7)Meditation.There are many forms of meditation in Christianity. In Catholicism, some people say the ROSARY (a series of prayers based on a string of 50 beads), some Orthodox Christians recite the “Jesus Prayer”, some Christians believe in silent prayer. There is a tradition in Sufu Islam...
with its emphasis on direct personal experience of God, is reckoned now to be the fastest growing religious movement in the world. Perhaps the most important African American figure within the roots of Pentecostalism is William Seymour who was a leading figure in the Azusa Street Revival (1906-...
The retired bishop of the Independent Lutheran Church in Germany is applying a German paraphrase of Psalm 2:4 to the baptism of seven former Muslims from Iran. Early Easter morning, the seven were baptized in the Berlin parish where Schöne serves as associate pastor. The baptisms were an ...
” said Veerman. Also by being “courageous,” as the persecuted church is most often “active in spreading the gospel” and “vital and growing against the odds.”
(e.g. Iran and Egypt). Then we will have outright war in our streets. Where I preach, we had a refugee family here at the church from Iran. The father of the family had converted to Christianity. If he had stayed in Iran, he would have been hanged. He cannot return to his ...
Insolvent entitlements.Entitlement reform has gone nowhere under Mr. Obama, despite the fact that Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare are among the fastest-growing sources of outlays. The various Social Security trust funds are all insolvent. The disability insurance trust fund is slat...
in “the inner cities.” He hated on all those trade deals he loves to hate on (“We’re gonna terminate NAFTA!”). He of course once again said a couple of mean things about Mexico plundering our jobs. He took his usual digs at Common Core, bashed the Iran nuke deal, talked ...
I said, “Iran, did you actually kill any?” He said, “I’ve killed three.” I don’t know if he was really ashamed of it or what it was, but he was confessing these things to me. As a believer in Jesus Christ, this bothered me, but I still suppressed those types of things...