By Eric Metaxas, May 12, 2016 at: http://www.breakpoint.org ———————– Christians in the United States and Europe are often discouraged by what they see as a church in decline, with a decreasing number of professing Christians and a shrinking influence in Western culture. But in many parts in the world the church is seeing astounding growth, […]
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Painting above: Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521 19th century painting by Hermann Wislicenus —————————– From The One Year Christian History, by E. Michael and Sharon Rusten, pages 216-7, Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. During the early 1500s Europe was in a great state of flux. A revived interest in pre-Christian Greek
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Pictured above: The Sinking of the Titanic, Willy Stower, 1912 —————————- From The One Year Christian History, by E. Michael and Sharon Rusten, pages 212-3, Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. John Harper was born in Scotland in 1872 to a Christian family. When he was presented with the message of John 3:16 at the
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British journalist William Ewer (1885-1977) once wrote a silly, but profound little poem using only eight words: How odd Of God To choose The Jews. A lady once expressed a similar thought in a Bible study I was leading when she said, “Everything in the Old Testament centers so
Jacob DeShazer (1912-2008) was a young air force recruit in California when he first heard the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Furious at what the Japanese had done, he resolved to retaliate personally. In April of 1942 he got his chance. He was selected to be a
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By Rev. David Lose (not the above preacher), Professor of Preaching at Luther Seminary, St.Paul, Minnesota; posted 10-23-2009 at: www.workingpreacher.org The following letter was posted on a website designed to assist in the weekly task of preaching. It was written as a word of encouragement to the pastors who prepare and preach sermons, but it
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From the September 2015 Voice of the Martyrs newsletter ( http://www.persecution.com ) Suta is a village pastor in India. Like the majority of people in India, he grew up in a Hindu family. But now Suta follows Jesus. He wants others to learn the truth about Jesus, too. Suta believed
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By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun, October 16, 2015, at: http://www.Christianitytoday.com The two men share a last name but otherwise come from different worlds: Raju Parivar (pictured above), a popular folk singer in Nepal, and Bishnu Parivar, a Christian pastor who runs a children’s ministry and orphanage in the tourist city of Bharatpur in the Himalayan country.
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Above: Moody (with beard) and the boys of the Chicago streets (1860’s). ———————- Dwight L. Moody (1837 – 1899) was the most influential evangelist of the nineteenth century. His work became the benchmark for all revivalists who followed him. He has been called the father of modern campaign evangelism. This pushy shoe salesman
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To learn about Nick Vujicic see yesterday’s blog, Emailmeditation #824 —————————- “I never met a bitter person who was thankful; or a thankful person who was bitter.” ———- ———- “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If you fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much more
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