A letter from Chuck Steddom to the congregation of Kilkeel Presbyterian Church July 30, 2016 To Reverend Stephen Johnston and the congregation of Kilkeel Presbyterian Church – Grace and peace to you On behalf of my wife, Carol, my daughter, Allison, the Steddom family, and Bethlehem Baptist Church family, I want to express personally my […]
Friends with God The theme of friendship takes us right to the heart of the Bible’s message. God is relational. He has from eternity existed in a relationship of loving friendship within the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He created us in his image as relational beings, uniquely able to relate to him in […]
Do Christians and Muslims worship the same deity? It has become one of the most pressing and controversial questions in the world in the last fifteen years. The question was stirred up in earnest in 2001 in the aftermath of fundamentalist Muslims flying hijacked commercial jetliners into the twin towers of the World Trade Center […]
We live in a nation with a Christian heritage. For hundreds of years the gospel has been proclaimed and despite waves of persecution and opposition Christianity has been established in the very fabric of our land. There are remnants of the impact that Christianity has had, whether they be chapels, crosses or even statues of […]
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. . . .a time to keep silence, and a time to speak. (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 7) I say things for a living. From preaching to praying to parenting to counseling to teaching to leading meetings to writing books to crafting emails and blogs […]
Out of the frying pan into the fire. Such a fate has befallen a Christian family who fled persecution in Pakistan only to realise later on that their situation has gone from bad to worse. Interviewed by CBN News recently, Mustaq Faisal said he and his family had no choice but to abandon their home […]
David Cameron was accused of “morally indefensible” equivocation over the slaughter of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East as he dismissed calls to classify the jihadist attacks as genocide as “politicisation”. He is facing a potential rift with Britain’s most important ally over the issue after the US Secretary of State John […]
On 15 February 2015, a video was released depicting masked ISIS militants dressed in black marching 21 Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits along a beach in Libya. The captives were forced to kneel on the seafront, each with a jihadist behind standing behind them. And then they were beheaded. It remains one of the most […]
China Aid, a Christian human rights organization based in the U.S., believes that Pastor Gu Yuese of Hangzhou’s Chongyi Church, the largest government sanctioned church in China, has no chance to escape sentencing by the Communist Party for standing up against the crackdown on churches. “I think the likely scenario to happen is that he […]
Security stepped up at Delhi churches as Christians in India fear attack Congregations endure tense time during Christmas in a country where Hindu extremism is on the rise and other religions are viewed with suspicion. When Father Anthony Francis rose early to open his church on Christmas Day, two sleepless souls had already been camped […]