As chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary, I want to send a different message to our students, and to the readers of Desiring God, than Jerry Falwell, Jr. sent to the students of Liberty University in a campus chapel service on December 4. For the sake of the safety of his campus, and in view of terrorist activity, President Falwell … [Read more...]

Some Iraqi Christians fleeing the Islamic State sought safety and freedom in America. But instead of being welcomed in as religious refugees, they were arrested and sent to a San Diego prison. The news comes despite the fact that 300,000 immigrants from Muslim countries were welcomed into the United States last year. "It's clear our border is … [Read more...]

Albert Einstein is quoted to have said, The world is too dangerous to live in—not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who let it happen." The month of April is Genocide awareness month. It’s also the month the Jews remember the Holocaust. The Holocaust has been described as the state-sponsored, systematic persecution … [Read more...]

The 7th-century Khor Virap monastery in the shadow of Mount Ararat, the peak on which Noah’s Ark is said to have landed during the Biblical flood. Armenia was the first nation to become Christian during the Roman era. According to ancient tradition, Noah’s Ark rested on Mount Ararat in the Armenian Mountain Range.Armenia’s Coat of Arms has Mount … [Read more...]

The Enola Gay, "proudly" displayed at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC.  Source of Image World War II brought more suffering to humanity than any other event in the twentieth century. Nearly 60 million people died throughout the six years of that war which included atomic bombs, cities completely destroyed, and the Jewish … [Read more...]

There are three main weapons that the Christian has been given to defeat Satan and temptation. The Holy Spirit, the Word of God and Prayer. We take the sword in faith, and the Holy Spirit gives us the power and the wisdom to use it. It is the Holy Spirit that led Jesus into the wilderness for a long and difficult time of testing and He may also … [Read more...]

It’s been rightly said that a courageous person dies only once but a coward dies a thousand times. In fact Jesus Christ says “…the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”(Revelation … [Read more...]

You cannot be informed about every scenario of persecution that might happen. Why? Because there so many technological devices that are available today to track individuals, in so many ways which wasn’t possible in the last 50-70 years. Besides people don’t value human life anymore that is why talking about the reducing the population doesn’t … [Read more...]

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a young German Lutheran pastor, theologian and one of the founding members of the Confessing Church. He also wrote one of the best-known books, The cost of Discipleship and he joined a group of conspirators whose attempted assassination of Hitler failed which led to his arrest and subsequent death in April 1945. … [Read more...]

Today the most preaching and personal prophetic words focus mainly on achieving personal success so that we can enjoy comfort and security. God wants you happy and blessed; there is a successful lifestyle waiting for you! There is nothing wrong with that. But if you conduct a study for yourself of the prophecies found in New Testament and the … [Read more...]