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Islam–Threat or Opportunity for Christians?

It is our human nature to procrastinate.  Generally we wait until a crisis is upon us before we react.  We get busy with every day duties and tend to not look too far into the future to anticipate potential issues headed our way.  This certainly seems to be happening with American Christianity and the growth [...]

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Islam Impressions

Islam 101

Think you know Islam? It is the second largest religion in the world, only surpassed by Christianity. Islam was “born” from the writings of Mohammed, who claimed he received additional teachings from the angel Gabriel. Islam considers the writings of Judaism and Christianity “completed” by the Qur’an, the sacred book of Islam. Our guest today [...]

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Chrislam: A “fourth branch” of Christianity?

You’ll want to check out this video and story from CBN yesterday about the growing Chrislam movement around the world. Here is the article, reprinted in full: ‘Chrislam’ Movement Misguiding Former Muslims? Satellite television, radio broadcasts, and the Internet present expanding opportunities for Muslims to hear the gospel. But how welcoming are churches in Islamic [...]

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Al Qaeda Says US Teacher Killed Over Christian Beliefs

SANAA, Yemen — Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch said Thursday that it killed an American teacher because he was trying to spread Christianity in the mainly Muslim Arab nation. Joel Shrum, a 29-year-old native of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, was gunned down on Sunday in the central city of Taiz, where he had been living with his [...]

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Why is a Saddleback pastor teaching on the Kingdom Circles?

With all the buzz about the interfaith aspect of Saddleback Church’s P.E.A.C.E. Plan and the controversy over the King’s Way initiative that partners Rick Warren’s church together with the Islamic community, many question just how Saddleback is reaching Muslims after promising not to convert anyone to Christianity. Could it be that not converting anyone is [...]

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The Courage and Wisdom To Question Our Leaders

Confusion.  When human beings are overloaded with varying opinions and conflicting reports we are faced with the need to take a step back and process all we are hearing and seeing.  Sometimes the more we try to process all this information, the more confused we become.  Eventually many people just shut down mentally and accept [...]

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The King’s Way denial has no clothes

King’s Way? What King’s Way? What partnership with Saddleback pastors? Nothing to see here. After all, pastor Rick Warren put this all to bed with his statement this weekend that there was NO King’s Way document, and NO King’s Way involvement with any Saddleback pastors. Right? But Emperor, the internet holds up a different mirror. [...]

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Rick Warren builds bridge to Muslims

(via the Orange County Register) The Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest and one of America’s most influential Christian leaders, has embarked on an effort to heal divisions between evangelical Christians and Muslims by partnering with Southern California mosques and proposing a set of theological principles that includes acknowledging that Christians and Muslims [...]

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We don’t believe in the same Jesus

Working with our blog and web mechanics, I get to see the statistics on how people stumble across our little site. One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the search engine metrics, a little box that tells me what Google search terms they typed in before clicking on our site. Every day without [...]

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Compromise? Or Surrender?

In England Christian schools are now being pressured by the government to end any sex education teachings that seem harsh or discriminatory toward homosexuals and transgenders.  What started off as a law to make sex education mandatory in schools, but provide protection for religious schools to not violate their religious teachings on sex is now [...]

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