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1. What Christian Bankers Can Learn From Sharia Law

...  dying animal. Short selling, or derivative trading, is regarded under Islamic Sharia Law as illegal, as it is regarded as unethical to sell anything you don't own (like selling the calf before the cow giv ...

Created on 13 July 2017

2. How Christians Should Pray During Ramadan

These prayer points come from one of our partners on the ground in the Arab world, a Christian and former Muslim. Ramadan, the fasting month in Islam, began Friday in most countries. Please remember to ...

Created on 29 May 2017

3. Why Now Is the Most Dangerous Time for You to Be a Christian

... However, the monstrous new perpetrator of mass persecution of Christians is no longer state communism, but Islam, both state and non-state. According to Introvigne, "Islamic ultra-fundamentalism" is no ...

Created on 15 March 2017

4. What Mainstream Research Isn't Telling You About Holy Spirit's Activity Across the Globe

... 2.2 billion.) Some researchers are suggesting that as many as 3.2 billion out of 7 billion people, currently claim to be followers of Jesus. The common assertion that Islam is outpacing Christianity is ...

Created on 27 February 2017

5. Christian Arab Tells How Islamic Terror Impacts Christians, Jews

Pastor Steven Khoury tells Martin Blackham about Islamic terror in the Middle East—and how it affects Christians' relationships with Jews—on In the Last Days.   ...

Created on 26 August 2016

6. How to Pray When Terror Strikes

Another bombing takes place, and suddenly the news is filled with images and stories that fill our hearts with fear. How could this happen again? Could it happen here? What are we supposed to do now? Take ...

Created on 23 March 2016

7. 4 Ways to Cure the Church's Identity Crisis

The Christian church in the United States is suffering an identity crisis. It is more painful to watch than when a 13-year-old boy or girl is wrestling with acne and being gawky while trying to find their ...

Created on 12 January 2016

8. An Intercessor's Urgent Call to Prepare for Terror in 2016

"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For the darkness shall cover the earth and deep darkness the peoples; but the Lord shall rise upon you, and His glory ...

Created on 17 December 2015

9. Verses of Violence: Comparing the Bible and Quran

... ing that supersedes it or can contradict it—and so, to repeat again, throughout Islamic history, the violent verses have often been applied literally by Muslims in their treatment of unbelievers and enem ...

Created on 22 December 2015

10. What Does the Bible Say About Refugees?

A lot of people are arguing about what to do with Syrian refugees. Many people are afraid of terrorism. Others are horrified by the lack of compassion that fear seems to cause. Many want our government ...

Created on 23 November 2015

11. The Underground Revival in the Middle East That Might Take Down Islam

... e as I explore unbelievable developments in the expansion of Christianity in the Middle East. Reliable reports suggest more Muslims have become followers of Jesus over the last two decades than in I ...

Created on 23 November 2015

12. How God Esteems Persecuted Believers

We read the biblical accounts of the saints from long ago and we hear the horrifying news about our Christian brethren being tortured today. But do we truly understand what it means to be a member of the ...

Created on 19 November 2015

13. How to Pray for a Terrorist

To understand the force that ignites a need to destroy is difficult. This morning I was watching coverage on the terrorism in France, and they posted a picture of a smiling, decent-looking, young man who ...

Created on 19 November 2015

14. Should Christ Followers Love ISIS?

As a Christian minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ a frequent question I get asked is, "How should we feel about ISIS?" The question more specifically asked is, "Should we love ISIS?" My answer is always ...

Created on 18 November 2015

15. Message to Terrorists: You're Not Winning

... e. Over and out. See ya. No doubt these radical Islamists take extreme pleasure in creating terror in hearts of those who will not submit to them and their deception. It may appear as though their effo ...

Created on 18 November 2015

16. As ISIS Rises, Many Muslims Are Turning to Christ

... ing happened. He got her up in front of everybody and prayed in the name of Islam's founder. Nothing happened. Then Schambach said, "OK, I am now going to pray in the name that is above every other nam ...

Created on 16 November 2015

17. When Pedophilia Is Called Culture

... istian roots of America are far better than the Islamic roots of the Middle East. The conditions of the human heart that would allow a culture (even a small portion of it) to allow this absolutely flo ...

Created on 24 September 2015

18. From Our Archives: The Mysterious World of Islam

... their attempts to define the Islamic faith. The result has been confusing for most Americans who have been told that Islam is both a peaceful religion and one that aims to destroy Western civilization. ...

Created on 05 September 2015

19. Do All Muslims Want to Kill Us?

...  Muslims. Ordinary Muslims practice some of the teachings of Islam, but they don't want to do anything difficult, such as participate in jihad. They are more interested in having nice lives, pro­viding f ...

Created on 29 August 2015

20. Is The World Getting Worse?

... organization that began as part of al Qaeda in Iraq has spread throughout Arab world. It has beheaded and brutally opposed anyone who differs from their fierce form of Islamic Fundamentalism. Reflecting ...

Created on 19 August 2015