MCA Church LOVES Burkina Faso, its land, villages, cities, tribes, and people. With each passing day of increased persecution and martyrdom, I am asked, “How close are the murderous radicals to our churches, outreaches, schools and various other ministry facilities and people?” In the small likelihood the terrorist murderers are searching the internet, I will …
This dude says to me, “Whoever wins the election, God will be glorified.” What kind of theological perspective is that? Trying to do theology many times people become crazy folks, out of touch with simple logic and truth. He might as well of said, “Praise God for Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and American slavery.” The “God …
I just have a feeling in my gut. Can’t really say that I am a scholar on the last days, end times, prophecy, Revelation, or eschatological events. However, I am the world’s leading expert on that sense I sometimes get in the pit of my stomach. Since much of creation is circular, East and West …
We have now completed the #ORANGE21 remembrance movement. Twenty-one days of praying for the families of each Egyptian martyred in Libya is motivation to love more deeply and live more fully. Every day is a gift from God and is called ‘the present.’ Why, then, is there an #ORANGE21 post on day twenty-two? For twenty-one …
MATTHEW AYARIGA, of Ghana was the only foreigner in this select group of Egyptian believers. Young, single and unemployed, like so many sub Saharan Africans, he went north to try to make a living. But things didn’t turn out as he had hoped—in January 2015 he was arrested while in route to Ghana via Tripoli, …
The murder of Sameh Salah Faruq generates with in me a guttural longing for the resurrection of the dead. Everything in me desires that these past twenty days of gruesome death be transformed from gory to glory. I know my Redeemer lives and I long for Him to take action. Right the wrongs. Destroy evil. …
Malak Farag Abram’s murder requires me to face the facts. I don’t watch the news. Other than sports, I don’t watch television shows (I almost forgot…I watch cooking shows too). The persecution of Christians isn’t a Hollywood production with actors pretending, special effects appearing to be real, all being shown on a screen that will …
Gaber Munir Adly’s martyrdom gives insight into the importance of life-long habits, understandings, traditions and the repetition of core truth. From my childhood my parents encouraged the singing of truth with frequency and repetition. I think I have sung “There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the Lamb” at least ten …
Just this week my friend S*’s name has appeared on a list—it is not a list for Grammy award nominations, or for the top 10 fastest growing churches in the states, nor for a latest best-selling book. It is not a list that pleases men. His name is on ISIS’ list. A fatwa. A death …
The bus driver couldn’t find our destination. Finally, many a wrong turn and a few right, we disembark. On this very small building in current Istanbul was an even smaller, almost hidden placard; “This is the site of Polycarp’s martyrdom.” Ezat Bishri Naseef’s martyrdom confronts me of the tenacity with which martyrs hold to their …