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Time Sensitive: Nigerian Christians Need Our Help
It’s time to get mad again. In 2024, ruthless killers rampaged through Nigeria slaughtering over 8,000 Christian men, women, and children. What's our response? In 2014, the Nigerian Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped 276 girls from a Christian school in Northern Nigeria. Across the world, people united under the banner: #BringOurGirlsHome.. Most of those girls were raped, beaten, brutalized, forced into slavery as terrorist "wives." Some were found, some released, a few escaped, but at least 100 are still in captivity and 60 are dead … But terrorists have kidnapped more every year since. Imagine if it were your daughter, your...
Are You Fighting the Right Fires?
In May 1962 in a distant field outside the small town of Centralia, Pennsylvania some men were clearing brush and debris. After they pushed it to one side, as is done on most farms, they set fire to the pile. A small part of the brush fell into a hole and lit some coal dust on fire. They covered up the hole with dirt and that seemed to be the end of the problem. What they didn’t know was that under the surface, right below their feet, more coal in deeper veins was catching fire. In August 1981, 19 years...
8,000 Christians Killed
Last year in Nigeria, more than 8,000 Christians were martyred, and many more tortured, raped, or burned alive. Right now, hundreds remain in captivity, facing unimaginable suffering. Shocking - hard to believe - evil. You've seen the reports, heard the stories yet it's worse than we thought. It's bad. I'm fired up because in the midst of this crisis, God has opened a door for us as men to act. Nigeria is the largest nation in Africa with close to 250 million people. Rich in minerals, farms and oil, yet choked by poverty, corruption and encroaching jihadists. This is one...
Friendship Keeps Us Connected To Strength
Elijah was a powerful prophet of God who lived in Israel around 900 years before Jesus. He had a strong word of repentance for a wicked king. That king, Ahab, didn’t receive Elijah’s word. Elijah told him, “It won’t rain again until I say so.” And it didn’t, for three years (1 Kings 17-19). Elijah told the king three years later that he would give him another chance to repent and change. Ahab gathered all his pagan priests of Baal at Mt. Carmel for a test of faith. Whoever could call for their god to consume an animal sacrifice with...
God Backs Big Dreams
My dad taught us, “Dreams are the substance of every great achievement in life.” “I have a dream” spoken by a 32 year-old young pastor from Atlanta, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 23, 1963 still resonates in our hearts today. He had a dream – he was committed. One thing he recognized his entire life was that God was the source of any success he would ever have in his life. “A man may ruin his chances by his own foolishness and then blame it on the Lord!” (Proverbs 19:3 TLB). This means that some men make mistakes,...