… just to show myself the size of the mountain, I do a little math. Jesus did say to count the costs and know what one is facing.
Read MoreYour thoughts, your interactions with the Lord on this are valuable. What is He saying to you?
Read MoreJust as gravity calls down, and magnets attract, repentance and genuine humility recognize the Father Heart of God towards His Own, and rejoice.
Read MoreGod wants us free, and powerful, and able!
Read MoreMonday August 20th is the beginning of Eid al-Adha, one of the most important holidays in the Islamic calendar.
Read MoreOne of the ways conflict embroils us is when injustice is done to other humans on earth. Currently there are 47 wars on earth. 40 of those are initiated and maintained by jihad.
Read MorePerhaps it's been a test of our character, as individuals, and a test of our peoplehood as citizens of earth.
Read MoreNot having a bomb fall in the night; not having to worry if there are rice and beans; knowing that the well has been cleaned out and is working ... these become points of praise.
Read MoreThese people are experiencing the tangible love of God. It is His touch of goodness to them that is letting them see that He loves them and cares about them.
Read MoreWe live in a modern, tolerant world. We have the international committees and global rules. You would think that it might help.
Read MoreBut complications do arise. For these women signed on to be terrorists, and now some of them are demanding that their home nations take them back and protect them.
Read More"If our children learn to hate, the future is bleak." they note. And so they stubbornly love, with actions, sharing what they have. And they pray, seeking a future which will allow them to go home and rebuild their nation.
Read MoreGulsen smiled nervously as her boys tore screaming up and down the corridor. She wasn't sure if we were ok with boys being boys. We smiled back and she relaxed. Fiona bent down and joined them roaring like a lion. It worked. They ran faster.
Read MoreIn the refugee camp where the wide-girthed, financially well endowed man comes to find a child bride, because his doctrines tell him that he is being kind and caring to marry such as these, I find that stepping lightly takes on a different slant. Here it is better to risk my life to protect that child than be light-footed.
Read MoreSuna and her family lived in a village. She married into that clan years ago, when she was but a child herself, as girl-children do in her nation.
Read MoreBulgaria was hard to grow up in. Her aunt didn't want another mouth to feed. Muddy fields to plough, firewood to find, gather and haul for miles, often empty stores to shop for items that often weren't there... why add another mouth, especially a girl? So Zhivka left the only home she had ever known when she was 14.
Read MoreStatistics are crucial and provide bridges for transformation. Research shows us things like how many millions of people are internally displaced, or refugees crossing borders. Pressing 65 million from last count, with almost 20 million of them children. Children. Yes, you heard right. Children.
Read MoreThey stood around casually with their AK47s and then required us to sit and "drink coffee". This is local way of making an agreement, like it or not. In the end it meant that they took the contents and delivered it where they wanted the contents to go.
Read MoreAfter the heat and the bitterness, and after the sixth of the month, After our enemies had rejoiced at her pain and said, “There is a stone in her tummy!” The stone is in their heads! And this overwhelms them. Go! O bearer of the news! Kiss them and tell them, “She has borne a son!”
But the lullaby for a newborn girl is:
When they said “It’s a girl!” - that was a horrible moment. The honey pudding turned to ashes and the dates became scorpions. When they said, “It’s a girl!” the cornerstone of the house crumbled. And they brought me eggs in their shells and instead of butter, water.
Read MoreThe child can't sit still. Orphaned and abandoned, he was rescued by people who had an orphanage. But when the government said Christians can't do social programs because they might convert someone, the orphanage was abrubtly taken away from them and put in government control.
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