Many people have given up on faith in Jesus Christ because of what they have seen in the lives of Christians. In these two passages from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass describes the importance of distinguishing between believing in Christ, and believing in those who say they follow Christ. The lives of Christians should be […]
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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born into slavery in Maryland. He escaped slavery as a young man, and became the most prominent black abolitionist of his time. He is one of the most important figures in African-American history, and was a powerful orator. He was a firm believer in the equality of all people and often
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Many people have chosen the following poem (or a variation of it) for the epitaph on their gravestone. This one was found in a cemetery in Waynesville, North Carolina: Effie Jean Robinson 1897-1922 Come blooming youths, as you pass by , And on these lines do cast an eye. As you are now,
I received this story in an email yesterday. www.snopes.com cannot confirm or deny the truth of it. Snopes has not been able to track down any source for this account, but they do list another, similar story that is known to be true. Whether or not this really happened, it should raise in our mind
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The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, pp. 69-71 The following narrative was given by a gentleman of the United States, when on a visit to England, and was published in that country in 1838: It was in the autumn of 1832, in the regions of the far West, by the waters of the
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Faith in Jesus is not the same as feelings for Jesus. Faith is stronger than feelings. It is stronger than knowledge. Faith often becomes a sheer act of will. A person may say, “I don’t feel like believing, but I want to believe.” And it may very well be that if a person were
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From The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, 1869, pages 169-170 A sermon illustration from a New England minister in the 1700’s. A clergyman sitting in his study, saw some boys in his garden stealing melons. He quietly arose, and walking into his garden, called out to them, “Boys, boys.” They immediately fled
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John Wesley (1703-1791): “O ye lovers of money, hear the Word of the Lord. Do you suppose that money, though multiplied as the sand of the sea, can give happiness? Then you are ‘given up to a strong delusion to believe a lie’– a palpable lie, confuted daily by a thousand experiments. Open
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Adapted from Our ‘Godless Constitution;’ The Complicated Truth, by Eric Metaxas, www.Breakpoint.org July 16, 2013 One Fourth of July ad would have you believe that the Founding Fathers sought to shield our nation’s government from Christianity. Clever, but not true. This Fourth of July, I opened up the New York
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By John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America (Penguin Books, 1962), 77-79. Sunday morning, in a Vermont town… I looked for a church to attend. Several I eliminated for reasons I do not now remember, but on seeing a John Knox church I drove into a side street and parked… I took
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