Stranger and Pilgrim – Part One

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  Imagine a marathon where every spectator is a former marathon award-winner. The cheers to the contestants below are full not only of empathy, but chants of courage, shouts of cheer, lingo of fellowship. Hebrews 12 paints such a scene when describing the heavenly stands of those who have earned their eternal reward. Wherefore seeing
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The Pilgrims and The Nobility of Failure

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  Does fear of failure grip your heart? We’ve all experienced it. The chill seep of inner panic, the heightened pulse, the tightened knot on the lungs as the question draws all hope from within. The fatal four-word question: what if I fail? This question is not unique to our generation. But historically speaking, we
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Seeking Our Lambs

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  When Christ came to earth, one mission was especially close to His heart. The mission’s rhythm beats steadily throughout all the gospels, but one line in Luke is like a closing cadence to Messiah’s song: “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” Luke 19:10 So,
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Stepping Stones from New Plymouth

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  It is ingrained in the heart of man to live for something bigger than himself; and to die for something that will outlive him. It is what lifts him from a mere animal, hedonistic existence to what God intended for him. “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose
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The Pilgrims’ Why

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  Sea waves lapped cold against the rocky, English shoreline. The child slipped her palm into her father’s large, roughened one and followed his gaze across the billows. Unseen to her eyes lay a land, a wilderness, across the great Atlantic, different and stranger than anything she had previously known. Yet in that land was
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The Influence of Hannah Thornton Wilberforce – Part Two

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  Billy was hastily brought home, much to the dismay of nephew and aunt. When Grandfather Wilberforce caught wind of the threat, his consternation was so great, he threatened, “If Billy goes Methodist, he will see no sixpence of mine.” Aunt Hannah begged her sister-in-law to change her mind, no doubt sensing (and correctly so)
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The Influence of Hannah Thornton Wilberforce – Part One

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  In the Western Ghats of India, a rare phenomenon transforms these mountains into a treasure trove of beauty. The kurinji flowers, with their petite blue bells, cascade down the heights into the plains below like a royal waterfall of every hue of purple-blue. Their beauty, however, is not what makes them famous, as much
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Pontius Pilate and George Washington

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  For millennia, the Bible was read and taught by Christians as a historical book. Before then, the Jews held the Torah as not only sacred, but their own historical narrative, questioning the historical record and figures of Adam, Noah, Job and Abraham no more than Americans question our history of John Adams, Nathaniel Green,
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