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.
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...
These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:14b
Three girls were making their way to their Christian school in Central Sulawesi,...
Serve the LORD with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling. Psalm 2:11
During the persecution under Roman Emperor Diocletian, Philip’s church was closed by the authorities so he started holding meetings in the open air, publicly declaring that God...
I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word. Psalm 119:15-16
The Word of God was very precious to this young Maori chief’s daughter, who became a Christian while...
Some while ago, I was with a group of highly committed Christians from South Asia, all of them professionals. We were discussing the issue of Christian identity.
One of them said that although he comes from a South Asian country...
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves...
On the day of prosperity be joyful, and on the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that mortals may not find out anything that will come after them. Ecclesiastes 7:14...
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16
Betty Ann Olsen was the daughter of an American missionary couple in Africa who herself felt...
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. 2 Corinthians 4:5
Gregorio, a Christian preacher from the Philippines, was shot dead alongside his Christian radio technician Greg while...
Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31b-32
Bartholomew was one of the twelve men chosen by Jesus as his...
