Persecution Blog Carnival #4
Welcome to the 4th Persecution Blog Carnival! I want to thank all of you for submitting your great posts and demonstrating your love for the persecuted church in such a public way. My prayer is that you will be as encouraged as I am after you read all of the wonderful entries.
On with the show!
Our first entry is from Praying Blogger who just joined our program this week! Praying Blogger's post is titled Voice of the Martyrs - Praying for the Persecuted and is a great introduction to the ministry of The Voice of the Martyrs.
The Patti Wagon submits a post simply called "Persecution" that offers her reflections how the suffering.
Doe Hill Homeschool offers a wonderful post called Reason to Write and shares how The Voice of the Martyrs has inspired her to continue blogging! Way to go!
Our next entry comes from Pet's Garden Blog who asks the question what happens when faith in Jesus Christ is supplanted by faith in the political arena? in a post titled "Activism or Faith?" Ah, a good question Pet....and maybe not the answer you're expecting.
The next submission is from Sheryl at Taking the Challenge and is called From the Heart and refers to getting beyond the discomfort of reading about persecution and martyrdom and living/responding in a selfless manner.
Our next post is from my buddy Hal over at The Great Separation, as he writes a post called Vandals Spray Paint Satanic Symbols on Three Chicago Churches which concerns how three Chicago churches got vandalized on 06-06-06 & a pastor's response.
Another great friend of mine, Barbara at Tidbits & Treasures, writes a great post called Persecution of Indonesia's Christians on the rise which is a report concerning the rapid growth of Christians and has caused Muslims to say they must be resisted with force.
Our next entry comes from Maxsons blog - A Virtual Otterslide and offers the questions why isn't the church in America more effecive? How does that affect our brothers and sisters suffering for the cause of Christ? The post was inspired by the newly released book Voices of the Faithful and is titled Middle East Persecution.
Homelearnin offers our next post called Faithfulness along with a prayer for the persecuted church.
Religión en Revolución gives us our next entry called Christian Human Rights Activist exposed to constant state of terror. which talks about the persecution Juan Carlos González Leiva is enduring under the Cuban State Security.
Are you all encouraged yet? I think all of these posts are awesome!
Our next post is from the blog Counted Worthy and is a post called Dreaming of Mercy which compares one man's dream of God's judgment with a Pakistani's dream of God's mercy.
Inspirational Korner offers another wonderful post for this weeks carnival called Paul - Persecuted Christians about Paul and what he went through and letting people know that Christians are persecuted every day in todays world as well. I also let people who read the post know how they can help out.
Another new blogger that submitted an interesting post to this weeks carnival is called Amazing Grace, who wrote a post called Stupid Secret Service or Christian Persecution, which concerns a story about a Christian ministry who is under attack for printing witnessing materials.
Our second to last entry is from FoolishYetWise and is titled Each one of us is called to die for Jesus. What are you dying to? This post tells us the reality of death for Christ's sake.
And our last entry, and certainly not the least, is from Under His Wings with a post that is called A Mother's Worst Nightmare that concerns a post we wrote right here on the Persecution blog. A touching and thoughtful reflection.
And that is it for this week! Wasn't this awesome!!!!
Please leave us your feedback, thoughts, feelings, etc! We LOVE hearing from you! Be sure to tell a friend and join us again next week for Carnival #5!