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Author | : Marvin J. Newell |
Publisher | : Moody Publishers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2006-10-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1575676036 |
As a former director of TEAM in Indonesia, Marvin Newell knows the challenges and dangers of missionary work. Now he tells the story of messengers of Christ who didn't survive to tell their own. Newell's sobering look at 21 students of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago rides the momentum of DC Talk's Jesus Freaks and the major motion picture The End of the Spear.
Author | : Bryan M. Litfin |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1441220070 |
Personal narratives are powerful instruments for teaching, both for conveying information and for forming character. The martyrdom accounts preserved in the literature of early Christianity are especially intense and dramatic. However, these narratives are not readily available and are often written in intimidating prose, making them largely inaccessible for the average reader. This introductory text brings together key early Christian martyrdom stories in a single volume, offering new, easy-to-read translations and expert commentary. An introduction and explanatory notes accompany each translation. The book not only provides a vivid window into the world of early Christianity but also offers spiritual encouragement and inspiration for Christian life today.
Author | : The Voice Martyrs |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson Inc |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2003-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1418515620 |
Eight women from eight very different backgrounds. Yet the struggles they each faced rang with eerie similarity. These courageous women from across the globe-Pakistan, India, Romania, Former Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Nepal, Indonesia-shared similar experiences of hardship, subjugation, and persecution, all because of their faith in Christ. Yet all of these women have emerged from adversity as leaders and heroines. The eight modern-day pilgrims featured in Hearts of Fire are the hidden jewels in the church universal. They are worthy role models of faith and passion, and women of every age will gain new strength and hope for their own times of crisis and trial as they read these inspiring stories. Each story concludes with thoughtful self-reflection questions for the reader.
Author | : Duane W. H. Arnold |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1990-09-01 |
Genre | : Christian martyrs. |
ISBN | : 9780310314509 |
Author | : Candida Moss |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0062104543 |
An expert on early Christianity reveals how the early church invented stories of Christian martyrs—and how this persecution myth persists today. According to church tradition and popular belief, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. But as Candida Moss reveals in The Myth of Persecution, the “Age of Martyrs” is a fiction. There was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still invoked by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. By shedding light on the historical record, Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get them.
Author | : John Foxe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1172 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Martyrs |
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Author | : Caroline Cox |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2006-07-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780826487889 |
Stories from around the world, particularly from areas of Christian persecution or conflict zones. Today over 250 million Christians are suffering persecution, while tens of thousands are martyred every year. >
Author | : Hans Urs Von Balthasar |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2012-09-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1681495236 |
Balthasar puts his finger on the precise origin of all those elements in modern Christianity which see the real Jesus Christ as unknowable, the Gospels as merely the confused reflections of later Christians, and Christian tradition as a perpetuation of the mythology.
Author | : Johnnie Moore |
Publisher | : NavPress |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1496419499 |
Be Inspired by Amazing Eyewitness Stories of Hope and Courage from the Persecuted Church We are witnessing an astonishing escalation in Christian persecution like we have rarely seen since the first century. Some estimate that every five minutes, a Christian is martyred for his or her faith. Countries like Egypt have experienced more Christian persecution in the last five years than in the previous six hundred years combined. And who could have missed the atrocities of ISIS in Syria, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the continued persecution of Christians in North Korea? Johnnie Moore, like many American Christians, didn’t fully appreciate the extent of what was going on—until he witnessed the graduation of theology students in India. Unlike graduation ceremonies in America—where feel-good speeches made by visiting celebrities are common—this one featured a remarkable oath. It wasn’t an oath to excel or succeed. It was an oath to be willing to die, if necessary, for the cause of Christ. This was no empty promise. This was a choice, choosing the eternal over the temporal. Johnnie knew he was witnessing a raw, first-century Christianity that his comfortable American version had shielded him from. “For the first time, I really understand my faith,” says Johnnie Moore. Now, he’s on a mission to give this same experience to others. He and his team have crisscrossed the world, recorders in hand, gathering eyewitness accounts from dozens of people who survived persecution—and the stories of some who didn’t. Join Johnnie Moore on this compelling journey to the heart of the Christian faith.
Author | : Dalton Thomas |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781723825927 |
Throughout the three and a half years of His earthly ministry, Jesus consistently called His disciples to expect and embrace suffering, persecution, and martyrdom, exhorting them with such words as,