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“Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” ~ Matthew 5:10 It was illegal to be a Christian. Illegal to serve God and worship Jesus. Illegal to own a Bible, let alone read it. Illegal to go to church. Illegal to meet ...

Just recently I received a magazine in my school mailbox with the headline titled, “Teaching Tolerance in the Classroom.” Instantly the article’s words began to rub me the wrong way. We exist in a world that lives, eats, and breaths tolerance, but what does it really mean to be tolerant? ...

Political Correctness was defined as “tyranny with manners” by Charleton Heston. It’s a mindset infused into the culture designed to shut up speaking the truth. Political Correctness and Tolerance have the same end goal. These cultural ideologies didn’t happen by accident, nor were they dreamed up by the mind of ...

“This means that we should not do things that we like to do (that God does not want us to do) and do things that we do not like to do (but God wants us to do) so that He may be glorified.”    -Saeed Abedini Why should we pray ...

Often, a variety of overused words become quite common, causing them to lose depth and rich meaning. Take for instance ‘kept’. It’s believed we get the word ‘kept’ from an ascended overlook building during the European Middle Ages. Fourteenth century scholars considered ‘the keep’ a necessary stronghold used in wartime ...