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Crime-Ridden Neighborhood Transformed by Praying Church
David Fitch shares how the prayers of a church vanquished Satan's grip on a neighborhood:
In 2010 a group of eight people from two churches felt called ...
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Praying Pastors Bravely Defuse Racial Tension
I once heard Charles Galbreath, a pastor of Clarendon Road Church in Brooklyn, tell the story of a black man gunned down by police in his neighborhood. ...
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President McKinley Was Guided by Prayer in Life and Death
Robert Morgan writes that as President William McKinley lay dying from an assassin's bullet in Buffalo, New York, in 1901, the Lord's Prayer was ...
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Does God Care About the Super Bowl?
One-quarter of all Americans believe that God cares about who wins the Super Bowl. That's according to a new survey released in January 2017. That's slightly ...
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The CEO Who Refuses to Use a Smartphone
Sheldon Yellen manages a $1.5 billion company that operates in 31 countries and employs 7,000 people … all without a smartphone. The CEO of Belfor, ...
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When God Makes You Wait
In his book It Happens After Prayer, Pastor H. B. Charles Jr. provides the following helpful illustration of why God often makes us wait for the answer ...
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Prayer Is Like Demolition Mining
The 20th century Norwegian pastor [Ole] Hallesby likens prayer to mining as he knew it in Norway. Demolition to create mine shafts took two basic kinds ...
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Film 'Gravity': 'Nobody Ever Taught Me to Pray'
In the movie Gravity, veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (played by George Clooney) is in charge of the Shuttle Explorer's STS-157 mission to repair the ...
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A Woman Who Always Prayed the Same Prayer
Pastor H.B. Charles tells the following story about a woman he knew who showed up at church and prayed the same simple prayer. "O Lord, thank you Jesus," ...
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Church in Slum Models True Faith
One Sunday I was visiting one of Africa's largest slums, the massive Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. The conditions were simply inhumane. People lived ...
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