ISIS savages behead four children: Christian leader

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Four Christian children were beheaded by ISIS militants in Iraq for refusing to denounce Jesus and convert to Islam, according to the leader of the Anglican church in Baghdad.

Canon Andrew White, known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” fled Iraq in October for Israel and recounted how brutal the country has become for Christians.

“ISIS turned up and said to the children, ‘You say the words that you will follow Mohammed,’ ” White said in video posted on the Christian Broadcasting Network website.

“The children, all under 15, four of them, they said, ‘No, we love Yeshua [Jesus], we have always loved Yeshua.’

“They chopped all their heads off.

“How do you respond to that? You just cry.”

Did Irenaeus believe in transubstantiation?

It looks like Irenaeus (c. AD 202) did not believe in transubstantiation:
It was all spiritual for him. He believed like many of his time, in the spiritual participation in Christ. But, in noway he believed in literal transformation of bread and wine to blood and flesh as many would believe now under the influence of Catholic Church. Other than that, he would be a liar if he denies the accusation by Romans that Christians eat flesh and drink blood as he mentioned here.

For when the Greeks, having arrested the slaves of Christian catechumens, then used force against them, in order to learn from them some secret thing [practiced] among Christians, these slaves, having nothing to say that would meet the wishes of their tormentors, except that they had heard from their masters that the divine communion was the body and blood of Christ, and imagining that it was actually flesh and blood, gave their inquisitors answer to that effect. Then these latter, assuming such to be the case with regard to the practices of Christians, gave information regarding it to other Greeks, and sought to compel the martyrs Sanctus and Blandina to confess, under the influence of torture, [that the allegation was correct]. To these men Blandina replied very admirably in these words: ‘How should those persons endure such [accusations], who, for the sake of the practice [of piety], did not avail themselves even of the flesh that was permitted [them to eat]?’” (Irenaeus , Fragment 13)

C. S. Lewis on Lending Money with Interest

There is one bit of advice given to us by the ancient heathen Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest: and lending money at interest — what we call investment — is the basis of our whole system. Now it may not absolutely follow that we are wrong. Some people say that when Moses and Aristotle and the Christians agreed in forbidding interest (or “usury” as they called it), they could not foresee the joint stock company, and were only dunking of the private moneylender, and that, therefore, we need not bother about what they said.

That is a question I cannot decide on. I am not an economist and I simply do not know whether the investment system is responsible for the state we are in or not. This is where we want the Christian economist. But I should not have been honest if I had not told you that three great civilizations had agreed (or so it seems at first sight) in condemning the very thing on which we have based our whole life.

C. S. Lewis – Mere Christianity

Islam and the Destruction of Eastern and North African Christianity

By Rodney Stark

(from his book: The Triumph of Christianity, ch 12)

 CHRISTIANITY DID NOT START OUT as a European religious movement; in early days far more missionary activity was devoted to the East than to the West. Thus, following his conversion, Paul devoted his initial missionary efforts to Arabia[1] (Gal. 1:17). Subsequently, when the Great Revolt brought Roman vengeance unto Israel, the leaders of the church in Jerusalem appear to have taken shelter in the East.

More than just an evolution: entropy and complexity

Let me just start by stating that I am not an evolutionary biologist. My studies and research are more in cell and molecular biology applied to cancer. So, I apologize in advance for any mistakes I may make in the course of writing this article. However, I should emphasize that I am using, in this article, the same logic and analytical tools that every researcher and scientist uses.

There are two phenomena that have been observed in nature: one is observed in physics called entropy, and the other is observed in biology and called evolution. The interaction between the two is of real interest to me and I hope is going to be for you too.

Jesus Deficit Disorder

We feel a massive disconnect in the church today, and we believe that the major disease of today’s church is JDD: Jesus Deficit Disorder. The person of Jesus has become increasingly politically incorrect and is being replaced by the language of “justice,” “morality,” “values,” and “leadership principles.” the world likes Jesus; they just don’t like the church. But increasingly, the church likes the church, yet it doesn’t like Jesus. (Jesus Manifesto: by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola)

Persons vs. Objects

 

 

 

Man is the only true sacred creature in the eyes of the Lord

We show reverence for “sacred” buildings

Or reverence for the “sacred” laws and regulations

Or reverence for “sacred” territory or land

Or reverence for “sacred” or “holy” books

All these were meant to serve man not to be served by him. “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” (Matthew 2: 27).

In serving objects we ignore persons, and in this servitude is the destruction of man and the dismantling of his divine value. Man is the only creature who carries the image of God. And God became a man not a book or building, so that He can save man not a land. Don’t sacrifice the sacred image of the Creator for the sake of “sacred” objects.

The War on Christians: The Rising Genocide

The War on Christians: The Rising Genocide—Newsweek Powerfully Weighs In

The grim news has been unrelenting.  Every week I read stories on the persecuted church around the world. But most of us never hear these stories because they rarely make it into the mainstream media.

Love for one another

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35)

C. S. Lewis on “rituals”

When the mind becomes more capable of abstraction and analysis this old unity (between rituals and God) breaks up. And no sooner is it possible to distinguish the rite from the vision of God than there is a danger of the rite becoming a substitute for, and a rival to, God Himself. Once it can be thought of separately, it will; and it may then take on a rebellious, cancerous life of its own.(C. S Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms)

Tears of the Elderly

Tears of the Elderly

In the Name of Jesus, we ask everybody to honor the elderly. Please gave them love, compassion and help. Do not leave them alone.  Visit them in their senior homes.

 Also, please do not let your parents alone in their homes for a long time.  Thanks to them and through them the Lord gave you life. Treat them with dignity and respect.

 Wiping every tear off their eyes is a guarantee for a life-long blessing of health and prosperity 

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise) (Ephesians 6:2)

Can these bones live?

1 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”

 I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”

Lion of the tribe of Judah

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. (Rev 5: 5)

Do not say, ‘I am only a youth

But the Lord said to me,

“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.”

Then the Lord put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,

“Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms,
to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”

(Jeremiah 1:7-10)

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

(1 Timothy 4:12)

The most dangerous change

The most dangerous change that happened to Christianity was the creation of professional clergy. Faith became a job. Love became duty. Hope became future planing. And Jesus became a dictator hiding in the seventh heaven.

Living Like Children

Many religious people think of life with God as a continuous test. As if we are required to pass certain exams to go to Heaven. Not at all. Heaven is for free. Everything God created for us was meant to be free from the beginning. God did not charge us any price for the air we breathe, the water we drink or any of the pleasures of life we have.

Heretics

There is no doubt these days, in one form or another, that we are all heretics. We all sinners, and in need of the glory of the Lord.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” (Romans 11: 34)

But there are two types of heresies:

Muslim Calls to Destroy Egypt’s Great Pyramids

by Raymond Ibrahim

According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt’s Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi’i, those “symbols of paganism,” which Egypt’s Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain’s “Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs” and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt’s new president, Muhammad Morsi, to “destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what Amr bin al-As could not.”

Devout Muslim woman cuts Christian girl’s hair in metro (Cairo)

Maggie Milad Fayez, 13, a Christian girl whose hair was cut by woman with niqab, shows her cut hair to Al-Masry Al-Youm editor during interview with her family, 7 November 2012. A woman wears niqab (Islamic veil) cut Maggie’s hair in metro because of altercation among them, while Maggie was on her way to school.

Muhammad, the Sexual Superman

by Raymond Ibrahim

Apparently the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, was something of a sexual superman—indeed, possessing the sexual appetite and potency of 4,000 mortal men.

According to Islam’s most trusted and traditional sources, the story is as follows: Muhammad used to visit and have sex with his nine wives in a single hour (other accounts indicate 11 wives in a single hour).  This averages to about six minutes per wife (not counting traveling time from tent to tent).  When one of Muhammad’s companions wondered at the prophet’s superhuman feats of libido and speed, another companion, the famous Anas, responded that the prophet had the potency of 40 men.

The Value of Eternity

Dear:

The bible, the altar, the cup (of wine), the tray (of bread), all what is in the church, and the whole church building will not exist in eternity. Be careful for yourself brother. Look for what you take with you from this world. All things were set to declare the glory of Christ, and we hold onto the means and leave our goal. In Christ Jesus are both the means and the goal because Christ is the way to Christ.

The poor in Egypt: crying for help

The poor in Egypt are crying for help while Muslim brotherhood, and their president Morsi, are busy helping the Palestinians in Gaza for their own political agendas. They are living in palaces while the poor are eating from garbage.

Another Muhammad Movie in the Works

Son of top Hamas leader to produce epic historical account of the prophet Muhammad despite controversy surrounding Anti-Islam film.

Mosab Hassan Yousef, author of the NY Times bestseller Son of Hamas, condemns the film Innocence of Muslims, on one hand, and the ignition of violent protests throughout the Arab world, on the other.

Whitewashing Islam in the Media

20 Errors on 20/20 (ABC News)

 

Maggie Gobran: Mother Teressa of Cairo

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