Category: Life in America

International Day of Prayer- Serving Persecuted Christians Worldwide – Open Doors UK & Ireland – Please Pray


We’d like you to close your church…– link to Open Doors resources.

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Imagine living in a society where your Christian faith must be hidden. Just going to church could get you arrested, imprisoned – even killed. If you want to meet with other Christians you have to meet secretly – in a secret place, at a secret time, in a secret way…

For many Christians in the Arab World, this imaginary world is a reality. So to help you and your church to identify with believers who meet in secret, we are asking you to hold your own Secret Church service to pray for persecuted Christians in the Arab World..

We have produced a new range of Secret Church resources to help you. Your church will not only hear how persecuted Christians live their lives of faith – they will be able to experience it for themselves!

So why not take up the Secret Church challenge and help strengthen the church in the Arab World to be a light to their nations.

Peanut Gallery: Politicians come and go… but God stays the course.

walter bright's avatarWalter Bright

http://youtu.be/bnXkDgM1B18

I’ll never leave you
never forsake you
No matter what you’re going through
I’ve got good news for you
I’ll be with you always

In stormy weather, it is my pleasure
I want to take care of all your needs
Trust me and you’ll see
I’ll be with you always

And when trouble comes
And there’s no other place to run
Just look to me and I’ll be there
Just a whisper of a prayer
I’ll be with you always

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Peanut Gallery: Raising our sights to the “Big Things” facing our world….

theoptimisticconservative's avatarThe Optimistic Conservative

The Pax Americana now being defunct, regional initiatives are coming alive in and around the Red Sea and Levant.  I refer to the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa as the “Great Crossroads,” where sooner or later everyone will make a transit or have an interest.  No one’s national security is untouched by what’s going on there.  America’s trade and alliances depend heavily on whether the maritime precincts of the Great Crossroads are a quiescent “free space,” through which everyone can pass without let or hindrance by a regional power – or if they become a space over which a regional power holds a veto.  Every new development there has implications for US security.

Egypt-Turkey exercise

And the new developments just keep on coming.  Between 7 and 14 October,

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All Saints Day – “For all the Saints who from their labors rest….”

Peanut Gallery: Please remember today the “saints” who have gone before us.

And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this down: Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they are blessed indeed, for they will rest from their hard work; for their good deeds follow them!” Revelation 14.7 NLT