Belfast OutReach

Easter the people involved Around 2000 years ago, a visitor to the ancient city Jerusalem during their annual feast of Passover, would have been confronted with an all too familiar sight.Three men were going outside the city that day to face immense suffering and finally death.Two of those men were to be put to death for their own crimes, receiving the consequences of their actions. For many this was just another day in the liie of the Roman Empire! just another crucifixion! This was the Roman way of putting felons to death. Josephus, the Jewish historian. describes crucifixion as “the most wretched of deaths." (The best known event of crucifixion prior to this day was when 6000 followers of Spartacus were crucified along the Appian Way as a celebration of victory.) As those three crosses were raised on the hillside Golgotha outside Jerusalem with their victims nailed by the hands and feet, this was to be no ordinary day. Its effects, consequences and realities, will...

Relying on the media and politicians to tell us what Muslims believe isn't going to cut it. Christians need to be better informed, whether the goal is to understand global politics or to talk to a Muslim neighbor across the street. Through fair and accurate use of the Qur'an and other documents, scholar and accomplished debater Dr. James White examines what Muslim sacred texts teach about Christ, salvation, the Trinity, the afterlife, and other crucial topics. This book provides the answers you've been looking for to engage in open, honest discussions about Islam with Muslims and others.  A Look Inside the Sacred Book of One of the World's Fastest-Growing Religions What used to be an exotic religion of people halfway around the world is now the belief system of people living across the street. Through fair, contextual use of the Qur'an as the primary source text, apologist James R. White presents Islamic beliefs about Christ, salvation, the Trinit...

Thousands of young men flocked to the recruiting stations in the early days of August 1914 They were keen to do their bit, and were in a hurry about it. The war might be over by Christmas! Few then imagined that it would be a long hard struggle for four years and more. Who among those young men could have foreseen the horrors of war on the Western Front? The awful hardship and suffering that would be inflicted upon men thrust into battles, the like of which had never been known before. As the months and years passed, and fatalities mounted without respite, thousands of parents and families were engulfed by a tide of sorrow and loss. In some cases this was on a scale that stuns our minds one hundred years later. A recent documentary tells of a family in County Durham in which five out of six sons were killed. And this was not uniqne!  Amy Beechey from Lincoln lost five of her eight sons. Wheii she was presented to King George V and Queen Mary in April 1918, the Que...