Category: Updates
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8/23/2023 – Nazis: A lesson from the past
From Sergei Nakul (Pastor of Big City Church in Kyiv): “I can’t welcome this criminal symbol”… We all know the pastor Dietrich Bongeffer who was killed by the Nazis in 1945. But a little-known other pastor, Paul Schneider, is named the Buchhenwald preacher. He is considered the first Protestant pastor executed by the Nazis in…
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8/23/2023 – But war is not a part of God’s design, rather it is the ultimate result of sin…
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (545th day): I found this quote on a friend’s FB page: “If a person has lived through war, poverty, and love, he has lived a full life” (O. Henry). I am not sure I agree. Yes, living through war certainly makes you appreciate life on a whole new level, crystalizes…
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8/23/2023 – Can we praise God when people are being killed every day?
From Ira Kapitonova near Kyiv (Day 545): Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving;let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!Psalm 95:2 Sometimes, when I come across verses of gratitude and praise in my daily psalm reading, bitterness overpowers me, and my whole being resists this praise. Can we praise…
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8/22/2023 – “What are your plans after the victory?“
From Euromaiden Press: “What are your plans after the victory?”“I plan only further offensive and assault actions to bring victory closer. And if I have the honor to meet it alive, first of all, I will remember all those whom we lost during this way,” says Rohoz’, a fighter from Ukraine’s 3rd brigade near Bakhmut,…
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8/22/2023 – One step forward
From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (544th day): Over the past three days, groups of saboteurs coordinated by Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine have neutralized five Russian planes, including strategic bombers, which launched missile strikes on Ukrainian cities. These drone operations have caused sensitive losses to the enemy in military aviation. And…
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8/22/2023 – Tucker is wrong on Ukraine, again… (video)
From Doug Shepherd (MTW L’viv): Tucker is wrong on Ukraine, again.Ukraine wants its territorial integrity and for the Russian invaders to leave.It’s similar to saying “The Allies war of aggression against Hitler” when Tucker says, “Nato’s war against Russia.” He continues to repeat the basic propaganda points of the Russian government so he is a…
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8/22/2023 – I often wonder how this new generation, the children growing up amid war, will turn out in the future…
From Ira Kapitonova near Kyiv (Day 544): When the cares of my heart are many,your consolations cheer my soul.Psalm 94:19 I often wonder how this new generation, the children growing up amid war, will turn out in the future.These kids grow up praying for the soldiers defending us at the frontlines.They learn to fundraise and…
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8/22/2023 – Joys and Sorrows
From Lyuda in Belgorod Dnestrovsky (Day 544): “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Psalms 24:1 Yesterday Sergey preached on the 24th psalm and talked about whether God hears our voice when we call to Him, how we can approach God, “ascend into the hill of…
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