Pictured above: Nelson Mandela; May 13, 1998 —————— From What Good is God?, by Philip Yancey, © 2010 Philip Yancey and SCCT, pages 280-281 When the world sees grace in action toward undeserving oppressors, it falls silent. Nelson Mandela taught the world a lesson in grace when, after emerging from prison after twenty-seven […]
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A story by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) It was an early Easter; snow still lay in the yards; and water ran in streams down the village street. Two little girls from different houses happened to meet in a lane between two homesteads, where the dirty water after running through the farm-yards had formed a
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By Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), 1885 There lived in olden times a good and kindly man. He had this world’s goods in abundance, and many slaves to serve him. And the slaves prided themselves on their master, saying, “There is no better lord than ours under the sun. He feeds and clothes us well,
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From Tramp for the Lord, by Corrie ten Boom, 1974, pages 55-57. It was in a church in Munich that I saw him– a balding, heavyset man in a gray overcoat, a brown felt hat clutched between his hands. People were filing out of the basement room where I had just spoken, moving
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