Tag: refugees
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for by strength shall no man prevail
Refugees have no strength Do you recognize the caution from 1 Samuel 2:9b? The attached summer rerun is repetitious as war and suffering. It noted Iraq. Since then Syria or any number of countries in Africa or Asia or South and Central America could have been our examples. Today we have finally ‘ended’ a 20…
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The Defeat of a Nation, Birth of a King
Note: This is the fourth message in my 2014 Advent series. Christmas, 1944, would be his last. His circumstances seemed dire, the cause lost and darkness descending on the faithful. A Christian pastor had stood boldly in witness for Christ against the powers of evil. When Visser’t Hooft, the General Secretary of The World Council of…
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Jesus, a Refugee
‘Can you explain the church?’ An unbeliever or a follower of another faith notices your joy for Christmas. Maybe you just wished them a ‘Merry Christmas’ and they sensed your sincere joy in the Lord. A flesh and blood friend, a friend with a soul, wants to know from you something about Christ’s corporate community, the church.…
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The Scandal of a Virgin
Everything seemed to be in chaos; no real leadership to speak of in households in my country or surrounding countries. Armies of men, young men and even boys terrorizing our lives, then running away. Soldiers, they call themselves; robbing homes, taking what they please and offering it back to helpless widows. The men flee and…
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Redeemer
How much, O Lord, must I suffer from the coldness of hardened hearts, the darkness of this world of sin, and the hatred of those I love? O Lord, our Redeemer, our days are short and our witness of Your Kingdom falls on deaf ears of unrepentant souls. Why does the one who…
