Source: David Clayton via thewayofbeauty.orgReprinted with permission. ‘Try this for 30 days and if you don’t like it we’ll return your misery with interest!’ More than thirty years ago, by chance, I met a man called David Birtwistle who asked me this question: are you as happy as you can […]
Christian Stories
Stories, from a broadly Christian perspective.
From Jihad to Jesus
Source: One For Israel Ministry via YouTube Raised in Sudan, in the most radical sects of Islam, he was raised to hate christians and especially the Jews. But God transformed his life from hate to love. You won’t believe the ending! Please share this powerful story of Redemption and share […]
Death threats, bombings and following Jesus in Syria: Sozan’s story
Source: Open Doors USA via Vimeo Even after all she’s been through, Sozan still follows Jesus in Syria. Hear her story and her passion for Christ. Header image: Open Doors USA via Vimeo
Captive In Iran: Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizade
Source: The Nations Podcast | Episode 008, with Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh via YouTube Subscribe to our Nations Podcast channel! https://bit.ly/2CEUBZt Captive In Iran Joel sits down for a conversation with Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh, authors of the book Captive in Iran, which chronicles their remarkable stories of […]
The Purposeful Universe – A Conversation with Dr. Dan Kuebler
The Purposeful Universe
Does order imply purpose?
Our host, Dr. Dan Kuebler, is Dean of the School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Franciscan University of Steubenville. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley and is co-author of The Evolution Controversy, A Survey of Competing Theories.
The Magician’s Twin: Part 1 – Scientism
More than a half century ago, famed writer C.S. Lewis warned about how science (a good thing) could be twisted in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. In this documentary “The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism,” leading scholars explore Lewis’s prophetic warnings about the abuse of science and how Lewis’s concerns are increasingly relevant for us today
The Magician’s Twin: Part 2 – Evolution
“C.S. Lewis and Evolution” is the second of three short documentaries inspired by the book The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society. It examines the evolution of Lewis’s views on orthodox Darwinian theory from his time as a college undergraduate to his death in 1963.
The Magician’s Twin: Part 3 – Intelligent Design
“C.S. Lewis and Intelligent Design” is the third of three short documentaries inspired by the book The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society. Lewis is best known for his magical stories about Narnia, but a new documentary explores his life-long struggle to find intelligent design in a world filled with pain.
Influential New Age Guru Encounters Jesus
A spiritual guru with hundreds of thousands of followers has a terrifying vision and realizes he underestimated the powers he played with. He turns to the Bible to find out if Jesus is who he claimed to be.
Nigerian Christians are losing the demographic war
The world’s most “unfashionable” persecuted minority is arguably Christian. Despite being persecuted in far more countries than any other religion, Christians are simply not on the radar of Western consciousness. At a time when the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar, Uyghurs in China and Yazidis in Iraq is being under-reported, the world has done little to help any of these minorities and persecuted Christians have become the victims of increasingly outrageous neglect.
From Star Seed to Disciple of Christ
Leah was fully immersed in all aspects of the new age movement, including the use of ‘spiritual guides’. She had founded a successful YouTube channel extolling, what she thought, were the benefits of the New Age movement, until she was forced by life’s circumstances to seek out the “true spiritual path”. This brought her into a very personal encounter with a gentle, loving, personal Jesus, which totally changed her life.
Hidden code in Genesis 1:1
Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a numeric value. The Hebrew text of the Old Testament displays remarkable numeric patterns. Genesis 1:1 is examined in detail. Compelling evidence of God’s supernatural hand of design in the original Hebrew text of the Bible.