By Lee Strobel. Look for his new book, The Case for Miracles: A Journalist Investigates the Evidence, 2018. ——————————-    Duane Miller’s greatest enjoyment came from preaching at his small church and singing songs of worship. It wasn’t just his livelihood to lead a Baptist congregation in Brenham, Texas; it was his passion, his […]
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From “A Critical Care Surgeon Meets the Great Physician,” by Kathryn Butler, February 17, 2017 in Christianity Today magazine, posted at: http://www.christianitytoday.com Butler is a trauma and critical care surgeon. Her book on end-of-life medical care through a Christian lens is anticipated in 2019 (Crossway). She writes at Oceans Rise. ——————————————    (…continued)  Some time later, I transitioned to work
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Above: Chinese village —————————— From the Open Doors Daily Devotional, December 24, 2017, at: http://www.opendoorsusa.org ————————–    Chinese evangelist, Brother Xi, was travelling one very cold Christmas Eve in the rugged province of Gansu. As he came to the next village he sensed something was wrong. He introduced himself as a bearer of good
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From: http://www.opendoorsusa.org    El Gasim, an African Muslim, saw the sign of the cross one day while praying the usual five times a day in the prison where he was incarcerated. He changed positions but the cross wouldn’t go away. This went on for seven days. He had no explanation for it, except that
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By Joshua Rogers (pictured above with his father), at wwwjoshuarogers.com, May 24, 2011. ——————-    My father, David, was younger than me when his first wife left him for another man (note: my father’s first wife was not my mother).  It was 1974, and the implosion of their marriage was messy, leaving him bitter
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Above painting:Â Talmud Readers, by Adolf Behrman (1876-1942) ———————– The Talmud and the Midrash are ancient writings that interpret and comment on the Hebrew Scriptures. Â In Jewish religious tradition they are second only to the Scriptures in authority. Â The following story is from Shemot Rabba, a midrash dating to the 11th and 12th centuries that
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By Lutheran pastor C. Jack Eichhrost  (Fall 1987 LBI newsletter)    Most of us have thought that believing too little might be a spiritual flaw, but believing too much can also be a problem.  How so?  Shouldn’t we have faith — and if a little faith is good, why not a lot more; in
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Painting above:Â Lovis Corinth, Franz Heinrich Corinth on his Sick Bed, 1888 ———————- By Lutheran pastor Al Rogness (1908-1992), Book of Comfort, Augsburg Publishing House, 1979, pages 32-35. Â Â Â I had usually thanked God for health and prayed that he might keep me from being ill. Â One evening in 1962, while speaking in a
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   (…continued)  In John 6:5 the situation is not as desperate.  The people are hungry, but they are not in the desert.  They could walk back to their homes for dinner.  But here too, a miracle is provided, and 5,000 people are fed with five small barley loaves and two fish.  However, Jesus was
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   I can recall only once that I have been without food.  Like everyone else I have fasted in preparation for tests at the doctor.  I have been ill and have not felt much like eating for a day or two.  And I have cut back on food when I would have liked to
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