Tag: syria
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Damascus Road: Witness into all the World
Witness from Jerusalem to Damascus Of all places the Apostles would not have ever thought the risen Christ would anoint yet another Apostle, a road to Damascus likely would have been the last place to come to mind. Jesus had led them to places beyond Galilee (now formally a part of Syria under the administration…
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Acts 8:1 Syria – Strategic Map into all of the world
Our cover photo may look like an intelligence map for a modern military operation in Syria. That’s right. War in Syria is hardly anything new under the sun. So you ask, what does this have to do with a first century Syria of the Roman Empire and Jesus’ great commission? Some text on Talk of…
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Swords & Sickles
Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.” Joel 3:9-10 Consecrate them, says the LORD! Yes. It is a…
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Running from God – 5 – God pursues
Are you running from God? Here we have Elijah sulking in victory and awaiting defeat under the shade of a broom tree. We have heard the same Peter who would glorify Jesus and Moses and Elijah with a shrine, deny knowing Jesus when he risked imprisonment or execution for his confession of Christ. We have…
