Harun Ibrahim was born in Israel to Arab-Muslim parents, studied in a Jewish school, and married a devout Christian woman. After years of examining these religions, he was faced with a choice: Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

Ibrahim ultimately made a decision to follow Christ, thanks to his praying wife and a timely encounter with a random man on the street.

Ibrahim recalled the conversation during an appearance on The 700 Club. The man told him, “‘Well, you are not going to be in the kingdom of God because Jesus said that no one will come to the Father except through Him.'”

“And I really didn’t like that,” he recounted. “I said, ‘You are rude.'”

The man began to share the Gospel with the young Muslim and challenged him to actually read the Bible.

“He challenged me to read this Bible verse, and it was in the Gospel of John. And I read the Gospel of John seven times in a row. I just like really loved the person called Jesus. I couldn’t resist. I just had to accept him as my redeemer, as my Savior,” he shared.

Ibrahim began to burn with a desire to share the Gospel with Muslims and served many years as a missionary reaching Muslims in the Arab nations. He later started Al Hayat Ministries in 2003 to boldly preach the Gospel and challenge Islam. Since then, the ministry has seen more than 100,000 come to faith in Jesus Christ.

“Our vision extends to equipping believers who come from Muslim backgrounds with the necessary tools and knowledge to fulfill the Great Commission,” reads a statement on their website.

Ibrahim serves as the Director of Al Hayat Ministries, and recently told the Keeping It Real Israel podcast that they have reached millions of people with the Gospel in a short time.

“Just an example that [in] 2023 we received 109 million viewer reactions or responses and thousands of people accepting Christ,” he shared. “This means that there is hunger in the Muslim world to hear about Christ.”

Ibrahim explained that what makes his programming unique is that he is speaking to Muslims in the culture and language they understand.

“When Christian TV was first brought into the Arab world, it was programs that were made by Christians for Christians in the Christian language in the hopes that Muslims would watch the shows,” he told the 700 Club. ” When I started to produce TV programs, I was not happy to see that the whole year could be, maybe, 15 to 20 Muslims accepting Christ.”

His unique approach is giving many more people the opportunity to meet Jesus.

“I think that media, TV, internet are here to help us fulfill the Great Commission, and the Muslim world was [once] isolated. It was closed, and now through the satellite channels, internet, [and] social media, we can reach the Muslims.

“Many of them are finding the truth,” Ibrahim continued. “I do believe that a great revival is very soon to come to every single Muslim country.”

For many Muslims, accepting Christ means being rejected by family and potentially endangering their lives.

“Islam is a religion that does not allow people to change it, and if you reject Islam, you will be punished. You will be given three days as a chance to get back. If not, then you can be persecuted,” he told CBN News in 2020.

“In many of the countries, they don’t kill them, but in some of the countries, they do. Many people would lose their jobs, their families, their children, their wives, and then their families. Unfortunately, we can say that in some cases, they lose their lives,” Ibrahim explained.

He encouraged Christians who have a desire to reach Muslims to begin praying first.

“When you start praying for the Muslim world, God will guide you [in] what to do,” he explained.
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A massive crane lifted a 25-ton Jewish ritual bath from an excavation site in Israel, preserving a remarkably intact structure that had survived roughly 2,000 years.

The bath, unearthed in Kiryat Gat about 35 miles southwest of Jerusalem, dates to the Second Temple period, placing it in the world of Jesus’ earthly ministry. Its discovery also revealed something archaeologists had not previously known: A Jewish settlement once stood there.

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the bath’s removal in September, explaining that the operation would protect it during construction of a new neighborhood.

For author Dinesh D’Souza, the discovery offers a vivid connection to the people and practices surrounding the Biblical accounts.

“It gives you a vivid picture. In some ways, it brings the Bible to life, both the Old Testament and the New, because this mikveh reflects the times right around the time of Jesus,” D’Souza told Fox News Digital.

A mikveh is a bath used for Jewish ritual purification. Alongside the structure, archaeologists uncovered stone measuring vessels, which were widely used during the Second Temple period because Jewish law did not consider them susceptible to ritual impurity.

Together, those discoveries provide evidence of the ancient community’s religious life.

D’Souza, whose new book, “The Stones Cry Out,” and documentary of the same name explore Biblical archaeology, said such finds help establish the historical world described in Scripture.

“This is confirming, describing, illuminating the world of the Bible,” he said. “That’s one of the things that biblical archaeology can do. It can authenticate the historicity of the Bible—not the theology, not the miracles, but the historicity of it.”

The ancient bath’s journey will eventually bring it back to the community where it was found. Rather than remaining removed from its original setting, it will become part of the neighborhood taking shape around it.

“When construction is completed, the mikveh will be returned to the site, and integrated into an open public space that will stand at the heart of the new neighborhood,” the IAA said.
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ഡാളസ്: വൈ.എം.ഇ.എഫ് ഡാളസിന്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തില്‍ ‘ജോര്‍ജ് പീറ്റര്‍ സംഗീതസന്ധ്യ’ ഒക്ടോബര്‍ 17 ശനിയാഴ്ച വൈകിട്ട് 5:30-ന് നടക്കും. കരോള്‍ട്ടണിലെ ബിലീവേഴ്‌സ് ബൈബിള്‍ ചാപ്പലാണ് വേദി.

ക്രൈസ്തവ കൈരളിക്ക് നൂറിലേറെ ഗാനങ്ങള്‍ സമ്മാനിച്ച ഭക്തകവി ഇവാഞ്ചലിസ്റ്റ് ജോര്‍ജ് പീറ്റര്‍ ചിറ്റൂര്‍ രചിച്ച തിരഞ്ഞെടുത്ത ഗാനങ്ങളും അവയുടെ പശ്ചാത്തല അനുഭവങ്ങളും സംഗീതസന്ധ്യയില്‍ അവതരിപ്പിക്കും. ‘യേശു എനിക്കെത്ര നല്ലവനാം’, ‘എനിക്കൊത്താശ വരും പര്‍വതം’, ‘കര്‍ത്താവിലെന്നും എന്റെ ആശ്രയം’, ‘വിശ്വാസ ജീവിതപ്പടകില്‍’, ‘എന്നെ കരുതുവാന്‍ കാക്കുവാന്‍’ തുടങ്ങിയ ഗാനങ്ങളിലൂടെ ശ്രദ്ധേയനായ ഗാനരചയിതാവാണ് ജോര്‍ജ് പീറ്റര്‍ ചിറ്റൂര്‍.

ഗായകന്‍ ബിനോയ് ചാക്കോയും സംഘവും ഡാളസ് മലയാളികള്‍ക്കായി സംഗീതസന്ധ്യ ഒരുക്കും.

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