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Iraqi Christians abandoned by UK: France, Germany offer them Assylum

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Church of England has slammed the Government for abandoning Christians in the Middle East, citing fears that any offers of asylum would cost the Tories points against Ukip and the anti-immigration movement.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a strongly-worded attack on David Cameron's handling of the crisis in Iraq - backed by the Archbishop of Canterbury - the Bishop of Leeds said "many" senior clergy were seriously concerned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Rt Rev Nicholas Baines has written to the Prime Minister questioning whether there is any long-term strategy and criticising a "growing silence" over the fate of the plight of persecuted Christians. In particular he raised questions about ministers' failure to respond to calls - including through parliamentary questions - to set out what arrangements would be made to offer asylum in the UK.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Iraqi Christian children, who fled with their families the violence in Iraq's largest Christian town of Qaraqosh, pose in a room of Ainkawa's Saint Joseph church</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Despite appalling persecution, they seem to have fallen from consciousness, and I wonder why," he said. "Does your government have a coherent response to the plight of these huge numbers of Christians whose plight appears to be less regarded than that of others? Or are we simply reacting to the loudest media voice at any particular time?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Decrying the lack of response to repeated appeals for asylum provision to be made for Christians, and other minorities, he said that in contrast to France and Germany there had "so far been only silence from the UK Government".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And he expressed fears over the future of the Government's "commitment to religious freedom". The cleric said he recognised "the complexity and interconnectedness of the challenges" but joined criticism of an apparent failure to respond effectively to the advance of Islamic State fighters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It appears that, in common with the United States and other partners, the UK is responding to events in a reactive way, and it is difficult to discern the strategic intentions behind this approach," he wrote in the letter, which he issued to newspapers and published on his website.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Please can you tell me what is the overall strategy that holds together the UK Government's response to both the humanitarian situation and what IS is actually doing in Syria and Iraq?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Behind this question is the serious concern that we do not seem to have a coherent or comprehensive approach to Islamist extremism as it is developing across the globe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Islamic State, Boko Haram and other groups represent particular manifestations of a global phenomenon, and it is not clear what our broader global strategy is - particularly insofar as the military, political, economic and humanitarian demands interconnect."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Church internationally should be "a primary partner in addressing this complexity", he told him. The bishop welcomed the "notable and admirable" focus on the plight of the minority Yazidi community, who have been at the centre of an international aid operation as they flee IS massacres.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"However, there has been increasing silence about the plight of tens of thousands of Christians who have been displaced, driven from cities and homelands, and who face a bleak future," he went on.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Refugees, fleeing from Mosul, and Christians attend a concert at the yard of Saint-Joseph Church in Ankawa suburb of Arbil, Iraq</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kurdistan Regional Government holds a concert with the participation of different music groups to give refugees, fleeing from Mosul and taking shelter at Saint-Joseph Church</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports during an organization held by Chaldean Catholic Church in Beirut</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports during an organization held by Chaldean Catholic Church in Beirut, Lebanon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Iraqi Christians, fled from Iraq due to the Islamic State, abbreviated as IS,-led armed groups' attack, receive aid showing their passports during an organization held by Chaldean Catholic Church in Beirut, Lebanon</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Kurdish Christian family from Qaraqosh sleeps in the room that they have been allocated at Bazar International Shopping Mall in Erbil City center.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">House of Lords questions on the subject tabled by the Bishop of Coventry remain unanswered, he said, "something that causes me and colleagues some concern".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Underlying these concerns is the need for reassurance that a commitment to religious freedom will remain a priority for the Government, given the departure of ministers who championed this. Will the Foreign Secretary's Human Rights Advisory Panel continue under the new Foreign Secretary?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Is this not the time to appoint an Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom - which would demonstrate the Government's serious commitment to developing an overarching strategy (backed by expertise) against Islamist extremism and violence?"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Bishop of Manchester, the Right Rev David Walker, said the Government had a "moral obligation that it is repeatedly failing to rise to". He told BBC Radio 4's Sunday programme that he believed the failure to offer asylum could be down to political sensitivities over immigration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There is always a concern around anything that could play into the debate around immigration," he said. "But the numbers that would come here are so small that effectively they are not going to disrupt British society in any noticeable or meaningful way. In fact they would be good assets to our society."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the Government failed to act then Parliament should be recalled to debate the issue, he suggested. "But the issues are fairly clear. The Government needs to act."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A social media campaign to draw attention to the plight of Christians in Iraqi has seen many high-profile religious leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, change their Twitter profile pictures to a snap of the Arabic 'N', which symbolises 'Christian', and using the hashtag #WeAreN. It has been daubed on houses by militants to identify where Christians lived in captured cities, but <a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/wearen.thousands.unite.to.support.persecuted.christians.in.iraq/39026.htm" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Christians worldwide have expressed a desire to "reclaim" the symbol.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There is always a concern around anything that could play into the debate around immigration," he said. "But the numbers that would come here are so small that effectively they are not going to disrupt British society in any noticeable or meaningful way. In fact they would be good assets to our society."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A social media campaign to draw attention to the plight of Christians in Iraqi has seen many high-profile religious leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, change their Twitter profile pictures to a snap of the Arabic 'N', which symbolises 'Christian', and using the hashtag #WeAreN. It has been daubed on houses by militants to identify where Christians lived in captured cities, but <a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/article/wearen.thousands.unite.to.support.persecuted.christians.in.iraq/39026.htm" sl-processed="1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Christians worldwide have expressed a desire to "reclaim" the symbol.</a></span></div>
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Where is America in End Time Bible Prophecy?- Pastor Tom

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<img align="left" alt="" src="http://brtom.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/081314_0232_whereisamer1.jpg?w=696" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is hard for people to believe that a nation that can be as great and powerful as America has been over the last 200 plus years will be absent during the end times. I even read one article that said America is the beast with two horns as a lamb but spoke as a dragon in Revelation 13 as if the prophecy in that chapter was filled in 1798 when America was an up and coming superpower so that is America. As Col. Potter once said so eloquently on an episode of MASH, “horse hockey!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I see no reason to disagree with what the majority of the commentators on this. One beast is the revived Roman Empire (the temporal rein) while the other who works in cooperation with the first is the Papacy of the Roman Catholic church (the spiritual). There is no reason to drag America in there.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The question is then, where is America?</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While America may still exist in the end times, she will clearly not be a major player influencing the world, at best she will be a second rate power.I would like to propose three reasons for this:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">America has abandoned God.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bible say “blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:12) and “woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20).<br />We have fell as from a nation whose Supreme Court declared that we are a Christian nation (Trinity Church v. United States 1892) to a nation whose president boldly declared that “we are no longer a Christian nation..” (President Barack Obama in a speech in June 2007). As a nation he has some strong points in his corner. We have some woes to answer for:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The blood of over 56 million babies butchered and it has been called “freedom of choice.”</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The woe of taking an abomination in the eyes of God and calling it a lifestyle choice.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The woe of abandoning Israel when the Bible says I will bless those who bless thee and curse those who curse thee.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">America has turned her back on God and lost her moral compass. There was no nation on earth that was powerful enough to defeat Rome but she became morally decayed and weakened from the inside out long before she fell. That is just one of the issues, the second one is…</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">America will have lost her Christian influence.</strong><br />The second thing is that once the rapture happens and Christians are removed from this earth what restraint that will was there will be gone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord</em>. (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just as God would not destroy the righteous with the wicked in Sodom but waited for Lot and his family to leave, God will hold back his Great Tribulation until He removes His own, the church and the righteous will be gone from America. .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Once this event has occurred the brakes will be off, there will be no restraints, no meaningful objections or resistance God’s people and (what is left) of their positive influence on America will be gone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">America has a crushing national debt.</strong><br />Lastly we have a crushing national debt.is currently over 17 trillion dollars. It is an unpayable debt. We could tax income at 100% and not pay it off, there is not enough money to do it and the sad thing is that not only are we not paying the debt down, we cannot control our deficit spending. We cannot even agree to discontinue programs that are luxuries like PBS and NPR. They are nice to have when we can afford it but they are not needed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before we can even start paying down our debt we must stop spending more than we make, but we have reached a critical point in our country where almost 50% of the people receive government assistance. As<br />Elmer T. Peterson (9 December 1951) said: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Even though we are a not a democracy but a republic, we are heading down this road. With so many people on public assistance (food stamps , welfare, etc.) we need to find a way to cut spending to survive and the politicians in Washington will not do it, they want to keep their cushy jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That leaves us here: Bible says “the borrower is the servant of the lender.” (Proverbs 22:7) and with our great debt to China this may be the straw that breaks America’s back when that note comes due and it will be because of our fiscal irresponsibility. The collapse will most likely ruin America and we will be under a yoke of bondage to China..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Three thoughts on why America will not be a factor in the end times besides the fact she is not mentioned in the Bible at all. That is my opinion, what about yours?</span><br />
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Where is America in End Time Bible Prophecy?- Pastor Tom

It is hard for people to believe that a nation that can be as great and powerful as America has been over the last 200 plus years will be ...

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How Christian Guys Describe a Godly Girl

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<a href="http://www.girldefined.com/christian-guys-describe-godly-girl" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="Photo" height="357" src="http://www.girldefined.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/GirlWise.Video_.Image_.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt;" width="510" /></span></a></div>
       http://www.girldefined.com/christian-guys-describe-godly-girl(copy and paste to watch video)<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By: Kristen Clark</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was one of those high school girls who was all about guys. A day didn’t go by where I wasn’t thinking about one of my crushes. I spent a lot of time flirting with guys, but even more than that I spent countless hours dreaming about them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I clearly remember wondering what certain guys were thinking. Getting inside of a guy’s mind intrigued me and I wanted to know how they thought about girls. Have you ever wanted to know that?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, several years later my wishes became reality. I got married! Ever since then I’ve had a front row seat into the mind of a guy. Let’s just say it’s been an eye opening experience for me.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guys and girls think SO differently about things.</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I used to think that being loud and flirtatious would attract the heart of a godly guy – <em style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">wrong</em>. It will definitely attract some guys…but they’re not going to be the godly, mature type.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I used to think that dressing edgy and seductive would catch the attention of a godly guy – <em style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">wrong again.</em>Showing off skin will definitely attract the guys…just not the godly ones.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I used to think that becoming independent and self-sufficient would attract the heart of a godly guy –<em style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">triple wrong.</em> Godly guys are attracted to girls who are family oriented and desire to be team players.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Getting inside the mind of a godly guy has helped me understand how clueless I was about how they think!</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chances are, you’re probably a little clueless too. In fact, most single Christian girls seem to be in the dark about how godly guys think.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If I knew then what I know now, I would have acted a lot differently in high school. Instead of leaving you in the dark like I was, we want to give you the inside scoop.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s time for you to become #GuyWise.</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Becoming wise about guys isn’t going to happen all at once though. So, we decided to dedicate an entire week to the topic!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We will be releasing a brand new blog post <strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">every single day</strong> this week on the topic of guys, plus we’ll be giving away a few amazing books to help you become <strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">#GuyWise.</strong></span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">In order to gather the best information we went straight to the source – guys themselves.</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is your chance to get the inside scoop on how godly guys think. We’re going to cover exciting topics such as how to handle your crushes, modesty from a guy’s perspective, is flirting okay, and how to encourage the guys in your life to become godly men.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AApz6VDVsmE" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">video</a> at the top of this page is a brand new project we completed in honor of this special<strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">#GuyWise</strong> week. We interviewed five different godly guys ages 18-26 and asked them this simple question: <em style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">How would you describe a godly girl?</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our goal with this video is to open your eyes to how a godly guy thinks and what he values in a Christian girl.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is your front row seat for getting into the mind of a godly guy!</span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Click<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AApz6VDVsmE" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> here</a> to watch it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To keep up with the <strong style="border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">#GuyWise</strong> week action, stay plugged in to our GirlDefined <a href="https://www.facebook.com/girldefined" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Facebook</a> every day this week. We’ll be posting great content over there that you don’t want to miss. To enter your name in our book giveaway, all you have to do is share any of our posts on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/girldefined" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0pt; outline: none !important; padding: 0pt; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">We’ll be praying for you this week. </span></strong></h1>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Our prayer for you this week is that you would grow in wisdom and godliness in the way you interact with the guys in your life. That you would desire to be a blessing and not a hindrance to your brothers in Christ. That you would strive to challenge and encourage the guys in your life to become godly men in this generation.</span></div>
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<strong style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0pt none; margin: 0pt; outline: invert none 0pt; padding: 0pt;">Will you join us in becoming #GuyWise? We hope so!</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IMPORTANT: Let us know your thoughts about the video and the write-up, in the comment section.</span></div>
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How Christian Guys Describe a Godly Girl

http://www.girldefined.com/christian-guys-describe-godly-girl(copy and paste to watch video) By: Kristen Clark I was one of ...

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Iraq crisis: End 'very near' for Christianity after Isis takeover, says Bishop

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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Canon Andrew White, dubbed "the bishop of Baghdad" for his work at St George's church in the capital, spoke after the<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/time-runs-out-for-christian-iraq-isis-deadline-passes-with-mass-flight-9617606.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; outline: none;">ultimatum handed to Christians</a> in the northern city of Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq Levant (Isis) to convert, pay a tax or be put to death passed last week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For those Christians who did not comply with the decree by 19 July, Isis warned that "there is nothing to give them but the sword.” Many have since fled their homes and Rev. Andrew-White told BBC Radio 4<em style="outline: none;">Today</em> desperate Christians were trapped in the desert or on the streets with nowhere to go.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Things are so desperate, our people are disappearing," he said. "We have had people massacred, their heads chopped off.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Are we seeing the end of Christianity? We are committed come what may, we will keep going to the end, but it looks as though the end could be very near."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">READ MORE: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/time-runs-out-for-christian-iraq-isis-deadline-passes-with-mass-flight-9617606.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; outline: none;">TIME RUNS OUT FOR CHRISTIAN IRAQ: ISIS DEADLINE PASSES WITH MASS FLIGHT</a> <br style="outline: none;" /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/conversion-of-iraq-as-isis-drives-christians-out-of-their-homes-the-groups-genocidal-intentions-take-on-horrible-clarity-9617651.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px !important; outline: none;">CONVERSION OF IRAQ: AS ISIS DRIVES CHRISTIANS OUT OF THEIR HOMES, THE GROUP’S GENOCIDAL INTENTIONS TAKE ON HORRIBLE CLARITY</a></span></span></h5>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that from 14 July homes in Mosul were painted with the letter “N” for Nasrani (the Arabic word for Christian). Others were painted with the letter “R” for Rafidah, a word commonly used by Sunni to describe Shia.</span></div>
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<li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="35" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraqi refugees" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9572573.ece/alternates/w50/iraq-1.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li>
<li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="36" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraqi refugees" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9570671.ece/alternates/w50/Iraq1-AP.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li>
<li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="37" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Isis fighters in Iraq" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9570670.ece/alternates/w50/Iraq2-Reuters.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li>
<li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="38" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraq crisis" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9570669.ece/alternates/w50/Iraq3-EPA.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li>
<li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="39" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraq crisis" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9569652.ece/alternates/w50/24-Iraq2-AP.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li>
<li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="40" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraq crisis" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9569608.ece/alternates/w50/23-Iraq-AP.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li>
<li class="esi-gallery-thumb" data-thumb="41" style="float: left; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Iraq crisis" src="http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9569619.ece/alternates/w50/23-Iraq2-AP.jpg" style="border: 4px solid rgb(59, 59, 59) !important; height: 50px; outline: none; width: 50px;" /></span></li>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The vicar is in London to speak about the crisis and raise awareness of the urgent need to provide more help to the persecuted minority.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The Christians are in grave danger. There are literally Christians living in the desert and on the street. They have nowhere to go," he told the programme.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We do not want Britain to forget us. We - and I'm saying 'we' talking like an Iraqi Christian - have always been with the British because they have already been with us.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Individual churches, individual Christians in Britain, have been a bigger help than anybody around the world."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Up to a million Christians lived in Iraq prior to the US-led invasion in 2003, with many residing in areas such as Mosul where the communities date back to the first centuries of Christianity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are now thought to be fewer than half that number.</span></div>
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