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Thoughts After a Year
It has been more than a year since I was detained, interrogated for hours, denied entry, locked up, threatened with prosecution, and unceremoniously sent home by immigration officials in India. This writing is designed to explain what happened and provide … Continue reading
Posted in evangelism, Government, Prayer
Tagged 7th Day Adventist, 9/11, Acts 4:18-20, Acts 5:27-29, Acts 8:4, American Airlines, authority, benevolence, British Airways, Catholic or Protestant?, church organization, critics, denied entry, deported, evangelism, heathrow, Hindu, hurricane, india, John Cornyn, man in arena, minister of home affairs, missionary visas, persecution, politics, prayer, proselyting, recognized denominaions and religious societies in India, religious visas, Ted Cruiz, theodore roosevelt, tsunami indian ocean 2004, visas, WordPress, Zoom
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More Valuable Than Sparrows
“Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from you Father’s will… Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows” (Matthew 10:29, 31). “Are not … Continue reading
Posted in animals, evangelism, God`s eye, Suffering
Tagged animals, assarion, biblicalcyclopedia.com, esv, frank e. graeff, God knows what happens, God sees, larks, Luke 12:6-7, Matthew 10:29-31, matthew 10:42, more valuable than sparrows, nkjv, persecution, Psalm 116:15, Psalm 56:8, song does Jesus care, sparrows, value of man, wagtails
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5 Great Things: (#4) The Great Name
“So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name. And daily in the temple and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Influence, Endurance, Holy Spirit, Miracles, Suffering, Textual study, Word Study
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5 Great Things: (#2) The Great Example
Great persecution was coming on the early church. Peter wrote, “Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange think happened to you” (1 Peter 4:12). It is not always … Continue reading
Posted in Example, Jesus, life, Suffering, Textual study, Word Study
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Eastern Religions: Shintoism and the Unification Church
These two religions are from the far east. Shintoism is from Japan. The Unification church (Moonies) is from Korea. Shintoism There are about 150 million followers of this religion in the world. Most are in Japan (Shintoism, Number of Followers, … Continue reading
Posted in Apologetics, History, World Religions
Tagged 9 things you should know about the unification church, accusations, amaterasu omikami, ancestry worhip, blending of religions, book handbook of todays religions, book the kingdom of the cults, britanica, buddhism, christ's unfinished business according to moon, confucianism, daniel burke, divine wind, don stewart, draft evasion, eastern religions, emperor worship, eve had sex with lucifer and adam, far east, hak jan han, hirohito, humanity declaration, izanagi no mikoto, izanami no mikodo, January 10 1946, japan, japan-guide, joe carter, josh mcdowell, jstar.org, kami, kamikaze, kingdom on earth, korea, mass weddings, model family, mongols, moonies, morals, north korea, persecution, presbyterian church, religioustolerance.org, sexual promiscuity, shintoism, shintoreligionuk.weebly.com, south korea, stats, sung myung moon, tax fraud, the way of the gods, thegospelcoalition, true parents, two falls in genesis according to moon, unification church, walter martin, washington post, washington times, wikipedia, World Religions, world war II
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Prophecy: A Ram, A Goat, And A Little Horn
Daniel 8 records a vision of Daniel. This vision is said to have occurred in the third year of the reign of Belshazzar (Daniel 8:1). Belshazzar was co-regent with his father Nabonidus (cf. Daniel 5:7, 29). He was the last … Continue reading
Posted in God's Providence, God's Sovereignty, History, Prophecy, Suffering, Textual study
Tagged 1 maccabees, 2 Maccabees, alexander the great, antiochus epiphanes, antiochus IV, astyage, battle of gaugamela, belshazzar, cambyses, circumcision, cyrus, Daniel 8, don simpson, evel merodach, four divisons of greece, glorious land, goat, greece, josephus, judas maccabeus, kings of babylon, labashi marduk, little horn, medo persia, nabonidus, nabopolassar, nebuchadnezzar, neriglissar, onius III, persecution, persia, Prophecy, prophecy series, ram, rex turner sr
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Bryan Hodge 
5 Great Things: (#1) The Great Salvation
The key word in the book of 1 Peter is “suffering.” It appears in some form 16 times [suffer (2:20; 3:14; 3:17; 4:15; 4:16; 4:19); suffered (2:21; 2:23; 3:18; 4:1(x2); 5:10); suffering(s) (1:11; 2:19; 4:13; 5:1)]. It was not easy … Continue reading →