Columbine Seeds & Walden Media & VOM

One more great article for your reading and praying pleasure today.  Crosswalk writer Mitali Perkins mentions Voice of the Martyrs in her post today called Columbine Seeds and Walden Media .  Be sure to read the full article at her website, it's very cool.

In the first century, Tertullian declared that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church." According to Micheal Flaherty, that precious substance even has the power to affect the entertainment industry.

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Teenage lives are costly seeds indeed, but the church is not done bearing fruit as a result. And Cassie and Rachel aren't the only young people who have suffered for their faith in the past decade. Read the story of Damare Garang of Sudan on the Voice of the Martyrs website with your kids, for example. If Tertullian was right, the church will soon be bursting with fresh new fruit beyond measure in parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.