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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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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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