3 Nigerian pastors were recently beheaded. In the aftermath of that tragedy, according to The Daily Sun, church leaders addressed their congregations:
Also delivering a sermon during the funeral rites for late Rev. Sabo Yakubu, slain COCIN Church pastor, the speaker, [...]
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How would you like to support missions with one of your Christmas gift choices? My grandfather is marketing a special hand-crafted wood paddle, proceeds of which benefit the Dorcas Fund–a fund to help widows and orphans in Zambia, Africa.
The paddle has an inspirational message: “Up a creek without a paddle? Seek me. ~God.“ The paddles [...]
–this is cross posted at Kingdom Surge, my missions blog.
No one is more known for peace and tolerance than the Dali Lama. At least that’s what the world at large thinks of him. A Tibetan Buddhist, he crusades for world peace and harmony.
Sunday at our church, one of the leaders of an Indian church planting [...]
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Read the fascinating story of the son of a Hamas leader who converted to Christianity. FoxNews interviews him on his conversion, his thoughts about Islam and Christianity. (HT: Free From the Box)
May many more Muslims come to the truth of Jesus Christ, and the freedom provided by the Cross.
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My pastor, John Piper, made some interesting comments on the concept of a “new song” in this week’s sermon. He made an important observation of how Ps. 96, which is a missions psalm, is also very much concerned with singing. I was encouraged as he shared how the global church is having a [...]
Part 13 in a series of Sunday posts celebrating the glorious Truth we believe as Christians. The readings are quoted from the Elder Affirmation of Faith, of my church, Bethlehem Baptist (Pastor John Piper). I’m doing this because every few weeks our congregational reading is an excerpt from this document, and every time we [...]
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I posted the following post on Kingdom Surge, and thought it would work well to post it here as well.
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In her book Faithful Women and Their Extraordinary GodNoel Piper presents a biographical sketch of the life of Helen Roseveare, missionary to the Congo for over 20 years. The above video clip is a 4 minute [...]
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It’s official! Today marks the launch of Kingdom Surge, a new team blog devoted to missions.
This project will aim to harness some of the excitement and energy spent in the Christian blogosphere and direct it into thinking about and aiding the cause of missions, particularly to the unreached people groups. The team (with [...]
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