Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
I thought of this again several times this month already:
That piece of 1 Samuel 15:23 just ain’t complicated at all: God won’t fit in a rebel heart.
Doing church things, saying church words, dressing church clothes, thinking church thoughts — none of them make room for God in a rebel heart.
But broken repentance does. Read it all
Remorse which does not lead to repentance becomes its fatal substitute. Read it all
Since some friends have served in Bangladesh and one of them plans to return later this month, this story of forced conversions to Islam drew my attention:
A local government official in central Bangladesh has halted the construction of a church, forced Christians to worship at a mosque and threatened them with eviction from their village unless they renounce their faith.
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“Their threats chilled me to the bone. That is why I pretended to accept Islam, but faith in Christ is the wellspring of my life. Now I am no longer a Muslim; I am a Christian.”
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Eight Christians agreed to return to Islam since Sept. 14, under the chairman’s orders. The chairman and his associates had already beaten some of those Christians three years ago for accepting Christianity.
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Local chairman Faruk told World Watch Monitor that some Christians had been acting against Islam, due to their incorrect interpretation of the Qur’an.
“The Imams and other elders of the society called them for rectification because of their aberrant behaviour. They were derailed, so we tried to put them on the right track,” he said.
“Eight people who had deviated came back to Islam. We are trying to bring back others. To change a religion, a person needs to swear his or her name, and should inform a local magistrate. If the magistrate permits, then he or she can change religion. But what they are doing is completely wrong.”
To read the full article I quote above, read Bangladeshi Christians told to close church, convert to Islam.
HT: persecution.org
A Christian died for his faith in Tunisia. (That’s in Africa, right?)
Was he praying as he died? If so, what would a Christian be praying as a Muslim slices off his head? Read it all
How spiritually and morally bankrupt is the United States of America? (Substitute your country if you prefer.)
This nation founded on many Christian principles is so deep in moral and spiritual debt that she can never dig out on her own. (Of course, that’s the case with every nation and every soul in every nation.)
But it doesn’t seem that the USA has reached yet the depravity of Sodom: Read it all
You know about Jerry Sandusky and Pennsylvania State University and the sodomy stuff, right? Sure you do (you’re online, after all).
Do you also know about Nineveh and the evil in that city?
Well, Jonah certainly knew about Nineveh…and he certainly wasn’t going there on any errand of grace and mercy! But now look what I did; I got ahead of myself… Read it all
Muslims are feared. Muslims are vilified. Muslims are hated.
Not by everybody, of course, and likely not by a majority either. But the adherents of Islam and Islam itself just don’t get a lot of good press and positive attention.
And speaking of Muslims and Islam, what do you know about Ramadan? Read it all
