After my post, I found the article linked below another indication that China is handling the “Christian Crisis” all wrong.
Thought: Threats of detention and imprisonment emboldens the actions of (Chinese) Christians who have been declared free forever.
I once heard a pastor in a closed country ask a stadium full of people to pray for MORE [...]
In 1949, many believed all religion would die in China and predicted the state would soon become the model of the secular, modern, post-religious state.
Read this article, and I think it may be time for some to admit the failure of the modern system to satisfy the cry of every human heart.
From the Article: “Despite [...]
The good guys at IX Marks Ministries have done the body of Christ a good work with their latest journal. Access it here.
Church and Parachurch: Friends or Foes? | 9Marks.
Cuba rests 90 miles from the coast of the southern tip of Florida. So close to freedom, yet the country still wrangles under the pressure of a state that persecute believers who exercise their faith. Last week, I received an email with the attached open letter from a friend who has pastored there for nearly [...]
Francis Chan has decided to go and plant a new work, answering what he describes as a “stirring in his heart.”
Additionally, he said he wants to start over and get a core group of disciples who just try 100 percent to follow the life he felt was clearly spelled out in Scripture.
“While I feel like [...]
What on earth does earth does Geneva have to do with America? Interestingly, Josh Burek addresses the subject in this morning’s CSM. Here, Calvinism is described as the theological foundation for America’s patriotism, work ethic, sense of equality, public morality, and even elements of democracy.
In fact, he argues, they “all sprang in part from the Calvinist [...]
Good post this morning in the Wash Times:
HAGELIN: Created in the image of God – Washington Times.
Watch this video from Pastor John MacArthur (Johnny Mac) and a story that will push you to share your faith more often and with more urgency.
John MacArthur – Study Video from Together for the Gospel (T4G) on Vimeo.
What would Galileo do (WWGD)? Read a good post in the WSJ this morning on East Anglia and the implications for scientist and science around the world. What happened? For starters, careful calculations were replaced with catchy Gore-ish pathos. Scientist bowed before the altar of grants and government finance, yielding an unhealthy amalgam of postmodern [...]
Can you name the last tome you finished? Can you name the last 1000+ page book you picked up and read only enough to consider its message? Hopefully, that was this morning in your Scripture time, but, aside from that, when was the last time you thirsted for a long day filled only with reading?
I [...]
