By Doug Tilley, a pastor from North Carolina, in World magazine, 10-8-11, p. 52. Â Â Â I have been diagnosed with a disease named after one of the greatest baseball players in history, Lou Gehrig. Â Gehrig played for the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1939, the year doctors told him he had Amyotrophic Lateral […]
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From a sermon entitled “Life Eternal” by Ralph Sockman (1889-1970) Â Â Â As I ponder Paul’s discussion of the body (in II Corinthians 4 & 5), it deepens my realization that personality does go on despite bodily changes. Â We are told that a human body undergoes a complete renovation every seven years (by the ongoing
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   (continued…)  How did the young couple with the child born blind respond to Pastor John’s letter?  They quit coming to church.  This reaction was not to the letter in particular, but to the God of whom the letter spoke.  The father said later that he still believed in God, and believed that God
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   I will never forget February 13, 2005, the day our first grandchild was born.  Our daughter and son-in-law invited us to the hospital to await the birth of their daughter.  It seemed like a long wait, though it was probably no longer than usual.  Finally the door we were watching opened and
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From Tramp for the Lord, by Corrie ten Boom, 1974, pages 55-57.    It was in a church in Munich that I saw him– a balding, heavyset man in a gray overcoat, a brown felt hat clutched between his hands.  People were filing out of the basement room where I had just spoken, moving
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From the novel Jubilee (1966), by Margaret W. Alexander (1915-98); (Quoted in Conversations With God: Two Centuries of African-American Prayers, ed. by James M. Washington, pp. 211-212, HarperCollins).    Brother Ezekiel held the (two year old) child down close to her mother’s face and said soothingly, “It’s your mama, Vyry, say hello to you maw.”
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   One hundred years before Billy Graham’s world-wide evangelistic ministry, there was Dwight L. Moody.  Moody was the best known evangelist of the late 1800’s, and like Billy Graham’s Just As I Am, Moody also had a favorite song that he would use as he ended his message and invited the crowds to come
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   For several years Ben Stein wrote a biweekly column called “Monday Night at Morton’s.”  Morton’s is a famous chain of steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the world.  Ben Stein knew many of them and would write about his visits with them at Morton’s.  In July
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   Around the world there have been many different rites of passage by which boys would become men.  In one Native American tribe the young braves were given a test of courage.  A 13-year-old boy, on the verge of manhood, would be awakened during the night and led blindfolded out of the camp.  When
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   In sixteenth century Holland it was against the law to worship anywhere outside of the official institutional church.  Among the free-thinking Reformers, there was a group that have since become known as the Mennonites.  In 1569 a man from this group named Dirk Willems was arrested for being illegally baptized and for holding
