DEEP // WIDE // LIGHT

Perescution "I'm Good" by @TripLee116 I am not a prophet. I do not know the future. But I am passionately convinced of something. The students we lead will need spiritual tools in the near future that we have rarely used up to this point in our American cultural Christianity. But all this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come. “Then you will be arrested , persecuted , and killed . You will be hated all over the world because you are my followers. And many will turn away from me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold . But the one who endures to the end will be saved. - Jesus ( Matthew 24:8-13 , emphasis mine) A President has mentioned that the United States of America is not a Christian nation. Anti-American riots are happening all over the world. Christians in the USA have been arrested, even in the good ol&#

As I write this, I think back to September 11, 2001. I remember exactly where I was that day, and what I was doing on the campus of Mississippi College. I witnessed that morning on TV such evil as I had never before seen in my young life. Today, our world is not less evil. And the evil in our world is more insidiously imbedded into our American culture than we realize. The enemy is not Islam. The enemy is sin, and this enemy is thriving in our local schools. But I have hope. I am awakened to the knowledge that Jesus has not left our schools, no matter what school administrators can or cannot do. I know this, because I talk to students who are bringing Christ and His love with them to class every day. They are frustrated by the sin they see in their schools, and they are passionate about seeing Christ change their entire school. And I, too, believe that He can do just that! Paul, who was given a special task to deliver Christ's good news to all non-Jews, wrote a