Proof The Bible Is True

“Excellent article.”  Admin In 2 Corinthians 10:11, Paul tells us that the things that happened to the Old Testament saints were examples for us and that their stories were written for our admonition, instruction and warning. It has been said that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” and Paul would have us learn from those who preceded us and not repeat their mistakes. I was reminded of this during a recent time of prayer. As I prayed, my heart was heavy about the seeming powerless state of the church in the face of the deteriorating [More]

“It airs Sunday nights on NBC.”  Admin Roma Downey and husband Mark Burnett share the motivation behind the ‘A.D.’ series which follows the highly successful hit of 2013, ‘The Bible.’

Muslim women face oppression in society and even in their own families, sometimes forced to hide even their very faces from the world. JoAnn Doyle leads an outreach to share the truth with Muslim women that they are Not Forgotten, that Jesus Christ loved them so much He even gave His life for them. Listen in as JoAnn shares how we can reach out to Muslim women, even through simple acts of kindness and conversation. We’ll also answer a question from a reader about how Christians inside the world’s most closed nation—North Korea—pray and worship Jesus Christ. Listen  Persecution Blog: [More]

Recently a VOM international worker made a trip to visit persecuted Christians in China. He kept a video diary of the trip, which we will be sharing this week on the Persecution Blog. Day 1 On this first day, he attempts to attend services at a church in Beijing that has been forcibly closed down by the government. Day 2 On this second day, he visits a house church pastor in southwest China, a pastor recently released from prison. Listen in on their conversation about the benefits of persecution for Christian believers. Day 3 Today our worker travels to Hefei [More]

“Great story.”  Admin Bill Geist takes back to 1993, when he profiled Bernard Coffindaffer, a West Virginia businessman who’d made it his life’s work to erect clusters of 3 crosses – thousands of them – next to highways across America. Today, more crosses are being raised, thanks to one woman who’d never met Coffindaffer but who continues his mission as her own.

“Please remember to keep him in your prayers.”  Admin American Pastor Saeed Abedini was permitted to have a visit with an Iranian family member today in the prison. It was the first visit in the last five weeks. He continues to suffer for his faith, wrongfully imprisoned in Iran for being a Christian. The prison guards have become increasingly hostile. He faces a near constant demands that he recant his faith in Christ and become a Muslim. Iranian officials are also psychologically tormenting him, telling him that he will face an extended sentence even after he completes his current eight-year [More]

New York Times’ best-selling author Jonathan Cahn knew the super Shemitah was coming, but even he was startled when the biblical cycle revealed itself on national media. A throwback to Pharaoh’s dream in Genesis, on Sept. 25, a cow with the number seven was born and hit the news wires. Now, Cahn says the mystery deepens. Watch the video to see what he says about the cow. WATCH: Jonathan Cahn Shares Startling Prophetic Mystery About the Seventh Cow.

I know from personal experience that God’s messengers are ready to come to our aid in times of crisis. You will probably remember the disaster that happened in 1986 at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine). The zone of damaging radioactive contamination was still spreading when I traveled to Minsk, Belarus, to serve as a prophetic intercessor for a festival outreach for Jewish people. I had gone there with my two friends David Fitzpatrick and Richard Glickstein, with whom I had prayed a lot in New York City and other places in the United [More]

For those of you who like digging into clinical studies for more detailed information on something you can do so here:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=tumeric The above link is to the US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health using the keyword of “tumeric” to pull up the studies about it. You can enter any keyword you want in the search box at the top of the page.

“At the end of the article there is a video interview of Joel Richardson and Carl Gallups on Islam and end times events in the book of Revelation.”  Admin Islam is a lot more than a Middle East system of religious practices that horrifies Westerners used to the freedoms and security of a democratic republic; it’s an alluring, seductive system that turns innocent outsiders into victims, according to several experts. Commentator Phylllis Chesler wrote recently about the issue under the headline, “ISIS’s Nazi-style ‘Jihad Bride’ Propaganda an Alluring Trap for Western Girls.” There, she wrote, “Foreign girls who are lured [More]

Imagine discovering that your home has the Arabic “N” scrawled on it and that you have been targeted by ISIS? They Were Met By Their Christian FamilyThat is exactly what happened to one sister from Mosul, Iraq, that I met with recently. She shared a harrowing tale of fleeing her city, being separated from her family, and living now as a displaced person in a new city. She was wealthy, by almost any standard. She had a four-story house in Mosul, was a business owner, and owned three vehicles. She also had a prominent family, another form of status in [More]

Launched by Eitan Bar, a Messianic Jew himself, IMetMessiah.com is an evangelistic effort to speak to Jews curious about Jesus. “As Jewish people, most of us grow up without considering whether or not Yeshua is the Messiah expected by our people for millennia,” he explains on the site. “Yet, something happened in our lives that changed each of us and caused us to rethink the usual Jewish views about Jesus.” “We offer these stories to you and hope that your relationship with God will deepen through meeting our storytellers,” Bar says. With over a dozen testimonials posted online and many [More]

While in Iraq recently, I was pleased to meet several Christians who are serving their neighbors, even in the midst of their own personal suffering. These “Jesus followers” have lost almost everything that this world values, and they continue to boldly proclaim their faith. They shine brightly in a place that has been darkened by loss, sorrow and hopelessness. I was reminded of Zephaniah 3:9, where God promises to restore. He will restore so that “they all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one accord.” Another translation reads “serve him shoulder to shoulder.” That [More]

“The US is becoming more of a mission field especially among the younger generation.”  Admin Barna Group has released its 2015 study on the state of atheism in America, and has revealed that one in four unchurched adults in the country now identify as atheists or agnostics. The study also found that rejection of the Bible and lack of trust in the church are two main reasons why people are turning away from faith. The study was focused on those who have not attended church within the past six months, and found that the majority of such people identify as [More]

“It started playing in theaters 04/03/15”  Admin As the highly-anticipated movie, David and Goliath hits theaters in 25 cities this weekend, the director promises a different experience than Noah and Exodus. “I have a lot of respect for Ridley (Scott) and Darren (Aronosfky),” says director Tim Chey. “But they’re both avowed atheists. So you wonder what attracted them to do Bible movies in the first place.” Chey emphatically states the film will put God first. “God is in almost every scene,” he continues. “This is why the Hollywood studios passed when we screened it for executives. So many of them [More]

Despite more than nine out of 10 Americans agreeing Jesus was a historical figure, what they believe about Him diverges widely, according to a newly released survey from the Barna Research Group, a nonprofit organization that has been analyzing cultural trends related to religious belief since 1984. The survey of more than 4,000 U.S. adults online and by phone suggests Americans are conflicted about the central figure of Christianity and have failed to successfully pass on their faith to succeeding generations. That Jesus once walked the Earth as a man was accepted by 92 percent of respondents, with even 87 [More]

“Great interview.”  Admin http://articles.mercola.com/sites/art… Natural health expert and Mercola.com founder Dr. Joseph Mercola interviews Dr. Steven Druker about genetically modified foods and how it took over food supply.

Indian summer in Montana—the perfect day to float down the Clark Fork River and catch a few trout. My buddy Mike, a Chicago native, had been bugging me to take him on a river float, so he and his sister-in-law, Lagora, met me by the Petty Creek Bridge, about 30 minutes north of Missoula. As we put my Hyde drift boat, loaded down with fishing rods and other equipment, into the water, I explained that I’d been on thousands of trips down the river, in the past as a professional guide and fisherman. “I’ve never gotten anyone wet,” I said. [More]

Evergreens had dropped so many needles on my lawn that I had my work cut out for me in cutting the grass. I turned off my hearing aid to block the noise of the riding mower, climbed on and started the engine. On my first pass over the yard a low-hanging branch knocked my sunglasses right off—and my hearing aid along with them! I stopped the mower and looked down at the ground. The sunglasses were easy to spot. But the hearing aid? A beige-colored device about the size of my fingertip? Forget it. I would never find that among [More]

“Just shows how important it is to listen to and do what the Holy Spirit prompts you.” Admin A big ol’ Texas-style Easter Mass? Count me in! St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral in Amarillo was an hour from Borger, our small town, but my husband, Mervin, and our son, Vinay, and I couldn’t wait to make our first trip there. Just as we were about to leave, a thought stopped me in my tracks: Take two angels. I had a stockpile of little fabric angels. Reminders that God was with me, always. But why would I bring some to a church [More]

“Mommy, I want to go home.” It was heartbreaking to see my seven-year-old like this. “Honey, you are home,” I said, stroking her face. “We’ve left the hospital. This is your bed. And I’m right here. You had a really bad fall and need a long rest.” “I don’t remember falling.” Abby sounded scared—my fearless tomboy was never scared. At least she never had been, until the accident. “You were climbing the tree next door…” I reminded her. Even now, a week later, the memory of that day made my chest tighten. I was in the house when I heard [More]

In 2013, executive producers Roma Downey (of “Touched by an Angel” fame) and Mark Burnett (executive producer of “Survivor,” “Shark Tank” and other hit shows) blew the roof off cable TV ratings with “The Bible” miniseries. Now the duo is moving to broadcast television with a 12-part follow-up series: “A.D.: The Bible Continues.” Debuting on Easter Sunday, April 5, at 9 p.m. Eastern / 8 p.m. Central on NBC and continuing on Sunday nights, “A.D.” will dramatize the days following Jesus’ death and resurrection, as the first Christian disciples endured both Jewish and Roman persecution to spread the good news [More]

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.” -2 Corinthians 3:17 “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”   “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form [More]

“Interesting article on the effects of the “Great Awakening” that occurred in America in the 18th century and which we desperately are in need of again. The article then gets into the effects on society of atheism and the ideologies promoting it. We are seeing the effects of that on our society now.”  Admin On March 22, 1758, Princeton University President Jonathan Edwards died from a smallpox inoculation. He had been the valedictorian of his class at Yale. He was ordained in 1727 as a minister in Northampton, Massachusetts, serving as assistant to his grandfather Solomon Stoddard. That same year, [More]

Johann Sebastian Bach was born March 21, 1685. By age 10 his parents had died. At 18, Bach was a church organist, then held positions in royal courts. In 1717, Bach was imprisoned because a duke in the city of Weimar did not want him employed elsewhere. Widowed with 7 children, he remarried and had 13 more. Considered the “master of masters,” Johann Sebastian Bach’s works include: Jesus, Meine Freude (Jesus, My Joy!) Passion According to St. Matthew Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Christians, engrave this day) Easter Oratorio Bach wrote more than 300 sacred cantatas, including: Christ lag in Todes [More]

As a young boy, Benny Matthews looked on as his pastor father was beaten by radical Hindus in India. Seeing the high price his parents paid for serving Christ, the last thing Benny ever wanted to be was a Christian worker. But God had plans for Benny’s life and called him to full-time ministry. Today he works alongside his father to train and equip pastors and church planters to reach India for Christ…even to reach radical Hindus who persecute them. This week on VOMRadio, we’ll hear Benny’s story, the great things God is doing in India and how VOM helps [More]

A majority has been reached in the regional presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (USA), which have been voting for the past several months on whether to ratify a vote taken by the General Assembly and regional delegates last year to change the definition of marriage in its law book and to allow ministers to perform same-sex “marriages” in states where the practice is legal. “With today’s presbytery votes, a majority of the 171 presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (USA) have approved an amendment to the church’s Book of Order that describes marriage as ‘a unique relationship between two people, traditionally [More]