From Wisdom of the Sadhu: Teachings of Sundar Singh, (1889-1929), compiled and edited by Kim Comer. (Reprinted from http://www.bruderhof.com. Copyright 2003 by The Bruderhof Foundation, Inc. Used with permission.) For this and many other books on-line from The Bruderhof, see <www.plough.com> “A Warning to the West” Christian: Haven’t you visited America and western Europe? What […]
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From At the Master’s Feet, 1922, by Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) (see Meditation #143) The great gift of service is that it also helps the one who serves. Once when traveling in Tibet, I was crossing a high mountain pass with my Tibetan guide. The weather had suddenly turned bitterly cold, and my
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From At the Master’s Feet, Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) (See Meditation #143) Once, as I traveled through the Himalayas, there was a great forest fire. Everyone was frantically trying to fight the fire, but I noticed a group of men standing and looking up into a tree that was about to go up in
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Sundar Singh (1889-1929) was raised a member of the Sikh religion. Prior to his conversion, he attended a primary school run by the American Presbyterian Mission where the New Testament was read daily as a ‘textbook.’ He said, “I refused to read the Bible at the daily lessons… To some extent the
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Tim Hansel, in his book Eating Problems for Breakfast (p. 194-5), has a humorous and fictional letter to Jesus regarding the search for the twelve apostles. He imagines that Jesus hired a management consultant firm to evaluate his choices for the twelve, and this letter summarizes their opinion about who would and would not be
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“Judith Showing the Head of Holofernes”, illustration of the Apocryphal Book of Judith, Chapter 14, from Gustave Doré’s (1832-1888) illustrated edition of the Bible. ************************************* In the book of Judith from the Apocrypha, the heroine saves the besieged Jewish city of Bethuliah. She does so by deceiving, and then killing the invading general Holofernes,
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THE CHURCH NEEDS GRACE, TOO By Karen S. Prior, August 22, 2013, posted on Her.menuetics ( http://www.Christianitytoday.com ) I’ve talked to a lot of young (and not so young) Christians about their disappointment in the church. Many have been hurt by the church. Many more hurt for others who have borne the brunt of
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George Washington Carver (1864-1943) was one of the 20th century’s greatest scientists. He rose from slavery to become one of the world’s most respected and honored men. He devoted his life to understanding nature and applied his knowledge to the area of agriculture. He is best known for developing crop-rotation methods for conserving
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From This Week in Christian History at www.Christianity.com One of the most heroic acts of the twentieth century reached its conclusion seventy-two years ago yesterday, August 14, 1941. That is when the Franciscan friar, Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), lifted up his arm to receive a lethal injection of carbolic acid. Two weeks
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By Phil Robertson, in Happy, Happy, Happy, pages 121-3…135-6, Copyright, 2013. People ask me all the time about the early days of Duck Commander (company), when it was just Pa, Kay, the boys, and me trying to learn how to operate a heavy lathe and build duck calls in a small woodshop outside our home. I’m
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