“Do you want to change the world? Sponsor a child.” That was the headline of a Christianity Today article several years ago about Compassion International’s child sponsorship program. When I read that story I was encouraged, and, a bit relieved. Our family sponsored a child, and I had often recommended child sponsorship […]
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(…continued) I treasure the memory of those ‘coincidental’ meetings. And I look forward to many more meetings like that in heaven, when we will have a whole eternity to meet people from all over the world, and all across time. Just imagine the possible conversations: “Oh, you packed food for Feed My Starving Children?
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I Timothy 6:7 — For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certain, we can carry nothing out. —————– Two old friends were visiting. Tony said to Stan, “Why don’t you retire, Stan? You know your wife wants to do some traveling, you never have time for your grandchildren’s ballgames, and I
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Acts 15:1-4: Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up
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Image above: A witch doctor. —————– My friend Mark was a missionary for several years in the western African nation of Guinea-Bissau. He and his wife Cindy had an exciting ministry there. He tells the story of a woman named Maladu in one of the remote villages that he and his wife visited. Maladu
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(…continued) Salee learned that Christians feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and we do so because our Lord Jesus has commanded it. Sam Kinison wondered why the photographer didn’t just give the child a sandwich. That is what Christians are always doing, all over the world, through international relief organizations and in
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(…continued) I once knew a Cambodian refugee named Salee. Salee was a young man when the communist dictator Pol Pot came to power in Cambodia in 1975. Pol Pot was a ruthless tyrant, and over the next four years, two million Cambodians were dead as the result of his rule, many of them murdered
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Steve Jobs was truly one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever known. He has been called the Henry Ford of our time. Not only was he a brilliant inventor and innovator, he was also an incredible businessman, marketer, and leader. Along with a couple friends, he started the Apple Computer Company
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The goal of The Timothy Initiative is to plant a Christian church in every village in the world. I like their vision, their plan, their staff, their resources, and their results. In his Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20), Jesus sends his followers out into all the world to proclaim the gospel and “make disciples of
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Willie was a stuttering plodder. The only job he could get was as a shoemaker’s apprentice. The only girl who would marry him was Dorothy, who suffered from mental illness. But everything changed for Willie when he read a runaway bestseller. Most who read Captain Cook’s journal were captivated by the exploits of a
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