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  • Ted Cruz Shares Intimate Details of His Faith Journey

    01/28/2016 7:24:50 AM PST · by justlittleoleme · 100 replies
    Charismanews ^ | 1/28/16
    After my dad became a Christian, we all moved together to Houston. And seeing the amazing transformation in her husband, my mom became a Christian within a year as well. Thus, by age 4, I was blessed to be being raised in a Christian home with two strong (but new) believers as parents.I was raised in the church. Each night, my dad would read with me from our children's Bible. We'd memorize Bible verses, and compete to see who could do the best. We'd act out scenes from the Old Testament. We attended Clay Road Baptist Church, pastored by the...
  • Dear Christians, If You Vote For A Godless Man, You Are Asking For Tyranny

    01/27/2016 11:27:33 AM PST · by paladinan · 92 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 1-19-2016 | Matt Walsh
    It's very simple. If a man has no moral center, if he has ambition but no faith, if he does not demonstrate humility or integrity, I will never vote for him for president. I don't care who he is, what he's done, what he says, or what positions he holds. None of that will matter when we are living under his tyranny, and tyranny is sure to follow when you give unspeakable power to a man who believes he is God. I'll put this another way: if you vote for a man who worships himself over God, you deserve the...
  • Florida: Christian schools can't pray at championship game

    01/27/2016 5:47:02 AM PST · by Zakeet · 24 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 26, 2016 | Todd Starnes
    Prayer is important at Florida's Cambridge Christian School. "We train our students that prayer is foundational to their walk with Christ," Head of School Tim Euler told me. "Our faith is founded in prayer." So when Cambridge Christian faced off against University Christian School last December in the 2A state championship football game, they asked the Florida High School Athletic Association if they could begin with a word of prayer. The FHSAA said no.
  • Hymn Stirs Controversy After Allah Switch

    01/26/2016 1:43:51 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 43 replies
    The Local ^ | 26 Jan 2016
    An Austrian parent has complained after his daughter was given an altered version of a popular children's hymn in which the word 'God' was replaced with the word 'Allah'. The woman told local media she was shocked when her daughter came home with the text to learn from the school in the Upper Austrian town of Wels. The original song "Gottes Liebe ist so wunderbar" which means "God's love is so wonderful" is an extremely popular song for young children in Christian Austria. However, the teacher had decided to rewrite the text, replacing the word God with the word Allah....
  • Private Islamic Tuition Teacher Turns to be Christian News Viral on Social Media

    01/26/2016 11:12:51 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    Emirates 24/7 ^ | Saturday, January 23, 2016 | Mahra S.
    In a strange incident, a teacher who was giving Muslim students private tuition in Islamic studies turned to be a Christian. The news went viral on social media, drawing many mixed reactions. Amal, a Kuwaiti woman said that the teacher must be punished. “It is not acceptable to cheat in religion. How can someone who is from a different religion teach these kids about Islam and Sharia?” she questioned. Sharing similar views, Seham, another Kuwaiti woman said that the religion of the private tuition teacher does not make a huge difference if he is teaching them Science, Mathematics and English....
  • Christian persecution at record levels

    01/22/2016 9:01:54 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 22 Jan, 2016 | Carol Brown
    The headline at The Clarion Project reads: "Christian Persecution in 2015 at ‘Levels Akin to Ethnic Cleansing'." The sub-heading notes that 2015 was "the most violent year in modern history for Christians." It takes one’s breath away to see the blunt truth summed up like that. And the world is turning a blind eye. The article the references a piece at Open Doors that provides an overview of the rise of Christian persecution around the world. (See summary below.) In 2015, more than 7,000 Christians were killed because of their faith (twice as many as the year before). And the...
  • Trump Blames 'Two Corinthians' Gaffe On Tony Perkins

    01/21/2016 12:50:05 PM PST · by conservativejoy · 80 replies
    The Hill ^ | 1/21/2016 | Bradford Richards
    Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump late Wednesday pinned blame for his scriptural gaffe -saying "2 Corinthians" instead of "Second Corinthians" - on evangelical activist Tony Perkins. "Tony Perkins wrote that out for me. He actually wrote out the 2, he wrote out the number 2 Corinthians," Trump said on "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon." "I took exactly what Tony said, and I said, 'Well, Tony has to know better than anybody.'" The slip-up drew laughs from the crowd at evangelical Liberty University and led to attacks on the billionaire businessman's faith. But Trump said he has since heard from "a...
  • Dear Christians, If You Vote For A Godless Man, You Are Asking For Tyranny

    01/20/2016 4:41:42 AM PST · by plewis1250 · 162 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 1/19/2016 | Matt Walsh
    It’s very simple. If a man has no moral center, if he has ambition but no faith, if he does not demonstrate humility or integrity, I will never vote for him for president. I don’t care who he is, what he’s done, what he says, or what positions he holds. None of that will matter when we are living under his tyranny, and tyranny is sure to follow when you give unspeakable power to a man who believes he is God. I’ll put this another way: if you vote for a man who worships himself over God, you deserve the...
  • ISIS destroys Iraq's oldest Christian monastery, satellite photos confirm

    01/20/2016 1:15:29 AM PST · by WhiskeyX · 60 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 20, 2016 | Associated Press
    ERBIL, Iraqi – Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the ISIS terror group's relentless destruction of heritage sites it considers heretical.
  • Priority Should be Given to Christian Refugees

    01/18/2016 2:41:51 PM PST · by NYer · 12 replies
    Crisis Magazine ^ | January 14, 2016 | PETER MAURICE
    “Dhimmitude,” like takfir and sharia, is a word of which Americans were happily ignorant not so long ago. Events, unfortunately, have expanded our Arabic vocabulary. As with other Islamic concepts, the meaning of dhimmitude, even its existence, is contested among Muslims. And misuse is not always merely semantic for those prone to issuing fatwas.No matter how nuanced the definition, dhimmitude always entailed a degree of subordination under Muslim rule. Historically, the dhimmi accepted second-class status as an alternative to conversion, death, or enslavement. For the privilege of being tolerated in lands under the Prophet’s sway, Christians, Jews, Hindus—any infidel—renounced...
  • Norway Seizes Christian Children From Parents [John 15 - World Loves Islam, Hates Christianity]

    01/17/2016 1:27:45 PM PST · by Jan_Sobieski · 25 replies
    CP World ^ | 1/16/2016 | Katherine Weber
    International protests are being planned throughout the month of January after the Norwegian government removed five children from their Christian parents under accusations of "religious indoctrination." Protests are planned for the rest of January in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Austria, Romania, Spain, Ireland, India, Poland, and Australia, along with several other countries to speak out against the recent separation of five Christian children from their parents at the hands of government officials. In November 2015, Norway's child welfare services, known as Barnevernet, removed five children, including three sons and two daughters, from parents Ruth and Marius Bodnariu, residents of Naustdal...
  • Pastors, You Must Speak Up: One in 5 U.S. Abortions Are Performed on Women Identifying...

    01/16/2016 7:07:54 PM PST · by Morgana · 23 replies
    epm.org ^ | January 15, 2016 | Randy Alcorn
    FULL TITLE: Pastors, You Must Speak Up: One in 5 U.S. Abortions Are Performed on Women Identifying as Evangelical Christians Some Christians may think, “Believers don’t have abortions, only un-churched people do.” This simply isn’t true. In fact, 43 percent of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 27 percent identify themselves as Catholic. So two-thirds of America’s abortions are obtained by those with a Christian affiliation. As I share in my book Why ProLife?, one of every five US abortions—about a quarter-million a year—are performed on women who identify themselves as born-again or evangelical Christians.[i] Many church-attending women,...
  • “Pretend to be Christian”: ISIS handbook tells Muslims to lose beard, shun mosque....

    01/12/2016 2:42:50 PM PST · by Morgana · 32 replies
    pamelageller.com ^ | January 11, 2016 | Pamela Geller
    FULL TITLE: “Pretend to be Christian”: ISIS handbook tells Muslims to lose beard, shun mosque and wear cross before killing ISIS has issued a handbook for Muslims in the West. The gist of the instruction booklet is the necessity to blend in with the Western way of life and to avoid “looking like a Muslim” — pretend to be Christian — so as to stay below the radar of the security services. This is important. It is key to understanding the enemy and their tactics. The media and the Democrats are deliberately misleading the public. You must educate yourself and...
  • Matt Bracken's "Tet, Take Two: Islam's 2016 European Offensive" preached at a Church on 1/10/16

    01/11/2016 10:41:17 AM PST · by Perseverando · 50 replies
    YouTube ^ | January 11, 2016 | Vanity
    Unbelievable! I was watching a great video on YouTube as a result of reading this article posted on FR: Mid-East Prophecy Update - January 10th, 2016 . The video is essentially a "prophecy" sermon by Pastor J.D. Farag of Calvary Chapel Kaneohe, Hawaii from yesterday, 1/10/16 addressing current events in the middle east, Israel, America, Europe and the rest of the world. (Very, very interesting!) Lot's of info about Islam, etc. Also addresses guns. At the 22:30 minute mark Pastor J.D. Farag begins to talk about Matt Bracken's "Tet, Take Two: Islam's 2016 European Offensive". He says it is "a...
  • Ray Comfort Illustrates Eternity for Nonbelievers in Post-New Year Message

    01/07/2016 3:37:43 PM PST · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 17 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 1/7/2016 | JEANNIE LAW
    New Zealand-born evangelist Ray Comfort is best known by many for street evangelism in which he asks people about God, the Bible, sin and salvation. And on Tuesday the minister continued sharing the promise of eternity in Heaven for believers in a post-New Year's Day Facebook message to his followers. Comfort's post, in it entirety, can be read below: "Some people have the idea that Christians will spend eternity sitting on clouds playing rusty harps. If that's all I hoped for, I wouldn't be a Christian. The hope I have is not nebulous; it is concrete. It is an 'anchor...
  • Can You Be a Christian and Pro-Choice?

    01/05/2016 1:07:31 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 76 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 01/05/2016 | Shane Pruitt
    It's time to draw a proverbial "line in the sand" on the abortion issue and how it relates to our Christian faith. As Christians, we cannot continue to dance around the genocide that is taking place in our midst, and while many incredible individuals and organizations have been doing hard work fighting against this unimaginable injustice, it's time that we all stand with them. So who I want to address this to is Christians who have been wavering in their opinions on whether or not abortion is compatible with their faith, because we need you to recognize abortion for what...
  • Nostalgia (31 Dec 15 Editorial by Dr. Ravi Zacharias)

    12/31/2015 3:03:29 PM PST · by SkyPilot · 21 replies
    RZIM ^ | 31 Dec 15 | Dr. Ravi Zacharias
    In the early days of my ministry, I was speaking at a very modest sized church in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The church was celebrating a major anniversary. That church also had the distinction of having turned Billy Graham down when he candidated as a young man to enter the pastorate. They probably did him the greatest favor in recognizing the difference between a pastor and an evangelist. What I remember on the occasion that I spoke was another young man sitting next to me, thoroughly bored by the proceedings. So I leaned over and inquired, "Are you okay?" He...
  • Is America ready for a non-Christian president?

    12/30/2015 7:02:51 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 94 replies
    CNN ^ | 12/29/2015 | Sreedhar Potarazu
    <p>In 2008, our nation broke through a barrier, electing an African-American to be president of the United States.</p> <p>In 2016, another barrier may very well be broken. All polls indicate that a woman or a Latino has a very good chance of being elected to be our 45th president.</p>
  • Transhumanist writer defends abortion as a shortcut to heaven

    12/30/2015 2:53:51 PM PST · by Morgana · 31 replies
    liveactionnews.org ^ | December 30, 2015 | Calvin Freiburger
    o say it’s logically tricky to reconcile support for abortion with Christian religiosity would be an understatement. Pro-abortion Catholics like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi manage to skate by because their target audiences don’t really care how seriously they take their faith, but the fact remains that the circle simply can’t be squared. The Bible’s prohibitions against shedding innocent blood are clear, it carves out no exemption for the preborn, and pro-abortion interpretations of Scripture invariably collapse under scrutiny. Ostensibly mainline Christians trying to justify abortion are unconvincing enough, but when self-professed pro-abortion nonbelievers try to get clever about it,...
  • Christian convert arrested in Iran during holiday season

    12/30/2015 8:03:54 AM PST · by Fali_G · 10 replies
    The Foreign Desk ^ | 12/29/2015 | Lisa Daftari
    A Christian man was attacked and arrested in Iran just before Christmas, a time when Iranian officials have been cracking down on those celebrating or observing the holiday, according to an Iranian news agency. Meysam Hojjati, a convert to Christianity from Islam, was arrested Dec. 23 by plainclothes officers at his home in Isfahan, where they presented him with a warrant for his arrest, Mohabat News, an Iranian Christian news agency, reported. The officers inspected Hojjati’s home, confiscating Bibles, a Christmas tree, all cell phones, a computer and other personal belongings, while assaulting him in front of family members, the...