Persecution Friday: India
June 3, 2011 at 7:29 am | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, Andhra Pradesh, ateasetees, attack, beating, Bible, boycott, brick, Christian, church, compromise, conversion, council, death, evangelism, extremist, faith, God, gospel, grace, harassment, hell, Hindu, holy, hope, house, India, Israel, Jesus, judgment, law, life, love, Maharashtra, marriage, mercy, money, murder, Nirupama Pradhan, pastor, peace, police, post mortem, prayer, radical, rape, renovating, repent, salvation, Saul, school, scripture, sin, ten commandments, truth, Voice of the Martyrs, widow
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India: Attacks Persist
Hindu extremists continue to target Christians in India with harassment, false accusations, beatings and even murder. The Global Council of Indian Christians believes Hindu extremists are behind two recent murders of Christians in the state of Andhra Pradesh. In the most recent case, 17-year-old Nirupama Pradhan was raped and murdered after school on May 12, 2011. Her father, Sitrian Pradhan, named the possible murderer, but according to Asia News, police have done nothing to find the murderer.
Police also have refused to give a post-mortem report to the widow of Saul Pradhan, a Christian preacher who was murdered on Jan. 10, 2011. Pradhan had taken a new job at a brick kiln in another village. When he did not return home from work one day, his family searched for him and found his body near a pond. Police originally claimed Pradhan died from the “bitter cold,” but his employers, Hindu radicals, later confessed to the murder. Continue Reading Persecution Friday: India…
Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Authentic Religion
May 22, 2011 at 6:30 am | Posted in Sermon Sunday | 2 CommentsTags: abomination, abortion, action, affection, Ahab, alive, America, angel, ateasetees, authentic, banquet, betray, Bible, bishop, blaspheme, blemish, brass, brethren, brood, builder, Christian, church, churchianity, churchmanship, comfort, common sense, compromise, comtempt, condemn, conduct, confidence, counterfeit, cruel, curse, dead, death, decent, Deliverer, delusion, denomination, detestable, devil, disciple, doctrine, evangelical, evangelism, examine, extreme, faith, false, feeble, feeling, formal, friend, fruit, garment, genuine, God, gold, good, gospel, grace, greed, guilty, heart, heathen, heaven, hell, Herod, holiness, hollow, holy, honest, hope, hospitality, humility, hypocrite, idol, ignorant, imitation, independent, inferior, influence, injury, intrinsic, inward, iron, Israel, J.C. Ryle, Jesus, Jonah, Judas Iscariot, Judge, judgment, kindness, law, life, living, lost, love, lust, make believe, marriage, married, Mediator, meekness, merciful, mercy, mina, minister, money, moral, murder, net, nominal, outside, parable, pastor, Paul, peace, persevere, piety, pleasure, poet, pray, prayer, pretense, pride, priest, profession, prostitute, proud, pulpit, reason, Redeemer, religion, repent, respect, revival, ritual, root, salvation, sanctuary, Saul, scripture, sham, silver, Simon Magus, sin, sincere, slur, snake, solid, sons, soul, sower, substantial, talents, tax, ten commandments, thief, thorough, tongue, traitor, truth, unjust, unselfish, viper, virgin, war, weak, weeds, wickedness, words, works, worldliness, worship, wrath, wretched
Authentic Religion
by
J. C. Ryle
(1816-1900)
“Rejected silver” (Jeremiah 6:30)
“Nothing but leaves” (Mark 11:13)
“Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth”
(1 John 3:18).
“You have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead” (Revelation 3:1)
If we profess to have any religion at all, let us be careful that it is authentic. I say it emphatically, and I repeat the saying: Let us be careful that our religion is authentic.
What do I mean when I use the word “authentic.” I mean that which is genuine, and sincere, and honest, and thorough. I mean that which is not inferior, and hollow, and formal, and false, and counterfeit, and sham, and nominal. “Authentic” religion is not mere show, and pretense, and skin-deep feeling, and temporary profession, and works only on the outside. It is something inward, solid, substantial, intrinsic, living, lasting. We know the difference between counterfeit and authentic money–between solid gold and tinsel–between plated metal and silver–between authentic stone and plaster imitation. Let us think of these things as we consider the subject of this paper. What is the character of our religion? Is it authentic? It may be weak, and feeble, and mingled with many defects. That is not the point before us today. Is our religion authentic? Is it true?
The times in which we live demand attention to this subject. A want of authenticity is a striking feature of a vast amount of religion in the present day. Poets have sometimes told us that the world has passed through four different states or conditions. We have had a golden age, and a silver age, a brass age, and an iron age. How far this is true, I do not stop to inquire. But I fear there is little doubt as to the character of the age in which we live. It is universally an age of cheap metal and alloy. If we measure the religion of the age by its apparent quantity, there is much of it. But if we measure it by its quality, there is indeed very little. On every side we want MORE AUTHENTICITY. Continue Reading Sermon Sunday – J.C. Ryle – Authentic Religion…
Revival (long)
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