Showing results for "Terror" in Christianity

Should Christians be politically withdrawn, avoiding participation in politics to maintain their prophetic voice and to keep from being used as political pawns? Or should Christians be actively involved, seeking to utilize political systems to control the levers of power? In Jesus and the Powers, N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird call Christians everywhere to discern the nature of Christian witness in fractured political environments.

Henry Scott Holland was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Following the death of King Edward VII in May 1910, Holland delivered this sermon, "Death, the King of Terrors" in which he explores the natural but seemingly contradictory responses to death: the fear of the unexplained and the belief in continuity.

News reports cover the tragic events - the bombings, the massacres, and the suicide attacks. Our newscasters take time to explain who the players are - from Hezbollah to the Iranian Quds, from ISIS to the Palestinian National Authority. But what is behind these events that fuels atrocity after atrocity?

A hijacked airplane. A fatal disaster. A desperate soul in need of salvation...Willow's spirited, carefree, and far too young to die. Trapped on a hijacked airplane with no promise of survival, Willow's forced to confront her darkest fear as well as her soul's deepest need. Terror in the Skies is the first novella in the Turbulent Skies Christian Thriller series, an unforgettable collection of interconnected novellas about strangers traveling together aboard a doomed flight.

Dive into the dark underbelly of the occult with this gripping collection of true accounts that will leave you questioning the boundaries between our world and the unseen realm beyond. From innocent Ouija board sessions gone terribly wrong to malevolent spirits invoked by ancient rituals, Demons Unleashed offers a chilling glimpse into the very real dangers of dabbling in the dark arts.

If you are among those who are curious about the basic teachings of Islam, how God gives faith that overcomes the fear of suffering and death, how to reach out to Muslims, and how a relationship with Jesus Christ brings us to a growing fearless love, then listening to this audiobook by authors David Witt and Mujahid El Masih (narrated by Bill Witt) will raise some important questions in your mind as well as provide significant answers.

Trotz massiver Militärhilfe aus dem Ausland ist der Terror im Norden Mosambiks noch immer nicht gestoppt. Hunderttausende Menschen sind vor den Kämpfen und Anschlägen geflohen. Wie geht es weiter in der Provinz Cabo Delgado, die einst ein Urlaubsparadies war? Und was sind die Hintergründe für die barbarische Gewalt? Diese und weitere Fragen wollen wir heute besprechen mit Ulrich Kny. Er ist Afrika-Referent bei der Internationalen Zentrale der Päpstlichen Stiftung KIRCHE IN NOT/ACN.

On September 11, 2001, the fear of terrorism hit home in a way that it never had before, leaving many feeling desperately helpless. Recorded immediately after the attacks of September 11, these messages from Pastor Skip Heitzig take you to the Bible to find God's perspective on terror and how we are called to respond and take hope and comfort in Christ.

In this heart-wrenching yet stubbornly hopeful narrative, Evangelical Lutheran pastor Kenneth Wheeler exposes white supremacy as America's greatest threat. Transcending the boundaries of memoir, scholarship, theology, and sharp political critique, Pastor Wheeler takes readers on his own seven-decade-long journey that lays bare the terror of being Black in America. From his childhood in Jackson, Mississippi under the trauma of Jim Crow segregation to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, Wheeler steadily holds a mirror up to a nation drowning in a rising tide of white supremacy.

In The Haunting, book four of author Bill Myers’ Forbidden Doors series, the owner of the local occult bookshop comes to Becka Williams, begging for her help in releasing a ghost from the old mansion in town. Becka and her friends are soon thrust into their first serious spiritual battle.

After witnessing the devastation done by the Boston and Paris terror attacks and being critically injured in the Brussels bombing, Mason Wells was left with third-degree burns, emotional scars, and a shaken spirit. How could a merciful Father let evil prevail? Why had Mason been saved? What did God want from him? This miraculous true story will change how you see your own struggles and teach you the true power of forgiveness, perseverance, and faith.

Sure, you have some concept of a supreme being - but is your god-notion God? The one true God? The biblical God? The God who is? To anyone who has ears to hear, I simply say that it’s time to open the book and truly behold the dreadful holiness and terrifying awe of "I am". Certainly, it is long past time in this era of low-resolution preaching, denominational banality, and pervasive biblical illiteracy. For indeed, the Bible is unmistakably clear: “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Hebrews 10:31)