“You can only help others in proportion to what you yourself have suffered … As you go through the fiery trials, the testing, the affliction, the persecution, the conflict … life will flow out to others, even the life of Christ.” —Watchman Nee . BACKGROUND Watchman Nee was an evangelist and church planter in China. … More Friday’s Feature Quote – – Suffering – 07/11/2025
PRAY FOR THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING CHURCHES AND PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS MARCH 2024 – Prayer Focus Update is a monthly information bulletin with up-to-date news on the persecuted Church to help Christians pray for their suffering brothers and sisters. You can use this for prayer groups, your own information, and for inclusion in church magazines. It is … More Pray for the Persecuted Church – March 2024
If you ask most Americans and maybe most folks around the world today they associate wealth with money. If we have enough money we will be wealthy and happy. Yet one only has to look at the number of highly successful celebrities who have gone down the road of self-destruction to know this is a … More Devotional -Plus Interesting Reads – 06/01/2023
I am going out on a limb so to speak albeit not too far, by suggesting the main reason most folks celebrate St. Patrick’s Day is for Irish Whiskey and Beer. If you asked the average American who this person was, that this holiday is named after the answers we would get would likely leave … More Devotional Thought for Today – 03/17/2023
I do not in any way claim to be an expert on the Chinese People or their heads of government. However One does not have to be an expert in that culture to see when certain things are amiss. Here are four such articles from the past few days that hopefully will help you understand … More CHINA’S WOLRDVIEW(s)
There’s still time. Order resources that inspire prayer! The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP) will be held on Nov. 6, and there’s still time to order resources for your church, small group or family. You can hang a prayer banner in your church as a reminder to pray for persecuted Christians in … More The International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians (IDOP)
According to Theodoret of Cyrrhus, on January 1, A.D. 404, an ascetic monk named Telemachus jumped to the floor of the arena during a gladiatorial match and begged the competitors to stop. The crowd was so angry at the interruption that they stoned him to death. When Christian Emperor Honorius heard about Telemachus’ act of bravery, he … More Taking Unpopular Stands in a Strange New World
Revelation 6 CONTEXT: Matthew Henry has an exhaustive breakdown of this Chapter: The book of the divine counsels being thus lodged in the hand of Christ, he loses no time, but immediately enters upon the work of opening the seals and publishing the contents, but this is done in such a manner as still leaves … More Devotional Thought for Today – 04/18/2022
1 JOHN 3 CONTEXT: Matthew Henry comments on the chapter as follows: The apostle admires the love of God in making believers his children. (1,2) The purifying influence of the hope of seeing Christ, and the danger of pretending to this, and living in sin. (3-10) Love to the brethren is the character of real … More Devotional Thought for Today – 04/06/2022
On Saturday last’s post, I thought I had ended the “Prayer Series” after 50 posts. That post spoke of Great Martyrs for the Faith of the past, Foxes Book of Martyrs, and Matthew Henry’s Method of Prayer for Martyrs. Then today this quote from George Whitefield came across my computer and I had been hooked … More Devotional Thought for Today – 03/07/2022
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