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IRAN: Next 24 hours critical to stop the execution of Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani

source You can get involved by sending an email right now! Click here to help. These are the facts from the web page asking you to get involved: The facts: – Pastor Nadarkhani is repeatedly being asked by the court in Rasht to renounce his faith in order to avoid execution and that the last chance [...]

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European City Spotlight: Istanbul, Turkey

According to this website, the second-most populous city in Europe is Istanbul, Turkey.  Wikipedia has this to say about Istanbul: Istanbul Historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople The largest city in Turkey and 5th largest city proper in the world with a population of 13 million The largest metropolitan city proper in Europe and the second largest metropolitan area [...]

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What Job Would Have Missed

Job 42:16 “After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.” Job was a man who went through a incredible amount of pain and suffering.  In one day, Job lost everything that he had except [...]

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Why Do We Only Expect Good from God?

Job 2:10 “But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.” Job has such a different perspective on suffering than most of us.  We [...]

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Chariots of Fire Round About

2 Kings 6:16-17 “And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [...]

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The Gift of a Thorn

2 Corinthians 12:7 “And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.” This is a pretty unique verse.  Paul says that God gave him a thorn. [...]

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Troubled Yet Not Distressed

2 Corinthians 4:8 “We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are preplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.” God has [...]

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Let Yourself Be Defrauded

1 Corinthians 6:7 “Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another.  Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?” One of the problems in the Corinthians church was that they were taking their problems with each other [...]

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Don’t Let Trials Trip You Up

John 16:1 “These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.  They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.” Jesus gives the disciples and us some advance warning about what will happen to us as His [...]

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Pray for Moroccan Christians

My pastor wrote this on his blog, and I wanted to pass it along for you to pray about: I want to ask you to be praying for our friends that serve God in Northern Africa. There is a lot of turmoil there. Satan plays with their minds to cause them to worry. There is [...]

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