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This Is What A Pastor From Donetsk Told Me Today (click on the headline above this for the full article.  Intro. is below).  08/20/2014 Posted by Caleb Suko, missionary to Ukraine Today I sat down with a pastor friend (name withheld for safety reasons) from Donetsk. He and his family fled the city over a month ago with hopes that they would soon be able to return. However, the situation has only deteriorated in the past few weeks and along with it their hope for a return to normal life in their home city. Workers remove a body from a home that was shelled                                                                             just outside of Donetsk (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) Please pray for Eastern Ukraine and if you’d like to help believers like Caleb's pastor friend a...

Update, Sept. 16, 2014, Dr. Brantly: Fmr. Ebola patient delivers testimony before Senate committee Franklin Graham's Facebook post  (09/05/14) Tuesday, a crew from NBC News came to interview me about Dr. Kent Brantly’s miraculous story of surviving Ebola. Matt Lauer interviewed Kent as well, and this will air in an hour-long special TONIGHT at 10:00 p.m. EDT . The world will be watching as he gives the glory to God for healing him! This Is What It Feels Like to Survive Ebola Dr. Kent Brantly Are you sitting down?  Because TIME magazine posted a story by Dr. Kent Brantly on his ordeal with Ebola.  (Their first hug in a month.  Photo credit:  David Morrison -- Samaritan's Purse) "I never shed a tear when I called my wife and said, “Amber, my test is positive. I have Ebola.” Though the rest of my family wept, I felt strangely at peace. God blessed me with that peace that surpasses understanding. Since we had started treating patients with Ebo...

I just contacted my two senators ( www.senate.gov ) and my representative ( http://www.house.gov/ ). I am looking to add the White House ( www.whybother.gov -- just kidding, www.whitehouse.gov ). Will you join me? Here is what I sent to give you an idea of what to say (put it in your own words and be respectful, please): Dear Congressman/Senator: Israel's actions get round the clock coverage as they react to rocket fire, etc. in self defense. Meanwhile, across the Islamic world Christians are forcibly displaced; their churches turned into mosques, looted or burned; their women raped, whole ancient communities emptied and men crucified, killed by the sword, shot or forced to renounce their faith and become Muslim and hardly a word from Western media, Hollywood types or politicians. Have you spoken out? Why not change the conversation from Israel in Gaza to Islamic extremism's threat vs. ancient Christian populations in the Middle East? Are Palestinian lives more valuable than C...

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Free on Kindle: Sinner's Creed Sinner’s Creed is the uncensored memoir of Scott Stapp, Grammy Award–winning leader of the multi-platinum rock band CREED. During CREED’s decade of dominance and in the years following the band’s breakup, Scott struggled with drugs and alcohol, which led not only to a divorce, but also to a much-publicized suicide attempt in 2006. Now clean, sober, and in the midst of a highly successful solo career, Scott has finally come full circle—a turnaround he credits to his renewed faith in God. In Sinner's Creed, Scott shares his story for the first time—from his fundamentalist upbringing, the rise and fall of CREED, and his ongoing battle with addiction, the rediscovery of his faith, and the launch of his solo career. The result is a gripping memoir that is proof positive that God is always present in our lives, despite the colossal mess we sometimes make of them. “Never before since the Holocaust, have we seen such a situation as today” Hamas roc...

One of the lessons that I have learned admittedly late is that too often we pray expecting God to answer our requests our way. We get disappointed when His way is different than ours and His timing is longer than our desired end. If we would be honest, we want a way out rather than a way through, even if the way through is God's best for us. The Lord doesn't want us to have faith in an outcome but in a person. Yet we pray fervently for outcomes and get seriously upset with God or disillusioned when He doesn't do as we will. Is it that we forget that Jesus prayed for the cup of suffering to pass by Him and He didn't get what He wanted most? Unlike Christ, have we been insincere in our prayer that "Not my will but Yours be done?" Then there is our life's vocation. We plan, we pray and feel called or led to certain work or ministry. Our expectations are that we will be successful. Within our hearts and minds is an idea of what success looks l...

Watch and Pray:  Two More Soldiers Killed in Gaza One shot dead "by a terrorist in a tunnel;" another by a missile defense system's activation in a tank Meanwhile, rockets continue to rain down on Israel Anti-Israel protesters rally across France, defying ban imposed after synagogue clash Thousands march through French cities in protest of Israeli operation in Gaza Strip; French president says will not allow violence to spill over into France. Article by Nicholas Vinocur, Joe Bavier Jul. 19, 2014 | 10:40 PM source unknown Initial U.S. assessment: Pro-Russian rebels fired missile that downed Malaysia jet Related: Russia supplied missile launchers to separatists, U.S. official says The United States has confirmed that Russia supplied sophisticated missile launchers to separatists in eastern Ukraine and that attempts were made to move them back across the Russian border after the Thursday shoot-down of a Malaysian jet liner, a U.S. offic...