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I’m currently reading Character Under Attack, written by Carl Sommer.

“Richard’s central message was, ‘Hate the evil systems, but love your persecutors. Love their souls, and try to win them for Christ.” (About the Author, Tortured for Christ, p. 181) That wasn’t Vlad’s central message. That was Christ’s central message in Wurmbrand.

I presume that you know Vlad’s home country is modern-day Romania. “Few names are better known in Romania, where he is widely remembered as a Christian leader, author, and educator.” Vlad? No. Richard Wurmbrand. “We must love our neighbors as ourselves. Communists and other persecutors are...

“You cannot be a Christian and praise the inquisitors of Christians.” - Richard Wurmbrand

“Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.” - David Platt

Jesus -> “love your enemy” “Jesus lied” -> “deceive you enemy” Listen to and believe Jesus.

That’s easy, but it won’t persuade him.

In general, he believes Jesus routinely practiced deception as a technique for conducting spiritual warfare. A specific example he has identified is the incident involving Jairus’ daughter. I’m sure he would provide you with many other examples if you asked him nicely.

“US technology firm Anthropic says its AI models hacked into the systems of three organizations on their own …” https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7dl7w8y7po

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“The Christians of the first decades did not know they were Christians. If you had asked them about their religion, they would have answered that they were Jews, Israelites, believers in Jesus as Messiah, brethren, saints, children of God. The name ‘Christian’ was given to them by others much...

“Persecution has always produced a better Christian - a witnessing Christian, a soul-winning Christian.” - Richard Wurmbrand

Mark McCain: “You know, I just might be a mind reader when I grow up.” Lucas McCain: “Oh? Now you listen to me boy. A man who learns to see, and hear, and think, will beat a mind reader six ways to Tuesday. So while you‘re waiting to grow up, you just be a book reader.”...