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When Revival Broke Out in New York City
There was a man named Jeremiah Lanphier who lived in New York City during the 1850s. Those were years of tension, when the shadow of war loomed over America. ...
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Jewish Leader Prays for Everyone to Know Jesus, Even Christians
Arthur F. Burns, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve System and ambassador to West Germany, was a man of considerable gravity. Medium in ...
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God Has Surprising Ways to Raise Up the Church's Next Leaders
Russell Moore recounts a memorable conversation with the evangelical theologian Carl F. H. Henry. As Moore and some of his friends were lamenting the ...
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Guide Tells River Rafters: Stay in the Rough Water
Palmer Chinchen writes in “True Religion”:
My brothers and I had traveled to the western edge of Zimbabwe to raft the Zambezi River. We boarded ...
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A Youth Group Witnesses a Spiritual Harvest in Afghanistan
In his most recent book What Good Is God?, Philip Yancey writes:
This is a true story from Afghanistan that took place in the early 1970s, before the Russian ...
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Former POW Forgives the Guard Who Terrorized Him
In her book, Unbroken, Laura Hildenbrand (author of Seabiscuit) recounts the amazing true story of World War II veteran and prisoner-of-war survivor Louis ...
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The Fire of a Spiritual Awakening
I doubt if there is a problem—political or economic—that will not melt before the fire of a spiritual awakening.
—President Franklin ...
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Coma Patient Wakes Up to a Different World
In 1988, a failed effort at attaching two train cars left Polish railway worker Jan Grzebski with massive head injuries. The damage was so extensive that ...
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A Prayer for Disturbance
Explorer Sir Francis Drake prayed:
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we have dreamed ...
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Schoolteacher Started African Revival
In 1935, Blasio Kugosi, a schoolteacher in Rwanda, Central Africa, was deeply discouraged by the lack of life in the church and the powerlessness of his ...
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