Courage isn't recklessness.
Paul escaped rather than embracing unnecessary martyrdom on multiple occasions (Acts 9:23–25; 14:5–6; 17:10; 22:25–29).
He wasn't looking for persecution.
He had a mission to complete. If martyrdom served that mission, so be it. If being lowered in a basket under the cover of night served that mission, so be it. Mission was always first.
So... Be brave. Be hard to kill, even digitally. Finish the work you've been given. Sometimes "martyrs" are just lazy, foolish, and/or self-destructive.
Dale Partridge suggests that because I am Ghanaian, I have a low IQ.
That's fine. If this "pastor" read his Bible, he would know that isn't an insult to believers.
"But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise." - 1 Corinthians 1:27
I believe in one God,
the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father;
through Him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
He came down from heaven,
and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
He suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead,
and His kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the Giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism
for the forgiveness of sins,
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.
Amen. 🙏🏼
Guys, stop thinking evidence will change Candace Owens' mind.
Unless God changes her heart, she won't change her mind.
She knows she's wrong. She just doesn't care.
She needs to believe the gospel, not the evidence.
Until she lives for Christ, instead of Candace, she will always be like this.
Are you needing encouragement today?
"Nancy, there was once a missionary who was hung by his heels in a cave.
And his wife had to bring him his reading and writing material and his food to feed while he was hanging in the cave."
The main reason Alex Jones was held liable was not that he questioned an official narrative. It was that he repeatedly and callously made false accusations about specific people. He claimed the Sandy Hook shooting was staged, that the grieving parents were “crisis actors,” and that they were knowingly participating in a fraud. His false claims, made for clicks and fame, were damaging (severe understatement) and led to harassment and threats against grieving, innocent people. So his "protected opinion" defense failed.
The First Amendment protects the right to question events and criticize official accounts, but it does not provide blanket immunity for defamation.
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours.” 1 Chronicles 29:11
When the James Webb telescope detects another billion-light-years’ worth of galaxies, say, “My Father owns them. My Father owns them!”
@RedWavePress Welcome to Islam You are experiencing taqiyya. They can lie to unbelievers which they do. They can deceive all they want because they want one thing. Total Islamic dominance of the world. They don’t want a deal. They want to subvert, dominate and force you and us all to surrender
We are being destroyed by agreeable men.
It's easy to like an agreeable man, at least at first. He presents himself as polite, reasonable, and warm. He avoids friction. He avoids awkward or uncomfortable topics. He smiles and nods wherever he can. A conversation with him at a backyard BBQ or in the church foyer can make for a pleasant time.
And those pleasant times can keep on rolling, unless you disturb what the agreeable man mistakes for peace. That is something he will not tolerate. In many cases, he'll simply avoid anything disagreeable. He would truly rather be in the room with a repugnant man who plays along with his desire for agreeableness than with a virtuous man who won't. Tolerance and avoidance are the twin pillars of his modus operandi. False peace is his idol.
But when the agreeable man's idol is touched, and he is forced to confront friction he can no longer avoid, the façade quickly evaporates. He lashes out. What follows is usually an irrational, emotional warpath. And because violating the shallow rules of decorum is, in his mind, the greatest sin, he must lie. He must misrepresent. He must spin the story lest the bystanders see him for what he really is. His goal is to preserve the appearance of reasonableness while shutting down and driving away those with reasonable objections that inevitably create discomfort.
He is an enemy of the reformer, who must press the issue and do so forthrightly. He is a friend of the smiling subversive who quietly corrodes institutions under the camouflage of false peace.
He is a destroyer.
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
The story of Hosea. God tells a prophet to marry a woman He knows will betray him.
She does. She runs to other men. She ends up enslaved, sold, used up, worthless to the world.
And God tells Hosea to go BUY HER BACK.
To pay money for his own wife who cheated on him, and love her again. Hosea 3.
I thought it was the most humiliating command in the Bible. Why would any man do that?
Then I realized I was the wife.
I gave my heart to everything but God. I chased other masters. I sold myself cheap. I made myself worthless.
And God looked at me, the betrayer, and didn’t say “you’re not worth it.”
He said, “Name the price. I’m buying her back.”
That’s the Gospel. God doesn’t wait for the unfaithful to come crawling back clean.
He pays to redeem them while they’re still dirty.
Islam told me to make myself worthy of God.
Hosea showed me a God who pays to redeem the unworthy.
The cross was Him naming the price.
Praise the Lord.