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Committing To The Lord
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-084 (Devotional) COMMITTING TO THE LORD “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” – Proverbs 16:3 Adoniram Judson was born on the August 9, 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University in 1809 and became a Christian shortly afterward. In February 1813, he set sail […]
Story From A Friend
Management is a fantastic idea. When you have a memory. When people are compliant. When people respect each others’ boundaries. When computers work. Which is why stress is on the increase in managers. Today I went to the city for a meeting. I finished and used the last $4.70 change to buy sushi and the […]
Jesus Help Me – The Faith Of Todd Beamer
“I don’t think we’re going to get out of this thing. I’m going to have to go out on faith.” It was the voice of Todd Beamer, the passenger-and Wheaton College graduate-who said “Let’s roll” as he led the charge against the terrorists who had hijacked United Flight 93, the one, you will remember, that […]
Forgiveness
I am reminded of something I heard Charles Kraft of Fuller say about the necessity of forgiveness: “You have the RIGHT to hold on to unforgiveness. It will KILL you, but you have the right!”
Prayer And Blessing From Others
(Author Unknown) A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out […]
Rejoice In The Lord!
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-105 (Devotional) REJOICE IN THE LORD! “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” – Philippians 4:4 Adam Clarke was born in 1760 in Northern Ireland. He was the son of a Church of Ireland minister and came to Christ through a Methodist preacher in 1778. He began preaching […]
Answered Prayer
A young man had been to Wed. night Bible Study. The pastor had shared about listening to God and obeying the Lord’s voice. The young man couldn’t help but wonder, “Does God still speak to people?” After service, he went out with some friends for coffee and pie and they discussed the message. Several different […]
Acorn Planter
by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R., The Sower’s Seeds In the 1930s a young traveler was exploring the French Alps. He came upon a vast strech of barren land. It was desolate. It was forbidding. It was ugly. It was the kind of place you hurry away from. Then, suddenly, the young traveler stopped dead in his […]
One Solitary Life
Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village, where he worked in a carpenter’s shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He […]
The Engineer And The Guillotine
They’re leading a preacher, a drunkard and an engineer to the guillotine. They ask the preacher if he wants to face up or down when he meets his fate. The preacher said that he would like to face up so he would be looking toward Heaven when he died. They raised the blade of the […]
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