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Traveling with her son gave Kendra Robins an idea to minster to homeless children around the country. Robins noticed that her son slept better away from home when he had a familiar item to snuggle with. She realized children spending an evening in a homeless shelter might be afraid to sleep because they…

When Tene Tucker returned from her vacation there was a pile of mail waiting for her. Most of it was the usual collection of bills and junk mail, but one letter caught her attention. The letter was addressed to her home, but it was marked “Return to Sender” and postmarked in 1967. Instead, Tucker found…

On November 7, 2018 around 11:20pm, Ian David Long entered Borderline Bar & Grill, a popular local country bar in Thousand Oaks, California. Armed with smoke bombs and a handgun, he killed 12 people, and then later killed himself. Ian suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Thousand Oaks, California…

A California company is offering clients interested in space travel, the opportunity to rest in peace on the moon. For a fee of $12,000, Elysium Space will privately transport a person’s cremated remains to the moon. They are currently taking orders, and the first batch of ashes will travel to the moon…

Firefighters in Bayton, Texas responded to a 911 call for a man who suffered a heart attack while mowing his lawn. After taking the man to the hospital, several members of the Department’s crew returned to the home to finish mowing the yard. Afterward, they put the mower away and locked the garage too.…

One of the blessings of being a Christian with a church fellowship is the community one can find in times of heartache. The New Testament commands Christians to mourn with those who mourn as well as rejoice with others who rejoice. For centuries men and women within church fellowships have been surrounded…

GRATITUDE Japan announced recently that it would deliver blankets to victims of tornadoes that struck the southern United States. Though devastated by an earthquake, tsunami, and ensuing nuclear concerns, the Asian nation offered 10 million yen, ($125, 000) worth of blankets and plastic sheets for people…

Sometimes comfort needs to be more than words. “The New York Times reports that touch is its own complicated, highly accurate, highly effective signaling system.” They interpret that to mean that high fives and sympathetic touches can say more than words. --Reader’s Digest, May 2010, p24 Illustration…

Federal and local authorities responded to the need when excessive amounts of lead were discovered in the drinking water in Flint Michigan. They were a joined by Baptists from the area. Most residents were only able to one case of water per day, but many families need more due to cooking and drinking.…

– His father’s faith is evident in a consoling letter he wrote to his other son, soon after the composer’s untimely death. In it, the father exhorts him to “seek comfort in God, and to bear any affliction that may fall on us according to God’s wise dispensation with resolute submission to His holy will.…

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.…

ENCOURAGEMENT Achievers like Pat Summitt, the Lady Volunteer's Basketball Coach, demand the best from themselves and others. You might think that her high standards and demanding ways are the reason her teams have won three national titles over the past four years, but you'd only be partially right.…

COMFORT Gerald Rodgers pastors a church in Fredericksburg, Virginia three days a week. The rest of week he oversees a group of chaplains serving in a corporate environment. Rodgers is part of growing group of chaplains who contract out to companies seeking to add a religious component to their employee…

The gospels record 60 encounters Jesus had with various groups or individuals. Eight were with people of high reputation. (In four of these He was rebuking them for their sin.) Twelve encounters were with average people and 40 were with the hurting, downcast “losers” of His day. They were lepers, sick,…

After our seminary days, Joyce and I were called back to Florida to a fine little church in Fort Pierce. By this time we had three children – Stephen, Gayle and Phillip. Phillip was only two months old when we got settled in the new parsonage, nestled right next door to the little white cement-block…

Burdens - 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 Going down some old cement steps, I noticed an ant carrying a leaf on its back. The leaf was many times bigger than the ant. Then the ant came to a big crack in the cement that it couldn’t cross. The ant stopped a moment. I wondered if the ant would turn back or proceed…

Living above the Line A Celebration of our Union with Christ Rev Greg Byrd Faith Temple Baptist Church Poetry Texas Living Above the Line Introduction Introduction Colossians 1:27 says Christ in you, the hope of Glory. In fact Christ in us is our only hope of eternal Glory, The union of the believer…

Union with Christ What does it mean to be “in Christ” or “united with Christ”? EXPLANATION AND SCRIPTURAL BASIS1 The subject is so frequently mentioned in Scripture and so wide-ranging in its application to our lives that it deserves treatment here. That is the concept of union with Christ. As we shall…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…