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Here are the discussion questions that accompany my message, "Hidden Victory within Suffering," which is part of our series "Exiles" on the book of 1 Peter. This study walks through 1 Peter 3:13-22. When have you seen God use difficult circumstances in your life to show you or others more about who He is? What …
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This week we focus on praying for the persecuted church. Perhaps you could take 3 minutes to watch this video from the World Evangelical Alliance highlighting the plight of religious persecution and the opportunity of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church.
Today, Open Doors released the World Watch List 2015, a resource developed "to track and measure the extent of persecution in the world." Open Doors has been tracking religious persecution of Christians since the 1970s and their approach to the work is well-informed and reliable. Religious persecution affects many religious groups and not just Christians. Still, there …
The cover article in the November issue of Christianity Today written by church historian Philip Jenkins was entitled "Is This the End for Mideast Christianity?" After traveling through that part of the world for two and half weeks last month, I found this article particularly helpful and insightful. If you haven't read the article yet, you …
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NBC World News had a recent feature on the impact of the Iraq war and subsequent instability on the Christian community in Iraq ("'People turned on Christians': Persecuted Iraqi minority reflects on life after Saddam"). This reminded me of a time about two and a half years ago when I was at a gathering in the …
Matthew Erickson 