Painting above: Nighthawks, 1942, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) —————————- From the book The Kingdom of God Is a Party, 1990, by Tony Campolo (1935-2024)    If you live on the East Coast and travel to Hawaii, you find that there is a time difference that makes three o’clock in the morning feel like nine; so […]
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   It is instructive to look at the lives of people who have received everything to see if ‘having it all’ makes one happy.  The Bible itself tells the story of one such man.  Solomon was the son of King David and heir to the throne. Shortly after becoming king (See I Kings 3),
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Christians and Ebola, by Eric Metaxas, October 15, 2014 blog at:  http://www.breakpoint.org    Between 250 and 270 A.D. a terrible plague, believed to be measles or smallpox, devastated the Roman Empire.  At the height of what came to be known as the Plague of Cyprian, after the bishop St. Cyprian who chronicled what
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Above:Â Illustration of Jacob’s dream of ladder to heaven. ***************** By Bob Paulson for Decision magazine, copyright 2014. ————————————– Â Â Â Saeed Abedini, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a brutal Iranian prison for his Christian faith, came to Christ at age 20. Â A devout Muslim at the time, he had found a Bible
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   “I hardly had a drink in years,” said a man from New Orleans who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.  “But right after the hurricane hit, I started drinking again.  Now, if I stop drinking, the pain becomes so great it is unbearable.  I am scared because I don’t have any identity anymore.”  He
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   All but one of the seven parables in of Jesus in Matthew 13 begin with Jesus saying, “The Kingdom of heaven is like…”; and then it is compared to a field full of weeds, or a mustard seed, or yeast, or a hidden treasure, or a pearl of great price.  As we hear
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      George Matheson was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 27, 1842.  He had only partial vision as a boy.  After he entered Glasgow University, his sight failed rapidly and he became totally blind at the age of eighteen.  Despite this handicap he was a brilliant scholar and finished the University and
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 Adapted from The Furious Love of God: A Story Behind the Black Mass by Eric Metaxas, May 23, 2014, at:  www.breakpoint.org May 23, 2014    As you may have heard, a club at Harvard had planned to reenact a “black mass” at the university’s Memorial Hall.    For those of you unfamiliar
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      By the age of 30, Albert Schweitzer was already a world-renowned organist and expert on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.  I don’t know much about music history, but it is said that his work changed the course of world-wide organ studies and performance.  Also by the age of 30, that same
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