For BreakPoint Daily at http://www.breakpoint.org , July 9, 2013, by John Stonestreet Sometimes you hear a story that puts a warm glow in your heart and a tear in your eye. I’m going to share with you one such story. If one noun could characterize Heath White’s aspirations, it would be […]
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Today’s meditation is just for fun. I do not know who wrote this piece, and so I cannot say for sure whether or not the following conversation really took place. But it contains such good theology and so much that I agree with, that I believe it may indeed be divinely inspired. –Leon Stier
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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
John 19:26-27 records the third time that Jesus spoke from the cross. John writes, “When Jesus saw His mother there, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ‘Dear woman, here is your son!,’ and to the disciple, ‘Here is your mother!’ From that time on, the disciple
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Here is one more page from the book Sometimes Miracles Hide by Bruce Carroll (see meditations #39-41), another letter that Carroll received, this one with a different perspective on the song. Dear Bruce, I am writing this letter to express my grateful appreciation and to affirm how God has used your music in
From Nightlight:A Devotional for Parents, by James and Shirley Dobson, Multnomah, 2002, pp. 214-215. We do want to be effective parents. There is so much to teach our kids, and so little time. But as we struggle and strain to bestow wisdom on the next generation, we might also pause to consider how
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The following piece entitled The Little Way of Ruthie Leming was written by best-selling author Eric Metaxas for the May 7, 2013 Breakpoint message http://www.breakpoint.org — a ministry of Prison Fellowship. As a journalist and cultural commentator, my friend Rod Dreher seemingly had it all. In addition to his strong Christian faith, Rod
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