Love, Justice and Power: The Message of Passover for Christians

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I became possibly the first Westerner to complete a famous pilgrimage to thirty-three temples in northern Japan. I stayed at famous monasteries, often participating in morning worship services full of dazzling ceremonies.

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I introduce some of the fascinating people I met. This short book 18, words , part travel adventure, part memoir, part spiritual odyssey, will entertain and inform. Love, Justice and Power: The Message of Passover for Christians Passover is a Jewish celebration of the mighty acts of God in liberating the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. But it is also much more. Yet there is even more. And this time He would redeem the entire world. Read this short ebook and be inspired and encouraged that our God is a God of love, justice and power.

A Psalm for the Battle: What does God really think about war? This short devotional 7, words is based on the resounding words of Psalm 18 — in which David praises God for victory in battle — to examine some of the ethical issues of Christianity and warfare. The author asks questions such as when can a Christian soldier kill?

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How are we to understand some of the bloodthirsty passages of the Old Testament? Does God still provide guidance to military commanders, as He did in Old Testament times? What does a Christian do when ordered on a suicide mission? And he provides some surprising answers. He includes testimonies from modern-day military leaders who have clearly heard God speaking to them at critical times of battle.

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And did you know that some of the Japanese kamikaze pilots — who deliberately crashed their aircraft into American warships during World War II — were devout Christians? How did they reconcile their actions with their faith?

But ultimately this devotional is about the spiritual battle faced by every Christian. It is for all those who have been challenged by the stirring words from the Book of Ephesians:. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

These international thrillers focus on the persecuted church. They feature Brother Half Angel, an abrasive former military man who heads a clandestine new military order that is dedicated to fighting for the rights of persecuted Christians around the world.

Brother Half Angel A military operation gone tragically wrong. An elite commando loses his forearm. The angel tattooed onto his arm is sliced in half. And the man acquires a new nickname.

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Brother Half Angel is dispatched urgently to China, where an underground seminary is under siege from fanatical sword-wielding members of a local cult who still pay homage to the bloodthirsty extremists who tried to expel all foreigners from China in the nineteenth century. But at the same time the seminary has its own internal divisions.

The director, Uncle Ling, a hero of the underground Chinese church, holds secrets that he cannot reveal. And now the tensions are threatening the marriage of idealistic young American missionaries Daniel and Jenny Westloke. But it is also a book that raises serious questions — how far can Christians go to defend themselves? When should they turn the other cheek? What happens when a Christian kills in self-defense? And should those who live by the sword really expect to die by the sword? The Maria Kannon Luiz Kim, angry and unsettled since being thrown out of the Marines, decides to seek out the sister he has not seen in more than twenty-five years.

But, after flying halfway around the world to Japan for an emotional reunion, he is stunned to learn that she has just been murdered in church, while at prayer. A killer is on the loose, and it is clear that he is targeting members of the small church community. Luiz is determined to use his military background to hunt down the killer. And quickly it becomes apparent that the key is a mysterious card left at each murder scene — a card depicting the Maria Kannon, a statue of a Buddhist deity that was once revered by persecuted Japanese Christians. As the stakes go higher Luiz is forced to confront his notions of what it means to be alive.

And whether he is ready to die. Military Orders Matt was the solid one of his family — successful student, good husband and father, devoted missionary.

The rock on which many churches would have been built. By contrast, elder brother Rafa is the troublemaker — sharp-tongued and only too well aware of his gifts, a broken marriage, estranged from his parents. But when Matt is murdered in northern India by an unknown assailant, it is Rafa who must investigate.

And it is in India where he learns that the local police are claiming Matt was leader of a gang engaged in the theft and sale of precious temple artworks. Rafa knows these allegations to be false.

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Yet it quickly becomes apparent that Matt was involved in something much bigger than simple mission work. The answer, when it comes, is chilling. This same love for which the Son of God became man and followed the way of humility and self-giving to the very end, down to hell - to the abyss of separation from God - this same merciful love has flooded with light the dead body of Jesus, has transfigured it, has made it pass into eternal life.

Jesus did not return to his former life, to earthly life, but entered into the glorious life of God and he entered there with our humanity, opening us to a future of hope. This is what Easter is: Because God is life, life alone, and we are his glory: Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses , 4,20, Dear brothers and sisters, Christ died and rose once for all, and for everyone, but the power of the Resurrection, this passover from slavery to evil to the freedom of goodness, must be accomplished in every age, in our concrete existence, in our everyday lives.

How many deserts, even today, do human beings need to cross! Above all, the desert within, when we have no love for God or neighbour, when we fail to realize that we are guardians of all that the Creator has given us and continues to give us. So this is the invitation which I address to everyone: And so we ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him we implore peace for all the world.

Peace for the Middle East, and particularly between Israelis and Palestinians, who struggle to find the road of agreement, that they may willingly and courageously resume negotiations to end a conflict that has lasted all too long. Peace in Iraq, that every act of violence may end, and above all for dear Syria, for its people torn by conflict and for the many refugees who await help and comfort.

How much blood has been shed! And how much suffering must there still be before a political solution to the crisis will be found? Peace for Africa, still the scene of violent conflicts. In Mali, may unity and stability be restored; in Nigeria, where attacks sadly continue, gravely threatening the lives of many innocent people, and where great numbers of persons, including children, are held hostage by terrorist groups.

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Peace in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in the Central African Republic, where many have been forced to leave their homes and continue to live in fear. Peace in Asia, above all on the Korean peninsula: Peace in the whole world, still divided by greed looking for easy gain, wounded by the selfishness which threatens human life and the family, selfishness that continues in human trafficking, the most extensive form of slavery in this twenty-first century; human trafficking is the most extensive form of slavery in this twenty-first century!

Peace to the whole world, torn apart by violence linked to drug trafficking and by the iniquitous exploitation of natural resources!

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