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October 2016

CHURCHES BURNED AND MEMBERS THREATENED WITH VIOLENCE: THE REALITY OF BEING A CHRISTIAN IN CUBA [Excerpts] Amid an escalating crackdown on churches in Cuba, a prominent pastor and religious freedom activist has warned that "the threat of physical violence... comes with the territory of being a Christian" in the Caribbean...Read more
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Nuggets from “ An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith ” by Dave Hunt In an interesting essay in Time magazine (June 15, 1998), its author related an experience that illustrates the foolishness of today’s unwillingness to take a definite stand when it comes to religious belief: “As I checked...Read more
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October 12 DAILY READINGS: 2 Kings 13 to 14:22; Jeremiah 49; Hebrews:13:7-25 [7] Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. [8] Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for...Read more
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"Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together," is a most important exhortation. Even if we should not derive any especial benefit, at the time, so far as we are conscious, yet we may be kept from much harm. And very frequently the beginning of coldness of heart is nourished by...Read more
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October 11 DAILY READINGS: 2 Kings 11-12; Jeremiah 48; Hebrews:12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, See All... to 13:6 Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so come, Lord Jesus! Rev:22:20 He...Read more
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IS YOUR LOCAL CHURCH A FAILURE? [Excerpts] It probably is. Yes, by the new evaluations of many who are forming missions strategies today most churches in America, mine included, would be termed failures. Unless you’re a member of a church that has led to countless other churches and those churches...Read more
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Nuggets from “ An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith ” by Dave Hunt Darwin faced a problem that still haunts evolutionists to this day. If we are simply the product of chance motions of atoms, beginning with an inexplicable explosion (of an unknown energy source) called “the big bang,”...Read more
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October 10 DAILY READINGS: 2 Kings 10; Jeremiah 45-47; Hebrews:12:1-17 [1] Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is...Read more
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October 9 DAILY READINGS: 2 Kings 9; Jeremiah 44; Hebrews:11:17-40 [17] By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, [18] Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: [19] Accounting...Read more
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Nuggets from “ An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith ” by Dave Hunt It is now considered presumptive or triumphalistic to suggest that there is only one true faith and that all others are wrong. That would be inexcusably offensive to those of other beliefs. As a result, when...Read more
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