A powerful message concerning the need for world missions. Each person has the responsibility to carry the gospel on. Thousands die everyday who have never heard the gospel before. Mati Simm shares at an LA house church service as they meet under “social-distancing conditions”. He breaks a message of prayer for the nations.

Listen from 39:00 – 1:09:00 for the introduction to the Baltic churches and Mati’s sermon message.

In his sermon, Mati references a conversation he had with a brother who went to Estonia on the One Year Challenge.

He asked the brother, “Why do you want to stay here?”

The brothers response?

“It’s really hard to convert atheists… and I love it!”

That’s inspiring faith. Listen for more.

Taken from “The Plagues That Might Have Brought Down the Roman Empire”, and article written Caroline Wazer of the Atlantic. Reference is made to a historian (Michael McCormick) who shares the Christian role in this piece of history. Inspiring for a generation facing an outbreak and fear regarding the Corona Virus.

For Bishop Cyprian, the plague that came to bear his name was hard proof of the superiority of Christianity over traditional Roman religion. Seeing the pestilence as an opportunity to put their most deeply-held beliefs into action, early Christians beatifically set about caring for the sick and giving proper burials to the dead.

On the other side of the religious divide, the pagan establishment was overwhelmed with fear. Traditionally, Roman priests interpreted epidemics as a sign of displeasure from the gods. Evidence in the form of new iconography on coins and references to extraordinary state-organized sacrifices suggests that the Plague of Cyprian was no different. As Harper notes, sources agree that, “the epidemic undermined the social fabric of pagan society” while “the orderly response of the Christian community, especially in the burial of the dead, presented a stark contrast.”