There's a medium-sized river birch tree in our backyard with a lovely shape and exotic, silvery bark that gleams in the sun. This year, the bark is hard to miss because the tree is leafless, stone dead. This same time last year all the leaves turned yellow and fell off long before all the other [...]
I actually had my testimony heckled at an Assemblies of God church. At issue was the fact that my testimony goes something like this: I was a good kid who did everything his parents asked of him, and a straight-A student who was reading Irving Wallace by the time I was in fourth grade. Cub [...]
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Diane over at Crossroads has a fascinating look at the 1950 revival that swept through Wheaton College. It began with a series of confessions: A spare young faculty member rose to confess: ‘I’ve led a double life. I’ve lived a life of defeat…As you know, I was once a missionary in China. After the war [...]
Posted in Christianity in North America • Church Issues • Grace • Maturity • Revival • Spiritual Warfare
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