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Sometimes we can be afraid of following Christ in the way we know is right. God has made us, the church, as his outpost in a dangerous world. If we fail to encounter our world, seeking only our safety, we miss the high mark set for us. At Penn State University there is an Outing Club. Students who join…

The Camp Fire reduced Paradise, CA to ashes. Jeff McClenahan, a 53-year-old college professor, returned to his home in Paradise and “found it destroyed, burned to the foundation.” As he stared in disbelief, he dropped to his knees and sobbed, “Its stuff. But it’s a lot of history. Everything, our whole…

“If I hear thunder fairly close by, I am off the water” states Ronnie Garrison, even though he is a competitive fisherman who fishes in all seasons and in all kinds of weather. He has fished when the water was fifteen degrees, dipping his rod to keep ice from forming each time he casts—fishing when it…

18-year-old Anthony Johnson had worried a little about Harold Camping’s prediction that the world would end on May 21, 2011. When midnight arrived, Johnson celebrated with friends by jumping into the Kalamazoo River. He never came out of the river. The world ended for Anthony early on May 22. http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/05/kalamazoo_river_drowning_victi.html…

It was this calling that Dietrich Bonhoeffer heard. In his book, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer wrote, “When God calls a man, He bids him (to) come and die.” Bonhoeffer knew whereof he spoke. He was a rising academic, a promising theologian and a german pastor. His promising academic and ecclesiastical…

IN ERNEST GORDON'S TRUE ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN A WORLD WAR II JAPANESE PRISON CAMP, THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE KWAI, THERE IS A STORY THAT NEVER FAILS TO MOVE ME. IT IS ABOUT A MAN WHO THROUGH GIVING IT ALL AWAY LITERALLY TRANSFORMED A WHOLE CAMP OF SOLDIERS. THE MAN'S NAME WAS ANGUS MCGILLIVRAY. ANGUS WAS…

The first time the town of Tubingen, Germany, expelled all of its Jewish residents was in 1477. It wasn’t the last. It became a place where anti-Jewish doctrines thrived, especially during World War II. Today, however, the Jerusalem Post reports that not only has a tiny Jewish community returned to the…

McCauley Caulkin captured our hearts with his portrayal of Kevin in the Home Alone series. You remember the movie. When he first realizes he’s been left behind he dances around the house until something frightens him then he runs and hides under the bed. But, finally, as he gets more accustomed to being…

SERVICE More than 50 years after his death, the Army has endorsed awarding the Medal of Honor to a Kansas priest who humbly served his fellow prisoners in a Chinese prison camp during the Korean War. When they returned home after the war, members of the eighth Calvary Regiment spoke of the many ways…

Peter Malkin participated in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the famous Nazi who helped to carry out Hitler’s outrage against the Jews in WW 2. Eichmann escaped to Argentina, but was tracked down by Israeli operatives and brought to justice. It was Peter Malikin whose own father had died in the death…

Valor Robert Preston Taylor had reason to pray. During World War II, he served as a chaplain in battle, participated in the Bataan Death March and spent more than three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, they also dropped bombs on Manila, where…

[COME, LET US] Worship the Lord with the beauty of holy lives…(Ps 96:9, TLB) Opening Hymn: #1 Praise to the Lord Closing Hymn: #532 Day by Day Scripture Reading: Proverbs 3:5,6 Lord, you want me to do what? His name is Mr. Wong, in his day he was known to friend and foe as Glorious Country Wong. His…

Jim Elliot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Jim Elliot Born: October 8, 1927 Portland, Oregon Died: January 8, 1956 Ecuador Occupation: Missionary Spouse: Elisabeth Elliot For others named Jim Elliot, see Jim Elliot (disambiguation) Philip James Elliot (October 8, 1927…

In "The Christian Leader," Don Ratzlaff retells a story Vernon Grounds came across in Ernest Gordon's Miracle on the River Kwai. The Scottish soldiers, forced by their Japanese captors to labor on a jungle railroad, had degenerated to barbarous behavior, but one afternoon something happened. A shovel…

Simon Wiesenthal lost 89 relatives in Hitler’s death camps. One day he was yanked out of a work detail and taken up a back stairway to a dark hospital room. A nurse led him into the room, then left him alone with a figure wrapped in white, lying on a bed. The figure was a badly wounded German soldier,…

HARDSHIP/PERSEVERANCE I don't think it was the worst thing that could happen at a concert, but it wasn't good. On November 18, 1995, a string on Itzhak Perlman's violin snapped as he played at Avery Fisher Hall, at the Lincoln Center in New York. Really, the word snapped doesn't convey what happened…

SUFFERING In his book, Seasons under the Son, Tim Wesemann wrote, "The Bible tells us that he [the leper] came back praising Jesus and thanking Him. It doesn't say exactly what the man said to Him, although it seems obvious that he would have given thanks for healing. But let's take it a step further.…

You are probably aware that Corrie ten Boom, along with her sister and father, were sent to Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp, for hiding Jews. Her sister and father died there, but Corrie was released, due to a “clerical error.” And the Kingdom of God is better off for it. Corrie ten Boom likened…

British Man Trampled to Death by Elephant While on Honeymoon in Kenya Monday, October 02, 2006 NAIROBI, Kenya — An elephant has trampled and killed a British tourist on his honeymoon in Kenya, officials said Monday. The man, who was not immediately identified, was killed in front of his wife in the Masai…

Kingdoms & Choosing. We all have to take our turn. No one can stand in for us when it comes to life. God has given us a tiny measure of what he has without limit. The ability to choose. God said let us make man in our image and let them have dominion. Dominion is a kingdom word. What is a 2 year old…

by Charles Colson | Having accepted the possibility of death, Boris Kornfeld was now free to live. | | ■ | o reporters have visited the prison camps of So­viet Russia, unless they have gone as prisoners. So to this day we have little information about the millions who have lived, suffered, and died there,…

British Man Trampled to Death by Elephant While on Honeymoon in Kenya Monday, October 02, 2006 NAIROBI, Kenya — An elephant has trampled and killed a British tourist on his honeymoon in Kenya, officials said Monday. The man, who was not immediately identified, was killed in front of his wife in the Masai…

Laboratories Of the SOUL Testing God's new creation in two Japanese prison camps O n an airplane high above Col­orado, I finished reading Lang-don Gilkey's Shantung Com­pound, an account of the selfish absurdities of some 1,400 merchants, missionaries, engineers, and their fam­ilies, interned in a Japanese…

You are probably aware that Corrie ten Boom, along with her sister and father, were sent to Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp, for hiding Jews. Her sister and father died there, but Corrie was released, due to a “clerical error.” And the Kingdom of God is better off for it. Corrie ten Boom likened…

PROVIDENCE Cooling down after practice, Daniel had taken one last dive and his neck struck the bottom of the concrete pool. Daniel sustained damage to C-3, C-4, and C-5 vertebrae of his spine. Two fusion operations followed and the surgeon was successful in preventing paralysis, but Daniel's parents…