Joshua Nicholas Blog

*THE NIGERIA I SEE*  _By Joshua N. Nicholas_  *THE CALL OF A NIGERIAN GRADUATE PT 1* I school, you school; we all school. The journey just begun but though anyway. We left our comfort homes to new horizons for the fear of the future. We lit up the candles as boys and girls for the glorious women and men to emerge. Lecturers played hide and seek with us, university staff controlled our selling point and even navigated us to the tempest when there was a safe shore. Assignments stole our sleep, puzzled with our lifeline and sometimes even shifted the positions of our pockets and pulse. We studied harder to get the grades as new semester approaches, old logarithm fades as we head on for new logistics. At sunrise, morning lecture calls with stomach filled with nothing and sustains the day with streneous non-activities with offices of lecturers becoming home-sweet-home. What of when the sponsor unsponsors and garri becomes a well treated campus salad. Sometimes a lift with the...

*SUCCESS DAILY* *1st September 2018*  _By Joshua N. Nicholas_  *SATURDAY STORY*  *MARTIN LUTHER BIBLE: WHAT HAVE YOU THROWN AWAY* A story is told of a man who loved and read books. He met a friend who had just thrown away a Bible that had been stored in the attic of his ancestral home for generations "I couldn't read it" exclaimed the friend. "Somebody named Guten something had printed it." "Oh was it printed by Gutenberg of Germany?" The book lover asked in amazement. "That Bible from Germany was one of the first books ever printed and a copy just sold for two million dollars." The friend went on to say sarcastically; "mine wouldn't have brought a dollar! Some fellow named Martin Luther had scribbled all over it in German." When the book lover heard it, he shouted: "Show me where you have thrown it. That was the Bible used by the Great Reformer Martin Luther himself. In an aunction, it could go for 5 million dollars...

Iran is the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism. But did you know the Islamic Republic is also the one country where Christianity is growing the fastest in the world? Mike Ansari of "Heart4Iran" spoke with CBN News' George Thomas and Emily Jones about how God is moving powerfully inside this Muslim nation. Iran's hardline government has sentenced four Christians to harsh prison terms for putting their faith in Jesus Christ. Pastor Victor Bet-Tamraz and his wife Shamiram Issavi, who are ethnic Assyrian Christians, and Amin Afshar Naderi and Hadi Asgari, who are Christian converts from Islam, were sentenced to a combined total of 45 years in prison for allegedly conducting "illegal church activities" and spreading propaganda which reportedly "threaten national security." "These Christians were solely arrested for practicing their Christian faith, including attending Christmas gatherings and organizing hou...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A church-state watchdog is demanding a halt to meetings between the Trump administration and an informal group of evangelical advisers who have proved to be among the president’s staunchest supporters. Americans United for Separation of Church and State said the group is violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act, a 1972 law that provides transparency and procedural standards for committees created to meet with the executive branch. The watchdog called for a stop to the group’s meetings and advising “unless and until” it complies with the law. “It is clear that the President’s Evangelical Advisory Board is doing substantive work with the Trump Administration behind closed doors — without any sunlight for the public to understand how and why decisions are being made,” wrote Americans United Associate Legal Director Alex J. Luchenitser in a Thursday (Aug. 30) letter addressed to White House counsel Don McGahn and other administration officials...