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The city of Jos would be restored; Our justice, charity and our community; Our spirit, our hospitality and prosperity; Beauty for gun smoke and ashes; Peace and strength for war cries and despair. Our children will once again play on the streets Without fear, without guns in sight. Our patrons will remember our famed hospitality [...]
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How do we respond to persecution?
Why and how do we identify withe the persecuted?
This article is a continuation of Christian Persecution: Biblical Perspectives for the 21st century mind [Part 1]
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For most modern day Christians, persecution is merely a historical or antiquated theological ideology, an awkward subject that hopefully the church has overgrown. We barely have any sense of identification with people suffering for their faith in Christ and for their passion to share the gospel. I hope I can show you just how tragic this is.
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Theresa Davies said she was forced to move from her £26,000 a year job at Islington Council because of her deeply-held religious objections to same-sex civil partnerships
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[...]In His holy hill
My knees on supplicatory ground
Spending time with the crown of all majesty and splendor.
Pouring out my heart as He fills up my spirit [...]
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I’ld like to share with you a great article I found in the March 2008 edition of Lausanne World Pulse, by Gideon Para-Mallam. I’ve read this article several times over in the past one year and I decided to post a major excerpt from it today. It’s a long read even after I’ve tried to abbreviate it a little, but I think it’s worth it absolutely!
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You know one quarter of this year is already gone! I still feel like that Friday morning, first of this year, while we were rejoicing, congratulating and praying for each other about the new year, in an RCCG church back in Sokoto state, was just a few days ago. Well, how time flies. Anyway it’s [...]
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I used to refer to the recurring killings in Jos as a religious crisis, well, not for now. I wonder what qualifies a religious crisis these days? I think we have consistently allowed an evil that raids our nation to get away with a cheap masquerading. We need no longer accept the theory that the [...]
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