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When a renowned warrior writes home after great victories, his dispatches are short and to the point; the brilliance of the news is sufficient without the light of sparkling sentences. His words are few; he has so much to tell that he does not waste a letter. His achievements are so great that they do…

Remember that pretty parable, given by one of our ministers, of the boy’s kite. He made it fly aloft; it rose up so high that he could no longer see it. Still he said he had a kite, and he held fast by it. “Boy, how do you know you have a kite?” “I can feel it pull,” said he. Today we feel our Jesus…

I remember reading, in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, the story of a man of God who was bound to a stake to die for Christ. There he was, calm and quiet, till his legs had been burned away, and the bystanders looked to see his helpless body drop from the chains. He was black as coal, and not a feature could…

On April 4, 2020 Luciana Lira, a Connecticut school teacher spoke to Zully, a mother of one of her school children and learned that she had two medical issues. She was pregnant and about to give birth, and she had just tested positive for COVID-19. After hanging up the phone with Zully, she immediately…

Nikolai Velimirovic was a Serbian bishop who bravely spoke out against Nazism in the early 1940's during the reign of Hitler. He suffered for his stand and for his faith in the Dachau prison camp. Someone found this prayer that he had written out. It read: Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them…

German pastor Martin Rinkart served in the walled town of Eilenburg during the horrors of the Thirty Years War of 1618-1648. Eilenburg became an overcrowded refuge for the surrounding area. The fugitives suffered from epidemic and famine. At the beginning of 1637, the year of the Great Pestilence, there…

Pastor and writer, John Ortberg writes of what he said was one of the most important moments in his spiritual life. He sat down with a longtime Christian friend and told him, “I don’t want to have any secrets anymore.” He says, I told him everything I was most ashamed of. I told him about my jealousies,…

Culling the Army of God Purpose: To equip saints to be effective soldiers in the Lord's Army. Judges 7:2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved…

Gary Enrig quotes Tom Anderson in this true story. Tom writes, “I made a vow to myself on the drive down to the vacation beach cottage: For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father, totally loving…no ifs, ands, or buts. The idea had come to me as I listened to a commentator on my car’s…

Rick Pitino, basketball coach for the University of Louisville Cardinals has admitted to an affair in 2003. When the woman attempted to extort the well known coach, he admitted to the affair instead of caving into her demands. In addition the woman claims that Pitino paid for her to have an abortion.…

Love your enemies... Many people recognize the court case Roe v. Wade which took place in 1973, legalizing abortion in America. Jane Roe, actually named Norma McCorvey, fought for a woman’s right to choose whether she wanted to continue her pregnancy or abort her baby. Earlier that year Flip Benham,…

Compassion is about the moment! It is about using what I have at hand—money, talent, encouragement, or a shoulder to cry on—to meet another person’s need. Compassion is about tears from heaven Science tells us there are three kinds of tears. (1) Basal tears flow continually into our eyes to lubricate…

Anonymous Quote "If you are PREPARING today, chances are, you will not be REPAIRING tomorrow..."

Storms, Purpose of Trials, Suffering “The vine clings to the oak during the fiercest of storms. Although the violence of nature may uproot the oak, twining tendrils still cling to it. If the vine is on the side opposite the wind, the great oak is its protection; if it is on the exposed side, the tempest…

Joe Stowell writes It was six o'clock in the morning, and I had just finished my early run. As I passed the local Starbucks, I decided to stop in and get a couple cups of our favorite lattes and take them home to [my wife], who would be waking up. Since the café had just opened, there was only one other…

John MacArthur Basisinformationen zur Bibel Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung Postfach 11 01 35 • 33661 Bielefeld Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind die Bibelzitate der Schlachter 2000 entnommen. Abkürzungen weiterer Bibelausgaben: Elb.: Elberfelder Bibel, unrevidierte Fassung Lu 12: Lutherbibel von 1912…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…

etc. "... he did not speak to them without a parable" Jesus Mark 4:34 R.S.V. a monthly resource letter for pastors/teachers/speakers Volume 7, Number 12 February / 1988 THE" BIBLE ON YOUR COMPUTER I have found a truly helpful piece of software called Word Search. It puts the entire Bible (NIV) on my…