’m guessing the American idea of making New Year’s resolutions came out of the human need to do better. If that is true, many of our “resolves” are guilt motivated. Like, we ate too much rich food during those Christmas holidays. Not just too much, but too much of
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Barber shops are like libraries-full of information if you take the time to find it. Last week, I was having my grey hair washed by this girl behind me I had never seen before. To me, she was only water, a voice and hands massaging my wet, soapy head. Trying to make conversation, she was babbling about nothing, so I said to her, “Tell
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Let’s take it back! Today millions can have their Christ-less Christmas and not miss a Christmas carol beat! As millions of immigrants from Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and other non-Christian cultures have made America their home; they see our holiday but DO NOT see the Christmas Story nor its salvation message. I want to suggest something to you. Rather than quit on Christmas, let’s take
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Last year I wrote my mixed reviews about the American way of Christmas. I am at it again! Really, like so many of us as believers in Christ, we hate the greed, the secularism and the bastardazation of what should be “our party.” No one messes with Ramadan or Hanukkah, so why do we let the pagans have our Christmas? I think I have
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