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Paul's Most Precious Church

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  In her book “The God Who Hung on the Cross”, Ellen Vaughn told how the Gospel came to a small village in Cambodia. In September 1999, a missionary traveled to northern Cambodia. Christianity was unheard of throughout that area. When the missionary came to one small village he was surprised. The people warmly embraced him and his witness for Jesus. One old woman told the missionary, "we have been waiting for you for twenty years." In 1979 this village was attacked and overcome by Communist soldiers who, planning to kill them, had the villagers dig their own graves. They knelt before the holes they had dug waiting for the machine guns to cut them down. One of the women remembered a story her mother told her about a God who had hung on a cross. The woman prayed to that unknown God, hoping He would save them. Hearing her, first one then another, the villagers pleaded with the God of the cross. When they finished praying they opened their eyes. The soldiers were gone. Ever...
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Building for Eternity

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                                                                                Right in the heart of Italy’s capital, you can gaze upon ruins from the time of the ancient Roman Empires . The Romans wanted their greatness to be etched into human history forever. Therefore, they constructed buildings designed to tell future generations how great the Romans were. Although the gold, silver, and precious stones that once adorned these stony buildings have since been stripped away, scores of these structures remain intact. And just as the original builders intended, they tell us about the glory of the Romans. However, there was another side of Rome. There was massive importation of slaves to do manual labor. The homes of the slaves were constructed quickly an...
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God Opens and Closes doors

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  Major Ian Thomas (1914-2007) was a British evangelist who founded the Torchbearers International network of Bible schools in 1947. He established 23 Christian training centres worldwide and influenced thousands through his teaching and his books. Thomas wrote about an experience he had. He wrote “ eleven years ago, on the first journey that I made in Germany as a civilian after the war, to visit some of the young folk who had visited us in England from Germany, I was travelling along the Rhine from Cologne to Bad Godesberg. And as I was driving along the Rhine, I overtook a very weary, scruffy-looking boy.   He was about fifteen or sixteen years of age. He was somewhat bedraggled. His clothes were obviously well worn. He had a haversack on his back. He looked very tired and very lonely and very discouraged. He didn't even look up. His eyes were glued to the ground as he trudged slowly forward. And I couldn't help but be impressed. So I stopped and I waited for him. And w...
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