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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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Paul's Second Missionary Journey

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  When Dwight L. Moody was in London during one of his famous evangelistic tours, several British clergymen visited him. They wanted to know how and why this poorly educated American was so effective in winning throngs of people to Christ. Moody took the three men to the window of his hotel room and asked each in turn what he saw. One by one, the men described the people in the park below. Then Moody looked out the window with tears rolling down his cheeks.   "What do you see, Mr. Moody?" asked one of the men. "I see countless thousands of souls that will one day spend eternity in hell if they do not find the Savior." D. L. Moody saw people differently than the average observer does. And because he saw eternal souls where others saw only people strolling in a park, Moody approached life with a different agenda (Today in the Word, 1997). The book of Acts records the missionary works of the early Church. In Acts15:39-41 Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and...
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THE ROCK THAT WILL NOT ROLL

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  An old country preacher was challenged by an atheist. The atheist said, “why do you Christians have faith in an invisible God? What makes you think He will help you?” The old preacher replied: “Well, son, it says in the beginning of my Bible that God was in charge when time started up. Then I flip over to the end of my Bible and reads that God will be in charge when time runs down. So I figure that between the beginning and the end there’s nobody big enough to whoop ‘em.” Isaiah 28 is an amazing chapter that emphasizes the necessity of building our lives on a solid foundation and the folly of making a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place. We read “woe to the proud crown of the habitually drunk of Ephraim, And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, Which is at the head of the fertile valley Of those who are overcome with wine! Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent; as a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, Like a storm of mighty overflowing water...
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