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Jesus is Sitted in Heaven

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  Standing before a great audience, a world-famed musician took up a violin and played upon it so remarkably that his listeners sat in rapt attention. One string of the violin broke. He played on as though nothing had happened. The second string broke and though the audience was amazed still he continued to play as before. Then the third string broke leaving only one and while the people held their breath, he played on beautifully. At last the fourth string broke and the great musician raised his violin and bringing it down with all his might dashed it to pieces. The people thought that in anger he had ruined a very valuable instrument. He then told them that he had purchased that violin for three dollars; that he had used it to show them that it was not so much the instrument as the master hand that played it which determined the quality of music. In his sermon on the day of Pentecost, Peter told his audience " God has raised this Jesus to life and we are all witnesses of i
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My Hiding Place

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  Two Americans who were crossing the Atlantic met on a Sunday night to sing hymns in the cabin. As they sang the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of my Soul," one of them heard an exceedingly rich and beautiful voice behind him. He looked around and although he did not know the face, he thought that he recognized the voice. So when the music ceased he turned around and asked the man if he had been in the Civil War. The man replied that he had been a Confederate soldier. "Were you at such a place on such a night?" asked the first. "Yes," he said, "and a curious thing happened that night; this hymn recalled it to my mind. I was on sentry duty on the edge of a wood. It was a dark night and very cold and I was a little frightened because the enemy was supposed to be very near at hand. I felt very homesick and miserable and about midnight, when everything was very still, I thought that I would comfort myself by praying and singing a hymn. I remember singing the
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Why do the Wicked Flourish

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           In the closing days of World War II in Europe, many high ranking Nazi officials were able to slip away in the confusion and escape the justice of the world for their heinous crimes against humanity. The paths of their escapes came to be known as rat lines, as though they were rats escaping. Many of them were able to escape to South American nations and other places around the world. They made a new life for themselves, often using the much money they had stolen from their victims when they were in power. In subsequent years, a few of them got caught but others did manage to live out the rest of their lives in obscurity. Many of them lived in luxury and died of old age. In the years following their peaceful deaths, their stories were uncovered and told to the world. The sense of outrage was palpable not only from Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, but from all who may question the existence of God. The stories say that Hitler committed suicide. We are not told exactly h
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