By best-selling author Lee Strobel (1952- ) ———————- Billy Graham (1918- ) The year was 1949. Thirty-year-old Billy Graham was unaware that he was on the brink of being catapulted into worldwide fame and influence. Ironically, as he readied himself for his breakthrough crusade in Los Angeles, he found himself grappling with uncertainty […]
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By Gene McGuire, Christianity Today, June 2017, pages 79-80. Gene McGuire is the author of Unshackled: From Ruin to Redemption (Emerge Publishing). He lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, where he serves as pastor for a Christian family-owned restaurant company, Babe’s Chicken Dinner House. His website is: http://www.genemcguire.org ————————- It happened in a blur. One
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Elizabeth was a 92-year-old, petite, well-poised, and proud lady. She and her husband managed to live all seventy years of their married life in their own home, though in the last several years they had to depend much on each other. When Elizabeth’s husband died, she knew she would have to move into
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The strongest argument for the Gospel of Christ is the personal testimony of someone whose life has been changed by it. The changed lives of Christians does not prove the historical truth of Christianity, but it is an important piece of supportive evidence; and, it is consistent with the Biblical promises and descriptions
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ILYAS, a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) (…continued) ‘May I speak to him?’ asked the guest. ‘I should like to ask him about his life.’ ‘Why not?’ replied the master, and he called from the kibítka in which they were sitting: ‘Grandfather, come in and have a cup of
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ILYAS, a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) There once lived in Oufá a man named Ilyás. His father, who died a year after he had found his son a wife, did not leave him much property. Ilyás then had only seven mares, two cows, and about a score of sheep. He was a
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Adapted from 100 Bible Verses That Changed the World, By William and Randy Peterson, pages 73-4, Revel publishing, 2001. —————————— At age 22 William Penn had everything. He was the son of a respected British admiral, had gone to Oxford, had traveled throughout Europe, and was an expert marksman. He was also handsome,
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We hear much about Christians, who did nothing while the Holocaust was going on all around them. But not all Christians were passive in the face of this great evil. Rod Gragg’s My Brother’s Keeper: Christians Who Risked All to Protect Jewish Targets of the Nazi Holocaust (2016) details the extraordinary courage of 30 ordinary
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Have you checked your cell phone lately? Do you have a computer in your home? Do you ever look up anything on the internet, watch television, or listen to the radio? If so, you can thank Samuel Morse (1791-1872), the “Father of American Telecommunications,” a Christian man who wanted to make sure God
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Bombardment of Fort McHenry, September 13-14, 1814; painting by Peter Rindlisbacher —————————- Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) is best known for writing the lyrics to “The Star Spangled Banner,” our national anthem. What is not so well know is that embedded within the lyrics of that great song was one phrase that also would have
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