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Global beer consumption stood at approximately 188.79 million kiloliters in 2018, up 0.8% from the previous year, the first time in four years. Total beer consumption in China decreased by 2.0% year-on-year due to the maturing of consumer demand and saturation of the market. On the other hand, products in the mid to high price range have been strong due to increased individual spending arising from more wealthy people. In the United Kingdom, beer consumption increased significantly by 5.7% year-on-year due to the Soccer World Cup and good weather. In the Philippines, beer consumption increased by 8.8% year-on-year. Although the growth in individual spending slew down slightly due to a temporary acceleration of inflation from factors such as rice shortage arising from weather, consumption increased overall for the year with support from the generally favorable external environment such as a better income situation brought about by sustained economic growth. Praise the Lord all glory to God In the Name of Jesus Christ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Were there two Lazarus' in the bible? Or was there one and two stories of the same man? Today we investigate scripture and see what we can find. Praise God in the Name of Jesus Christ Amen.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

On the Cross and In Heaven is an amazing reading of the old testament focused on Psalms and the connections to the Crucifixion.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Praise Jesus today and every day. All GLory to God the Heavenly Father forever and ever.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

The remains of what was once a prosperous Christian town that was destroyed by Persian forces about 1,400 years ago have been uncovered in northern Israel, archaeologists say. The Byzantine rural settlement of Pi Metzuba in the Western Galilee seems to have met its end in the early seventh century when Persia invaded the region as part of its broader conflict with the Byzantine Empire. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

The vast majority of practicing Christian millennials believe that knowing Jesus is "the best thing that could happen to someone," while nearly half believe evangelizing is wrong, a study conducted by the Barna Group reported. In a study entitled "Reviving Evangelism," the Barna Group, a research center that tracks faith and spirituality in American life, reported that 94% of practicing American Christian agreed that "the best thing that could ever happen to someone is for them to know Jesus." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Days after Hindu extremists in northern India marched in protest to file a false claim against a Christian mother, her government employer transferred her to a district more than 100 miles away, sources said. Members of a Hindu-awakening movement in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh state on Wednesday (Feb. 13) staged a protest against conversions to Christianity that began at the headquarters of the Hindu Sanghatan, a coalition of Hindu extremist groups, and continued as they shouted angry slogans against Christians. Led by their district secretary, Sandeep Sachdeva, they marched to the Baddi police station and filed a complaint against Archana Jaiswal, a state education board employee and former Hindu who put her faith in Christ. The complaint alleges that Jaiswal offered money for Hindus to convert. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Australian church leaders have raised objections to a potential vaccine under development over concerns it contains cell lines “from an electively aborted human fetus.” The objections were sent in a letter to the prime minister, Scott Morrison, last week, cosigned by Catholic archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher, Anglican archbishop of Sydney Glenn Davies, and Greek Orthodox archbishop of Australia Makarios Griniezakis. However, scientists say the development process is a proven method and church priorities should be on ensuring public health against the coronavirus. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

MORE THAN 100 Protestants have been detained in China after being accused of "inciting subversion of state power." Among the detainees is a prominent Chinese pastor and legal scholar, ChinaAid reported. Wang Yi and his wife, Jiang Rong, along with the other Christians were taken into custody last week in the city of Chengdu in China's Sichuan province. Wang and Jiang operate the Early Rain Covenant Church. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

In California, 12,000 people have gathered on the Capitol Grounds to worship God. The move was apparently illegal in California, but Sean Feucht, who held the service, says freedom of religion is a right that everyone should have, regardless of what State Officials have to say.Sean Feucht has been leading worship services across the country, but the one in California is especially important, considering some parts of California, like Los Angeles, have some of the most stringent government lockdowns in the country, CBS Sacramento reports. In a tweet, the worship leader and pastor insisted that “God is not done with California." Feucht also noted that the official capitol police estimate said 12,000 people attended the revival event. The tweet included an aerial view of the event. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Jesus promised that signs and wonders would follow those who believe. Justin Brierley reports on how Christ's words are coming true in countries around the world today. The story of baby Yasmin Gomes of Londrina, Brazil went viral last year. She stopped breathing shortly after she was born and, despite numerous attempts, the hospital staff were unable to resuscitate her. With no heartbeat or sign of oxygen in the body, a death certificate was issued by the doctor. A nurse placed the lifeless baby in a box on the altar of the hospital chapel. Naturally, the family were devastated. But when Yasmin's grandmother came to collect the tiny body, she received the shock of her life. The baby's leg kicked, and then she opened her eyes. After being ‘dead' for three hours, Yasmin went on to experience a full recovery. Yasmin's parents gave her the name Victoria – ‘victory' in Portuguese – saying, ‘There is no explaining miracles. They happen as God wants. There must be a higher purpose in all this.' The doctor said he had ‘never witnessed anything like this in 20 years of medicine'. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Jesus Comforts the Disciples 1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Do let covid depression get you down --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Talking about Psalms and the HolyGhost. Psalms, a book of the Old Testament composed of sacred songs, or of sacred poems meant to be sung. In the Hebrew Bible, Psalms begins the third and last section of the biblical canon, known as the Writings (Hebrew Ketuvim). The Psalms (from Greek psalmos “song”) are poems and hymns, dating from various.. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Bob Gimlin was a small town cowboy when his friend coaxed him into hunting the famous mythical creature 50 years ago. Today, as the legend of Bigfoot has grown, Gimlin is viewed by the community of believers around the country as something of a prophet. For weeks in the fall of 1967, the cowboys rode from sunrise to sunset in search of the creature no one had ever captured on film. Two rodeo men from Washington's apple country, they'd traveled to Northern California's thick forest. They'd read headlines of unidentifiable footprints. The smaller cowboy was driven by a long obsession with the mythic beast known as Bigfoot; the other liked to see things for himself. One late October afternoon near Bluff Creek, the men trundled on horseback, half a day's ride from the nearest signs of civilization. The sun shone bright, lighting the leaves all around them in a grand finale of orange and red and yellow. Roger Patterson rode in front, pausing his quarter horse to point his lens toward the leaves, the film chattering inside his rented 16mm Cine Kodak camera. When he finished, he tucked the camera into his saddlebag, leaving the leather flap open. Bob Gimlin brought up the rear. He rode a quarter horse, leading a pony loaded with supplies behind him.* Patterson navigated around a bend where a large tree had fallen and jammed up the nearby creek—its root system upturned and exposed, like blind fingers reaching for an anchor. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Every year, hordes of tourists descend on Grand Canyon to enjoy the natural beauty of this geological wonder. But many tourists hiking the popular Bright Angel Trail missed something very interesting—a series of fossilized footprints preserved in a boulder, lying next to the trail, that had broken off a cliff in the nearby Manakacha Formation. But in 2016, a geology professor hiking with his students noticed the footprints, and now research on these tracks has been released. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

PORTLAND — So, which Rose City is it? Is it the one that is now nationally infamous as the site — at press time for this newspaper — for nearly 100 consecutive evenings of protests, often riotous and violent, in the downtown core? And where now God's Word has been publicly burned? Or is it the one where thousands can gather — also in the downtown area — to offer praise and worship to God and ask for His divine intervention to bring peace to the city, region and nation? Based on widely publicized activities that took place this past month and garnered national attention, the city currently appears to be both. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

“I am happy to tell you guys that we as a family are good. We're on the other end of it, we're on the other side,” actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said in an Instagram video. “We're no longer contagious, and we are — thank God — we are healthy.” Adding that his family has “gotten through COVID-19 stronger and healthier.” Johnson shared his children had sore throats during the beginning of the virus. However, they both bounced back and are “happy babies running around and playing.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

But Pastor Begley believes these events are biblical and have precedence in the Bible. The Prophet Elijah, for instance, was taken into heaven by a fiery whirlwind. 2 Kings 2:11 reads: "As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind. "As Elisha watched, he cried out, 'My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel!' --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

US President will hold a September 15 signing ceremony for the Middle East agreement normalizing relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, according to reports citing senior US officials. The officials said senior delegations from both countries will likely be led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Emirati Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the brother of the UAE crown prince. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Let's face it, folks, we'll drive 10 hours for a vacation in Florida, but when we are needed most, Christians by enlarge run away from what God has called us to do! Well, you can change that today. Franklin Graham has organized a prayer march on Saturday, September 26, 2020, in Washington, D.C. The march will begin at the Lincoln Memorial with multiple stops along the way to our nation's capital to pray for our nation and its leaders. It will begin at Noon and end at 2:00 PM. I live in Western North Carolina, and it is a 7-hour drive to Washington, but when I heard about the prayer march, I knew I had to be there. Our country is at a cross-road. We all know that, and by the Holy Spirit, we feel that. When you look to God's Word, the Bible, for answers, you will find multiple occasions that the Israelites in the Old Testament were in trouble and only by humbling themselves and praying to God and repenting (turn away from) of their sins, did God hear from Heaven and heal their land. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Have you ever witnessed a miracle? Watch as this woman receives her sight in front of 200,000 people! Tonight (1/26/13) is the 4th night of the Christ for all Nations Gospel Campaign in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. This woman was totally blind in both eyes. The night before, her left eye had been healed and she came to testify and give glory to God. While interviewing her, Evangelist Daniel Kolenda discovered that her right eye was still blind. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

A court in Lahore, Pakistan (Sept. 8) sentenced a Christian to death over charges that he allegedly sent “blasphemous” text messages to a Muslim colleague seven years ago, his lawyer said. Asif Pervaiz, a 37-year-old father of four, has been in jail for seven years since he was charged with blasphemy in October 2013 after his former supervisor at a garment factory, Saeed Ahmed Khokhar, accused him of sending sacrilegious text messages from his cell phone, attorney Saiful Malook said. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Messiah in the Gospel of John The word Χριστός (Christos), translated as both Messiah and Christ, occurs 19 times in the Gospel of John. ^[1]^. The word is first used in the prologue (1:17). Messiah was an OT expectation held by most observant Jews, so there is particular significance that the first time that Jesus is called the Messiah is where John contrasts Jesus and the law of Moses. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Dale Manor had a plan for 2020: Unearth an ancient Canaanite shrine in the lowlands of Judah, about 20 miles west of Jerusalem. Like so many plans for 2020, it was interrupted by a global pandemic. So now the professor emeritus of archaeology and Bible at Harding University in Arkansas has a plan for 2021: Unearth that Canaanite shrine in Beth Shemesh, the city where the Philistines returned the captured Ark of the Covenant to Israel in 1 Samuel 6. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Social Media Addiction and you. Problematic social media use, also known as social media addiction or social media overuse, is a proposed form of psychological or behavioral dependence on social media platforms, also known as Internet addiction disorder, and other forms of digital media overuse. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

This a clip note with a little information for you. The name "Jesus" in English has a complicated linguistic history that isn't apparent in modern Bibles.  "Jesus" is an Anglicized form of the Greek name Iesous found in the New Testament. Iesous represents the Hebrew Bible name Yeshua, which occurs as "Jeshua" in English Bibles (Ezra 2:2; Neh 7:7). In Medieval English the "J" was pronounced as a "Y." "Yehoshua" Yeshua, in turn, is a shortened form of the name Yehoshua ("Joshua" in English Bibles). Moses' right-hand man, Joshua, has three names in the Bible. Originally, it was Hoshea, but Moses changed it to Yehoshua (Num 13:16). During the Babylonian Exile, it was shorted to Yeshua (Neh 8:17). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

More than 2,000 Christians gathered in the streets of Seattle in a “worship protest” Monday in defiance of public officials, who shuttered a local park to prevent them from participating in a prayer rally organized by missionary and political activist Sean Feucht. The rally was supposed to take place in Gas Works Park by Seattle Parks and Recreation but officials abruptly announced the park would be closed all day Monday “due to anticipated crowding that could impact the public health of residents.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

“The Lord is soon to return,” announced Jerusalem Channel presenter Christine Darg on a video released on Facebook, predicting that current world affairs involving Israel, Russia, Turkey and the US signal the fulfillment of Evangelical Christian ideas about the End-times. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

According to the American Worldview Inventory 2020, 98 percent of American adults who choose socialism over capitalism as opposed to a biblical worldview. Conversely, 83 percent of people who do hold to a biblical worldview prefer capitalism instead of socialism, while 78 percent are “consistently conservative.” Additionally, 80 percent of people who uphold a biblical worldview are fiscally conservative and 91 percent support conservative social policies. Furthermore, 89 percent oppose abortion based on “clear biblical teaching” and 83 percent endorse a “limited view of the size and scope of government.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Archaeologists have uncovered majestic column heads from a First Temple-era palace at Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv promenade, with the remnants of the ancient building going on public display for the first time on Thursday. The owner of the lavish Jerusalem mansion — which would have enjoyed a monumental view of the Old City and the Temple — remains a mystery, but archaeologists were able to date the finds back to the era of the Judean kings, due to the proto-Aeolic features of the soft limestone architecture. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

More than two dozen Pentecostal Christians were reportedly arrested in recent days as the crackdown against nondenominational Christianity in the northeast African nation of Eritrea continues. Berhane Asmelash of Release Eritrea told BBC that over 30 Christians were rounded up and detained while praying in three different locations in the nation's capital of Asmara. The BBC report follows reports from human rights watchdogs earlier in the month that stated that 141 Christians were arrested on May 10 in the Mai Temenai area of Asmara. They were detained after gathering for a private meeting ahead of the country's Independence Day, according to nonprofit Release International. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

At least 500 Ethiopian Christians reported slaughtered in relentless door-to-door attacks since June An Ethiopian Christian leader called for an international inquiry into the slaying of hundreds of Christians, including pregnant women, children and whole families, in ongoing Oromo Muslim extremist attacks in the parts of the Oromia regional state, extending south, south-east and east of Addis Ababa, since the end of June. According to reports, more than 500 were killed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Sudan Agrees with Rebels to Remove Islam as State Religion Peace deals include bold pledges on religious freedom. But much work remains for transitional government after three decades under Bashir's strict sharia. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

The calorie was first introduced by Nicolas Clément, as a unit of heat energy, in lectures during the years 1819–1824. This was the "large" calorie, viz. modern kilocalorie.[1][6] The term entered French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867. It comes from Latin calor, meaning 'heat'. The "small" calorie (modern calorie) was introduced by Pierre Antoine Favre (Chemist) and Johann T. Silbermann (Physicist) in 1852. In 1879, Marcellin Berthelot distinguished between gram-calorie (modern calorie) and kilogram-calorie (modern kilocalorie).[6] Berthelot also introduced the convention of capitalizing the kilogram-calorie, as Calorie. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

The complainant, Saeed Khokher, had accused Pervaiz of sending texts containing derogatory remarks about Prophet. Pervaiz, in his defence, accused Khokher of trying to convert him to Islam. Pervaiz claimed that the supervisor confronted him after he quit work at the factory, and when he refused to convert, he was accused of having sent blasphemous text messages to Khokher. Khokher's lawyer said Pervaiz had accused Khokher because he had “no other clear defence”. He also said there were other Christian factory workers with him but no one had accused Khoker, the supervisor, of trying to convert them. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 10:30 - I and [my] Father are one. Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. John 20:28 - And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. John 8:58 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

1,200-Year-Old Cross Found in Pakistan Implies Christianity Was There ‘Before Islam Came' A giant cross estimated to be at least 1,200 years old has been discovered in the mountains of Pakistan and could include hints of Christianity's early presence there. The marble rock cross, weighing three to four tons and spanning seven feet from top to bottom, was found by a team from the University of Baltistan, Skardu in the Himalayan mountains near Baltistan, according to Union of Catholic Asian News. Researchers discussed the findings at a press conference in mid-June. Bordered by Afghanistan, Iran, India, and China, Pakistan is a majority Muslim country, with more than 96 percent of its citizens practicing Islam. Caritas Pakistan, a Catholic organization, celebrated the find.  Praise Jesus Christ   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Authorities in Africa, South Asia Withhold Coronavirus Relief from Christians, Reports Open Doors USA When it comes to global Coronavirus aid, Christians and other religious minorities worldwide are being forced to decide: give up your faith or let your family starve. Open Doors USA, a religious freedom watchdog, reports that Christians in Bangladesh, India, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Sudan, Vietnam, and elsewhere are excluded from food and medical relief distribution in order to pressure their religious conversion. “There are local governments and extremist groups who are using the pandemic as a catalyst for relief discrimination,” said David Curry, CEO of Open Doors USA. “Christians are overtly told they must pledge allegiance to another faith to qualify for the supplies they need to survive. This is a sinister persecution tactic that is likely to spread as desperation grows for religious minorities.” Pray for these Brothers and Sisters in the Name of Jesus Christ  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

How to Identify Divisive People So, we know there is such thing as divisive people, and we know we're supposed to watch out and avoid them – but how can we tell who these people are? In verse 18, we see they are “persons [who] do not serve our  Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery  they deceive the hearts of the naive.” Praise God in the Name of Jesus Christ. The Father and Son are one. Amen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Bible verses related to Jesus Is God from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance - Sort By Book Order John 1:1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:14 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 10:30 - I and [my] Father are one. Isaiah 9:6 - For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. John 20:28 - And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. John 8:58 - Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Beena's* family became Christian through a pastor in a nearby village telling them about Jesus, but they quickly started receiving threats from their Hindu neighbors. The threats became so severe that Beena sent two of her three children to live with relatives elsewhere. A few months ago, the persecution became much more extreme, culminating in a direct attack on them. “On the day of the attack, the villagers called us to the community meeting and blamed us for breaking the village rule by leaving our traditional faith and not paying the annual festival donations to the Hindu temple,” Beena said. “They hurled abuses on us and immediately started showering kicks and blows.” Villagers used bamboo sticks to beat them and some of them pulled off Beena's clothes. When her husband tried to protect her, they grabbed him, tied his hands behind his back, and prepared to throw him in the nearby deep pond. While Beena runs away with her eleven-year-old son, she heard their attackers shout: “There is no chance he will escape today. He will die! He will drown with his faith today.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

“While they were praying, I could hear sounds,” Saree said. “Slowly the sounds became louder and louder. I also felt something coming to me. It came closer and closer. It was the presence of God. Then the sounds became really clear. I could hear everything. I was incredibly happy.” While her parents were happy that her deafness was cured, they warned Saree not to go to church anymore: “The villagers can cut us off from the village,” they said. “We won't be able to buy any food or drinks anymore and nobody will talk to us.” However, Saree continued to go to church, secretly. When her older brother found out about it, he started beating her. Her father took part as well. “One time I was carrying a Bible. My brother took it, threw it into the mud and beat me with a stick,” Saree said. “Later I collected the Bible, wiped it clean and gave it to another believer. He kept it safe for me.” Eventually, one day they gave her some clothes and pushed her out of the door. “You are not our daughter anymore,” her father said. With her unwavering faith, Saree left her family for her aunt's home where she has been staying since then. Out of school and away from her family, Saree is longing to return home. However, she is not able to leave Jesus, she said. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Would you be able to forgive the person who nearly killed you? Bret Lynn, a mechanic from the suburbs north of Philadelphia, was faced with this very question after a terrifying altercation that left him fighting for his life. Arriving home from dropping his kids off at gymnastics, Bret noticed a person attempting to break into some of the cars in a lot of his family-owned shop, which is in close proximity to his home. When he told the man to leave, the situation escalated quickly and before he knew it, Bret had been stabbed and was in critical condition. While in the ambulance, Bret recalled being in great pain — but he also found himself thinking a great deal about forgiveness. His Christian faith called him to be forgiving — but would he be able to do it when it mattered most? “If I couldn't forgive when it really mattered, then I think my witness as a Christian would be hurt,” Lynn said of his attacker. Feeling convicted by the Holy Spirit to “resolve the conflict” with his attacker. “My heart went out to him,” Bret said, explaining that his attacker had fallen on hard times. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

A court in China's southern Fujian province has summoned a house church preacher and his wife for not sending their children to public school, choosing instead to homeschool them. The pastor, You Guanda of Dianqian Church in Xiamen city, and his wife are scheduled to appear in court Sept. 23. According to Christian Concern, local government officials have charged the couple with “custody disputes.” The Dianqian Church has long been a target of the Chinese government. Last summer, for example, communist authorities disbanded the church's worship facility after the pastor and other members purchased new space for homeschooling, worship, and residence, The Christian Post reported. It was demolished earlier this year. News of the crackdown on the preacher comes as the Chinese government is placing deeply restrictive rules over churches seeking to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Faithwire previously reported, any of the congregations within the government's approved network of churches planning to resume services must meet a 42-item list of prerequisites. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Depending on the source, there are an estimated 153 million orphans around the world. And while 2020 isn't what any of us expected with COVID-19 disruption and devastation, these 153 million children have been impacted especially hard. First, they have no family for which they can cling to amidst uncertainty. While many orphanages and children's homes try their best to care for the hundreds of children under their care, nothing can replace family. In addition, these children are often the first group to be forgotten during a massive economic downturn, global uncertainty, and looming disaster. The pull of human nature is to become self-preserving during calamities which means the greatest carnage is usually those who lack voice and visibility. And the number of orphans worldwide continues to grow. Children of day laborers are particularly vulnerable. The pandemic has crippled nearly all of the economy upon which these families depend, thus taking away any hope of viability to care for their children. These and many other children who were already in danger of being abandoned or left homeless are much more likely to become displaced from their families. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Although Jewish people have always lived in the Holy Land, after the Holocaust the Jews began returning to Israel en masse.  In 1948, the Jewish nation was prophetically reborn (Isaiah 66:7–8) as the State of Israel, and ever since Jews have been streaming back to the Land from all four corners of the earth. Since 1967, there has been a movement in Israel to rebuild the Holy Temple; however, the main obstacle is that the Temple Mount is currently occupied by the Dome of the Rock. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration that begins on the first day of Tishrei, which is the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year. In contrast to the ecclesiastical year, where the first month Nisan, the Passover month, marks Israel's exodus from Egypt, Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the civil year, according to the teachings of Judaism, and is the traditional anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman according to the Hebrew Bible, and the inauguration of humanity's role in God's world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

There's a lot of information out there dedicated to protecting our kids from bullying and enforcing policies to ensure it doesn't happen, but the real key to stopping this problem is understanding it. Bullies are definitely people like the rest of us, so what's so different about them that their social skills are so drastically different? It's easy to just lump these kids into the “bad eggs” category, but the reality goes years back, all the way into a child's upbringing and their years in preschool. Here we'll explore some of the basic parallels that psychologists have drawn between bullying behaviors and the kids that exhibit them. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict.[4] During the Days of Awe, a Jew tries to amend their behavior and seek --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

Praise Jesus Christ Glory To God Always and Forever Amen.   Jeremiah 6. O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. 5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message

For years, mission groups have been talking about the rapid growth of  Christianity in Iran and now a survey of Iranian citizens is backing up  those claims. Based in the Netherlands, the non-profit Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran (GAMAAN) questioned 50,000 Iranians, 90 percent of whom live in the country. The results showed that 1.5 percent of those surveyed identified  themselves as Christian. Those numbers suggest there are probably  hundreds of thousands of Christians in the Islamic Republic and could  quickly be approaching one million. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fascinatinginsights/message