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PRESENCE Pastor Walter Hoye went to jail in April 2009 for standing too close to an Oakland, California abortion clinic during a protest. The prosecutor gave Hoye the choice of accepting a stay-away order or two years in jail. Hoye refused the offer and the judge sentenced him to 30 days in jail. Hoye…

PRESENCE In his book, The Boomerang Mandate: Returning the Ministry to the People of God, Jim Wilson tells an embarrassing story about a time he fell asleep on the job. “Recently, I spoke with the chairman of the deacons from a church I served six or seven years ago. During the conversation he asked…

The Lord is There One of the names of the Lord our God, Which speaks of His love and His care, Is called in the Hebrew — “Jehovah-Shammah” And it means that “The Lord is there.” In your hours of sorrow and your times of grief, When your soul seems so filled with despair, Reflect on the words of “Jehovah-Shammah”…

The temple of Jerusalem, which had replaced the previous sanctuary which the Israelites carried around in the wilderness, was the place selected by God during the Old Covenant to express his presence to the people in a special way. But this was only an imperfect anticipation or prefiguring of the full…

Waiting in stillness, we hear the absence of sound become the presence of the voice of God. -- David Rensberger

AMERICAN MINUTE There she blows!" was the cry as the lookout sighted Moby Dick. Captain Ahab, with his chief mate Starbuck, sailed the oceans of the world to capture this great white whale. But as fate would have it, when the harpoon struck, the rope flew out so fast it entangled Captain Ahab, pulling…

This is well-nigh the greatest of discoveries a man can make, that God is not confined in churches, but that the streets are sacred because His presence is there, that the market-place is one of His abiding places, and ought, therefore, to be a sanctuary. Any moment in any place, the veil can suddenly…