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But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to ...

As a kid I really enjoyed school. My favorite part of the day was recess, of course. I attended Park Avenue Christian school, and every afternoon at one thirty our ...

When Jesus Works a RoomWhen Jesus was physically here on earth, what would it have been like to be Mary or Martha or Lazarus or one of the disciples? What ...

Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. — James 5:13The Act of PrayerPrayer helps me. When I pray, something freaked-out and dazed inside me finds a place to ...

Parents with older children had warned me about this project, the crowning glory of seventh grade, but I still wasn’t prepared for how much work it involved. Each student had ...

And what did God do? First of all He left us conscience, the sense of right and wrong: and all through history there have been people trying (some of them ...

Come away with Me for a while. The world, with its nonstop demands, can be put on hold. Most people put Me on hold, rationalizing that someday they will find ...

READ: Matthew 6:25-34It’s easy to fall into the worry trap, especially in times of trial. We often get out ahead of ourselves and ahead of God as we attempt to ...

In October 1929, the Saturday Evening Post published a landmark interview with the great physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein.I find his response to questions of Jesus as a historical figure ...

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us. — Romans 8:18I kept for nearly a year the flask-shaped ...

If we truly understood even for a moment what sort of Companion, Counselor, and Friend we have in the Holy Spirit, it would banish all thoughts of loneliness forever.If you ...

What Not to Do in a Crisis Don’t Drift When we are caught in a crisis, we typically react in three ways. Because the sailors couldn’t head into the wind, ...

It was like discovering the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks or spotting a little pearl in a box of buttons or stumbling across a ten-dollar bill in a ...

Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. — Exodus 7:12From the pen of Charles Spurgeon:This story is a wonderful example of the sure victory of God’s work over all opposition. Although ...

Not long ago a friend of mine lost his son. His one-year-old stopped breathing in the middle of the night, and his wife discovered their lifeless child after it was ...

How can you tell if you’re winning the game of life? The standard scoreboard looks something like this:Success: What have you done?Stuff: What do you have?Status: What do other people ...