From Tramp for the Lord, © 1974, by Corrie ten Boom and Jamie Buckingham, p. 50-53 After the war, Germany was filled with wounds and scars– not all of them on the surface. In one tiny cubicle in the camp at Darmstadt, I found a German lawyer. He was sitting miserably in a […]
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A touching image of Pope Francis tenderly embracing a severely disfigured man in St Peter’s Square has gone viral. Pope Francis kissed and blessed the man, whose face was covered in boils, after his general address at the Vatican on Wednesday. The pope laid his hands on the head of the
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By Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1939), Letters and Papers from Prison, pages 346-7, edited by Eberhard Bethge, copyright 1953, SCM Press, Ltd. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young theologian of great promise. He became active in the Confessing Church movement in Germany which took a stand against the Nazi government in the 1930’s. His activities made him
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From The Early Christians: In Their Own Words, (Ch. 2; #13); Selected and Edited by Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935); Copyright 2003 by The Bruderhof Foundation, Inc. Used with permission. View this book and many others from Plough Publishing at: http://www.plough.com/ Polycarp (69 – 155), was an early church leader known as a kindly pastor and a defender of
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“Down Syndrome and Our Humanity” by John Stonestreet ( http://www.breakpoint.org ) Sept. 24, 2013 A few Friday nights ago, I was in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Having missed dinner, I pulled up to a juice place to get a last minute smoothie. In the very same strip mall I saw the sign for a restaurant called
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By Tony Campolo (1935-2024), Let Me Tell You a Story, pages 46-48, © 2000 I head up an organization that has created a missionary enterprise in Haiti. Presently, through the efforts of those who have taken over this ministry, a network of some eighty-five schools has been established that serves children who have
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From Wisdom of the Sadhu: Teachings of Sundar Singh, (1889-1929), compiled and edited by Kim Comer. (Reprinted from http://www.bruderhof.com. Copyright 2003 by The Bruderhof Foundation, Inc. Used with permission.) For this and many other books on-line from The Bruderhof, see <www.plough.com> “A Warning to the West” Christian: Haven’t you visited America and western Europe? What
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From At the Master’s Feet, 1922, by Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) (see Meditation #143) The great gift of service is that it also helps the one who serves. Once when traveling in Tibet, I was crossing a high mountain pass with my Tibetan guide. The weather had suddenly turned bitterly cold, and my
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From At the Master’s Feet, Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1929) (See Meditation #143) Once, as I traveled through the Himalayas, there was a great forest fire. Everyone was frantically trying to fight the fire, but I noticed a group of men standing and looking up into a tree that was about to go up in
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Sundar Singh (1889-1929) was raised a member of the Sikh religion. Prior to his conversion, he attended a primary school run by the American Presbyterian Mission where the New Testament was read daily as a ‘textbook.’ He said, “I refused to read the Bible at the daily lessons… To some extent the
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