Proof The Bible Is True

I had the pleasure of spending a few hours with my dear friend, Merv Knight, last week. After chatting with Merv, I decided to take a break from my series on Sudan to share an amazing story with you. I’ll share more updates and videos from Sudan next time. If you missed some of the earlier posts, you can find them here. But, for now, let me tell you a story that deepened my faith in the miracle-working God we serve. Merv Knight is the co-founder of VOM Australia and has ministered to persecuted Christians for more than 46 years. [More]

“At the bottom of the article is a video of his entire address on 06/04/15 at the Messiah Conference you can watch.”  Admin Jonathan Cahn, the Bible teacher and author who started warning nine years ago that America was facing the judgment of God if it did not reject secularism and return to its Judeo-Christian roots, says the June 26 Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states marks the formal end to Christian America. Barring a “miracle of God,” the die has been cast, said the author of “The Harbinger” and “The Mystery of the Shemitah.” [More]

This week’s episode of The Glazov Gang was joined by Sister Hatune Dogan, a Syrian Orthodox nun taking care of persecuted Christians and refuges in Iraq and throughout the Islamic Middle East. Visit her site at Hatunefoundation.com. Sister Hatune discussed taking care of Christian girls who have been maimed and mutilated by Islamic Jihad, why Islam wages war on Christians, women and all non-Muslims, how ISIS is Islam, the threats to her own life, and much, much more: Watch  Sister Hatune Dogan on Persecuted Christian Girls Under Islam — on The Glazov Gang | Jamie Glazov Productions.

Before sunrise, a North Korean Christian seals his small, secret radio into a plastic bag and buries it in the ground. He will dig it up late that night to listen again to Biblical teaching while trying to avoid the prying eyes of his neighbors and his government. At the same time, a radio transmitter built by Adolf Hitler’s propaganda machine broadcasts Jesus’ love on a million watts of broadcast power, and a Christian in the Middle East secretly downloads the Gospel of John onto his phone. TWR is using radio waves, smart phones and internet connections to share the [More]

In 1992, Bei Cun, considered to be one of China’s leading avant-garde writers, did something that really shocked his readers and admirers: He converted to Christianity. But given the explosive growth of Christianity in China, it shouldn’t be all that surprising. If you haven’t heard of Bei Cun, that’s okay. Neither had I, probably because his work hasn’t been translated into English. I only learned of his story because my BreakPoint colleague and friend Roberto Rivera recently read Philip Jenkins book, “The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South,” which tells Bei’s story. After becoming a [More]

“The stats in this article tell a sad story of our continued moral decline and also indicate that the church is having little effect in halting this decline.”  Admin Are there any traditional moral taboos left? A new Gallup poll says people are moving toward acceptance of a wide variety of behaviors once condemned as taboo and morally unacceptable. Americans are more likely now than in 2001 to accept gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman. Moral acceptability of many of these issues is now at a record-high level, [More]

More than 100 leaders respond to Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage. A coalition of evangelical leaders assembled by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has released the following: As evangelical Christians, we dissent from the court’s ruling that redefines marriage. The state did not create the family, and should not try to recreate the family in its own image. We will not capitulate on marriage because biblical authority requires that we cannot. The outcome of the Supreme Court’s ruling to redefine marriage represents what seems like the result of a half-century of witnessing marriage’s decline through divorce, cohabitation, and a [More]

Two Christian youth organizations have inked an agreement to work together. American Heritage GirlsTrail Life USA and American Heritage Girls have signed a Memorandum of Ministry Alliance during the A.H.G. annual convention underway in Anderson, Indiana. Trail Life USA spokesman Mark Hancock says the agreement means the two groups will support each other, and share troop information and resources. “And of course the 20 years of experience American Heritage Girls has gone before us, we have a lot we can learn from them,” Hancock tells OneNewsNow. Read More  Trail Life, Heritage Girls team up.

“Just came across this site today. You can listen to Christian, news, sports and many other types of radio and TV stations from the US and around the world.”  Admin Streema is a free online radio tuner to discover, share, and listen to radio stations with your friends. Listen to more than 70,000 radio stations and watch more than 10,000 TV stations here at the Streema directory. For radio, we’ve made it unbelievably easy to find your favorite stations, listen to the music of your choice, find the top new songs and playlists, all in an easy to use web [More]

”Lift your bra up,” the female prison guard ordered. Finally satisfied I wasn’t carrying contraband, she let me get dressed. My husband and I had come to a state penitentiary in Tennessee to visit our son, Jeffery, sentenced to seven years on drug and gun charges. I’d never felt so violated, humiliated—and resentful. I wasn’t the criminal. Jeffery had been in trouble ever since elementary school. Even a residential intensive therapy program didn’t help. By the time he was 18, he’d spiraled into a dangerous life of crime. Until he was arrested during a drug deal. When I saw Jeffery [More]

I’ve always loved the idea of angels: messengers of God who guide and protect every human life; offer forgiveness, comfort, grace and aid; and love us as God does–unconditionally. So I was thrilled when I got hired at Angels on Earth almost 10 years ago. From my first day on the job, I felt like God intended for me to work at this magazine. After being at the magazine for about a year, one evening on my subway ride home from the office I wondered silently: Do I really believe in angels? I enjoyed that readers got so much reassurance [More]

Kingdom racing is a motorsport ministry birthed out of the life changing experience George Del Canto had after salvation in Jesus Christ.

Christians in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan are under attack from their own government. When a plane flies overhead, our Sudanese brothers and sisters dive into foxholes to escape falling bombs. Hospitals and even schools are specifically targeted by the Islamic government of Sudan. Many Christians have fled their homes and are living in caves or in the mountains in hopes of finding safety. Yet even in the midst of attacks, some Christians are finding ways to reach out with Jesus’ love. VOM’s Dr. Jason Peters visited Christians in Sudan, and this week on VOM Radio he shares their inspiring [More]

A Washington Post article tells the story of a tiny Baptist church near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The congregation had dwindled to just fifteen members. With bills stacking up, Deacon Larry Montgomery told the congregation, “We’re just not going to make it.” Montgomery then told the people of Scenic Drive Baptist that there was a congregation who might want to buy the church. This congregation had been meeting in homes and had a pastor whose business card quoted John 4:35: “Look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” Montgomery approached the pastor, who then called his flock to pray about it. [More]

John Paul Jackson shares with us what makes up the Perfect Storm of events that will not only impact America but the world.

A miraculous experience restores a couple’s souls and washes away their fears. My husband was gravely ill. In desperation, his doctors prescribed bypass heart surgery, a new and untested procedure at the time. Bob and I were both frightened and needed a reprieve. A week before his surgery, we packed a picnic and on a glorious California day drove out to the Mojave Desert. Bob loved the desert air, it was so dry and easy to breathe. We traveled aimlessly on back roads lined with desert flowers, yucca and the lovely palo verde tree. And then, on an off-road track, [More]

Who held his hand after the devastating car accident? Most people who know me know I died on January 18, 1989, went to heaven, and was prayed back to earth about ninety minutes later; however, many don’t know the rest of the story—a part I didn’t know until more than a year afterward. One powerful element came out when I ate at a Chinese restaurant with Dick and Anita Onerecker. We had just come from church, where Dick served as the senior pastor. They had invited me to preach. My first encounter with Dick and Anita had been in the [More]

I fell in love with Colorado, but was it where God wanted me to be? I needed a sign. My best friend Shannon and I strapped everything I owned to the roof of my red Mazda and hit the road—I-35 North, saying goodbye to Houston for good. I’d never lived anywhere else, but in 17 hours, I’d start my new life in Boulder, Colorado. While Shannon drove, I gazed out the window, hoping to glimpse a sign from God that this was the right move. All I saw was a blur of familiar places I was leaving behind. In Houston, [More]

The boys and I were cleaning closets. Eliminating excess. Desiring to get by with less in order to embrace what’s more. But in the bedroom cabinet, beneath a box of must-keep letters, I found a precious thing, the thing that helped me remember who I am in Christ. My autograph book–from the fourth grade. The cover was faded. Corners were worn round. Entries from my friends, written in #2 lead pencils, were faint. I turned pages and remembered smooth wooden desktops and stacks of hard-bound books and the scent of spring through open windows when Louie the custodian drove a [More]

Little did they know that they were visited by an angel who bore a message from heaven. Sometimes, early in our marriage, for no reason at all, my husband would stop at a flower shop and buy me a dozen roses. “A whole dozen!” I’d say, overwhelmed and aghast. “Oh, Dave, they’re too expensive.We can’t afford this.” For a while he didn’t hear me. If he saw twelve roses, he’d buy them all. To the Italian romantic, more was better. But finally, my Scotch-Irish nature got through to him. “Oh, Dave, they’re so wonderful–but I just can’t appreciate more than [More]

Last night my small group from church met together, as we do weekly. We spend time together, catch up on each other’s lives, study the Bible and pray. I really appreciate this group and their commitment to coming together, as well as their commitment to serve. When I visited with Syrian Christians two weeks ago, I asked the group if they’d like to send something small to bless the Syrian believers living in a war zone. Two women from my group came back with over 50 button-down shirts and a selection of lotions and perfumes for the women. Over Christmas, [More]

The focus for VOM’s free monthly newsletter in June is Christians facing persecution in Africa, with stories from Niger, Uganda and Kenya. Recently, VOM’s sister mission in the UK, Release International, produced this video about the rise of persecution in Kenya. Please pray for our persecuted family in Africa. Watch video  Persecution Blog: Video: The Gathering Storm of Persecution in Kenya.

How can a pastor continue leading a church that keeps getting attacked? How can he protect other people after he’s been assaulted multiple times? These are some of the questions that ran through my mind as 48-year-old Rev. Yakubu D’zarai recently shared his story with me at VOM’s office in Nigeria. Since 1993, Yakubu has pastored churches in Borno state – where terrorist group Boko Haram is based and Shariah (Islamic law) is rule. Two of his church buildings have been bombed. The first, home to 276 worshipers, was bombed on Dec. 18, 2012. The second, home to 278 worshipers, [More]

“A life transformed by the power of God. If you, dear reader, need a similar life transforming encounter with God you can have it, click here.”  Admin He was known as the Dark Destroyer in his boxing prime, but now Nigel Benn is concentrating on building people up, not knocking them down – though he hasn’t turned his back on the sport. Benn, an army veteran who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, was one of the most successful British boxers ever. He became the WBC and WBO super middleweight champion, with a record of 42 wins from 48 [More]

“So will the Church see the rise of the Anti-Christ and suffer great persecution worldwide, click here for the answer.”  Admin The Christian church in America lies quiet, paralyzed, apparently moribund in the face of a wildfire of anti-Christian cultural and political trends sweeping the nation. same-sex marriage; the Supreme Court’s decision labeling any and all opposition to the above as nothing short of bigotry; the first, unmistakable signs of persecution against those believers who do stand up in defiance often because they were entrapped by anti-Christian activists; a national freak show of the celebration of “transgenderism” and other deviant [More]

“Please remember to keep him in your prayers. And also pray that our illustrious lawmakers take some real action to get him released.” Admin An American pastor who has been imprisoned in Iran for over the past two years has again been beaten behind bars. As previously reported, Saeed Abedini, a former Iranian Muslim turned Christian, left Iran in 2005 and moved to the United States with his wife and two children to find religious freedom after facing conflict with authorities for planting house churches in the county. In 2012, he traveled back to Iran to build an orphanage and [More]

Art Thomas preaches in Lincoln, Nebraska, about the simplicity of healing ministry. After Jesus commanded His disciples to “heal the sick…” in Matthew 10:8, He added, “Freely you have received; now freely give.” The same way you receive from God apart from any effort on your own, you are also commissioned to give in His name apart from any effort of your own. This message has been called one of the most practical teachings about how to minister healing.