Selected and paraphrased from The Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by William Hazlitt, 1857. These are selections from the many notes taken by students and others who dined with Luther, recording his spontaneous, conversational wisdom. The Luther home was always entertaining guests. Martin would bring home as many as twenty-five unannounced guests for his […]
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By Max Dunnam, from his book This Is Christianity    One day a woman came to see the famous plastic surgeon Dr. Maxwell Maltz about her husband.  She told the doctor that her husband had been injured while attempting to save his parents from a burning house.  He could not rescue them.  They both
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From a letter by Martin Luther to Doctor Benedict Paul, whose son had lately been killed by a fall from the top of a house.  (Paraphrased from The Table Talk of Martin Luther, translated by William Hazlitt, 1857; available at <www.ccel.org> )    Although it is nowhere forbidden in Holy Scripture to mourn and grieve for
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From The Early Christians: In Their Own Words, (Ch. 2; #13); Selected and Edited by Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935); Copyright 2003 by The Bruderhof Foundation, Inc.  Used with permission.  View this book and many others from Plough Publishing at:  http://www.plough.com/ Polycarp (69 – 155), was an early church leader known as a kindly pastor and a defender of
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From The Fourth Dimension, by Dr. David Yonggi Cho, 1979, Logos International Press, pages 103-104.  Dr. Cho is the pastor of the largest church in the world.  It is in Seoul, South Korea.     The Communists were vicious to the ministers.  One minister’s family was captured in Inchon, Korea, and the Communist leaders put them on what
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From Job 16:7-17  —  Surely, God, you have worn me out;     you have devastated my entire household. You have shriveled me up… God assails me and tears me in his anger     and gnashes his teeth at me… God has turned me over to the ungodly     and thrown me into the clutches of the wicked. All
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Adapted from The Fellowship of St. James Newsletter, August 8, 2013, by Executive Director James M. Kushiner    Every day we must make the effort to stand firm in the daily spiritual battle that is the Christian life.  I can’t emphasize enough how small actions and obediences can make a difference– even when, as
This piece is from a 1944 interview with C. S. Lewis (1898-1963). Â It can be found in the book God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, by C. S. Lewis, pages 51-52. QUESTION: Â Â Â Many people feel resentful or unhappy because they think they are the target of unjust fate. Â These feelings
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By C. S. Lewis in The Problem of Pain    My own experience is something like this.  I am progressing along the path of life in my ordinary contentedly godless condition, absorbed in a merry meeting with my friends or a bit of work that tickles my vanity, a holiday, or a new book,
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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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