Mark Durie on Persecution

Some excellent thoughts on Christian persecution by Pastor Durie HERE  

Note: Mark's site appears to be down but his video can also be viewed HERE 

His blog can be accessed HERE

Durie is also interviewed by Jamie Glazov on Islam’s Role in Boko Haram’s Kidnapping of Schoolgirls

Christian Slaughter

I suggest that Christian slaughter and persecution should be a hot topic for the upcoming Christ At the Checkpoint Conference in 2014. It won't - but it should be! It would also be nice if Vicar Sizer added the topic to his impressive and growing list of audio & literary efforts.

Two of the most tragic Islamic attacks on Christians, killing several women and children, took place in the month of October, one in Syria another in Egypt...On October 21 in Syria, the U.S.-supported Islamic rebels invaded and occupied the ancient Christian settlement of Sadad for over a week, till ousted by the military.  During that week, “the largest massacre of Christians in Syria,” in the words of Orthodox Archbishop Alnemeh, took place.  Among other things, 45 Christians—including women and children—were killed, several tortured to death; mass graves were discovered; all of Sadad’s 14 churches, some ancient, were ransacked and destroyed; the bodies of six people from one family, ranging from ages 16 to 90, were found buried at the bottom of a well (an increasingly common fate for “subhuman” Christians)...keep reading

Walk In A Manner Worthy of the Gospel

Pastor Scott Savell is a fellow member of the Omega Letter and member of Lakewood Baptist Church. He is also a military Chaplain serving in Alaska. This is a sermon he recently preached on Philippians 1:27-30. It addressed the growing challenges the church is facing and how the Christian should meet them.

only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel, and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God. For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

Listen HERE