One Sunday I overheard a friend’s 5-year-old son talking with another little boy about the upcoming birth of my friend’s new baby.
The other boy asked, “What do you want, a brother or a sister?”
“Oh, I want a brother,” the 5-year-old replied.
A preachin’ woman of the ame church
During a time in America’s history when it was considered unseemly for a woman to speak in public and blacks were thought not to have souls, Jarena Lee stands as a spiritual and social pioneer. Lee was born to a free African-American family in Cape May, New Jersey, on Feb. 11, 1783. At age 7, she was sent to work for a family located about 60 miles from her birthplace.
While living with this family, Lee experienced a dramatic conversion at the age of 21. But after having received Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, she often battled with thoughts of suicide and doubted her salvation.
“Expose yourself to the circumstances of His choice.” This little phrase, which has stood by many a climbing soul, seems to have been coined for a picture I have of the Matterhorn surrounded by billowing clouds. In this picture, the confusion of the skies has been so wonderfully captured that I can almost see the
What does success look like? How do you measure success for your life? Are there different criteria for every person’s success? Who or what finally determines whether or not we have succeeded in life? Responses to these questions will be as varied as the people who answer them. Most people desire to be successful, and
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Financial reform, evangelism and improvements in voter representation are part of G.E. Patterson’s agenda
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When I first met my husband, Jim, neither of us had heard much about God. I believed in a sovereign God, but Jim did not.
One day when I was watching the Trinity Broadcasting Network, I realized I could have a friend, a confidant and most of all, a Savior. I started attending a wonderful Baptist church a mile from our home. At first I would ask Jim to go, but he refused, so I didn’t push it.
I was grateful to have God in my life, especially when I was facing surgery for cancer. I knew He could and would heal me.
How do we keep our relationships intact when our individual needs collide? One of the greatest weaknesses within the body of Christ is our paranoia when it comes to handling conflict. Regardless of how many scripture verses we learn about addressing it, we still treat it like the plague. Why don’t we deal with discord
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To a woman, whether single or married, what matters most is knowing her worth in the eyes of God. What do you think of yourself? How would you describe yourself to someone if you were being objective? Would you want to get to know you if you met yourself walking down the street? Well, it’s
We have the ability either to bless or to curse. Your words are powerful! They can carry the creative power of God or the destructive power of the devil. They can encourage or discourage, heal or hurt, build up or tear down. Depending on whether you speak a blessing or a curse over your family,
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The Kurds are the fourth-largest people-group in the Middle East, yet they have no land of their own. But God hasn’t forgotten these persecuted descendants of the ancient Magi of Bible times. It is a story of the Christmas manger and of age-old mystics, a story voiced across the world in nursery rhymes and high-church
Amid the conservative atmosphere of Zurich’s financial world, a new charismatic church is engaging its culture with an unconventional yet relevant display of the gospel.
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