Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo is the International Director of Barnabas Fund and the Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life.
You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary. Revelation 2:3
The Ten Boom family were dedicated Christians who used their home in Haarlem, Holland, to help anyone in need. During the Second World...
You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down...
We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:3
“I am a follower of the great shepherd of...
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ...
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They...
Jesus said: “Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (John 14:27). We may think this is a command we cannot obey, because it is about feelings. But feelings can be trained and Jesus tells...
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. John 10:11
As a young man Nerses was a soldier in Caesarea, Cappadocia (modern day Turkey). Following the death of his wife he then became...
LOVING HIM ENOUGH TO STAND FIRM
Willingness to suffer for Christ is a sign of our love for Him. Sometimes the willingness itself is enough and God does not bring us to the point of actually suffering. Abraham did not...
You have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Colossians 3:1
Nikolai, a Baptist preacher who was well known for his teaching in many parts of the...
None of us knows how we would react to severe persecution unless we have already experienced it. If we are inexperienced at being persecuted we must prepare ourselves so that, if put to the test, our faith will not...
