Christian Living on Religious Persecution

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Haters of Humanity?
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Acts 8:1-3, 2 Timothy 3:12, 1 Peter 4:12-16, Matthew 5:10-12, Luke 6:41-42, Genesis 3:8-19, Genesis 39:6-20, Job 2:11-13, Job 42:7-9
Most of us are aware of various persecutions that took place during the first few centuries of the church’s existence. One particularly brutal local persecution took place during the reign of Nero, wh...
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Flourishing Faith in Persecuted Places
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Tom Nelson
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Daniel 6:16-23, Jeremiah 29:4-7, Genesis 39:20-23, Acts 16:25-34, Matthew 5:10-12 , Psalm 23:4
On Christmas Eve in Tehran, house-church pastor Farshid Fatah and his family were awakened to the frightening sounds of the Iranian security police pounding at their door. After the police searched hi...
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Ephesians 3:1-21 | God’s Grace, Power, and Love are for All Peoples
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Bradley Long
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Ephesians 3:1-21
Context The body of the letter continues in chapter 3. If it were not for chapters 4-6, we could even believe that Paul was about to close this letter after we read what appears to be a benediction i...
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The Story of Eric Liddell
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Eric Liddell, the “Flying Scotsman” was made famous by the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire . He was born to missionary parents in China in 1902 and educated in the United Kingdom. Though he made the Bri...
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The Silence of God
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Shusaku Endo
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Psalm 22:1, Psalm 42:3, Habakkuk 1:2, Isaiah 45:15, Job 30:20, Lamentations 3:28-30
In the deeply moving novel Silence by Shusaku Endo, the protagonist, a young Jesuit priest named Sebastião Rodrigues describes in horror what it is like to watch two of his disciples, Japanese nationa...
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Billy Graham
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- Persecution
- The Christian Life
Persecution is one of the natural consequences of living the Christian life. It is to the Christian what “growing pains” are to the growing child. No pain, no development. No suffering, no glory. No s...
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Thomas Paine
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- Divine Revelation
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It...
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O Lord, we are too easily discouraged
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Bud Thoreen
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O Lord, we are too easily discouraged when things don’t go our way, when we face trials, testings, and even persecution. Lord forgive the weakness of our faith. We too often respond in anger and hurtf...
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John Stott
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- Persecution
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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Christian Persecution & The Real Power
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John Dickson
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Matthew 5:10-12, John 15:18-20, 2 Timothy 3:12, Acts 14:22, Romans 8:35-37, 1 Peter 4:12-14, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Acts 1:8, Romans 8:11, Isaiah 41:10
What is the witness of the church in times of persecution? The historical record demonstrates that persecutions of Christians were regular and prolific in the first centuries of the church, especially...
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Paul Washer
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- Persecution
- Prosperity
Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.
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A. W. Tozer
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The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes t...
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Skye Jethani
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Persecution is never something sought by a Christian. It is the by-product of seeking first the kingdom of God rather than the privileges of the world.
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John Milton
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- Persecution
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
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Bernard of Clairvaux
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- Persecution
- Pastors
Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.
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Vance Havner
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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Cyprian
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It is not persecution alone that we ought to fear, not those forces that in open warfare range abroad to overthrow and defeat the servants of God. It is easy enough to be on one’s guard when the dange...
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The Faithfulness of a Few
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Proverbs 28:20, Revelation 2:10, Matthew 5:10-12, Matthew 10:22, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, 1 Peter 4:12-14, Romans 8:35-37, John 15:18-20, Psalm 31:23, Matthew 25:21, 1 Corinthians 4:2, 1 Timothy 6:12, Matthew 24:45-46
Pliny, a Roman Governor serving around 112 AD, faced a challenging situation regarding Christianity. Many Church historians believe that by his time, it had become illegal to profess the Christian fai...
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J. C. Ryle
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- Persecution
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
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Oscar A. Romero
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Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
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Richard Wurmbrand
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It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of pre...
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Richard Wurmbrand
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- Persecution
- Prisoners
I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.
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G. Campbell Morgan
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Persecution was the devil’s second-best tactic. His best tactic is materialism, and we in the West have been sleepwalkers in our faith for too long, forgetting in the midst of a life of material ease ...
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Minucius Felix
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- Freedom
- Persecution
What a beautiful sight it is for God when a Christian mocks…the clatter of the tools of death and the horror of the executioner; when he defends and upholds his liberty in the face of kings and prince...
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Vance Havner
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- Persecution
- Creeds and Confessions
At the Nicene Council, an important church meeting in the 4th century A.D., of the 318 delegates attending, fewer than 12 had not lost an eye or lost a hand or did not limp on a leg lamed by torture f...
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Can it Be Called By Any Other Name?
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C. Douglas Weaver
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Acts 5:41, Revelation 2:10, Galatians 2:20, Hebrews 11:35-38, Philippians 1:21
At the beginning of the third century in North Africa, persecution of Christians broke out in Carthage. One of the catechumens taken into custody was Perpetua, a noblewoman still nursing her son. Whe...
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What’s the Problem with Christians?
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- Christians
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Philippians 1:27-28, Isaiah 29:13, Titus 1:16, 2 Timothy 3:12, Romans 12:17-18
I’ve asked strangers and casual acquaintances, “Why do Christians stir up such negative feelings?” Some bring up past atrocities, such as the widespread belief that the church executed eight or nine m...
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Paul Simon
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Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.
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Andrew F. Walls
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Other major world religions are still centered in the same general geographic area from which they originated except for Christianity. Even more intriguing, the center of Christian growth continues to...
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Name a Day and Give me a Hearing
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Revelation 2:10, Psalm 71:20-21, Philippians 3:10-14, Luke 21:16-19, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Romans 8:17-18, James 1:12
One of the great leaders of the first generation after the apostles was a man named Polycarp. Polycarp, it is believed, was discipled by the apostle John and carried out a long and fruitful ministry i...