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By Cyprian (c. 210- martyred 258), Bishop of Carthage, North Africa      What great patience God has!  He makes the day dawn and the light of the sun rise both over the good and over the wicked; he waters the earth with his rain, and no one is excluded from its benefits, since water […]

From an October 2012 Standing Strong Through the Storm daily devotional at :  http://www.opendoors-usa.org ————————— Pastor Samuel Lamb  (1924-2013) —————-      Pastor Samuel Lamb from southern China celebrated his 88th birthday in October, 2012.  A quarter of his life was spent imprisoned for his faith.  He still preaches several times on Sunday in his

By Sandra P. Aldrich, adapted from her book Living Through the Loss of Someone You Love (1990, Regal) ——————————————      My husband, Don, had always been in charge of the car maintenance, so after his death to cancer, I was too exhausted to think about our station wagon’s balding tires.      But one afternoon, a

Pilgrims Going to Church, 1867, George Henry Boughton  (1833-1905) —————————————- A Thanksgiving meditation by Billy Graham, first published in Decision magazine, July 1971 —————– (…continued) Fourth, the Pilgrims left us an example of a people who had keen social concern.      The Pilgrims believed that every person was made in the image of God,

The Arrival of the Pilgrims, 1864, by Antonio Gisbert  (1835-1901) —————————- A Thanksgiving meditation by Billy Graham, first published in Decision magazine, July 1971 —————–      Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that “all history resolves itself into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.”  It is appropriate at this season that we

  The Taj Mahal, India, Built 1632-1653 —————-      A teacher once told her students to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World.  Most of the students took the assignment to mean ‘man-made’ wonders, so these students listed things like the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Panama Canal, the

——————————- By Ray Stedman      Here is the mark of the true believer:  He cannot quit.  When Jesus said to them, ‘Will you go away also?’, it is clear that he would have let them go if they had wanted to.  Jesus does not hold anybody against his will.  Responding to our Lord’s words,

Luke 7:36-50  —  When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table.  A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 

     In Ephesians 5:20 Paul tells us to “always and for everything give thanks to God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ” (RSV).   Always?– and for everything?– give thanks?  Is that what you always do?  Or, are you perhaps the type of person who always and in everything, can and

“We All Need Help” by John Piper Hebrews 4:16  —  Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.      Every one of us needs help.  We are not God.  We have needs.  We have weaknesses.  We