Genesis 18:16-33
October 17, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Bible Study | 1 CommentTags: abortion, Abraham, America, angel, ateasetees, Bible, children, Christian, church, city, compromise, criteria, culture, death, destroy, erase, evangelism, faith, God, Gomorrah, gospel, grace, heir, hell, holy, homosexuality, hope, house, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, lifestyle, Lot, love, marriage, mercy, money, murder, pastor, peace, prayer, repent, righteous, salvation, scripture, sin, Sodom, ten commandments, truth, wicked
Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off. The LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do, since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed? “For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.” And the LORD said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave. “I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know.” Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, while Abraham was still standing before the LORD. Continue Reading Genesis 18:16-33…
Persecution Fridays – Iran
June 24, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, anarchy, ateasetees, Ayatollah, Bible, Christian, church, cleric, compromise, death, destroy, enemy, evangelism, faith, false, funding, God, gospel, government, grace, growth, hardliner, hatred, hell, holy, hope, ideology, indignation, Iran, Islam, Israel, Jafar, Jesus, judgment, law, life, marriage, mastermind, menace, mercy, Mohabat, money, murder, Muslim, news, pastor, peace, prayer, propogation, protest, province, Qum, repent, republic, salvation, scripture, Shi'ite, sin, speech, ten commandments, truth, virus, Voice of the Martyrs
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Iran: Cleric Admits Failures
Iran’s religious leaders continue to denounce Christianity in their speeches and meetings. In an April 2011 speech, Islamist hardliner Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, who is known as a mastermind of the government’s strategy against Christians, called for greater government action against Christians in Iran. Yazdi admitted that government actions aimed at destroying Christianity have thus far failed.
“In connection with the growth of Christianity in some of the provinces, the actions taken by the government and the judicial authorities and the massive funding of such programs have not achieved the desired results,” Yazdi said during a meeting with the heads of the Islamic Propagation Center of Qum. Yazdi, who is famous for his extremist Shiite beliefs, blamed an undisciplined attitude and lack of proper supervision for the government’s failure to contain Christianity. “Today there are many websites that are fighting against Islamic ideology, and one must consider that responding to these sites is a very valuable thing,” Yazdi said.
In a speech last year, one year after the tumultuous presidential election in Iran, Yazdi called the widespread protests in response to the election a “menace.” According to Mohabat News, Yazdi demanded that “this country-wide menace must be controlled like a virus.” He then accused the republic’s enemies — those protesting the elections — of anarchy and of allowing “false religions” like house-church Christianity to spread.
Another religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, has also warned against the ever-increasing activities of Christians, according to Mohabat News. Sobhani lamented the fact that 600 people have converted to Christianity in one city.
Mohabat News reports that Christian persecution has subsided in Iran as infighting continues between the religious elite and government officials. However, the ayatollahs’ recent warnings have increased public indignation and hatred against Christians and other religious minorities.
Persecution Fridays – Pakistan
June 17, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, altar, America, apologize, Ashraf Masih, Asia Bibi, ateasetees, bamboo, Bible, blasphemy, Christian, church, complaint, compromise, courage, criminal, cross, damage, death, defile, desecrate, destroy, elderly, evangelism, faith, false, forgive, gang, glass, God, gospel, grace, gun, hell, holy, hope, insult, Islam, Israel, Jesus, Lahore, law, life, love, marriage, mercy, minority, money, mosque, Muhammad Shoaib, murder, Numseoul, Pakistan, pastor, peace, peaceful, police, prayer, Presbyterian, prison, prophet, protest, public, Quran, repent, salvation, scripture, sermon, sin, ten commandments, truth, warrant
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Pakistan: The Power to Forgive
Shaken and still feeling the effects from an attack on their service, Numseoul Presbyterian Church publicly forgave the men who attacked them on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Armed with guns, the nephew of a former legislator, Muhammad Shoaib, and four other men disrupted the church service three days earlier. “They were just out of control,” Pastor Ashraf Masih told Compass Direct News. “Shoaib and his men broke the glass altar of the church, threw copies of the Bible towards the wall and desecrated the cross.” The gang also beat three elderly Christians with bamboo sticks.
The attackers cursed the congregation for disrupting the peace by worshipping on loudspeakers, Masih said. However, the church uses loudspeakers only inside the church building, located in a rural area outside Lahore. “The loudspeakers on mosques are used all day long for prayers and sermons,” he said. “I fail to understand why this man has turned against us in the last few months.” Continue Reading Persecution Fridays – Pakistan…
Genesis 6:9-22
February 7, 2011 at 11:40 am | Posted in Bible Study | Leave a commentTags: abortion, all, America, animal, ark, ate, ateasetees, Bible, blameless, breed, build, bull-headed, carnivore, cat, chaos, Christian, church, clean, compromise, corrupt, cubit, damage, death, deck, destroy, dimension, dinosaur, dog, drank, drink, eat, evangelism, everything, evil, expertise, faith, fill, flesh, flood, generation, Genesis, God, gospel, grace, Ham, heaven, hell, holy, hope, horse, instruction, Israel, Japheth, Jesus, Jew, Judge, judgment, kind, land, last days, law, Leviticus, life, love, ludicrous, marriage, marry, meat, mercy, mock, money, murder, Noah, obedient, pastor, peace, perfect, perish, prayer, preacher, prepare, repent, ridiculous, righteousness, salvation, saved, scripture, sea, sheep, Shem, ship, sin, son, space, standard, stubborn, study, ten commandments, truth, type, unclean, ungodly, vegetarian, violence, wife, window, wrath
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. “You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. “Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. “But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark–you and your sons and your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. “And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. “Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. “As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them.” Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did. Continue Reading Genesis 6:9-22…
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