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Give, Pray...and Go?
Del Lankford really cared about missions. Whenever she had a chance to hear a missionary speak about work on a foreign field, she went to the meeting. Avidly she drank their stories in, nodding her head. "Some pray, some give, and some go," she thought. "Since I'm in my forties now, I'm in the praying and giving crowd and it makes me happy to be...
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RV Servants on Wheels Last year, residents of Wenden, Arizona got the shock of their...
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Every Tongue, and Tribe, and Nation High school sweethearts Carol and Richard McElroy always planned to spend...
When Ken and Eileen Priebe agreed to host a Canadian JESUS film team in Cameroon in 1989, little did they realize how that decision would affect their lives. Over the previous ten years, the Priebes had served as Baptist missionaries in Western Cameroon, preaching and teaching at a number of small churches. But when the JESUS film team came,...
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Verena Hoffman of Rose Bay, Nova Scotia keeps a lot of "stuff" in her car because she doesn't always know where the Holy Spirit will lead. And for the past fifteen years, the Spirit kept her pretty busy. Since her immigration to Canada from Switzerland in 1985 and retirement from teaching in 1992, Hoffman has been the caretaker of a ranch in northern...
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Everything hit Ruth Clevenger at once when she was 74. She lost both her husband and son in that year. Seven months after her son died, she suffered a stroke. After recovering from the stroke, she fell and hurt her hip. One day she tuned in to a local Christian television program where counselors took prayer requests over the telephone. Ruth...
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My cousin was a lieutenant colonel with the US Air Force and he retired when he was 52. He took a job teaching science in a junior high school. Most of us have to wait until we're 62 or 65 until we retire. What will we do then? Will we just sit and vegetate? Or might we look forward to something more exciting? Well, I'm over sixty now and I don't...
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1. That they be God-fearing and recognize they are accountable to Him. (Proverbs 9:10) 2. That they be granted, wisdom, knowledge and understanding. (James 1:5) 3. That they be presented with the gospel and loving Christian witness. (Romans 10:14) 4. That they, if unsaved, be drawn to a saving encounter with Christ; if born-again, that they...
1 Comment » Susan has not yet received the answer to her prayer. Yet she has received something even more precious than the thing she sought from God’s hand. Susan has experienced God. God promises a reward to those who earnestly seek Him. He says, “Anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him”(Hebrews...
No Comments » Yesterday I was talking with a young woman about worry. She said, “Sometimes you just can’t help it.” And we would tend to agree. Sometimes things seem big. Sometimes things are big! Yet God tells us to worry about nothing! It seems impossible to us. “Don’t worry about anything; instead pray about everything: tell God your needs and...
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