Please pray for believers in Palestine

August 30 | Israel & Palestinian Areas – Pray for the summer activities of the reconciliation programs of Musalaha. Pray that the participants will get to know the love of Jesus deeper, and through that, learn to practice reconciliation in everyday life.

The decline in the number of Palestinian believers is accelerating. Many have emigrated because of the increasing influence of Islam, as well as political and economic factors. Indigenous Christians have the right to practice their religion, providing they don’t try to evangelise Muslims. Believers from a Muslim background face discrimination from family and community when their faith is known. In Gaza, believers are also oppressed by radical Muslim groups. On the West Bank, although there is no official persecution, Christians face some discrimination.

Please read more here – at Open Doors.

“That they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.” (Col. 2:2)

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During election time, the opposition focuses on fragmented bits of society to descend upon and exploit their sensibilities to fear. They dangle the socialistic carrot on a stick to steer seniors in fear of losing Medicare and now women fearing to lose their ‘right’ to free contraception and abortion.

Democrats want a socialist government with little actual benefits while gaining brutal taxes to fund it. But they decry foul to those that enjoy doing things on their own like planning their own families, operating their own businesses and shopping for their own health insurance. The ‘Land of the Free’ is becoming a land of Stepford-Wife-like soylent-green-eating manikins. No one has value, only pockets that hold tax money.

Demonizing and dehumanizing unborn human life is not new to the Obamanation. The current federal government is aware of its true weakness – the ‘Unborn’ vote.

Being female myself, I find it embarrassing…

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Butch Dean's avatarWordsmith's Desk

Today, in most countries, it’s easy enough to own a Bible. In some places, having a Bible would put your life in danger. That’s quite a price to pay just for having a Bible, but people in these countries are willing to pay that price for truth.

Many, in America, have more than one Bible. Our lives are not threatened for having possession of a Bible. Sometimes, I wonder if we would choose to own a Bible if it meant risking our lives. We have yet to be challenged with such a price. Perhaps, if we were, the Bibles in our homes would not be taken for granted.

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.”

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quinersdiner's avatarA Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion

By Tom Quiner

Hold on to your seat.

You are about to watch an ad unlike any you’ve seen. It features Melissa Ohden.

You remember her: I wrote about her after hearing her speak last year (“Life is beautiful”).

Her mom tried to abort Melissa, but she was born alive. Here’s where the story gets political: if it were up to Barack Obama, Melissa would be dead. Four times he voted against legislation in Illinois that would require medical attention for babies that survive the abortionist’s handiwork.

Barack Obama’s radical vision of humanity insists that medical providers let the Melissa Ohdens of the world die. After all, she was supposed to be dead, wasn’t she?

Are you okay with this? Seriously? I have never, ever seen such a smug rejection of human compassion as in this man.

Honorable people can disagree on taxes and government spending and whether…

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