Commentary: God established borders
For the Victorville Daily Press
Should a pastor write on political topics, or is theology disconnected from policy? Unfortunately, God’s view on such things is seldom consulted, let alone followed. But Bible readers are quick to observe that he has a great deal to say about “political issues.”
One hot-button issue is the border crisis, but hasn’t this been debated since our nation’s founding? Spain and France once had claims on what is now American soil. A $15 million deal with Napoleon gave President Jefferson the right to send Lewis and Clark to scout the Louisiana Purchase and tell Native Americans that the U.S. owned their land?
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The nationâs leading prison ministry has given over 100,000 Bibles in the past nine months to incarcerated men and women across the country amid heightened demand for Godâs word during the COVID-19 pandemic.
James Ackerman, CEO of Prison Fellowship, the leading Christian ministry serving prisoners and their families, told The Christian Post in an interview that the scale of the Bible distribution is ânothing short of God-inspired and miraculous.âÂ
He explained how the hopelessness of the pandemic created a high demand for Bibles among many prisoners. Ackerman assured that Prison Fellowship has never seen this level of demand for the Gospel inside prisons in its 45-year history.
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In another global powerhouse, Russia, former Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin was assassinated in
1911 in Kiev. (1912) in Madrid, president of France Paul Doumer
(1932) in Paris, prime minister of Italy Benito Mussolini (1945) in Giulino di Mezzegra, prime minister of Iran Abdolhossein Hazhir (1949) in Tehran, president of Syria Sami al-Hinnawi (1950) in Beirut, president of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu
(1989) în Târgoviște.
They are among other renowned world leaders murdered despite the heavy presence of their guards, air force, military, secret intelligence, police and other security details.
Even in countries such as Israel, this
True Gospel would confirm former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 in Tel Aviv.
As the way people digest media has changed, a leading Bible publisher has partnered with an app development company that worked on the popular stock-trading app Robinhood to create a new line of Bibles compatible with its own “game-changing” mobile app.