Above: Richard Wurmbrand prison photo By Richard Wurmbrand (1909-2001), Tortured for Christ, 1967, pages 11-13. Wurmbrand suffered much for his faith in Christ, first by the Nazi invasion of his homeland Romania, then by the Russians, and then by the Romanian communists. He would spend 13 years in prison for proclaiming Christ, was often tortured, […]
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This meditation was inspired by a conversation I had last week. ***************************** I met an old friend for coffee the other day. Dan recently retired after being a doctor for forty-one years. I am a retired pastor. Dan asked me what it was like just being a regular member of a church after
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By Randy Alcorn, from his book The Grace and Truth Paradox and posted November 10, 2025 on his website at: http://www.epm.org ********************************* Many evangelical Christians are speaking grace without truth, while others are speaking truth without grace. But Scripture tells us this about Jesus: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
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Billy Graham preached the Gospel face-to-face to more people than any other individual in history. In sixty-eight years of large stadium evangelistic campaigns, he preached to over 200 million people. With today’s internet media opportunities, these types of large stadium revival meetings are seldom done anymore. Thus, no one individual will ever again
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From the Standing Strong Through the Storm daily devotion, August 30, 2018, at: http://www.oopendoorsusa.org ***************************** Prior to her Christian husband being released from prison in Iran, Maheen, feared that she might be arrested too. So she seriously prayed, “Dear Lord, I am not ready to go to a solitary confinement because of my Christian faith. It
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From The Last Word, by William Willimon, pages 119-121. In one of my congregations, we decided that we needed to grow. We voted to launch a program of evangelism. We studied a program from our denomination telling us how to get new members. Among other things, the church-growth program advocated a system of door-to-door visitation. So we organized
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Bill was one of the volunteers for the ‘Meals on Wheels’ program in his small town. He had recently retired and enjoyed delivering the meals three days a week to several of the elderly folks in the community. One of the folks he delivered to was his old fishing buddy, Jake. Bill would
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The following was adapted from a 2010 sermon by Lutheran seminary professor and pastor Walter Sundberg. ————————- Romans 10:9 — If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Confess with your mouth, it says. To
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A story told by Tom Housholder, pastor/evangelist in the former American Lutheran Church. The story took place in the 1950’s in Housholder’s first congregation. I heard him tell this story when I was on internship in Sisseton, South Dakota in 1979. ————————— Elmer lived the life of a hermit in a remote cabin
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Above: The bad white cop and the innocent black man– why are they smiling? —————————— While many non-Christians in our society are becoming increasingly anti-Christian, the power of Christian forgiveness can still astound and inspire everyone. No other belief system has the equivalent of forgiving your brother “seventy times seven,” much less commands you to love your
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