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Christians, Tony Dungy's Persecution is On Us

By: Thomas F. Booher I don't think enough Christian bloggers are blogging about the Christian contribution to the state of affairs in the United States today, Matt Walsh notwithstanding. I would say American Christians as a whole are apathetic, even though we like to talk  about being on fire for Jesus. That fire is usually outside the United Sates, one or two weeks a year on a "mission's trip" that largely consists of taking selfies with starving children to ensure God doesn't forget the good deeds we did there.  We are more concerned about silly things that may or may not be biblical like social justice, AIDS, Israel, invisible children, warring around the world, or sex trafficking than we are about the much larger and directly biblical social concerns of abortion and, yes, gay marriage. Or just gay sex in general. Not that I care to know or interfere with the preference of two dudes and what they do in their shared bed. But what I do care about is...

What Is My Motivation?

By: Nathan Fox Disclaimer : I have never experienced severe persecution for my faith and cannot rely on personal experience to assist me with this blog. Any persecution I have experienced in my life for Jesus has been minor, especially in comparison to the persecution of the early church and those around the world today. My Topic Right now I am working through the book of Acts as a part of my devotional, and I have found it very enlightening and encouraging. I am working right now through the latter chapters in the book, which highlights the difficulties that the Apostle Paul faced while in ministry. I was truly flustered as to what I should write about for this week as many topics seemed to cross my mind. Should I write on thankfulness (it was just Thanksgiving after all), the Christian’s response to politics (after the recent election this is also a hot topic), or living a pure life while engaged (my current situation). I decided to go with none of these topics, as ...