Dr. Muriel Larson
Age is No Reason to Quit!
Some ladies in their eighties like to keep their age a secret. Sprightly Bernice Cresswell of Greenville, SC was one who didn't. In fact, every Mother's Day in recent years she went forward at her church, Oak Crest Baptist, to receive the orchid for oldest mother in the church. Bernice was also one of those stalwart Christians who hasn't thrown...
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Salvation and Service in Your Seventies Everything hit Ruth Clevenger at once when she was 74. She...
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During the first week after his commitment to Christ, the public defender of the county in which I live received thrilling proof of the power of God to help him live differently. "Pete" Partee clashed with a judge. Instead of responding in anger, as he normally would have done, he sent up a quick prayer to the Lord. "The Lord gave me the power...
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How close I came to making a total wreck of my life I'll probably never know. When I went to work for the U.S. Government, I met Al Larson at the USO. Within six months we were married and on our way to a naval base in California. I was 18. Although I had been raised to be "religious," my husband had no such training. He was a good man, but he...
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My husband was gone--and now I would have to determine how I would support myself and my five-year-old younger daughter. I was offered a full-time job in the downtown office where I had done some part-time work. "Oh, Lord," I prayed, "what should I do? I hate the thought of putting Lori in the care of others all summer and after school. She's such...
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Samuel looked woefully at his departing relatives. Then he began wailing loudly. He knew they were leaving him with these strange people. Samuel's parents had been killed by a bomb that had hit their house in Beirut, and his relatives couldn't afford to take care of him. So Samuel joined the 40 other Arab boys who lived at this boys home in Lebanon...
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I believed in Jesus for as long as I could remember, and I was always a very religious girl. Then when I was 18, I married a sailor and we drove 3,000 miles to the base to which he had been transferred. After a while I fell away from church and started drinking and gambling with the new friends my husband and I made. Oh, I was very with it! But...
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Bible Reading: Acts 16:22-26 Rejoice in the Lord always (Philippians 4:4) While a prisoner in Rome, Paul wrote the Philippians a letter that sounds like a shout of victory. Its theme is joy and rejoicing in the Lord. Paul knew the secret of victory over anxiety and depression. After telling the Philippians to rejoice in the Lord always, he advised...
1 Comment » Story told by Helen Armstrong, written by Muriel Larson I grew up in a church, which believes in the Fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the leadership of Jesus Christ, and salvation by character. So I never heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. To me He was just a man--not God. The first time I ever heard about the Holy Spirit was just...
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