When God Bids Farewell, Part One
When God Bids Farewell, Part Two
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Have you ever wondered what happens when God turns His back on His people? Or if God would ever turn His back on America? Ravi Zacharias takes a deeper look into stories of the Old Testament as he searches for the answers. That’s this week on Let My People Think.
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Jonathan Cahn's warning on Capitol Hill at The Washington Man of Prayer event April 29, 2015Living through Bible Prophecy with Augusto Perez
Released May 19, 2015 The Haggman and Haggman Report on iTunes Few would disagree that we are living through prophetic times – the times [prophesied] millennia ago and recorded in the Bible. News headlines indicate that we are at the precipice of prophetic change. Where are we in Bible prophecy? What might we expect in the near term? Are we seeing the global stage being set for the end-times as written by John in the Book of Revelation? Join Augusto Perez of The Appearance Ministries as we discuss current events against the backdrop of Bible prophecy in this engaging broadcast. Augusto Perez Website Augusto Perez on The Byte Show Dan Price, the young CEO of Gravity Payments in Seattle, generated a boatload of publicity and controversy last month when he committed to pay every one of his 120 employees an annual salary of at least $70,000. Price said he was concerned that lower-paid employees were struggling to make ends meet.
In light of our country’s growing economic inequality, the 30-year-old Christian saw his own $1 million salary as part of the problem. To fund the raises for more than half the company’s workers, he cut his salary to $70,000, and decided the company could afford to reduce profits by as much as half. In the week after the story first broke Price got emails from nearly 100 CEOs lauding his decision. But not everyone was so enthusiastic. The New York Times ran a follow-up piece detailing some of the criticism directed toward the company. Naysayers from the business world say the move to “overpay” workers rather than trusting the market rate could do more harm than good. They suggest the new salaries could spur resentment from once higher-paid workers and hurt long-term productivity. Some critics lambasted the decision as socialism. These criticisms from purported defenders of free-market capitalism—from business professors and economists to talk show host Rush Limbaugh— evidence egregiously flawed thinking about both capitalism and free markets. They’re also at odds with the wisdom of Scripture... Every now and then we go head first – splat on our faces. Two options. Just lie there and give up. Or get up, wipe the tears from your eyes and the dirt from your wound and keep going. Join Berni Dymet in this powerful series – Breaking Free from the Power of Sin – as he takes a look at life from a different perspective.
Augustine of Hippo is known by Christians the world over for standing against heresy in the fifth century and laying a foundation for the Protestant Reformation a thousand years later.
Lesser known is the fact that Augustine might never have become a Christian if not for his mother Monnica, who prayed for his salvation for years before eventually sailing from North Africa to Italy to beg her son to attend church. He honored her wishes and was saved when he heard the Gospel under the preaching of Ambrose of Milan. Monnica -- as her name is spelled on her tomb despite commonly being rendered as "Monica" -- is one of many noteworthy mothers in church history... The small Nepali congregation started worship Saturday (May 2) right where they left off the previous week -- singing.
Two dozen voices gained momentum, clapping hands, dancing and raising their faces to heaven in song: "Still I will love You and spread Your love to the people." The congregation breaks into prayer, for this is the moment when the song was interrupted by Nepal's 7.8-magnitude earthquake a week earlier, on April 25. They shed tears and cry in reliving the moment together: ... The congregation grabbed hands and crouched against an inner wall of their fourth-floor room. Someone prayed aloud and others joined. The pastor, Rajaan Tamang*, looked up and saw the outer wall shaking. He looked over his shoulder and saw a crack form across the wall where they had sought shelter. He knew that if they didn't get off the fourth floor, they all might die. They lurched down the stairs and gathered in the field outside. A few moments later, a building across the street crumbled and killed seven people. They were safe and together.... ...Nepal's 7.8-magnitude earthquake claimed the lives of 20 members of rural Living Word Church. This photo was taken before the earthquake. Roads to the town are blocked, making access for relief teams difficult. Rescue workers from around the world are converging on Nepal. [The] 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the country just 50 miles northeast of Kathmandu, damaging an unknown number of buildings, killing many, and injuring thousands.
Survivors say it was like trying to walk on a boat during heavy seas. Gospel for Asia has work in Nepal and workers on the ground. GFA President KP Yohannan says the death toll isn’t going to be good. “Our leader said to me, ‘It’s going to be in the thousands.’ And usually the information only comes later because there’s not communications. It’s a remote mountainous region.” The earthquake hit just before noon local time on Saturday, April 25, the day Christians attend their weekly church services. Yohannan says, “We have 450 congregations scattered around the country. But between Kathmandu and Pokhara where the earthquake hit, that is one area where we have a significant number of churches and [20] Bridge of Hope Centers.” Bridge of Hope Centers are places where GFA workers assist poor children... The Preacher's Dialogue Son of man, can these bones live again? How does one answer that kind of question? Gardner Taylor Do you ever feel as though you're preaching to the dead? Do you need to have your heart rekindled with hope in what God's preached Word can accomplish? Then this stirring message by Dr. Gardner Taylor (slightly condensed from the original recording) delivered at the E.K. Bailey conference on expository preaching in Dallas, Texas is just what you need. Dr. Gardner Taylor, regarded as one of America's premier preachers, served as the senior pastor of Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York.
Let me read here from the thirty-seventh chapter of the book of Ezekiel. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord and sent me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones. And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God, thou knowest." And again he said unto me, "Prophesy onto these bones, and say unto them, 'O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.'"What a scene. Here was a valley where this man was first carried out. And, preachers, if you have been carried out you can never get back in where you were. Never. The Spirit will haunt you and taunt you. You may seek to squirm and to wrestle your way free, but you will never escape. You may do whatever you can to nullify your calling, but if he has carried you out you'll never get back in. Can these bones live again? Can that first fresh resolve of enthusiasm [for preaching] come again to you? Can that first fresh morning enthusiasm be yours again? Here was a valley of dry bones. This had once been a proud army with the regimental banners fluttering in the air. The polished chariots catching the reflection of the sun. The rhythmic thunder of marching feet. It had once been a mighty army—proud, self-assured—marching through a valley. But now all of that is gone. The once shining lances are rusting. The regimental banners are in tatters. The chariots are wheel-less and themselves rusting. And this man looks around. Is that what the preacher is called to do—to look around to see what havoc has been wrought in this valley, which we call life... |
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