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BELOVED, DO NOT BE SURPRISED AT THE FIERY TRIAL AMONG YOU, If the Master is maligned as Beelzebub, the members of His There [...] For the first three hundred years, persecution came in ten “waves,� with periods of relative peace between. Many were faithful and did not yield to temptations to deny Christ. These were the Confessors [faithful survivors of torture and prison] and Martyrs. Others weakened and compromised their faith out of fear, cowardice, or unbelief. Yet when the [...] BLESSED IS HE WHO DOES NOT STUMBLE OVER ME [Mt.11:6] A man sent from God [Jn.1:6], indeed, none greater that has Dear Sisters in the Lord, Who is our God? He is a consuming fire. He is love, and light. He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. Who are we? We are His children, servants, bride, and body. [...] Dear Brethren, Over the course of five agonizing months, an ulcerated mass of tissue had progressively erupted into a four inch diameter tumor that now protruded a full two inches from his frail chest. From his gaunt and grizzled form, pleading hollow eyes restlessly shifted from face to face, desperately hoping for relief or a glimmer of [...] FELIX c.303 AD Felix, a bishop in the church of Thibaris in Africa, was arrested and brought before the Procurator [Roman official] who demanded from him his copies of the Word of God in order to burn them. Their conversation went as follows. “It were better, that I should be burned, than the divine Scriptures,� testified the [...] HOW LONG, O LORD? WILL YOU FORGET ME FOREVER? [Ps.13:1] The gently led nursing flock whose lambs are carried in the Diocletian’s edict that all the sacred books of the Christians should be burned was a fiery trial for the saints of God. Since the copies were hand written and not the common possession of all as our printed Bibles are to us today, the leaders of the churches were particularly sought after and afflicted in [...] Steve & Patricia Phillips Steve has recently completed a book entitled: Black but Lovely: Thoughts on the Song of Songs. This and his other publications can be read and/or copied by visiting the website: ~ News From Patti ~ Dear Brethren, I have recently returned from a trip to Nigeria. Steve [...] |
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