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New Friday Bible Study Series: The Gospel of John, Chapter Four

11/30/2012

This Gospel of John Bible study presents a profound perspective of Jesus Christ and your relationship to Him. This challenging study format is suitable for individual daily study or weekly group reviews. It offers you a great opportunity for personal growth.

Chapter Four gives us the story of the woman at the well. This is such a deep story (no pun intended) about truth and worship. Study the woman's phenomenal conversation with Jesus and explore her emotions as she wonders about the most interesting and perceptive man she was ever to meet. <more...>

Chinese Christian Who Helped Hundreds of North Koreans Escape Unable to Get Political Refugee Status from UN

11/29/2012

A Chinese Christian who helped hundreds of North Koreans escape to Thailand and then was forced to escape there himself has been waiting for two years for the United Nations to grant him political asylum.

Radical Islamists Behead Christian Convert in Somalia

11/29/2012

Al-Shabaab, an Islamic militant group, has executed a Christian convert in the coastal city of Barawa, Somalia. Farhan Haji Mose, age 25, was beheaded on Friday morning, Nov. 16, when Islamic extremists accused him of being a spy and for "embracing the foreign religion of Christianity," according to Morning Star News.

Zig Ziglar, Renowned Layman & Speaker, Dies

11/29/2012

Zig Ziglar, known worldwide for his folksy and often anecdotal motivational talks on success through serving others, died Wednesday (Nov. 28) at a Plano, Texas, hospital of complications from pneumonia. He was 86.

Ziglar's deep, soothing Mississippi drawl and speeches and books often sprinkled with mentions of his Christian faith endeared him to millions. Ziglar was arguably the best-known motivational speaker of his day, having conducted hundreds of corporate seminars and given motivational speeches to hundreds of thousands of people over a 42-year speaking career.

Foxx’s Obama Comment More ‘Stupidity’ Than Blasphemy

11/29/2012

Evangelist Ray Comfort - among others - says actor Jamie Foxx's recent declaration of Barack Obama as "our lord and savior" reflects not just a lack of knowledge, but also a lack of discernment among society in general.

Touted as "The One" during his first presidential election in 2008, after which Louis Farrakhan dubbed Barack Obama the "messiah," the Commander-in-Chief was hailed as "our lord and savior" by Jamie Foxx at the Soul Train Music Awards this week. While many think the entertainer has taken Obama adulation too far, some Christian leaders dismiss the words as show of sheer ignorance.

CEO Goes to the Extreme to Rescue Children

11/28/2012

Extreme Rescuer, the first ever docu-reality series capturing the rescue of children, will premiere December 2 on television media outlets nationwide. Legacy Worldwide, the creative agency behind the project, made the highly anticipated announcement today.

The news arrives in the wake of a life changing business trip for the company's CEO and recognized leader in marketing and development for a number of the globe's most prominent non-profits, Damon Davis. He said that the vision for Extreme Rescuer was first sparked while filming a documentary with Dikembe Mutombo featuring his hand in building the first modern hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital.

Twelve Sentenced for Involvement in 2008 Orissa Violence

11/28/2012

A fast-track court sentenced 12 people to six years’ imprisonment yesterday for their involvement in the communal violence in Orissa’s Kandhamal district in 2008.

According to a report by the Press Trust of India (PTI), the judge also fined the defendants 5,000 rupees in connection with arson, rioting and the torching of houses in Jarkinaju village, near Raikia, on 25 August 2008. The court ordered that non-payment of the fine would result in an additional one-year jail term.

Good Grief! Atheist Group Disgruntled With ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’

11/28/2012

An Arkansas school district is battling a group of atheists trying to block the opportunity for children to see a play based on a Christmastime classic.

Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Monday to Little Rock School District and one of its schools to encourage them to ignore an atheist group’s complaints about allowing students to view a play based on the classic Charles Schulz television special A Charlie Brown Christmas.

New Biography on Voices from the Past - Irenaeus

11/28/2012

“Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled”

Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons at the end of the 2nd century, was one of the most distinguished theologians of the ante-Nicene Church. Very little is known of his early history. His childhood was spent in Asia Minor, probably at or near Smyrna; for he himself tells us that as a child he heard the preaching of Polycarp, the aged bishop of Smyrna who died on 22 February 156. But we do not know when this was. <more...>

WEEK OF PRAYER: South African Youth Turn from Despair

11/27/2012

It's hard not to be happy around 12-year-old Olwetu. She greets visitors with an infectious smile and sparkling eyes. Usually surrounded by friends, the outgoing South African seventh-grader is constantly smiling, laughing and talking.

But this is not typical behavior among Olwetu's peers -- hopeless is the best word to describe youth from the nation's Xhosa minority in the slums of Cape Town.