Last May the BBC reported that Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels’. According to Help the Persecuted, a Christian is killed every 6 minutes for following Christ. Christian Women are the most persecuted group on the planet. Mina’s story is heartbreaking The World Watch List is Open Doors’ annual ranking of the 50 countries where...
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Link-a-thon – February
This week’s blog is a link-a-thon – a collection of relevant (and not so relevant) links from across the internet. Don’t Compartmentalize Your Christianity I love Paul Tripp’s blog – down to earth and rich. This week Paul wrote about the dangers of “compartmentalizing” your faith. Read it here: https://www.paultripp.com/wednesdays-word/posts/dont-compartmentalize-your-christianity Truth and Lies : Muhammad:...
Remembering the Holocaust – 75 years on
I’ve met a Holocaust Survivor on a number of occasions. His name was Walter Kammerling. Originally from Austria, he was 14 when the Nazi’s invaded Austria and on 9-10 Novemeber 1938 he saw the “Kristallnacht pogrom” (or Night of Broken Glass) which was a pogram (violent riot aimed at the massacre or persecution of an...
What Kind of Parent Are You?
These are words that I have heard myself say to myself on an almost daily basis for 24 years. “What kind of parent are YOU??” Usually, I’d hear myself say it after some kind of poor judgement, unwise decision or heat-of-the-moment comment. It took me a long time … too long … to realise that...