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John Piper quoting Jonathan Edwards on Preaching with Passion

Celebrating Milestones: Salvation For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 At the age of 26, Calvin Hunt lost a much-desired recording contract. Disappointed and angry, he began experimenting with drugs. Over the next few years,…

Do you think that He who is willing to die is unwilling to apply the results of His passion? A man leaps into the water to bring out a drowning child. After he has brought the child alive on shore, if he happens to have a piece of bread in his pocket and the child needs it, do you think that he who rescued…

The stupendous falls of Niagara have been spoken of in every part of the world. But while they are marvelous to hear of, and wonderful as a spectacle, they have been very destructive to human life when by accident any have been carried down the cataract. Some years ago, two men, a bargeman and a collier,…

THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…

After floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew filled her home, Jodi Gaddy prayed that someone would find her before the alligators swimming outside came into her home. Gaddy said there were helicopters overhead, but despite her attempts to contact them, no one noticed her signals. For three days, she lived…

the Bible is a story of God coming to rescue a broken world. Jesus is the highlight of that story

Michigan firefighter Brandon Mulvaney was one of several firefighters who received a late-night call about an animal trapped in a storm drain. When they arrived, they found a small kitten trapped below ground. Mulvaney climbed down a maintenance hole to reach the pipe with the trapped cat. He called…

Based on a recent decision by Illinois’ Governor Pritzker, which remarkably Mayor Lightfoot verbally opposed, indoor restaurant service is again being suspended in the city of Chicago as a way of attempting to combat the deteriorating Coronavirus statistics. Many of the restaurants which are still open,…

Jon Peters holds the high school record for consecutive wins as a pitcher. He set the record in 1989 with his 51st consecutive win. After arm injuries in college ended his dream of a Major League Baseball career, his life began a downward spiral of broken relationships, alcoholism, and depression. After…

An unnamed resident of Lake Worth Beach, Florida has an interesting 14-year-old pet parrot. His neighbors heard someone screeching from inside his house. “Let me out!” “Let me out!” the voice called. They did what any good citizen would do. They called 911. When four sheriff’s deputies arrived, they…

The tree selected to stand in New York’s Rockefeller Center for the 2020 Christmas season came with an unexpected guest. An employee of the company that secured and transported the tree spotted a little owl in the tree. He put it in a box and called his wife, who checked with a local wildlife center.…

German police retrieved a $340,000 painting that was accidentally left behind by a businessman flying to Israel. Authorities said the man notified them after arriving in Tel Aviv when he discovered the painting by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy had been left in Dusseldorf. The man was so distraught that…

During the cold Texas winter weather in 2021, volunteers came together to rescue thousands of sea turtles paralyzed by the cold. Many of those who came to help had no electricity or water in their own homes, but they came together to rescue the helpless turtles. Typically, turtles move to warmer water…

When police officer Jason Smith saw a kitten stranded on the barrier wall of the freeway, he immediately stopped to rescue the cat. Footage from his body camera shows Smith removing the cat from the wall and bringing it into his patrol car, where it quickly calmed down and stopped making distressed cries.…

A Hawaii woman said she dropped to the ground and started crying when she realized a rescue helicopter spotted her after she has been missing in the forest for two weeks. Amanda Eller said other rescue craft had failed to see her and her hope meter had started to decline. Eller had planned to take a…

Roberta Ursrey was paddling in the waters off Panama City Beach, Florida when she heard her sons screaming. Realizing they were caught in a riptide and being pulled out to sea she paddled out to help them, only to find her and other family members trapped as well. The people on the beach formed a 100-yard…

Game Warden Josey Branch from Oklahoma responded to a report of an elk with its antlers entangled in a cotton bale tarp, electric fence, and barbed wire fence. Since he could not get close to the animal, Branch used his rifle to shoot off the animal’s antlers above the bases and then shoot the wire and…

An unusual pair of glasses rescued from a landfill in New Zealand turned out to be more than 300 hundred years old and were worth more than the finders imagined. The Tip Shop is a store operated by the city council of Wellington and often auctions unusual items rescued from the trash. The glasses were…

Instead of hauling the food left over after Super Bowl LIV to a landfill, over 30,000 pounds of food was used to feed the hungry people in South Florida. NFL Green organizers partnered with food recovery charities like Food Rescue US to make sure the uneaten food from Hard Rock Stadium was given to local…

Sam Gifford and a friend were taking senior pictures along the Mississippi River near Minneapolis, when a nearby shout changed their focus. Authorities said an older man hunting for a lost drone had slipped on a trail and slid 60 feet down the embankment towards the river. Gifford asked his friend to…

An unidentified man was walking home in the early morning hours in Minneapolis. He was using the walking maps on Google maps when he misunderstood the directions for crossing the Stone Arch Bridge near Minneapolis’ downtown. He walked out on the frozen Mississippi river where he fell through ice into…

When three-year-old Lydia became afraid to go to daycare because she was being bullied, Batman came to her rescue. Lydia’s mother Erica became concerned because daughter kept coming home with from daycare with bruises on her face, and one day with a black eye that she would not talk about. Erica put…

Mateusz Fijalkowski, 23 decided it was time to end it all. He attempted to drown himself in a Virginia swimming pool. Police officers rescued him but Fialkowski is suing the officers, not for saving him, but for not saving him soon enough. He is grateful to police officers who rescued him after he tried…

Animal rescuers in Britain said a man who brought a stray puppy home from a construction site was surprised to discover that the animal was actually a fox cub. Authorities said the worker found the baby animal at a site and took it to his home. The worker said he initially thought he found an abandoned…