From a sermon by Dwight L. Moody: I thank God my salvation don’t rest upon my feelings. I thank God my hope is not centered on my feelings. If it was, it would be a very treacherous thing. I would be very hopeful one day and cast down the next day. I would […]
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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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From The Clergy of America: Anecdotes, pages 28-30, 1869, J. B. Lippincott Publishers, Philadelphia About a half century ago a Christian church was organized in a small town in Virginia. For some years it flourished, but after a while the pastor died, some of the members moved to different parts of the country,
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By Frederick Buechner in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC’s of Faith, (HarperOne, 2004). To have grandchildren is not only to be given something, but to be given something back. You are given back something of your children’s childhood all those years ago. You are given back something of what it was
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Above photo: Martin Luther’s Pulpit in the Castle Church, Wittenberg, Germany Luther’s tomb is at the base of the pulpit ************************** O Lord, you see how unworthy I am to fill so great and important an office. Were it not for your counsel, I would have utterly failed in it long ago. Therefore, I call
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By Bob Andrews, in the February 1992 World Mission Prayer League Newsletter. Andrews served as the General Director of the Minneapolis based World Mission Prayer League from 1985-1987. About three years ago I slipped into a meeting of Twin Cities pastors to hear a well known theologian speak on the topic, Preaching Christ
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From Tramp for the Lord, © 1974, by Corrie ten Boom and Jamie Buckingham, p. 50-53 After the war, Germany was filled with wounds and scars– not all of them on the surface. In one tiny cubicle in the camp at Darmstadt, I found a German lawyer. He was sitting miserably in a
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From “The Clergy of America: Anecdotes,” p. 91-94, published 1869 A writer in the Christian Review of 1839 gives the following account of a scene he himself witnessed. Speaking of Dr. Griffin, he says: We remember him on one occasion, preaching before a large evening assembly. As he entered the sanctuary,
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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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This story went viral a while back, and though it is not true, it can challenge us to consider how welcoming we are of outsiders visiting our congregations. Pastor Jeremiah Steepek let his beard grow for a few days, dressed shabbily like a homeless person, and then went to the 10,000 member church
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