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If Facebook Was Real Life…. from Alpha on Vimeo.

Our relationships would be all out of whack! So remember that most of facebook is a facade; artificial relationships! Stay in tune with your closest friends! You know, the ones you can trust and share real stuff with and be held accountable to live and abide in Christ!

While I was in the waiting at the doctors office yesterday, I was reading my book Jesus Freaks. It’s amazing the things that people have gone through and have endured and yet still have kept faith in God and have not faltered.

Here are snippets from some of their stories.

Rose Allen Munt. England 1557.

“With that, the sheriff took the candle from the girl, and holding her wrist in a firm grip, put the lighted candle under her hand, burning it across the back for so long that the skin peeled off, the tendons cracked, and the bones showed.”

Anne Askew. England 1546.

“Placed on a cruel rack, her joints and bones were pulled out of place.”

Peter, 8 years old. Philippines 1992.

“He was tortured for three hours and suffered very much. His hands were tied with wire, and the terrorists struck him in the legs and head with an ax. Finally he was beheaded.”

Chiu-Chin-Hsiu and Ho-Hsiu-Tzu. Jiangxi, Mainland China. During the Red Guard Era, 1966-1969.

“Flanked by renegade guards, the executioner came with a revolver in his hand. It was their own pastor! He had been sentenced to die with the two girls. But, as on many other occasions in Church history, the persecutors worked on him, tempting him. They promised to release him if he would shoot the girls. He accepted.

The girls whispered to each other, then bowed respectfully before their pastor. One of them said, “Before you shoot us, we wish to thank you heartily for what you have meant to us. You baptized us, you taught us the ways of eternal life, you gave us holy communion with the same hand in which you now hold the gun.”

“You also taught us that Christians are sometimes weak and commit terrible sins, but they can be forgiven again. When you regret what you are about to do to us, do not despair like Judas, but repent like Peter. God bless you, and remember that our last thought was not one of indignation against failure. Everyone passes through hours of darkness.”

“May God reward you for all the good you have done to us. We die with gratitude.”

The pastors heart was hardened. He shot the girls. Afterwards, he was shot by the Communists.”

“Some Christians haven’t even attempted to think about whether or not they would die for Jesus because they haven’t really been living for Him.” - dc Talk

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