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The Medicine Of Laughter: Spurgeon’s Humor
by Larry J. Michael, PhD. Some years ago there was a documented case in the British Medical Journal about a man who laughed himself well. He actually had a terminal illness, and through the employment of laughter therapy, he allowed his body to successfully fight the disease. While we may smilingly acknowledge the merit of […]
In God’s Wonderful Image: Paul Brand
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-149 (Missions) BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #030811 IN GOD’S WONDERFUL IMAGE – Remembering Dr. Paul Brand When Dr. Paul Brand met his first leprosy patients, he was told, “Nothing can be done with hands-or feet-like this. It’s just leprosy.” Translation: Deformed limbs are part of the disease; we can’t fight it. […]
Stewart Dinnen
Evan Davies International Director WEC International TRIBUTE FOR STEWART DINNEN To describe Stewart Dinnen is almost impossible. Man of faith, prayer, passion and vision would be only part of the story. He was a preacher, pastor, teacher, writer, missionary statesman and great leader of God’s work. Mission was his passion and his life was lived […]
The Accompaniment ( F W Boreham)
Ill THE ACCOMPANIMENT IT happened that the tram in which I was coming home last night passed the Town Hall just as the concert closed. The audience was streaming into the street, and the car quickly filled. Two young ladies, whose handsome furs only partly concealed their charming evening frocks, took seats immediately opposite me. […]
Scarlet And Gold (F W Boreham)
II SCARLET AND GOLD THERE broke upon me this morning an apocalyptic vision-a vision of scarlet and gold! The scarlet was just a pillar-box, resplendent in all the bravery of a new coat of paint and varnish. The gold was a canary, trembling with the wild excitement of his escape from his accustomed cage! The […]
Phoebe’s Perplexity (F W Boreham)
VI PHOEBE’S PERPLEXITY I ‘PHOEBE DRYDEN wants you in the study, father! She seems dreadfully upset about something or other.’ To the study I accordingly hastened: and, as I had been given to expect, found poor Phoebe very agitated and perturbed. Dressed in a becoming brown costume, she sat in the big study arm-chair, her […]
On Swallowing Faggots Crosswise (F W Boreham)
VII ON SWALLOWING FAGGOTS CROSSWISE ‘You will have to learn to swallow faggots cross-wise!’ said the veteran to the raw recruit. The raw recruit, as it happens, was Charles Haddon Spurgeon; the veteran was an old Cambridgeshire minister to whom he had confided his intention of entering the ministry. The words clung to Mr. Spurgeon […]
A Tangled Skein (F W Boreham)
IV A TANGLED SKEIN MY fingers have often itched to set down the story of Mary Creighton, just as she told it to me that day under the apple-tree, but, until now, my pen has been chained. A newspaper that came last week, however, contains announcements which have effectually brushed away the scruples that I […]
Alan Walker: A Many-Faceted Man Of God
WORLDWIDE PHOTOS Ltd The Religious Media Agency NEWS RELEASE THANKSGIVING FOR A MANY FACETED MAN OF GOD On Tuesday, February 11, a Thanksgiving Service for the Rev. Dr Sir Alan Walker Kt.O.B.E., M.A., D.D. revealed many aspects in the life of this man of God, not known to many who attended. Held in Wesley Mission, […]
Dylan: Tangled Up In Jews
Copyright Larry Yudelson, 1991 First published in the Washington Jewish Week Greenwich Village, 1961: Bob Dylan takes the stage at Gerde’s Folk City. The 20-year-old Dylan hasn’t yet written the soundtrack to the sixties, been anointed prophet of his generation, converted to Christianity or dabbled with Lubavitch Hasidism. But already he’s going after an establishment–a […]
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