2013-10-04T14:49:55-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/persecution/ http://faithgateway.com/god-has-overcome-the-world/ 2013-10-04T14:49:55-05:00 Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings from the wicked who are out to destroy me, from my mortal enemies who surround me. — Psalm 17:8-9 While being persecuted by King Saul, David wrote this psalm as a plea for justice in the face of false […] http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/flash-gordon-rescues-6827 2013-03-12T10:39:19-05:00 You've been to the edge of desperation, but remember the Lord rescued you out of them all. Maybe you're in a perilous or a painful place again. This time it looks like there is no way out of this, Flash, but then it's looked like that before at the end of other episodes and you're still here. Get some perspective. Stand back. Remember a lifetime of the Lord's rescues. http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-mission/suddenly-interested-6823 2013-03-06T09:37:31-05:00 Lives all around you are prisoners of Satan and prospects for hell. There are Christians compromising all around you, embarrassing their Lord, betraying their Lord. Lives are being lost to loneliness and emptiness because they're living without knowing God. How can you sit here when there's a war going on? http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-hard-times/surfing-is-better-than-sinking-6721 2012-10-15T09:47:25-05:00 Remember, your situation is your assignment from God. Do what the great surfers do! Ride on top of this wave; surf on it. Capture it for Christ. http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/twelfth-century/waldenses/ 2011-06-27T16:22:03-05:00 The Waldensians from the 12th Century to the Protestant Reformation. From Christian History magazine. http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/first-century/persecution/ 2011-06-27T16:15:37-05:00 In the Roman mind, there were valid religious reasons to halt the spread of Christianity. From Christian history magazine. http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/fourth-century/edict-of-milan/ 2011-06-27T16:14:27-05:00 The agreement shifted Christianity from being an illicit, persecuted sect to being a welcome—and soon dominant—religion of the Roman Empire. From Christian History magazine. http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/sixteenth-century/huguenots/ 2011-06-27T15:19:07-05:00 Suspicious and scared, the king of France ordered a political assassination. Then the real killing began as Huguenots were slaughtered. From Christian History magazine. http://chitorch.org/index.php/chm/sixteenth-century/anabaptists/ 2011-06-27T14:53:38-05:00 How America’s plain people first arose in Europe as a discipleship movement repressed by the state church. From the pages of christian history magazine. http://truewoman.com/?id=1089 2010-09-08T12:28:54-05:00 Enkelejda describes Albanian women as “used and abused.” Kidnapping, human trafficking, pornography, prostitution, and organ trafficking all run rampant. If you have money, you can buy anything . . . or anyone. Ordering a child seems to be almost as normal as purchasing coffee in a coffee shop.