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Chocolates and champagne or ashes and fasting?
That’s the question many Christians will face on Wednesday, when Valentine’s Day and the Ash Wednesday holiday marking the start of Lent fall on the same day for the first time…
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New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman became a superstar on the heels of his popular trade books debunking long-held assumptions about Christian Scriptures.
With titles like “How Jesus Became God,” “Forged” and “Misquoting Jesus,” he gained a devoted following of fellow agnostics, atheists and ex-Christians.
They may not appreciate the title of his newest book, “The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World,” which is set to be released Tuesday (Feb. 13). In it, Ehrman tries to explain a long-puzzling historical drama: How did 20 or so Jesus followers come to convert much of the world in the space of 300 years? (Sociologist Rodney Stark published a book of the same title in 2011.)
Most of the research into the first few centuries after Jesus’ crucifixion around the year 33, he concedes, is not new. Scholars have been grappling with how Christianity exploded on the scene for a long time. Ehrman’s goal is to bring that issue to the masses in plain English, marshaling the evidence — most of it written in Greek and Latin — and crunching the numbers.
True to form, Ehrman, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, doesn’t exalt in Christianity’s success, despite his new book’s title. “In this book I have tried to explain the triumph of Christianity without making it a triumphalist narrative,”…
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According to the Mail newspaper, church leaders could protest the payment – currently valued at £115 million – set to be awarded to Persimmon’s chief executive Jeff Fairburn.
The Church of England, along with the Methodist Church, holds shares in the company, which boasts a workforce of 4,500 across 29 regional UK offices.
Both denominations – which boost investment portfolios of £10 billion and £1.3 billion respectively – told the Mail of their dismay at the scale of payments to reward good performance.
The Mail reports that 140 managers at Persimmon are in line to each receive a share of a bonus package currently valued at £800 million. The first instalments of payments were made late last year.
The Church of England voted against the firm’s board over executive pay during last year’s annual shareholder meeting and is considering a second protest vote when shareholders meet in April.
Payments made to the top brass at Persimmon depend on how much each share in the company is worth. Based on the company’s share price on Friday afternoon, Mr Fairburn would receive £115 million.
The Church of England has been keen in recent months to appear ethical in its investment activities. Leaders announced last November that they may pull out of firms which invest in energy-extractive industries.
Premier has contacted Persimmon…
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“I just can’t take it anymore. Life is too difficult. There’s no hope for me. I’m going to kill myself!”
Suicide as an acceptable solution to the seemingly insurmountable pressures of life is becoming increasingly prevalent in our society. More and more physicians and politicians are getting on board with supporting “death with dignity.” Additionally, we’re witnessing…
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Iran, Elam Ministries told Mohabat News that a growing number of Farsi churches had been closed and Christian converts had been imprisoned for merely praying and worshipping in their own homes.
However, despite the state-sponsored crackdown, the group which “exists to strengthen and expand the Church in the Iran region and beyond”, said the intimidation isn’t stopping people from embracing Christianity.
Elam team member Behrang Masoumi became a Christian after he attended a Christmas gathering at a house church, where he discovered a relative had already secretly converted.
“I was shocked. I was even more shocked to discover that she had been secretly following Jesus for five years… and she had been praying for me all that time,” said Masoumi.
Meanwhile, United Nations human rights experts have issued a statement, urging Iran to ensure “a fair and transparent final hearing” for three Iranian Christians who have been sentenced for “conducting evangelism” and “illegal house church activities,” among other charges.
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It could deal a devastating blow to the church.
Immorality and athletics do not have to go together.
Well-meaning church leaders tell men simply to try harder. Now 500,000 men have found a proven method to quit porn and find lasting freedom.
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Affinity, a fellowship of evangelical churches and individuals, are encouraging Christian organisations to support them and sign a petition to prevent the potential persecution of religion in the future.
Graham Nicholls, the Director of Affinity, told Premier why a law was needed: “There is a clash going on, a cultural clash, a colliding of different rights and responsibilities.
“In that clash, religious freedom in part is being squeezed out by secular freedom, so we think it would be helpful and clarifying if religious rights were somehow enshrined in law.”
Nicholls said that believers do have many legal rights but that there is a danger these can slip away when tested in everyday life.
Explaining that many rights are enshrined in law, Nicholls added: “It’s not clarified what that actually means and how that works out in practice and whether we are free to worship – to read the scripture in public for example – is that a right that we should have? We think it should be and to be able to interpret scripture without government interference.”
Nicholls argued that a law would “save a lot of time wasted on spurious cases of prosecuting Christians on things like people preaching in public”.
When asked if our current freedoms are really in danger currently, he replied: “In practice. Not many of the cases have held against street preachers or against Christian preaching…
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We live in a world that is quickly moving from a biblical worldview to a secular, humanistic worldview. The speed of this change has been shocking, as we have transitioned from Father Knows Best to Modern Family.
Not only has our world changed, but the values and lifestyle of those who have the loudest voices of influence have changed also. Today, we have politicians on both sides of the aisle supporting issues that are diametrically opposed to biblical principles….
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A Colorado couple sold everything they owned to buy a twenty-eight-foot sailboat. They spent a year refurbishing it, then set out to sea. On their second day, their craft struck something underwater. Water flooded the cabin. The couple grabbed Social Security cards, cash, IDs, and their dog as they fled the boat.
The woman told a reporter, “Everything I’ve worked for, everything I’ve owned since I was a child, I brought with me. It’s just floating away and there’s nothing I can do.” However, she was undeterred: “The boat sank, but our dreams didn’t sink with the boat.”
Other accidents in today’s news were far more traumatic.
Lionel Douglass was attending a wedding at the Grand Canyon when he saw a sightseeing helicopter crash and explode. He told ABS News, “I had taken my phone and I was zooming in to see if I could see anybody and a lady walked out of the flames and I just lost it.” Three people died; four survivors were taken to a local hospital and remained in critical condition as of last night.
Sunday afternoon, a Russian jetliner crashed near Moscow, killing all seventy-one passengers and crew. London City Airport was closed last night after an unexploded World War II bomb was found nearby. Residents in the area were asked to leave their homes overnight.
One fact about life today is that we cannot predict life tomorrow. However, we can choose to be ready. A movie I saw over the weekend shows us how.
“The 15:17 to Paris”
On August 15, 2015, a twenty-five-year-old Moroccan man named Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded a high-speed train from Brussels to Paris. He was armed with an assault rifle, a Luger pistol, a box cutter, and 270 rounds of ammunition.
Also on the train were three Americans: Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler, and Alek Skarlatos. When El-Khazzani began his attack, Stone tackled the terrorist and was able to subdue him. The other two helped hold him down, eventually tying him up. Stone then helped a wounded…
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Senator Pacquiao’s proposal was met without any opposition and will now be observed annually on the last Monday of January.
The new working holiday will celebrate Christianity and the observance of the teachings of the Bible.
In his explanatory note to the bill, Pacquiao said: “As a predominantly Christian nation and the largest Christian nation in the Asia Pacific, this Act recognises the value of the Holy Bible as the core of Christian faith.”
“Sermons and homilies of Christian churches dwell in the teachings of the Bible. It is the primary source of spiritual manna.
“Bless the Lord O my soul
O my soul
Worship His Holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I’ll worship Your Holy name.” pic.twitter.com/7x6oUMWmch— Manny Pacquiao (@mannypacquiao) October 26, 2017
“It forms and transforms lives of people from generations to generations. It serves as the foundation of spiritual, moral, and social fibre, which moulds a socially responsible citizenry and strong nation building.”
Approximately four in five Filipinos are Catholics, amounting to around 80 million people.
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